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Yeah, we're both punching a bit above our weight, but it seems like a fair description. No more epistemic attitudes one way or another.

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#4 - End Of Seekerdom: Truth is that which seeks. All direct experience and conceptual knowledge is equally dreamstuff and transient. Everything is just what it is, which is pretend. There was never an individual. All hierarchy and comparison collapses, one thing isn't better or worse than another, seeking is a thought, and infinite intelligence runs the show.

I think you mentioned in one of your videos that you intend to do a video on self-love. If you only ever did one more actualized.org episode, I think it should be about this. It is so foundational and impactful. If there's one thing that everyone in the world could stand to learn, I'd say it's this. And if nobody ever learned anything else but this, it would be enough.

You can't trust direct experience, you can only trust what you are. You can't actually know anything, except that truth exists and you are it.

Yeah... no.

Chuck Norris. It is known.

Not logically but empirically/experimentally. Well, much of it makes logical sense too, or at least once you understand that reality is consciousness then these kinds of possibilities open up for consideration. But if indeed they turn out to be true, then it wouldn't be conceptual but actual, wouldn't it? So it means that there must be other reasons why you're not seeing it yet. In other words the problem isn't necessarily with logic, but with it not being grounded in reality. And you already know or at least suspect that reality may not be as it seems, even can't be. So you can't get there from where you are now, i.e. by building on top of what you think you have. You have to start fresh. And that means dropping old baggage and back to the drawing board. So that takes at least a switch to a primary reliance on observation, particularly of yourself and your life, and your own subjective experience. Other things flow naturally from that, such as contemplation, re-evaluation, re-contextualization, purification, integration, etc. in other words the usual "work" to discover these things for yourself and address any obstacles to it. That's the whole point of it, and why you'd want to. But it all starts with observation. Makes sense too, if only consciousness exists. But even in the materialist paradigm, your neurological/psychosomatic/bodymind system needs good, proper feedback in order to learn and correct itself. Hence observation. Impartial, unpolluted, honest, direct. So you can't just stay in your head, because then it becomes a closed system and self-reinforcing echo chamber. Starting fresh also means looking with fresh eyes. Meanwhile it's entirely possible that you just need to be angry at god or existence or whatever for a while. Or at least, if anger comes up, that you don't repress it. So-called purification involves dredging up and flushing out emotional baggage that we've turned away from all our lives. What it is doesn't matter, only that it's there. All that crap stuck in there is the main obstacle to clarity, and the only reason we carry it with us all our lives is because we actively avoid any and all confrontation with it. Have you read Jed McKenna's books? If you are of an intellectual bent, as I am, then you might like them.

@Nemo28 it means "Vast emptiness, nothing holy." -- Bodhidharma

I mean if everything you know is already completely original, then what makes you think it stops there...

You'll find countless more apparent paradoxes like that when you insist on reconciling the dream with truth.

Cheers, already found it. ?

@zeroISinfinity The point is to make useful distinctions for the point of view from which OP's question originates. Not about "getting it right", you can't get it right nor could you convey it anyway.

Careful not to anthropomorphize God. It's easy to fall for when speaking about consciousness in those terms. Also careful not to project our own limited notions onto consciousness. We only know "caring" in terms of being emotionally invested in something, which only a self can do. That's pretty much what a self is. That is survival in a nutshell. Consciousness is not and can not be emotionally invested in anything (except as a limited self). If hypothetically it were, then it wouldn't be unconditional. It has no skin in the game, and to have that would be limiting. That's what is meant by "the high indifference". It's not indifference as a person, but as your true nature. It's not indifferent as in a "pfff I don't give a fuck" attitude, but as in undifferentiated. Emotional investment is (the illusion of) differentiation, is attachment, and is what powers delusion and devilry. Ego wants to be important, and it's just not, or at least not in the way that it wants to think of itself. And that's a good thing. "Act but don't reflect on the fruit of the act" means not being invested in outcomes, which ties back into surrender. From the ego point of view that just sounds like not giving a shit. All the ego can do is care or not care, and to care is actually a false pretense when you really look at it. Just like everything else in the dream. But what ego can't understand is that when it gets out of the way, something much better takes over as it were, and that's the Good News.

Mew....

Sappy smooch monster out to get you

That then still means there is nothing inherent in the ritual itself. As with everything, it's all about intention. Without that it's literally just empty gestures.

@peachboy All the colors that you have seen before, were made up by God. Not only colors but everything around you is totally original.

I think this is a important distinction to make: "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise, seek what they sought." -- Basho

Proof that the emotional charge of a memory is not inherent in the memory, but something that we create in the moment of remembering. ? Which is proof that our own suffering is subconsciously self-inflicted. What it also is, is an invitation to apply this realization in other parts of your life, where may not have percolated through yet. Indeed, you might say it is a gift from yourself (God) to yourself, showing you the way forward. Haven't you felt stuck lately? And haven't you asked for a way forward? So then... maybe what this is, is an indication that you have always been manifesting your own path as a collaborative effort with your "higher self". And that you always get what you need when you need it. That's what co-creation means. Surrender and trust don't just happen. They happen as you open your eyes and observe the way things really work, and that it's been you all along.

@Patrick Lynam They're not too different, I'd say. It's not really healing, it's the removal of energetic blocks. Those blocks contain some kind of trauma, so in that sense it feels like healing. But nothing is mended as such, rather something releases. And these blocks go hand in hand with certain views, biases, opinions, beliefs, whatever. Something associated with that particular trauma. So when it's gone, your views about it are bound to change accordingly, something clicks, and we call that insight. I don't see why that couldn't happen through dreams. Sounds like it did for you.

@Litaken If it's a room then it has an exit Difference between lucid/awake and enlightened/truth realized. Difference between the projector in the theatre and the sun outside. "Truth hath no confines."