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  1. Posted

    In my opinion there are:

    Sentient beings who also have the capacity to feel emotions, like humans and animals.

    Sentient beings without the capacity to feel emotions, like ensouled robots like the gray ET's, or higher dimensional beings like some dragons, etc.

    Semi-sentient beings with spirituality like trees, rocks, insects, etc. They are part of a collective and are sentient and spiritual in their higher dimensional existence.

    Non-sentient, dead objects without spirituality like computers, processed materials and robots. They may be part of God's creation/extension, but they are not like God, they can't feel love.

  2. Posted

    A quote from a good non-duality  teacher (Artem Boytsov) on enlightenment and psychology:

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    Enlightenment is the cessation of the dreaming activity of the mind. Dreaming is the capacity of the human mind to imagine something that doesn’t exist in reality, and believe its existence. Dreaming is the source of all human suffering, it is the source of all fear, misery, anxiety, sadness and all psychological pain and sorrow. It’s also the source of all aggression and violence (except self-defense), irrationality, cruelty and abuse.

    Dreaming is what human psychology is based upon, and it’s also the source of confirmation bias and a variety of other psychological phenomena. Psychology as a discipline is basically a study of the human being’s dreaming mind. Which is why it’s kinda moot as a field of study (compared to, say, physics) - because even though the deeper layers of humans’ dreaming are universal (ideas of God, death, universal human emotions of guilt and shame), outer layers of dreaming are quite unique, and there’s no limit to their uniqueness, example being multiple personality disorder and all other psychiatric disorders. The capacity of human imagination, strictly speaking, knows no bounds.

    Contrary to the popular belief, enlightenment has nothing to do with thought, and has everything to do with emotion.

     

  3. Posted · Edited by Seraphim

    On 2022-06-23 at 3:22 AM, GreenWoods said:

    The difference (in potency of transmissions) between low vs high void dimension is a lot bigger than the difference between recorded YouTube transmissions vs live transmissions.

    Yes, I only listen to recorded transmissions and the energy can be stronger than, for example, live RASA transmissions. However, some people do not feel anything, even after having meditated with the transmissions more than 1000 hours.

    On 2022-06-23 at 3:22 AM, GreenWoods said:

    Does anyone have any other tips for increasing energetic sensitivity and making transmissions stronger?

    The practices for developing one's intuition/psychic abilities should also make the transmissions stronger. Doing shadow work to get more inner purity should also work. As for making the effects of the transmissions better, contemplation on spiritual/non-duality truths is a great method. Or visualizing/imagining the result you want while meditating with the transmission, I know someone who achieved incredible things with this method.

    On 2022-06-23 at 3:22 AM, GreenWoods said:

    And the things I mentioned, do they make a difference for you too, or do they only affect me in this way? Curious to know.

    Yes, presence and surrender works for me. It makes sense that sitting cross-legged works, then the energy does not move down into the earth so easily, it stays in your body. For the types of transmissions I listen to, it is better to have the feet firmly on the ground because with that strong energy, some people sometimes get headaches, dizziness or negative emotions if too much energy builds up.

  4. Posted · Edited by Seraphim

    1 hour ago, The0Self said:

    A saint sees all as pure and benevolent. Bentinho is highly consciousness. But one of the ones I listed was not only simply awake, but very advanced with powers and such -- Rob Burbea. Go to dharmaseed and listen to his talks on soulmaking and jhanas. You might be surprised.

    Okay then I will check out his teachings. Maybe he is what one may define as a saint, I love people like that. However, Avatars are on a different level, they are born that way and their purpose is to bring great blessings to humanity.

    Nirmala Devi (1923 - 2011) did a global initiation 1995 that activated the kundalini of all humans, making it much easier for people to raise their kundalini to the crown chakra, and since then a lot more people have started awakening. I think she was an avatar. Her Sahaja Yoga still lives on, she never charged money for her satsangs or services, and she awakened many atheists because during Sahaja Yoga one feels the presence of Divine Mother physically.

    She is one example, there are others. Spirituality is my passion and I have done a lot of research into teachers, teachings, spiritual traditions etc. There are living saints and avatars for sure because there is a global awakening happening right now and we need their assistance.

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    27 minutes ago, The0Self said:

    Rob Burbea

    Bernadette Roberts

     

    Alive:

    Adyashanti

    Angelo Dilullo MD

    No, it is unlikely that a non-duality teacher would be an avatar.  Non-duality teachers are like normal people, they do not have any spiritual powers or strong auras. You probably do not believe in the existence of Avatars, which is fine, but then you should not have commented. The most evolved spiritual teachers I have seen have never been non-duality teachers, because when you evolve further you begin to get information and teachings from within, and the non-duality awakening is just the beginning, so the highly evolved teachers will have more unique teachings.

    @Arthogaan No, he seems like the complete opposite of a saint. Saints are pure and benevolent.

  6. Posted

    14 minutes ago, Blackhawk said:

    There's just one thing which you are missing..: That the non-duality stuff is concepts and beliefs too. (Which is pretending to not be that).

    Hello. Wake up.

    Like believing that there is no duality, or that there is an I-thought, or that dropping one's concepts will lead to liberation? Are those the types of beliefs you have in mind? Those "beliefs" come from my direct experience and investigations of reality, they are not causing me any psychological suffering and are similar to believing that there are trees and cars and houses. It is very different from believing in things that are not really there, like the false Self or the Mind.

  7. Posted

    4 minutes ago, Blackhawk said:

    Great. Sounds all good and nice, but that doesn't convince me.

    I guess a selling point for non-duality teachings is that since it is all about dropping the concepts and beliefs you won't commit to any beliefs that could later turn out to be false. So it is the safest path for people who are skeptical and rational. To intend to believe for the rest of your life that you are a Mind in a human body or whatever it is that you believe you are, is a big commitment, it would be unfortunate if you spent your whole life believing in a lie, right? 

  9. Posted

    4 minutes ago, Blackhawk said:

    It's me. It's self-evident/undeniable, to me.

    Your body and soul are real, however if you (the human) tries to find a real, objective Self or Mind within you, all you will find are thoughts, and in the center of those thoughts is the I-thought, the Self and the Mind are distortions created by the I-thought, they are not real. So you are not who you think you are, you are reality itself, you are beyond the mind.

  10. Posted · Edited by Seraphim

    6 hours ago, VeganAwake said:

    The shocking and ridiculous part about this whole conceptual framework is that all these beliefs are stemming from nothing other than an illusory separate sense of self which truly believes it's real and can Hopefully figure out a way to escape death.

    And the cosmic joke is that there Already isn't a real living separate self.....it's an illusion!

    This illusory self lives in a reality where HOPE is it's only salvation.

    ❤

    Yes, there is not a separate self: the self is one with everything, it is not separate. The "no-self"-teaching does not say that you are not a human, but that seems to be how you and some other misguided neo-advaita-people interpret it. In Buddhism, it is a teaching of oneness or sometimes about non-doership. In non-duality, it is a teaching to help us see the ego/I-thought clearly and get rid of it through self-inquiry. Once the I-thought is gone, the teaching is no longer relevant or true, because then you are just a simple human again who has let go of all concepts because the truth is beyond the mind.

     

  11. Posted · Edited by Seraphim

    2 hours ago, Salvijus said:

    I've heard that some chose instead of creating their own energetic container, to merge with a deity or an ascended master like Jesus (some gnostics try this i think). Basicly the same thing but different container for the soul.

    Yes, I think the most common is to merge with our sun, historically at least. However, I am not sure if they lost their individuality and became the sun or as a way to empower themselves and "ascend". According to an alternative historical theory, some of the ancient Egyptian mystery schools would have their students awaken their kundalini, cultivating bliss and then lucid dream together as a group and enter the sun. An awakened kundalini, bliss and a harmonious lifestyle will reverse the body's entropy and give it energy (cold plasma).

    @GreenWoods I have studied Dan Winter's teachings and they align with the information you shared here, he adds the scientific explanations for all this, he also invented an equation for how gravity works which I think will get accepted by the scientific world soon and create a bridge between science and spirituality.

     

  12. Posted

    Does it feel like you exist in the head, behind the eyes, looking out at the world through the eyes?

    If you have dissolved that, then the next step is to dissolve the mind, not the thoughts but the "frame" that surrounds the thoughts, the subtle feeling of having a mind. When the mind is gone things will be very clear, simple and perfect, the seeking will end and the spiritual concepts will not matter anymore because you see that the truth is beyond the mind.

  13. Posted

    Everything feels perfect. There is no resistance, however things can feel annoying, boring, etc, but there is no resistance to it and it doesn't feel like a problem so it still feels perfect. A very stable happiness, and lots of joy and bliss. Less fear. My relationships are good, no problems.

    I have more interest in living, being a human, I am life, I am light, I want to live and follow my true purpose which comes from the soul, sometimes it feels blissful to say something, to touch things, to walk or sit down, normal everyday things like that are amazing. Following my intuition is the most important thing.

  16. Posted

    36 minutes ago, machiavelli said:

    He claims that non-duality can contain experience of two-ness, threeness, or four-ness and so on.

    Idk but it all sounds completely opposite of teaching of non-duality. And what all teachers on earth are teaching. This is first time I am hearing something like this. Have anybody saw this video disproving solipsist?

    The existence of many beings with their own experience doesn't contradict non-duality because their experience and existence are made of consciousness and exists within a larger universal consciousness, nothing is separate from the larger consciousness so there is no duality.

  17. Posted

    29 minutes ago, Adodd said:

    @Seraphim

    I have never heard of that but the description I found sounds pretty spot on only it doesnt feel disturbing at all when it happens. Feels more neutral and I cant imagine it becoming any kind of problematic situation. Also says that it happens mostly in teens and very early 20s. My behavior also doesnt change at all when this happens but it does seem very non-personal(if thats a word.) But i could be wrong. 

    Have you had episodes of Depersonalization-derealization disorder?

    No I haven't. But if it doesn't cause you any problems then it is not a disorder, it's just a feeling/sensation, so don't worry about it :) 

    If I understand it correctly, this is the difference between the two:

    Depersonalization: Feeling that you're observing yourself from outside your body.

    Non-doership: The sense of self that used to be located in the head behind the eyes is gone.

     

  19. Posted

    Yea that seems similar to what I see/feel. Everything I see is glowing or radiating a oneness-feeling, it makes everything seem good, kind, benevolent, like it is saying "I love you, we are one". This sight appeared when I looked out the window and contemplated on the idea that everything is the Self, suddenly I could see it, and it felt quite overwhelming at first, it can feel trippy sometimes but in a good way. I have never taken psychedelics so I'm sure this can happen to anyone if they are interested in these things and contemplate on it, I did receive a spiritual transmission the day before it happened though so maybe that contributed. 

  20. Posted

    15 hours ago, CaptainBobbyOlsen said:

    @Seraphim Cool article :)

    You say there is no narrative and incessent thinking going on now, but did you have that before “no-mind”? And was there an immediate change or grandual change when the i-thought was abandoned? 

    Yea I had some of those types of thoughts before, and before starting the spiritual path I had a lot of that. There was an immediate change when the I-thought disappeared, because when it is gone, reality feels perfect, and it feels like there are no problems. The mind puts labels on things and we believe in them, so when the I-thought is gone, in some ways it becomes impossible to trick us, we see that the truth is beyond the mind.

  21. Posted

    11 hours ago, CaptainBobbyOlsen said:

    @Seraphim Yep, i can easily see the statements being a trap themselves haha

    Tell me exactly what changed in your psyche when the i-thought no longer arose. What were your thinking-processes before and after?

    Here is a great article about thinking: https://medium.com/@jayseb11/3-types-of-thinking-one-of-which-the-monkey-mind-is-the-root-of-all-suffering-2f0138ffe99a

    I don't have the "incessant thinking" type (mindless chatter) that the article brings up. I also don't have narrative thoughts or an inner monologue, like "I'm gonna do this. He said that." etc. But more importantly, I don't have the feeling of having a mind, with mind I mean the sense of a frame in which the thoughts arise, and in which I exist and make choices, instead of the mind I guess you could say that there is just consciousness/awareness. No-mind leads to some great changes in my psyche and how I feel in my daily life, the best thing is an unconditional-acceptance-energy/feeling (love) that I can sense in my physical body and in my emotions/psyche.

    Spiritual transmissions and contemplation are great tools to get rid of the I-thought for good.

     

     

  22. Posted

    @CaptainBobbyOlsen That's a good question to ask.

    19 hours ago, CaptainBobbyOlsen said:

    - The thought/feeling that there are “traps” hindering reality right now

    - That there is something missing right now

    - That there is a “someone” who can do anything about “traps” right now

    - That i need to understand reality better than i do right now in order to find total peace

    There is some truth to those neo-advaita teachings, but I think they too can be traps, are you willing to consider that? The I-thought is a part of our psyche, it adds a layer of resistance to our experience, sometimes it is subtle but the resistance is there and that is why people seek enlightenment, believing that "nothing is missing right now" is not necessarily going to get rid of the I-thought, and until it is truly gone, it is an incorrect statement.

    I am 100% sure of that, because I remember clearly how it felt to live with the I-thought, and nowadays every moment of my life is proof of how much better it feels to be free from the I-thought.

     

  23. Posted

    5 hours ago, AndylizedAAY said:

    @Breakingthewall Isn't Leo still seeking? How do you know that Someone here has reached the highest Awakening?

    I don't know, that's why I asked if he or she still has a sense of being in the mind, or having a mind, and if reality feels perfect. Because in my opinion, the feeling of "no-mind" and "everything is perfect exactly as it is", are two sure signs that the seeking has ended, some teachers both in Buddhism and non-duality support this idea. But it doesn't matter what I think, it will become very clear if the seeking has ended eventually, the honeymoon period of an awakening does not last long.

  24. Posted

    2 hours ago, SQAAD said:

    @Seraphim

    I've taken large doses of Psychedelics and grasped that there is only God. And God is the one who intentionally creates everything. Even all the nightmares.

    A psychedelics trip is a subjective experience, I'm sure it can show you truths but I don't think you should create a belief system based on what you see in your trips. Use psychedelics if you want to, but do it to evolve, not to gain knowledge or truths, I'm sure Leo agrees with this.

    Source does not contain thought-forms and does not create anything. Manifestation happens through sound, which then creates light, but Source does not contain sound nor light, it is the space in between. When people have visions or take psychedelics, the creator-God that they see is not Source itself, it is one degree from that, it is the part of it that creates things. If you want to get to know Source, go beyond the mind and see the still, space-like perfect I am.

  25. Posted

    That's really good! I'm glad you understand that you have a soul. You had your awakening after watching Leo's solipsism video? Then I'm impressed by Leo. Since you feel that level of happiness now, I think you had a real and permanent awakening. Does it feel like everything is perfect? Even the things that aren't perfect? Does it feel like you are no longer in the mind? Does it feel like everything is the absolute/God? If so then I think your happiness will be very stable and your seeking really has come to an end.