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What are your goals in creating this spiritual model?
Releasing the threads sounds terrifying. Is it?
How should I deal with spiritual gatekeeping or authority figures who dismiss my personal experiences?
What constitutes a “full” awakening?
What does it feel like to Release the threads?
If some conditioning remains for someone who is deeply “awakened,” does that mean their awakening is not yet complete?
How does your concept of the daily life thread relate to individual personality?
Why is your perspective so overly conceptual or intellectual?
What’s your advice when it comes to selecting practices? Is it best to pick one lane or sample widely?
Can practitioners get stuck when they become overly identified with a particular perspective or tradition, even after significant awakening?
Is there a way to use frameworks skillfully without mistaking them for reality?
What do you feel are the most significant limitations in the threads model as you’ve developed it?
I have some concern that fully accepting your perspective of the psyche could lead to a disenchanted view in which even the love for one’s child is seen as “just conditioning.”
Where do you feel the jhānas fit into the threads model?
Isn’t your model of opening, deepening, integrating, etc., reinforcing the core illusion of a separate self that is causing the suffering in the first place?
What is the difference between saying that at the end of the threads there is only conditioning vs. there is no more conditioning?
Regarding the the psyche thread, is the unleashing of the unconscious directed by the divine?
What motivates you to engage in activities like writing books or giving talks? How can a larger purpose or aspiration drive your actions when you have released the threads?
What is ultimately real?
Why do you think unconscious conditioning needs to be accepted rather than purified?
What tends to happen when a new thread opens? Is there any choice in the matter?
What do you feel is most essential when engaging in the domain of the psyche?
How do you understand the relationship between the absolute and relative levels of reality?
How might an overemphasis on any one practice lead to adverse effects?
How can rigid medical frameworks hinder our understanding of spiritual emergencies
Can intensive practice disrupt even very stable, advanced practitioners with many years of practice under their belts?
How do different practice styles and teaching approaches impact the likelihood and intensity of spiritual emergencies?
How do you reconcile the apparent contradiction between radical surrender and consciously applying effort towards practice and realization?
How can we honor the radical uniqueness of each being’s path while still providing meaningful guidance and mirrors for the journey?
Can you clarify the difference between core developmental threads and what you term “epiphenomena”?
Is there a common core or essence of awakening, based on your own journey and what you have seen in others?
For those with multiple active threads in their process, Is there a standard developmental sequence or is it highly individual?
Is it your view that one can fully awaken through just one thread, or are multiple threads ultimately required for a complete realization?
Is it best to rely on a time-tested map or to create one’s own?
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