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@Hansu Does your centrist ideology offer any tangible solutions, or does it avoid the problem by judging everybody around you instead? It would be illustrative if you sketched a problem, gave a leftist, rightist and a centrist solution. No, because most people have no interest in perfection despite their neurotic perfectionism.

The moment you connect with others on empathetic level and acknowledge the validity of their suffering, there is an internal drive to solve their (=your) problem. People that are not willing to take that burden upon themselves should not be politicians.

Sinking the mind in the breath: day #13 Today, I woke up frightened, remembering some peculiarity about the work I was supposed to do. I penetrated that thought and saw that it was fueled by my subconscious fright that manifested as dreams. I dreamed of getting in a car accident. Releasing identities related to work and life allowed me to calm down. Practicing meditation was very helpful for the past two weeks. Yesterday I bought Yoga Sutras with commentary by Sri Satchidananda and I find it remarkably illuminating. It seems to confirm the insights I had during my latest awakening when I understood everything. Shimmer is the Iśwara's whisper that is called OM. Inspired by the book, I was contemplating what a mug is and it had struck me that I'm expecting to see something within it with my eyes. It struck me as absurd that I'm focusing on my sight and started to feel it with my hands as well. I understood that my perceptual boundary is not at all in the shape of my body, but my body is a shape-less singularity that I imagine to be of human form. The perceptual contact with the mug via touch, the boudedness of 'my' body, is just the extents of my mind from which sensations sprout. The boundedness of the mug, just like my own boundary, is how I know that the mug is conscious and the thing that perceives me through the mug is as empty as me. I am the mug and the mug is me - my skin is not a boundary, but a mirror. The mug did not contain any coffee that day.

Thank you, that explains the first part.

That is not what @Synchronicity seems to be saying when he invites skepticism and questions.

@Synchronicity Interesting video, thank you for sharing. It reminds me of Akashik records. Here are things that picked my curiosity due to perceived inconsistency: You said that Ethan always had this infinite experience and thought that it was normal until his parents told him otherwise. From what I understand, there are infinitely many versions of Ethan's parents. From these infinitely many versions, you have been able to dial into some, if not infinitely many, versions of them. These versions of Ethan's parents share the infinite experience that Ethan is having. Therefore, there are versions of Ethan's parents that have this experience and there are versions that don't. Therefore, Ethan should have known that this experience is not common to every being (that it isn't normal). So, why did Ethan have to ask his parents in the first place if he didn't have to? Why does knowledge that his parents provide is of any significance compared to the infinity of knowledge that could have been gathered? The other question is: You said that this experience is 'frozen' as snapshots of existence. What does it mean to 'do' something, like 'manifest million dollars' in such a frozen singularity? Yet another question is: What happens in a world where you manifest 1000000 dollars in someone's account? Can't you prove your existence to any world by doing something so outrageous that everybody would believe you (in that world)?

Then why are you tagging me?

Can I help you with that feeling somehow?

Sinking the mind in the breath: day #12 I feel like I've gone astray. I have not meditated for the whole hour two days in a row and sinking the mind fell down from the top of the priority list. This week, I'm working late shifts, so I will push harder from the morning. This is when meditation is the most effective. I need to figure out a way of meditating when I work morning shifts. The mind runs rampant during sleep and messes up my wakefulness. I am very conscious of just how every single thing the body does is aimed at survival. There is no rest during life, the only refuge is meditation. Still no coffee.

@Matt8800 I second this request. I know that magick is real, but never had the courage to use it deliberately.

@DoTheWork The world is meaningless because you lack grounding. I highly doubt that there is something that can ground an ego of the size of yours. I was once in contact with a seeker that was so conscious that he decided to imagine his own suffering to become dormant again. Do you know what he did afterwards? He started seeking the way back to the top.

@Strangeloop Maybe you are not gay, but bisexual?

To focus on not focusing is to relax. That is what 'surrender' means.

That one is good: - How do you feel inside? - ... Inside? ... I don't have any inside.

@shahar uriel Maybe nobody told her that it was supposed to be a big deal?

@Bill W I'm very interested, thank you for taking the time.

@bejapuskas @DrewNows (sorry, I'm on mobile) No, I don't know what yawning means. Sorry.

@bejapuskas I call the mystical experience seeking ego a 'suicidal spiritual drunkard'.

On the surface level, you are the only one that perceives your thoughts, but the thoughts that you cultivate influence the behavior you manifest outwardly. I'd say that letting go of these negative thoughts is the precondition for healing a relationship, even if it is done by one person only. Very often, we act out and hurt each other simply because we're wrapped up in everyday matters and do not care to understand the behavior of other people. I'd say that the bulk of the work is not really about letting go, but about trying to get into the frame of mind of the other person and see how the offensive behavior made sense from that point of view. That often leads to release of your feelings of hurt and this release cannot be faked by ignoring negative thoughts. As for prayer, or sending good vibes - I don't know.

Responsibility is not about attributing blame. It is not to be thought of retrospectively as if a person is the sole cause and the origin of something. Responsibility is about being able to respond to something here and now, not being a victim of circumstances that unfold. It is about owning your life, making it something that you are creating in the present moment. In this sense, witnessing our lives and responsibility (response-ability) are one and the same thing. You cannot be responsible unless you are present (witness). It is about not getting caught up in suffering, in mind stories and thought loops that explain things as something that we cannot, but want/desire/must, influence to be happy.

Definitely sounds like ego death. It cracked me up when she said that she "sees it all in color". I thought that cameras were black and white back then, not the world!

Sadhguru on the third eye. https://youtu.be/wJWmrFiqPdg

Sinking the mind in the breath: day #11 My wife had an ultrasound examination yesterday and I decided to fast along with her to test the waters. Surprisingly, I enjoyed it a lot! I woke up energetic and after a light breakfast we went on a walk to the nearby forest. I felt strongly connected with my body and entered a semi-mystical experience where I saw the whole world as one existence of many forms, some of which pass through 'my body'. The usual notion of the material me that is bound by flesh vanished and I became the shape-shifting world itself. On the other end my mind dissolved into the collective understanding that is visible in culture, internet, etc, so 'I' became nothing that mediates between Earth-body and human collective mind. The experience was ecstatic. To my wife's horror it woke a 5-year old me and I embarked on a journey through the forest, off the tracks. Somebody told the forest that the autumn is coming and it shed the leaves to uncover its insides. It was very beautiful and even though I was barely after breakfast, the mere idea of fasting made me feel energetic and hyper-vigilant. The other, parallel, perception was the one of creation. I work as a technologist that manifests ideas in steel, and the tool shop that I work in felt as my cybernetic body. I felt like a giant cyborg, mecha pilot, and my vehicle was the world of technology itself. I remembered the insight I had few months back that we, humans, are artisans of death. We kill things so thoroughly, that they do not dare living for themselves and create order out of that. That is why 'purity' of raw materials is so important for technological purposes. 'Purity' is the measure of how dead something is. During the day, I was shocked to notice just how much of my life is occupied by food and how difficult it is to do something that is not related to it. Just like I'm starving my mind of meaning and do things thoughtlessly, starving my gut allowed me to notice the beauty of the world to a greater extent. Sustenance is an important part of the everyday's business and letting go of that is a huge relief. I will be fasting in the future, maybe one day in a week? This gut-mind equivalence has led me understand that there is just one 'life force' that is driving the world of everyday affairs. Meditation is the process in which we consciously resist, or rather - surrender, that force and keep our stillness. This actually increases intelligence that is rapt by the currents of everyday life and lets us perceive it on a deeper level. I wonder what is the equivalent of meditation for the heart and what is the expression of life force in that center. Is it just attachment? No idea for now. Coffee detox seems to be over and I can comfortably wake up with no cravings or headaches. I will keep track of this addiction to avoid slipping back. Apart from fasting, I meditated for just about 15 minutes late in the night and kept breathing consciously throughout the day.