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@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.

Where in the knee? The 600m were all out?... I don't understand what you're trying to get with such a random workout but yeah... don't do that again LOL.

No he didn't skip any stages. You don't skip stages. He had a non-dual experience he had no context for at all. That's not anything against. He's fuckin' Mike Tyson dude. You think this dude has a high level understanding of nonduality? No. He took 5-MeO-DMT not knowing what he was really doing. It helped him and yeah that's awesome! I'm happy for him. It was awesome to hear that but that doesn't mean he understands or is any more "awake" as far as nondual understanding of reality freedom from self. That's not a put-down on anyone. I love what I've been hearing from him and his growth in his life. There are people at Stage Purple and Red who have total nondual God experiences but that doesn't really move them up a stage in their cognitive understanding, spiritual intelligence, etc. Mike Tyson is not Turquoise lol. Nondual experiences don't make you Turquoise dude. You need to do your homework. Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad, etc. were not even Turquoise. Turquoise also doesn't even necessarily mean you necessarily have mystical experiences. Turquoise means your perspective is World-Centric. You don't skip stages. We're starting to see a more Green Mike Tyson and that's AWESOME. That dude has been through a lot of shit. Having a psychedelic experience doesn't make you some mystic or anything. You had an experience. Cool. That's all. An experience. That doesn't mean you grasp or understand.

Projection

Yeah... Travis Scott is soooo enlightened ? This is fucking fantasy

HAHAHAHAHA Are you suggesting Travis Scott knows about enlightenment? Is that what you’re telling me? Dude... by that logic most hippies here in San Francisco where I live know who preach love and unity know a damn thing about enlightenment and God. If you think these Stage Orange/Green rappers are actually awake then yeah you’re getting lost in pure fantasy.

What time frame are you giving this? Not in our lifetime surely.

I really want to share this video as it’s something that missing l in A LOT of people’s understanding of the ramifications of pursuing enlightenment. This was pretty much the realization I had from my acid trip and I honestly couldn’t have worded it better than Ken does here. There is paradox when you awaken. The question is... are you actually going to do the best you can at living that paradox? Or are you just going to play on one side of the street? Actually watch the damn video too. What kinda person do you really have to be to do that? Do you fundamentally understand what you’re actually realizing/pursuing? You think a fully awakened human being just neglects the very world that they themselves are?

Authenticity is relative to one’s character. I wouldn’t call it a view (I’m not referring to Ralston here). Authenticity is about authentically relating to whatever is true of one’s current experience on the most honest level. It just so happens that the more free you are from identifying as your self experience, the deeper and more honest you can be. Authenticity, though it sounds nice is extremely and very tough. Honesty is a practice that is way beyond 99.9999% people’s capacity to do... particularly with oneself. Your fighting your survival... understand what that entails.

@Salvijus me calling you on your shit doesn’t mean I have any emotional invesetment. I don’t play coy and I don’t play games where I have to caress nonsense. I’m belittling your “understanding”. Not you. I don’t know anything about you and you know nothing about me so don’t pretend to. If you confuse me belittling small minded ideas as me making a personal attack on you, that just goes to show just how attached you are to your ideas.

Lololol an enlightened Fox News

I couldn’t help it

Okay... yes. There are SOME artists in mainstream culture who are aware of eblightenment... even then though I wouldn’t call them mainstream either. Artists like Alex Grey, he’s a great example of someone whose perfectly aware of enlightenment. However, he himself had admitted that he’s never had any sort of enlightenment experience. He’s had glimpses and tastes of God on LSD but that’s really about it. Again, that’s not anything against Alex Grey. I love people like that. They’re art work is amazing and is inspiring. Having said that... there’s a huge fucking difference between talking about oneness, unity, etc. and actually KNOWING it. This is often just lip service to the Truth. Again, nothing wrong with that. Just be aware that it is only lip service, fantasy, and heresay for most people in culture who talk about it because even their ideas about it is still dualistic and metaphorical (despite them saying they mean it “literally”). I’m not trying to belittle anything but even the idea that Future knows anything about enlightenment is just funny LOL. If you think those guys know a damn thing worth anything about nonduality... lol yeah I don’t know what to tell you other than no. LOL the idea that Future is doing what Jesus did is honestly funny. That’s like calling LeBron James a mystic as far as I’m concerned lol. Having compassion and being humble really doesn’t have much to do with nondual realization. Those are side-effects. You can meet people in your neighborhood that have good character, integrity, humility, and a solid amount of compassion. Keeping your seeking and expectations of nonduality grounded man.

The ego exists... as the illusion that is existence. So what is the illusion?... What is an illusion? You need to have an enlightenment on what self and existence.

No. You’re still not understanding. Don’t agree with me. Actually contemplate what’s being told to you. If you actually got it you’d understand that this is the case for all people. Why do they value hog paying jobs? Why do they value “education” (sorry going to give our disgraceful academic system the compliment of saying they’re really genuinely educating people)? It ties into survival and survival for humans means creating this illusion of existential purpose. Purpose exists as an illusion towards survival. Purpose has nothing to do with you being happy. The better question is “what is purpose?” And then... “what is the purpose of purpose?” Don’t just agree with me or regurgitate some answer you’ve heard. Answers are not the truth. If you haven’t become conscious of purpose you don’t know.

There’s no such thing as something “not being spiritual” “not nondual” all the lies and falsehood, pretending, etc. are still all truths. Understand that we don’t need some super enlightened culture per say. To think that some music celebrity is a genuine spiritual seeker deconstructing her entire self, character, meditating hardcore, doing legit disciplined yoga, etc. is just completely unrealistic and honesty very unlikely. You can have spiritual ideation and desire but that is not the same as actually seeking. Lots of people through stuff like God, the Absolute, etc. around but that doesn’t mean that isn’t coming from fantasy. Nor is that a some wrong on their end. They don’t know. Period. End of story. Understand that you are interpreting her lyrics that way because you’re looking at this through a “spiritual lens”. Someone else listening to this could interpret this totally different. The idea that Lana Del Ray is some enlightened celebrity in the closet, writing songs on nonduality as cryptic messages to people as though it were some sort of twist from a Zen masters koan is just an idle fantasy as far as I’m concerned. Its one thing for example to write songs about how we’re literally all One because we have a bunch of ideas about that. It’s a totally other thing when you realize that the very couch or spider that bites you on the neck is literally the same One.

Just watched. This fucking AWESOME

I laughed when I read this because this has me written all over it LOL. If I’m not into it I’m not engaged at all and I’m totally checked out. I’m the most stubborn person in the world if I’m absolutely not passionate about it. And when I’m engaged it’s like I’m manic because all I’m doing is that and studying it. This has been my whole life since I was like 1 year old. When I enjoyed being on the swings, I literally was on the swing 4-5 hours a day. Then once I exhausted that I went to basketball and that was my obsession. Then running. So on and so on. It’s especially hard when it comes down to picking and deciding on a life purpose because I’m passionate about spirituality, I’m passionate about mastering running and running myself to the ground on the track, going up and down mountains, etc. and Life Purpose is like “you can only do this thing” and inside I’m like tossing and turning and I’m like “noooo!” It’s like telling Leonardo da Vinci he can only paint (who is VERY ADD/ADHD like). So this seems like a problem and for me personally I have a hard time reconciling it. That’s why I’m attracted to people like Peter Ralston and da Vinci because they literally went across so many different domains. One of the things you hit on which I want to empahsize because I’ve found this true for me is the importance of friends who not only support this but fuel this. Personally this is the thing I’m really missing. It’s not even a personality ego thing. It’s more of an energy thing I feed off of AMAZING when I have it. I personally am not SUPER social. I’ve never been a social butterfly at all. I’m like Frodo in Lord of the Rings with a Samwise. It’s kinda like that. Having that friend who helps feed that really helps. You sound like you’re making great progress in your own journey! Love your art! Checked out your Life Coach page and the IG link and you got some great stuff on there. I have a lot of friends who do similar art work and it’s really helped them channel their newfound self-acceptance and creativity into a beautiful outlet. @Salvijus dude when are you going to drop this stupid nondual keyboard warrior stuff? Yes on the one hand there’s nothing special about a human body because guess what? Everything is special. There’s nothing invaluable about a human body. This notion that a woman can’t embracw her body or a man can’t is just you bastardizing nondual truth to suit your own egoic beliefs. Not everybody needs to become this masterful sage and you ducking Sadhgurus cock on this issue doesn’t make you above anyone. Sages aren’t above anyone and the reason they’re often humbling is because they live that despite their high degree of understanding, consciousness, and self-mastery. Theres nothing wrong with sex and a man or woman embracing theirs if they’ve spent a good portion being in the closet with others and themselves with it. Your “understanding” is mayopic. Do you understand you’re that same animal? I guarantee that if you were the very same sage you preach about others being you wouldn’t be on here wasting as much time and spend more of your time actually transcending this stuff. So don’t act like you’re above this.

As I'm getting more clear on the magnitude of my Life Purpose through a somewhat recent LSD trip the other day, I've had time to reflect on what I really want to do with my life, which is still very abstract and will still probably require more psychedelic introspection and utilization of maybe coaching and workshops in the future. However, when I really realized the magnitude of what my life is really about and what "God wants from my life" and what I must become as a vehicle in order to bring that forth... I'm really starting to look back on the importance of relearning and getting the basics down, especially since my Life Purpose is very much metaphysically oriented. What do I mean by "the basics"? I mean things like: Having a positive attitude Telling the truth as best as one reasonably can Building optimism Getting down basic productivity Having a healthy relationship to one's financial life Having good communication skills Being able to hold eye contact in a conversation Developing strong yet authentic (as possible) social skills Finishing small things Utilizing common sense Practice decision making Develop discipline Develop integrity Cultivate self-esteem I could expand this list more but I think the message is being made clear. The more I realize what my Life Purpose is and what I want the more I'm realizing the basic ground I have to cover first. It's very easy to get lost in enlightenment, God, being very metaphysically goal oriented, and having an impact on the world that you're passionate about. However, take some time to really be honest with yourself and ask "is this what I need to be doing right now?" For some of us on here, it is time to go into a cave and meditate (or whatever path you personally need to take that will lead to your ultimate liberation). One thing psychedelics have shown me and have allowed to for me bring forth is the realization that I am very metaphysically oriented and what not. However, I'm also a very "impure" vehicle that can't hold the work that's required for that, not to mention that I haven't arranged my life in such a way where I even can... and I know I'm not alone on that here. Get that other stuff handled. There may be resistance to it but how is that resistance to more basic matters of life any different to the resistance you feel as you're trying to awaken? Getting those other areas handled helps with dealing with more "higher challenges" because you've laid a foundation that will help you blossom more. Awakening without thorough development is like training for a 50 mile ultra-marathon in 5 weeks. Yeah you can run it but it's probably going to be a mess of a race. Take your time and cultivate a more developed and healthy character as you go along. Having a more robust, resilient, strong, healthy character is the real steroids for awakening. You're not going to awaken to the deepest levels or even be able to go through what that might take with little to no character/backbone. Even if somehow you have a massive awakening, you still won't be able to hold it. Take a step back and don't be afraid to be cultivate a beginner's mind to your life.

Hopefully I’m not just speaking for myself on here (I have a feeling I’m not) but if that is the case, maybe I’ll get some honest perspectives... I’m going to speak for myself here but hopefully this resonates with some of you. I’m a total perfectionist that wants the whole damn menu and struggle making up my mind. I often have expectations that are just totally unrealistic because in the end, I want to be special. The more I introspect and really realize how out of touch with reality my goals and expectations, the more I realize why. What do I mean by “I want the whole menu”? I mean the idea (and I’m just being honest here. I’m better off being honest that I have these fantasies in my mind rather than just act and pretend like I don’t) that I want to be some great sage that helps people, that wants to really pursue athletics and actually master that along with spirituality, have a life purpose that impacts millions (and also not impact little to no one and have no recognition st all), be some grand enlightened master that’s “fully liberated” and also super wise knowledable and skillful in other things, have friends, see all the facets of God and embody that, etc. Again, I say all this to be clear and honest (and I imagine I’m not the only one on here who might be dealing with this). You/I can’t really be free of this stuff until we’re actually honest and admit that, yeah, we got some really misguided notions. Not to mention, have completely wrong expectations for any and all the endeavors above. At the end of the day, you or I can’t have the whole fucking menu in terms of what you experience in this life. Much less guarantee (as though there is such a thing as a “guarantee” in life) you’d succeed in any of them in the first place. You’re probably not going to be some fully enlightened 3rd tier stage Buddha that’s a million/billionaire in tech, has a great body, can do all this stuff athletically, etc. You do have to pick and choose your battles. I’m not saying all of those specific examples m is what my thing is but the point is, pick and choose and have the right expectations. The more I meditate, the more I come face to face with having to acknowledge how misguided my expectations were as far as my initial capability is and reflect on questions like “who am I comparing myself to?” Again, simple stuff and simple question but it’s the simple questions that we don’t want to look at sometimes. For me, part of my whole character structure was built early on when I was like 4 on a vow that I wanted to be different, to be the best, to be better, to be unique, to be special. It took me up until probably less than a year ago (I’m 23 about to be 24 in 2 weeks) to realize that and now reflecting how this explains my entire life’s issue of having such unrealistic goals, why I put myself under so much pressure to perform because I thought I had to do something, why I leave other people to go be the hard worker that collapses from putting himself under a workload and pressure in something totally beyond him and then misses out on some cool stuff. If you have a REALLY big life purpose, though it is great if it is genuine, maybe give it some contemplation... Like the title says, we can’t have the whole damn menu. You or I don’t need to Superman/woman (or Superthem for people who may use pronouns... though that does sound weird, sorry lol it does). Pick the domain of mastery you actually care about it. If you’re like me and you have struggled with the mistake and habit of being very impressionable, acknowledge that tendency and find a way to build up enough self-esteem and cultivate some genuine self-discovery through some psychedelics or enlightenment work about what you genuinely and authentically want and be okay with that... don’t underestimate that last part of being okay with that. I personally see a lot of people (myself included) on here acting and putting up a false front. I think instesd of just calling people out on their deceptions which never works, we can start by some of us on here taking the initiatiave to admit the delusions we ourselves have. Hope this helps.

Was rewatching the Intelligence video and this question really became serious for me. How is the thought that I have in my mind any different from the illusion that is existence except on a more meta level? To give some analogies... Lets say I’m using my own creative intellectual faculties to come up with a new brilliant idea... is that what God as formless Intelligent Nothing is doing in the world of “form”? So the Intelligence that is goes for Infinity in every square inch of the universe... is what we’re experiencing is what god is “thinking”? I apolgize because this is quite hard to articulate and I’m not here to pretend that I have had the immense depth of realization of Intelligence or anything. This is still a thought for me and I’m not here to pretend otherwise. I still don’t know but just feel like this is a trail of massive fucking bread crumbs I’m staring down. Thanks.

The amount of my friends who are out of the loop of the nonduality work and into mainstream culture messaged from the Mike Tyson video with Rogan saying "is this what you were talking about?! I want to try it!" Was truly eyeopening and raised a lot of thoughts. So you don't think, and for obvious reasons I think you're a good person to ask, we'd see a decline in sites like YouTube right? My real question if it really takes off and consumes culture in an even more unhealthy way is this... how would people who really into consciousness and enlightenment work really relate to that? I imagine it's going to be either the people who retreat from it and then those who try to elevate the people who are suffering from this digital toxicity that they're drowning in... but even then... you can't really escape it at a certain point.

This post is fucking awesome. Love this! As someone who used to be a coffee nerd, I can relate to the caffeine part (it was more the coffee because I live in SF which pretty much translates to part-time hipster). The partying part is really hard to quit because it turns into a lifestyle. I used to be part of the Bay Area underground rave scene here since before EDM even went off (like I said - hipster) for several years and man does getting out of that whole party thing get hard. When you're out till late night/early morning (like 6am) and you go to sleep and wake up and then there's nothing to do but go to another one, it's hard to kick. Worth getting out though so good on you. LOL you are very lucky. As someone who has ADHD and has taken Adderall (and Ritalin, Concerta, Stratera, etc.) for 17 years I thought I'd share a couple things here... You have an awesome fucking attitude on how you're viewing it. So let's get that out there. ADHD meds work insanely well... in the short-term. I can't stress that enough. Short-term can mean first few months of consistent use to maybe the first few years. For me I was in the first few months category. You do adapt to it physiologically. I got to the point when I was trying to get off where if I say got up at 7am and I didn't take adderall... I'd be back in bed 2 hours later until like noon and would wake up of course more tired and groggy and less functional and would go into my car forgetting my glasses and phone in the house... I got off it in January 2018 and now have been experimenting with Modafinil and Armodafinil and even with those and the amount of time I've been off all pharmaceuticals (including SSRIs, mood-stabilizers, etc.) I'm still adapting to those 2 substances in a matter of days. Although it's hard for me to grateful for ADHD when I'm sitting in meditation (LOL) I will say one of the common things I see with others that have it is that we are REALLY fucking good at connecting dots and seeing the big picture. It's not linear at all. I cannot for the life of me think linearly and in this cold rational step-by-step approach. So people in school could out-do me in that. However, I and people l've met that have ADHD seem to have a common ability of being able to connect dots in a way that most people absolutely cannot and we can see a much more total picture. Which would explain why some notable people in history are seen to be very ADD/ADHD in their discoveries, contributions, and especially creative output. We have a unique way of holding different perspectives and being able to go back and forth in ways most people can't. This sounds like it was an awesome growth point for you! Congrats! By the way, were those photos in SoCal? I feel like I've been to that beach before hahaha

@Leo Gura fair point. I actually want to be make it initiative to start being more present with these development with more healthy news outlets. Just to stay current as personally I do need to be prepared given that I'm in my early 20s and leaving home for the first time before the end of the year.

Sure but even with that... how long is it going to take till it actually penetrates culture? How are markets going to adapt to it? How are government regulations going to adapt to it? I don't deny the change that evolutions seems like it's accelerating. Hell, I hear and see it all the time here in San Francisco. I got crazy tech guys on my track club who lead software guys at Google and what not. The question I raise as far as when the tables will really turn and the world really get's moving is when this stuff penetrates into mainstream culture. Stage Blue people in middle and southern end of the United States don't really seem to feel the magnitude of this technological revolutions because they're not really around it. I think, and this is just a thought, it's kinda like paradigms with knowledge. Most postmodernists for example aren't aware or conscious enough to understand that their had to be a guy like Jacques Derrida who decades earlier brought up this paradigm of poststructuralism to the masses and take decades to permeate culture and cause "mind viruses" to people in order for the postmodernist today to "embody" that paradigm unknowingly and become an effect and vehicle of a new way of evolution and seeing the world. It's taken decades for that paradigm to really infect and effect culture in the masses that it has now which is now causing this grind we see in the media now. I think it's the same with technology. I still think we still have some time before things get really interesting.