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So there's a chance Crysty may have an awakening experience? Crysty the enlightened one..i like the sound of that.

@traveler Yes...its insane..as the Godhead duality and non-duality are One and are happening simultaneously - kind of as they are now accept you are God's mind not the ego. And only certain things will be revealed at a time usually. Otherwise it's much too much to take back to the finite mind at once. There is also the realization of Oneness in which you literally take God's perspective in form and can see that all of this is in your mind and everything and everyone is you. That was some terrifying but beautiful stuff.

The Godhead.

Ralston understands that duality and non-duality are One...he came full circle. Saw that in a video posted in this forum...Winter was only teaching non-duality and dismissing everything else...including Love....as far as Ralston and Love i started The Book of not Knowing but it was after my awakening so i closed it after first few chapters because he said if you are awake already then you can close this book i didn't read Genius of Being. From what i do know he doesnt speak much about Love aspect if any but i haven't seen him dismiss either...thoughts?

@Nahm was who?

Lies are an interesting thing. Because they are in the realm of the relative - truth with a lowercase t vs falsehood is a duality..and as we know all dualities are relative. If a person actually believes their own lie is it still a lie? Isn't truth vs falsehood something we make up? Interesting questions to ponder...

@dimitri it wasn't that. It was that he was not only not teaching certain facets of Truth but he was openly dismissing them as not Truth.

That's a lie. Jk

@ROOBIO very elegantly stated. You nailed it my friend. But knowing it in concept is one thing - collapsing all that there is...leaving only you as the present moment..well that is quite another

This is definitely what happens but i would say its not so much a yearning for God because you know you are God - but it's from the sheer magnitude of infinite Love and the awe of being God. It's too much.

@theking00 if you don't even embrace relative love you won't have a chance of ever realizing that you are the Absolute - even if you stuffed yourself with DMT for a decade.

I understand your point. That's why dualities are created - like war and peace. Or love and hate. Because the realm of the relative is dualistic and finite. But when you collapse all duality you are left with isness.. and isness is synonymous with Absolute Love - (a fundamental facet of the Absolute) not relative Love. So yes to call isness relative love (lowercase l) would be true but a partial truth - incomplete and therefore in a sense false.

Indeed it is a catch 22. By surviving as you, God is Being.

Once you wake up you will understand. Right now to you Love is still a concept. Absolute Love is something different. What would reality be if it wasn't Love? It would be dumb and dry. Remember that you / God are Infinitely intelligent. When you are infinitely intelligent you need to go beyond understanding - you need to feel and be what you are in order to fully know it. That is Love. Think about what a universe would be if it wasn't Infinite Love and Infinite Intelligence? It simply couldn't be. If it was a dumb, feelingless clockwork universe then guess what? We would be looking for its source - as scientists are still doing today.

Love it.

@ethanb121 have you even given meditation a chance? Also everyone is unique and everyone's experience is different so you can't even trust other people's advice on this. It will be unique to them. It is kinda pointless to ask. If you absolutely were set on pyschedelics you would probably wanna start with something much more entry level and at a low dose to see how you reacted. But like Leo said you are doing it at your own risk because you could have a very bad trip. To me i would at least give normal meditation a chance for at least a year and do it hardcore leveraging all techniques. And here's a thought: Do your self inquiry as you taper off because your consciousness states will be changing during the taper and maybe something will click!

@Jkris

You should do both.

Let me ask you this - when doing your self inquiry and meditation techniques do you feel Kundalini type energy moving within you? If not you may need to do certain techniques to open you up such as kriya yoga. The biggest barrier may be opening your heart chakra which will release a flood of this energy which is actually Love and allow you to ultimately awaken.

Yes self inquiry can do it. You become the Absolute - the formless - so experience is just a relative word that we give it as it cannot be captured with language. Or you can say it's not an experience of the ego it is experience as in raw Being. It will be pure bliss which is where the Love part comes in.

@nowimhere try to find out what you currently identify with most -- and eliminate that - for some people it's the body..for others it's the soul...i was most strongly identified with this idea of a soul but then i realized i was substituting that as an answer because the answer is that you are actually nowhere and nothing (awareness). I realized the soul was just a concept of the mind. And one day while doing self inquiry it just hit me like a giant epiphany. Don't try to force it because you can't. It will just happen when it happens. But you are on the right track.

@Enlightenment the thing people miss is that Pure Being IS Love itself. it is the very fabric of reality.

Took you long enough

@Leo Gura If he is doubting himself that is one thing. But you can't deny that certain donkeys will remain donkeys no matter how many times you press their face to the mirror.

@Phoenixx when God divides itself it divides itself into splinters. Slices of a giant pie. Some are bigger pieces than others. Some slices are big enough to become aware that they are the whole pie. Other slices are just slices.