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“Ego” is the illusion of a subject object relationship, which is only transpiring in thoughts, and is none of the ‘objects’ or ‘people’ it is being credited to.

Notice there is an experience of thoughts about a yourself, and repetitious telling of a story about a yourself. Contemplate, who / what am I even talking about? If I am myself (self inherent, awareness) then who / what is it I keep thinking & talking about?

Highly conscious people has become the blind spot. Connect the dots to your suffering. Have yo self an aha. Yourself is not found beyond yourself. Consciousness can veil itself by believing itself is a property of someone else or something else, found somewhere else somehow (?), in experience. The looking is already way too far past. “A flashlight just ‘comes across’ light and that’s how it is”. Maybe not.

@Vrubel Sorry... What is your baseline consciousness? Can you explain? Can you articulate on what the shift is? @allislove They already in the band, but they be leaving.

@Vrubel If you were the bassist, and the band kept telling you to raise your baseline, what would you do?

@This Neat pic. ?

@sleep That’s valuable feedback, much appreciated thanks! Any thoughts come to mind on what could’ve been there that would’ve been most helpful?

@Vrubel I play in bands sometimes, so the word hits me differently. When there’s any issue with the baseline, we don’t check the mics, drum kit, pa, boards, etc. We check the baseline. Usually just a tuning issue.

Pessimism is also “unchecked sneaky shit”. Surface level stuff. All we have to work with is bullshit = absolute freedom from knowing. Of course, don’t take my word for it. Viva la connerie! ✊?

@Carl-Richard Me neither.

Awesome that you’re feeling better. In the vein of staying the course of well being, I’d lean very much toward not knowing, and focus on feeling. The absolute truth is not something someone knows. Nothing happens in a dream. Nothing is “the dream”, as in there is no “dream”. Realizing “the dream” = self realization = no one... nothing...realizes...nothing. There is no longer a subject object, a you & problems actuality. That is a narrative of thought. It is not “a problem” if there remains a subject object, self as object thinking relationship experientially, it’s actually perfectly normal, as in apparently the norm. The ‘problem’, in terms of potential suffering, would be in not spotting this misunderstanding. Years & years of potentially seeking better feeling having missed the underlying assumptions. You’ve equated self realization with emotional avoidance. This is also the overarching theme of the op. Avoidance is the opposite direction. Again, awesome to hear that you are feeling better. I’d stay only on that coarse of well being. Experiencing that there are problems, which are dealt with or avoided, is experiencing through the subject object duality of the finite mind. Again, that in and of itself is obviously not a problem, the misunderstanding stands to be an issue. The convenient blurring, or glossing over of this. I would definitely stop telling the hell stories, and stop turning the Psychic Hell Support People Channel on. But that’s just me. Don’t mean any offense.

@trenton Is there anything more valued, anything that you feel or believe you want more, than to feel great?

@floxxv Feeling.

@Carl-Richard Would you really want the absence of gravity?

Exactly. It’s ultimately fair though, just gotta feel into it.

So many conditions.

That’s all we have. Lol

Glad to hear some of it was useful. I added an explanation below that emotional scale today that might be more clarifying & approachable. Appreciate any feedback on how it could be even more helpful, thanks! Why women, I guess men are too empiric. Have a great one as well!

@electroBeam Pretty much. Why dilute yourself with thinking what is abundant in feeling...kinda comment. Just be wet. That’s where all the insights & epiphanies arise anywho.

@Tal I feel ya. In regard to the lower end of the emotional scale, cleaning up my diet, and exercising & meditating every morning was the game changer. A lighthearted explanation of going through the emotional scale might be helpful and or clarifying in some aspects. If you’re inclined, please share any feedback that comes to mind. All flavors welcomed. ?

@Lionhead Though I’d been intending to do it for a while, what you shared inspired me to add an example of going through the emotional scale on my site. Check it out if you like, just scroll down below the picture of the scale. Thank you, and I hope you find some relief & inspiration as well.

@Jonty ? A “Brit”..lol..whatever you say mahn. ?

How funny is Jesus? You’re Jesus, pretending there’s a Jesus. Like contemplating infinity. (There is no “infinity”) But I’m not Jesus!? Ya. You funny guy Jesus.

@BlackMaze Focus on what you do want. Experience becomes it. There is no other possibility.

@NOTintoxicated The more you think, know or say about infinity, the more infinity is veiling itself from itself. Experiencing thoughts about what legos are, missing thoughts are ‘made of’ legos. Taking in what other people say about infinity and considering it (taking it to be more than a pointing), doubles the veil. Only emptying your “cup” will do, and then infinity is blatant & obvious, never coming or going, never changing. Intoxicating, intoxicated. Unthinkable. “Colder...warmer!...colder...colder....getting warmer...” - Temperature