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Lol, same

@Spiral Wizard Hmm, what I missed in Michaels’ testimony is the idea that we are always choosing between being identified with awareness or with ego. Ego is all about judgement, thinking, resisting, hating. And awareness is incapable of judgement - it merely looks and judges not. Awareness accepts everything and doesn’t try to figure out what’s good or bad or even what life ultimately is. I believe this choice to be identified with awareness is how you get enlightened. edit: actually, maybe he just doesnt call it awareness but surrender? You said he didnt care about how his mind threw tantrums and I think you can only do that when you are outside of the mind in awareness. Anyway, it’s a beautiful testimony. Jesus in ACIM says: What could you not accept, if you but knew that everything that happens, all events, past, present and to come, are gently planned by One Whose only purpose is your good? (ACIM, W-135.18:1)

Beautiful!

Yes, definitely; until there's a lot of space between You and the mind, the mind has such a strong magnetic pull toward its seemingly true thoughts. If you engage with only one of them, entertain a single strand of thought - it can unravel into a story lasting minutes, making you forget yourself for that period. I found that that's why long solo retreats work so well, and just living a regular life and trying to awaken on the side doesn't work as well. Remembrance Presence for 30-60 minutes daily is so ineffective at awakening. If you are at home living a regular life and your level of presence is increasing by 1-2% every few months, then it's such an annoying, slow process. But on a solo retreat, you can quickly level up your Silence. You can probably do what someone would do in a lifetime of practice in a 2-3 month retreat. On the other hand, awakening quickly also has drawbacks - it can be very turbulent if unconscious pain surfaces and keeps surfacing for multiple days or weeks in a row. Could you let me know who the teacher is? PM is fine as well. Thank you.

somewhat similar vibes, lovely, heartfelt

Yes, but it has nuances. It's mostly about your feelings within your internal world and your identity, as well as how judgmental or forgiving you are. I did notice that my life reflects my inner state and identity, but the state and identity have to be changed from the core, not surface-level change, like affirmations, trying to feel good, repeating positive thoughts, etc. True change and true happiness come from BEING. I believe the optimal way to manifest your dream life is to completely let go of all control and simply effortlessly form, Trusting that all is well because I feel well and this world is just a shadow of my inner state because it's inside of me too. It's my dream. It's inside of my mind. It's a hallucination. I need to feel full and happy and peaceful, and the dream will reflect that state in various symbols within the dream, be it finances, relationships, or many other things. Helpfull:::

https://open.spotify.com/track/2IxN2WbCoiUKH1sSqIWySN?si=drgM2T_tTvuvZkD40aNF4w

When walking in Silence, every moment of your day could be frozen in a snapshot and a poem written about it. I particularly enjoy the behaviour that eminates from Peace. It’s wise, kind, generous and completly unjudgemental. People intuitively know when you are with God. They are attracted to that Spiritual way of Being. Sainthood is, indeed, in Silence, not in concepts. In the end — every teaching forgotten —spending time in pure wisdom and peace. Doing what I desire every moment of every day. But I do it with Him, thus my actions pure and just.

Not for psychadelics but for weed this is insane;

You are correct; this universe was designed to perpetuate an endless cycle of suffering. Seeing this, the spiritual student turns inward and searches for a way out. He is amazed that spiritual teachers have agreed on this one thing: life is suffering. Then, they found that this life is a dream, an illusion. It was created to have opposite qualities to those that are in Heaven. Finally, the student learns how to escape from this dream and end all dreaming forever -- by simply being still and silent.

The 10% false is obviously his vid about infinite gods. It’s not even a discussion, lol.

Absolute is beyond concepts, indeed, but the concept that life is a solipsistic dream is true and is liberating.

There is, indeed, only one dream dreamt by one dreamer. Why does our brother not believe, that what he experiences during the shorter periods of images is the same as the longer periods of images? Why must he call one dream unreal and in another dream his purpose in his illusory life is to awaken ghosts that do not exist as soon as he turns away from them? oh silly brother, matters not, our brother is awake, he simply does not know. It’s all a joke. Blessed are we all, as all is One.

@Javfly33 I had the same realization a while ago. I asked Leo: how do you plan to get enlightened and break the cycle of birth and death? He said death is enlightenment. What a profoundly grave mistake. A single false belief will enslave him to time.

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/dQvb2MBGw9TmRpdJ/?mibextid=UalRPS ona serious note, I think higher guidance is truly a guidance into the present moment from which whatever happens, happens and it doesn’t really matter, what happens is that you were with Spirit during it.