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@Consilience I understood it as having to embrace paradox in order to resolve the type of questions I ask. Because my questions desire an explanation of what I would consider logical. But logic is obviously not the best tool if you want to awaken haha. And then actually fully embracing it (in an embodied way) is the difficult part

@Yarco Lol true. I guess this all-encapsualting Infinity is something I have yet to discover.

I got your point.

Right. But still so many claim, including Leo, that there are even deeper awakenings that goes further in the sense of "understanding". So you can basically sit and understand Truth infinitely, and infinite number of times. So is this a bug or a feature, because deeper awakenings makes it seems as if you can constantly connect more to Truth. Or dissolve all the boundaries. So how can Truth ever be fully realized? I am also speaking from my own experiences where greater realisations can get conquered by the next one and increase my depth of understanding. Perhaps there is no end? And that's what boggles me about infinity, since it is everything but it's also just one thing, the only thing. This is mostly mental masturbation but questions like these are what motivates me to actually pursuit Truth. Paradox is also fun.

@Danioover9000 There are people who subscribe to certain (very small) live-streaming channels just for the sake purpose of f^cking upp the like-dislike ratio. But you probably didn't know that *petpet*

@Danioover9000 Ok. I think it's great that it's gone, less negativity and more happiness yaaay! Also gets rid of many trolls

@Rilles Maybe I have no idea who Hitler is, then I'll have to watch the damn video (which is the purpose of YouTube) and judge for myself, and make up my own opinion. People are so damn sensitive these days, like "OoOOh noo they removed the dislike count, what a horrible discrimination of my freedom as an individual" geez...

@Rilles alright but in the end it's just a button you click with no value whatsoever.

Lol who cares. Better reason to find out yourself what is good or not instead of judging from a like-dislike ratio in advance

Meat actually contains a lot of nutrients, vitamins etc. What's important is the quality of your meat. Some packaged bs meat from your local cheap supermarket is complete shit in comparison to meat from an expensive, high-end butcher shop who has a deal with the local farm. If you're in the US you can distinguish between the USDA Select, Choice and Prime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrkNpOHQqzg&t=101s

My experience is that they never worked. Visualisation did though. Each his own.

"Personal development" is extremely broad. Depends on the type you are talking about. Using tools to improve your life is not a scam. Expecting something for nothing is. Real personal development helps guide you toward a better life and clears out all the shit there is inbetween. All the responsibility and work is on You, and only you. It becomes a scam if you mentally masturbate about it and never actually do anything. You can do it without talking about it. It's as if you're holding a map but never actually walking toward the destination. There's levels to this shit mate

I really love how a single decision can change your entire life. How you can just make a choice to do something you would never do, neglect fears and doubts, just do it anyway, and see your life unfold in breathtaking ways. Knowing that you have this freedom to change in an instant is a truly remarkable thing. (Ofc. easier said than done)

Oh yes it can work in ways that can absolutely scare the shit out of you. You can basically create an entire life through visualizing. However, the trick is to do it properly. This is just my experience, but I found out what worked for me is getting extremely emotionally invested in an idea/vision. You can use methods to help you like music or whatever. But vision without emotion is not gonna do you any good. When I worked with coaching I told my clients that unless you truly desire your vision on a daily basis, thinking about it very deeply and getting emotionally passionate every time you think about it, you are not effectively visualizing. Just simply sitting 20 minutes a day forcing a vision in your mind and then forgetting about it is gonna do nothing for you. Desire is the true secret to visualization. A deep burning desire, as Napoleon Hill would state it

Sounds like she has to be very physically attracted to you in order for this to work. Or else it will just seem extremely creepy.

@Thought Art I thought the same way, until I really got into psychedelics. They have shown me things that I probably would have never experienced through a "sober path". You have to be strategic in the way you take them and have a purpose. It is indeed a tool. But you have to use it in the right way

Success is the progressive realisation of a worthy ideal. You are not finished when you fail, you are finished when you quit. So don't give up

Wow nice, got me motivated

Thanks!

Yesterday I had one of my most intense awakening experiences so far. First of all I just wanna say that I am extremely happy that I have continued this work and that I didn't give up. Been meditating, experimenting with psychedelics and doing self-enquiry for about 5 years now, and obviously my best experiences have always been when I've taken psychedelics. I will try to describe my experience in a good way, but the words might sound cliché at times but really there is no other way to describe it... So yesterday I did magic mushrooms, first time in a while. My biggest problem is that I have let fear control me way too much when it comes to my experiences. I have always wanted to have control over the situation at hand, and have never allowed my ego to fully dissolve because of this. But this time I told myself that I was not gonna cave in, knowing that I will not die from this, no matter how intense it gets, I will eventually return back to ego-state and gain control. With this mindset in mind I just let myself go and did a normal dose of psilocybin semilanceata (growing quite close to where I live actually lol) and since I am quite sensitive to psychedelics and I didn't have any tolerance, I got really blown away. At first I started to feel the normal effects, more intense colors, music sounds lovely, increasing happiness (while still a bit anxious), and then after about 2,5 hrs. something very strange happened... It was like I was sucked into a form of "vacuum" where time just stood still, in fact everything stood still. I have never experienced this type of stillness ever in my entire life, and to be honest it felt suffocating as fuck. Imagine that you have like a "universal remote control" and you press pause, and everything just freezes around you except for you. Difficult to describe, but anyways, after this I started to do my regular do-nothing meditation trying not to cave into the fear & just letting myself go. By doing this the "vacuum" became my entire experience. This included all of my senses, and the entire experience of life became just one point of stillness. Realizing this I understood that "Me" and/or "everything else" is a duality. I knew this theoretically but this was the first time I really grasped it. I felt like all of experience HAS to be who I am, and that can only be the thing that exists. All sounds, all thoughts, all that I see and can feel, is all there is. When have I ever experienced anything outside of consciousness? Perhaps consciousness has to be everything then, how can it actually be anything else? At the same time questions like these were boiling up, many "doubts" arose as well. My struggle before has been to counter these doubts like "but what about the brain, what about birth, what about evolution, what about science blabla", but the only thing that really had to happen was that these thoughts were a part of consciousness and i.e were totally meaningless. They meant NOTHING in this state. It was so obvious because consciousness HAS to be everything there is. And since it's all there is then all separation, dualities and labels evaporate, they just become a funciton of the mind for the ego to guide itself toward survival. So with these "doubts" out of the way I was finally able to go into what I really wanted, the realisation of Love. Unfortunately, I did not realize this. In fact my definition of what Love even was had dissolved to the point where the entire meaning of what Leo usually talks about became a strange concept. So I wondered, "then why is all of consciousness love?" and the only answer I could find was just "because God is so fucking giving". God gave this to my ego, this life and this experience. In fact I gave it to myself. After some intellectual bullshitting without any real substance to it, because I didn't see the point, I just embraced the experience completely and what I experienced was just a total, absolute f*cking infinite void of "me". What I thought of as Me was just the experience of life, that was it. There was nothing and no one else ever, and that was totally fine because acceptance itself allowed it to be true. A sort of beautiful solipsism. I am kinda shaken by the experience because now it feels like I've retreated to something where I don't really belong, this extremely limited sense of self. Mind you that my experience of "everything is me" was not the same feeling as "ego is me" but rather a totally obvious acceptance of what was, and how could it be anything but Me since this is all there is? I was disappointed though that "Love/Full God realization" didn't really happen. However it still felt like there was nothing more to realize, but I guess that's just bs, and the true journey for me starts now- Don't know if this post belongs to a different thread, just wanted to share my experience.

the more you try to control something the more it controls you

What's your current enlightenment-score? How many awakening points do you have?

@Leo Gura A full-blown awakening seems scary af...

When you say this Leo, do you mean that it did not occur because it's all a dream so evolution is not what we think it is, or that it's all a lie and evolution actually did not ever happen?