Anton Rogachevski

@Nak Khid Thank you! Very good insight.

Let us not forget about the power of hypnosis and placebo. If you read or listen to teachers don't you think hypnosis is taking place?

Is Consciousness a stream of Awareness?

@Serotoninluv Very cool! Thank you for sharing. @Mu_ Just pushing the boundaries of mind. I get what he's saying. I suspect it might be a grand ideology that seekers buy into, and end up reaching through confirmation bias via altered states. I also suspect that the problem is that I'm too grounded in the materialist paradigm, since I have not had many higher states.

@Serotoninluv I guess I'm divided exactly there: a part of me is really eager to dismiss reality completely, and the other part wants to use reason to simultaneously ground it in material reality. That's super cool. How do you do lucid dreaming while awake?

You are welcome!

What lead you to assume there is one at all?

@Serotoninluv Can't say for sure there is "Real". It seems as though there is.

Yes it is all within the subjective experience, but why would I assume it's not somewhere out there too?

You may keep pretending that your subjective actuality is all there is. I won't blame ya, It sure seems that way subjectively.

@Nahm Got it. There's no awareness either - I guess we're back to square one.

@Nahm Why though? Both actuality and logic are absolutely subjective so to speak. One subjective appearance is trying to to depict another subjective appearance with a third subjective appearance. Surely if one wanted to disqualify an argument which threatens his worldview it would be easy to dismiss it all as "just thoughts."

@Nahm Sure a "Paradox" is the braking point of logic in trying to depict actuality.

@Nahm I can't see a difference, there's awareness ok, but what is there but awareness?

All of which paradoxically means that "Awakening" is the ability to induce a lucid dream state while awake.

Or so it appears from an absolutely solipsistic subjective point of view, which makes total sense.

@The observer When you dream you take all the imagined things to be real because of the dream state. When you wake up you see that it was imaginary. If you take DMT you can have imaginary things seem real while awake. Like a feeling of love, it will feel real, leading you to conclude that: "reality is love."

@The observer Yet a better question, is there consciousness without awareness? The trouble is that different people use them interchangeably for some reason, and so what is you definition for the two?

@Leo Gura

@Leo Gura Why did you not surrender into the Singularity? What did God guide you to do? Interestingly enough I've also had exact those thoughts many years ago when I wanted to commit suicide, and that's what actually stopped me from pulling the trigger.

What are the implications of such an insight on one's life?

Does enlightenment inevitably entail the dissolution of Monogamy? Is it even related?

@Leo Gura I'm pretty hard-wired for monogamy, and it doesn't seem to shift. It seems that you have projected a bunch of stuff onto me for no reason. I would look into it.

So if one has never had a heart awakening, can he really know what the word "Love" means? Can he talk at all about Absolute Love?

@Leo Gura Thanks man, that's helpful. Of course I'm gonna keep going deeper on that, it has become a life passion for me. Don't see anything more worthwhile to do. Keep up your amazing journey too, you are truly an inspiration!