Spiritual Practices: How to Avoid Harming Yourself ~ Spiritual Development

Main subjects

Spiritual development and the spiritual pathSpiritMeditation practice and techniqueChildren, parenting, and family lifeCHChildrenMeditation

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00Unusual questions about spiritual and energy practices
• 00:18Can spiritual practices harm you? Defining the framework
• 01:10Material and spiritual perspectives: two ways of looking at practices
• 03:22The third eye (ajna): does it exist, and how do you “open” it?
• 05:40A rule of spiritual science
• 06:40How to connect with yourself
• 08:54Why know the future? Money, stocks, children—an honest look at motivation
• 11:09Why there is so much manipulation around the “third eye”
• 13:45Does a multiverse exist?
• 16:14Does longer hair make you energetically stronger?
• 23:33Can a spiritually developed person cause harm? An unpopular truth
• 24:53Do special stones and crystals amplify energy?
• 28:49Rituals in the modern world
• 30:50Can meditation make you emotionless?
• 33:33Meditation as a state of consciousness, rather than a posture
• 35:54Can meditation replace a psychologist or antidepressants?

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• 01:08

  Looking at spiritual practices that way, there clearly are practices that can harm you. For example, people take certain substances and call it a spiritual practice because, three thousand years ago, someone...

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• 22:50

  Because people use such things to decide whether someone is a guru.

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• 23:37

  It is an illusion, because the reasons someone is bald lie in entirely different factors, unrelated to what we are calling their spiritual strength.

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• 24:24

  Because people confuse what a spiritually developed person actually is.

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• 28:14

  When I said to open the refrigerator and eat, a sensible person would presumably choose something appropriate.

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• 29:02

  There are countless rituals you would never perform if you understood what they really were and where they led.

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• 29:29

  It is especially interesting how many Russian people enjoy visiting temples in another culture—Hindu or Buddhist temples, for example.

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• 34:06

  But suppose you see meditation as expanded perception, a state of awareness at any moment: sitting, standing, walking, eating, taking a shower, touching someone or not, planting flowers or...

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• 36:13

  Probably, if someone goes to a psychologist to talk to another person, meditating alone will not replace that, because their aim is to talk to someone.

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• 41:04

  That is before we even get to spiritual teachers or spiritual healers, or which meditation to do for it.

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