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@trenton this is normal do not shun it. You think that you are not sticking to who you are when you allow outside influences to come in. But in the Absolute sense, others, or what is outside, are you. So really your identity is just shifting and morphing. It's OK if you allow it - it is in fact how you grow. If you were not stimulated by your surroundings you could never change or grow. You would only remain what you were. Even when one formulates worldviews they are influenced. We are all influenced and that is how we develop into what we are. The key is to think for yourself. If someone in your inner circle says God exists, and you have not become directly conscious of it - then God doesn't exist for you. Likewise if your buddy says basketball is amazing- you may be intrigued by this but do not take as a belief or that it is true. Really experience basketball for yourself and then come back and let everyone know. Outside influence cannot replace direct experience.

Saunas are amazing for spiritual awakening- but follow up with ice cold showers. It shocks the system and triggers kundalini.

Great advice! Highly recommend followed by cold showers.

Precisely --- There's no higher or lower here. If you choose not to embrace mortal life after realizing God that is your choice. If you choose to embrace mortality that is attachment to your finite form. And that too is OK. It doesn't make you less advanced. Embracing finite form after God realization as @GreenWoods mentioned is detached attachment. Yet I will take this a step farther and say it's OK to be selfish and want to survive in your current form. This doesn't male you less advanced then the dude who does masamadhi. And nor does it make you more advanced even though Coral or this phase comes after enlightenment or Turquoise. It is just one who likes his form, is comfortable in his own skin, and wishes it to last. He knows it cannot last. But he loves the game

In order to become God one must shatter the illusion. It's a mask, and you take it off.

Yes

@Phil King yes. When you are cosplaying you are cosplaying. But you are awake. Lucid dreaming is a nice way to frame it.

@Edvardas something and nothing are identical- that's what you are missing. So, Love is something (everything, in fact because it is reality itself, yet still nothing simultaneously. The essence of Mind is nothing - it exists nowhere. It may all be tied into what your current paradigm of reality is but when you realize everything is One and Infinity, you realize that nothing and everything must sit on top of each other - not in two separate places. Only an awakening will do as you must become the Oneness not conceptualize it.

@Kalki Avatar not sure @Meta-Man would agree

Yes you are 100% correct. Congrats on your awakening. Welcome to the dream.

All it takes is a shift in Consciousness to realize that you are God dreaming everything into existence and all exists within your own Mind. However to the ego this wil be insanity because sanity itself is the ego's ability to maintain a separation between itself and other. That is what it is or what it's identity is. If you collapse self and other it is pure insanity for the ego. That's why no one wants to go there and why it's such taboo. But when you truly awaken from the dream you do realize that you are all that exists.

@GreenWoods nice insights. Yes I would equate this more as natural human development. Before enlightenment, chop wood carry water. After enlightenment chop wood carry water - only reality has been recontexualized now. Also I tend to agree with your views on Turquoise and Coral - I tend to also equate Turquoise with becoming a mystic - and Coral with your pendulum swinging back towards this human existence- and not shunning the beauty of mortality itself (not shunning attachments but embracing them, for example). I include choosing to be selfish here as well, though you are conscious of it at a deep level. As well as to realize things like that there is both no self and self simultaneously. And yes - some great insights. What you are presently conscious of is what is. Or you can say reality is an Absolute Relativity. The only thing Absolute is that it is 100% relative. Good stuff. As you mentioned this is basic human development and really requires no labeling or stages unless you just want to zoom out and look at it. But as a human I think it's important not to get caught up with "stages" because then that becomes some type of ego thing. Also, since reality is 100% relative, it of course means that human development is also relative - i.e some Individuals may never become mystics or never access a state of God Consciousness - and that is perfectly fine. Good stuff!

It does this via Mind. Mind is Infinity. Infinity is everything which is simultaneously nothing. All it has to do is create the illusion of physicality - which it does because nothing permeates through the physical world (rendering it Mind or a dream) So yes it is thus Omniscient and Omnipotent simultaneously.

Indeed ?

Point is that even the distinction between ego and God shall blurr. Oneness shatters all separation until there is none. There is only total unity. There is Infinity.

The You that thinks of you as you is You and will know it.

Oh you'll know it ?

The idea of you dies. You were just an idea.

All distinctions ultimately break down when you get to the root of reality. There is no difference between real and imaginary or existing and non existing. You create the distinction between a physical "real" world and the world within your mind. Why can't reality be exactly like your dreams at night ? Why can't that be the structure or metaphysical nature?

Everything. The distinction between imaginary and existence, or real and Imaginary, is in fact Imaginary. It exists as long as you believe it exists. There are no distinctions at the Absolute level because reality is groundless.

Because reality is made of mind not material.

The problem is you are making the distinction that properties exist in the "physical" or objective world. And that the world of imagination is not real Yet there is no such distinction. Imagination and reality is a duality. Imagination and reality are actually one thing. So "properties" are relative to what you describe. Properties could easily be something you are imagining - if we accept that imagination and reality are the same...

You got it. You are even judging suffering. You can even judge judging. You can go meta and then go meta on being meta. That's not what will set you free. What will set you free is realizing you are finite and have bias. What you are speaking of is bias. And bias is so that you can survive. It's OK to want to survive and have bias and I think that's where you are going. There is no need to judge survival. In other words, don't judge judging. It's OK to judge.

@Raptorsin7 another thing. Suffering is not evil and it is not bad. Only the ego mind puts that label on suffering. There is nothing wrong with suffering. Being mortal is to suffer and to suffer is the point of being mortal. Don't demonize it. Suffering actualy grows you and brings you closer to God when you don't judge it.