The0Self

I’m my lightly held opinion, bipolar is a misdiagnosis and misunderstanding of spiritual cycling — the ego death / ego backlash cycle. Seriously.

Lol. Picture 6/10 (as ridiculous as that seems; rating; oh god I shudder). That’s my absolute lowest. Literally have never gone lower. Not even once. Feels ridiculous to even say this, but it’s usually over 7.5/10. I think I might just be handsome (not serious). And extremely vulnerable and honest — women pick up on that.

Not that there's any actual benefit to having a good work ethic, but it can still be a trip. Try it on for size with some strategy. Get obsessed. The first thing you could do every morning is meditate, and then try to carry your ascended state into the ordinariness of get-er-done. Take hella fucking risks. Not everyone makes it; the ones that do make it take risks though. If you're infinitely stubborn (not possible but you can get close), there is almost literally no risk. Preposterous strategic-ness is not enough to see that world without luck, but beyond preposterous strategy, on the other hand... try it. You may or may not like it. But what if you do like it? "What do I want?" is the best contemplation for success. The only thing holding a compassionate person back from this is shame -- can't explain why, but ignore the absolute fuck out of it. Shame is what tells you you're human. You can be beyond human. You can do anything. For example, if you're in college and you get a B in some class, here's literally an option that maybe some of you have tried and succeeded with, but this is for those who haven't thought about it: You can go to your professor's office and just give them a reason for why you actually deserve an A. If they say no, you can literally say you're not leaving until they give you an A. Sometimes they'll decline, but if they're like most people, they'll eventually give in after you're there annoying them for 3 hours. Ever thought of that? I've seen it work. It does work. It's what very successful people do.

There is actually no help whatsoever, apart from self-love. Self-love is everything. Everything.

Absolutely no judgement whatsoever. Anyone judging is just not open minded enough or knowledgeable enough about shit that has gone into vaccines in the past. Literally if I saw someone post what I’m posting right now without the requisite knowledge to identify with it, I’d think they were ignorant as fuck. But in all honesty, it’s best for the population for everyone to get vaccinated.

22-32?! My last gf was 34 (I’m in my mid 20’s) and she was the baddest ever! Change your age standards, lol! (As always, not too serious).

Times I’ve gotten laid from online stuff: a few. Times I’ve gotten laid from just talking to women in person in random situations: well over 100. Should I diversity?

To be called self-centered even when there’s no self here is actually quite illuminating. Thanks for that. It’s just what seems to be happening ❤️. I might get vaccinated. Just speaking my mind. I don’t care about this stuff. I’m probably crazy (not serious). I wear a mask, etc. As soon as a family member gets ill I’m sure my tune will change. Here’s hoping for my beloved family to get sick

@Explore You’re perfection as well. Those other 3 just struck me.

@4201 @Leo Gura @Consilience Damn I love y’all. You’re perfection.

God damn I guess I’m lucky to be so good looking (not serious). I am a student who works at a fucking department store and I have had sex with extremely hot women (as hot as pornstars) literally hundreds of times from just being personable and friendly. Started happening after awakening, like magic. I used to consider my biggest problem: I can’t get laid. Once nothing mattered... holy fuck.

I haven’t gotten rona yet somehow (considering my life that’s actually a miracle). I will not be vaccinated, likely. I don’t trust it. I am probably delusional though. Everyone, get vaccinated.

Check out Todd Grande. This stuff is his life purpose, as per Leo, even.

I just saw this thread. My intuition is that this is one of the most powerful online threads that exists for increasing open-mindedness. Don’t mind me. Just sharing intuition.

As long as you don't feel "stuck," there's no need to meditate. If you're stuck, the best way to move on is to meditate.

Unless you can put your hands on the ground and feel like you might as well be touching smoke or liquid or unreal dreamstuff, you're grounded enough. You're golden. You're the light. You're the love. Embrace the craziness. Just my opinion, of course.

It will likely include the experience of no free will. But in the case of depersonalization it isn't liberating -- for them they'd do anything to have the illusion of free will intact. It's literally terrifying for them. If you're not terrified, don't worry. You have simply had an awakening.

I feel like I should be an authority on this topic. I have narcolepsy. Words cannot describe the terror I've experienced from sleep paralysis nightly from age 19 until age 24 or so. Every single night. There's literally no way you can understand... But I just don't know what to say. I didn't really work through it, it just happened. After quite a few awakenings, the negatives stopped happening. So I'm of absolutely no help. I went through hell, and eventually, it just stopped happening. If I could give any advice, it's this: absolutely everything is a blessing. No exceptions, whatsoever.

I would also like to see what people have to contribute on this topic. In my opinion though, sadness is not a huge shadow side aspect. Sadness is beautiful. Anxiety, and also manipulation, seems to me to be a stronger focus area for this work. Just my opinion, held very lightly.

Depersonalization is generally not one of the steps to enlightenment. Depersonalization (often concurrent with derealization) is a very unpleasant and scary disorder in which the sufferer is made aware of the aspect of experience that the mind almost-primarily functions as the concealer of. It's impossible to describe, but it can probably most closely be described as the centerless-ness of personal experience. In depersonalization, a person is aware of voidness; in enlightenment, there is only void.

Honestly I think Jim Newman already had all of that but at this point even if he didn't, there's no one left to do it. Kind of reminds me of Jed McKenna. Sometimes depression can be so intense that it turns into depersonalization, and sometimes depersonalization can be so intense that it turns into enlightenment.

I'm fairly certain that Neo-Advaita is a construct found more in some "teachers." Teachers like Mooji, Papaji (perhaps), Ramana Maharshi (though he was a bit more than just a teacher), Rupert Spira, maybe Paul Hedderman, maybe Adyashanti and Eckhart Tolle, and perhaps Gary Weber, etc. Most of them are "advocates." Advocates of self inquiry, to be specific. Jim Newman is almost certainly in an entirely different category -- a category that, to me, seems to be comprised of characters like Richard Sylvester, Andreas Muller, Tony Parsons, and maybe even U.G. Krishnamurti... and perhaps Jed McKenna. A category completely beyond "saintliness." None of them are teachers, and if some of them somehow are, it's completely "under the table," as it were (though in many cases they just simply aren't "teachers" in any capacity whatsoever). In a way, they're talking about ultimate liberation, which is probably what Nisargadatta was talking about, it's just that Nisargadatta also was an advocate for self inquiry, so idk if he fits in here. Hell, I'd consider myself in this category, if it weren't for the fact that I myself occasionally advocate self inquiry, but only when questions or misunderstandings about it arise, since I've performed it to its apparent conclusion.

Nice! A pretty awesome plateau-busting meditation pointer is "meditate poorly."

Here's how it's done: Who is experiencing what is happening? I am. That's a thought. Who is the subject aware of that thought? Feel into it. Constantly refocus again and again on the one who seems to be experiencing. It's always there, but forever beyond your reach, since you are it. This is an intense activity that takes quite a bit of practice and diligence. Continuously catch the I, realize it's not the I because you just experienced it and so it's not the I -- "what you can see, that you cannot be" -- and refocus over and over again, ignoring every experience because experience is not what you're looking for. You're looking for what's beyond experience. Eventually what may happen, is a particularly transcendent state that many have called The Witness; Witnessing; the spacious mind; The Vastness of Awareness. It's like experience flips inside out and you're looking in at experience, rather than out, and there's a seeming barrier between you and experience and you feel untouchable and god-like -- completely and blissfully absorbed in pure I-AM-ness. DO NOT STOP HERE. Keep going further. Treat that experience as any other -- not what you're looking for. What happens beyond this is beyond description. First, mountains are mountains. Next, mountains aren't mountains. And then, mountains are mountains again.

The ego is importance itself. The ego-construct is simultaneously the formed past, and the forming future. It isn't really there. It's what provides context for the empty NOW so that what's happening can appear to matter to an individual.