PS is 50% non-dual/Awareness and 50% purposely builds up the ego.
Most Eastern traditions would blanch and barf up breakfast and call that sorcery or something, except the Tantrics. The Tantras also realize that by discarding the ‘physical’ and calling it ‘maya’ (it is maya, but then EVERYTHING IS, even PS) that ‘Maya’ is ‘bad’.
But it’s not.
One gets caught in ‘samsara’ for all eternity, until you stop running away from your own ALSO ‘materiality’ (maya).
I was once told by my therapist, after I was diagnosed with autism, that i had the strongest sense of self that he had every encountered in this life/practice.
That makes a lot of ‘spiritual people’ run screaming.
The thing at the end of the day, is that the ‘sense of self’ is just another tool, a
TEMPORARY one.
Even the ‘mighty monad(s) that power ‘us’, they are nearly eternal, but they too are ever changing and die eventually too… generally after the Multiverse they are playing with dies…. PS is like Hinduism Atman with Buddhism it eventually dies anyway, but then
it’s like Nietzsche, where it’s known that it will recur again, so existing/not-existing
is no big deal. You can’t get away from either one. Both apply.
Kevin
11/20/2024