Joseph Maynor

After I had my first major ego-death psychedelic experience, I basically took a couple of months off the grid. No internet, no reading, no media, very little culture, no music. It was very healthy. After a while my intellectual interests came back, and I came back to the Forum to contribute.

Flow like river. Still like pond.

I came to this insight myself. Time is a representation of change — and change is illusory in the Now. The Now never changes. And The Now is not the present moment, and the present moment is not the Now. That’s another insight! Watch:

Don’t turn that into a limiting-belief. You can work on your Enlightenment right now. Don’t assume you need anything for this work to work on it. Now, when you get books, great, but go ahead and start this work right away.

Music is a construct as all art is.

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This is not your normal stuffy philosophy. If you read this, you will be rewarded. If you don't, you won't. It's that simple. Rousseau was a genius, and this work is way ahead of its time and still relevant. Highly recommended. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essay_on_the_Origin_of_Languages Get this one, it's the one I have. This is what you should be reading! https://www.amazon.com/Discourse-Together-Replies-Critics-Languages/dp/0061320838/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1509940925&sr=1-3&keywords=essays+on+the+origin+of+languages+rousseau

Highly recommended. This book will give you a nice perspective on what it means to be human and to have a human mind. https://www.amazon.com/Evolutionary-Psychology-New-Science-Mind/dp/0205992129/ref=nodl_

In part, yes. Your description resonates well with me. I have my own pet words and metaphors that I loosely cling to to talk about Enlightenment. It’s nice to see that Enlightenment can be explained in many different words and metaphors — which are all culturally-charged.

1. It will give you insights about dating and sexuality by looking at how we evolved. 2. It gives a new lens or paradigm from which Psychology can be viewed. 3. You’ll find out fully that we are not blank slates — but survival machines that evolved over millions of years. 4. You’ll get an insightful explanation of “status seeking” behavior from an evolutionary perspective. 5. You’ll get an insightful explanation of social behavior, including family behavior from an evolutionary perspective.

Do it! It’s very healthy. I did it for 30 days myself. You’re gonna be amazed at how different you feel. Your entire mind-space will shift — mark my words. Stay away from reading too. No media, no reading, no music — no added shit. Just natural life. Do it like that. Let the Higher-Mind purge all this shit out. It wants to badly.

If your Life Purpose is aligned with your deepest passion — you should have no problem mustering the work ethic of Arnold. Have you tried? If not, why are you assuming there is a problem when you don’t even have cause to believe there is one? The Mind is looking to forge some limiting-beliefs to justify you being blocked to take action. Can you see that? The Ego does not want to deal with your Life Purpose head on — it would rather dodge it, or find some excuse to block it. That’s what you’ve been doing up until now, is it not? See?

I think it’s more like people are soft because society is carrying them — so they aren’t really quite earning their own way. This makes these people both soft and a leech off of whatever value they can get. But the value these manchildren actually provide is pitiful. If you were forced to provide for your own survival — the manchild would burn out of you very quickly.

Yes. This week I will be completing Part 3, the final part, of the Course myself. I highly recommend it.

Keep doing the personal development stuff no matter what. As you do that, eventually you will make the right decision.

This happened to me too. I think it’s a combination of a lot of things — including lots of change from your routine.

Get and do Leo’s Life Purpose Course. That’s how I did it.

So, it’s fair to assume that these cultural things (objects) could have been otherwise to achieve the same functional result — which is the raising of awareness for the human Mind. Given this cultural component to the discourse about and the teaching of Enligtenment — what are the ramifications of this insight in terms of the takeaway of this realization?

How do you handle that pragmatically? Now that we’re all closing-out the Christmas Holiday — I’m hoping someone has a great insight here. We’ve all been either dealing with family or thinking of family for the past couple of weeks. Can someone impress us with a wise insight?

Damn good insight! You keep that one handy as you move forward in this work! One of the biggest ways (among many other ways) that the Lower-Mind sabotages the aims of the Higher-Mind is it convinces you that: You need something else before you can or should take action. [TRAP] This leads to work prioritization problems, procrastination, and a feeling of being stuck. Basically what’s happening here is you’re clinging to a limiting-belief that’s now sabotaging you. But the Mind will tell you that that’s being reasonable and prudent. Do not believe the rationalizations the Mind spits at you! Examine them all. See the motive of the Ego in those stories if you can. If you can do this as part of your Mindfulness as you’re passing through your day, your awareness will get bumped-up substantially. So the Enlightened person is aware of how the Mind sabotages in this manner and can avoid it through noticing it when it is happening in the moment.

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The more enlightened person is simply aware of more traps than the less enlightened person is — which are not just theoretically known, but put to work in practice.

Marketing is like money — it’s not bad in and of itself. We should remember that. That’s a deep truth.

This is exactly why I recommend that people do Leo’s Life Purpose Course — I’m not just wasting my words when I recommend that. Life Purpose work is the solution to this kind of problem.

You need to take that practice of Mindfulness and develop it deeper. Start to do newbie personal development work and start to look into the Enlightenment materials. This journey is a marathon, not a sprint. The amount of work you still need to do is huge. But congrats on realizing the importance of Mindfulness — it’s the foundation technique for raising-awareness. Your practice of Mindfulness will get better and better as you continue to walk this path.