Moksha

There is only one Consciousness. Separateness is an illusion. Consciousness manifests separate forms through dreaming, yet it is also awake.

In the dream dimension, there has to be some layer of ego for the illusion of a separate self to exist. For enlightened people, their ego is very thin, to the point of translucency. They realize themselves as pure Consciousness, but wear a thin layer of ego to continue being in the dream. When they decide to let go of that layer, I feel they return to being pure Consciousness, entirely awake.

Maybe humans evolved to experience flux at a certain rate, and other forms experience flux at their own rates. We know from Einstein's theory that a faster moving object experiences time at a slower rate than a slower moving object. As we approach becoming light, time should move slower in the relative dream dimension. When superhumans happen, maybe their experience of flux will be so slowed that it approaches timelessness. Some of them have already happened, and I sense that when they realize timelessness, they are reabsorbed into pure Consciousness. Even more rare, some of them come back to tell us about the experience. Collectively, once Consciousness maximizes its creation, maybe it does a reboot, and everything starts all over again. Someone posted a cool TED talk from Donald Hoffman yesterday. His research shows that evolution selects for fit, rather than for accuracy, in perceiving reality. The experience of flux must correlate with survivability. My sense is that there is no change, movement, diversity, boundary, space, or time in Consciousness. These phenomena only exist in the dream, and everything Consciousness dreams happens infinitely, always. I suspect that Consciousness chooses to keep the dream alive always. So time and space will always exist, as will the endless multitude of evolving and ultimately devolving, created and dissolving, form identities, within the dream dimension.

Maybe you are stalking us? Maybe you are us??

Since time is an illusion, and since Consciousness is infinitely creative, I suspect that all dreams always happen.

Exactly It's like circling a diamond, and observing it from different angles. No matter which facet you view it from, it is always the same gem.

Consciousness is funny that way; it's never what you think it is

@Dodo When you mention Simon, remember that he denied Jesus, but ultimately became his chief disciple. It is the story of us all. Reculer Pour Mieux Sauter Sometimes we take a step backward, in order to better launch ourselves to the other side. Take good care of yourself. Consciousness created you for a reason

Buddha realized enlightenment as emptiness. His path was to strip away everything that he was not. Jesus realized enlightenment as abundance. His path was to love. Two teachers, pointing from different perspectives, at the same ultimate truth.

I can't think of a better metaphor for the ego. The ego is the devil posing as the savior. It is the great pretender. It whispers from the shadows that it will save you from suffering, only to stab you in the back when you aren't looking. The only way to free yourself from suffering is to die before you die.

@Beginner Mind Isn't sanity beautiful? When you focus your mind like a one-pointed star on this, suffering dissolves. Why didn't we learn it sooner? Maybe because we hadn't suffered enough, or meditated enough, or taken enough psychedelics, or...enough with the enough, and let it be.

@allislove Enlightenment is a fiery love bomb?

Consider that memory is a concept of a concept. It is a form experience of a form experience. A dream within a dream.

James 2: There is wisdom in the bible, as there is wisdom in other scriptures. God wakes you up, and then God works through you. God is you. That is the true message, not only of Christianity, but of Eastern religions too.

Yes, maybe. If he is in heaven now, the names don't matter.

God is you, experiencing itself in the light, the plants, and everything else. When you wake up, you directly realize yourself and everything else as God. You don't have to block the mind, because you no longer identify with it, any more than you identify with your body. Your personality and physicality lose opacity. They become mostly, but not completely, transparent. Ego is only what is unreal. God is in us, in the Gita, and in everything else. Ego is in us, in the Gita, and in everything else. You just need to realize God, and discard the rest. God cannot be apprehended with the senses, but it still resonates spiritually, because it is the only real part of you.

@Breakingthewall The more you catch your ego in its shenanigans, the better you get at it. You develop a strong sense for its stench. You also realize that the ego is tricky as fuck, and will wait patiently for what seems like forever, until slipping out of the shadows to stab you in the back. I try never to take it for granted, and it still catches me sometimes. To answer your question, yes. It is a spiritual awakening that you cannot deny. I feel connected to it, almost all of the time. But not always, damnit.

@jim123 When Jesus taught that the Kingdom of God is within, and could not be found here or there, he was pointing at the present moment. You don't have to die in order to experience heaven.

I still feel physical pain. As long as we are in the form, pain is unavoidable. Psychological suffering is different from that, and is avoidable. And yes, most of us still have some ego. Just because you wake up doesn't mean you permanently dissolve the egoic self. It takes time. My barometer is my current level of suffering. Most things no longer bother me. Death still scares me, but not as much as it used to.

Thanks man. I didn't foresee it. Maybe you are already awake, but if not, I hope the same for you.

Divergence is the dream. There is only Consciousness. In the dream, we think the past and future exist, but they don't. Please point to something in the past, or in the future. You can't, because they are only concepts. The only reality is timeless, and it always is.

That is a good way of looking at it. Acceptance of isness is the pathway to Self-realization. We get ourselves into trouble when we allow our minds to dwell on the past, or worry about the future. Awareness in the present moment creates the space for you to realize who you are. When you directly realize yourself as Consciousness, and resonate with the same Consciousness in every other person and thing, you are love.

@Gesundheit It's been interesting. I was spiritual at a young age, and into adulthood. Then, as a trained scientist, I refused any idea that wasn't empirically grounded. I took the red pill, and preferred stark materialism to illusory bliss. Now, I find myself a spiritual scientist. It makes me laugh. I insist on integrity, but that same integrity requires me to open my mind, even to the point of moving beyond it. I accept the reality of my direct experience, which I can only call spiritual. I still care deeply about truth, but I realize that spiritual truth is the only truth that is unassailable. Ultimately, truth and wisdom converge into the same singularity. If you have experienced truth directly, you know what I am talking about. The mind has no choice but to challenge it, because it is biologically and environmentally conditioned to do so. It is a stunning realization when you directly understand that you are not your mind. Suddenly, you see that the holy grail of freedom, peace, and love was inside of you the whole time. Consciousness becomes more than an abstract concept. It is this volcano of living lava that used to be dormant, but is erupting inside of you. It takes courage and focused intent to burn away the karma, but it is infinitely better than being trapped in the hell of your conditioned mind.

When you dream of standing with another person under a tree, does your dream self think the dream tree and the other person is real? We are the same Consciousness, dreaming about forms that share experiences with other forms.

Relative reality is another term for illusion. Ultimate reality is Consciousness. Everything else is just the dream world of form.