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@Raptorsin7 It ain't about figuring anything out. You literally just turn away from absolutely every experience. Nothing more to it than that. Watching Rupert Spira is an excuse not to do this -- nothing wrong with that.

Whatever you can see, that you cannot be. Turn attention toward what is aware of the changing experiences. It can be frustrating, but it's like going to sleep -- if you try to bring about its goal, you will fail. Ceaselessly turn attention away from (ignore) every experience (ALL of them), towards what's aware. If you catch the I AM, realize you're aware of it so it can't be the real I, and turn to what's aware of it. Repeat about 2 million times (probably more; maybe less). Seriously, it's that simple. You can't let it go dormant for too long though. If you want self inquiry to do what it's designed to do, you'd better be doing it when taking a shower, brushing teeth, etc. Otherwise you're better off doing something else. It's so simple, but when you actually do it, you'll probably think you're doing it wrong; "no way is it this hard!" Etc. It is that hard; you're doing it right. Ignore everything and turn to its knower... over and over and over = Self Inquiry

These "beings" who approach 8th density are hardly "beings" at all. Even 6th and 7th are known only to highly developed multi-soul-complexes of millions of enlightened (4th and 5th density) identities/individuals who have then progressed another 30 million years or so...at a rapid pace. It is apparently said to increase in complexity/transcendence/etc after 8th, for infinity.

Consciousness is not in a place called here. A place called here is an appearance in consciousness.

http://insanebraintrain.blogspot.com/2013/10/meditation-practice-journals-from-old.html I should point out, most are not the type of awakening associated with self-inquiry, nor the type associated with unknowing. Or God-realization... Rather, these are detailed logs of Kenneth Folk coaching meditators to achieve Arahatship -- basically the flavor of path that Frank Yang took, as well as the Buddha, fwiw.

If it has an emotional-memory source? Forgiveness for not accepting that part about yourself -- i.e. "forgive me for not accepting you" to your inner-child, shadow, or part of your psyche that you resist. What you resist, persists. Be mindful of the subtle ulterior motive that will creep in: doing this to get rid of that part of yourself -- love it instead. This will be about 10 times more effective and easier with adept meditation skill. Perhaps try to learn how to enter Jhana, which will blow your head off, making it very easy to maintain daily practice and increase non-distractedness further. "Concentration" is a word you should probably never use, as it is incredibly misleading. This builds "concentration," but really it builds openness; well-being; stillness.

Lol ketamine void can definitely have Infinite Love. Especially ketamine + cannabis + psychedelic combo. Many actually refer to 5-MeO experience as "the void."

Because there never was Samsara. It's already Nirvana, but what appears can be illusory, in that duality is believed and experienced, rather than simply appearing.

Your assumption is that there's a thing called matter that has real existence, but you've never experienced matter -- if the definition of matter we're using is roughly "stuff independent of consciousness." Now, if your definition of matter is "the physical manifestation of consciousness," then clearly the source of the psychedelic experience; love; etc is not matter, but consciousness, since by this definition the source of matter is consciousness. Pretty simple, but without direct experience of absolute truth, Be-Lie-(I)f's (mostly hidden) will always get in the way.

“If I were you, I’d be doing the exact same thing!”

Well yeah, but that doesn't change fact that narcissism is about as probabilistically incompatible with humility/enlightenment as you can get. At least that's what my conditioning says. Remnants of belief systems. I don't know that, but it is obvious.

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That's detachment/transcendence. A laudable state. Not enlightenment. Not saying (no-)you didn't awaken, just that this has nothing to do with awakening (not saying you implied that it does).

A question rooted in experience of relative, does not call for an answer rooted in conceptual knowledge of absolute. What you don't understand is how this is like telling someone who's asking where you live, that you don't live anywhere because there is no you. Existence and time are in mind only, but that's beside the point. "Nothing goes on after you die" is true in exactly the same way as "you aren't having an experience right now." In a relative sense, those are completely useless statements. And it's misleading, since, if we were to talk absolute, there is of course no death... so "after you die" is nonsensical. Statements with meaning: "you will wake up tomorrow in your bed;" "you will wake up in another life after you die" -- I don't "know" that for sure, yet it is quite clearly the case, since this right here IS death.

The Law of One is as reliable a source as any for these types of answers.

Now that's interesting... Reminds me of an experience I had of separating from not only my physical form, but my astral form as well... And what was between that and another form? It was the fucking WILD WILD WEST of consciousness. Absolute Insanity...

What the ego does to protect its sense of reality or self-image. Everyone wants to believe they partake-in a fair system. Etc.

About 6 years ago. It was incredibly scary. Everyone including me was seen basically as a puppet moved by the empty pure-existence/God that we all are. I was abruptly seeing through the lens of "I am God dreaming this sense of reality," and that lens, while only a lens, instantly rendered all previous lenses obsolete. It was on some drug cocktail before I got into consciousness work. Ketamine + LSD + cannabis or something like that.

Enlightenment is a state... Otherwise, what the hell are we even talking about... It's an event and a state, but it's a state that transcends experience. A state absent of the impossible condition known as certainty, and in this way it is "seeing clearly." It's not about having a new, better experience. It's not merely mental -- if it were, everyone who regularly watches Leo's or even Tony Parson's vids or whatever would have it (of course, no one has it, but language is inherently dualistic). Rather, it's an intuitive recognition that you aren't a person who does things in a world. It can reveal a lot, but none of the revelations are imbued with certainty. And there are different flavors of it... I'm aware of the way in which that statement if false -- that's not what I'm referring to. What I mean is: you cannot be both enlightened and certain (particularly of things that are false), but you CAN be enlightened and confused. Case in point: enlightened people who wonder if there is a God... There's potential for an intuitive understanding that God/Love is everything -- doesn't mean you're certain of that, but since there's no doubt about it, it does pretty much mean you won't be wondering if there's a God...

Theory: ego defense mechanism. The ego gets everything exactly backwards. Not that "nice guys finish last" is actually true -- it depends on your definition of nice. Good guys don't finish last (except maybe in bed ).

Thank you.

Super effective as your basis for solitary contemplation, though. No other system offers as many accurate signposts as Buddhism. Very masculine spirituality if that's your preference. Check out: https://dharmatreasure.org/wp-content/uploads/Meditation-and-Insight-III.pdf

@ilja Oh I probably shouldn't have used the word "joining." I meant "check it out" lol. Just looked up some churches in my area and saw a couple Unitarian Universalist churches, so I looked up the phrase in google -- definitely seems like my cup of tea. I'll make sure to report later though.

99% of people would have recognized the bow-wielding being to be an angel. In my experience-journey, I've come to recognize all higher-beings as falling into one of two groups: angels and demons. Basically our future / further-along selves. So I was actually just directly answering your question. I could go on, but there are too many to count and I don't remember them all vividly. I've encountered demons of very high spiritual development that were essentially like gods. Angels too. This might not be correct but it is my understanding of them that they very likely have the potential to be looking through your very eyes (and mine) right at this second, because the way they got to be so spiritually advanced (it seems) was from merging with other like-minded beings via shared ego death, and they can make whatever subset of their complex their individual focus, and an awake portion of each human's mind might be a subset of one or more of these complexes. An alternative theory I have is even one individual has an infinite number of beings that comprise it, as there's no limit to how many ways you can subdivide the mind, but these would not be angels or demons, rather simply individuals. Gaia could very well be a type of angel though, and I seem to have had direct contact with it -- not face to face, but kind of like contact was made through the emptiness facing backwards where there is nothing but the imaginary POV and boundlessness. The whole time I was writing that... I had one particular type of demon/angel encounter in mind... One that I'm struggling to put into words, but it's one of the most profound types of experiences/explorations I've had -- and I've had so many of them. I guess I could describe it as: getting caught in the middle of (or abruptly being made privy to) an infinite cosmic war wherein there are infinite beings, some "evil" and some "good," each group polarized into existence to allow the other to exist. The evil ones get power by getting you to "lose your shit" (run outside naked while tripping, in a situation that would lead to arrest, or whatever) and the good ones get power by giving you love and wisdom, and protecting you from the evil ones' more sinister advances (but not preventing ALL of their influence). So, when I heard of The Law of One just a few months ago and started reading some of it... DUDE... I was like OH MY GOD! WHAT...??? Its basic premise had already been confirmed to me! So yeah I now absolutely consider Channeling to be not only real, but having actually produced a volume that I can read and trust quite effortlessly.

I'm looking into joining a Unitarian Universalist church. Seems like it could be fun. No ideology apparently, just self-knowledge, but we'll see.