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@Magnanimous Good topic! Good info.

I aways think of this song when I hear ppl say they had their first realization of Absolute Truth.

You just know without a doubt. Because you are in the presents of infinite intelligence and have total confidence in it. I was practicing "no-self" and it felt like consciousness became totally focused like a laser. I've never experienced anything like that before. Next thing I knew I was no longer in time and space. Almost as if I entered a portal or something. Sort of a trance like state that the whirling dervishes are said to enter. I'm trying to describe it the best I can using words. But afterwards I remember thinking "that was absolutely amazing". "Why am I just discovering this now?". I didn't ask for information. I knew it knew and that was good enough. With it being infinitely intelligent it has your back at all times. Even though from the perspective of the finite self it may not always seem to be the case in that moment within time and space.

I was giving an example to @Dazgwny 's statement "It's like an impossibly tangled knot that you manage to untangle"

Add "practicing no-self" to that list. I call it simply "source". A cornucopia or "wellspring" from which all things emerge. All questions cease and become redundant as everything is already known. Space and time vanish.

@Dazgwny I think you'll like this.............

Forget about it. BTW I wasn't talking about psychedelics if that's what you thought.

Do you realize that is an ego speaking?

There will be no "mental health". The mind will be left behind.

There is no such thing as the experience of reality -Nisargadatta

Going halfway doesn't count. That's like dipping your toe in the water to see if it feels cold. You gotta jump in all the way. *Edit: Not physical death but surrendering the "I am"

Once death has come, I won't know it. My practice has always been to relinquish all experience to the greater- infinite consciousness. Perhaps at death a "Knowing" could possibly remain devoid of experience. We'll see.

"I" disappears all the time. Deep sleep. Deep meditation (turiya). Same with death. This small wave of consciousness called the "I" folds back into an of ocean of consciousness.

"You" have never walked down any street.