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@MellowEd Are you familiar with The Nine Circles of Hell from Dante's Inferno. It's some pretty crazy shit like being buried up to your neck in frozen tears. Another was gnawing on the severed head of your enemy for all eternity.

Consciousness and reality appear mutually on the absolute like sea foam on the ocean.

Yes, the very act of pursuing is implying lack or absence which is the wrong approach.

@Hojo Rocking your head back and forth or looking right to left has nothing at all to do with brainwaves. Something else is going on if there is a change on the monitor. The headband sensors are located on the forehead so you moving around is probably messing up the reading. If you want to get an accurate reading, try sitting still.

@Hojo You're looking at manmade satellites and yes there are thousands of them orbiting the Earth. Notice the ones that follow each other @3:00 in a straight line? That is Starlink. It looks way more impressive than what is normally seen with the unaided eye because he's using a super sensitive camera and it's speeded up. With a satellite tracking app such as Heavens Above every one of those lights in the sky can be identified. BTW-I saw no "triangles". Some of the dots were a bit oblong but that's only due to the frame speed of the camera.

@Hojo O.K. I got it now. According to Alexa "flow is low level of alpha and high level of theta indicating heightened focus and concentration". I know sometimes athletes/golfers and such train using biofeedback to help them "Get in the Zone".

@Hojo What are you using to determine this "flow state" you are referring to? By flow state do you mean streaming selected brain waves over others? I was reading for clinical neurofeedback to be effective it needs to have real-time feedback of 500 Ms or less. That takes a lot of computing power especially when there are multiple brainwaves being monitored simultaneously. Besides for the equipment costs the software is expensive. I priced it a few years ago and it was around $5000.00 us. That was for a decent entry level unit and basic software. I went for a sleep study a few years back and they had the good stuff in the monitoring room. When they got me ready, they did a check to see if all the sensors were getting a signal. Then they started recording my brainwaves. I first went into the meditative state I had been practicing. I wonder what they saw for the first 20 mins. or so. I forgot to ask the next morning.

@Hojo The EmWave monitors coherence. Looks like you at about 4% according to the graph. You'll have to work on that a bit and see if you can get a higher score. I'm not sure what is meant by "flow time". I did see it does monitor alpha (gold line) and theta (green line) plus others beta, ect. Can you see the results in real time? Your beta waves are the most abundant @ 42% which are your normal waking, thinking brainwaves. On the color chart see if you can replace more of the blue area with the gold/yellow. It takes practice and it's hard to say how accurate/sensitive your monitor really is. The really sensitive clinical monitors that are used for like sleep studies ect. are some expensive equipment.

@Hojo I have an EmWave around here somewhere. It uses a software program to record Brainwave/heart sync. Years ago I had an alpha/theta monitor that was great for meditation. It gave an audible ping when you hit on either. With practice you could get a stream of alpha or theta going.

That's the spirit! bang your ego up against that wall enough times and you'll have a true breakthrough, beyond all silly games. Do you dare??

@Flowerfaeiry Ever wonder what Jesus was doing (studying) during the "missing years"? Ever wonder what he taught only to his chosen few -the 12 disciples and Mary Magdalene? If Jesus were alive today, he would be right at home here as an Actualized member.

@Meeksauce The heading is perfect but the body of the post sucks! Ketamine is a dangerous substance. Look at what happened to Matthew Perry. Like Icarus he flew so close to the Sun he burned his wings and crashed. Yea it opened his mind. And closed his coffin. Beware!

@UpperMaster It has no "experience". It is the absence of all "states". During deep meditation I surrendered to the "state" of Samadhi/total union, and I vanished. Total absorption. The wave disappeared into the ocean.

@Jannes Since I was young, I've gotten a lot of synchronicities but never remote viewing.

@Jannes The thing you want to be aware of is experiencing so many synchronicities it can't be just coincidence. You could practice remote viewing with someone you know who is at a different location. If you're not doing anything later try it on me if you want. In 2 hours I will be at a certain location with prominent features. I'll be there most of the afternoon. Later this evening you can tell us something about what you saw while practicing remote viewing at my location.

@Jannes Just the fact that you have to ask others if remote viewing is real or not tells me you don't have what it takes to be successful. Training would be more for honing the skill of someone who is already somewhat gifted in the area of psychic abilities. Have you ever felt you already have some ability in this area?

Imagine a movie and frames are projected on a screen. The screen being awareness of "I am" and the frames being phenomena. Now imagine some of the footage was removed. You know something is missing but there is no experience of it. It's like that. To put it simply you vanish and take all experience with you. Poof- gone!

@UpperMaster Your mentor is talking about "Turiya" (beyond the 4th state). The first 3 being waking, dreaming, deep sleep. Deep sleep being the closest to turiya. The true self being prior to consciousness, beyond experience. Before the first thought of "I" which projects the self and the world. This state can't be conceptualized because it's beyond human understanding/ beyond all concepts. It is the absence of absence.

I certain circles it is a belief that our spiritual self knows it needs to improve certain areas, so we bring ourselves here to grow.

@Cathy92506 What you are referring to is actually called "Cosmic Consciousness". Which is the realization that 'you' are not separate from the universe and all of reality and in fact are the lens in which the universe is aware of itself. Is that a fantasy or is it real? That depends on your direct experience at the moment. At times the universe/reality/you can be very real. At other times not so much. Sometimes you are one with the universe. Other times separate from it. And other times, you and the universe are not real at all.

@PurpleTree It's really simple. What you once thought was you, the world, other ect, it's all God/ Heaven happening all around you. If you search for it, you miss it.

@PurpleTree @Razard86 Sing it with me...

You are a programmer that has created a reality. Every challenge meet is the program challenging itself to grow. "We are all here to do what we're all here to do"

What NDE's have in common is the transcending of the egoic identity (surrender) which leads to awakening to higher Truths. But truth be told no one has to be near physical death to realize these Truths. That is an extreme and excessive way to go about discovering truth. Truth is always within and accessible to those who truly want to know.

@Sugarcoat That's the crux of the matter and is what stands between anyone and God. Would make for a good topic." How do I turn off being "me" even if it's just temporary". To put in my two cents worth, it takes total surrender. Anything less than total surrender of the self-identity just won't do. Plus developing a still mind through a meditation practice helps a great deal. Also, it doesn't hurt to be in a neutral environment so nothing in your surroundings reminds you of you. And then you just let it all go and "STOP" being you. Leave it all behind and just "Be". That's when the magic happens and you expand in infinite directions with no limitations such as space and time to define you. Space/ time/self are all constructs of the mind to be let go of.