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Probably forum was slower back then but nowadays topics can leave the first page in a matter of hours

Well I don't want to encourage them to step up censorship of our posts and threads, because I love the freedom and open-mindedness of this community, but the forum is very active and many good threads get lost... Out of sight and out of mind. It could just be kinda understood that this subforum is related to meditation and consciousness, and people could still post these type threads in that one at their own risk. That way the moderators don't have to worry about the extra work of moving the threads around to the correct forum.

"enlightenment" is an empty label, and a paradoxial word. There is no one to be enlightened, so there is no such thing as enlightenment, unless you like to use that word to describe "____" (God, reality, all that IS, etc.)

Sorry this is off topic, but didn't want to start a new thread... Could we PLEASE have a subforum for these topics: Lucid Dreaming, Alternative Healing, Paranormal, New Age, etc. so they don't keep getting lost in the neverending sea of new threads? Please?

@Cepzeu awesome, I have thought about using affirmations in my own voice but never got around to it. Did you come up with the idea or did you read about it somewhere

marijuana is great for making latent subconscious traumas bubble up to the surface. Great for healing.

Here's another dream video I made... this time you can dream about being in a futuristic space station . Detailed instructions are on the youtube page.

Q:what's beyond infinity? A: absolutely nothing.

Yeah that's funny. Glad the brown bear noticed thoughts of the tree being beautiful in the end. There's hope yet

http://www.spiritofthescripture.com/id4146-the-relationship-of-god-and-the-conscious-i-and-faith.html Loved this article

haha, love it

yeah true, that's definitely an inner hearing. Ok, I was just referring to how we say we "hear our thoughts"

Hear should be another one.. we use it too often when referring to thoughts. Too bad there's not a better word for it, since the word 'hearing' tends to imply something audible, when thoughts aren't audible(unless the body happens to be using to the vocal cords to express the thoughts) There is only awareness of thoughts, as they arise.

I can't think of any right now but it's a good thread so I'm bumping to see what others say. I guess one could be "I know what you mean." Chances are, I don't.

@SoonHei hehe I know... It was a good insight.

honestly it just is what it is. If there's mental masturbation, then that is what is. If the masturbation stops, then that's what is. The mental masturbation just comes and goes, like everything. If you appear to be focusing on the "I AM", then great, that's what is. But if not, that is ok too. Just be, and stop trying to do this and that.

@Matt8800 yes thank goodness

some would say the non-duality is actually expertly hidden, instead of it just being poorly communicated. You have to remember the bible was written for the people of the time, and in their current understanding and culture. And the nondualism is more implied, in teachings like "do unto others as you would have them do unto you", instead of banging the hebrews over the head with it, because they would have never accepted it. Hell, they didn't even accept the watered down version.

Yes, I agree. I'm being too judgemental of the racing thoughts. Still trying to take control... How silly of me

@Leo Gura yeah... unfortunately..

It is very helpful. I'm beginning to see why a quiet mind is so crucial for self inquiry, because inquiry seems to be the simplest thing to 'do', but if the mind doesn't SHUT UP there is too much awareness on the story and not on awareness itself. In my awareness, there are endless trains of thoughts that won't shut the hell up and get out of the way. But I can't do anything about it but accept it. Oh well....

Yep. And an excellent time to learn to surrender, from the nightmarish hallucinations which typically accompany it. The last time I had this, I saw my husband reaching out for me with long, creepy tree-branches for fingers, presumably trying to strangle me. Unfortunately it scared me so much the mind put a wall up against paralysis and haven't experienced it since, even after I learned it can be used as a tool. ??

@Leo Gura yeah that's what I'm getting.... Seems like the most logical explanation once you see there's no doer, but it also falls apart. Any pointers? Where should I look to grasp this? I think right now it's mostly a belief that time is non linear, and maybe that's holding this back. I can explain the illusion of time by merely saying that time implies separation, and there is no separation. The big bang didn't happen billions of years ago, the Big Bang is-- now.... We are the big bang, therefore it is not something that happened, but something that IS. So in a sense I can grasp non linear time but it's still seems to be based on beliefs.

I don't know why sleep - paralysis is often times scary, but that's not even always true, and if you are good at it you can will the hallucination to be something pleasant. I've heard things like it's a fear test for astral projection. As far as I know it is not astral projection itself, but can lead to it, once you surrender to the fear or will it into a pleasant experience. The hallucinations stem from either dream imagery being super - imposed into 'reality', or the entire bedroom is dream imagery and you only think you have partially woken up.

Well, spiderman came and rescued me from a shootout, and then offered me a ride (on his back of course) to school, since I missed the bus. On the way we fought off a full scale nazi like invasion with airships, then arrived at school and ended up being in one of the same classes, which happened to be alchemy class. But no, I've never become a certain superhero although I have swung around on webs or flown like superman. And yes, lucid dreaming is perhaps the best recontextualizers for awakening, and it's absolutely free!