mandyjw

Last night I had a dream/insight. I haven't had one recently. It was just the vision of a white board being wiped clean along with this amazing feeling of perfection.

The way I would describe it is that awakening is like falling in love with the world/authentic "self". The "work" is making the relationship a lasting good one once the honeymoon period is over. You're big on life purpose for a reason, because meaningful work is supposed to be a blast. Otherwise, it's not that effective, and it's not even that helpful to others. So overemphasizing work too much can be a disservice too. Sometimes I enjoy moving the lawn and other times I don't. Why? It's not about what I'm doing, it's all about how I look at it. How you look at spiritual "work" is extremely important. If God is Love, it makes sense that loving the work is gonna speed things up quite a bit.

I feel the same way about the exchange of money part of the equation, but I'm not sure if that isn't my own problem. If it wasn't for the exchange of money, I wouldn't have any reservations, would you?

@Leo Gura You know how Jesus went around healing people and saying things like "your faith has healed you"? If our beliefs create our reality then wouldn't giving big promises with 100% confidence be necessary to have any success rate of awakening people at all?

@abrakamowseBeautifully described, thank you. It's amazing to hear about other people's awakening experiences, I've found that they are incredibly unique to the person. The saving grace to the Hobbes quote is that there is no time.

Not to be a smart ass, but I gotta ask, how is it more misleading or irresponsible than recommending psychedelics without knowing someone's history?

No, you'd see more diversity in creative expression because the ego wants to conform to a collective ego (society's) standard, for survival reasons. We spend much of our energy "playing it safe" so we will be seen as normal and accepted.

Only the assertive (forgive me, but I've noticed that it's usually male) ego takes enlightenment and turns it into a goal or a process. Yet this is also love, service and perfection. My son just asked me if college teachers are smarter than high school teachers? Is it not a beautiful thing to not cash in on your potential, to do work that's beneath you? Is it not a beautiful thing to push the limits of your abilities are far as they can pushed and to receive recognition and inspire others?

You could get enlightened, but no one would ever know. In an alternate universe, Buddha stayed at the palace and became enlightened anyway.

@Nahm Awesome. I wonder about that too sometimes even though it doesn't matter. Creativity comes from one source, it's quite a trip! Both the songs I shared I first heard from the Fieval movies. I want a circular white board now.

Shadow work is the greatest pleasure you'll ever have, your life flashing before your eyes, treasured moments and beloved things from childhood collapse together into the present moment with new understanding, making a beloved and unique newly born "you" with fresh eyes and a new vision. Eyes full of the light of love. This used to be my favorite song. In my highschool year book I was a little embarrassed about it but I put it down anyway. Heard the song as a child in this movie. I never forgot this scene, and the pool of light.

This used to be my favorite song. Always felt a little bit silly about that. Something clicked about what "dream" really means. Thank you Nahm.

I had OCD as a kid, and discovered that I didn't have to pay attention to or listen to the thoughts. If I had stopped there that would have been a success story. After years of observing my ego, I realized that there was a lot of repression going on, I became unhappy and the OCD bubbled up again. As I began to listen to it, and do shadow work, it turned into intuition, and led me to some amazing discoveries. My theory is that OCD is intuition seen through a lens of fear and negativity, which is why we experience it as torturous or painful. Work through the fear and negativity, allowing it to bubble up and knowing that it will in this process. It's a gift in disguise, it's just an annoying gift, like if someone dropped all the lumber and supplies in your yard needed to build a house, and then you realized you had to do all the work to build it yourself to make any use out of it. Good luck!

"Somewhere out there beneath the pale moonlight Someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight Somewhere out there someone's saying a prayer That we'll find one another in that dream somewhere out there"

@peanutspathtotruth I can tell you for sure, the brain makes its own natural DMT. I don't know, but I suspect I've got enough of my own natural crazy to go around. All I was trying to say with that verse is that the external world, including psychedelics are imagined. Intention and intuition is everything. Life and awakening is one giant personalized scavenger hunt, not everyone finds the same clues along the way but we all unite together in the end.

@Nahm There's a paradox in glass art, glass wants to be round and naturally takes the form of a sphere, but it takes much practice and mastery of the craft to make, (allow) a perfect sphere shape.

@peanutspathtotruth I have benefited immensely from psychedelics though indirectly, through other's insights from them. I'm not bothered by the "let's go meet aliens" stuff at all, I am a little saddened by the assumption by some that the potential lies within the psychedelic rather than in the magic of reality or the perceiver themself. The power of nature is such that "one" does not have to physically eat the mushroom but only look at it to really see. However that also means that it makes no difference whether you literally do or no not ingest the "magical" forms of nature. "It’s not what goes into your body that defiles you; you are defiled by what comes from your heart.”- Jesus

Sneaky.

Power tools are great for building houses, not so great for delicate work. Men and their power tools, I swear to God it doesn't matter what hobby I get into, men are always obsessed with their equipment.

Nothing can give you insights directly. All psychedelics do is heighten sense perceptions and stop thought (all the same movement), when that happens, not matter how that occurs, insights come.

Everything is nothing can never be a belief, that's why it's such a powerful pointer because we're used to believing in stuff that isn't.

I think everyone has the tendency to get a little bit married to the "thing" or things that seemingly helped them awaken.

@ActualizedDavid I do. I'm not sure though, that my problem might be that I never interpreted much at all, just kinda enjoyed the ride... or didn't. Sometimes interpretation is contracting and sometimes it's expansive.