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Self enquiry (Neti Neti): I am not my state of consciousness

Let's not get conceptual. What I mean is Advaita is about understanding Yourself, not objective reality. Now we don't have evidence for an objective reality, but does no evidence mean it is not true? It only means we can never be certain. So why do we believe that knowing thyself means knowing the Truth (ultimate truth)?? Perhaps it's the only truth relevant, but when one respects truth for it's own sake, it doesnt matter whether it is relevant, helpful or not, etc... What if God (pure awareness) is also ignorant, because it doesn't acknowledge anything outside it (due to it's inability to) Perhaps the subjective truth is "Not Two", but the ultimate truth is "Not two and Not emptiness and not oneness" hahah, but that truth could never be verified in experience. We take that only experience is valid, which is cool for investigating the Self, but how are we sure we can even begin to investigate the Ultimate (Perhaps God has a shadow to work on accepting too but im way out of my league here even suggesting that - but who will tell the King that he's without clothes? ) @Toby was the Earth flat before people had any evidence that it was round? Evidence means nothing for the Truth. It means something only to us.

What I'm saying, perhaps there could be something OUTSIDE of awareness, something like a SUPERCOMPUTER which is not aware at all. I came to think of computers when I started contemplating Sophia and that she is operating but has no light of awareness. Of course she is probably just a parrot, but that doesn't mean there can't be something unexplainable and even unseeable.. And obviously that unseeable would not be possible to be proven by experience. But it doesn't mean it's not there! Just because we don't see something doesn't mean it's not there! It means it can't be proven, but Truth doesn't need to be proven to be True Is it not true that we don't know what is outside of awareness? @Toby We sometimes pretend we know. This is just a reminder that we know nothing

The objective "subjective truth" may very well be Advaita - it is, but who says our experience (subjective) is the only Truth in existence? Furthermore, if there is no you, which is the very end-goal of Advaita, then your experience is in fact NOT a measure of Truth, because it is illusory

Watch it, I also cringed there a bit, but don't close your eyes and ears. Just because he has one thing "wrong" (but I don't know that, perhaps it's a deep seated belief being challenged) doesn't mean the rest is invalid. Furthermore, since pure consciousness is not something you have, how is it you're writing about it? Let me clarify, if consciousness is eternal and everything is made of consciousness, then you are it and you have it at the same time. There is nothing else to have or not have... In Advaita

Zenyatta from Overwatch has the following lines; "True self is without form." "Adversity is an opportunity for change." "Life is more than a series of ones and zeroes." "Do not be discouraged, we all begin in ignorance." "Repetition is the path to mastery." "Overconfidence is a flimsy shield." Source: https://nowloading.co/p/7-pieces-of-wisdom-we-can-all-learn-from-overwatch-zenyatta/4203502 And here is an awesome video I found during my browsing for Zenyatta.

I don't know why but this image says "God" to me. I kept on seeing it pop up in my awareness today and I have this deep sense that it is very familiar... Like I've seen it in another life or something and it left a huge impression for some reason

I love those insights. They ring true to me! I will go deeper thanks

Thanks for the food for contemplation

Isn't the problem not that we take ourselves to be "The subject ", but that we take objects as the subject unconsciously. Only if we look in the opposite direction of all objecrs can we see there is no subject at the end of the line. And that subject is who we are, then this means to be conscious - to stop pretending that an object is the subject?

Replacing Spoon with Self here.. I wonder if they had this in mind when they created this scene!

This actually inspired me and now I'm also going to try to make it to Oxford on the 13th to see Rupert Spira! Spiritual bonanza!

I'll be there(London)! Thank you for sharing

Jim doesn't care how others perceive him. He is way beyond that. Furthermore, there's no him

Mind cannot be in the timeless now if it wanted to. Mind by definition lives in Time. Mind is already past, content is already past. Only awareness can be present timelessly and luckily that's you!

Great experiences, but in my view not much growth, true growth is when you let go of seeking experiences, just my thoughts. Past 2 weeks I've been clean of all negative influences (I consider weed also a negative influence to some extent) and have had the best growth. Also my third eye is thanking me. Weed takes you out of clarity, just my take on it. It is a trickster in my view and the highs have a price.

There's the opposite and just as valid question: Why not? Perhaps it's egoic to hold all that happiness just for yourself. Share it. Help others reach that state of unconditional happiness also

For all yall psychonauts out there! The psychedelic sheep of the human family (full of regular sheep )

Don't believe it, where are the omegle masturbators

Holy cow, literally few minutes ago I asked one page on fb to give me guidance on how to use my crystal best and then here we already have provided 3 hours ago (Like great timing to place this thread at the top so I can see it and come share about this crystal above) . Great explanations, thank you very much. If you could give me any deeper knowledge that you have on this, I am open. Man the coincidences, maaan the synchronicity around this Crystal

Today the word 'Celestine' appeared in my awareness out of the blue because of a post on Facebook which asked for the first word that comes to mind that starts with C and ends with E. I didn't know what the word Celestine means, so I wanted to make sure it's even a real word before I wrote it as my answer (not to look foolish! hehe ) The google search amazed me, because Celestine is actually a crystal used for raising vibration, for the Third eye, accessing the Akashic Records and Astral travel... Also for communicating with Angels.. I will have to investigate these myself. I ordered it and will have it soon. Later I listened to a sample of this book: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Fiction/The-Celestine-Prophecy-Audiobook/B004F2M4NK/ref=a_search_c4_1_1_srTtl?qid=1509566853&sr=1-1 (It's 5 minutes long, check it out, it's profound!) which talks about magical coincidences exactly like the ones I had that lead up to me listening to this very book!!! So incredibly convincing... There's definitely something here. I will get the book as soon as I have more finances Perhaps you guys would also like to have it!

Imagination creates reality -Richard Wagner

What we perceive as darkness / unwanted is just our limited perspective. It's Truth filtered through the prism of mind, through the prism of polarities, while in truth there is no raper and no raped, there is just the perception. Another truth is : Don't do to others what you don't want done to you: Perhaps you want to get raped? Karma will rape you if you rape, so it's all good.

light and darkness are one no?