ExploringReality

William James passage on the variety of religious experiences. "Our normal waking consciousness is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus, and at a touch they are there in all their completeness."

The greatest adventure still lays ahead. Death is not a bad thing.

I was listening to a lecture of Bashar, channeled through Darryl Anka from the early 2000's in where he is translating an insight and perspective of experiencing reality as what he calls "Shifting through Infinity". The idea is simply that everything is Consciousness shifting through billions of parallel realities every second. As your Consciousness is shifting through billions of parallel realities every second this creates the illusion of time, space, motion, and movement. So literally from this point of view, you can see more of the fluidity and malleability of consciousness as it shifting through whole, separate, complete universes and realities in and of themselves. It's pretty cool once you take this idea and it's full depth and context and contemplate the significance of it and really pay attention and ground yourself in your direct experience of reality in this very moment you can begin to see and unravel the illusion that is created by consciousness. Let me know what y'all think about this, check out his full description of this state of consciousness.

You are where you are in life. Are you going to resist the inevitable? Or flow with it? Dude you are going to fucking die! Embrace this life as it is, and make the most of it as well paradoxically. Your ideas about death are just ideas. What the moderator is saying isn't anything Alan or osho doesn't say. Maybe a moderator can't fix your issues either. Maybe only you can figure out your dilemma. How about learning what emotions are, why your feeling this existential dread and what the root solution is for you personally. Your going to die regardless, but set yourself free, don't shoot the messenger.

@Leo Gura where did you get this?

@Thought Art Yes I question "Bashar". Frankly I don't believe in Bashar. It's the information that's useful, Truth is not in the fact that you believe or don't believe. I never equated Truth with Bashar, I just shared a teaching that may resonate with some. Can you prove you are a human? And how do you know that's true? And how do you know that's true? How do you know he's pretending to channel? How do you know that your skepticism isn't something your ego is using to defend yourself? How do you know anything? 🧐 Have you fully questioned your skepticism? Have you questioned your emotional reactions and your denial of your emotional reactions masked with logic and rationality?

@Thought Art What are you pretending to be?

@PurpleTree Your hate stems from an insecurity and experiences of being grifted. Since you claim I love grifters, I claim that you are a grifter yourself. Your playing a stupid game and stuck on debating if someone is channeling a real entity, that's peanuts compared to applying teachings that can transform your understanding of life and to live a healthier life. Your stuck on critiques of grifters which reflects your own insecurities and fears.

I've had some so-called negative side effects from combining Kriya yoga with shamanic breathing. For 2 weeks straight my entire digestive system was rebalancing itself and I was having difficulty having bowel movements because it forced me to change everything I ate and switched over to whole organic foods to be able to deal with the energy that was moving through me. I would be at work at night having to turn off all the lights in a room and then rest in there for 30 minutes and meditate with my eyes closed in order for myself to reboot and recharge. Oh, and I also experienced immense vibrations in my head but it was not any headache or anything like that it was just that my entire eyes and my head was craving darkness and solitude and in order for me to get through this I had to meditate in the dark for about an hour otherwise I just couldn't handle all the stimulation and the light.

@Yimpa 🤣 🤣 🤣

@PurpleTree Your stuck on debating wether he's real or not which is trivial. I listen to the information and it works in my life. Go get one kid.

@PurpleTree Truth is larger and primary to proof buddy.

Just accept the suffering that is here, go on YouTube and listen to sadhguru, osho and Alan Watts. They can deliver a reassuring message on death. Try to surf the waves of suffering brother, you can think of your life as one piece of wave in an immense ocean. "You are not just a drop in the ocean you are the entire ocean in the drop" - Deepak Chopra.

Breathe. Do not harm the body. When you get to the other side, you will be Here. The other side is not separate from where you are. But death can also be a window into your deathless true nature. Our time will come when the body will fall, do not rush to pull back the curtains of Maya. Don't easily buy into things which you heard a teacher say through fear. You don't know,and that's okay. Nirvana is letting go. Blowing out the candle of desire. It is full completion. Surrender to thusness.

This is a serious, and important question to get on the money, especially when taking these Consciousness expanding wonders, you want a clean safe trip physiologically. Have a safe journey.

You are Infinite Consciousness. Everything exists all at once, but to have your experience of physical reality you have to create the illusion of time and movement by shifting through many seemingly similar looking realities and universes.

I do smoke cannabis, I notice I read more when I'm not high. I don't eat much when I'm stoned I've noticed. I do love the psychosis cannabis induces but it's not strong enough like LSD or psilocybin. It makes me less social and more Philosophical.

This is what AI generated for me based on my thoughts about why I love being in a amateur boxing fight, sparring or in a street fight. Why I love fighting and studying combat. Sometimes I feel that surge—like something ancient waking up inside me. It ain’t about violence or ego. It’s pure, raw energy. Like if I don’t channel it, it'll eat me. But if I ride it, I become unstoppable. That’s the same force behind someone snapping in rage… Me landing a perfect punch. It’s in the crack of my fist against a jaw. In the art of slipping punches, bobbing, weaving—calm in the storm. Reading chaos like scripture. Countering like I’m painting with time itself. This isn’t just about fighting. It’s about learning how to be in that fire. Not running from it. Becoming it. Some people let it control them. I learn to dance with it. I make it my art. My power.

This genuinely made me drop to my knees while reading. This is heavy stuff, I know gold when I see it, iknow coffee when I smell it! 🙏🏽👌🏽

Are you referring to the thread "Treat women like children"?

@Yimpa I love ken Wilber, when he was younger he was such a stud and had a nice physique like a world class athlete.

I would say no, because the movie is stimulating and moves your awareness to different parts of the mind without your control. Watching a movie can absorb your attention into a certain stillness and concentrate focus on a feeling or absorption in the sense perception of the movie but to substitute it for original meditation is a way the ego weasels it's way to avoid sitting down and Being Present without getting sucked into content because the ego thrives on stories and thoughts. Even if you mute the volume, your looking and automatically projecting language, meaning and interpretations onto the pixels on the screen without your noticing what's going on because surface level Consciousness isn't aware of how your entire experience is created and maintained.

You are very radiant and appreciated

Ego is a creative expression of Intelligence. The ego is not separate from infinite intelligence, it is a creative aspect and design of it. A small portion of intelligence is not the whole of intelligence but then again it is from a higher, holistic perspective. Intelligence is much more deep and broad then what we currently conceptualize as intelligence. Human intelligence is just about one small aspect of the larger infinite intelligence. The ego is just a thought that the Universe dreamed up. Technically it doesn't exist but, the illusion of it does. This is the paradoxical nature of language, when you try to communicate the transcendent in the relative domain.

Thank you Leo for these nuggets of wisdom, I will apply this to my relationships in a conscious and mature way, to understand in the moment what is going on.