Spiritual Awakening is Bullshit 

My friend became more narcissistic and conceited after he became "enlightened"...He said, "I have to dumb down 98% of my conversations now!"

Whats that old saying? Before enlightenment chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, go on Opra , make 15 million.

What do you do after enlightenment? Chop wood and carry water.

And I think many confuse awakening with bliss or “happiness”...and modern western Buddhism does nothing to dispel that delusion.

I had similar experiences, turned out to be psychosis.

Well said. I had a deep "spiritual experience" about 27 years ago where it felt like God came into my life and it hasn't left me. It never really gave me any special powers, I still needed that root canal from the dentist.

I've had transcendental experiences - I can say it always felt completely new but yet deeply familiar. Personally however I feel that these experiences are supposed to only happen occasionally and not to be pursued "as a way of life". I have begun to see greater joy in the mundane aspects of life and being grounded in physical reality.

Brad I love this video because I feel the same. I feel awakened but I tend to avoid a lot of "awakened people I've come across because they seem fake to me. They seem like they are trying so hard to be on a other plane that they are avoiding there " bradness" or whatever their name is , ..and not being present in life. My favorite quote ( i heard on my kids video Kunfu Panda)...yesterday is history, tomorrow a mystery but today is a gift that is why it's called " the Present". Anyways thanks for being Real

First comment I ever made. The Buddha was very clear about what the Supreme enlightenment was. A lot of Zen practitioners believed that true liberation is just a perception of Satori or emptiness. The Buddha just called people who have reached the states of mind a body Witness. The base of nothingness and perception of non perception were the Budda's two main studies before his attainment. He took them as far as they could go and then considered them unworthy of the brahmas, monks and holy Seekers. The reason that one cannot stay in this state is because of what the Buddha called the defilements. Wanting or craving, aversion or hatred, sleepiness or dullness, restlessness or worry or regret and doubt or what the Buddha believed to keep trapped in notions of self and in the bonds of Maya. He also went to say that the Nirvana that he obtained was not subject to birth, old age, sickness and death. I studied Zen and practice zazen for years without making any progress, until I actually went back to the Pali Canon and studied the true teachings. With my deepest respects I must say I think you're caught in the same cycle.

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"The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence." (Nikola Tesla)

Our thoughts and feelings are pure energy, and they vibrate at a certain frequency. When we focus our thoughts on something, we emit a signal with a specific frequency. This signal is then broadcast into the universe, and it begins to attract energy that vibrates at the same frequency. When we understand energy, frequency and vibration, and how they impact our lives, we can begin to live in flow. Flow is the state of being in alignment with the Universe. When we are in flow, we are in harmony with the energy around us and everything begins to fall into place. We attract what we desire, and our lives become effortless and joyful. The key to attracting what you desire is to live in a state of flow. This means alignment with the energy of the universe. When we are in flow, we are in harmony with the natural rhythms of the universe. We feel joyful, creative and connected. We attract what we need effortlessly and without struggle.

It's always so paradoxical. As soon as you've "awakened" you realize how "asleep" you really are and that you never really get "there." It seems enlightenment is merely the acceptance of what is truly here and now, and what is. Good, bad, ugly, amazing, it doesn't matter. Painting a more dramatic illusion over what is to make it more palatable or more "profound" is basically to remain asleeo in a dream world of illusion. God is all, including the mundane and menial. Great video.

Love it man! Being a "seeker" is one thing. When one "finds", then what? Someone still has to do the dishes. You got a subscribe and like from me.

I saw that your audio was out of sync and I became enlightened.

I didn't know I was going after some kind of spiritual experience by trying to stay present all the time. Thank you for grounding it in the reality.

I once knew an enlightened zen master. He owned a little pottery store in a little town in Washington where he sold his pottery. I was introduced by a friend. My folks and I weren't interested in buying anything, we were just hanging out with this friend who wanted to see his awesome zen friend. The zen master asked if we were going to buy anything. No. To which he said: then I have no time for you. When we left he didn't even say bye, nice to meet you, or anything. Then he started talking to our mutual friend, who later raved about how much of a blissful awesome open-minded guy he is. Our mutual friend also revealed he owed the guy some money as he was doing an investment plan to buy some pottery. Thus, I learned that a sign of a true enlightened person is someone who only gives you the time of day, and is otherwise rude, if you are putting money in their pocket!

Wow, this was just what I needed right now, some practical down to earth explanation. Just checked out one of those way too out there "spritual teachers " video. It just left my head spinning. There should be more videos on RU-vid that are that are more practical like this. Thank you, I feel loads better

I agree with u.... being spiritual or religious in the real world is just like being left alone in a wild forest and learning french to survive.

All those legends about the Buddha don't make it easier. All that mystical crap about nature bowing to Siddhartha after he awakened following that night of battling Maya and all those demons... When you're young and susceptible you can really get sucked in. Sometimes I think that realisation is realising none of that stuff is real. Like you go to your teacher and tell him most of this stuff is just junk and he (or SHE 🤣) winks at you and hands you your diploma. Like there's some big hazing going on and if you get the joke you pass.

enlightenment used to be for people who had no interest in day to day life.i was thought that spirituality was for the chosen ones who had no interest in sansar(world).there is saying in nepal,"ghar gari khana nasake shadu ban".meaning if ur not a household guy become a shadu(sage).but in the western culture it has become cool to call oneself englightened and awakened.

Well said, Dogen and I approve this message. The point is not to spend all day in bliss, but to not perpetuate suffering. Knowing that which is seeing through my eyes is that which is seeing through your eyes, is to be freed from the suffering of the illusory self, and to free others from their suffering also. Bliss is ok once a day around 5 am, though.

That sense of being a “me”, rusts into being unique, being special, even after experiencing something banal and common place. It’s always lurking there in the shadows, ready to make a fool of us. The Tibetan teacher the late Chogyam Trungpa talks about this too. Thanks Brad, first YT video of yours I’ve seen.

I know so many people who had profound mystical/awakening experiences (myself included). You treasure them and they may even help to shift your perspective on life, but the real work of spiritual practice is not over.

In my experience, the only thing you can rely upon is reality, and reality is obvious at all times no matter how many thick books you read. And even if you tried to believe in some kind of Divine Deeper Dimension, you always know (somewhere in the back of your mind) that you are fooling yourself, trying to trick yourself into seeing something as Real that is actually just another dream in the virtual reality of your thoughts and emotions. And that kind of bullshitting yourself will show in your everyday life by making dealing with your actual tasks and challenges even more difficult. Your everyday life as it is is as "enlightened" as it gets, and it is much more precious than you may be inclined to believe. Practice zazen every day for 5, 10 or 20 years, and that dream of a Better Deeper Parallel Reality will vanish, and your screwed up everyday life will be sufficiently divine - because it is real as opposed to all your dreams and wishful thinking. (Of course, I might be wrong about all of this.)

Spiritual awakening is simply an “Ah ha!” moment- a subtle but definite realization about an aspect of your nature. You remember yourself in action and your mind most of the times. You start to have a different interaction with everyday things. It’s silent and joyous and over time it becomes your rhythm. Thank you for sharing more light on the matter, although your title was a little misleading.

Spot ON!!! I love the Hasidic story of Zusye. Zusye said: "When I come before Hashem (God) Hashem will not ask me why I was not Abraham, Issac, or Moses. He will ask me why I was not Zusye." Beautiful. Thank you, Brad.

I think it could be possible that staying in any one state or believing any ideology or spiritual idiom too strongly for too long will cause problems. Yes we are all connected but we are all still separate. Where the mind goes energy flows, but we all each have our own free will. Let’s say you go to a restaurant with some friends and a waitress spill a pitcher of lemonade on your head, it could be a terrible night for you while some of your friends are laughing and others are checking to see if you’re ok, and the waitress herself is apologizing. If we were all as connected as some spiritual “gurus” wouldn’t we all have the same thoughts during that experience. Or let’s say you’re watching a movie with friends maybe one person is really tuned in to the soundtrack while another is watching the screen form tiny details, someone else may be texting, and you may be thinking of something completely different. If we really had the power to influence people’s thoughts so profoundly wouldn’t we all be having the same thoughts? Idk to me too much spirituality makes people fall back into an almost infantile state of mind believing everything to be their fault or their responsibility will make them become ocd or have a form of toxic positivity, or even worse a total god complex. Take everything with a grain of salt and don’t believe everything that anyone tells you

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="221">3:41</a> I'm glad you said that. There's something about you that seems very different, so I'm excited to have found this channel.

I just think this is one of your best videos/talks … meaningful, brutally direct and fun.

SPIRIT MEETS SCIENCE: Im so sorry for you, spirituality did the opposite for me. "If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration." (Nikola Tesla) This theory is based on the idea that everything in the universe is energy, and that this energy vibrates at different frequencies. By understanding the frequencies of these vibrations, we can unlock the secrets of the universe and harness its power.

Inimitable again, Brad; in your wit, insight and down-to-earth moral truthiness. Gasho.

Mate, thanks so much for your thoughts. Really. I've watched a lot of vids on RU-vid of these enlightened folk and, for me at least, you really helped balance my perspective on it all. Really appreciate it.

You described my experience and my perspective perfectly. 💯

Truth! i was "Enlightend" only to find i was the only one that was dumbfounded and i was going through puberty

Take a kid to the beach. Make sure they are happy (fed, thirst quenched, peed), get them building a sand castle. Within minutes that kid is fully in the moment. We all were when we were little. Tap into that. Help them build that sand castle.

Waking up is just stop dreaming to find out the dream never really happened. Good morning. Iam always afraid of people who tell me what the universe wants. But i try to stay open.

When people ply you for interpretation of certain hypothetical scenarios in the grand scheme of life and zen- I just read the “what if neither a clear mind nor a cloudy mind comes?” Zen anecdote you once brought up. It’s like, what is the intention here? Are they looking for practical answers in daily living, or looking for the Grand Answer to All Things? (Keep up the good work sir.)

Wow I know this is 6 years old now but I just came across this video today…I have to say this video has definitely shed some light on the experience I had (about 7 years ago) but has since gone away. I would spend months trying to get back to that place and couldn’t understand why I had even left. Your video has helped answer some questions…thank you 😊

He doesn't "think" it's possible. Don't think, that's the point

Thank you so much Zen! :) You know this enlightment thing and the evolution of the soul and that all humanish thing that we have to deny in order to reach this just lead me a complete depression and I was constantly losing the personality I had, the person I've became during my life. So please anyone who seeks enlightment, please realize that even the want of enlightment goes against the rules of this enlightment. Motivation is our core factor to experience this life and ourselves. Follow your own nature. This state is not approachable in this physical realm and this will only make your personality decay slowly and slowly. What matters now is the YOU , your ego and the chance to experience things the way YOU experience it. You only live once this life, even if your soul has a lot to live. Let me finish with my favourite quote from the Assassin's Creed series. "Nothing is true, everything is permitted." - live your life by your own beliefs with intention to make your and others' life better, follow yourself and become more and more yourself, there is no actual truth which one person can declear

I shifted from a narcissistic person to a person now can truly comfort being with myself, I don’t see other people on their journey that is lesser than me. True awakening is not bull shit, but it takes a person truly take their inner strength to drop their ego at all levels, to go back to be with their own true self. Yes many people are still sleeping walking, but they will get there on their own timing. A person who thinks spiritual is to make them more superior is still not truly awakening, they are still in their ego mind. Even as they are like this way, we should not judge them, they are on their journey, they will eventually realize their ego really doesn’t make them any more superior, because people can sense their energy . A true awakening person has that certain in their eyes and energy, they will have love and compassion for every one, because we all came from shadowed self, we have have darkness and light in each of us. You judge people’s problems only reflecting your own problems. Spiritual awakening is to drop ego, fear , hate and anger. If you see a person call them self “ spiritual “, all you need to know is how they truly in their own energy. If they are not quite there yet, they are in their delusional of their spiritual state, it’s ok, all you need to do is leave them alone, do your own self work.

How does anyone who experienced "enlightment" can be sure that it was not some kind of self hypnosis or trick of your mind or even some kind of "hickup" of your mind? An analogy could be steroscopic images. If you learn how to cross your eyes, it takes a bit of practice and patience, suddenly you can see a 3D image ... maybe meditation practice is like "crossing" your mind and sometimes strange, weird mind stuff happens in your brain. I don't want to be cynical, and I am not, but the brain and conscious is not really fully understood, and sometimes stuff happens with your mind and it does not necessarily mean anything special. I totally agree, that the normal state of mind, everyday, that's the important stuff, and this I learned from reading your book and others...

people who do need to watch this video won't.

I've watched a lot of Brad videos, but this may be my favorite. He does a good job of putting some clarity around something that is highly personal and ultimately indescribable. How many Zen books do you have to read for you to get that indescribability? (I've lost count, myself. Starting with A Glimpse of Nothingness in 1973).

WRONG ! watching this video is not the most important experience !

How do we know the universe wants anything.

There is no answer to a general status of spirituality. It has to be a peesonal experience that makes you grow as a human being.

Just heard again: a great reply. Kwong Roshi said something like "it's like a circle, and you come back to your starting place: to Beginner's Mind". Also, you can't be more "you" than "you". Suzuki Roshi said someplace: the quality of your zen experience when you let go of your self, is exactly the same as for Dogen or Bodhidharma or for Buddha. Even if you are a relative beginner. He said, of course there is some difference in maturity or depth, but it is the same quality. I myself lost my spiritual virginity (a fantastic metaphor) in an est course (really!) in around 1980. That repeated, deeper in the est 6day course, and to some extend in all their other courses. But then they made the mistake of teaching us to sit (I think it was for 10 minutes) and my Aikido teacher really had us doing zazen. I stopped all the est stuff as I could see that it left "traces" and that the zen teachers were "the real thing". Did daily sitting and sesshins at least once a year for quite a while. Each sesshin I would have a profound experience. But, I realized that I would have the same experience with every sitting. The problem was getting my butt down on the cushion and maybe going thru 5 minutes of pain/frustration. At this point my attitude is just like Brad: it's like brushing my teeth, and if I delay sitting I just don't feel right. "Enlightenment experiences" are of no interest in comparison to just being at home in our bodies and our lives and our own problems and Karma. Maybe it opens a door, ok great, but you need simply to be back here engaged as fully as possible. I think that is easier and more possible if one is able to sit sesshins, so I wish I still had time for that. But if not, daily sitting is just right.

Awakening and a "spiritual experience" are not the same. You haven't dissolved the self. It sounds more like you had an experience of the arising and passing away.

Im tired of spiritual people, some make business like they were more elevated them others. And some have a kind of posture wich is arrogance.

i used to want to get back to my enlightenment experience. then i realised that yeah, its interesting, you can learn some stuff but its not important really. if anything its just good to get it out of the way. id say thats probably the most useful thing about having one :P. i'd also say that me having one was a bad idea and it led to trouble later in life for me. I was 17 when i had it and i used an object based meditation. it was only the second or so time i had ever meditated and i went really hard. i didn't know what i was doing and then before i knew it i was floating down the street and all the rest. however! years later (after id stopped meditating for about 5 years) it led to another experience completely randomly where at university a lecturer told me something about the nature of sound (i did a music production degree) and it literally blew my mind. as in, i didn't have a chance to take the info he gave and map it into my 'idea' about reality. what he said just BOOM - changed my reality in-front of my eyes. I thought i was loosing my mind essentially. this didn't happen to anyone else. i later read in a buddhist book about hearing things not at an intellectual level and i knew then that it was probably because id messed around with that experience when i was younger. luckily, i didn't need to leave UNI as it didnt happen again. but i was really scared, lol. so its a cautionary tale. anyway g2g

The truth is no real spiritual person would ever come up to tell his experiences even anonymously. So what we hear about these so called awakenings is not true

What brand are those "really good" pens?

So basically you had a trip.

So what about samadhi after experiencing Nirvana? Is is - as masters says - when ones self isn’t experienced and then objects aren’t separated from us (everything is what it is), so they aren’t objects anymore as they were before the nirvana experience. Does Soto tradition not mention that? In Rinzai there is a lot about it I think

The question of why the experience of "god-consciousness" ends is ... Buddhism 102: all things are impermanent.

So, it’s not bullshit for a short period, as in a few weeks, maybe a month. If you’re not careful, it turns to schizophrenia. That shit happens to ppl with kundalini awakening all the time, and it happened to me. Lots of pain spurred it on. Dark night of the soul type shit, divorce, suicidal thoughts, abandoned by family type shit. I was looking at knots of wood in a bed frame and seeing a universe of beauty, no drugs involved. No prior conditions. Just so so so so much pain. I began to get moments of what the Hindus call “bliss” that would last hours in place of the anxiety I used to feel for hours at a time. I didn’t stay in that state, but if I would have been in an even worse state (as in, homeless and exposed to the elements), I’d be in a daze on the street now

I’ve been on the 5d ascension bs for a while - it was cool though.

I love this one! Great to hear some truth spoken in a humorous and honest way! I will check out your books! Thank you.

wow. nice talk! thanks. i'm really glad i've found you and your channel, seems like you're taking a fresh and anarchistic and empowering standpoint on spirituality. looking forward to reading your books. with love, marcus.

Do you consider kensho to be useful? Can you derive learning from It to engrain into your normal life? If so, how would you go about It?

Not going to read the other comments, but I really enjoyed these insights. Authentic and sincere 🤓

"convince yourself you're fully in this experience at all times." Keywords: convince yourself!

What about has your life changed through wanting to change and become good from bad or wrong if you like ??

I was searching "is awakening real? "Does awakening really exit?" "Is spirituality real?"

i like you're teaching style, although i'm not really sure wether this is meant as 'teaching'. Anyways, i could use some lessons, i'm not new to this, but i'm at a point where i want to deepen this practice in my life. I feel a pull to find a form in life where i spend my time facing being, it is a kind intuition that has a kind personality feel to it. It has made me sober up my life and face struggle more sober aswel. Emotions are stronger, but more transparent because of it. Got any tips for someone who is looking to deepen this path over time? perhaps some pitfalls? of maybe some bullshit call i could use? I'm looking for other peoples perspective on this.

Just found your channel and happy I did. Your little talks seem some how more real and relevant coming from what to me is just a regular guy and not some robed monk from who knows where. Look forward to more good stuff.

When i first saw the name of your video I wanted to say to you that YOU that YOU were a bunch of bull crap and had NO IDEA at all what you were talking about. It was at that point that I heard my higher self ( or whatever you wanna call it ) say, " REALLY LUX? Watch the video with your mind CLEAR of labeling, judging and all opinions. Let's see what your reaction is then. " Well I must say that it's completely different than it was before. Nothing but thanks to you dear brethren for all the work you do in order to aid others in a topic that our society would deam taboo. Peace and Love to you and yours brethren. Be well, Lux Lux

If someone over using hand gestures annoys you then don't watch more than 10 seconds of this video. Enlightenment or conscious awareness aside, this guy is definitely not playing with a full deck.

yes, it is a glimpse in to how you will feel at the time of separation from the body. that is how I would explain the Experience!!! I feel People use it as an addiction from reality!!!

Yes. They probably meditate so hard that at some point they start hallucinating :D

Thank you for this. From my personal experience the new age is a new cage and keeps your mind in a loop of chaos. Be free and live and try your best not to worry if you can .❤

No it’s not…it’s divine universal truth…

People have different reactions to stress....mine was to become super analytical and looking for meaning and clues to what I should do to be happy....which sounds good on paper...but I was looking for meaning in things like etymologies of words and numbers, I should have been looking for meaning in the human cultural artifacts that have been designed to solve problems like lack of housing and stability. Things like you know, a job and hygiene. But I was raised to see myself as being in but outside of "the world", and no one ever spoke to me about a career or college, so I just saw my identity as needing to survive in alternate ways, which led to me being homeless and staying positive and out of panic attacks by being obsessed about "spiritual" things. Not an ideal scenario by any means but I was doing the best I could being dealt a shitty hand, and at least it made me super environmentally conscious and spend a lot of free time picking up trash lol

I have a friend who is so enlightened that he never misses an opportunity to tell everyone how enlightened he is compared to everyone else. But he doesn't consider himself morally perfect. He doesn't believe in absolute truth or morals.

Omgosh you looking at yourself through your eyes, through the World eyes (I seen them recently, not human or animal), through your cats eyes. I have had some deep, time consuming thoughts about which one us the one showing me these things...Is it me, my soul.....or could it be my cat, I'd worship my cat before anything or anyone else if I had a throne to pass on. I miss those moments where you "dimension shift." And experience a different in every other sense but sight. A whole new World....I see this place in my mind, it is like I've been there...but yes you are absolutely right like as if it was going to be as easy as closing your eyes and waking up in Heaven. Your take on all of what's been going on the past three years for most is really refreshing. Love your perspective :)

Great video! Is your nice german pen a Stabilo?

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I want to genuinely thank you for this video. I went into an “awakening” a week ago and it led to severe derealisation due to my mind not being able to comprehend all the existential questions. My brain was so stressed that it launched the defence mechanism and I was on the verge of kllng mslf. I tried to seek help under those “enlightenment” videos and all of the commentators were giving me different explanations and reasonings. I came to conclusion that the only thing that is true is the fact that a human cannot know everything. We are framed into 5 senses. My ego cannot understand why we are put on Earth to have a human experience if our true goal is to “get enlightenment”? We’d feel oneness anyway when we die, so why try to stay enlightened while you have a life to live? I don’t want to sit under the tree knowing everything is God and having no attachments to the life at the age of 22. I came to conclusion that dissolving an ego is not a necessity for a human being. It is possible but you cannot function in the society FULLY without it, so the use for that is questionable. I’ve booked a therapist session after my “awakening” because it really screwed my mental health. I wish people talked about it’s “side effects” as well. If you’re ready to live a life as common consciousness, with no attachments/desires/achievements - go for it. I choose to feel all spectrum of emotions and experiences as a human being.

I don't understand when you say had an experience like an experience like a moment. Not my experience at all it is a continuous experience it may get stronger or weaker but go away that's not happening for years now. I could not turn it off if I wanted to.I don't get what you are saying.

What does "spiritual" mean? Can it be verified? If not, one is only dealing in words. Bamboozled by them in fact. Which only adds to the "sleep" of humanity. Read Gurdjieff

Spiritual awakening is absolutely a real phenomena and it has been documented in every religion and tradition for thousands of years. The archetypal basis of almost every religion is the spiritual awakening or Individuation process. Someone who has never experienced this would display ignorance and fear over it. Those who have experienced this long, arduous, and agonizing process of Self Realization will tell you it is absolutely real. It terrifies neophytes and those who don't know the Truth.

agreed but but you kinda look at god as someone other than you, if you actually realize that you are god. you become god. that's why you get a sense of connectedness and oneness during the awakening. because we are all one.

Spiritual awakening IS real, but most people who thing they have awakened are really just repeating new-age tier archontic lies. True awakening is only possible through intense emotional pain, nothing else.

Interesting that many make a living off of spirituality. Turning pure teachings of a better way to live into an industry for profit.

Reading accounts of Ramana Maharshi do you think he was a fraud or continually ‘awake’?

In my own opinion, this was more of a "Spiritual Awakening with a Spiritual Ego is Bullshit". 'Cuz everything you described that's bullshit about this is someone who is in a spiritual ego and thinks about being better. Spiritual Awakening and Ego deaths are bullshit however what spirituality actually teaches isn't. Infact, learning stuff from spirituality actually helps you in life. In my own research, I have found many things that work.

Just revisited this and it is beautiful

Here's a test to know if you're enlightened. If you think you are, you're not,

I'm going back and listening to this I've thought about some of your other talks and leads me to believe that small stuff Enlightenment is more important than Big stuff open light and door spiritual awakening

All these stupid things abour spirituality have made me so anxious, its literally all bs and im so glad theres people who realise that

Lol. I read Hardcore Zen... I'll summarize: "What everyone else says about Enlightenment is wrong. I know what real enlightenment is." To conclude, "Trust me bro." 😜

Yes it’s very hard to I remember it. Which sucks, especially when meditating and trying to have the experience again. Remembering the experience hinders it.

In short: anything involving human beings interpreting reality is destined to bring chaos along. We can never get things right because we are fundamentally animals who must satisfy needs - to eat (which requires money - so already it’s game over for selflessness), to breath, to excrete, to have shelters (again - money required), at barest minimum. If basic desire (for genuine necessities) and aversion (from genuine danger) are extinguished then so is the capacity to survive in the world. What then is the enlightened way to have what you need and avert what you must? Usually it’s by running retreats and getting paid by people seeking an end to their own pain…which is of great worth. Bottom line: Life is not easy. Sometimes is downright awful. Usually great joys and solace is mixed in. Unfairly some will cruise through a live grandly while others will get snagged in torments. Neither are deserved, but it’s just the law of chance and probability operating within complex systems. I suggest you learn to put yourself in the most healthy circumstance you possibly can, accepting the fact that we simply cannot control everything, but usually we have some control over some things… stoicism is probably a good place to start getting your life together.

I got an laughflash at the book title, "There is no god and he is always with you." xD

Some human species are not connected to the highest level of conciousness!!!! There is differents level of conciousness !!!! But yeah ! As a etheral body trapped in a physical body, we have to do our duties in this physical reality, but we have to stay connected to our higher self not to loose ourselves.

Can it be healthy to try to preserve a perpetual remembrance of an experience?

This MFer is spitting 👑

Spiritual awakening is real. It is a non-event for all those who are not awakened. Everyone gets there eventually. Meditate, introspect, and insights will emerge.