mandyjw

Yes, I would. but don't think of it like blocks, but just tuning to the same frequency. You can't do that when you are thinking or in a strongly negative state. I'm fascinated with old houses and abandoned places because the energy feels so interesting and nearly always good. I probably get too caught up in it.

What if the path to raising your consciousness is to fully embrace your current one and stop needing more?

You can have that concept if you want to, but it's a worthless one. It makes zero difference to me how conscious or unconscious someone else is. My ego is endlessly fascinated, but my true self knows they are a mirror of myself. When I'm bothered by something it means there's some lie in myself I can't see. Oh crap.

@Serotoninluv I love that example of connecting with your niece. Abraham Hicks' teachings are very much in line with that kind of connection too. There was one video I recently watched where she even talked about autism and how important it is to see past what's wrong with kids to truly connect. My six year old son is autistic so I really know that from experience as that's my life. I thought her teachings were so materialist and fake for so long, I wish I'd known what I was missing sooner. She's helped me get over things that were really blocking me and destroying my happiness because I kept clinging to truth at the expense of my connection with life. The connection with life was the prize I really wanted. My quest for truth was based on a false belief all along anyway.

Only measured conceptually. Measuring conceptually is also making a judgement. Who makes judgement? The sense of self. The ego. This is love beyond measure. This is the peace that passeth all understanding. Right now. That's all there ever is, this very moment. Stop fucking around.

I know what you're saying, I've experienced higher states and lower states of enlightenment. But those just memories. They don't exist. My level of awareness right now is all that matters. Why aren't we getting more caveats and warnings along with these statements? Why not more mention of the present moment? I can't go around being like, my enlightenment yesterday, it was super duper high, higher than yours! Enlightenment pissing contests. No thank you.

You are something else. I'm jealous of your faith. Can I have some? I bought you popcorn yesterday, you owe me.

YES! Those are fantastic suggestions. I love the Wim Hoff breathing for when I'm short on time too.

I know you're right. But I can't help but feel disappointed and sad for the people who don't yet know to trust in their own inner guidance. THIS is the method, "even zen masters of 40 years of training do not understand what I know." How can you not be arrogant and say that there are degrees of awakening? Doesn't the notion of obtaining higher and lesser degrees bring in comparison and ego? This is how religions get started.

Just shut off the mind and receive it. It's tricky to hold on to it for very long. The first time I did it accidentally. I was trying to calm nerves by being still and connecting to a bigger power, and the easiest thing to me to connect to was the energy from the crowd of people.

Don't forget that there are other ways to alter you state of consciousness and lessen resistance so you can achieve deeper enlightenment states. I've had amazing success with running. I've brought on states of complete bliss and amazing insights that I've been able to take back with me. I knew from before doing consciousness work how amazing the meditative body aware state of running was, especially combined with a huge dopamine hit, "runner's high." Adding in the lessons and intentions of consciousness work with that was an amazing breakthrough. Sometimes I worry I won't be able to find my way back home because I'll have forgotten myself entirely. Just by putting yourself in different state of consciousness with the purpose and intention of awareness can be really powerful. Everybody has their thing. go find yours.

You've forgotten to emphasize that if you are one with life, life is changing you itself. Focusing too much on hacks to speed things along strengthens a habit of impatience. I'm enjoying your video. I wish you'd just left out what methods you'd used and left it as a mystery and focused on the insights. But I also really appreciate the value in your honestly and your commitment to it. I can't even consider psychedelics right now because I have young kids. I've had incredible progress though, because I just can't put this work down. It's everything. I just told my kid that he shouldn't tell people what they should or shouldn't do. So sorry about that, to both you and him.

I think that makes a lot of sense, intellectually as well as in my own experience. I think it's a huge mistake to say that one method is superior to another. The best method is no method. Life does it for you. Sometimes it seems like you're helping it along and training your mind but you aren't really.

@Serotoninluv Ah, got it.

Don't push yourself so hard. Don't expect so much of yourself. There's just this moment. Feeling crazy or any other negative feelings that come from it are resistance to the moment. Your mind wants to judge it rather than experience it. It's normal to have passing thoughts of being crazy, the mind is always trying to make sense of the world and disallowing it to do that for too long causes greater and greater efforts on its part to get hold again. Let it delude you again. It's better for you to feel good than to know the "truth" 24/7. The delusion is fun, delusion is what life is about, enjoy the delusion. When it stops being fun you know you let it go to far and then you recognize it for what it is again, a delusion.

@tsuki Yes. It was nothing personal. There's nothing to miss. I don't need to save anyone. I'm just here to enjoy life. All I can ever offer anyone is the love and connection I am.

Partly. And yes, just not quite as well as I do now. And I only contemplated it because it was part of the human condition. I didn't not intentionally contemplate it for the purpose of spiritual growth. There's dark stuff everywhere in the form of the lowest levels of entertainment. People love their suffering, and they love other people's suffering. We don't need more suffering, we need to focus on what's real. Love. Connection. Oneness. But you all find it too boring, when really it's the most endlessly fascinating thing.

Do you realize how analytical this is in its essence though? Women generally don't analyze much at all when they connect people, it's all intuitive, it's all be feeling. And with spirituality it has to be because it's the thinking that disconnects us.

Oh no, love is it. Love is me. The pit was created by my own disconnecting myself from love. The last part of that sentence in unnecessary. Love is connection. Love is knowing beyond knowing that you are one with all things. When you know yourself as love you emanate love and when you emanate love everything is beautiful and when you see things that are not beautiful you know that you are disconnected from who you are. There's no need to dream up all kinds of imaginary horrors and contemplate them to discover the truth. There's no dark side of the truth. If something comes along that you cannot love you stop giving your focus to it, or you find things about them that you can love. This could be called choosing or creating a duality. But instead you never step away from the greater connection of who you are. Then that connection gets stronger and stronger until less comes across your path everyday that you cannot love. Then you experience the previously dark things as strikingly beautiful and the highlight of your week was when you sat in a cemetery and mediated and felt nothing but love. You sit and soak up the warmth of the sun and enjoy being the only consciousness witnessing the last physical memories of hundreds of other beautiful beings and you revel in the gift of life and the pure unfaltering love of the universe.

Look for the beauty in it. Look for the beauty in impermanent people doing things that are meaningless. When you look at a wall or a building, see the beauty in it. When you sit in a room with a crowd of people shut off the mind and feel/tap into their energy, even if just for a moment. It's an incredibly cool thing. It's that connection with life and beauty that you're trying to grow. That love/connection will ground you. You're feeling like you're going insane because you don't feel grounded. You feel this way because you don't feel like you're a part of it, you don't feel the connection. Look for that.

I view it as one of end of a paradoxical truth. The other end is something like the feeling when you look up into the stars and contemplate how very insignificant you are.

@Serotoninluv I did not read their interaction that way at all. He is heavily under the influence of a very pained ego. She made a wonderful effort to go to him and look at him face to face. Her words are full of compassion, but she is unwilling to meet him on the level of his under the influence of pain ego. That type of conversation is never helpful, not for him, not for her, not for anyone in the room.

Good. Good.

@tsuki Yes.

@tsuki I'm only saying that you (and by you, I have no idea if YOU tsuki are guilty of this or not but plenty of people here are) don't allow yourself to enjoy life as fully as you could.