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Hi Adam, Thanks for sharing your understanding of the dark night of the soul (TDNOTS). The reason I connected TDNOTS to the Buddhist traditions is because I find their elaboration on it much more detailed and easy to interpret than the Gnostic traditions. I interpret the Christian "version"...

Hi Evie, Doesn't bother me in the slightest! :) What I do is hit the "quote" button on the bottom right of the post I want to reply to... that works for me. I've seen this approach work both incredibly well and incredibly terribly... sometimes in the same person just at different points in...

Hi Evie and thanks for chiming in! You don't sound like a wanker at all. ;) Sounds like an awesome experience! I'm curious to know more, but I realize that, as you mention, often the most profound and revelatory of experiences can be extremely difficult to properly communicate about. Perhaps...

Yes. Essentially, aghoris believe that nothing is sacred and that all polarities are illusion or the result of misperception. So they use practices like eating corpses, using hallucinogens, drinking urine etc to help them experience the truth of "non-dual consciousness" and transcend false...

Hahaha, Mormons are easy to make squirm. It's my aghori friends that I find hard to push to uncomfortability. :p Love, Carson

Hi kdt, Yes, when the questioning is happening the questioner is aware (to some degree at a minimum) that the narrative is crumbling under the scrutiny. In general, the person will look very scared (if they were not prepared for it, like for instance when they come to my door to try and...

Hi kdt, I think you misunderstood what I was saying... I wasn't particularly clear, sorry. I totally agree with you that most loyal LDS members (and others too) are happy to toe the party line of their respective religions. Wasn't meaning to suggest otherwise. My experience is that most...

I've been going by Carson Zi both online and in person since 1997. Carson is my real first name and Zi was adopted after 2 friends and I took it upon ourselves to write a spiritual manifesto (aka a religious doctrine) titled "The Book of Zi." The word "Zi" was created as a linguistic...

Hi K, Yes, my in-laws are Mormon so I'm pretty well versed in their beliefs. That said though, my experience is that when we personally define God within our own belief systems/frameworks it tends to illuminate things we are sometimes unconscious to. Lots of people who operate within a...

How do you (personally) define "God?" Love, Carson P.S> This is my favorite question to ask the Jehovah's Witness and the Mormon's when they come knocking on my door. :D

Hi AGA, Yeah, I'm going to have to disagree with this. The "rules" that one person requires in order to live a "safe existence" are going to vary from person to person. We are all different and unique expressions of human nature and no one is the same as another... so the rules and...

Hi River, I've been practicing and teaching meditation (not mindfulness but a specific mantra meditation, although I used to practice mindfulness many years ago) for several years now and I would attribute nearly all of the positive change I have experienced in my life to the practice...

Hi Halcyeus, I really like this question. I don't personally think of things in terms of "spiritual/not-spiritual" but if I answer the question "When you get angry and jealous, how might you deal with that in a positive way?" I would say that I do my best to become aware of why I am feeling...

Hi GracieX, This is a good example of why I find living a poly lifestyle helps with becoming more self aware (aka. "spiritual growth). I didn't get jealous very often when I was living monogamously with my wife... and if I did I would make a big deal out of the circumstances that brought...

I would agree 100%. At least that is how it is playing out for me! Love, Carson

Hi nycindie, While I agree that people don't suddenly become enlightened by being poly I disagree that every relationship requires the level of self-knowledge that is required for successful poly relationships. I have been in mono relationships for about 20 years now and 99.9% of my friends...

Hi thepaleob, Is there a reason you will only consider letting her meet another woman? This is something I've had to confront. Originally my wife seemed only interested in dating other females, but that only lasted a short while before she started dating other guys (much easier for her to...

Hi L23, Do you find that practicing Taoism helps you with self-reflection in any specific way? I found that meditation (mantra style designed to retrain the brain to eliminate unnecessary threads of thought) really helped me with this by making the mind considerably quieter, less reactive and...

Hi kullervo, Absolutely... same for me. I probably won't get too in-depth here at these forums regarding my personal sexual experiences simply because they are so dramatic and unconventional. I had a full kundalini awakening in 2009 and this has resulted in biological changes like having...

Hi Bluesun, Your parents/upbringing sounds very similar to mine. Definitely not easy to identify and unwind all the conditioning that comes with a childhood like that. Being new here and being that my wife and I are just discovering what living a poly lifestyle is really like in practice, I...