Galyna

@Someone here Cool, let me know, okay? It is one of my fav. Glad I could help. I am reading Sedona when I have time.

@sure Oh my...well thanks for your comment. So this spring I was so aware that it started to pressure me. I could not handle it. I was observing my emotions all the time. I thought I was going insane. It triggered depression, was too much to handle, plus Covid and inability to travel. All my flights were cancelled. Every little detail added to the pot. Then my friends offered a trip. We went on a trip and I lost my awareness, thanks to God. I have forgotten about enlightenment. Then returned back home and went on another trip with the same group of friends again. Returned back home so positive, like I am unstoppable. What helps me to recharge? Well, my university, homework, exercising, travelling, watching YouTube videos about diet, nutrition, make up and fashion. I do not play video games and never did. Arranging dinners at my house where we drink wine and discuss shallow problems with my girl-friends and my guy friends. And definitely meeting new people. I love it. I am very sociable, can not live without interactions. But this should be limited too. I can not have too much of it. Maybe once in a month.. Then, when I am sick of it, I start to search again, looking for new insights. Man! I love to talk to high conscious people, I see it as a growth. So we set up a session with them and then I receive a lot of insights. It helps me to change in a positive way.

Well okay . Read that book, who knows maybe you can come up with a new interesting question that can be eye-opening and we can discuss it here. ❤️

@Someone here Oh, hello, we have not talked for a while, LOL Where is the avatar with the question mark? Hah? Actually, he can! via direct experience Okay guys, I am wrapping up. I will never finish my diploma capstone with this conversation. @justfortoday Have a good one. Thanks for the insights.

We are the same subject, like the same perfume but in different bottles. However, please remember there is no such concept as one day! Time does not exist, space does not exist, everything happens NOW. Reincarnation is not the case, you will not jump to my body. Jumping implies time and space continuum. There is no such thing as "mine or yours" I think the proper way of putting this is: If I am not real, how can others be?

Oh boy, my dear...you are asking a wrong person. I am not in position to answer this question. I've never had a major awakening. However, people on this forum who have, even they did not grasp it fully. I've copied/ pasted everything from that thread. Please read it again, it helped me to integrate my knowledge. It surely looks like solipsism, however I can not explain the paradox. Hey @Leo Gura can you please help us here? "Isn’t this classic SOLIPSISM?" We are stuck. I do not feel that I am a credible source to talk about this matter with newbie. Thank you, hugs

How cool, my old therapist hated to talk about it.

@Jude_ As soon as I have time, I will do my research, some people you've mentioned here are new to my knowledge. Also, I agree that Leo has to teach using Interdisciplinary Studies, which is what he is doing anyway, this way he will integrate the knowledge, because someone should. Information literacy is another aspect. To determine source credibility is hard nowadays, with the dawn of the internet. Information has value but not all information can be applied. I think the biggest plus of his work is strategic exploration. He is good in understanding the scope of the issue and determining the strategy for the needed info. As much others hate Osho, he was the first teacher who opened this door for me, but it is sad that he lost integrity. Anyway, my thought out loud is that any authority is constructed and contexual.

I know, right? ? Glad this thread helped you in some way. Crying is a beautiful thing, because it makes us closer to God, as we become more vulnerable and ego is not on the way. but cry is different. I am talking about cry when realizing this...or at least getting closer to this realization

I hope it will help Have a good one.

"There are no others. Period. It's only you imagining stuff. But awakening is far more radical than simple solipsism." - LG "There is nothing whatsoever outside your present moment. ... If you look very precisely and carefully you will notice that all other people have been your imagination 100% of the time. Even to deny what I'm saying you must imagine a Leo! Notice that you are talking to yourself, not Leo. Awakening is a radical thing. Keep deconstructing your reality." - LG "The very notion of a self or an other is imaginary. People assume that self and other are like fixed quantities in the universe. They are not. Self and other only exist if they are imagined to exist. Think of it this way. Before a painter paints a painting of other people, there is no self or other on the canvas. Other has to be painted to exist. Self has to be painted to exist. Otherwise it's just a single canvas. You are not the painted self, you are the whole canvas." - LG "You imagine that there is a person who imagines you. But actually there is only you imagining others imagining you. When you talk to someone you imagine, you are imagining that person's body too, not just their mind. To put frame it another way, your imagination is so powerful it IS reality! Right now you're still under the dualistic illusion that there is a difference between imagination and reality. As if imagination is somehow inferior or bad. But the difference between reality and imagination is itself something you imagine! This is what allows you/God to create reality out of thin air. Ta-da! Where did all the people you know come from? They were NOT born from biological parents. They were imagined by your mind! If you stop imagining them, they will cease to exist. What makes Awakening very different than classical solipsism is the God part. Classical solipsism has no recognition of self as God. Once you reach God-consciousness, the solipsism stuff becomes pretty irrelevant because you are so amazed at yourself as God." - LG

I am not an enlightened person, I just have an intellectual some incomplete understanding. I am not even in the position to talk about it, but I will just share with you an opinion. Again, it is not really mine, it is what I read and heard from other people. So...others can not live in the parallel universes because it would imply time and space, and something else. Time and space are just illusions and they do not exist. Physical world itself does not exist. Objective reality does not exist. Something that outside of your perception is not real, therefore does not exist. Singularity implies ONE here and now. According to Leo this NOW is everything we have, and there are no other things outside of it. I do not have an expertise to talk about this particular part, maybe other can help. According to what I have learned so far, they do NOT have an internal monologue. There is only one thing and it is you in this HERE and Now. I need to copy and paste what Leo response was to this exact same question.

@The observer Thanks, will definitely do. Running really helps!

Hey guys, I need some assistance. Your feedback will be much appreciated. So, after about two month of depression (April and early May) I have decided to not go that far (here I mean self-inquiry) because I was very depressed. My normal perception had changed. I was scared that if my feelings stay the same, I will commit a suicide (which is very unusual for me). It felt like I was going insane. I was even considered to see a psychiatrist. I was scared and confused. I literally had anxiety and this heavy chest feeling out of nowhere all the time. Then I went on vacay with my friends, lost awareness and it resolved on its own. I kinda let it go...and.... NOW! I have this crazy energy coursing through my body, like I am high, almost on drug. I want to clean my house all the time, to move all the time, to run, dance, I don’t know. Basically, it feels as I am in love (with nobody). It is a bit overwhelming. Physical activity helps me to calm down and when I am tired (after running) I feel like I am at a peaceful state. I am not sure what I am experience. Has somebody experienced similar thing? What to do with this energy?

No family history of bipolar disorder, never had a major depressions in my life, maybe a minor one when was in a puberty.

@Someone here Nope.I wrote "before you were "born" on this forum"? All I meant was that you were a newbie on this forum, that is it. Sorry for the confusion. But hey, read that book, I love it, it is cool.

You are not provoking me. I enjoy conversations like this. Two-three years ago I used to have big dinners at my house at a big table and discuss philosophical things with my friends or at least to provoke people to think. I love this forum, I love people in general. I am an extrovert. I can not imagine my life without interactions. But!!! Have you seen how many times we've discusses solipsism here? A lot, before you were born, , on this forum. Therefore, I told you we could not go that far with this topic. I would rather talk about something else, for example about emotions and their power. Are others real or not? Only meditation and psychedelics will answer this question. We can not ask others about it. I also think you will exhaust yourself one day with this question. I did the same thing. For about a year I was asking my coach if the objective world were real or not, then I hit the wall. Maybe read some books in this case. Then you will have more questions that can be discussed. I do not know if you like to read or not. I love reading. Good book and the ocean in front of me is all I need. My favorite one is this: "You Are Not: Beyond the Three Veils of Consciousness" "Stephen H. Wolinsky, Ph.D. is a direct disciple of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj and lived in India and Asia for more than six and a half years. He has taught Self-Enquiry and Kashmir Shaivism (Tantra) from 1982 to the present."

@Preety_India I do not know whether you asked me or someone else. I do not think it's an OCD in my case.

I am very sorry, you lost me here. What do you mean? You said "it's difficult to make it stop?" You mean energy? Correct?

@Raptorsin7 how cool, I am reading about this right now, I will send you a pic of the page about 9 basic emotions, hope it will help.

@Someone here I promise you I am not annoyed. I feel like I know you already because you are posting about this topic a lot. So maybe put some flower or sunset on your avatar lol, since you are not a guest anymore. Probably I sound rude, sorry if I am, I know I can be...I am just trying to tell you that by discussing solipsism we are not going anywhere, trust me I am in this game for four years. No results so far. Am I enlightened? No! I had some glimpses here and there but I am not even close, intellectually I got it, but not via direct experience. Your questions resemble mine, therefore I’ve quoted you in this topic. But what do you really want, like truly from all your heart? Just having a conversation with other people or receive some experience? We can talk all day long here, but deep inside you won’t be satisfied. Personally, I am not. Even to a point that I wanted to drop all of this, forum, books, meditation and not to think about it for a while, get back to amusement park. But some call within me triggers this curiosity over and over again. So I am patiently waiting for a door to be opened, or at least to see it through the slit. Who knows maybe I will win the lottery ( here I mean I will get some deep experience of oneness) or go to a ceremony to try a psychedelic. But I know for sure it will happen one day! I just don’t know when.

@mandyjw Thank you, dear ??I will research Hick’s work. If I am totally honest, I am still having fun as it is scary to go deeper. I worry about my family, I have attachments. Also I am scared to loose my sanity.