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by maestro
Tue Dec 23, 2008 3:09 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Suicide (warning: please do not read if you're suicidal!!!)
Replies: 40
Views: 2082

Re: Suicide (warning: please do not read if you're suicidal!!!)

Do we actually know what happens to consciousness goes during those times, where does it go? Well human consciousness is not an object, but a process. When conditions for its arising are not met, it disappears, much like a flame disappears, it does not go anywhere. So under a strong chemical imbala...
by maestro
Tue Dec 23, 2008 2:52 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Suicide (warning: please do not read if you're suicidal!!!)
Replies: 40
Views: 2082

Re: Suicide (warning: please do not read if you're suicidal!!!)

You might like to think of death like that but that doesn't mean that's how it is. You might care. You might feel sucky that you killed yourself. Death may not be emptiness. You may not actually die. Your life may continue in another form, you still being you. Carl, what happens in deep sleep, or a...
by maestro
Mon Dec 22, 2008 1:41 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Causality and Consciousness
Replies: 262
Views: 19443

Re: Causality and Consciousness

I find myself disagreeing that consciousness is change itself. Change is something directly perceivable. Indeed, it is difficult to be awake and not be aware of some change occurring. Yet consciousness itself is not directly perceivable because it is itself involved in the perception. It is like yo...
by maestro
Mon Dec 22, 2008 1:04 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Jed
Replies: 394
Views: 41199

Re: Jed

Lisa is hopeless. She had the motivation to quit trying to live the so-called American dream of normalness, but it seems that was as far as she got. She struck me as pretty damn pathetic at times. Why does Jed pander to her so much? He doesn't think she'll end up enlightened, but he still acts like...
by maestro
Mon Dec 22, 2008 12:17 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Jed
Replies: 394
Views: 41199

Re: Jed

I merely want to understand their views on women. I am trying to figure it out for myself, and I like going fishing now and then. I don't mean to come off as defending Jed by any means, but I want to know where he and QRS differ on this woman-thing. That is quite simple, Jed hasn't got radically di...
by maestro
Mon Dec 22, 2008 4:03 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Jed
Replies: 394
Views: 41199

Re: Jed

It is not about feeling better, it is about waking up. Shaking off centuries of conditioning.
by maestro
Mon Dec 22, 2008 4:01 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Causality and Consciousness
Replies: 262
Views: 19443

Re: Causality and Consciousness

David Quinn wrote:If consciousness is change itself, then how could consciousness arise in the first place?
In its bare bones form, excluding the mind and memory is it not change itself.
If consciousness is change itself then it is ever present, never lost.
by maestro
Mon Dec 22, 2008 3:09 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Jed
Replies: 394
Views: 41199

Re: Jed

clyde wrote:Some doctors prescribe this medicine, some doctors prescribe that medicine.

This medicine works for these people, that medicine works for those people.
In the spiritual marketplace most are quacks, blind leading the blind.
by maestro
Mon Dec 22, 2008 1:51 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Jed
Replies: 394
Views: 41199

Re: Jed

It seems Rebecaa, that you are trying to get QRS approval for Jed. How will this help, since either of these or both could be deluded.
by maestro
Sun Dec 21, 2008 11:53 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Jed
Replies: 394
Views: 41199

Re: Jed

Girls like gurus because they like relation, which is the same reason they love the idea of the experience of "unity consciousnesses" - it too is all about relation. Such a feeling is really the feminine purified. It's like a continual and gigantic orgasm for a feminine minded person. To be in rela...
by maestro
Sun Dec 21, 2008 10:52 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Jed
Replies: 394
Views: 41199

Re: Jed

Those are audiobooks, these are Pdfs.
by maestro
Sun Dec 21, 2008 9:22 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Jed
Replies: 394
Views: 41199

Re: Jed

Dan,
Since you have a demonoid account Why not download the ebooks from here.

http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1666433/2325666/

http://www.demonoid.com/redirect.php?ur ... s/1667265/
by maestro
Sun Dec 21, 2008 4:29 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Jed
Replies: 394
Views: 41199

Re: Jed

David Quinn wrote:I'm with Carl here. It sounds like a sexual fantasy to me.
It may not be a fantasy, he is a guru after all. Girls have a thing for gurus. One of the reasons is due to the power and god like stature of the guru over his group.
by maestro
Sat Dec 20, 2008 3:58 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Jed
Replies: 394
Views: 41199

Re: Jed

Carl G wrote:I was sure you were going to say "...a lot of whom end up in bed with him."
I was also expecting some steamy scenes in the books, since he is often alone with nubile females, but Jed seems to have little interest in sex.
by maestro
Sat Dec 20, 2008 3:32 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Suicide (warning: please do not read if you're suicidal!!!)
Replies: 40
Views: 2082

Re: Suicide (warning: please do not read if you're suicidal!!!)

If suicide were not so difficult and stigmatized a lot of people would do it.

The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation.
by maestro
Sat Dec 20, 2008 3:05 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Jed
Replies: 394
Views: 41199

Re: Jed

He's a complex character, I agree, and it may be that I am misrepresenting him out of ignorance of his entire body of work. I've simply being been responding to the immediate impressions I receive when I read bits and pieces of his work. I think you guys may not like him after all, his books are fu...
by maestro
Sat Dec 20, 2008 9:40 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Jesus!
Replies: 17
Views: 958

Re: Jesus!

Not to forget the story of Osiris, and myth-making for life after death and other such fluff..
by maestro
Sat Dec 20, 2008 2:08 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Causality and Consciousness
Replies: 262
Views: 19443

Re: Causality and Consciousness

Nice discussion. If a person cannot see that his consciousness is no way unique - that it is no more complex or sophisticated or inexplicable than any other thing in the universe - then he has lost his objectivity. He is not in touch with the underlying principle of things. Is consciousness inexplic...
by maestro
Sat Dec 20, 2008 12:10 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Jed
Replies: 394
Views: 41199

Re: Jed

When you say "grasps the difference between true and false", in what way does it differ from the mind coloring each experience with its knowledge? True and false is only within the realm of knowledge. The mind does not overlay its knowledge over experience most of the times. However it does use con...
by maestro
Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:20 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Jed
Replies: 394
Views: 41199

Re: Jed

I should mention that McKenna is a Fan of UG Krishnamurti. Maybe that will explain a lot of his philosophy.
by maestro
Fri Dec 19, 2008 11:26 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Jed
Replies: 394
Views: 41199

Re: Jed

Which means that the enlightened person has access to a form of knowledge that the infant doesn't have and makes use of it to prevent him from slipping back. Yes That's why I don't like the catch-all phrase of "transcending the limits of knowledge". It is too simplistic, and quite erroneous when ap...
by maestro
Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:11 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Jed
Replies: 394
Views: 41199

Re: Jed

What do you now make of his observation that enlightenment is like death and that we just have to wait for its inevitible occurance? As I recall, you were highly critical of it, and rightly so. It is in the first book, which I do not like much. His enlightenment is a state, where the mind does not ...
by maestro
Fri Dec 19, 2008 1:11 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Jed
Replies: 394
Views: 41199

Re: Jed

Count me as one of skeptic turned admirers. I did not like his first book at all, but his second and third books mostly hit the right notes. While he does not say anything that has not been said before as pointed out by Carl, that does not dilute the importance of his work. It is like distilling the...
by maestro
Thu Dec 18, 2008 2:41 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Jed
Replies: 394
Views: 41199

Re: Jed

Carl G wrote:deep and dry as the Dead Sea Scrolls, delivered through a timeless unmoving mask.
Jehu's mask reminds me of some horror movie. I forgot which one.
by maestro
Thu Dec 18, 2008 11:24 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Jed
Replies: 394
Views: 41199

Re: Jed

If anybody decides to read Jed, try to read his second or third books rather than the first.