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[Similar vibe as Course in Miracles which Jed McKenna eviscerates. Currently working on a cat translation of the course]https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1344423778516946950?s=20 …

"The experience of falling in love allows us this escapetemporarily. The essence of the phenomenon of falling in love is a sudden collapse of a section of an individual's ego boundaries, permitting one to merge his or her identity with that of another person."

[True Love and a Happily Ever After are plot devices for Disney Movies. True Ego Death and Enlightenment are similar plot devices for the story of ME. They are as real as the color Blue exists in nature]https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1328814850873520129 …

“So if your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution. First, you cannot achieve them without suffering, and second, you are likely to be called on to serve in ways more painful to you.”

[An interesting aspect of copes is that they often exacerbate the existing problem. e.g. working hard but blindly is a way of doing more of the wrong things that caused the issue one is trying to fix. "Me" only knows how to solve problems with more of "Me".]

"Everything about us seems secondhand, even our emotions. But when it comes to questions of meaning, purpose, and death, secondhand information will not do. I cannot survive on a secondhand faith in a secondhand God."

[The quest for God is in essence a deeply personal Pilgrimage. It cannot be handed to you by a high priest like a chocolate bar.]

"There is clearly a lot of dirty bath water surrounding the reality of God. Holy wars. Inquisitions... But is all this what God has done to humans or what humans have done to God? Is the problem, then, that humans tend to believe in God, or is the problem that humans r dogmatic?"