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That was a great interview. I'd be interested to see more examples of the gnostic memes he mentioned. There are plenty of old /x/ memes on Google images, but I'm not sure those were the ones he was referring to, or if he meant rather that neon-gnosticism is a subtext of the meme right in general.

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Sep 12, 2022Liked by Harrison Koehli

If you look at the relationship of Marpa and Milarepa, the demand is ferocious. Or figures in the Zen tradition like Ikkyu who chose the coldest place to train and rowed out to meditate nights on a freezing lake to stay awake. It actually may be that a police state is just what we need to provide the right kind of heat and pressure for spiritual breakthroughs. Looks like we are going to get it to find out. One problem is the bad guys may be putting in more “tapas” (austerities to increase siddhis) with their disgusting adrenochrome harvesting etc. than the good guys are putting into their practices, so they appear to be “winning” right now.

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I'm eager to watch the video. As for memes, I made some political ones, for the Dem/Woke/Globalist party.

https://williamhunterduncan.substack.com/p/democratwokeglobalist-party-memes

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I sampled the interview rather than listening all the way through. It was very high-minded from my point of view. But it seems all the participants are onto something important about human life.

Your graphic at the top was what really caught my eye.

This "real political spectrum" corresponds much better to the findings I am studying (Hubbard) that date back to 1951 and following. Those findings did not focus on political ideology, but rather on overall approach to life, or "emotional tone level."

I find it worth reiterating that limiting our attempts to understand human history and human development to a few thousand years of known civilization on Earth, or the longer story of our genetic line on Earth is unnecessarily limiting and will lead to frustration and distorted results. The facts have been coming out since the 1950s, and they resulted from a search for spiritual freedom. So, yes, the element of freedom is very important to this work, but is much more expansive than what most people usually think of.

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Great podcast! I would argue that if the inquisitor can take your freedom with a Pope’s Pear it is because you have not developed your spiritual life enough yet. That is the exact point of spiritual life, Realization-Freedom-Moksha.

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and three (just 3 so that I'm not labelled spammer!)...

https://postimg.cc/D87rDXKN

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