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Dude you don’t need to get fancy. Don’t try and solve these issues through some materialistic external approach. Dude you gotta learn how to run before learn to run fast and long. Theres no mystery or anything symbolic here. You gotta learn to run efficiently and correct your form and mechanics and get strong. Yes you want to stop heel striking but there’s a lot more to it that . Theres nothing wrong with using a trail for the road. I’ve worked in one of the best specialty run stores in the USA. You’re not more susceptible to injury if you use a trail for the road. As far as shoes you gotta look at fit, drop, weight. The rest is all extra stuff.

Although I do think certain yoga techniques and changes in one’s diet can help, you have to understand that ADHD is also an issue of cognition. Sadhguru is talking about ADHD from the common stereotypes in how must of us commonly conceive of ADHD. ADD/ADHD is hands down, no question overdiagnosed. However, what’s often not talked about it is how different people with ADHD actually cognize things. Someone who has legitimate ADHD has a thought process that’s analogous to hyperlinks on a Wikipedia page. For example: you’re on a Wiki page on philosophy and you’re reading along and suddenly a link on Socrates and you read all about Socrates and then you click a page about the Elusiean Mysteries and then you click on “ergot” and now you’re studying ergot. Or you’re walking along and you have a thought about a castle and then you connect some dots and come up with an idea like “what if there was a massive consecrated temple that was like the Sistine chapel but was also like an ashram and served as an energy center?!” I’m actually head over heels better at connecting dots in a totally non-linear way and getting a bigger picture understanding than most people I meet for this very reason... because I’m wired that way. If I’m interested at all it’s like getting a car with a dead engine to drive 100 mph. And though that can be helpful it’s also can be extremely counterproductive too. @now is forever are you talking about curing ADHD or treating it? Those are 2 completely different matters.

@MsNobody “my brain works like hyperlinks on a wikipedia page” I literally broke out laughing cause that is THE most accurate metaphor for what it’s like . I’ve never heard a more accurate metaphor for the way I think.

I personally for the life of me have not been successful with traiditional meditation postures for a few reasons and actually my biggest breakouts in states of consciousness never come from traditional meditation (and I think of it is an ADHD thing): I’m so tight in my hips, legs, and lower back from running competitively all these years that it would take a lot of dedicated time each day for several weeks I think to really loosen up in order to even get into a comfortable proper position. 30 second of sitting even just regular cross-legged (much less a yoga asana) and I’m struggling to breathe into my diaphragm (much less relaxed), my hip flexors are on fire, the tension in my shoulders are tightening, my mind is going nuts (probably cause I’m like “come on I’m not even a minute in!”). Also I notice that my ankles hurt so much from the pressure (whether it’s from the floor or from the pressure of my body weight (even though I’m 6’0 135 pounds) because my ankle bends on the side (I’d have to show a picture to explain) and so that pressure just drives my foot crazy I find walking meditation I can get into a really weird meditative state (I actually became conscious of what existence is when I was walking) but I have to not treat it as meditation. I can get really checked out and I’m like in witness meditation. I think it’s a dopamine thing since I’m moving and that really helps me relax and sitting still I’m so anxious I feel like I’m about to punch a hole in the wall. Meditating while eating is really powerful for me again because it really helps me relaxes me. I don’t know if it’s just this constant anxt that I have in my prefrontal. I meditate so much better if I eat right before.

The title for this book should be: ”Pursuing Consciousness - Going from realizing you’re not your self to killing your self, to forgetting there was never a self” All kidding aside, as with all of Ralstons books, this is deep. This is extremely. I say this all the time but I can’t emphasize this enough. What makes Ralston so hard to read is that he’s so clear... What most people don’t know is that an enlightenment doesn’t free you from self necessarily/more often than not. Your identity tends then come back and you cognize your true nature... that doesn’t mean the operating self function though is gone. Nor does that diminish your realization. This is just a different matter. This book goes into post enlightenment experience development. Literally transform yourself... including being of self entirely. I appreciate the clarity of how this is different from direct consciousness because it’s one thing to become directly conscious of a matter. It’s an entirely different ballpark to abide in that and be free from self completely. Ralston goes into the brutal practice that goes into true reality of mastering emotions, the principles and mechanics of maybe creating an entirely new self from scratch. Did you get what I just said? How you change the entire way of being that you’re presently operating under as you read this. Deconstructing that whole thing entire thing and creating something new... that’s what this book is about. He goes into the importance of true honesty and what that is, giving up manipulation towards others and yourself, the traps and pitfalls and how to stay on track. READ THIS BOOK & EVERY SENTENCE SLOW. GRASP WHAT HE’S TRYING TO REALLY COMMUNICATE... Then get to work.

What do you look for when you review and log your dreams?

Do you like that form of shadow work? I tried it once and I really didn’t get it at all. I really don’t get what to do when you uncover a shadow and what it means to integrate it. I’ve found many shadows from fears, vows, shame, etc. that are really deep but I have no idea what to do. The problem I have with most shadow techniques that I find with like journals and whant not is that it’s like I’m trying to solve and integrate this MAJOR emotional wound using cold rationality and my mind and that personally never works for me with most self-help techniques. Same goes for me with limiting beliefs. Most techniques to to rid oneself of (limiting) beliefs is just trough this head centered approach which doesn’t work for me. I also tend to be very feeling oriented too.

@Esoteric you have to separate “full” enlightenment/god-consciousness (if there is such a thing) from having crazy paranormal psychic abilities. As far as I’m concerned, I don’t see why there couldn’t have yogis who’ve levitated and so forth in the past. However I wouldn’t equate that with full enlightenment by any stretch. Remember, even in the Yoga Sutras Patanjali even talks about how siddhis have nothing to do with liberation itself. They are accomplishment yes but not liberation. But I do of course certainly agree that not all enlightened people are equally “accomplished” as far as depth of understanding and constant consciousness of the truth and totally free nor equally energetically/psychic developed and mastered. As far as I’m concerned though, that requires decades of hardcore as fuck penance and training if you’re talking about psychic and development because then you gotta throw in the development of concentration so powerful you gotta move a fucking mountain and all the purification that would take to get their on your body and of course your brain and being able to train that every day at the exclusion of other things like life purpose and so forth. You also gotta see that everything YOU create in everyday life is you creating. I remember I realized on my last acid trip how deep creation/creativity is. It’s fucking bone shaking because you look at the world and everything you do in ever second of every moment and you realize that you’re literally a vehicle of God creating and simulataneously witnessing the creation as it happen. I intuit I only got a taste of it and I was blown away and realized “man... I gotta be a vehicle for God’s creativity”.

@Eric Tarpall incels are just playing this role of victim. Yeah you’re free to do whatever you want. Your choice. Stop being a victim or do something hard and challenge yourself to get better.

I personally don't see how this is a truly doable thing if actually put into practice. When you talk about starting your own community these days you have to throw in for examples jobs and financial systems. What about a medical system? I think spiritual communities are nice as far as things to think about in a more Turquoise world but I just don't see how this is actually a doable thing in practice. I remember when I was in a deep depression I was actually about to go live and renounce at a certain community (that will remain nameless) and when I was told I still of course had to pay for health care bills out in this foreign country and pay other bills I asked the obvious question: "well can I do any work where I can get paid?" The answer of course was no because there was no financial system in place at the ashram/community there. Instead I was told, and I'm paraphrasing, 'I suggest you sell your main belongings (car, unnecessary "valuables", etc.) and come out. This way you can pay and go back forth from here and back home.' Thank god I wizened up and smelled the bullshit and didn't go.

Find smooth wet rocks. Soooo much better than leaves. Don’t ask how I know. That’s one truth not worth investigation.

@JohnnyBravo though I agree with you on your overall point, I’ve been with 2 girls who were nymphmaniacs and man it’s freaky. It really is. It’s like... they’re always on to the point where it’s such a turn off. I got to the point where I said in my usual upfront fashion, “what’s really going on?” ... and I’m a guy lol. It’s ususllt something to do with an issue with her father and or dep insecurity or running away from something in one fashion or another. Other than that... @Eric Tarpall go have sex. Stop talking about it and stop being a victim.

When you’re heading out on a solo retreat to realize the magical kingdom of heaven

I prefer Platform 9 3/4 but that works too

@Pouya talk to 5-MeO-DMT. Great consultant about the process of entering and she might even give you a brief tour of the campus.

@Lister read Hegel and get back to me. Plenty of philosophers at that time had a grasp of nonduality. I'm using "enlightenment era" to mark a certain time in philosophy in the 17th & 18th centuries because I'm trying to make the distinction between how idealism often came to be understood in say Ancient Greece where they had cults like the Eleusinian Mysteries.

Personally I’m trying to grasp how these Western Idealist philosophers are communicating very clearly a deep understanding of enlightenment and the nature of reality in a culture that pretty much had no access to systematic “process” towards enlightenment. Thoughts on this? I mean... does this just go back to the point on talent, personality type, karma and brain type? I never really heard of someone like say Hegel actually part taking in the practice of Christian contemplation (which is actually a really deep practice that requires concentration and centering mind). I’m not trying to suggest that one can’t pursue this without any sort of conventional practice. Not at all but when I did background research on these idealist philosophers, I’m not coming across anything that suggest they were doing deep contemplation that went beyond the mind or anything like that in yet, when I read their work now knowing with tastes from what they’re talking about it’s like “how?!” You don’t read about these guys spending long periods of time isolating themselves training in concentration and other disciplines be able to become directly conscious. You hear about theoretical discussions and debates and what not (I imagine it was probably much different than the bullshit excuse we call debate today when we watch say JP or Christopher Hitchens or Sam Harris).

Projection. I don’t pretend to be wise nor have I ever claimed and have actually claimed in other posts I’m NOT awake AT ALL. This is all about you and has nothing to do with me dude lol. Im ignorant of A LOT of things. I’m vulnerable in A LOT of posts about my failures, struggles, utter delusions, emotional and psychological issues and much more. All your little fantasies of who you think I am is just your own bullshit.

@Serotoninluv it’s honestly one of the things that discourages me the most when it comes to Life Purpose and impact and also the business of it all.

By your logic Isis & the KKK is are highly conscious spiritual organizations You might as well compare a suicide bomber dying in the name of Al-Lah and his terrorist organization (that is totally antiethical the very Greater Jihad they believe they’re killing themselves for) to Jesus voluntarily going to the cross.

@Aldo your comparing a dude whose part of a gang who kills, causes a bunch of harm to other human beings, is “devoted” out of fear, deals drugs to a life in a Zen monastery or a sanyassin whose pursuing enlightenment and realize the God and elevate other human beings to realize the truth and be from suffering... dude... you’re lost in fantasies. You are literally lost in your projections. Those guys are not emotionally intelligent people. My grandfather was a huge Cuban thug. I love him and he’s out of that but he’s not an emotionally intelligent person. If a group of people looked at him the wrong way he would fight 5 guys with a crowbar. He was street smart. Granted. But being street smart has nothing to do with being happy, emotionally intelligent, conscious, etc. Go down to downtown Oakland at 2am and get robbed. You tell me how “conscious” these people are. Emotionally intelligent people don’t try to fucking kill you if you’re wearing Blue or you’re walking at the wrong part of town or rob you. You live in a fantasy dude

@Serotoninluv I don’t what you really said that triggered this but I think it leads off your prior point with innovation and then creating new paradigms but the other thing that had really bothers me that actually hurts a lot of people is this issue of fragmentation and hyper specializing on one thing. In science you have anthropologists, biologists (and all the sub sects of that), meteorologists, chemists, physicists, etc. In spirituality you have yoga, shamanism, tantric Buddhism, christian mysticism, Daoism, Zen, psychedelics, thereveda buddhism, Advaita Vedanta, Jainism, etc. Psychology you have CBT, DBT, Psychoanalysis, Jungian psychotherapy, Transpersonal psychology, talk-therapy, dream work, Gestalt therapy, alternative medicine, positive psychology, hypnosis, etc. You get the point and the problem I have that drives me up the fucking wall is these people in each of these sub groups only tend to talk in their fucking language and can’t be of any goddamn use in anything but their narrow little sect. I’ve talked about this with spiritual teachers and why i find Integral spirituality from Wilber so refreshing because Integral spiritual teachers have enough competence to actually help you if it’s more of a psychological barrier one is having in their own progress and won’t just shirk you away to have you go to a psychologist and have you waste more time, money, and energy doing “practices” with a psychotherapist that doesn’t even grasp the mind that deeply. Although I love seeing new creative breakthroughs, they’re still often too mayopic. Which is why I think “2nd tier breakthroughs” are so much more necessary this day in age because more Integral people can come up with and create more holistic solutions and creative breakthroughs. You see this in coaching in running too all the time. With athletes who are struggling psychologically and the coach of course has no idea what’s going on or what to do so now they need to send him to a sport psychologist or something or bring on sport psychologist (whose still probably deluded and seeing the issue from only his sport psychology lens). Or when youre a distance coach but you only know and study distance running and you know nothing about how applicable it is to studying throwers and sprinters and include that. Instead of learning that they just work in their bubble and useless when it comes to anything other than that. Virtually none of these people are integrally informed about anything other than their niche because, hey, it’s out of their job description and their little bubble. That’s why I find this to be such a shame. Tying this together... this really highlights the effects of creative breakthroughs down the road. They form collective sub sects and niches that aren’t integral enough to cooperate with other domains and people follow that unwittingly and only think in that little world. Which is why for example I find Ralston’s Zen Body Being Book to be the best book a coach can read. I’ve read and studied pretty much everything in the world of running of coaches in history going back to the 20s to know, studying athletes, messaging world class coaches, reading through the history, learning and seeing for myself, etc. and man that book is beyond and free all that. It’s also why I find Wilber’s work and impact very refreshing. For so many years I thought I was the only one feeling like I was tearing my hair out from how mayopic all of these perspectives are. At the same time though, as much as he ties it all together, it’s hard to really get practical, simple, grounded solutions from his work and Integral Life.

@Serotoninluv that’s pretty much always the case no matter what the domain. I’ll use a running analogy. When Arthur Lydiard created a totally new paradigm in middle distance running where he was training his 800m and 1500m runners at 100 miles a week, doing great deal of work training one’s aerobic capacity, and thus got results with training gold medalists like Peter Snell... everybody thought he was fucking nuts. It defied everything that was conceived as what was good training and what not. Eventually though it caught on and then got more studies and scientific analysis to understand why it was working and why it broke conventional dogma. As time went on though, people took what the actual process was for Lydiard to come up with that totally for granted and just adopted his programs and methods because his paradigm became the new norm in understanding. It became the new dogma. Then we got to a point innovation really started to decline because people took the works of coaching genius for granted and just followed the models and only seeing things through that lens and not what was right in front of them. Not realizing that what made those coaches breakthrough coaches is that they were so creative and worked with what they had. Some things catch up faster than others but in general I think fields like science tend to work a lot slower because, depending on what you think of when you say “science”, they’re role is often to explain, formalize, methodize, systematize true breakthroughs, insights, truths, etc. For me I both love that and hate that. I hate it (and I say that loosely) because when I come up with stuff and I get breakthrough ideas and what not, I have this mindset of like “I don’t want anything I come up with to eventually lead to some way of deluding people. I’d rather give someone a loose process with less of a rigid paradigm to look at this and work towards something.” I love it because I do love the creative process of being able to put things together. I think this explains why you have enlightened masters like Ralston who have such a loose way of teaching. If you study his material he actually doesn’t teach too much from a set of paradigms, strict rigid processes and formal systems because his work is about largely about the Truth and being totally stripped of dogma. There’s pros and cons with that. He really stresses certain principles.

@Soulbass it sounds like basic runners knee. You need to be strength training dude. You can’t just be running. You sound like you have a weak frame. Fortunately runners knee is very easy to fix with solid PROPER squats (feet squared STRAIGHT, as you go down up with the hips with your knees pointing out laterally) and lunges. Start utilizng a lunge warm-up before your runs. Dont get fancy with diet and stuff yet. Dont go into these distractions of energy work and all that stuff right now. You need to do your homework on training dude. Study, listen, read, go to blogs, etc. I can’t see at all what on earth you’re getting out of running 10 miles, running all out for 600m, then doing another 10 miles. I can’t think of a single race or distance such a workout would contribute towards that actually benefits anything other than just working for works sake doing a workout that isn’t concentrated on anything. You need to be deliberate with your workouts man. You need to learn what you’re actually doing.

@Aldo good god slow up. I know dudes that have lived in the ACTUAL hood. I’ve hung out in gang territory. If you ACTUALLY think those guys in gangs are who are fulfilled higher conscious human beings... man... go with me to deep East Oakland here in the Bay Area with me east of 51st and International. Go with me to the Iron Triangle in Richmond in the East Bay. Go with me to Hunters Point here in SF. If you think gang members aren’t attached to their ego... man you’re kidding yourself lol. You’re just kidding yourself. Dont make the mistake of thinking I’m saying everybody in those areas is some criminal, rapist, gang member. That’s not what I’m saying at all. All because people elicit basic human compassion has nothing to do with nonduality and Absolute Love. That’s just having good character and basic common sense and compassion for your fellow person... so long as you don’t violate their agenda too much. This isn’t a matter of debate. The fact that you think that these people are “dying joyfully” just shows how much you don’t understand what these guys have to live through. How afraid they are. How much they live in fear and have to bottle that up for the sake of their survival. These are all mental projections for you. These people who are part of gangs are not happy and they are not fulfilled, much less conscious. I’ve met and have had friends who were ex gang members and ex blud gang members. These people will break down because they’re so happy they escaped. This is utter immaturity if you think these people are like Turquoise blissful enlightened yogis. Which is not to say yogis are not above them in some absolute sense. These hedonist rappers are often insanely miserable because they often just chase titilation. Yeah they make music that has some idealistic talk but that doesn’t mean they truly know of what they run their mouth on. There’s a reason Mac Miller and such people commit suicide. That’s not an accident. These aren’t happy joyful people. The fact that your comparing their life to GTA just shows how foolish this view is.