Sempiternity

You're hitting on one of the most fascinating aspects of Awakening to me. It's a subject I rarely see talked about. It's the one part of it all (God/Source/Reality/Consciousness) I don't quite understand, and have often pondered about. When I go to 'source', or Awaken, I call it a Remembering. I remember everything, who and what I am. It's like 'of course !! How did I forget this!?'. But soon after coming back, it all goes away. Only hints of it. Shadows of it. And for me, a frustration in the forgetting. I like to use dreams as a reference. When in a dream, it's all 100% real to you. It's formlessness, pure unlimited imagination. All 100% your mind creating itself into a reality, that you believe is 100% real. When one wakes up, you (most of the time) forget the dream. To me, maybe the secrete lies in being a Lucid Dreamer. You train your mind to wake up in the dream, being able to remain in the dream, and have full access to the creation of that reality. God consciousness, with awareness to create at will. And in doing so, maybe the dream becomes more real to you, so when you wake, you have better dream-recall. One of the key aspects of Lucid Dreaming is practicing dream-recall. One could maybe practice dream recall, in reality and in the dream. And maybe, if one practices enough, then maybe Consciousness would be better prepared to recall when returning from Source/God Consciousness. Just a theory, but all I can think of to tackle this phenomenon.

How is Oneness a trap? The Absolute and Relative are One.

I kinda disagree with this. If one has a profound understanding of the nature of Reality, that is all One, it's all Consciousness, it's all God, it's all You/Me, then one understands that anything in Reality is exactly how it is designed to be. No matter what is occurring Now, is what God is making itself to be, and it can't be any other way than what it is. Anything that Reality is, is all equal, as it's all Consciousness, Nothingness. It's all equally meaningless. So if reality is being part of a cult, or running a cult and having 'followers', that is what God/Consciousness wanted to be. And it's just as nothingness, meaningless, a dream, as anything else it could be.

If one is a billionaire, they are by definition a selfish greedy asshole. To have that kind of money, you need to be hording money that could be doing good in the world. How much does one really need to live comfortably? Let's just say 5 million. A million dollar home bought and fully paid for. And 4 million to pay for all your bills and vacations for the rest of your life. Lets be generous and double that to 10 million. You would have everything you could ever need for the rest of your life. That means if you are a billionaire, you could use like 99.9% of your wealth to really help your fellow man. And if you did so, you would not be a billionaire anymore. Hence why if you do have that kind of money, you are automatically a greedy selfish monster, because you could help others but choose not to.

Agree to disagree. Just because someone does not die in a life-threatening situation does not mean their instincts were on point. If a person's instincts tell them to stay in a burning building, and the fire department comes and puts out the fire before they burn to death and they survive, it does not mean their survival instincts were right. It means they had poor survival instincts and were extremely lucky they didn't die.

I don't buy that reasoning at all. If a crazed person with an ax is being violently and hacking at things around me, I'm not going to just take the chance and assume he's going to keep chopping at things and not start chopping at humans at any moment. Survival instincts are not betting your life in a potentially deadly situation. It takes nothing to just remove yourself from the situation for your own safety. To not do so is beyond foolish.

This was one is crazy to me. Guy in library violently chopping at everything with an ax, and everyone in the library barely react at all. Like zero survival instincts. He walks up and chops a computer, inches from a guys head and the guy doesn't even flinch. As far he as he knew, the next chop could have been his head, but didn't care. Everyone just goes about their business, as if a crazy ax wielding maniac isn't attacking everything with an ax. NPCs indeed. And then the cops unload their magazines at him at point-blank range, and he still lives.

Woman commits felony arson, calls 911 to get police to come, then invites officers into her home to watch video evidence of her committing the crime.

No wiser words have ever been spoken here on this forum.

Worst cop in the history of cops:

A Racoon smoking a meth pipe. No, I am not kidding. Reality stranger than fiction.

Nothing higher than God.

Everything that is being experienced in direct experience right now is all one thing; consciousness. It's all one thing, the only thing in existence, as nothing exists outside of Being/Awareness/Direct Experience. Consciousness creates everything in reality. Reality is consciousness. God is consciousness, creating reality, creating itself to be what is direct experience. Because God is creating reality, and reality is consciousness, that means that God is creating consciousness. Or in other words God is creating itself. Another way of putting it, is I created myself. As I am God creating itself to be all of this in direct experience right now, pretending to be a human experiencing a world of 'other' things, through a first-person perspective, and making myself forget that I am doing this. And it's completely meaningless, as it's just me making images of myself and telling myself a story. It's all a story. Reality = Consciousness = Direct Experience = Now = Only thing in existence = God = Me

@Emerald Well said!

No, not today. We are at the beginning of the atrocities they have planned. The two questions are, how far are they going to push things, and if they do how far are we willing to go to stop them.

What'd we do when human rights and freedoms were being threatened and corruption and evil threatening the good of the world in WW1, and then in WW2? In the Civil war, you had half the country that wanted human slaves, what'd we do in that situation? There's no talking it out, there is no middle ground to reach, there is no diplomacy, there is no voting it out. You destroy it till it's no longer a threat to everyone. That's the thing people are not talking about as a solution. MAGA is not going to give up power. They've set up the laws to favor them, and those laws cannot be changed (unless there's 2/3 of the Senate to make new laws eliminating corruption, which will never ever happen). Only way out of this is by force. Remove them all and start over with a new Constitution that is uncorruptible. If the other half of the country does not like it and it starts another Civil War, then so be it. Thier evil was crushed before, and it will again. The system is so far broken, this is the only way out, IMO.

What's your personal opinion on GP Walsh, Nonduality teacher?

He was my very first introduction to the concepts of Nonduality. Found Leo's teachings shortly after.

Think of Solipsism like nightly dreams. You can meet people and talk to them, but those people, you and your body, the environment, that whole reality, is one thing: Consciousness. Consciousness = God. Reality is God making itself into what is being experienced. So are those people you meet in a dream real? Have you lived their life? But what is togetherness? Is it separate beings that are together? Separate beings that are bound together by "the grand self behind all of us"? Solipsism is one Being. Just what is right now in direct experience. That's all there is. Togetherness assumes separation. When there is only one thing (Consciousness/God), there cannot be togetherness. Sorry to nitpick, but the way Solipsism is worded can change the perception of it. Indeed!

And Faith is a trap. It seems to me that the biggest difference between religious people and spirituality people, is religion says that you can't know, so you have to have faith in what they say is true, which is dangerous. Whereas spirituality you can know what reality is, what God is, what is death, etc. I'd rather know for myself, than trust someone with an agenda (money and control over others). Problem is, most of the population of the world doesn't know that you can know, so the only path they have is religion. I look forward to a time when more of the world knows true spirituality.

Had no idea of spirituality, beyond religion and new age woo woo. In 2009, was on an anniversary vacation with my gf on the Oregon coast. We took alot of mushrooms, like 5-6g each. I had a full God Awakening. Afterwards, I wanted to know what happen to me. as I had no reference. In doing research, I discovered Nonduality teachers, and they seemed to understand and teach what I had experienced. That was the start of the path.

and why does every follower have the same face?

Thanks for the response. Can you describe "The Infinite"? Are other people imaginary to you?

Congrats! Couple questions. What is beyond the bubble once gone? What are other people to you?

I'm curious. How does enduring insane amounts of suffering lead to awakening? Only way I know how is right dosing of certain psychedelics, and then surrendering to death, to Awaken from the dream to Truth/God.