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@Mellowmarsh Let's not get nasty.

A verbal or silent mantra works nicely. Then when the mind settles down, you can stop with the mantra and just bask in the stillness. With daily practice it will take only a few minutes of mantra repetitions to get you to complete stillness of mind.

Evil is live spelled backward. Did your mind create concepts about that coincidence? It's the same with evil. Just a concept.

@Adrian colby I checked it out. A little hard to read the low res. download but watching some videos it's basically a map for a new age movement started by an artist/entrepreneur. It fits the bill here for sure.

What is that poster?

Insights seem to come out of the blue like a meteor sighting. It has a quality to it that you know is special. An alignment of sorts where everything comes together.

I started a solipsism support group, but nobody showed up.

"When the sage opens their eyes, the world comes into existence"

@Someone here The dots were only used to signify pauses between lyrics. Nothing more.

Sing with me.........and a one- and a two.... 'He knows when you are sleeping. He knows when you're awake. He knows if you've been good or not, so be good for goodness' sake. oh.....you better be good....you better be nice.....you better not pout I'm telling you twice.................God.... is always......... awake.

Yes

Very good.

There are levels of deep meditation where there is complete absorption. So yes, it is a lot like that. Only after you return do you realize you were gone -so to speak. As I've said before, there are no souvenirs of experience to bring back when you reach that level. Nisargadatta refers to it as "the absence of absence". "Beyond being, and nonbeing". You don't exist and never did.

That was said in the joke I made that day about "Nasagadsisi and Infinite consciousness and I changed it to alien consciousness. It was all just a joke. I never experienced any such thing. And if I did it would still be just an "experience" to let go of.

As I told you before: "I'm no Grand Wazoo wearing a mystery robe."

@James123 Of all the so called "gurus" Nisargadatta is the one in which I can directly relate to. I must have listened to his ultimatum pointers a million times over because we share the same Truth.

How could there be separation when you cease to exist? When you have vanished without a trace?

That's funny! I like that. But seriously, just to set the record straight: It ain't that. All 'experiences" are states and all states must be let go of. I've spoken of this many times. One must settle down where there is no more "experience". Pure /empty awareness absent of all content and identification -That is God.

@James123 I was simply pointing out that "Is there a program/ camp that would force me to be enlightened" is not the correct mindset to have.

@James123 The other day you asked,, "You serious?" about not making enlightenment your priority. Yes. I was serious.

You nailed it.

I Calabi- Yau manifolds. Infinity small and compact but carry a boat load of extra dimentions.

@Hojo This topic is philosophy in action. You're philosophizing the subject of philosophy.