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Yes..i recall that realization for me distinctly because it was probably just as shocking for me if not more.

The same experience can happen with meditation or a spontaneous awakening. We say this all the time here but the you does not awaken. The you is seen to be illusory and falls away leaving Infinity or total Oneness. The realization that you are everything. This can be shocking to the ego and thus it will want no part of awakening because it cannot be..., it literally cannot function when the duality of self vs other collapses- which is why you felt like you were losing your mind. We tell you guys all the time that spirituality is serious business and to be aware of what you are getting into. I'm not going to sit here and blow smoke up your ass and tell you it's all rainbows and butterflies. But this will pass in time and you will also have beautiful, amazing awakenings of Divine Bliss and Love. This too shall pass.

Waking up as God means taking back your authority as God. This is a lot of responsibility. To know directly that you are creating all of reality also allows you to then go back in play in that creation and create your own meaning. You are the source of meaning. See how this works? But again, with that requires taking back your authority as God. It seems to me you aren't ready for this yet or you wouldn't be making this thread. So for now don't worry about enlightenment..I think right now your focus should be ego development no? When you are ready for spirituality you will know.

You are God. If you become absolutely selfless which is your purest form, you will not be able to endure as a distinction which is what you are now. You are partial and finite now but you can become total. This can happen at any age because age is imaginary and you are God dreaming you are a biological self. So the question remains - how bad do you want to live?

No no no...you manifested Leo and all others in order to wake yourself up as God. You are God. That's a powerful epiphany. @King Merk welcome home. Welcome to Infinity.

They are a trigger just like meditation

@Thought Art solid post. Tbey are a tool. If it was a magic pill everyone on this forum would be enlightened by now. There are no magic pills in this work. When God is ready to awaken, God awakens. And it is as simple as that. Ive always said why not leverage all the tools in the toolshed but also do not turn awakening into an egoic goal. Selfishness does not awaken.. Pursue Truth for Truth itself. And be curious.

As @Godishere said its Infinity. It's Nothing. But it's a Nothing that exists. But also realize its all One. Form is formlessness. This is Nothing. This is Infinity.

He is God silly!

Both would have to be true....resulting in paradox. It's everything.

Yep

That's what I have found for myself anyway. I see your point better now. Yeah reality is appearance without substance. The question of if a tree falls in the forest with no one around to be conscious of it does it actually make a sound had always troubled me as a kid...i could intuit even at a young age that it didn't make sense that there could be an objective reality independent of consciousness - or stuff behind the scenes. Then many years later when I stumbled on spirituality it all started coming together.

It is..lol..Well Being isn't constructed it is the structure itself but it is constructing the content you could say. Being is God. God is constructing all of physical reality via imagination. Hence the dream or illusion!

@Tyler Durden its Being. But you can't capture Being via any type of logic because it's prior to rationality. That's why with your question yesterday you wondered why it seems like the present moment is always eluding us. It seems like it's there and gone over and over for eternity. Actually all there is is Being and it's eternal. Being and Consciousness are the same thing. You don't know Being you just become directly conscious of it by being it. Which you could say is a classical satori or enlightenment

I think when it is said here that you are God people can fall into the trap that there ego is all there is and that the ego is the only state of consciousness that there is. While yes, it is God in finite form - (so to say you are not God is not correct either..) it can expand to be Infinite. (Infinite Consciousness or God Consciousness) so God is You means that that you can expand - or better put, the ego state can die or fall away giving rise to Infinite Mind

That's the point. You cannot grasp reality with the ego mind because you ARE it. Which is why all the spiritual teachings tell you to meditate by quieting the mind from all thought and to stop using the mind to capture reality. Your trying to point back at yourself and you can't do it. It's the self reference problem.

You mean the you who is a concept, not God. I was pointing you towards the Absolute and you are speaking in the relative. Relatively yes there is a past. You see? Within the dream there is a you who has a past.

Your imagining that! But yes imagining is reality. So I'm not saying I don't have compassion for the millions of jews who died during the Holacaust. I do. I'm just conscious that I am imagining the entire thing as God. It doesn't mean within the context of the dream you don't imagine it's real - thus collapsing rhe duality between real and imaginary. No, you do because otherwise the dream would end!

Not lying just imagining...I'm pointing you towards waking up from the dream. If you wanna stay in the dream stay in it

Yes. There is just Being or Actuality. (You could say pure experience). There is no you or experiencer. All of that is imaginary or conceptual. Thus there cannot be one who has a past.

Ofcourse. But Consciousness is mystical you cannot pin it down with language so I'm not sure what that has to do with the thread. If your trying to claim that the past happened, I mean..your imagining it or dreaming it up RIGHT NOW. So we are back to that. If you want to say it happened you could say that it was dreamed up but that is not quite right because it implies it was dreamed up in the past. You are dreaming a past right now.

This is hard to swallow but you know what I am going to say about this. And I'm Jewish. . But reality is indeed a Mind. And this is a dream.

Well actually all that exists is what is actual. If I look back at the first word then it exists if I don't it is not actual.

I can see how language starts to quickly break down here because "now" is prior to language or concept/thought. It's something that you ARE or IS (pure Being). @WokeBloke look at it like this..you ARE the now. That is your true nature. Then the "now" begins to imagine it is something that has a past, present and a future. But technically calling it now is just a mere pointer because past present/now and future all fall away when you become the actual now, which is not the now. Lol.

As a finite being you have bias towards some things and not others. If you had zero bias you would be infinite (total Oneness) and selfless. In other words, you as a self would be dead.