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@Shaun If this isn’t interesting, sorry for the hijack.

You as the observer, life as the object which you as the subject, are observing. Or observer (subject), life (object). Once identification has ceased and life reveals itself as impersonal and therefore benign that is enlightenment. To say that there is duality inherent in that state is a misunderstanding of duality. The comment wasn’t in regards to a state. Again, we might be saying the same thing here, and this might be linguistic. Perhaps because actual duality has not been seen and transcended? ? Actual duality can’t be seen or transcended ultimately, because duality is not actual. It's easy to speculate what enlightenment would be like, but until you have had an actual experience of what reality really is, then you could be mistakenly assume that duality is actually real. Nor can one actually experience what reality really is. That again would be subject (you) and experience of object (reality). It's very simple, all that has to happen is disidentification, then duality is no longer the case. Just saying again, this could be ‘talking over each other’ / linguistic, but there isn’t a subject which disidentifys with an object.

@Nickyy I’m with you in sentiment for sure. However, there is a duality present in life living by itself, with me as the observer. Life being separate from potential ‘interference from the egoic identity”. There is a collapse of the duality of personal & impersonal.

@Nickyy I’m not sure if you’re just sharing that or there is an implied question or something...?

The happiness & peace are the truth. There is no mental breakdown to fear, that is conditioning talking. The significant nuance in the “my life” is the my. Life continues, but life is not ‘yours’, you are what life is. A thought about perception isn’t direct experience of perception. It’s perception and a thought about perception. Would you rather be the one hit with the sandwhich, or the one who threw it? Notice there is some connection there with regard to feeling. It might be subtle, or undetectable currently. Meditation, every morning, and it won’t be too subtle for too long. There is the movie, or appearance level of the sensation of the sand which hitting the body, and there is the screen, being, sensation for having thrown something at someone.

@Inliytened1 ♥️ “The knowing is the known”.

Indeed. If death is not final, it’s only an idea of a finality, which means reincarnation, is also an idea.

America, Italy, Canada, Being...a hundred years ago this moment would have been dubbed impossible. Love you guys. Really love where being is headed with all this.

Peace, love, and understanding is our infinite being. @arlin Emptiness is far from empty.

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@Nahm Now take away the words...”pure consciousness”, “pure awareness”. And replace them with...me. Now take away the word, the label, the definition, the term... “me”. And now there’s, nothing. So take away the word, “nothing”. There’s no self reference. And now take away the term, the meaning, etc, “self reference”. @zeroISinfinity The only thing I am right about, is hippie chick is well on her way. You best be ready cause she’s a bigger trip than me.

@Wisebaxter I hear ya. I’ve often thought, wouldn’t it be great, if someone wrote a book that goes beyond the practices of law of attraction, so I could simply see that it is the actuality, that it is already the case.

Pure consciousness, from the relative thought based perspective, is “nothingness”. It’s not that the I is an illusion, it’s that the I is real, pure consciousness. It’s not that experience is illusory, it’s that experience is real, pure consciousness. A thought about an I, is a thought about an I. Awareness of the thought, is awareness of the thought. The pure consciousness, pure awareness...vibrates, to form itself, as the form we call, a thought. The same pure consciousness, pure awareness, because it is pure consciousness pure awareness, is also aware of the thought, conscious of the thought. You are what is aware of, conscious of, the thought. And, you are the thought. Why can’t that “click”, why can’t that “make sense”? Because you’d first have to believe the thought, is not you, but a separate thing, called a thought. Then, you’d have to believe the thought - is about you. Now, in this position of believing the thought is about you, you forget that you are the awareness of the thought and the thought, and you believe the content or implication of the thought, is you. But wait just a dang second here...I am this body thought! I have a past, and that makes me who I am!! I can’t be my thoughts, because they are MY thoughts!!! (Those are examples of thoughts one might believe) ...and it mother f’ing does MAKE SENSE...because “Makes sense” = Makes Sens-ation, makes feeling. “Makes Sense” does not equal “Makes more thoughts”, nor “Makes Understanding”.

@zeroISinfinity ? do you have a daughter?

@zeroISinfinity The other side of this wall is a thought. You can never transcend what you are in this moment creating. Make a cup of coffee for example...can’t understand it, understanding is creating it. If you had to understand to create, you could never create because there isn’t anything to understand.

Take “no self” out of your thinking, and pop in “no mind”. Then, you see the change in the path is letting thoughts go, rather than trying to realize anything, or “become” a “no self”. Likewise, everything that is ‘stirred up’ - let it go. The understanding follows, because understanding is itself, being. Understanding is the no self, the no mind. That’s why it feels so amazing. Meditation is the stark opposite of doing something, or trying to realize something. Also, if you don’t have a dream board going, front and center of your living space and life, then you should stop and ask yourself, why am I doing any of this? Why would I let go? Why would I inspect how I feel, uncondition myself, etc? What’s the point? For now, I’d suggest the “point” is to live the most amazing life possible. To dream the impossible, and then actually live it. You might think of it like wanting to see Jupiter, and buying a telescope. It’s not enough to just buy it, set down, and look. There is a tedious process of adjusting, of zooming in & out, which creates breadth and focus. This process takes you to the point of...’you know what - fuck this...there’s no way anyone could ever.....“ and boom! There’s Jupiter.

For kids there’s no Christmas without a Santa. For “grown ups” there’s no Christmas or Santa without them. Meanwhile, the “grown up” is the kid, and there actually is a Santa.

That’s the thing...it isn’t an illusion.

Clarity is within.

@Wisebaxter No, I wasn’t kidding. There’s a full circle of magical thinking. A mind blowing actuality of creation, and relatively speaking, no one is in the ‘pocket’ like Ester. Loosely speaking, it would take years for someone new to her teaching to get a glimpse of the actuality she is pointing to. You could say that about any teacher, about reality and self in general, but every other teacher has discernible limits (“ime”). Another way to say that, is Ive not experienced a teacher who doesn’t stand to learn more, from her.

@Serotoninluv The other day I said “if you put how you feel first, and look at this differently, it’ll change in accordance right before your eyes”...inner monologue...”what did I just go and do”.

“Seeking for the Magick Facet” It sounds like you’re talking more about magic as a feeling, as ‘magical’, rather than magick. To draw some differences, magic already is, is eternal, and is the entirety of experience. Like a gift that never was given or received, but is always being unwrapped and experienced despite that it isn’t actually happening. More impossible / miracle / ‘this can’t be real but there it is’ feeling / seeing / knowing, and perhaps rooted in the perpetual mind blow that you could have ever believed you were not you, or that the actuality was something other than what is. Whereas magick, has some tradition / reference / ‘claiming of reality’ historically, and points to not the miracle of the one or whole, but more eventful / situational, more of a person as the catalyst who requests, performs, or orchestrates the magick. So ‘magic’ wise, as a ’facet‘, (not really linguistically communicable, just like every other ‘facet’, but...) what comes to mind is that experience is complete, total, every ‘layer’ of energy, every field, etc, makes the appearance of a whole, which is designed to convey the existence of a separate entity, of which of course, there is not. I would say it feels more accurate, in trying to communicate “it”, that it is more the scope and breadth of the ‘facets’, than a facet itself. A pointer to all that goes into that, the entire cosmos, physical, meta, etc, meanwhile there is neither to begin with and nothing there right now. That there is not a single revealing means or evidentiary ‘thing’, that any inspection or reference will always point to that there is, is astounding, pure magic. How could you realize how magic you actually are, when every possibility is the magic. It’s impossible, but, here we are, and there’s nowhere and no thing to point to the contrary, of the actuality. In the sense love = consciousness, magic = consciousness. There is no separation to be found, and at the same time there is the experience of already being separate and looking. What is looking, can not be found / nothing is looking, nothing is ever found - and meanwhile all is going on nonetheless. You could rightly say, imo, appearance is magic, and or actuality is magic, but you could also reserve the word for the full impossibility, that there is no such thing as any of these, nor of any “realization” of anything to begin with. Again, there’s no words for it, because here are the words for it, and as you’re reading them, the actuality is there aren’t “words” at all, and the reading of them is not actually happening in any way. To say that it’s an illusion, or an appearance, or even inexplicable, will never do it any justice. That you’re continuing to read this, that ’experience‘, that there’s no actual experience, is as close to a pointer as it gets. I agree, love is inseparable. (No matter the subject / reference) Love is magic. You might say neither magic or love is inseparable from love or magic. Which is why it’s hard to ‘facet’ either. It’s the whole, being nothing. Or nothing, being the whole. (Of experience) Perhaps the magic of that, is it’s non-actuality, which of course, is actual. All that is reveals what you say is entirely true. But all that is revealing this, is magic. The most magical thing, is that you can express your one of a kind uniqueness, and give that extraordinarily special light to the world - while there is no such thing as uniqueness. It’s like, as soon as you see talent - the magic of the ‘this is all for you’ disappears, yet the “talent” of the magic itself, that there is no talent, that there is only a you because there is not a you, is magical. Also, as a wildly broad stroke, you could say the magic = Alone, and the magic is, that you can’t actually be alone.