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Very interesting, thank you! I'm curious to know if there's a sort of positive feeling, or resonance or love felt when you experience another life. Since I was a child I had these kind of daydreams and sometimes visions of things that would make me feel a certain way. It was a strange but really good feeling. As I got older I identified an antique clock and a certain kind of old chair design as things that if I came across them would make me feel that way. There was also a vision of a meadow. I used to wonder if they were early childhood experiences, but I found out since that I linked to certain memory fragments. The town I live in was thriving in the late 1800's and I can feel the remnants of energy from that time period strongly. As soon as I moved here I started becoming fascinated and obsessed with antiques and old houses without consciously acknowledging the energy they held. Most people would say that it's flashes from a past life, but I feel like past lives are more ephemeral than that because of the true nature of time (it is not) and the nature of Oneness. Your video helped me understand this all from a different viewpoint than how it came through in my own experience. Abraham Hicks is one of my favorite teachers and she says to learn to stay with the day dream and stay with that feeling. We often move to finding tangible meaning or trying to manifest too fast. Not that there's nothing wrong with trying to find proof, but it's easy to forget that physical manifestation is meant to be looked at as an extension of the adventure, rather than a task.

Spirits only exist in your own psyche, but the potential of your own psyche is infinite intelligence. An awakening opens you up to infinite intelligence. Her teaching are about connecting with source, she is well aware that Abraham is infinite intelligence's translation to her. Channeling is explaining what can't be explained. The way she explains Abraham also allows her to talk about Esther, Esther's life lessons and the times when Esther is not connected with source. This allows her a kind of connection and compassion for people, as well as an authenticity that makes her teachings so powerful. Spirits comes through with their own flair and flavor. Just like the true essence of your personality is God ordained, you will resonate with different facets of infinite intelligence. If it's speaking to you, it chose to limit itself, so it will have a certain frequency and a unique feeling to it. God can choose to limit itself on the level of both form and formless.

@DrewNows I don't skip, I lurk. I had a conversation with my husband and asked why God wants to experience life as an unconscious person. He said because being conscious isn't better than being unconscious, which he later expounded upon to say that the meaning of conscious automatically creates the unconscious. In the woods today with my dad, I told him that God loved the world so he gave us free will, and that automatically created the devil or the potential for devilry rather. So I understood that my husband was giving the same answer I explained to my dad but from the angle of being spiritually awake or asleep. And I understood that there was no difference really. So I asked why and he started talking about artificial intelligence and how robots learn and are programmed. He said that if you allow robots to learn by simulating free choice with randomness they perform much better than if you choose a perfect scenario and program that in. We're here to learn and evolve. Of course there's not really conscious and unconscious and there's not really free will and there really isn't any time that we can evolve over. But I'll play your game God. Most of us say God, I don't want to meditate that would be boring as FUCK, obviously I'm here to do things! Then you decide that the thing you WANT to do is to mediate and you realize that you turned the light around and BAM. Gotcha.

@Mada_ Sure! Any questions in particular? Otherwise answer these if you would please. What is your age, gender, how did you find Leo's videos? What are your biggest pain points in life, and which are your greatest strengths in spirituality? Which thoughts or feelings that don't feel good are most repetitive in your experience? What do you currently do for spiritual practices? What are you working toward in life, or what is your greatest vision or goal?

I wanted to create this thread in response to seeking_brilliance's request. I enjoy teaching when I can informally but I've had some realizations lately that developing my teaching skills is necessary to continue my own path, so this is entirely selfish of me. With nonduality, teacher and student are one, so of course, how could it be any other way? As suggested I'll start by asking questions to first determine where you are. If you're interested in participating please just request below in the thread.

Why is my life one big unending psychedelic trip. I only LOOK at the mushrooms. I only eat the nonpsychedelic ones. It doesn't matter, we're inescapably one. Poison, nurturing, psychedelic. Fat and skinny, beautiful and ugly. I am them all.

He definitely does but the vulnerability of being female seems to be a constant go to example and theme. Am I the only one who notices or is bothered by this? Maybe he is trying to point something out to a male audience? My father in law said something similar once, about cleft lips and how awful it would be for girls. It's like girls have to carry the weight of judgmental beauty. Beauty is destroyed when standards are imparted upon it by people who don't know how to truly see. Dad and I took the dogs out for a run in the woods again and he told me about an extremely large woman he saw at work. He was talking about manifesting mushrooms and shortly thereafter we saw this massive bloated ugly mushroom and he said I manifested it. I told him no, HE had manifested it with his story of the obese woman. He also talked about a woman who manipulated her uniform to show off her shape and how all the men noticed her. It's hard to listen to and tolerate these stories from his point of view and know how objectifying he is. Later we were talking about psychology and I told him how addictions and problems can serve us, and that sometimes we aren't conscious of how. I used the example of a woman who overeats so that she won't be seen as a sex object or subject to men's advances anymore. She could be free from the distraction and confusion of being seen as an object and be distraction free to focus on herself. She could work alongside and with men and be seen as an equal instead of a distraction and object of desire. I could tell by his face that I had caused my dad to have a sort of revelation.

@Zigzag Idiot Thank you, I watched them all but need to watch them again when i'm more focused. Synchronicity, we ran out of toilet paper downstairs and then watched Leo's video. The "dark" side of me deeply enjoys those rare glimpses into Leo's shadow side. He constantly uses the example of having a daughter and being afraid of something happening to her. In this video he talked about having the fear of an ugly child, ESPECIALLY a daughter. I'm just going to leave that here without drawing conclusions right now. The fear of poison example of Trump going back to the Russians rather than woman's/witch associations with poison was so fucking frustrating/tantalizingly revealing I could scream. Sigh..... Deep breath. Going for a run now. Still have about a half hour of the video to go.

I went on a short trip four day trip this summer and it completely wiped me out energetically. Trips are funny that way, we often get something completely different out of them than we expected. You're doing amazing. Really, really. Ego backlash is a sign of great progress. Make sure to take the time to appreciate the progress that you've made. Also make sure to add in times for breaks, reading a funny website, making it a point to do something (fairly healthy) that lifts your mood. That's really important when we're trying to break habits, make big changes and are running into ego backlash. It helps to sit down and make a list of things that lift your mood and pick one from the list to do at regular intervals, at least once a day.

We love stories because all good stories are pointers to truth. The best kinds are the ones we lose ourselves in. Choose the ones that feel the best, the ones that are just bursting to be told. I'd love to hear them.

Look back on your childhood and your life from the perspective that you are an author who was writing a story. So instead of identifying with being the character of the child, you are now the author who dreamed up that character. Why did you choose the parents that you did for your character? Why did you write those hurtful or traumatic things into that story? How did they help the character become who they are today?

@Zigzag Idiot Ok, I was just thinking, the hand is the son, the manifest physical. The Father is the realization/acknowledgement of the space the hand resides/exists in. The Holy Spirit is Love.

@Matt8800 I noticed that there are birds, stones and trees involved in nearly every religion or myth that points to nonduality. I was wondering if you had come across this or had any thoughts about why this is?

@Zigzag Idiot Is this God, the Father and the Holy Spirit?

@Truth Addict@Zigzag Idiot It's so easy to get lost in the world in worrying about the things you do, the things other people do and thinking about how you stack up or how people like you. It gives us such peace to remember the present moment, to remember the nothingness, to remember that there is no self. We remind ourselves "There is just this." But that's not quite right. There is no just this. There is THIS. Magic is love, love is magic. An Abraham Hicks video helped me to make this connection, that when you get that feeling, that impulse or vision that feels amazing, that's it right there. Then we think about the action and the manifestation it may or could lead to and often get lost there, but that feeling that connection that bliss, that passion, that connection with love, and the present moment, THAT was it.

The way I mediate on my breath is basically I mediate on my belly as I'm breathing. I go back to that during the day several times if I get stressed or overwhelmed or just want to center or ground myself. It's super simple. If I ever feel like my breathing is shallow or I feel the need I take a deep breath and think of filling my belly then my lungs and my whole body an exhaling. That by itself deepens the meditative state. I think that mediation on an object or on nature, meditation by seeing is REALLY interesting thing and I'm really interested in exploring and contemplating the differences right now. This is exactly what Leo mentions so often in meditating on his hands. To me enlightenment is a lot about learning how to "see". I'm just hesitant to recommend that you switch out your practice for an object. The purple of focusing on the sound of the fan is that it will lead you to that "soundless space". I would choose whatever practice really resonates with you and feels good in the end. I found this video posted by Zigzag Idiot and it really helped me understand the process I was doing spontaneously while running and spending time in nature.

The Holy Spirit. If you know how to read, study and contemplate for yourself, the Bible itself really isn't all that misleading. My guess is that he studied for himself and didn't pay attention to people's words or interpretations. In my highschool art class we had to learn calligraphy and make a poster out of a favorite quote. I chose Hegel's "Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion." My mom told me at the time that she thought Hegel was a communist but it's still hanging up in their house.

Dance with the one who brung ya.

@seeking_brilliance You're doing great. Want to switch to focus on breathing or feeling the energy field of the body?

@EternalForest The last element of this video is an important one to bring into meditation. It took me a long time to understand it and I'm still practicing it. Like you if I'm out in nature, then BOOM deep love arises quickly. Also if you don't mind my asking, how does your OCD play out? Do you hear voices in your head or get impulses? I had OCD that I got over for years and it reappeared before I had an awakening and I saw that it was tied to intuition and my shadow side. Just an interesting perspective on it, if it helps you to have an open mind about it always being a negative thing, though I fully appreciate and understand its potential to cause suffering.

Not that you're wrong about the boredom thing, but God loved you so much that he gave you free will. That itself means that devilry must exist.

The third eye isn't as much of an is but an isn't. A lot of teachers avoid the mystical subjects because they cause a lot of resistance and disbelief in people early on. Or in other people they excite them and they misunderstand why these things exist and don't want to do the "groundwork" or purification necessary for those experiences to be integrated and purposeful for their path of evolution. So "How do I open my third eye?" is often a question that often comes from a place of incomplete understanding. It's also a potentially dangerous thing to integrate when it does happen and you don't want to have it happen too soon. I can understand why some teachers think it's better for people to just put the pieces together after it happens rather than to be focusing on one part of "body" and get mislead by the mind. Other teachers have described in detail the physical sensations of awakening, but everyone is on their own path and those sensations will be very unique for everyone. So you can see the potential for the mind to anticipate and expect something to happen, then to add desire and fear blockages to it. Then that all gets in the way of true being, which is the only thing that progresses "you" spiritually.

Ohhh!!! We're not done yet Mr. IwantPancakes. Well I got me a fine wife I got me an ole fiddle When the sun's comin' up I got cakes on the griddle Life ain't nothin' but a funny funny riddle Thank God I'm a country boy Well I wouldn't trade my life for diamonds and jewels I never was one of them money hungry fools I'd rather have my fiddle and my farmin' tools Thank God I'm a country boy Yeah, city folk drivin' in a black limousine A lotta sad people thinkin' that's mighty keen Son, let me tell ya now exactly what I mean Thank God I'm a country boy Do you see why I'm crazy now? I had to spend 2.5 hours a day on that bus.