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@Serotoninluv wow That was nicely explained. Thanks! Hopefully I'm on track to find the pointee and not hunting the pointer

i'm no pro but I've got 2 cents. here they are: Awareness = pure knowing. the knowing of the content within your experience including your thoughts Mindfulness = being aware of a specific thing you may want to focus on. also a practice of mindfulness Present Moment = the eternal now as you said in the E.Tolle books. there's only this NOW in which all is accessed, viewed, thought, projected from Meditation = various mind exercises in effort to still / empty the mind. the stillness/emptiness occurs on its own. you cannot "try to still" the mind for example. Concentration = ummm, unsure. i guess strong unbroken attention/focus on a certain object/content in your experience

@CreamCat the way I see it all possibilities are true what gives it truth is merely your belief in it there are those who belief humans were placed on earth from a different planet as slaves to cultivate Gold for them and then overtime, we gained knowledge and freedom from our alien masters and now live here on earth as our home another theory is that of the science of evolution with the life evolving on earth then there is the theory from the bible/quran/religions about adam/eve being placed on earth as the 1st pair of humans and life went on from there ALL ARE POSSIBLE IN ABSOLUTE INFINITY and what gives reality to one out of the these 3 or heck, 100s more theories is mere your belief in it! that's just it so what david ick says, sure it's possible, what someone else says, that too is possible it's all pick and choose really Mandela effect a great way to see this happen at one point in time, the earth was believed to be flat (heck, even now in 2018 many of the people online believe in it, comment about it, 1000s of videos about flat earth) those people have their reasons for believiing in it. a flat earth is also possible in aboslute infinnty. they have models explaining how it can work with a flat earth anyhow. yolo.

yes. it can be quite freaky that's the astral realm that you entered if you can ground yourself in that state, it can be quite fun, it's a whole different universe you can explore and fly about in

This was posted in another thread which is now locked. Posted by @Colin I loved this post. Its got an Amazing message one can use to work on improving life and their selves, and then ultimately towards liberation. Ok so now the other topic. Would an enlightened being to the level of osho, Sadhguru, Ramana , mooji be able to take pshydellics and just witness the "show" as awareness? Unhurt or afraid by even a bad trip because they know they are awareness and can watch thru whatever the content of their field/experience shows "them" Heck, maybe at their level of positivity and love maybe they can't have a bad experience lol So yeah, main thing, is that how they would view it? 5meo, effin 50grams mushrooms or whatever, piece of cake for them?

This entire thing is so powerful and true Wow

Lol may sound ridiculous to a common average person but sounds Normal to me I don't doubt for a second that it felt that way That's epic. Unsure what I would do Especially when u get stuck in that thought that u couldn't wake up And then negative thoughts amplify and cuz ur inna dream state, things manifest quicker Learning to calm ur reaction would be epic Then u can dream some cool stuff too, postive happy stuff

I have seen his videos He was quite big during the YouTube prank videos era And then went on up from there He's far from awakened He's read a bunch of stuff it seems But doesn't apply it Has mad anger issues Was yelling at the guy during an interview and then later said it's love lol But yeah, the move now is good He says he will start meditation n seems like may even do ayshcusa n other stuff too So then he will truly get it I hope he does learn then someone big in public eye will be able to spread the message wide Although with this guys issues, I hope he is fine, seems like his ego backlash maybe hardcore But u never know... 5meO maybe the key

If during meditation I am contemplating some issues or just in general And I get a radically different thought or idea about something How do I know whether it's the ego playing a trick on me to pursue something else which will strengthen it vs if it's a genuine deep insight which will bring me closer to the truth / grow as a person / lose a layer of ego.

Lol awwww that must have been a relief. Good ol' thumb Also, imagine enlightenment as that. When you become lucid in reality. How would you sound to "others" when you tell them life's a dream Also, you would also be afraid n shocked outta ur mind, literally lol Good trail run in the dream Btw, becoming lucid in the dream that long, was it 100% exactly the same as your current waking state? 100%? @MM1988

Trip Trip, Hooray!

@Leo Gura Thank you. Open mindedness and desire for truth deep down, locked in. @Nahm thank you, that pin pointed link of the video helped

@DavidK <3 bless up

yes. your TRUE self always is. it is always present the sleep part. think of it this way if you were able to break your experience frame by frame then sleep would be something like this: (assuming for this example, a dreamless deep-sleep happened) frame 1: you going to bed laying down frame 2: closing your eyes frame 3: waiting for the sleep frame 4: last moment you recall you're awake before the sleep kicks in frame 5: you wake up you see, frame 4 and frame 5 there is no frame in between. last thing you know before going to sleep is when your eyes are closed and then next thing you know you're waking up sure "time" has passed and you feel more energized if you had a good enough sleep but that's just it it's an endless experience without a break since your 1st memory that you remember and going onwards from there, you've always been here, without a pause. and if you dream, then after frame 4, the next frame is the experience of the dream, whatever it is also, know this that you never know when/how/from where you got into the dream. it just is and you just go with the flow and notice how this compares with your own experience of being born... you dont have an experience of being born, you just were "alive" always alive

@FrgttnDeer because it cannot be finite why? some limit has to be imposed on reality to make it finite where would that limit ground itself? there's no limit! and in a different permutation of a universe, where the limit was, then it must also be in whatever reality is... nothing can be outside of it. reality itself is groudless its all the clouds that appear in the infinite sky

there are no coincidences <3

lol wow. now i see the sarcasm once you have said it good one i have this same issue, but in real life haha my level of sarcasm is up a few notches vs most people and they think i am serious when i am dropping a huge sarcastic bomb on them there should be a sarcasm font for the internet how about this

Yesterday during a medi-sit, I became aware of what the NOW is - I still think I am no-where near, but it was more clear and direct than any previous understanding of mine. You know how it is said that whenever you talk about IT or name IT or do anything to try to describe IT, you end up missing IT and whatever you say/do/talk about is then ultimately not IT I understood why this was - the way I saw thru this was imagining that a frame of the NOW could be stilled/paused as if it were a video being played now that paused still "frame" of reality (infinite dimensional frame) is the totality of your experience which occurs in the NOW that paused-frame of experience is WHAT we call ONENESS - for simply relay: it consists of all of your visual+audio+sensory+thoughts+smell field in that ONE single instant of experience and that's all there is to REALITY. and infinite series of these infinite dimensional frames, "flowing" at a certain "rate" (time) it's like a border-less block which can be STILLED moment to moment when we talk about it, or point to something, or imagine something, we are limiting what reality/oneness is to a PART when it's the WHOLE talking about reality which brings in the non-duality is like if someone were to point at their feet-only and say this is what their body is - when in-fact their whole body is what they are - loose example but the ones who know will get it. it's like this image below , the mother/son,sky,clouds,grass,all-else in the picture are mere distinctions - all of IT together is ONE image. IT'S ONE!

@Mikael89 keep in mind. this understanding as to what to look / un-look for during your practices is important Dreams is the best way to understand say if you have a dream in your dream, you are walking/taking/eating etc whatever. your entire body is appearing in a dream, including your brain inside (well, it aint inside there until you look, but let's keep it simple for now ) so just like your body appears in that dream so does a coffee table for example or a car or a bed they all appear in your dream now from your sleeping self POV what are you in that dream? are you the body? are you the land? are you the walls of the room? all of that dream world is appearing in your "brain" - the "brain" which is currently asleep right? so now use that understanding and cancel out the "brain" from the equation and replace it with ONE-LARGE-CONSCIOUSNESS just like how your "brain" may create the dream world the current waking world is created by the "one-large-consciousness" infact, the dream world and the current world are not different in any way while you're dreaming, it seems as real as your current state right now when you're reading this sentence it's only when you wake up it seems like it was all over in a flash just like how it will be when you "die" in this current waking dream your whole life will "instantly flash before your eyes" as you might have heard some people say during close-calls with "death"

notice your assumption that having a complex nervous system is what allows self-awareness @Mikael89

@Shin where do any ideas (stupid or not) come from?

@cetus56 Oh yes! I have seen it. i loved it kinda how Leo says that he had his hand to his mouth while he sat on the couch upon realizing that reality is abolsute infinte that's how i was. in awe of that movie. the sound track and all. amazing hans zimmer and chris nolan - tapping into that creativity deep with in <3 hopefully they give us more mind-gasm for years to come <3 you're right not scientific but it is real!

just watched your video about this topic yesterday the whole system is set up with all the accreditation of peer-reviews and what not and the fact that an enlightened person can never be employed as a director/prof at a uni cuz they would be passed off as a goo-goo-gaa-gaa

oh yes! i use that anaology all the time the WHOLE LIFE DOES infact pass thru their eyes in an instant it is like how we may dream and the dream time lasted a month vs you only slept for 6 hours same thing here except it's the entire life occuring in an instant THere is no such thing as a quick death the gunshot to the head, when it strikes would lead that microsecond real world experinece to be experineced as eternity or whatever the flow of thought/experieince becomes at that point "each soul shall taste death/judgement" <3

@Gazic LOL sure thing! but the probability of them manifesting as the winning numbers won't be very high i'm working on the canadian lotto numbers myself!