Michael Taft is a great teacher. I met him at a very important part of my development in my early-mid 20s. Was a part of the reminiscence of his group he ran in LA after he moved away. Worked with him 1-on-1 for around 4 years and it transformed my life and still echos through today and the clients I even work with as a therapist.
There appears to be something in the otherwise septic tank algorithm of the internet that keeps me one with “non-dual” like teachings. I have learned so much from Michael Taft in the last year since I discovered him 🙏
Wonderful interview Steve! Please do have Michael on for a sequel. "I just like people" really sums up so much of what the path is about. That has always come through Michael's material and is why he is so widely appreciated.
With the amount of time and energy we spend around other people, it is almost required in my opinion to use the path to appreciate people more and be more kind to strangers and so on. My favorite and most rapid transformations tend to be linked to loving kindness and compassion practice in every day life. Highly recommend it to anyone!
I can’t wait!! Michael is great. He’s the first person to give me real practical instruction for obtaining jhana in layman’s terms that actually worked and almost immediately.
When I first head Taft I didn't quite get him, but now for some reason everything resonates....his openness, his eclectism, non-dogmatic and practical stuff.......and his honesty and wide heart...... now I can't get enough of him.
One time I was trippin on too much acid and I was staring at a fire pit and the fire pit turned into a mini world with little people and buildings, would love to trip on DMT or magic mushrooms next, just don't where to get them, so hard to come by
Not done acid before, when i tried shrooms i ate way more than i should of because i thought they wouldn’t work and then my face got numb and i threw up shrooms and my friend was laughing but trying to comfort me and the bathroom lights were flickering cuz they were old and i had to go home
It's good to finally know more about Michael! I discover him through the Vimalakirti Experience and had this shift in awareness after doing several of the guided meditation.
Fantastic interview. Robert Anton Wilson had the same effect on me, especially his book Quantum Consciousness. Not sure why you don't have more subscribers. Your content definitely deserves it. I would share, but don't have social. 😊
Another great interview Steve! Well done! 🙏🏻👍🏻 Taft is the first person who claims an awakening via psychedelics that I might just believe. I certainly think psychedelics can change your life - I cured depression with a single mushroom trip years ago. Similarly, I had shrooms years ago and legitimately thought I had gotten enlightened - but nothing stuck. It did however, make me want to get enlightened from that moment onwards. But I’ve not heard of any permanents awakenings from psychedelics. Very interesting. That all said all my genuine insights have come form retreats & meditation. Also - I totally want to learn how to see other beings after hearing that part of the interview! Sorry Michael 😂
Very interesting and entertaining. Thanks to Michael and Steve. After watching I would just like to say to Steve, that you really should try some psychedelics. They would definitely expand your possibilities.
Holy fuck man things here are getting pretty serious, and I was just started settling out as Kundalini smoothly through throat to skull and back up you got me pump man, feeling the excitement in the spine, I won't sue you for any kriyas I promise
Oh shit can't believe I missed this one. 4012 old age eh. Who knows i might give it a try one day. 4131 why does that sound like my party days. So my trick is to work the room make everyone feel like they belong. I get them to talk to each other. I help them relax around each other. And then I would grow the circle. Bring in some obvious thug type. Then go for a geek. Then hit up an athlete. Until I had about 12-20 people close knit. But to do it I have to have a moment with them. Each moment comes differently too. Don't do it anymore cause of the way people see me after long term wise. Tends to hype up my image when I would rather downplay so I can be in the background. I make sure shit goes smooth while everyone parties. 3 groups in the military knit that way. The last one grew to 40 though. It was 3 years in sasebo Japan. Woot. Club owners bar owners and a select group of people I wanted to see mingle. They were the tightest of all groups. 55 i remember that. For me it was the diffraction of light on the surface of objects. I remember being amazed by the brilliant display as the light passed the window. And information processing no longer required a center focus. So every thing I looked at i knew all I knew about it instantly. But even more it wasn't limited to one object. As you look around the room everything in the room appears as information and as sight. Or sound or touch. It's as if normally we have to think of something and it pops in our head a thought balloon. But instead of that it was many all at once but only pertaining to things in sight sound or touch. So nothing outside of the room. I didn't even feel like I had a body. I was just diffused across all senses. For me the most salient or memorable is the visual field. Then again I trained my visual field heavy as a kid. I was able to maintain it for a few hours I think. From what I've been told my brother says he entered the house and I was just standing there looking at him unmoving. So he started talking to me. He says he shook me too to wake me up. But I was gone after that. I came to days later an amnesiac like a new born baby. Lol everyone I knew freaked out. But for me it was chaos. Lol two girls tried testing me. I remember that. It didnt help. Now they know why i was crying instead of smiling that day. The chaos lasted 1 year. Then i just stopped fighting cessation which i kept thinking was death and rebirth for a long time. I feared that thing. Not knowing when it would occur. Coming back and not being able to say anything because i was trying to seem normal. but it stopped after 2 years. The last year cessation was cool. I got used to it since i began to trust i would always come back no matter where it occured. but one day it stopped. And i moved on. Joined the military. Lived. But the amnesia lasted 12 years. 11631. I used the technique tolerate the petty tyrant in carlos castendas framework. I used it before I read his books. But when I saw it included I was proud of him. It's a cool technique not popular though. But it gets to the heart of the matter fast. it causes favorable events to arise and these events can help others change objective behaviour. Seeing it in action is something else. Good times. I came up with the technique when I had to do a year in a juvenile detention center. It was a golden opportunity to test what I had learned in the streets. 1 month in I find the first of Castaneda's books. Kept at it after juvie too. Hit my boys with it when I got out. Service is it's own reward. ua-cam.com/video/1at7kKzBYxI/v-deo.html
I'm not sure if you have (thorougly) explored the Castaneda subreddit, but if you have, and it seems like it, you can see that from the attitude Vincent has torwards inorganic beings and/or other realms of perception, that he is caught up in the buddhist narrative of what "should" be done. And the fact that he says that those beings cannot have any more or specialised knowledge relative to humans, which is a common form of pathological ignorance gained through failed parental relationships of the past - to have trouble with the notion of not being able to "see" or "know" outside the limited frame of perception and experience of oneself(nobody can) - says alot. Buddhist practicioners rarely solve their past... and if they do, to whatever degree, it happens accidentally, as an effect or byproduct of their practice. Sorcery goes far beyond those things, but the requirement to become a sorcerer is that we to have to overcome ourselves, and that is often the hardest battle a man can come in contact with. Buddhism works within the social order; often, if not always, driven by power over others, which is fundamentally instinctual / "human". Even the boundless compassionate drive to help others torwards enlightenment conceils a power-drive energetically tied to past experiences. Empathy without real-time, instinctive rapport between humans, is just projection and identification, and conceils other drives, wittingly or otherwise. Wanting to save the world is one of the most self-serving goals there is - it functions through projecting all the way into the collective, social psyche. Such a projection is ofcourse energetically tied to one's idiosyncratic past. Sorcery is freedom from all that, and aligns one with the deeper part of himself, which restores the ultimate meaning and individuality of his life.
everyone needs a mythology... this might be Taft's big weakness. You have to teach in the context of some kind of myth, even though it might be a kind of half-truth. Even Shinzen has a kind of mythos about him. This is why people say stoicism died out, no mythos.
" I want to get into turiya " hahaha man , I imagine the teacher saying ok is a 5 min deal, to established into turiya today is your own job, and after that 10 years of kriyas
Michael Taft is a great teacher. I met him at a very important part of my development in my early-mid 20s. Was a part of the reminiscence of his group he ran in LA after he moved away. Worked with him 1-on-1 for around 4 years and it transformed my life and still echos through today and the clients I even work with as a therapist.
This is like Obi-Wan interviewing Qui-Gon
'Hello there...'
😂😂😂👊🏻👊🏻 it's a gem, Steve! 💎
The negotiations were short!
There appears to be something in the otherwise septic tank algorithm of the internet that keeps me one with “non-dual” like teachings. I have learned so much from Michael Taft in the last year since I discovered him 🙏
Yes! Michael is such a sincere practitioner. Love this.
Wonderful interview Steve! Please do have Michael on for a sequel. "I just like people" really sums up so much of what the path is about. That has always come through Michael's material and is why he is so widely appreciated.
Agreed!! 😌👌
With the amount of time and energy we spend around other people, it is almost required in my opinion to use the path to appreciate people more and be more kind to strangers and so on. My favorite and most rapid transformations tend to be linked to loving kindness and compassion practice in every day life. Highly recommend it to anyone!
I can’t wait!! Michael is great. He’s the first person to give me real practical instruction for obtaining jhana in layman’s terms that actually worked and almost immediately.
What is it?
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What is the way to get jhana?
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his talks on jhanas are exceptional
I would also love a general photo tour of the boat inside and out
Nice interview. That story in Japan was inspirational. I’ve long wondered about Michael’s “story”. Thanks for catching that on tape!
This was an amazing talk. My absolute highlight of the week! Thanks to Steve and Michael for sharing this.
MT, so generous, such helpful pointers.
When I first head Taft I didn't quite get him, but now for some reason everything resonates....his openness, his eclectism, non-dogmatic and practical stuff.......and his honesty and wide heart...... now I can't get enough of him.
One time I was trippin on too much acid and I was staring at a fire pit and the fire pit turned into a mini world with little people and buildings, would love to trip on DMT or magic mushrooms next, just don't where to get them, so hard to come by
once I took shrooms on accident they were in a chocolate bar and my fat a** thought it was regular choclate😂😂😂
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ships Psychedelics
@@userconspiracynut is he on IG or what?
Not done acid before, when i tried shrooms i ate way more than i should of because i thought they wouldn’t work and then my face got numb and i threw up shrooms and my friend was laughing but trying to comfort me and the bathroom lights were flickering cuz they were old and i had to go home
@@ugmiles. yeah, He has variety of stuffs like mushrooms, LSD, DMT even the chocolate bars
It's good to finally know more about Michael! I discover him through the Vimalakirti Experience and had this shift in awareness after doing several of the guided meditation.
Thank you, you two. Amazing episode. So happy to hear MT talk about personal stuff.
FUARKING AMAZING EPISODE, THANK YOU BRAH 🤟🏻😄🤟🏻🧨🧨❗️❗️❗️
Fantastic interview. Robert Anton Wilson had the same effect on me, especially his book Quantum Consciousness.
Not sure why you don't have more subscribers. Your content definitely deserves it. I would share, but don't have social. 😊
Another great interview Steve! Well done! 🙏🏻👍🏻
Taft is the first person who claims an awakening via psychedelics that I might just believe.
I certainly think psychedelics can change your life - I cured depression with a single mushroom trip years ago.
Similarly, I had shrooms years ago and legitimately thought I had gotten enlightened - but nothing stuck. It did however, make me want to get enlightened from that moment onwards. But I’ve not heard of any permanents awakenings from psychedelics. Very interesting.
That all said all my genuine insights have come form retreats & meditation.
Also - I totally want to learn how to see other beings after hearing that part of the interview! Sorry Michael 😂
Very interesting and entertaining. Thanks to Michael and Steve. After watching I would just like to say to Steve, that you really should try some psychedelics. They would definitely expand your possibilities.
If I like the video harder, will it come sooner?
This was such an insightful, enjoyable and calming interview. Wonderful!
Holy fuck man things here are getting pretty serious, and I was just started settling out as Kundalini smoothly through throat to skull and back up you got me pump man, feeling the excitement in the spine, I won't sue you for any kriyas I promise
Mind-blowing and inspiring
Great interview. Any chance of one with Thānissaro bhikku?
Please Jesus give us that talk for all that is good and just we beg of thee
Awesome interview. Thankyou! 🙏. So much to follow up with.
So excited to listen to this
Thanks a lot for this!
Michael and I would have been best friends back when I was younger. lol
Awesome interview.
Oh shit can't believe I missed this one. 4012 old age eh. Who knows i might give it a try one day. 4131 why does that sound like my party days. So my trick is to work the room make everyone feel like they belong. I get them to talk to each other. I help them relax around each other. And then I would grow the circle. Bring in some obvious thug type. Then go for a geek. Then hit up an athlete. Until I had about 12-20 people close knit. But to do it I have to have a moment with them. Each moment comes differently too. Don't do it anymore cause of the way people see me after long term wise. Tends to hype up my image when I would rather downplay so I can be in the background. I make sure shit goes smooth while everyone parties. 3 groups in the military knit that way. The last one grew to 40 though. It was 3 years in sasebo Japan. Woot. Club owners bar owners and a select group of people I wanted to see mingle. They were the tightest of all groups.
55 i remember that. For me it was the diffraction of light on the surface of objects. I remember being amazed by the brilliant display as the light passed the window. And information processing no longer required a center focus. So every thing I looked at i knew all I knew about it instantly. But even more it wasn't limited to one object. As you look around the room everything in the room appears as information and as sight. Or sound or touch. It's as if normally we have to think of something and it pops in our head a thought balloon. But instead of that it was many all at once but only pertaining to things in sight sound or touch. So nothing outside of the room. I didn't even feel like I had a body. I was just diffused across all senses. For me the most salient or memorable is the visual field. Then again I trained my visual field heavy as a kid. I was able to maintain it for a few hours I think. From what I've been told my brother says he entered the house and I was just standing there looking at him unmoving. So he started talking to me. He says he shook me too to wake me up. But I was gone after that. I came to days later an amnesiac like a new born baby. Lol everyone I knew freaked out. But for me it was chaos. Lol two girls tried testing me. I remember that. It didnt help. Now they know why i was crying instead of smiling that day. The chaos lasted 1 year. Then i just stopped fighting cessation which i kept thinking was death and rebirth for a long time. I feared that thing. Not knowing when it would occur. Coming back and not being able to say anything because i was trying to seem normal. but it stopped after 2 years. The last year cessation was cool. I got used to it since i began to trust i would always come back no matter where it occured. but one day it stopped. And i moved on. Joined the military. Lived. But the amnesia lasted 12 years.
11631. I used the technique tolerate the petty tyrant in carlos castendas framework. I used it before I read his books. But when I saw it included I was proud of him. It's a cool technique not popular though. But it gets to the heart of the matter fast. it causes favorable events to arise and these events can help others change objective behaviour. Seeing it in action is something else. Good times. I came up with the technique when I had to do a year in a juvenile detention center. It was a golden opportunity to test what I had learned in the streets. 1 month in I find the first of Castaneda's books. Kept at it after juvie too. Hit my boys with it when I got out. Service is it's own reward.
ua-cam.com/video/1at7kKzBYxI/v-deo.html
It was the Avatamsaka sutra, you were searching for🎉
I'm not sure if you have (thorougly) explored the Castaneda subreddit, but if you have, and it seems like it, you can see that from the attitude Vincent has torwards inorganic beings and/or other realms of perception, that he is caught up in the buddhist narrative of what "should" be done. And the fact that he says that those beings cannot have any more or specialised knowledge relative to humans, which is a common form of pathological ignorance gained through failed parental relationships of the past - to have trouble with the notion of not being able to "see" or "know" outside the limited frame of perception and experience of oneself(nobody can) - says alot. Buddhist practicioners rarely solve their past... and if they do, to whatever degree, it happens accidentally, as an effect or byproduct of their practice.
Sorcery goes far beyond those things, but the requirement to become a sorcerer is that we to have to overcome ourselves, and that is often the hardest battle a man can come in contact with. Buddhism works within the social order; often, if not always, driven by power over others, which is fundamentally instinctual / "human". Even the boundless compassionate drive to help others torwards enlightenment conceils a power-drive energetically tied to past experiences. Empathy without real-time, instinctive rapport between humans, is just projection and identification, and conceils other drives, wittingly or otherwise. Wanting to save the world is one of the most self-serving goals there is - it functions through projecting all the way into the collective, social psyche. Such a projection is ofcourse energetically tied to one's idiosyncratic past.
Sorcery is freedom from all that, and aligns one with the deeper part of himself, which restores the ultimate meaning and individuality of his life.
Ooooo, sweet!😃
Been waiting for this
Thank you!
@ 50:22 - i like his choice of the word Annhiliation.
Great one! 😊
Can you point me towards where shinzen talks about the awkward middle of open but not entirely?
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@@GuruViking thank you~
everyone needs a mythology... this might be Taft's big weakness. You have to teach in the context of some kind of myth, even though it might be a kind of half-truth. Even Shinzen has a kind of mythos about him. This is why people say stoicism died out, no mythos.
what does he say at 51:13 ? like what practice? thanks in advance!
" I want to get into turiya " hahaha man , I imagine the teacher saying ok is a 5 min deal, to established into turiya today is your own job, and after that 10 years of kriyas
1:00:30
His audio is so bad like he's in a bathroom