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@Gneh Onebar Interesting question. Also, it can be extracted to liquid by boiling, Would continuing to boil remove almost all of the water? I would not ‘just try it’ to find out btw. Substances are definitly not all received the same by different orifices.

@Gligorije The answer is the relativity to your own meaning for “more developed”.

This is what’s within? This profanity, this sexual enuendo, this “#reg like”? Keep going.

Or when you already know every word is bs. It makes it much easier to identify and discard what is not even relative (over thinking).

@Shin A.05. How much they are sold for together is inconsequential / unrelative. B. Yes. It’s yes wether Lea is married or not. It’s a matter of which ‘looker’.

@Anton Rogachevski What is meant by self control? Who’s controlling, who is being controlled? What processes are directly experienced to support this “division”? Are you one Anton or two Anton? What about avenues of opening up the mind as to what the reality all around you is (to step away from concept), such as quantum mechanics, and or teachers like Bashar, Abaraham Hicks, Jane Roberts, The Law of One, etc? Their teaching’s are nonduality, or, that each is their own reality - keep in mind, only you are hearing what is said. About 1 in 100 people actually comprehend what they are saying, and I have a hunch it might pair with where you’re at quite well. If they sound foreign to you, or “out there”, that might be an indication they’re exactly what is needed at this point in opening the mind up.

Hi, welcome to the forum. There’s no assertion, “requirements” are a meaning you hold; in actuality, it’s always been and is, up to you. Wether you believe what any one person says, is always up to you. A speech course, like Toast Masters, etc, might be a fun way to develop public speaking with others in the same boat. Yes, forget about ‘enlightenment’ and be honest internally to expand understanding of conditioning / mental patterns, understanding emotional reaction, etc. Later, these won’t appear as two different things, but it appears your current definitions reflect meaning for enlightenment which is not helping. Doing proper self inquiry will bring these facets into the light of awareness. Have you considered the Life Purpose course? Sounds like a good fit / good timing. All of these avenues will be, and already are, culminating in unison together, eventually resulting in self actualization. Watch for the trap of “I should develop myself before X”. Often, but not always, X is the very thing you need to do for the “development”, or breakthrough. You can face a fear to transcend it, and you can also self inquiry, uprooting it, and transcending it. Also, look for the distinction between developing what you actually are, vs learning, practicing, and getting experience, enhancing this life / experience / perspective. What you are can not be developed as you are already whole and complete, and have never been separate from anything. There is always room to learn and master what you’re doing in life.

@Pouya Yes, there is a point everything must be dropped. Every thing. Then a lasting all encompassing recontextualization occurs.

@Charlotte Nice! Food is mood, mood is thoughts, thoughts are choice, ...choice of food. Important cycle to be aware of. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/09/your-gut-directly-connected-your-brain-newly-discovered-neuron-circuit

@Ampresus Nice. Even if you do give it purpose, still. ?

@andyjohnsonman Believing and attaching to thoughts, awareness convinces itself there is a separate being, so there then is automatically an illusion of other than you. With only the emptiness, it is clear there never was either. The emptiness is often first experienced as the ‘space inbetween the thoughts’, with attention kept on stomach breathing; deeply in meditation and as a practice 24/7 - instead of unconscious involuntarily lung breathing & over thinking. Practices! Because thinking will not resolve / transcend thinking. Thinking will merely convince awareness that you have transcended thinking, so there’s still a ‘you’, thinking, in actuality, rather than awareness of actuality (awareness / being). Are you aware yet thought is linear - one at a time? Why would this be the case, that not one of us can hold two thoughts at the same time? (Should arouse suspicion at the least, no?) Can you see how there is no such thing as a new thought? &. That there is no such thing as a thing? If there are no things, is there a calling for thoughts? What are words, without thought? Does meaning remain, or cease? What are words, without meaning? Does thinking cease? What is the first, absolute word, which all other words are based on? What is the first, absolute thought, which all other thoughts are based on? How do you make a spoon disappear with your mind? When being appears. If there is “no direct experience because all experience is conditioned by past experience”; which are you actually experiencing in your direct awareness right now, “past conditioning”, or a thought about there being past conditioning, right now?

@Ampresus Read them now, and then again every two years or so. It really reveals how perspective has expanded, which later on I think you’ll agree, is very valuable in self realization.

@onacloudynight You might know each more claearly for trying them separately. Do you have time to try them before the retreat, to get a feel?

@Ampresus A surprising change in perspective, like a punchline, and the relief of laughter. It is very funny isn’t it?

@SriBhagwanYogi Have you read Stillness Speaks?

@Identity If there wasn’t a you, would there still ‘be’ opposites like external & internal? What is there without you categorizing it?

@bejapuskas I'm not Peter Ralston, but I'd chat with ya. Might be quite mutually beneficial. Send me a message if you're interested.

Welcome! 1. You're already doing it. You have the wrong idea of ego/self - It's conceptual, not physical. The 'death of physical' is the end of the falsity that there was ever such a thing as physical. Joy is. Concerns over physical, death, self doubt, worry, fear, lack - these 'cover' or veil reality / the joy - and keep your mind thinking, when you could be loving. 2. Someone confused you with 'physical death', understandably, you have equated it to suicide. Don't do that. You won't experience formlessness in the sense you understand it now. Your perspective of what you are, and what the world is will change. For the better.

This thread has run it’s course. @Emanyalpsid If you value continuing to be a part of this community, please consider contribution when making threads. If Actualized is not for you, so be it. Your current trajectory is warnings, etc, banning.

(Insert Gif of Leo eating popcorn here) “Oh, on Thanksgiving even, great, thanks guys”

THIS

@Emanyalpsid The questions were specific to your accusations, you didn’t answer at all. “Watch the videos” is like “read the Bible” no? Have you clarity on these things, yourself? I appreciate the reply though, have a great day man! ??

Yes. Totally. Life of music, listening, attending, gigging, playing & singing, etc - then years of silence - now the music is ‘back’, better than ever. Everything changed, though nothing changed. Like, wtf? Sammy Hagar was enlightened this whole time? 5150 is code for what?! “Best of Both Worlds”?! Wow. Oh, now I hear what you’re saying Dave Mathews, ok, “Save Yourself”, obviously. “Good love is on the way” ZZZZ.

I know a genocologist who embraces his desires as a human being, and is also married. He seems quite happy & fulfilled, in his ‘both’ solution, without suppressing, the ‘problem’ is no longer there, and he is very focused, competent, and internally successful (no pun pls). Sometimes when we think, we can miss we are thinking which is the “problem”. No overthinking, no problem. Nature is wise, even in, and especially in, bodies. Infinite Intelligence, at play.

@Aquarius In just looking at your avatar (pic), very beautiful, but folks might see the ‘scene’ there as dark, mystical, intense, and possibly an intimidating level of beauty for some. Certain people conceptualize such things as “shady”. Not to mention, (in the sense every word can carry connotations) - Aquarius peeps have a certain reputation, a sort of natural acceptance of infinity, whereas most people seem to seek grounding, centering, or falsity in comfort.