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@Jo96 Yes daily meditation is cumulative in many beneficial ways (google it ). This is just one person’s words / opinion for you, I recognize that. Given that, my suggestion to you is meditate daily, and write about feelings in a journal, and start a dream board. Also, never listen to anything anyone says, which does not resonate with you in feeling. If it feels off, or “bad”, or “evil” to you, or discouraging, or ignorant - listen to your feeling which tells you so. Often people are consumed by the emotions they are suppressing, which causes thinking to go into overdrive-compensation mode. Essentially, making up stories of reality a hundred different bizarre ways, chalked full of assumptions, rather than allowing purification / releasing suppressed emotion, and thriving in life. “Hell” isn’t a real place, it’s suffering / the perpetuation of ignorance in terms of emotional intelligence primarily.

Belief in God is belief, belief there’s no God is belief. What’s being said kind of forum-wide, is you can literally find out. The Truth is of course, unbelievable.

@LfcCharlie4 ♥️ Crazy Love.

@LfcCharlie4 Love the Rupert video, but in my opinion, you don’t need any ‘authority backup’ like that. Maybe you’re implying I do ? Not sure. If so, thanks for lookin out for a brother. ?? I was just pointing. I too experienced the ‘true awakening’ you refer to, without psychedelics. I’m saying there are awakenings deeper into Self, not what you are calling ‘experiences’, any more than what you are calling ‘true awakening’ is an experience. It’s infinite, not binary. In a way it’s more about that than the involvement of psychedelics, as Rupert continues to reveal with each talk. Venturing into Self more deeply doesn’t imply any lack of knowing of Self. Sorry if you somehow took it that way. Exploration doesn’t imply any need. Just a relative thought...but maybe teachers are discovered when teachers are thrown out like maps. I wasn’t talking about 5meo btw.

@electroBeam Delight. Full. ?

@electroBeam I agree. But there’s no enlightened people.

It’s ideal. Life goes by pretty quick. Staking what is wanted in the most prominent location ‘says something’, and naturally encourages the focus on it, and the living unfolding of it & ongoing additions to it. Exactly, well said...and very kind of you.

It’s about feeling & expressing the emotions, one at a time. Write down any resistant thought, and revisit it with each emotion. Feel for jealousy. Maybe... “Do I sometimes feel jealous toward people who maybe have different situations, incomes, partners, pasts, things I want to experience, etc”. Then feel for hatred...”Do I sometimes feel hate, due to unfairness perhaps, etc”. “Does this leave me feeling discouraged sometimes...” and so on. But, remember to apply this hypothetical explanation to your specific thought. It can be very helpful for letting thought slow down, and clarity arise. Very beneficial for life, as well as using the emotional scale. The slowing down makes just about everything in life easier and more enjoyable. Textbook will do then. When you can, pick up a dry erase board. I’d write anything and everything you come up with that you want in life. No, on the expecting it all the time. Write it, and it is already on it’s way. Notice resistant thoughts which arise, and use the scale. There was never a separation or disconnection. It only seems so. As a broad stroke, it is in seeing through beliefs we are holding about who we are, that we discover who we really are. Just as is shown on the scale, there is a direct correlation, between feeling great, and ‘reconnecting’. Keep in mind, there is no separation, now. The nuance of those connotations are different for each person. I would roll with whichever feels best for you. Typically, trust carries connotations of relationships with people, and ‘receiving mode’ is a bit more suggestive of A new relationship, if you will, with the source of you, and reality (one & the same)

Doesn’t need to be because it is.

Have ‘you’ experienced both?

@Beginner Mind ?? No worries. It’s a funny thing, to me the other way seems like the efforting.

@Beginner Mind Sure. I’m just not a fan of bypassing. Seems that when we do, that ‘same old problem’ just comes around again. I favor deeper lasting wakefulness & bliss, and the creating of the life one most genuinely wants. I’d go so far as to say anything less is bypassing...which is fine too.

You might say self inquiry was a ‘parting of the clouds’, and inspection work is understanding how you are recreating the clouds.

You’re attributing ego as a property which psychedelics create. Psych’s don’t create. Prior to the realization you describe, there’s the ignorance / experience of a person choosing. After realization, it is known there is no such thing as “luck”. So it didn’t play a role in either case. Yes. There is no hierarchy. There is no “Levels Of Consciousness”. Whatcha think of someone who fully knows this, yet says there is, writes a book convincing people there is, and then charges large amounts of money for sharing it? Also, how does that compare to someone who willingly, even passionately, shares this with you, and asks for nothing in return? Acknowledging there is appearance...How would you know the difference, if you haven’t directly experienced psychedelics? I’m not suggesting you do, only pointing out the difference between direct experience and a thought about it. Appearance? Yes. Huge difference experientially? Yes indeed. Imagine if I start telling you what it’s like to live where you live. At some point, a matter of seconds, it’d be pretty obvious to you I don’t actually know what I’m talking about because I’ve never even been there. Does this mean there is a hierarchy? Heck no. It’s all speculation. Direct experience is king. Not me, direct experience. It would make sense, if there was the actual experience of what is being talked about. It would make more sense that could be previously understood or imagined. To be clear though, I am not suggesting you take psychedelics.

@Beginner Mind Have you written the thought out on a dry erase board, and applied the inspection model of: Thought, perception, sensation?

@BETGR164128 “Why is life a dream and what does it feel like to know that life is a dream?” Because there is no finite in infinite. It’s actually you making the claim, not “spirituality”.

Did you find irony in awakening and seeing that is all relative / what a person came up with? (The souls & levels, yada yada) @actualizing25 Just as a point of ‘data’ for ya, my awakening was prior to trying psychedelics also.

Seem to be equating nothingness to a mental state. Intuition seems to be saying, that’s not quite it.

By inspecting them. Anything sufficiently inspected disappears. They’re illuminated by you.

@Beginner Mind That Happiness is ever-present right now. There’s some layers of beliefs, identify, a paradigm, a paradox or two, “covering it” like clouds in a clear sky.

@Raptorsin7 So true. ??

Right. That’s why I mentioned it.

@VeganAwake ?♥️

@zeroISinfinity "It's This!"

I can be a "problem"...as in an opportunity for a nuance of alignment. It's sneaky, but often a belief is "assigned" to "the I", and that belief, identified with, slips right under our nose. When I use " I ", I am referring to the I which all are known to be. And then of course, sometimes I and using the " I " for practical dream purposes...such as..."Who ordered the Sam Adams?"..."I ordered the Sam Adams". It's just useful sometimes. The more pertinent sneakery at play here to uncover, is in the usage of "I feel content". A feeling can not be felt. A feeling simply is, feeling. Just as thought can not be thought - a thought is a thought. Perception can not be perceived. Perception is perception. The 'trap' here, is that " I " get spoken of in that way, as if it were an individual being, inside the body. " I " feel content. Contentment is a feeling. A feeling is a feeling. There is no " I " required whatsoever, for there to be awareness / feeling.