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Self-actualization necessarily precedes liberation: In the spiritual literature it is as if the Integral — where one seeks enlightenment — is the only goal in life and one can attain liberation from any of the stages of life, which is not possible.

first there is a mountain, that is the Sensory. Then there is no mountain, that is the Recollective-Analytic. Then there is … this is the Symbolic-Existential. And at this stage of the Integral one has gone beyond even that, and … Continue reading

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Religions, and most spiritualities, take the most alive thing imaginable–God, Source–and reduce it to something physical and safe–light, vibration, energy, a statue Jesus

“…we’ve built theologies out of our fears. We’ve created religions to soothe and deny our experiences … our Experience. Well, this has nothing to do with Reality. Indeed, in denial of our experience … and Experience … it is the … Continue reading

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“We are terrified of an emotionless monster, which we call God”: The Tao of Funny God and the Mind’s True Liberation

“We’ve experienced meanness and cruelty in our early lives, so we imagine a Divine with no qualities at all. We say It is loving, but in an incomprehensible way and “from a distance.” So how loving … really … is … Continue reading

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“Trying the idea there is a benevolent Universe, one receives experiences that prove it…. Reality does not require of you blind obedience and sycophantic worship”

Give the Universe a chance; synchronicity; shamans and priests. The Planetmates reveal religion, mysticism, and spirituality; meaning of Prasad: “…you think that you “please” this Phantom — which you mistakenly call “God” but who is not (for it is not … Continue reading

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“You would deem this Divine to be blown-up versions of your infant caregivers — mothers and fathers become Mother and Father.”

The Planetmates reveal on obsession and the evolution of “man”; on ritual, prayer, worship, your Phantoms….  “You see that your so-called evolution in consciousness has been largely to do with an expanding obsession to bring everything under control of your … Continue reading

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“Despite your vanities, you are part of Nature, too”: The Planetmates reveal instinct and “free will” … “However, you prefer the self-congratulation of crowning yourselves with ‘free will’”

“All planetmates come into the world with unique skills. Humans, as well. What you have so forgotten, astonishingly, is how life’s pleasure is involved, not just in sensory satisfactions, as in passing substances over the surface of your taste buds, … Continue reading

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“All the things Nature does automatically, effortlessly in the creation of its bounty, you increasingly took upon yourselves”: The Planetmates reveal the origins of work, the quality of planetmate life, control, and the suffering humans brought to Nature

“The more you added to your survival burden by controlling your food sources rather than accepting Nature’s bounty and providence, the more work you created for yourself. All the things Nature does automatically, effortlessly, and joyously in the creation of … Continue reading

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“Nature’s parents do not view their children through a dark, crazed veil of dry and thirsty deprivation nor a floral, milky gleem of vain and pathetic estimation”: The Planetmates on thingification, the economic lodestar, children as commodities, large families, child labor

   “So, in this mode, children get to live, but only at the behest of their caregivers. For as long as there have been humans, children have been poisoned through interaction with the unconscious of their parents, and they subsequently … Continue reading

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“In this intrusive mode—often brutal—you do not notice the separate beingness of your children … and hardly their needs”: Planetmates reveal childhood lost, the animal self, soul murder, the intrusive parenting mode

“…What came of such inner forces was that the nuclear family established borders around the land it cultivated and built walls of emotional avoidance between itself and the rest of the community. “It was families against the world. Children were … Continue reading

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“With the excessive stipulations and pressures that came with hierarchical societies, your experience — along with your needs, emotions, and aliveness — became muted, dampened”: The Planetmates on sex, happiness, the tribe, the nuclear family, and the “intensity of experience” of life

“…there was much more happiness attendant upon the state of being a child — being free and open, not just to the awesomeness of the physical world and world of Nature, but to the love, pleasure, fun, and interactions of … Continue reading

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