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If you think his videos are good, try reading his books. You will get so much from itm

I've come to notice intense negative emotions in my 4th chakra, physical/spatial location wise I've noticed it. I was doing yoga, and then out of nowhere when I put my attention to that area intense emotions of anxiety and fear arise. And I notice this feeling in my chest frequently.

What are the different ways you can approach books, and what should you do. How to make the most out of non-duality books. Any particular techniques/tricks you use. Maybe you can just make a blog post if u don't want to make a main video.

Yeah purple would be good as well imo. On a very brief note, he could talk about stage beige and its relation to the entire model, as there is usually something special about the first element of any system. After all, everything builds from beige. So what is beige?

Google is an epic tool. You can make a blog post on the topic if you don't make a YouTube video on it.

Did you have a gun with you when you took LSD in the woods with your girlfriend?

@Western Buddha You can find a lot of deep and meaningful tv shows or films. It's all just art. Anime wise, Cowboy Bebop and Psycho Pass are deep.

Is the book super deep/amazing compared to others, or is it just good like you'd expect any other non-duality book to be.

@kira Alan Watts and J Krishnamurti. Alan Watts is very eloquent at putting into words non-duality. J Krishnamurti is very meta and direct so he might confuse someone without direct experience of higher states of consciousness. Such as when he says that when one is completely aware, there is no choice. If you're looking for someone practical on doing meditation sessions, Shinzen Young is good. He has a blog and youtube channel.

@Aakash What is the face you had before your parents were born?

Same.

@d0ornokey i find these gaps hard to fill. For me the defining feature of stage Green is a certain type of emotional maturity starts to arise. An appreciation for trauma and repression. Values line: Orange heavily values efficiency and material wealth, values hedonism but not in the unsophisticated form of red. I imagine Green is more likely to be contemplative about what is meaningful to them emotionally and etc. Orange wants to be creative but is likely shit at it. If you're looking for a formal articulation of stage Green (and maybe even yellow) cognition, I have a feeling that "post-structiralist" literature is in that sort of boat.

@atlanticgirl sadhguru may be turquoise and is enlightened, but I'm impressed by how well his message reaches stage blue/orange. Of course there are still rationalists out there who get trigerred.

@OmniYoga I don't know. In meditation you can try to keep your attention on one selected thing for as long as you can, or you can try to keep as physically still as possible, or you can try noting. Or just be aware of whatever you can be aware of without strain.

I know some people ascribe this to chakra, I just wonder if there is any deep/actual knowledge on this phenomena that can tell you what you should be doing. I'm asking because it happens a lot if I'm meditating, more often with eyes closed then eyes open. I was just watching random youtube videos today, and my forehead starting tingling randomly . So I then decided to meditate. When I meditated today with eyes closed and trying to stay as physically still as I could, I was just hit by a massive sensation with my forehead spreading to the rest of my body and my state of consciousness changed rapidly. This is unrelated, but does anyone else feel like when their eyes are closed (in the dark) their pure black visual field can appear to oscillate steadily, almost like its oscillating with your heartbeat? I only ever see it oscillating when I mediate.

The origin of the word "person" is "persona" from Latin. Persona refers to someone wearing a theatrical mask.

@Aakash I used to be paranoid that enlightened people were walking zombies, and still am. Maybe I should hand wave the question and say that you're thinking dualistically. And then you can retort and say that me calling your thinking dualistic is a dualistic notion.

Who knows what the infinity of "total awakening" is until it happens. My prejudice has been that if one was "completely awake" , the experience would be a twin to the experience of physical death. The same as physical death but completely different at the same time. At that point, who is it that's aware that they are awake?

Total awakening is probably impossible

I have a family member who claims to have had prophetic dreams about someone dying and then them dying in real life (the death was completely unexpected by the way) and other random examples which seem true. To me it seems like there might be something to it, but I don't know if it's just coincidence or what. Anyone ever heard of such a thing? Some people refer to it as "precognition".

If Muhammad was enlightened, then why did he create an ideology? How can someone who creates irrational beliefs be enlightened? What's the alternative, he willingly lied his entire life about literally believing the things he said? Or did he actually hold all sorts of ideological beliefs for no coherent reason? I've watched Leo's Islam videos, essentially just saying Islam was advanced relative to the time it came. But this still leaves me wondering how someone can be enlightened but then create some ideology out of thin air. Was ideology the only way to share his experience in that era?

Not sure what my position other than fundamentalist religion being bullshit is being described here.

@Leo Gura very true. I suppose the culture of that time is something I can't imagine being born in. @Angelite All your dogmatic beliefs about the prophets, the quran and about God are bullshit. There is metaphorical truth in Islam but you've fallen into a trap. You seem to have this belief that some separate entity from you called Allah created everything, and will send people's souls in the afterlife to heaven or hell based on some arbitrary standard of morality.

Yeah, it confuses me a little. I just wonder what was going on his head, when he decided to spread his message the way he did and what motivated him. I wonder whether he truly believed his words fundamentally or what. I'll never know. Maybe he tricked himself into believing something through hallucinations and long meditation. He probably saw Christians and Jews around him growing up, believed in a variation of it and decided to mix it up.

Muslims usually pride themselves on the idea that the Quran verses haven't been changed at all throughout hundreds of years. Of course there's the whole satanic verse controversy, but that aside I have a feeling that the Quranic text itself (not hadiths or interpretations of the quran) has been very stable and consistent.