Heart of Space

Appreciate you @Nahm @mandyjw I liked your post and I feel it very thoughtfully makes a good point in regards to a potential trap in minimalism. Still, I can't help but feel some level of spiritual minimalism is extremely beneficial. I think there is a huge benefit to being pragmatic and minimalist in our language when talking about spirituality. That is to only say what is necessary and to not tack on unnecessary concepts or ideology when it serves little to no purpose. An exception here for poetry and artistry in general, because poetic language does have its own purpose. And in terms of your every day life keeping things that only serve a real purpose. My main issue is that the fundamental aspects of spiritual practice are muddied by a lot of the extra layers of decoration. If something doesn't make a real substantive change in your life why do it? Do you understand what I mean? I think a lot of people get caught in a hamster wheel because they get caught up in complexity of narrative and minutia that doesn’t matter.

It's threads like these that make me feel like the word spirituality is far too broad. We include zen style discussions on consciousness with threads about Casper in the same section even though they couldn't be more opposite in content. OP, have you considered the possibility that this apparition is the product of your own mind? I'm not trying to convince you of anything, I'm just curious if you have even considered the possibility.

Most of the bullying I ever received in life was social. I've been a very competent grappler for many years. It came in handy a few times when I was younger, but overall it never really helped me. I'm not arguing against having it tought at all, it can be great in a lot of ways, but it is not some magical solution for all or even most confrontation. Most of the time it just served as knowledge in my mind that I could win a physical fight against most people, but served me little utility in my adult life aside from fun sport.

They do, the greatest, most effective, and most underrated martial arts of all; wrestling.

It is their job to regulate health issues, which is why there is the FDA for example, or public schooling with health related curriculum. The argument is how far they should go in this regard. Socialist countries tend to ban more unhealthy food ingredients for example. Dare I say, but the more dictatorial our government would be on health issues, the better. Assuming the approach was coming from a high level understanding of health. They could start by banning unhealthy fast food, I'd get behind that. Fuck fast food.

@Adodd Perhaps I could. I don't really view myself as someone who is mature enough to teach others like that quite yet. You could always PM me, or maybe I'll make a topic one day about that who knows. Thanks for the suggestion.

@Preety_IndiaFalse beliefs and ideology can certainly be a side effect! @dflores321 No doubt, there's good and bad postings here. Part of my purpose for posting this is that I wanted to see how people would react to reading this particular perspective. I figured it would provoke some interesting responses. And I agree it is important to be honest with yourself and your thoughts. @Someone here Well in that case, let me tell you that the only way to salvation is through our lord Jesus Christ. Come on Sunday we have our special Kool-Aid ceremony where we meet God after.

All reasonable questions and discussion. My criticism is more targeted to people who use esoteric spiritual and religious concepts and language to talk about it. You don't have to look far for an example of someone obfuscating spiritual discussion in the manner in which I'm talking about. I guess maybe simplicity versus complexity is not the best way of wording it. More that there is an obfuscation of the conversation with superfluous language and concepts which in my opinion only work to delude and pointlessly make the conversation more complex than it needs to be. Asking questions like "what is suffering?" is good because it is simple and to the point. there's no ideology baked into it, it's an honest and concise introspection on reality.

Most underrated psychedelic plant. Extremely easy to acquire and one of the smoothest longest acting psychedelic drugs there are. Definitely give it a shot.

Hehe I read your entire post, OP. Nice it sounds like you had one of those doozy's. San Pedro is as legit as it gets.

All I know is that I made a masculine man with a vagina and vampire eyes.

I just got a little vision while meditating, it happens to me a lot and they usually are some sort of metaphor relating to anything in my life. I got a vision metaphor relating to my response in this thread which I thought was pretty interesting and funny. I had a vision that I keep Richard Dawkins severed head in my refrigerator. The severed head of Richard Dawkins had a third eye. Just thought I'd share that, it was interesting.

Everything is possible due to the nature of infinity. Guess everything thing said by everyone is valid, right?

But as you've said you are unable to do this because of the nature of infinite experiences, hence it is unprovable and always will be. Otherwise, you would have already proven it to me now. You talk about this power as if it's something that you can learn to prove, yet learning is a limitation of the human brain because of it's finite nature. This doesn't seem like something like learning how to ride a bike. Yet you are able to articulate this experience which would imply that Ethan is describing an experience in his memory. If you are not describing an experience in your memory then you are just mouthing words and in that case how would Ethan know that the narrative the words your mouthing are pointing to a real experience? This doesn't make any sense to me at all. If you are describing an experience as a human, the human has a reference point by which they describe that experience like a memory, otherwise they are just words pointing to nothing. Yea, you just seem mildly autistic. A lot of people out there like you, dude. I'm not saying with certainty that you are full of shit, because that would be overstepping on my part. I ultimately don't know what you experience. However, my experience does not allow me to understand the possibility of what you describe so my skepticism is a natural result of that. I cannot believe what you are saying for that reason.

You say it's clearly not true because certain anecdotes you've read? Consider for a moment how many people are delusional or full of shit and rethink the possibility that none of those experiences happened the way they are claimed. If I had one major criticism of the forum culture here it is the absolutely blind open mindedness that people apply to anything spiritual. People take experiences like this as if it is 100 % truth and apply zero skepticism.

A bit if devils advocate. Firstly, you'll never be able to prove this because the infinite possibility is a catch all cop out for never having to prove it while still claiming that you have the experience. Also, how is Ethan capable of speaking about the experience? Your experience implies a memory of the experience that is articulated by the human that is Ethan. The implication would be that human Ethan is having this experience which makes no sense. If Ethan the human truly had access enough to these experiences you could list an infinite number of extremely complex things even if they don't apply exactly to this world wouldn't you? I feel there would easily be some sort of odd quality about you that would make you stand out in an obvious way. But it sounds like your just a normal dude who is entirely indistinguishable from a version of you that didn't have infinite experiences which makes me extremely skeptical of your claims. One quality of pure presence is that the human mind cannot articulate it because it cannot experience or articulate nothing. You can only be it. In the same sense God's eye view should not be able to be articulated through a humans mouth.

So, @AdeptusPsychonautica as someone has been following Leo's work for a while I was interested to see your criticisms. I was hoping for a well thought out critique in both video's I watched. I say that in absolute earnest. Too be perfectly honest I wasn't very impressed. It felt like you gave the absolute most uncharitable interpretation of his statements and were projecting quite a bit. You come across angry and attacking too.

Man this year I had the Hiroshima of spiritual crisis. At its most intense it was a month worth of absolute hell of the highest order my mind could concoct. Imagine the intensity of tripping, losing your concept of time and at the same time your mind constructing quite literally the most expansive vivid narratives of hell that I could possibly imagine. I think my egomind went through 6 or 7 iterations of hell and I was thoroughly convinced of it each and every time. I went to the emergency room once, I got a welfare call from my mom who sent police and ended up in a psych ward for 5 days, got out and it continued at full intensity for another couple weeks. It was so horrific and psychologically punishing that I became suicidal many times and begged for mercy and equal number of times. I was rendered to an absolute gibbering mess of sobbing and state of psychological pain so intense I had no idea that level of suffering was even possible. This is obviously not a competitive thing, but I'd imagine that very very few people have attained this level of darkness and suffering. That being said there's a happy ending, it was what I needed at the time and I'm better than ever now.

Yup, even though I'm a leftist by todays standards I actually consider myself quite conservative in mentality. At the foundation, it's a mentality that values taking maximal personal responsibility for absolutely everything in your life. The difference between a modern conservative and me is that I still value changing the landscape and environment for the purpose of advancing society. The difference between me and modern leftists is that I don't let myself or others off the hook for their having their own autonomy and being able to take responsibility for themselves to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

Thank you for sharing your dream with us, I enjoyed reading it.

Since a few months ago my dreams started to take the form of extremely creative metaphors and lessons. Similar to how you describe your dreams, so I can relate to having dreams like that. Sometimes they offer perspectives that you were aware of subconsciously that help you see something from a different angle. Sometimes they force me to see an aspect of myself or life that I've been ignoring. Or even give me basic advice on how to go about life. I actually value this quite a bit. Although, I've had some pretty nasty vivid and bizarre nightmares too. Even then though, they always had some sort of helpful narrative pointer to consider.

They also hand out extremely harmful and addictive drugs like vanilla wafers. And if you even have trace THC in your system from a CBD product they are immediately dismissive of you like you're just a drug user who had a bad experience even if you had a genuine psychotic break. They just shotgun a basket of drugs at you to sedate you, send you on your way, and then send you a giant bill in the mail. It's quite literally like using duck tape to cover a crack in the glass of a giant aquarium.

Well, of course, women ruin everything. It goes without saying.

Lol ya, he reminds me of a lot of my friends dads when I was a kid. Shame he dug his heels in so much when get got attacked by the left. I think it would have gone a long way to extend somewhat of an olive branch even if he disagreed on certain issues. He didn't do himself many favors in his contentious relationship with leftists.

He exudes love if you're an angry young man with conservative leanings. It's a shame though how he treated queer people. They need love too, young people need love in general. Instead he treated them with disdain and I think that was the biggest mistake he made.