0326 - TALKS: World Pain and Personal Angst

0326 - World Pain and Personal Angst
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Going beyond blame & judgement, Dostoevsky's quote from "Crime and Punishment," the suffering of increased sensitivity. The value of periodic venting, mixed information-intake & broad spiritual view.

Discernment vs. blame, conflation of function with identity & worth, measuring relative development. Poisonous political correctness vs. true human superheroism. From self-healing to world service, social detachment to making peace with collective humanity. 

* Dostoevsky quote: www.goodreads.com/quotes/66336-pain-and-suffering-are-always-inevitable-for-a-large-intelligence

* 2150 A.D. (Book): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2150_AD


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0325 - TALKS: Stages of Spiritual Maturity, part 2

0325 - Stages of Spiritual Maturity, part 2
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East-West models of stages of personal/spiritual growth: Abraham Malow's "Hierarchy of Needs" vs. Hindu yogic/Ra Material system of multi-dimensional mind-body-spirit evolution.

Metaphysical analysis Maslow's stages of self-actualization with multi-dimensional progression from the personal-material through the transpersonal-spiritual to the non-dual/essential. Human needs as bases of motivation, personal values & "getting stuck."

* Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: www.edpsycinteractive.org/topics/conation/maslow.html

* Ken Wilber (Integral Theory): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integra...)


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0324 - TALKS: Stages of Spiritual Maturity, part 1

0324 - Stages of Spiritual Maturity, part 1
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A 3-stage model of soul evolution from (i) personal capture (lower chakra-triad), to (ii) spiritualized individuation (the "transpersonal"), to (iii) universal non-dual being.

7-chakra correlation with Maslow's "Hierarchy of Needs" -- dynamics of individual needs-fulfillment & motivation, collective historical development & social oppression.   

* Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: www.edpsycinteractive.org/topics/conation/maslow.html

* Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism (Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting...

* Psychopathocracy: http://www.pathocracy.net/


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0323 - TALKS: Truth and the War on Reason

Episode 0323 - Truth and the War on Reason
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Ra's on the limits of service, global ideological subversion, a quote from Thomas Paine. Distortioned human relation to reason & free critical thought -- materialists, moral & existential nihilists, dogged irrationals, eugenicists, self-rejectors.

Metacognition ("thinking about our thinking") & the wisdom of acknowledged ignorance; mental comfort vs. truth-seeking. "Seeing-Breaking" as a conflation of Apocalypse ("revelation") with death & destruction; the dangers of truth to falsity-based systems of human civilization. The current Apocalypse of Armageddon...

* Ra on the limits of service: www.lawofone.info/results.php?s=89#30

* Thomas Paine quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8510...

* Dunning-Kruger Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning...

* Revelations of Dr. Day: https://drrichardday.wordpress.com/in...

* Ideological Subversion (Y.Bezmenov): www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3qkf3bajd4

* George Carlin quote: http://www.azquotes.com/quote/759421


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0322 - TALKS: From Virtue to Release

Episode 0322 - From Virtue to Release
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Essential components of early-Buddhist view of spiritual path ("Threefold Training"): sila, samadhi, prajna. The primacy of virtue & moral expression ("kusalani silani") as the basis for meditation, insight & final release. Mental qualities self-enhancement, the role of effort & will, and the cycle of awakening-dispassion-release.

* Buddhist Threefold Training: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threefo...

* Buddhist Eightfold Path: https://tricycle.org/magazine/noble-e...

* Kimattha Sutta: www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an11/an11.001.than.html

* Cetana Sutta (Will): www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an11/an11.002.than.html

* Shorter Elephant-Footprint Simile: https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipit...


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