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There's lots of personal choice of belief and viewpoints in that, too. Harnessing the creator power comes with responsibility, but I prefer it over comparing myself to everything else in existence. Seems very ego-affirming by torturing it. I am a part of the whole and as such also everything.

@GSmaster Blnc brngs hlth. I believe that doing things well is worthy. It requires effort that brings us to a better place. Mediocrity rule created the world as it is. And when I say mediocrity, I do not mean a healthy balance, but people succumbing to the difficulties spawned by fear.

Linguistic laziness breeds misunderstandings. Some of them with severe consequences much-deserved. BTW, did you realize that typical blue-collar accents often came about due to actual physical laziness (or energy saving if you want to call it that)? You take the language and speak it while pretending that your face muscles are half-paralyzed and you're getting the accent. (Works with English.)

Those linked pages are giving me a hard time, but at least one Chinese I heard saying 'yiñ' is Cantonese. It is mindboggling how with a language like that where subtle intonation changes the meaning they then also have dialects that make one word sound like another. Today I heard that Vietnam managed to boost literacy vastly by switching the Vietnamese script to roman letters. (And apparently Vietnamese also has six different intonations, and that's not even the maximum among languages.)

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I am still trying to make sense and explore implications of a phenomenon I had ever since I had a profound ayahuasca experience. Whenever I wake up from a troubled dream, which means one from which, for one reason or another but usually due to being weirded out / scared, I try hard to wake up and eventually do, for a minute or so after that I see flickering light patterns when I close my eyes. They're not really complex, just some movement of bright dots in a distinct texture pattern, which made me call this phenomenon "holodeck matrix". It is always the same pattern, and the perception gradually fades the longer I lie awake. (It's quite intense light at first, but in the context of the whole phenomenon being kinda subtle.) I don't know whether the specific pattern has any relevance or familiarity (maybe related to the way that light-receptors are arranged on the retina or at least how the brain manages them?), and it is hard to describe, but I tried to draw a crude approximation/guess. (They are slightly more colorful, I think, with some elements of yellow and green, but last time I had this I remembered a red-dominance once I noticed it was occuring again.) I think there might also be a connection between the occurence of such dreams and how much energy is still active in my head before entering sleep. (I usually do some nei gong in bed.) I had this type of dream a couple times after my ayahuasca experience, in a more intense way, but even years later this still ocurs in a milder version if I don't ground myself thoroughly after the nei gong. (But I usually don't do that because I am not that worried about these effects. It is part of a process anyway, and results are so subtle that I decide to emphasize more on keeping the energy active as much as possible. Once one reaches a state where there is always activity, you cannot say you moved energy out of the head anyway, and one has to distinguish between energy being constantly active and it being stuck up there. I don't think I have an issue with the latter. I've had energy pulsing around a bit between third eye and crown ever since my Kunlun Nei Gung seminar, and it is active at various times of the day, usually during states of relaxation.)

I paid more attention to the "Super Maha Butthead".

Sorry, couldn't read @Everything you wrote. Too many words.

"Cheeseburger" sounds jewish.

Clichée alien shapeshifting reptiloid, shitting its esoteric, mysterious shapes into the clichée Illuminati (dumber clichée Freemason) circles, who are at least according to the picture interestingly not 'the jews', and I am wondering what species the creature in the flag is supposed to be. Looks a bit like a caninoid or ursoid alien, haha. They probably belong to the grand conspiracy of wasting the reptiloids' time with an illusion while the gray aliens plug their bodies into the Matrix to finally get eggs for breakfast again. Planet Earth with humankind is probably just an elaborate decoy for an intergalactic power grab. (Yes, I like Douglas Adams.)

That picture is part of a popular refusal of responsibility. They're all one.

@manitou I read, and this dialogue popped into my mind: Student: "Why should we move back to make our mind become like a child's again? Then what is the point of becoming an adult in the first place?" Teacher: "I see you are beginning to understand." Student: "What? No! I don't understand!" Teacher: "I see you are undecided."

@Everything I tended to assume that fear always condenses and love always expands and that as such the material realm if profoundly a result of a portion of fear in contrast to love. I don't know whether I would discard that theory at this point, but it would constitute a zero-sum game, so I am intrigued by your thesis of the purpose of this realm to try and materialize love. I am skeptical because practicing love always seems to lighten, etherealize. But maybe that is just an early step of the whole process?

@Everything As profound as that is, it also seems extremely trivial in certain points, because aren't we all looking for that in real life which makes us feel good, is meaningful and empowering? Finding that is the whole challenge, and I would say that despairing over not being able to find/access it is what drive people into different pursuits, like spirituality. A path of least resistance might even be found at first, but not be sustainable. Life tends to not allow this but throw stuff at us. From my own experience, it even seems like trying to find meaningful connections between an envisioned goal and physical reality can spoil the former and backfire violently due to utter incompatibility and phoniness of the things connecting to, which again signals that a representation of the feeling in the physical realm might not be available.

@Everything A lot of your writings match my insights gained from experiences with ayahusca and salvia divinorum in tandem with ponderings. I think spiritual englightenment/awakening is a lot about realizing implications of experiences made. Like, as a figurative example: You read a sentence and don't ask what it is telling you but what the fact that you are reading it, in that moment, says about your experience of life. When you shift attention to that mode of perception, maybe you suddenly realize the sentence is in a language you don't even know, and you still read it. And then more implications arise. Or you go "Woah, this is so cool", i.e. back to sleep. (Which may be fine. Things take time to process.)

You have to forgive them. They are sleep-deprived.

I got it! I got it! All you have to remember is MEOW! This was too easy.

@2ndchance I think you are afraid of skepticism, of doubt. The concepts have control over you, and thus you cannot control them as tools serving your light. Without using those tools (which are inherently neutral before we apply a flavor to them) people evidently develop severe vulnerabilities. I think your imbalancing fixation on belief is based on power-tripping, which is, again, fear-driven. The more you storm forward towards the light, the more power the shadows gain. Related to what a crafty trickster fear in the mind can be: You can of course go on and explore your mind-pleasing (interesting) extreme and see where it leads. It would be part of God's infinite diversity. (Although I wouldn't say you are in any way uncommon. )

Skepticism doesn't mean devoted disbelief, but the word has been hijacked by many such people. Your OP looks down on doubt, while showing a lack of such, or being overly certain of things. Accept that truth is boring. Then it will actually not be. But I have said too much.

Max Christensen once gave us the advice: "Cut your head off". I didn't have to ask how he meant it. As for Sadhguru, I can only roughly convey my point that I am sensing more bullshit in him than in Adyashanti. (Thus my teacher preference.) I am about as skeptically reserved about Sadhguru as I am about Eckhard Tolle. Although Sadhguru is apparently a lot more knowledgeable and philosophically potent than Tolle, who seems to be an utter one-trick pony. But both are touching less than ideal energies with their approach to self-marketing.

Recommended technique: Sorry, couldn't resist. (Probably influenced by Adyashanti's down-to-earth spiritual teachings.) P.S.: I wish I had had one of these for the photo: https://redphoenixbrews.wordpress.com/gallery/ (This visual pun was inspired by some actual practice experiences. Feel free to discuss if you like. Who knows what comes out of it.) P.P.S.: Don't buy one of those golden bottle openers from China. Their quality fits the reputation. (Why can't we have nice things? ) Also: If it puts a fold in the crown cap, it's an inferior design and needs German engineering or Chinese martial arts consulting. ... Have they never heard of a fulcrum? - (I also got a pineapple-shaped one that bends not only the cap but also itself! Talk about a lose-lose situation. And the unicorn has a big miscolored scratch on the other side over the eye, like a scar. - I replaced an ugly one that works like a charm; rarely any force needed and cap comes off looking like it's never been on a bottle.) This is teaching an insightful lesson about human-technological 'progress'.

"You can only either grow or expand at the same time." - Dowlphin

You know what's mindboggling? There are trick questions that reveal some people actually being this dense. They have the right and obvious answer right in front of their nose, but in trying to find it, they move away from the insight. And if you try to help them and give them more and more hints, it makes it worse. There was a Youtube video with one of such, asked to random people on the street, but I could never find it again, which really frustrates me, because the trick question was amazingly enlightening about the human mind. P.S.: Check the downvote count on that video. That's society.

Seems like that might have been an inspiration for this: Also, when martial arts comedy is mentioned, I am always reminded of this classic:

Thanks. Now I just gotta know what they say. I know that cantonese uses the same script, but it seems to be a quite different dialect/language. Knowing which is used here could shed light on the origin of the restaurant owners. EDIT: I just learned that Hong Kong and Taiwan tend to use traditional characters while the mainland uses simplified.