The0Self

Childlike wonder; deja vu; significance; profundity; gratitude. Really it’s just a heightened state of consciousness. Your current state-level of consciousness is very highly correlated with how much gratitude your mood is pervaded by, and thinking something along the lines of “holy shit I’m alive,” or what you described, definitely qualifies as a manifestation of gratitude. Gratitude is also quite related to having a lower threshold for seeing miracles, and even synchronicities... and just plain recognizing more patterns with mindfulness.

Yeah it is the same space because there is no such thing as "not same." Your mind could essentially be an infinitesimally small neuron-like component of some unspeakably intelligent being who itself is still infinitely less intelligent than what you really are.

This is God. This is that. You are me. Reality happens in, and is dependent on, apparent duality. But there is no reality apart from God, and there is no duality, only love without opposite.

Finding the perceiver is always out of reach, because whatever occurs in experience, including an apparent finding, without exception, occurs to the I — so it can’t be found because it can’t be lost. You can do it all day — looking for the one who seems to perceive. If you get stuck, notice that getting stuck occurs to you, refocus on that you, which can’t be found. Just realize, the question itself (Who am I? or whatever) defines your limitation as a separate individual — you don’t know who you are, or you think you know something you don’t know. It will never be answered because it can’t be answered because there is no questioner.

Awakening and grief can go hand in hand. There is a tendency for awakening to produce more gratitude, but also more sadness.

@nitramadas Same.

We're all just long lost friends.

What a fuckin wild ride this life shit is huh?

@nitramadas

So beautiful

from a fellow who’s accomplished quite a bit in meditation/siddhis/etc. Unity consciousness, jhanas, etc. This may sound callous, but unless you are currently very callous, it’s of no concern, it’s a blessing. If Trump does win, imagine yourself as a conservative or at least a new atheist or even a fucking high school or college kid. Anyone who can gleefully laugh at the demise of the progressives and liberals. Get into character, try it on for size, and go crazy. It’ll feel wrong, like laughing at plane crashes, unless you surrender the ego. Oh yeah... it’s sacrilege, it’s unorthodox, it’s heresy. And it can work. Apparently coming into contact with lower consciousness when you’re at higher consciousness can lessen your resistance to lower consciousness, causing lower consciousness to fade from reality even further. Just a suggestion. No point in actually doing it.

@QandC Nothing special about it necessarily. Just indescribable. It's what's already happening.

@QandC That was a huge foot-in-the-door realization for me. No-distance hints at an incredible house of cards that can collapse at any moment

Staring at trees is highly recommended. Perhaps hugging them as well.

Fun. Relaxing. Kind of like meditation but less engaged. I would put headphones on so he could play relaxing music and tell me a story about how my life would go well in the future. He had me put on some glasses with flashing lights and I'd lay on a recliner while he read. It was pretty cool. No idea if it helped anything but I really didn't have a whole lot of problems anyway -- parents paid for it and recommended it to me. Not much insight. This was before I was knee deep in brutally awakening though.

The only way I conceive of it being a problem is if you have difficulty getting aroused. Try for women that you behold as "attractive as fuck" if that's the case, perhaps.

^^ And consciousness is just a label we give to describe the apparent transfer of information (which is all there appears to be). The "conscious agent" term that Donald Hoffman (above vid) uses is synonymous with Culadasa's "natural individual."

@Moksha From the friendly feral companion to the apparent connection at the crown to some spherical energy to the beautiful darkness to the solemn reserved non-agenda to the general airy fairy esoteric vibe... Couldn't possibly get closer to what seems to be happening here lol. Except for the female part. Apparently I'm quite male.

God: Sun touches my skin Warmth surrounds my body You make me feel nothing You make me feel nothing Individual: The same sky is above us But I feel so cold If I had my own world I'd fill it with love and desire I wanted the glorious past you admire And voices of kids out walking dogs, Birds, planes, trees and cars If I had my own world I'd love it for all that's inside it There'd be no more wars, death or riots, There'd be no more faiths, packed parking lots, Guns, bombs sounding off, If I had my own world I'd build you an empire From here to the farlands To spread love like violence If I had my own world I'd build you an empire From here to the farmlands To spread love like violence Let me feel you, carry you higher Watch our words spread hope like fire Secret crowds rise up and gather Hear your voices sing back louder If I had my own world I'd show you the life that's inside it The way that it glows when you find it The way it survives with it's families, Friends or it's enemies Let's make this a new world I swear you can go if you want to I know that you have it within you Inventing the first clean musical, God's greatest miracle If I had my own world I'd build you an empire From here to the farmlands To spread love like violence If I had my own world I'd build you an empire From here to the far lands To spread love like violence Let me feel you, carry you higher Watch our words spread hope like fire Secret crowds rise up and gather Hear your voices sing back louder

LOL

No fucking clue why.

Tons of scientists have tried psychedelics. Perhaps most of them, despite less than 10 percent of the general population reporting to have tried them. Scientists are more open minded than average, which is really not saying much.

I'm here about 4 days a week probably, when I have time. What an awesome forum. Thanks Leo.

Sure, but any problem that you seem to overcome is not actually a problem, and therefore no one is actually overcoming it. I certainly agree that over time, with many trips and insights, you need less dosage to produce ego death. Almost a decade ago 300-1000ug LSD would often do it; a few years ago I'd never go over 110ug -- that was enough to produce plain ole god/infinite-consciousness and ego death. Sometimes past life experiences as well.

The more knowledgeable you are, the further you have to fall when you no longer know anything. I guess that's what I'd say? If I were rude.