statement: all fantasies are non-integrous
Request: I often find myself oohed and awed in fantasy, before grounding myself and returning to center. Are any of them integrous?
Spirituality
telling someone what they believe is false, according to calibration
Request: For example, when a Christian mentions the book of revelations, it hurts to see them believe it as true... Is it in the highest good to tell them about it's falsehood, and about consciousness calibration?
spiritual junk food
Wise-sounding, empty teachings that inflate the spiritualized ego's false sense of learning.
Barry Long
Long's teaching focuses on freeing the individual from unhappiness which he defined as "happy today, unhappy tomorrow". He stated that this fluctuating condition is set in motion and maintained by an addiction to thoughts and the emotions they create -- wikipedia.
Origins of Man and the Universe, by Barry Long
relates our inner life to the outer world in ways that draw us towards the solution of the ultimate puzzle: What's behind it all? What on earth are we doing here? --barrylongbooks.com
Alan Watts
He wrote more than 25 books and articles on religion and philosophy, introducing the emerging hippie counter culture to The Way of Zen (1957), one of the first best selling books on Buddhism -- wikipedia. He is calibrated in TvF at 485.
spiritual entertainer vs. spiritual teacher
A matter of appearance vs. essence. Spiritual entertainers provide a high-magnitude performance of "knowing about" spirituality through the persona, often with costumes, pseudo-humility and affected speech to simulate a state of enlightenment, whereby they become celebrities.
T/F: people in intimate relationships share a non-local field of psyche
Request: Almost like a telepathic / intuitive relationship?
Mooji
One follower describes Mooji’s teaching as spiritual food that is neither esoteric nor hard to understand. Attendees come up one by one in front of a large crowd and ask personal questions that Mooji answers or uses for “riffs on faith.” --wikipedia
level: no longer being affected by others' anger
Priority request: Not as in "I don't care", but more just the ability to not take someone else's anger personally anymore. No longer feeling like it means something about oneself. Others may get angry "because" of this or that, but... a lot of it is actually outside of one's control.
statement: no sin is possible
Love doesn't perceive sin. Priority request.
percent of people hypnotized by their persona
Up to 390, one's consciousness is hypnotized by its projection of persona, a believable false self that does not correspond with LoC.
looking for guilt in yourself or others
An unconscious behavior anathema to forgiveness and spiritual progress, it is the core of the spiritualized ego. With awareness all are innocent and simply programmed falsely, we wouldn't do it.
Be As You Are, ed. by David Godman
"probably the most widely read book on Ramana Maharshi’s teachings. Since its first appearance in the mid-80s, it has been, outside India, the standard introduction to Bhagavan’s teachings" -- davidgodman.org
prohibition of having a relationship with another spiritual teacher
Request: Wanting to hold the Doc in my mind, I am met with a kind of feeling that I "shouldn't" do it. The argument is the existence of Christ... [Still,] a Christian cannot betray Christ... just because he maintains a "different" teacher in his mind. I wonder what is behind this "prohibition".