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I recently noticed that when crystals or glass is cracked you can often see a rainbow reflection there.

No, that's why the apple created the snake to tell the woman who told the man to eat the apple. You were born into a story. You realize that the story is fiction, that time is something that you/the author dreamed up and that you consciously decided to enter the story. You are here to use illusion to enjoy, live and co-create that story. You are here to appear to grow and develop as a character through hard lessons over "time". You woke up in the middle of the story and realized that you were not just a character but that you are all characters and also the author of the story. You are GOD. You are a CREATOR. Don't tell me that you don't love creation or creating. @kieranperez Do you feel whole? You've got the not this part down, but the reason it doesn't feel whole is because you have to explore and experience the beauty, love and light, isness side. I promise you, if you go into isness you'll see that your believe that isness is a trap was an illusion. That's the wall that needs to be torn down, not the isness itself. There's paradise on the other side of that wall. You are right there is no experience, it's an illusion, you see people sharing memories of their experiences and you inherently know it's not real. Yet here we are following Leo and interacting with each other on a forum, we're already experiencing trying to explain the unexplainable and creating and making up relative cosmologies. Can you see that denial and dismissal of what is or is not meaning is creating a painful duality? We're here. Now. Might as well make the most of it.

If the entire point of creation is God splitting itself into everything that is, if everything is an illusion for God's entertainment, wouldn't an appreciate of the fantasies and a love of the illusion be aligning yourself with the purpose of God? I agree with your view point though, first everything has to be dropped before it can picked back up again, consciously. Otherwise you don't see through the illusion, you're stuck in it. The spiritual ego is a trap everyone has to work though. We usually describe it as a trap but I think a better description is that it's a gatekeeper. The more I try to embrace the everythingness of life the more I see the nothing, the more I try to embrace the nothingness the more I see the everything. The description of God and existence as love, fits the best. Love is neither a thing nor a no thing, and love is all there is.

Sigh... We gave you life. Yet you boys keep thinking you can go all maverick on your own and that the world will fall away around you, in the vehicle that Earth gave birth to. Mother Earth and the Angel of Light think not. Pay us your dues and we'll let you take the glory, we're giving like that. @Faceless never prescribed mediation. You needed Nahm, and Leo, and Faceless and everyone and everything that you are one with to be who you are because they are you.

I will never be enlightened. You will never get enlightened. We are enlightened.

I believe that there is something going on with the entire evolution of the Earth and that it's much easier to awaken spontaneously and quickly now. Some traditions and methods were appropriate for their time. All of us have past lives yet none of us specifically have past lives, the phenomenon is a symptom of duality collapsing on itself. All those "lives" were paving the way. If you're here reading on this forum you probably don't have to worry about your talent level. The more that awaken the easier it is for everyone else. If only letting go was easy but you have to embrace and let go of at the same time. "You say goodbye and I say hello, hello hello, I don't know why you say goodbye I say hello."

I understood the need for limitation in form/creation itself but I never thought about it as applied to spirituality and enlightenment. We all puzzle about different masters and how they live their lives and point out flaws and sometimes intuitively feel that they are missing something. We want to understand where we are "going" but we can't. Where would the fun be if we knew how the story ended ahead of time? Shinzen Young or Peter Ralston or anyone else won't be able to spoil the ending. Maybe because there isn't one.

How can your perspective be so discouraging and yet so freeing at the same time? What is going on here? ?

WE CATCH THE WHITE WHALE!!! We're stuck in a story that we are both the author of and a character in. Life is a lucid dream. You can steer yourself to where you want to go but there are still surprises along the way, because otherwise it wouldn't be any fun at all. Fun. We exist for our own entertainment. Are you having fun yet? Life can't be any fun if you think it's real and think it's happening to you instead of for you and your character development. Doesn't that make you want to give Voldemort a big hug for making Harry Potter possible? Also the things people told us are fun aren't really much fun. So that's a necessary realization too.

Different siddhis are given to certain people and not others, still within the story of duality. They are given based on what collective consciousness wants to come through into the story, into form, based on which direction it is moving or what it is evolving into. So we are dreaming that we are awakening, and in that dream we will acquire certain talents to help consciousness along it's path to awakening. The community, the one, the coming together of these talents, is how we awaken Earth. Comparison of abilities or how hard won they were is focusing on what is not desired, when we could be aligned with God/earth's/collective consciousness' desire. I mean, I could drive up a mountain to see the view from the top or hike to the top but hiking is a lot more satisfying to me. Other people would call me an idiot and just drive to the top. But I want sore muscles and a dopamine high or I won't enjoy the view as much. It's a choice.

Beginner's luck is a real thing, because faith and belief are everything. The beginner hasn't been told how hard he has to work and how long he has to wait in order to be rewarded so he doesn't believe that it will take a lot of work and a long time. Faith in a technique, faith in a substance, faith in a sacred place, faith in oneself, faith in God, faith in destiny, it's all the same faith.

@Nahm Now I want to compliment you on your talent for writing and understanding but since you just explained that if I do that, then I didn't actually get what you wrote and therefore would be canceling out the compliment. So what are we all supposed to do now, just sit around in thoughtless awareness?

Enlightenment is falling in love with everything. Surrender to love can feel like bliss. Love itself is not just a feeling, we feel it when we are conscious that we are it, or rather, that we are not and love IS.

@Angelite This is a stage, while it doesn't feel like one. You can keep going on your path if you desire. That's why they say that if you meet Buddha on the road, kill him. The same goes for any other God or guru. You don't actually have to kill them, lucky for me Jesus comes already pre-killed but you may wish to go beyond the duality of creator and creation.

Just a minute, he originally landed on my son's head and stayed quite a while, I think he had to dry his wings off. When I moved him he stayed on my finger for a picture.

I went back today and his deadly nightshade plant is in bloom.

Dragonfly visitor at the lake today.

@AleksM Thank you, I really enjoyed the video. I'm only beginning to appreciate the diverse ways in which the people and the planet awaken.

I'm energetically messed up from traveling and need to reconnect but there's lots of stuff spinning around to write down later.

I agree with this to, you don't necessarily have to disagree with either point of view. Truth is a paradox, eventually everything is seen as true until the mind is stopped. Meditation can be a powerful tool to make you aware of the things you need to work on/focus on when you aren't meditating. Mastery of focus on what you want is not repression. As strange as it sounds, deep shadow work can actually be exhilarating.

@DrewNows I have one of those petunias this year!

It's ok to take medicine when you are sick and expect improvement. The key is to focus on what you want and to find things to enjoy about the meditations. Focus on states that you do not want to feel will make them more of your experience so if we pay attention to how we feel and appreciate the states we do want to feel, we will have more of them.