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You need a self to have context. Because you feel like something, so you’re able to feel like there’s something beyond this immediacy, a context to this moment. Like: “right now I’m on planet earth”. You’ve never proved this in your direct experience. It’s you who assumes yourself as separate thus the world as separate, so it makes it possible to have all kinds of contexts.

I can’t know for others but for me it seems self, if we talk about it on relative level, is an active imagination. It’s not still but it tries to be still: in a good way, the goal is having a still nice self image. But it’s not possible because you can’t freeze something imaginary. So it becomes an effort that fails, I tried it many times. Dissolving the self implies stopping this mechanism that imagines the self. For me it didn’t happen.. I couldn’t stop that mechanism. But maybe for some it happens.

I bet Leo has enough money already hehe

The forum has been incredibly slow for me lately, and yea I get this error too

I won’t ask about it but yea it’s weird

Leo loves the mind. He is an intellectual. It’s clear he is still operating from his mind and his sense of self, he’s still on the human level in his day to day life. He hasn’t reached full dissolution of the psyche, if that’s even possible

Good for you. I’ll check him out

You should change username to “nobody here”😂

Lmaooo

Antipsychotics may help you

Actualized turnt tinder 😂 Cool life story

Lmao that was lowkey a funny kinda smooth opener not gonna lie I have met entity during sleep paralysis that was not hallucination so similar things during trip and sleep is possible….

If you really wanna get somewhere with contemplation instead of just staying at the mind level perhaps contemplate the mother of all assumptions which is that you’re real, and the world is real. That could potentially make you penetrate deeper into experience and actually change your experience, which I guess is the goal. Not only contemplate but actually bring your attention and focus to that sense of “I”

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There’s a Russian artist name Miravi she has some nice ballads , this is my favorite of hers

I don’t understand what you mean

Got it. I agree. But if the mystical perspective is the true one, must mean this normal perspective has a kind of illusion to it?

So maybe the self is as real as a stone, but then what’s not real is that the self and the stone are separate things? So in that sense it’s not real because it’s not existing as a separate thing. Or am I wrong? I mean must be at least something wrong in my experience that I’m having right now where I feel real

Depends. Taking a more bird eye view of life could free you from most petty human issues. But it could also lead you down a path of nihilism, existential anxiety (about death for example), sense of hopelessness and meaninglessness. It’s no guarantee of happiness. But I think it’s a preferable view because it puts your priorities straight

I assume enlightenment is a kind of end to the sense of self. Or maybe the sense of self is still there in enlightenment just that it’s not seen as “real”, which in our current reality it is: the self is experienced as absolutely real. Maybe that’s the illusion : the self seeming absolutely real. But then in enlightenment it’s seen as just a kind of form, but the non dual nature of reality is recognized, so you see how nothing is actually separate. But all the form remains the same, just not seen as absolutely real and separate That’s my guess I have wondered about the self I think the average person has moments where they forget about themselves : such as when they’re immersed in something. But it’s not a non dual state, because they’re still immersed in form: in duality (like watching a movie) For the vast minority of people they’ll have a self all their life, ask someone on the street: do you feel like you exist? They’ll most likely say yes. So enlightenment is really rare

You guys need to update your methods lol. Do you think she’s gonna reply like “oh yes I am!!” if she happened to be her

Lollll you guys are funny

A woman could simply be horny enough, in combination of being open to the idea of casual sex meaning she doesn’t judge it from some religious standpoint or something, and maybe she also is craving some ego boost (some could use it as an addiction for a self esteem boost). Especially in the west where culture is very sexualized and a woman’s sex appeal is put on a pedestal, so engaging in casual sex could feed her self image of wanting to feel sexy. Now that I’m thinking all that I wrote could be achieved in a relationship too. To that I could explain that maybe yes she’s craving intimacy and affection, but the one she gets from casual sex might be “enough” for now in her life. And emotional support and social company she might get from friends

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Because brain produces self illusion and psychedelics act on the brain to break down that mechanism that imagines a self Ive experienced how changes in brain changes self. So the brain and self go hand in hand. Mind creates self (maybe not all of it), but what produces the mind🤔