Tyler Robinson

I think dreams are related to how our biology works. It says something about your mental state.

Yup. And that's what you should be looking for. I want to combine both spirituality and self help.

Chocolate definitely makes me happy.

@Michael569 no. I actually mean feeling thirsty.

@Carl-Richard do you get dehydrated when you take multi vitamins. Just asking you personally. I have been taking multi vitamin since last week, and God I'm so thirsty all the time.

Sit with my partner at the beach and sip cold coffee while writing a sweet goodbye love poem for them.

Awesome post.

Have your own place and get away from your family.

Try brainstorming different ideas in silence and see what you come up with.

Good point.

@herghly my experience has been the absolute opposite. Most high IQ people I have met, hated Trump to the core.

Values. You can include that. By the way nice list bro.

Thank goodness, it's not a coffee table he is holding

Here you're mixing spirituality with religion. Do you really think that people who started religion did it with the best intentions? How do you know they weren't cult leaders of their time? Also if you're talking about the general populace, how many people truly care to follow the principles of their religious leaders. We wouldn't have slavery in the first place if Christians behaved like Christ? The only way society finds awakening and liberation is when people's collective consciousness is forced to become aware of their Malice. For example, slavery would have always existed if black people hadn't struggled so hard to be free of it. You don't need religion or religious leaders to bring change. You only need the strengths of a majority of people. And the determination to face and fight. In fact most important changes that took place in society did not happen through the blood of the spiritual scholars, it happened because of wars that were fought, wars that were lost in order for values to triumph. It's whimsical that the things we detest the most are the same things that actually paved the way to human psychological and spiritual development. No, I'm not condoning wars. But simply stating their role in human development. It's a process of evolution. It's ironic if you think spirituality leads to enlightenment of the masses. You have made a mistake. Spirituality leads to enlightenment of a person, not enlightenment of the masses. A person can be stage Turquoise and the masses can still be at stage Blue. And mistaking religion for spirituality and conflating the two is the oldest mistake. Most religions actually contributed to a lot of mayhem over religious hegemony. Enlightenment doesn't happen on a mass level, it rarely ever does. But social change(if you consider this to be enlightenment) can happen on a mass level. Yet social change is not exempt from regression. As you can witness this for yourself, in America democracy is facing a huge threat.

Both. That's why no difference. When you have a spiritual awakening, your awareness and embodiment of values is going to change. It's like metamorphosis. The changes from an egg to a tadpole to an adult frog. This maturation which is accompanies by simultaneous changes in character, behavior and values. It's not just the awakening of the spirit and since the spirit is very much connected with each part of our body, the mind, the intellect, the conscience, the heart. A change in the spirit is like changing who runs this website. If we replace Leo Gura here with Eckhart Tolle or Matt Kahn, you would radically different values being followed here. It would completely alter the look and interaction of this place. You cannot have spiritual awakening without it simultaneously impacting your awareness, your virtues, values and your conscience. That's why waking up is growing up. In fact waking up is the main way of growing up. Although this growing up is still possible without the need for a spiritual awakening, an exception for this happens when you have an extraordinarily great bringing up, which is rare but it leads to wholesome individuals who wouldn't need a ton of spiritual work because they have already been trained to understand and follow high consciousness. That's why low consciousness is generally seen in Situations where the bringing up has been awful, for example a child who grows to be a racist because their father fed them with racist opinions ever since they were kid. This is great example to show you that even in the most modernist society that prides on spiritual progress, you could still have people who would support slavery and bring back the 1930s. In fact there are YouTubers who do this. You also see this with the recent Roe v wade situation, almost clocking back to the 1950s. That's why spiritual progress is not without change of conscience. Any spiritual progress or Awakening without change in values is fake and shallow and not a part of growing up. All there is, is to grow.

A revolution?

Focusing on complex matters will help you grow at an exponentially faster rate, socializing with people is mostly a part of survival and needs mastery.

Even that is a part of growth. So essentially no difference. You simply made a distinction.

That was the only post and the best post, that really and truly mattered.

How do you differentiate the two?

I discovered my top 6 values today Peace Freedom Love Humility Work Loyalty

@Carl-Richard I get it that you aren't basing it on values. But could you tell me how you're differentiating animism from psychedelic mysticism without taking into consideration the inherent values pertaining to these frameworks?

@Carl-Richard I don't know why it constantly reminds me of a reductionist version of spiral dynamics for some reason

Oh yes please do that. That helps to retain important information you have read. The brain has a natural tendency to constantly filter out information that is not very useful. Since almost more than 50% of the information we consume is either not quite as useful as we thought it would be or it is simply redundant, the brain has a vital role to play in consuming and filtering such information. So what you're doing by highlighting important text is actually helping your brain to consume and important information. That's a good habit.

It's fine, you could read loud sometimes. I pause a bit just to absorb and keep up with the stuff.