Waken

At the moment I'm reading 'Journey of Souls' from Michael Newtown. He writes from his experience about his profession of putting people into trance state and bringing them back to past lifes or lifes in between lifes (the spirit world). I could write you about it, but if you are interested in it, than why don't you read the book yourself? :-) I'm saying because I find the book very beautiful and wouldn't want to have changed it with someone giving some bullet points lol. If you rather have the bullet points though let me know

I once had a similar thing. I would write a word, like 'enlightenment', 'my life', 'I am human', etc. and then I would scratch the word. It felt the idea or the charge around it got a little erased when doing that.

Honestly I find it cringy, and feel he might look back at it and find it a bit cringy too after some years

@Rolo I thought the diagram is to be used on a white background. There's also another diagram that comes with it

From Conversations with God: "Every feeling you've ever had resides in your soul. Your soul is the sum total of all your feelings. It is the repository."

Having a sense of effort and struggle in life is not the indication that you're doing life right. I doubt you'll go very far without having some degree of relaxation and ease. For sure a ramble can't turn your life around, but implementing a ramble can. Yes you get what you give, and so if you have a sense of struggle and effort then what do you get back? So then you want a path where you don't struggle as much but can even enjoy and love your life, and then you get that reflected back. That doesn't mean one can't 'work hard', although when you do something you love you might not phrase it as such I suppose they won't no

Seems like a fine answer to me. So why ask others if you can get such fine answers from yourself? Your life is all for you, you can choose what you want with it. It's for you to decide if angry is something you want to be or not, it's not about it being objectively good or bad. If you want to be more happy for example, than anger won't take you there but being happy will, and vice versa.

What would be your own answer at that question?

Then what you mean by 'there is no answer' is that an answer is only concept. Yet there can be the experience that love is the answer, and that is not concept. I've had for example a moment that my being 'clicked' which came with a certain thought like love is the answer. You think this can only be a thought, and in a sense it is, but everything can allign with that experience or recognition, so in a sense it's all to real. You're thinking in terms of it's this or that, there is an answer, or there isn't an answer and yet it's this and that.

Then how about your answer 'there is no answer'?.. That's a statement too, and not an absence of one.

Could it be you're trying too hard? Trying to do the things you THINK you need to do. Instead, what if you'd tune in to what you actually feel like doing at the moment, or what attracts you? Be more loving towards yourself, struggle less. Maybe if you would feel out what you would actually feel like doing atm, perhaps you would find that you want to relax and play your favorite song, perhaps afterwards you just want to sit quietly for a while, or whatever. Find practices or things you actually feel you want to do, that you feel are good for you.

So what if you would have a big penis tattooed on your forehead? Then I could tell you the same nonsense you tell the OP 'the penis has no meaning, you are the one giving it meaning, stop trying to change the outer things, change only comes from within. Stop being so trivial. What would your parents think of it, they spend a long time looking for a nice tattoo and now you decide to change it'. Why don't you drop that silly arrogance

@freeman194673 Get off that horse and relax would you

@innerchild Just to add my 2 cents to the conversation: You're giving the sense that your parents are manipulating you, that they are messing with your mind. No one can mess with your mind, or influence you like that. It's you aligning with their suggestions, that causes the 'my mind being messed with'. You not accepting what they send out to you, and you won't be affected. That being said, definitely do get the hell out of there and follow your sense of passion

Listen to Bashar's 'following your excitement' ramble. I don't know Leo's course, but I'm pretty positive that Bashar's way is a much more intelligent and struggle-less approach. Not trying to diminish the life purpose course, but want to save you some effort and struggle

@knakoo Thanks for the links man, that's amazing stuff. I've experimented in the past with the Monroe Institute and Hemi Sync, but IAwaken is something else again that I didn't know. I played the Infiity song and it feels very powerful. I'll be happy checking it all out:-)

I've had quite a learning process in whether to help people or not, and still more to learn in it. More often than not the right thing in my case anyway seems to be to not offer help. Asking if you can offer help is okay, but then respecting the answer is important. You just being you, not trying to change anybody, can in and of itself already be the best thing at times you can do for another. It can give the other the opportunity to align with that, and be authentic and relaxed, or not

I asked someone who is teaching me some processes about psychedelic usage, and I'd like to share what he mentioned. I don't believe he knows the ins and outs of it, he's not an expert in it, doesn't have mystical insight in it, perhaps never used it himself and what he shared might just be passed down information and/or partly his own thoughts. I said that to get it out in front, so it doesn't need to be repeated for a variety of reasons. It wasn't a long talk on it, but maybe it adds something useful for people who don't know it's safe to use psychedelics and to what extent they can be a tool for liberation. He has worked under Kaleshwar, who was quite a powerful master/guru. The focus on the processes he knows are of an energetic nature, involving lots of mantra-based practices, working with the 5 elements and such. Okay this is basically what I remember him saying in a nutshell: If you are in a depression or something, sure you can use it to get yourself out of it. You're trying to meditate and it's not working, you're not in a good mental space and you feel that for example lighting a joint or microdosing helps you, okay do it, it's fine. I don't think these things will cause you much damage. However you don't want to be dependent on them and if you can do without them, I would do without them. If you come into high experiences, you'll know that no doubt that psychedelics can not take you there. It doesn't compare. You must do it yourself, it must be authentic, it must be your own energy doing it/getting you there, not the energy from the psychedelic (I think that last part is what he said/meant). In certain (high level) processes psychedelics are/can be used to balance the energies of the elements (referring to the 5 elements, I don't know what he meant by balancing it exactly). For example, Neem Karoli Baba (not sure if this was the guru he mentioned, or that he mentioned another one) used to smoke cooled down lava through a metallic pipe (something like this, don't remember exactly) to balance or heal something. But he knew what he was doing, he wouldn't do it a lot. In general don't use them if you don't have too. Again, no need to hold him as an expert on it. But I like to share, as it's information I would liked to have known myself.

Of course it doesn't literally make sense, I know that too. But now you just analyze it in literal way, instead of responding to what he meant. I could also say that you literally are meditation and yoga, so notions like 'I also practise meditation and yoga pretty relentlessly' lose all meaning, because how could you practise yourself. That last line is good advice, already stopped trusting them for a while though Hi thanks, could you expand on what you mean? What's the error in his message? Sure, you can't make a distinction between tripping and 'real life' in that sense, but I don't see how you could deduce from that that everything that is possible using a sober state has to be the same with the use of psychedelics.

Just giving my thoughts on some of your questions, as I don't know the answer to all of them. If you're interested in breathwork, you might want to check out https://breathworkonline.com/workshops/ I found Michael online sessions amazing. You could do just a couple online sessions, and try it on your own afterwards, or get a subscription so you can just do as much as you want for 48 bucks or something per month. You might find these sessions a lot more powerful, pleasant and fun when doing them from Michael with a group than the Shamanic Breathing. Okay you notice stuck emotions within yourself. You do not need to know where an emotion is coming from to heal or release it. I used to practice a lot on focusing on emotions and dissolving them that way. That however was way too time-consuming and not effective enough. When an emotions comes up, I feel it and be with it, otherwise, I leave it and do some processes. Of course there are many ways to go at releasing emotions, as that's pretty much what all processes are for. You probably want a good consistent practice for healing oneself, and there are many many that do just that, for example Isha center has good ones, or the breathwork is also good, or whatever else. I wouldn't take awakening Kundalini as a goal, but then rather to heal oneself. Pranayama is a good practice I'm pretty sure, it will heal you and get you in a good energetic state. I don't know a lot about it though. I would do a practice that resonates with you. Lately I'm doing certain mantra-based practices which I love and am going deep with.

@Jude_ I just stumbled upon this video: It's the same content of the book I wrote about. This guy is the proof that LSD can be a real way towards enlightenment. I find his descriptions absolutely beautiful, wonderful wonderful wonderful His experiences on LSD have been for about half of all his sessions about grueling cleansing. @Leo Gura "Yes, of course states are not stages. I have never claimed they were. I don't claim to have reached the highest stages, but only the highest states." watch the video above from 38:00 to 40:30 if it interest you. It's about him sharing how he came to understand or think that there is no highest state. Not saying there isn't because he says so, because idk

@Jude_ Nice message, I enjoyed it Maybe you'd be interested to know about Christopher M. Bache, who wrote LSD and the Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven. The guy took 73 very high LSD doses over the course of 20 years. He purified lots and lots and went deeper than he ever had thought possible, and then further and further. He stopped after 20 years as he felt it was enough. While meditating he heard from Spirit '20 years in, 20 years off' meaning he should be off LSD for 20 years. Christopher mentioned though (after his 20 years) that he felt that even 20 years wasn't enough to integrate it all. Now I don't know about Leo's, but perhaps he'll naturally reach a point where he feels like he has enough, when his system says it's enough. Idk. I have some doubts that if there is genuine passion, someone could be lead astray by it. Then I don't know if Leo acts out of genuine passion in contradiction to anxiety I've become a little cautious of psychedelics myself partly because I've heard that they can clog up ones system, and can result in one losing the consciousness that he/she was intending to acquire with them over time.

You experience what you know. If you want knowing to mean the same as being aware, then go at it. By your definition, everybody knows they are the unchanging then. Yet ask someone on the street and they won't have a clue. Not wanting to talk further though, so last post here Oops

Sure, in a sense. I said knowing the unchanging, which is about experiencing consciously.

That doesn't contradict that 'true' feelings (not the feelings that are result from thought) can be (one of the) guides in life. True feelings never lead one astray. Truth itself, can communicate with feelings. Not listening to that, or acknowledging the role and value these feelings have, I would say involves 'denial' on some level. Go and be with the unchanging, not listening to your feelings, and see how far you get. Yes if you want to know the unchanging, and you can dive straight into the unchanging then go right at it. But that's not the case for most, and life involves more then being with the unchanging