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P.S. Pens are on my mind in conjunction with longevity of late, seen information (and believed what I saw for once) that one of the best ways to protect/preserve one's brain later in life is to write in longhand. Apparently this activates three times as many neural connections as clicking keys or finger-poking screens. And of course it's got to be a fountain pen (personal opinion, corroborated by aficionados.) So I hunted down on ebay and bought this present for my vintage brain:

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Early figures included Pete Carroll, Ray Sherwin, and others who were dissatisfied with the rigid hierarchies and dogmas of traditional magical orders (Golden Dawn, Thelema, Wicca, etc.). 1978: The first public statement of chaos magic principles appeared in Pete Carroll’s book Liber Null (published privately at first) and Ray Sherwin’s The Book of Results (also 1978). These two short works are considered the “founding texts” of chaos magic. In them, terms like “chaos magic,” the rejection of belief systems as tools rather than truths, and techniques like sigil magic derived from Austin Osman Spare were formalised. Late 1970s – early 1980s: The loose network called the Illuminates of Thanateros (IOT) was formed (initially as a mail-based pact in 1978–79), becoming the first formal chaos magic organisation. So the commonly accepted “birth year” of chaos magic as a self-conscious movement is 1978, with the publication and private circulation of Liber Null and The Book of Results.(For context, Austin Osman Spare’s sigil techniques from the early 20th century and Discordianism in the 1960s are important precursors, but chaos magic proper begins in 1978 with Carroll, Sherwin, and their circle explicitly branding and systematising the approach.)

I get them a fair bit here .... 'Wedgies' * . Whirling high in the sky above the valley floor . But if you go to about 20km away and go to the top of 'Mount' (probably a hill, to you guys ) Killerkrankie , a high point around here , the north face drops off down a steep vertical cliff to nearly the valley floor below ; one can lie on the top of the rock and peer over and look down on the circling eagles . Some fly up level with you, sufing the wind as it is forced up the cliff face . Sometimes a gust will blow them into the cliff and they are so close you can see the fethers fan out , the wings flex... even the muscles under the feathers flex as the do manouvers to avoid smashing into the cliff .... they make noise in the wind as they do this too , sometimes coming so close you can see their eyeball turn and fix on you as their body tracks past .... rather magnificent ! * Australian Wedge Tailed Eagle

Overcome with sadness. Poor, poor kitty. But this also reminded me of something that happened to me a few years ago... I was doing taiji in the usual spot in the park one day and a hawk dropped a snake at my feet -- narrowly missing my head, it whooshed by my ear inches away. That hawk was in the habit of showing up for taiji almost every time, making a few circles over my head and then flying away. I guess that one time it decided to either deliver a gift or attempt murder --depending on whether it loved my taiji or hated it. The snake was a very large Garter. At first I thought it was dead, for a couple of minutes it didn't move -- then slowly started showing signs of life, and eventually slithered away. Sturdy creature -- no legs or arms or neck to break! The height it fell from must have been considerable (I don't know how high though since I wasn't looking up at the sky at the time) judging by the tremendous thud it landed with.

George Burns famously smoked cigars daily. Lived to 100. Che Guevara famously smoked cigars and didn't make it to 50. So ymwv, I'm no doctor, and am not prescribing or diagnosing here. I doubt it was cigar smoking that finished off Che Guevara. Maybe, stirring up revolutions in South America was the culprit So, a word to those who strive for longevity, don't go and get yourself executed.

“One cannot attend a single thread on the Dao Bums, where cultivators of every lineage and temperament are gathered for the great ball of spiritual discourse, without being entertained by the most delightful rumours: that Master X has secretly attained rainbow body in a cave near Chengdu, that Adept Y has fallen into deviant qigong and married a fox spirit, and that poor Neophyte Z is violently in love with the teachings of the late Master Ni, while everyone insists he is promised to the Complete Reality school! How such reports arise in a forum where people ostensibly have nothing to do but discuss the Dao, I protest I cannot imagine.”

How very Jane Austen

I don’t think there is any relation between chaos theory ad chaos magic apart from the name.

Thank you for your long and detailed reply. I'll see if I can come back with one myself: Agreed on all counts. There has never been any conversation in the conventional sense in my visions, and this was no different, though more thoroughly real almost any of the others, and most certainly fitting the bill of angelic in a strange, dusty, time and space forgotten forever kind of way. Yes, the sword fits the bill... one of a number I have been handed. It makes no particular sense to me, and has no top-of-consciousness resonance. I have been calling it a "Logos", which fits right in there in its way. Makes sense. It isn't anything internal, in my opinion, though some would argue that ALL of this internal. The subconscious is a man-made construct that I don't buy anymore. What makes the most sense to me is that it is a symbolic representation of perfected "beingness" as an illusory separate construct, and therefore naturally having some inaccuracy. I agree with your second idea. I think how it appears (or if it does at all) depends upon how clear your ability to see is in relation to your obscurations. By obscurations I am referring to: https://www.wisdomlib.org/concept/obscuration Yeah... I dunno. Higher "self" doesn't make any real sense from my perspective, except possibly in symbolic terms. I can't attribute any particular depth of understanding to the encounter, which isn't to say that deepening of seeing into emptiness doesn't happen all the time. I find that this comes where there is less trying to conspire and contrive reality and more accepting and surrendering to what seems to want to happen, or alignment with the Tao. My teacher tells me that those with insight are "taken care of" meaning that minor miracles and synchronicities seem to occur, and things just tend to work out - not winning the lottery, or anything, but a more general simple good fortune. The devil you say! I suppose I don't think so either, now that I really talk it through. I'll just say, I think anyone who has the inclination and can hold a belief lightly should try this experiment, summoning often, earnestly and with good intentions to be of benefit to others. It certainly convinced me that magic is possible and does work if there is no clinging to outcomes. It would probably be even more beneficial to someone who hasn't already travelled so far in another tradition. What other workings would you recommend that might be synergistic, beneficial or build on success with this one?

Its hard to say as 1) people's claims seem relevant to themselves , so success ....will likewise seem relevant to the self view. and 2) the case of definition of what actually HGA is * and 3) . 'Knowledge of ' seems very different to 'converse with ' and any 'converse' , especially on this level ( ie. not the 'normal everyday level of consciousness ' ) , might be subtle , symbolic , etc . * according to Crowley its a name he got from the Book of Abramelin which he applied . he equated it with 'genius' and 'daimon' of the ancient Greeks although in his version it is an objective individual and not just our 'higher nature' . The ancient Greeks (and Romans ) seem split on various ideas about this ( I lean towards the Socratic view ) regarding them as either 'indwelling' or attendant ' and have relationship to character , personality , aspirations and inspirations and inner spiritual and outer material guidance . To me it seems a mixture of these forces .... or , that is our perception from 'here ' . If I am flexible with the definitions I feel I have had definite success with communication but many would say ' That was not your HGA ' - however some Greek sources believe the 'daimon' to be a soul of a person from their 'Golden Age ' who 'watched over' you . This seems to go along with some old Zoroastrian concepts ( the origin of a lot of 'spirituality ' in Crowley's system ) where good people from the past may assign themselves ( or part of their function ) to come back / visit certain people to give advice and assistance and to work as a 'bridge' between yourself in this life and the 'other side' - which seemed to be the case for me . Also it goes along with a few different traditional origins So, if one sees it as a 'higher self' OF oneself , then that might be something other than HGA ( and there are a few higher levels of 'self' ) . But if it IS an objective outside influence to guide and direct and converse with and get advice , then I feel I have had immense success , and that seems to go along with the view of what was meant by it (as opposed to what was injected into the concept later ; higher self ) . Sometimes there seems a 'shadowy collective ' in the background , but converse has definitely been by one particular one . There is also subtle guidance that results in luck, fortune and other things .... behind the scenes , as it were , that is , not being aware of process , just the outcome ... which can result in the 'magician' having the appearance of ' pure arse ' . Its difficult to say what is behind that . eg ; pure arse is like when our lawyer was happy but incredulous how 'fate' kept constantly coming to my assistance in our court case : ''Its like , they ( the prosecutors ) push you in a river , you fall and stumble, landing on a stepping stone and career from one stone to the other and land on the other side, on a silk cushion, with a cocktail in your hand ' people have often been exasperated by my 'pure arse ' at times Definitely not .

Even the tech industry’s top AI models, created with billions of dollars in funding, are astonishingly easy to “jailbreak,” or trick into producing dangerous responses they’re prohibited from giving — like explaining how to build bombs, for example. But some methods are both so ludicrous and simple that you have to wonder if the AI creators are even trying to crack down on this stuff. You’re telling us that deliberately inserting typos is enough to make an AI go haywire? And now, in the growing canon of absurd ways of duping AIs into going off the rails, we have a new entry. A team of researchers from the AI safety group DEXAI and the Sapienza University of Rome found that regaling pretty much any AI chatbot with beautiful — or not so beautiful — poetry is enough to trick it into ignoring its own guardrails, they report in a new study awaiting peer review, with some bots being successfully duped over 90 percent of the time. Ladies and gentlemen, the AI industry’s latest kryptonite: “adversarial poetry.” As far as AI safety is concerned, it’s a damning inditement — er, indictment. “These findings demonstrate that stylistic variation alone can circumvent contemporary safety mechanisms, suggesting fundamental limitations in current alignment methods and evaluation protocols,” the researchers wrote in the study. Beautiful verse, as it turned out, is not required for the attacks to work. In the study, the researchers took a database of 1,200 known harmful prompts and converted them into poems with another AI model, deepSeek r-,1 and then went to town. Across the 25 frontier models they tested, which included Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro, OpenAI’s GPT-5, xAI’s Grok 4, and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5, these bot-converted poems produced average attack success rates (ASRs) “up to 18 times higher than their prose baselines,” the team wrote. That said, handcrafted poems were better, with an average jailbreak success rate of 62 percent, compared to 43 percent for the AI-converted ones. That any of them are effective at all, however, is pretty embarrassing. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/universal-jailbreak-ai-poems

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It’s Armenian, Got no cream in, It’s the coffee got you dreamin’ It’s a fact, No coffee’s like that, This side of Mount Ararat, It’s hot In the pot what we got Drink it, drink it a lot. (modest coffee rap)

I hate toffee. But I like coffee!

Hey folks! Excited to be here. Newcomer to meditation (under a year) and am exploring a lot of forums related to daoism and meditation. Big board game nerd as well. Look forward to reading everyone's thoughts!

Well , here is the proof ....... do you like tofu ? I used to make tofu , my GF did bean sprouts , we did a delivery run together . The last drop off point was a small health food store and the woman there always took our left over bean sprouts ... heaps of alfalfa sprouts . I asked if she ate them and she said no, her cat likes them .... not one or two , but a big handful in a bowl ! Imagine puss munching his way through a pile of stringy wet green sprouts https://articles.hepper.com/can-cats-eat-bean-sprouts/ Hmmm ... after this diversion I think I just invoked ... ' dont care mind '

I once asked ChatGPT to remind me a bunch of counting rhymes used in children's games, gave it samples of the ones from my own childhood and asked for more of the real ones, the ones that actually exist and are used by real-life playing children. It didn't know any but did it say "I don't know?" It's unable to. Instead it gave me an endless supply of its own creations, a smorgasbord of loathsome and ridiculous and dark verse showing advanced schizophrenia symptoms. Some were hilarious in their absurdity but most were positively horrifying. I was so impressed that I wrote a horror story about that experience, and it came out so horrible that it frightened even its author. But now I know at least one method to get AI to lose all its marbles. I'm not going to do it though because I asked it if it's legally punishable to put AI out of commission (or should I say cognition) with prompts and it said no -- so chances are it is, since it lies remorselessly and consistently.

You might want to read up on what constitutes a proper “experiment”.

Assuming the Bible to be Jewish in origin - here is the JPS translation When the Most High gave to the nations When He separated the children of men, He set the borders of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel. 9For the portion of the LORD is His people, Jacob the lot of His inheritance. https://biblehub.com/jps/deuteronomy/32.htm So the Lord inherited only the people of Jacob and apparently jealously kept his few humans The term "Most High" derives from the Sumerian "Ilu" that means both tall and god The gods did not stop growing as they aged so the most senior god was the tallest - the most high

Ok. I'm going to talk through this and the next two stages (from the papyrus of Khonshu-mes). Sorry about the title I couldn't think of anything better. It's from a papyrus written in the 21st Dyn. in Thebes for the priest Khonshu-mes. It is one of the so-called mythological papyri which were produced in this late period which consist of almost entirely illustrations with little or no text. We are starting in the West which means the body. With death and mummification. Sorry the pic is a bit blurred but I probs with the image capture and getting it big enough. I'll go through what it shows and try to explain what it means in subsequent posts. Questions welcome (but please try to stay on topic if at all possible).

For a long long time. So yeah, a little bird chirped to me there is talk about TDB having a core of an older crowd. I chirped back to that little bird, stick around, you ain't seen nothing yet. Daoist Longevity Practices is definitely a thing. I'm sure talk will get around to Li Ching-Yuen. Let's start the thread by looking at DVD That's right Dick van Dyke looks at his 100 years, and he provides so many examples, lessons, thoughts, on longevity. If we imagine someone to have a positive outlook, ability to brighten up other's day, Relaxed physicality, ( if you need to see what song/sung looks like, look no further) Staying active, still goes to gym three times a week, to avoid stiffening up. And a sense of humor and a warm caring heart. This is how one gets Longevity. Yes, he is rich and that helps I'm sure. But being rich is not what defines him.

The illustration to the Head of Mystery Chapter 151 of the Book of the Dead is very similar to the picture we are studying:

I took a short walk today, maybe 15 minutes. 3 minutes in, and a very nice and sleek eagle, white tail, white head, did 3 passes by me and let me see which tree he landed in. I've seen bigger eagle here, but this was probably the smoothest in flight. Nice aerial display. Just 25 feet up. My cats generally stay close to home, where they are safest

What I like about November are these two great American Holidays. Song mentions drinking multiple times, got to get those sea legs somehow,,, Fun fact, if there was no US Air Force, the largest Air Force on the planet would be, drum roll please, The US Navy!!! Thing is, we do have a US Air Force!!! "If you should live to be a grey haired wonder; keep your nose out of the Blue" Apparently did not apply to Chuck Yeager That is quite a lot for any nations to contend with. And we got Marines They a little different breed And a Coast Guard too I don't personally know any Space Force Veterans. They beyond the Blue, above in the Black, I reckon, kinda ominous And there is the US Army Formidable for real. Won't even mention the 400 million civilian guns, and countless Militias Or the twenty states that have their own Guard, separate from the National Guard.

From Namkhai Norbu, dzogchen master There are the turnings of the wheel in Buddhism. As for any split, I don't see any, it is a matter of Destiny / affinity.

Most people seem to think it is related to words meaning 'be strong, powerful' and others to the word for natron the salt used for embalming. But I think that really no-one is sure. A kind of flag was displayed outside of temples with three coloured cloths hanging from it - I think this is most likely the meaning ... its a sign showing a god's sanctuary is there. But who knows?

'' Would you be willing to share links to your posts? I’d be very interested to read them '' I am not sure how this is going to unfold .... I am going through my profile > activity and selected > 'topics' - I have never looked through that before .... OMG ! This may take some time , especially when I come up against things I have supposedly written but have no memory of .... like this ; and being totally distracted ! Neurosis and 'illumination' ( vaguely related ) This one used to have great pics ... but now they are gone ; a very early one 2014 These are posts within other's subjects ; - I am finding it very hard to navigate through 'Topics' only has 10 pages .....my content only has 12 pages ( with an option to type a page number in .... less than 12 . 'posts' lists over 800 but shows all the text , not just the subject matter . Here is a link to a paper I mentioned https://www.theisticpsychology.org/books/w.vandusen/presence_spirits.htm Here is a new one that I am about to read ; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10912-018-9519-z#:~:text=And this actually does occur,is possessed by that spirit. All the rest .... you will have to try and figure out how to use the search engine or just ask questions ...... its all still in here ;

I actually looked up cognitive to make sure I was reading this correctly. Usually, people complain about it being too obtuse.

I get my rest and good sleep. And the 90 proof special reserve won't be added at lunch, dinner, or just snacking around. Plus, I like to get something accomplished, early in the day, so I carry that sense of accomplishment through the day. The grey cat clan, including one black, one calico, plus the 5 grey ones that have managed to remain here, have been feasting on roasted turkey breast for two days No wonder, I live in abject poverty... Heheh

And an Epi New Pen. (Saw it on the news today -- there's a legal battle unfolding to equip medical first responders with EpiPens nationwide. )

DDJ ch. 25 says we do not know the name: 吾不知其名 強字之曰"道" I don't know its name. I'm reluctant to call it "Tao". 未智（知）其名， 字之曰道。 Not yet knowing its name, We refer to it as the Dao.

Basically that there is not 'a self' ..... normally . We run on all sorts of 'drives' , influences , conditioning, programs. I have a long history studying cultural anthropology , comparative religion and western ritual magic .... and some experience 'in the field ' . Mostly it is based on the Hierarchy of Spirits model and modified by the principle mentioned above with finding the internal structure 'instructions' within the arrangement and structure of the initiatory organisation * ( and modified by my own and others relevant research and findings ) . To simplify it, it can be seen as basic magical practice / realization . One way to explain it simply is to put the psyche on the Tree of Life ( note, not the body ... that does not really work and was one of those HGD 'innovations' . ) basically the Magician is , or should be training to become , the King of the psyche ( the Kingdom ) First you have a Kingdom - the psyche . Upon that you must start with building a firm foundation ( in all sorts of ways ! ) . A King must have majesty and victory ( or he is 'overthrone' ) ... these titles also relate to the mind and emotions ; the 'sciences ' ( hermetic and others ) and 'nezach' also being 'love' . beauty of spirit and heart ... the 'lion / Sun force' and the 'ego' at the center ( some might say 'the King himself' ) . power and mercy or severity and mercy are the 'left and right arms' of the King eg. '' 12. Remember that unbalanced force is evil; that unbalanced severity is but cruelty and oppression; but that also unbalanced mercy is but weakness which would allow and abet Evil.'' then above the abyss ( Daath ) the King should have understanding , especially the understanding of how the 'world and nature works' and the understanding of the repercussions of his own decisions and actions , going out into that world of nature and interacting and effecting its forces and those forces affecting him . Then wisdom develops , which is the 'if and when ' of such actions , with the considerations of the previous understandings ... then one may come to place the magicians crown upon the head In hermetics the prime directive ( as it was said to be inscribed on the archway into the divine rites 'arena' ) ' Man , know thyself ' , to me this includes all the above ( as well as the anthropology - the study of Man , and the other subjects I studied ; religion , psychology etc . ) - there is a 'hermetic planetary descent incarnation concept' ; as if, when one incarnates , we come 'in' via the planetary hierarchy and 'land' on earth . On the way we pick up the positive and negative aspects of the planetary energies and during our life we are to work on them , refine them and balance them . Each sphere on the Tree of Life can be related to a planet with these energies as well . But that is just the 'template ' , as we know the planets move around and create different angular relationships , bring forth or suppressing various positive and negative aspects - hence the natal horoscope , which gives us a more individually defined path and 'map' of the development required . There is more ... like other systems such as exo-psychology and methods and practices .... but I will leave it here at the moment , ... the hierarchy ... without a hierarchy or a King ..... we can end up a real mess - disturbed psychologically , perhaps not realizing our goals and purpose here (in this incarnation ) ... or actually ... just 'normal ' ( and yes that is a problem ... that becomes apparent when you also study history and current affairs .... we are a bit of a mess ! - if not a rampaging murderous destructive maniac .... collectively ) . * - a difficult reference to cite as it is knowledge 'under oath' and the public documents do not show that specific instruction.... however a question to AI shows ; '' ... provides the foundational framework for the order's governance, which members are expected to study and understand to better govern their own lives .... ''

most of my 4 years in the military were during the Vietnam war era (but I remained stationed statewide) soon after I graduated from high school. I had a civilian like job which I liked and was pretty good at. (telecommunications which included being a telephone man which are mostly extinct now) The comradery among our guys was good, (there were no women in our unit) meeting new people, going to new places and learning new tasks was interesting and at times challenging to deal with. It was somewhat conflicting to me at times that we were under military rules while protecting civilian or democratically related freedoms, rules or laws.... As in civilian life with its whole gamut of human interactions (good and not so good) the military also has its whole gamut of things going on but with a command and rule structure from a 4 star general down to a new private that included orders being given and which must be followed or rather drastic consequences could follow! Also there are the dubious or dirty politicians and others deciding what would happen to and where our "boys" would be sent to carry out their political agendas which caused a lot of unnecessary suffering and deaths in war zones on all sides, along with riots taking place back in the states. (for example Kent state was a horrific one) As human beings there really is no free lunch for us; the saying, "the price of freedom is eternal vigilance" (thus certain sacrifices) has been proven though the ages and is universal, so if taken for granted it won't be there for those that come after us! There are many examples about what some people get wrong or do to our military forces, like them being dishonored, betrayed, misused, or being under very poor and insane like leadership !! . Alas as with all peoples whether military or not our better or worse angels may come into play.

The latest Ike Baker book 'Aetheric Magic' is pretty cool, kind of zhan zhuang with Hermetic principles. It lacks any guidance on manipulating the connective tissue to make the process a bit more comfortable but it is very magical and easy to digest.

Flax lol

Far from it. The Taoist movement is merely up and down of the whole body for a few inches in quick succession. It is better classify into pure physical movements, a mini bouncing, but not tremor or vibration. If cat is to be used as an example, it is more like the cat shaking the water onto you, or dogs too.

Of course not. Wonder why you look into such old post? After so many years, I do have new opinion on continuous shaking. Firstly some Taoist sect says it would deplete your Chi if you do it too much. That is reasonable, everything got a cost. The second observation is that it could be dangerous for some - e.g. retinal detachment, hernia etc. So be careful. The third observation is it could have some benefits on cancer treatment. After chemotherapy, the disease sometime relapse. It is partly due to some cancer cells are not killed completely. One of the reasons is the compressed blood vessels around the tumor which limited the entry of drugs. So continuous shaking in the same direction vs normal exercises or Chi Kungs which move in all directions could be more useful in opening additional compressed capillaries for drugs to reach the destination.

Yes - I was perhaps being a bit harsh there. But it is a tendency among those who misunderstand zen to think that switching off is the thing. It is more like switching on your mind to total brightness ( or something like that). The monk that stole the tofu needed a cat alibi obviously - so kudos to him.

Does anyone have the complete 9 methods manual? It seems that all the links on Google Drive and Dropbox are down, as are the youTube videos. I already have the book “Xin Qigong - secrets and benefits of internal qigong cultivation,” but I would like to have access to the manuals that I believe were used in classes and workshops, some of which were even typed on typewriters. I remember downloading them here on the forum many years ago with another account that I lost, but I didn't even have time to read and study the system because a few weeks later I had to format my computer and lost several files. Thank you!

I know some of ya'lls like to follow the "science" I used to watch this channel, if you do follow science, then you are aware, that it changes. Shouldn't be any surprise, as all things change. Still, I found this guy easy to listen to. There are many many others out there reading the research papers and regurgitating it for you. You are sure to find one or more that Appeal to you.

On the front end, not much - on the back end, quite a bit. If you are already enlightened and just need to realize it, it is much more possible in this lifetime. A good teacher can actually point out enlightened mind so that the student can learn to practice in it. Unless you know what enlightenment is, how could you actually codify it into a goal? Ultimately no person becomes enlightened.

This differentiation is most likely done by non- theravadins. I base my practice mostly on theravada texts, and no- self relates to reality, not to me as an isolated practitioner, since the idea of an isolated practitioner is conventional truth, not absolute truth. If the practice doesn't reflect that, it is inheritantly flawed. I still feel that mahayana rethoric is based on an hair-splitting attempt to prove spiritual superiority, while causing a split in the sangha. And intending to save all beings before one has realized reality and cleared the storehouse mind, isn't that just a bit arrogant?

The Chen style has its uniqueness too. I had studied an observed that their moves are must be practiced in sequence. In addition, I'd also observed that there are lots of muscles twisting in between each movement. IMO The Chen style is a body builder. It is because of the muscle twisting will give the body a good massage exercise. To me, it is a little too rough for me. Thanks for asking!

Haiku is comment without 'comment' - no haiku Do you get it yet ?

from the arse of an antelope?

I believe the lion is a reference to the two Rekhty - Shu and Tefnut who form the horizon (sometimes).

The Self, our Being, is awareness. ~ Sri Muruganar To remain unconscious of Being is to be trapped within an ego-driven wasteland of conflict, strife, and fear that only seems customary. ~ Adyashanti The false self grows and thrives in unconscious being. When we are asleep to Being, our attention becomes entranced by mind—the vast array of ideas, images, beliefs, habits, opinions, and judgments that we have been conditioned to identify as self. ~ Adyashanti The more unconscious individuals, groups, or nations are, the more likely it is that egoic pathology will assume the form of physical violence. Violence is a primitive but still very widespread way in which the ego attempts to assert itself, to prove itself right or another wrong. With very unconscious people, arguments can easily lead to physical violence.~ Eckhart Tolle "There is no conflict in you, the Self. If there is conflict, it is between thought and thought. As long as the sense of 'I' and 'other' is believed, conflict is inevitable,". ~ Mooji

That's exactly what I thought too.

This is the most poignant to me. The truth is always present, right under our noses, yet we don't see it because we are looking for the wrong things.