A. H. Almaas on God, Awakening, Consciousness, and Analytically Pursuing Spirituality

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/6JlKf1QAvXA A. H. Almaas holds a PhD in Nuclear Physics (UC Berkeley) and is the inventor of the Diamond Approach. Sponsors:  -Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/TOE for 20% off  -Algo: https://youtube.com/channel/UC9IfRw1QaTglRoX0sN11AQQ and website https://algo.com  Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal Crypto: https://tinyurl.com/cryptoTOE PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802 Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything Merch: https://tinyurl.com/TOEmerch LINKS MENTIONED: -Karl Friston podcast (the most important TOE podcast): https://youtu.be/SWtFU1Lit3M TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:03:50 The Diamond Approach 00:14:32 Socratic dialogue is superior to meditation 00:17:43 Depth psychology 00:20:37 Unifying Buddhism / Christianity / Emptiness / Somethingness 00:22:27 God: The Unknown Unknowable 00:25:00 Awakening vs. Realization 00:30:12 How are consciousness are the same AND different 00:35:05 Not everyone should be "realized" / "awakened" (including YOU, and that's okay) 00:41:00 Valuable vs. Should 00:42:32 The problem with spiritual advice from "gurus" 00:52:15 Curt's terrifying experience 01:00:39 Sometimes it's better to not be "awakened" 01:04:53 TOE has changed to be one step forward, instead of the final TOE 01:06:02 Integrating the analytic pursuit with the experiential (and Roger Penrose) 01:12:22 God's words of "I am that I am" 01:13:54 The expression of truth is love 01:16:06 Thoughts on Ken Wilber 01:22:20 DMT and God 01:24:57 Spiritual "path dependence" is what's generally not taken into account * * * Just wrapped (April 2021) a documentary called Better Left Unsaid http://betterleftunsaidfilm.com on the topic of "when does the left go too far?" Visit that site if you'd like to watch it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices