Awakening begins at Self-Actualization ... there no real awakening before that ... but merely an accumulation of knowledge, all of which must be Let Go before integration can occur.
"There's mental inertia ... which is a bunch of philosophy, and attitudes, and beliefs about yourself, about other people, about the world we live in, about groups of people ... THIS ALL MUST GO!" - Gabrielle Roth
All personal truth is mental inertia.
All "personal truth" is ultimately a lie.
Or ... as Dr Clare Graves said regarding the Gravesian Model of Evolutionary Development ... "The person operating at the 6th level must realize that everything that human beings (levels 1 thru 6) have ever believed in, is by and large, wrong." - Dr Clare Graves.
More than 95% of humanity is currently attached to Spiral Dynamics levels 1 - 6 for their identity. The worse, and most ego entrenched of these levels is 6 ... often called Green's.
" the 6th level of thinking is an attack upon nature and Nature's Laws, that should be around for the shortest period of time of any of the lower ways of thinking that we have had" - Dr Clare Graves.
Community IS NOT the next Buddha!
QUOTES APPLICABLE to FREETHOUGHT SPIRITUALITY:
"Less than one in a hundred people become fully self-actualized (Spiral Dynamics-7) because our society rewards motivation primarily based on esteem" Dr. Abraham Maslow
"The root of your spirituality is rotten without compassion." Padmasambhava
Buddhist teachings on compassion are grounded in the direct realization of emptiness; without which, compassion is impossible." HH Dalai Lama
"both the wisdom of emptiness (prajna) and compassion (karuna) are very important, like two wings of a bird; their integration is indispensable for inner awakening." Anam Thubten, Fragrance of Emptiness.
"The realization of emptiness and compassion arise simultaneously" Padmasambhava
As man unfolds from sensed man to Spiritual man, he gradually becomes aware of the two-way motion of all effect" - Walter Russell
"The probability that sentient beings can see reality as it is, is zero" - Donald Hoffman.
"The senses do not grasp reality in any way" - Socrates
"the ego is a monkey catapulting through the jungle; totally fascinated by the realm of the senses ... if anyone threaten it, it actually fears for its life. Let this monkey go. Let the senses go ... Recognize that everything you see and think is a falsehood, an illusion, a veil over the truth" - Lao-tzu, Huahujing
"The senses do not know, but man believes that his senses do know--and in that belief lies man's confusion."
"Man's present civilization is erected upon the foundation of empirical knowledge obtained through his senses. In other words, the so-called "knowledge" upon which man relies is founded upon the evidence of his senses, or more simply, upon the nonexistent waves of motion of a nonexistent substance." Walter Russell.
The glorification of empirical evidence by Priests of Science actually encourages an inferior and potentially incurable neurosis for humanity. Nothing wrong with empirical evidence if understood in its proper place, that is, empiricism is based on the relative truth through sense perception.
"The empiricist thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing." George Santayana
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.” Richard Feynman
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