Sempiternity

There is no center. God is unlimited imagination. God is also Nothing. From nothing, God imagines itself to be a reality, where it's a person, that sees reality through a first-person perspective, and everything in that reality is separate. Its imagination is so unlimited, it all seems so perfectly real. Everything is God. Everything in reality is happening within Consciousness. Consciousness=God. All of reality is God's dream/mind. Can't explain it more simple than that. If one does not get it, they're not capable of getting it.

It's both. Just like in a dream, all of that dream reality is one thing: your mind/consciousness. Your body, the eyes you see out of, gravity, physics, the environment, and every person you meet and talk to, are all created by your mind. So you are the dream and the dreamer simultaneously. You are the creator and the creation. And what's another word for creator?

Because I had Awakenings, where self, time, and reality are gone, an experience of 'death', yet Consciousness is ever present. A knowing of eternity. A knowing of God being all that there is. Also, meditate, this is Awareness and Being, without thought.

I personally hate this way of thinking, as in trying to make everyone happy. When you try to cater to everyone, with all different kinds of backgrounds, beliefs and sensibilities, you end up making something bland (see marvel movies for example) that usually ends up making no one happy. Instead I think if you're going to make something, make it niche and focused. Make it something you're passionate about. Those that will resonate with will love it, those that are not at that level will not, and that's okay.

I was a hardcore Atheist for 30 years, ever since I was a little kid. I even wrote papers on the subject. Then one day I took 6 gms of mushrooms and had an Awakening. I immediately threw out all my work, and never looked back. Been on the Spiritual path ever since.

Once the illusion of self and reality is not present, there is still Consciousness. Consciousness is God. Consciousness is self-knowing. Awareness.

Being does not require thought. Meditation is being without thought. God is infinite Being.

Another thing one can do is accept that it's all you. Existence is = to Being, which is = Now, which is = to Consciousness, which is all there is. Everything experienced happens within Consciousness. Consciousness is God creating itself, out of nothing, to appear to be this reality experiencing itself through a first-person perspective. And makes itself think that there is more outside of direct experience, and that everything within direct experience is all separate, even though it's all one thing: Consciousness/Dream/Illusion/God/You. If you don't resist Solipsism, you accept that it's all you. There is no separation to anything. Everyone you love is you. That's unity. That's real love. That separation is the disconnect you feel with everyone. Unity is the real deal love.

Yep, you let yourself fall back asleep. You can be a lucid dreamer, aware that it's all your dream and none of it matters at all, or you can make yourself forget and enjoy it all as if it's all real. It's all your choice.

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.