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    On 11/16/2020 at 9:02 AM, jim123 said:

    If all religions are leading you unto life, then "the way" which leads unto life is not narrow at all.

    90% of people who follow religions don't understand what they're following. It's still pretty narrow.

    I don't understand your logic here. You're basing all of this on a metaphor describing the path as "narrow". It makes no sense to me.

    14 hours ago, jim123 said:

    "Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division: For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

    This is talking about the controversy and disturbance his teachings will bring. It will make conflicts and disturbances between people and divide them. It's not saying that non-duality is false.

    All religious teachings can be dissected like this, and you will notice a pattern, which is that all of them point to non-duality. It's just a matter of being able to interpret the metaphors used.

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    5 minutes ago, jim123 said:

    On Actualized.org you believe in oneness and unity, but Jesus teaches separation and division.

    Jesus also said: "When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then you will enter [the (Father's) domain]."

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    On 11/14/2020 at 11:54 AM, Someone here said:

    But why can't the brain hallucinate stuff while awake? Is it because you are already hallucinating the waking world and you need to shut it off first to switch?

    Well, how would dreaming and being awake at the same time look like? I don't think it is possible since your perspective has to be focused on one of them, so one needs to be shut off first. The closest we can get to such a thing is our thoughts. I am able to have very vivid thoughts. So, for me, thoughts are very similar to dreams actually, but the difference is that you are able to experience them while awake. I have personally seen my thoughts slowly manifest into dreams while I was drifting into sleep, so I am sure there is some sort of connection there. I actually think dreams are just very vivid thoughts, to the point where you start identifying with the characters in there. This would also explain the fact that it is actually impossible to have any inner monologue with yourself while inside a dream. The less associated you become with the waking state, the more easier it becomes to drift into and become a part of your thoughts. You can actually catch this happening while you drift into sleep.

    Teal has a pretty good video on the more metaphysical aspects of dreaming, I think it is pretty accurate based on my experience. 

     

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    1. I believe Deja Vu is in fact stored up memories, usually a memory of a dream. You re-enact a lot of daily things in your dreams and you will often do those things in real life as well, and then remember that memory of doing it in a dream and think "wait, didn't I do this before?" Thing is, dream memories can be very vague and get stored in your subconscious, so when you do something similar you might not even realize it was from a dream and think "woah I swear I've done this before" because it feels so familiar. But, it doesn't necessarily have to be from a dream. So, in conclusion, I think it's a memory you had from before which predicted the future.

    2. Synchronicity is a great reminder that you are in the mind of God right now. It's like a message from the Universe to wake you up. People call it "coincidence" or 'chance" but those words do not invalidate it at all. Probability and coincidence is just the vehicle/mechanism the universe uses to bring its synchronicities to you. It reminds me of how people use the word "placebo" to invalidate certain affects. Like, placebo is literally you healing yourself through the power of your imagination. That's magic right there. If your house burned down in a dream, you would be questioning what it means, not saying "oh it was just probability". << See how foolish it is to do that?

    3. Yeah dreams are pretty crazy. It's a testament to the capabilities of consciousness. There are a lot of mind-bending things like that we take for granted. Dreams are just another unique sensation of consciousness, the same as thoughts, sound, sight, etc. I mean, think about what sound is. It's completely invisible and intangible, yet it can be experienced. How crazy is that? You wouldn't be able to explain that to anyone, they would have to experience it to know it.

     

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    It seems to me that the main point of this excerpt is to teach you about your true nature as pure consciousness, so that you can differentiate it from your relative identity as a "body" or "human".

    It also seems that there is some different terminology being used.  For example, he calls things that are relative "untrue". I'm having trouble understanding some of it, like "food body" and "child consciousness". But, I can see that he is trying to point to the pure everlasting awareness which underlies our conscious experience.

    He does, however, say at the beginning "When the material gets dried up, our consciousness vanishes" which could mean two things:

    1. The word "consciousness" is being used in a way different from how we know it

    2. He actually believes consciousness can vanish

    I don't know enough about him to confirm the above two possibilities. I can see why you're confused.

    EDIT: After reading through his definition of "child consciousness" I think theory number one is right.

    He says "The Absolute state cannot be obtained. It is your state now and always. To the Absolute state the witnessing of the consciousness happens." and he also says that  "You will transcend that beingness, and you, the Absolute, will know that you are also not that beingness, that consciousness."

    Notice that he refers to the eternal state, and then creates a duality between that state and consciousness. I think this confirms his definition of consciousness is different from ours.

     

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    33 minutes ago, Claymoree said:

    Ego does not fade away, you are just no longer identified with it

    It does fade away, because you realize it never existed in the first place. It's a recontextualization. 

    It's like when you walk up to the mirage in the desert and see it vanish. Now, you realize that the water you previously thought to exist was in essence just light-rays bouncing into your eyes, not actual water.

    Similarly, when you realize the ego doesn't actually exist, you see that it was in essence just a thought inside your head, not an actual ego which exists in reality.

     

     

     

     

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    1 minute ago, Claymoree said:

    Don't you perceive identification,

    You perceive the illusion of having an ego, not an actual ego which exists in reality. The ego is just an illusion which is perceived and mistaken for reality. 

    It's like when a kid thinks Santa Clause is real. Santa Clause only exists as a thought, but the kid doesn't know that and mistakes it for something that is actual.

    Or, if you perceive a mirage in a desert, the mirage only exists as an illusion. If it wasn't an illusion, it wouldn't be a mirage. Same goes for ego.

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    Cancel culture is just ego backlash. Might as well ask what the solution to ego backlash is. The answer is self-development, but we live in the dark ages of self-development right now. Napoleon Hill had to hold out on publishing his book Outwitting The Devil for 70+ years because his society was simply not ready for such a discussion, they would have killed him.

  24. Posted · Edited by Osaid

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    Also, exercise is apparently really good for bones too. And caffeine and salt intake can lead to higher calcium loss.