SOUL

Let me recontexualize it for you to see if it may help this cycle you think you are in. It's not your past lives, it's all lives, it's all life. Your ego is trying to tell a story of past lives to identify with it to justify what it believes it is and what you do in service to this identity. Just let go of the idea and every time the ego wants you to agree with it, don't endorse it and say 'it's all lives, it's all life, i am here now'. So just be present in this moment. It may take awhile but eventually the ego will let go of that idea and just be present because the ego is just recalling the past to create it's identity so give it 'presence of being' to believe in. It's that simple.

Is that your story that you are sticking with? Baha

Ask yourself if the answer to that question would quench the existential yearning of ego to justify itself through self identity or would you just be on to the next question to seek an answer for.

I'm being here now each moment I have to be here now and accept eternity for what it is.

I'm not criticizing the preference of which story someone wants to believe in and tell of themselves. Whether it's native humanism or non-duality mysticism or born again Christianity or atheist or whatever someone believes is their identity story. I'm making aware that it is still ego seeking validation through the story of the story of the self identity. Is my story 'presence of being'? Sure, but it's not much story to tell. Yearning for proof of identity is the root of self suffering, contentment in presence of being is liberation from self suffering.

Who would have thought that people can have so much to say about something that they believe doesn't exist. It's the spiritual journey equivalent of mime.

The machine elves took apart my ego and lost some of the parts so it can't be put back together in working order.

It's humorous that it took him 20 years of seeking to figure it out, only after a few years of seeking I realized the simplicity of it and have lived in this simplicity of just being for decades. Although, he still hasn't transcended the story of the story to the simplicity of just being, he keeps rewriting the story about the story to accommodate his desire to be right, to have the truth, to preach to others and call out others as wrong and false...... yep, more duality. So, am I calling him out as 'wrong' or 'false'? That's not the point, he has plenty of 'right' information.... undoubtedly there is 'wrong' information, too. We all have accurate and inaccurate information and perceptions, this is all part of life and wandering this physical manifest. Although our natural expression of self will get consumed with the story of the story, to justify our identity and feed the ego's craving for validation. Transcending this desire for 'proof' of being and simply awakening to presence of being is the liberation from this existential yearning and ceases the cause of self suffering. .....oh, and this thread again? It seems like it pops up regularly. Haha.

Leggo my ego....

This is problematic, too. Suggesting it's an illness like cancer which further demonizes people and actually perpetuates racial bias. Let's seek to transcend it, not just flip it around or change the roles of it. We can attempt to expose it and resolve it without creating another obstacle to overcome in doing so.

I ate so many mushrooms that even my ego believed that it doesn't exist.....and tripped out at the realization.

We're all stage brown....haha

Peace in knowing there isn't TRUTH... it's all bullshit, just ask Leo, he'll tell you.

You have awakened and are now enlightened to the endless conceptual 'truth' beliefs of self anointed 'enlightened masters' who point a finger at other's ideas and chastise them as 'beliefs'. Hehe

That's all brown. Although, what is something to be aware of is the effect of having a 'moral law' duality mindset on our well being. Does it cease self suffering and lead to well being or not? Everything else is just brown.

You are stuck in stage brown Oh yea, stage brown for sure. Baha

What? That makes no sense, where did I say it's only due to corruption? That's rubbish man, I said no such thing, haha. No, it just means ratios are all over the place and there are many variables that contribute to them. Pareto aint no Fibonacci or fractals but people wave it around like a magic wand on anything they want. See? Haha. Hey, whatever man, 70-30 or 80-20 that's close enough, right? Any numbers work for Pareto if there's a point to be made, huh. Those dam lazy leftist ants!

I prefer not to view it as two 'sides' because that is a dualistic mindset but many people do including JP and they frame their morality in a theological duality of good and evil. The one side wants to be intolerant of others diversity of just being who they are and call those others evil as they call their own belief good based on just belief and maybe some book. That strange part is this side for many centuries have perpetrated intolerance by demonizing, ostracizing and terrorizing any others motivated by just their belief against those who didn't believe as they do. They still want to so this and do whenever they can. That's kind of what bigotry is defined as, is it not? All the other 'side' wants, the ones they think are evil and want to discriminate against is to not be called evil and be discriminated against. They just want to be who they are without discriminating against others because of anyone's belief. Is that bigotry? Are those 'two sides' even equivalents? JP is trying to wrap that ancient theological duality in the political clothing of ideological opinion to obscure that it is belief based bigotry. Mixing in scientific sounding anecdotes to lend an air of objectivity to the metaphorical stories sort of like creationism for pop psychology. He keeps on perpetuating the faux theological duality that creates bitter vitriolic divisiveness.

It isn't 20% of the ants do 80% of all the work, it's that 20% of the ants are working at a time... but they mostly all do work, not just at the same time. It's not that 80% of the ants do nothing at all and live off the other 20% so he's distorting the fact to fit his belief paradigm and his propaganda. As far as property ownership and income distribution that isn't only 20% working or willing to own land while 80% are not, it's an example of a small percentage of people manipulating the system to their own advantage and to disadvantage others. It doesn't imply that the 80% aren't working hard, just that they aren't getting paid as much for their labor and is a result of the previously mentioned economic and societal manipulation. Similarly that crime breakdown isn't an accurate reflection of how it plays out in reality. Out in the real world it's 20% of the people who get prosecuted and convicted or crime because of social influences, not that only 20% commit crime. There's plenty of people who don't get convicted of crime but surely commit it. Steal food to feed your family and go to jail, steal the wealth and homes of millions get a bonus and a bailout. The Pareto principle is most relevant in randomized circumstances not ones that are purposefully influenced even if those similar ratios are found. It may be that this principle is the reason ants randomly express their work patterns that way, but JP's conclusion about the fact is flawed and application of it equally erroneous. There definitely is something to it in some distributions but there are countless other examples of distributions that don't fit those ratios but since they don't fit aren't included because they don't confirm the idea of the principle, not that they don't exist. This is one of the reasons I view with skepticism whenever it is invoked without other variables considered like JP and others do. It's just confirmation bias. But yes, of course, completely ignore his repressive ideology propaganda in favor of focusing on a small 'fact' one thinks proves him 'right' so then implies everything he bases it on is 'right', that's the JP defense mechanism of his minions. So, 20% of the people spread 80% of the bullshit and 20% of his words are fact, 80% fiction.....lol. Only 20% of the time it fits the Pareto principle but 80% it doesn't. Heh

This is a belief. Diversity is universality. How would you enforce this policy of non-initiation of force on a society? What if someone doesn't want to comply with volunteerism and wants to compel or coerce others, how would you stop them? This is debatable. There is no authority to judge 'non-dualism' and 'spirituality'. Seems more like you just adopted other people's ideas from videos, books and debates and didn't form your own. Keep delving because this 'libertarian utopia' ideology you've adopted from others is problematic and unrealistic.

Then why does he worship at the psychological alter of and preach a regressive ideology as a universal 'truth' for everyone?

You are being too generous to him when he wouldn't be as generous with you and isn't as generous with those he views as ideologically different from himself. He's more like 5% fact, 5% generic self help trope and 90% ideologically driven propaganda. He takes a little fact, a little common sense and then distorts the fact and advice to fit his belief paradigm preaching that it is the 'truth'. As an example he cites a study about a variety of ants that showed that only 20% of them are working at a time. He then distorts this fact to suggest that this is like how in humans only 20% produce everything and the 80% who don't do anything are evil cultural marxist commies who want to take the hard work of others and redistribute it. Yes, only 20% of ants are working at a time because of efficiency is actually fact but how he uses it is a distortion of what really is taking place that he weaves into a narrative to support his ideological propaganda. He's mastered the 'contemplative academic' posturing which he uses to disseminate his regressive belief system as you have correctly identified about him. He constantly does this with animal studies and behaviors by distorting and transferring them to his ideology about how he believes that humans should be living. He popularity stems largely from him tapping into the emotional and mental vulnerability and anxiety of people who want a societal paradigm that had previously entitled them in it that now is changing.

I like both of those guys but how they discuss topics is so different. In Rogan's environment they don't unpack ideas and explore them because as soon as something is touched upon it's only superficially addressed. Then he bounces from point to point superficially and it winds up on Kardashian's ass talking more about that than the meaningful topic. Brand does explore topics a bit more but he's so magically minded and metaphorically inclined that the topic always gets turned into a psychedelic referendum on the universe. So these two in a conversation seems like it's follow the bouncing ball all over the place but then trying to suggest it's some 'universal truth'. Entertaining sure but goes nowhere.

That's the nature of expanding consciousness, so that awareness is present in the moment even while the monkey mind is occupied with daily work. Yes, it's easier to do it with simpler tasks and as the tasks grow more complex it can happen that awareness gets distracted from presence and collapses into getting consumed by the mind's tasks. Exercising consciousness in a way that allows awareness to stay present in the moment and the monkey mind's tasking gets consumed by presence so it is lifted into an awakened expression. Instead of the monkey mind distracting away awareness from presence so it gets consumed by the veiled expression of the unawakened.

Do you realize you and enlightenment are full of shit? It's all bullshit.... just ask Leo, he'll tell you.