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Deep sleep is the same as death. No experience. No one to have an experience. It is beyond existence and non-existence. The absence of absence.

@Pox I don't know if your familiar with the guitar player/song writer/performer Billy Strings but I watched an interview of him earlier today. And in it he said he grew up in a household of musicians who partied and did drug a lot. His parents and their friends were doing a lot of meth. And he said he realized he had to get out of that environment and leave it behind or else he was going to either end up in jail or be killed. Sounds like it was a pretty rough bunch. Well anyhow, I wanted to share with you what he said about how he now approaches life: "I'm going through a part in my life where I'm looking through the windshield instead of in the rearview. It's a renewal, like a new day, morning light, a spider molting, or a snake shedding its skin. Now I'm just along for the ride."

I just checked him out. He has some interesting vlogs.

I hear ya. I'm well aware of N.J. Outdoor Adventures and Jarrod Tocci and the likes. I've been thinking a lot lately about selling my house and living the van/RV life again as I did in my early 20's. I loved it!

@Pox What skills do you have that come naturally to you?

@Miguel1 I'd certainly call that a mystical experience. Consciousness became untethered from the identity of the self. It does feel somewhat scary when it first happens. Kind of ghosty feeling like being eyes without a face.

It is very unlikely because they no idea what can be discovered. And even if somehow, they do so happen to get a glimpse of a higher level of consciousness. Unless they mindfully cultivate it, they slip back into a mundane state of consciousness.

Surface Dwellers

Remembering back to my first experience of non- ordinary consciousness it was a total game changer. More real than reality itself. How can anyone not be permanently changed after such a discovery? Edit" Could it be a matter of cultivation? Like a garden that needs to be tended to, or the weeds will surely take over- referring to those who remain 'unchanged'.

Nice. That in itself puts you at an advantage. Leo suggested Kriya Yoga for instance. Now you have a well-established background of meditative practice to compare with.

Hi Galyna. Its certainty has been a while. I can totally relate to what you're saying here. I remember a time early on when Leo just starting off. Before the forum even existed. I had my whole spiel about what enlightenment was. Then Leo replied, "This is all thought stories". Gotta love it!

It is simply returning to the mundane. Chop wood, drink coffee.

Starting a Buddhist meditation practice at the age of 20 is a lot different than starting at age 6. If you would have started then, your pursuits would already be aligned.

Here we have #10 of the Ox herding pictures "Returning to the marketplace" The journey is complete. Smoke em' if you got em'.

It's from his lecture "The Dream of Life"

Wife: Would you PLEASE, help me with these children! SomethingFunny : Would you PLEASE stop nagging me! I'm trying to achieve all the things Leo talks about.

@Butters "I Am" -then all the trouble started.

Or maybe both together true. @Entrepreneur Your input here thus far has been a valuable asset to the Life Purpose/ Entrepreneurship community. So welcome! I hope it's being appreciated. *When I first saw your Musk avatar, I had to take a look see and investigate what you were all about- as a newbie that is. But the shoe fits well.

I feel most Godly when creating my own music. Like God is flowing through me. Ambient22 audio.mp4

@CARDOZZO As far as your original quarry goes, think in terms of you as an energetic thread connected to all other energetic threads and embrace that mode of consciousness.

If we need to start somewhere, let it be to fully understanding one absolute truth: which is our difficulty with this simple progression is that most of us are unwilling to accept that we need so little to get on with. We are geared to expect instruction, teaching, guides, masters. And when we are told that we need no one, we don't believe it. We become nervous, then distrustful, and finally angry and disappointed. If we need help, it is not in methods, but in emphasis. If someone makes us aware that we need to curtail our self-importance, that help is real. Sorcerers say we should need no one to convince us that the world is infinitely more complex than our wildest fantasies. So, why are we dependent? Why do we crave someone to guide us when we can do it ourselves? Contemplate on just this for now and we will speak again.

@CARDOZZO If I continue, I then become personally responsible for whatever happens from here.

Detachment.

@CARDOZZO Our way of perceiving is a predator's way. There is another mode, the one I am familiarizing you with: the act of perceiving the essence of everything, energy itself, directly. To perceive the essence of everything will make us understand, classify, and describe the world in entirely new, more exciting, more sophisticated terms. Terms that correspond to sorcery truths, which have no rational foundation and no relation whatsoever to the facts of our daily world but which are self-evident truths for the sorcerers who perceive energy directly and see the essence of everything. For such sorcerers, the most significant act of sorcery is to see the essence of the universe. The essence of the universe resembles incandescent threads stretched into infinity in every conceivable direction, luminous filaments that are conscious of themselves in ways impossible for the human mind to comprehend.