I've heard him, but never listened or followed him. There is one quote by him that I really love and repeat a lot, because it shows the narrowness of mind of people who force "help" on others: "'Kindly let me help you or you'll drown,' said the monkey putting the fish safely up a tree."

"...not want to talk about it [leaving the 'matrix,' not want to talk about their personal journey and tell you about their opinion. I'm curious how you'd implement "actual leaving the "Matrix," what that requires and actually entails, and how would one know if they're out of it? As far as I'm concerned, I'm already out of it and I don't need support at this late time in my life. I've already been through it all. Alone. And now nearing the end of my time.

I may or may not be able to do Sunday. I'm not certain yet.

No. First of all, it is surely possible to create a conscious community if people move beyond their egos, but that isn't going to happen, especially on a group scale. Second of all, what I think will happen is what seems to happen every time I've seen communities or groups form from scratch: a clique of "elites" will form in the group. The clique will be determined by shared perspectives, compatible personalities and those who are most vocal and attention-seeking. Those who are quiet, humble, or who hold perspectives and ideas that are either unconventional, unpopular or singular will be excluded. I fall into this group and people like me never join groups, or we are there in the beginning and then disappear when hierarchies of popularity form and we start getting edged out, because groups become rigid and closed to outsiders and new ideas quite quickly as the core clique forms. Third of all, in order to have a conscious community, you need to have conscious members, and we don't have that. If one or two members are sufficiently conscious, we would be lucky, but those are probably the ones who will leave, because they don't seek the ego rewards--belonging, acceptance, approval, recognition etc--that those who join groups seek. Fourth of all, groups, even in the best-case scenario, evolve way more slowly than the individual. The best example I can think of this is today, is humanity. Lots of people are waking up and thinking "When the heck are all these other people going to wake up?" There is a huge drag on evolution when you have to wait for the whole group to evolve. Groups and the belief systems or ideologies that "harden" them into groups that define them as groups evolve at a snail's pace. Individuals who are not bound by the social dictates and obligations of such groups are the trail-blazers of evolution and they advance at a pace set only by them. This is a freedom people like me cannot live without. I don't want to be held back by other people's rigid belief systems and desire to be part of an unevolving group.

I'm also curious how you think that people who abandon their personal psycho-spiritual evolution to participate in a "conscious community" will be able to move beyond their egos. You are advocating for people to stop doing the work that gets people beyond the ego. It sounds noble to talk about sacrificing oneself to help everyone else, but my belief is that creating reality is an inside job, and you can't create someone else's reality for them.