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It’s a mystery sometimes on this forum to know: does the person not understand I’m joking, or are they just so clever and witty they play serious still (maybe because they didn’t think it was funny) . You don’t have to respond ofc, this thought is directed in general at these instances I’ve noticed, not just this one.

@UnbornTao Listen to yourself, most important But maybe you have already exhausted all of that and penetrated through the very end layers of the psyche so now there’s no other way but to go outward (listening to others)

@Elliott You said some agreeable things at first then started to act like a weirdo lol

You forgot the “energies and presence” , you are picking up on it and it is influencing you, even if you are not aware of it, unless you’re ultra idenfied being, then yes you will be able to isolate looks like that, or the woman that just looks at the “status” etc Yall really be revealing a lot about your own minds with these posts

Oh I meant, maybe you have idea in your mind or past experience etc of a kind of guy you’d want and you feel you could attract such guy because you would complement him. But maybe irl nowadays you feel you don’t find those guys in your life so you feel down and lonely, just some thoughts I had, asking if that described how you felt somehow.

Salmon, quinoa and broccoli Be making you wanna go down on your knees in prayer for how blessed you feel eating it, especially the salmon (sardines are good replacement too, budget friendly plus Jesus ate them so that’s something eheh) 😂 AI said it’s also one of the absolute top most nutritionally complete meals there are. (I don’t eat this one in particular often, there are variations, I mention because it’s so good imo)

Do you experience that you’re not attracting what you feel you could?

You say that because you’re thinking about average men that develop like beer bellies and high cholesterol around that age

Interesting that you equate awareness with sense of self. For me I have thought of awareness as empty, and that sense of self is something more defined, and ego is an even more "contracted" and defined version of that, like additional layers to this basic sense of self. Thinking about these things as a natural desire of the mind to make sense of things, for its own sake, and now that you put it like that, something is making more sense to me. I think I can get what it's saying, and I can connect it to how I've conceptualized it myself in my mind.

I'd say I've made similar observations. I think sometimes you could watch someone because you resonate with the person (even if they may have no sense of self, as the audience I still feel a sense of person about them), so then how properly they articulate things isn't the most important, but ofc the best is the combination of that resonance and really good articulation

Wait do men become successful Ceo and bodybuilders with the goal of getting women in the back of their minds? Thats like traveling around the world to go to your local grocery store instead of just walking there directly. Interacting as humans thats natural stuff but becoming Ceo is like exhausting prefrontal cortex stuff that makes you feel like brain will explode (like trying to install something on computer or likewise x100, I imagine), and fitness needs you to connect to your body if youre doing it right, and focusing on women will disconnect you instead, so you not doing yourself a favor there....

I have noticed this thing where if you have intuitions about how something works, like you say "I have my ideas about", sometimes it could mean that it's already in you to some degree, like a seed that could be sown...... Therese energetic stuff for me makes life feel more real not less, although more "present" yes. Those people denying someone's experience of reality, sure some might be truly coming from that place, but some just lack sensibility , almost as if the enlightenment stuff during psychedelic state for example as you mention, doesn't automatically come with the highest state of development hmmmmm What you describe reminds me of some things ive heard, I have vague memory of Rupert Spira (if I remember correctly) talking about how first step to enlightment is awakening to emptiness (awareness realizing itself or something) then next step (final) is this nothing realizing its everything, merging with everything (so fullness) This phrasing kinda stuck with me for some reason. Its cool when I hear the description "aliveness" its like the aspect of enlightment that actually sounds nice 😆aaaah The last thing you mention about moving focus. Has that been like an active choice for you or more spontaneous thing? Because thats something I dont really relate to some people, they talk about things often as if it's an active intentional choice they make. You can actually have a sense of self but still feel "passive" like youre not doing anything, but I dont hear it talked about.... But yea absolutely, attention is a powerful thing!

What do you consider difference between ego and self? You mean self can be but without boundaries but ego is when theres sense of boundaries between the two? Personally I sometimes hesitate to use the word ego because its so strongly associated with negative qualities that it can feel like the term doesn't truly capture "self" but rather certain qualities of self

I think I can kinda follow what youre saying, I see it as degrees, all the way from the thickest most dense ego (maybe adolf hitler or something) to the most subtle (hmmm who could that be) , to zero self which makes me think of , nvm I can't think of them because theres just "nothing" to them if you get what im saying. But basically theres almost like endless amount of states the ego could be in, ranging this entire spectrum, and even if you start towards the adolf hitler range of the scale, if something is powerful enough it could still break it down, be it laser attention or whatever 😶

Yea I feel sometimes it's the sloppy language use that can make it tad bit harder to discern who's the genuine one or not. You really gotta be sensitive for that.

I dont understand "no self" either, to me that sounds like it would be identical to deep sleep, zero experience, like the perspective that a rock on the ground is having But still, I think, if there can be "self"- state, why couldn't there be state without that? But thats kind of a logical thing. But not entirely, I do have intuition that there can be state stripped of this "self" experience I am having (that is quite subtle already) You say "presence", where? In body? Self to me sounds like in the body, a presence is "something that is present", so its still something, even if its the most softest boundary to it, thats what I think. Maybe she has that or not idk, maybe its so soft boundary that she and some other non dualists can still talk about non duality, because its so clear to them, as their self is so subtle that the nature shines through, or something

Yea it can be hard dealing with children sometimes.

I have so many psychic experiences and synchronicities that when you wrote that I genuinely considered if you were right for a moment

They humanize god, and dehumanize Jesus Lol

The god part I have yet to see, maybe one day 😁

Im not keen on all the definitions , but now I looked that up and yea I see what youre saying. Basically, I think sometimes, people will miss out on great value of something, because they are judging it , and a lot of judgment can be based sort of on the impression they get of the people who do it, rather than the core of it In similar way ive seen people here claim "new age is not spiritual" I think its close minded

science created some of your beloved psychedelics 😁 Im not saying science isn't limited, ofc it is, but I feel science itself at its core doesn't really claim otherwise, its my impression for now

Theres a difference between science and scientISTS For example: Science says: we can't prove this with OUR methods, so claims about it being factual/scientific we call "pseudoscience" (thats what it means, not more than that) ScientIST say: it is pseudoscience, THEREFOR it is probably bullshit Crucial difference

Lisa Cairns. She has website, YouTube and insta. She has a very little audience, which is weird considering how she is in comparison to some other teachers (im not super fan of word teacher but I can't come up with better now) She is to me a true, enlightened "non dual" woman. Actually she embodies a kind of "divine woman" presence. The only woman I've seen like her. Just chiming in even if you didn't ask me.