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@S-Max Other-than-a-mystical experience is a belief you’re holding. It’s like asking me to tell you where to find hay in a haystack. What are your concerns for your brother’s well being, in order of immediacy? Can you share maybe 3 or so? Not “he might go crazy one day”. I’m asking what are you seeing with him now, specifically, which is concerning. (An example might be if someone has not eaten for 3 days because “God told them not to eat”, the concern is malnutrition / starvation.)

@S-Max I don’t know the first thing about the whole thing. But if you have specific questions about it I might be useful.

@S-Max Whatcha gonna do with my understanding? (Apparently disregard it) Your understanding is what could be more helpful to your brother - ahhh - but for that, you’d have to do a lot of work. I hear you. But you might consider, did you think the answer would be in the already known wheelhouse from which arose the question? Such is the same for you and the path. “I would be jumping up and down if someone can for sure tell me this is God” That’s all anything and anyone has ever told you. You’re not listening to anyone or anything.

@Jed Vassallo Nice. Also, allegedly, before it was the son dying and coming back three days later, it was the sun slipping out of sight for 3 days in the winter solace...both of which serve only to shake our perspective and point us to nonduality. @Nagma And now you do too.....oh...wait....now I do too. ? @Belay kelemework Whatcha think of this one... “I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.” and this one... ”I’m a man without convictions, I’m a man who doesn’t know how to sell a contradiction - you come and go, you come and go.” They pair well imo, in terms of Beauty.

@Jed Vassallo Nice. Also, before it was the son dying and coming back three days later, it was the sun slipping out of sight for 3 days in the winter solace...both of which serve only to point us to nonduality. @Nagma And now you do too.....oh...wait....now I do too. ?

Nice. ...one further back too...Bodhidharma came from the Western Religions. What a world. @winterknight ?

@Sri McDonald Trump MaharajWishing you well my man. Definitely go to the hospital. Start therapy - express what happened, and how you felt - that is the way to let it go. Call the suicide prevention hotline today, don’t wait until you’re in a stressful state. Lean on their expertise now, be free - allow new perspectives to arise when talking with them...( Get help now in any country ) You can express here too, anonymously, and feel free to PM me any time. I would also skype / FaceTime with you anytime you want. Ive been there, I ‘made it out’, so I wanna help. I was dealt a raw deal too - I stuck it out. In hindsight, it was a gift. My advice is stick around for the hindsight, for the ‘turning it into wine’. I promise you will see if you don’t give up. ♥️♥️♥️♥️

Yes it does. You are yet to realize how quantum mechanics reconciles with physics.

@Tony 845 That is a highly complicated non answer. Your cleverness is impressive.

@Rilles ??♥️

@Tony 845 What about for you? If you had to pick, would you feel good about yourself, or help yourself?

The proof is of course in the pudding, but you haven’t shared any of what your brother has written. So the post is not actually about what’s going on with him, but rather, it’s about you pigeonholing, labeling, summarizing him as a person - though I understand you think it is, and I understand your concerns for him, and hope he is steadily on the path. Are you attached to that perspective, or are you open minded - open to looking at any perspective? Can you look at the perspective, that you are actually the one who is dogmatic and atheism is a basic defensive mechanism....you are biased for lack of self inquiry....you are deluded ( = atheism).....and in actuality you are “having” a mystical experience right now - but because of the things stated previously here, you aren’t aware of it? Sounds like he did some shadow work and is doing much ‘better’ for having done it. What about you, would be the spiritual mindset. What do you really want of your brother? Not for him - what is it you are after for you? If you could snap your fingers, what would he do / be? Then look at your beliefs regarding that, and look at how those beliefs are playing out in your life. As an Atheist, you have barely begun to actually look into this for yourself. Atheism is indeed a very strong belief system. Just imagine for a minute, how many beliefs God must hold to honestly believe there is no God. You might want to get started on meditation and self inquiry. That, will answer every question you could ever have about your brother, God, or anyone or anything else for that matter.

“It” isn’t of this world, like ‘peak of pleasure’, etc. “It” is prior to pleasure, and also transcendent of it, while it is also every pleasure in and of itself. From one vantage those pleasures are experienced by you, from another vantage, you and those pleasures are taking place, and not taking place, within you. It’s like asking about the experience of one grain of sand, then discovering you are the entire beach. The ego acting upon Frued’s Model via defensive mechanisms is present in your thread. The very thing the model intends to point out, is being done upon the model. Do you see it?

As many as you like, it’s up to you. What is enlightenment, Tony? Have you stopped and thought about that? What is this thing you’re looking for? A great question for you... if you had to pick, would you choose being liked, or helping someone?

@Delmo Surrender fully in meditation, surrender emotion, surrender “states”, surrender experience - surrender your self. Trust is the fulcrum of the op, imo. What lies ‘beneath’ your positive emotions is far greater than any multiplication of them.

“Luck” is found only in busy minds. ? What an excellent LOA share /story. Thanks! Yes. Been using a 40 foot chalkboard wall for around 5 years now for clarity, visualization, and manifestation. As well as a vision board, and awareness of wanted, and awareness of resistant thinking...aka samadhi. We also have a ‘family wall’ in which we all write things we want to go see or experience, and we use that to plan vacations,etc. Kind of a “bucket list wall”, Do you have any sets online? Also, just curious...have you considered writing some show material drawing the infinite humor out of spirituality, nonduality, LOA, etc? I think there’s a big market for it, the material would ‘land’, and it’s a great way to spread ‘the word’.

Face nothing.

@UDT Excellent recommendation imo. ??

@dimitri Inspect it for yourself. Have you even googled it yet? Maybe you are overthinking, rather than actually looking into it...? @Rilles Rilles!?!?! Noooooooo! (face palm) Just look at your picture for Rille’s sake!)

@MM1988 You can’t attract on someone else’s behalf. LOA is rooted in The Law of One. So the LOA question here is what does this mean you are attracting, based on the beliefs you hold about nofap, fapping, meeting someone, attracting what you want, not entertaining unwanted / resistant thinking? What matters is what do you think and believe about this? What are you visualizing, believing, and bringing into your life experience? What are you doing to deepen your connection with Source?

@Shakazulu Look and see. ? Shakazulu: ...(rolls third eye)

An Apocalypse (Ancient Greek: literally meaning "an uncovering") is a disclosure or revelation of knowledge. In religious and occult concepts an apocalypse usually discloses something hidden, or provides... "a vision of heavenly secrets that can make sense of earthly realities". Radioactive ... the process by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy (in terms of mass in its rest frame) by emitting radiation ( “radiation” ), such as an alpha particle, beta particle...gamma ray or electron in the case of internal conversion. A material containing such unstable nuclei is considered radioactive. Certain highly excited short-lived nuclear states can decay through neutron emission, or more rarely, proton emission. The definitions really recontextualize and the beauty is revealed in the song.

@Wisebaxter No work can be done to make the truth more obvious. The ‘work’ is in letting go. Every single person calls every other person by many names. Every single person refers to themself by the same name. Illusion can only illude. The heart can only allude. So follow your heart, no matter.

The “personal view” IS delusion! Happiness is not relative. Thinking is relative. Without a thought against yourself - you are happiness naturally. In Truth - there’s no losing!

Says the ego.