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@Serotoninluv Nailed it.

“Are my beliefs stage-orange hogwash, or in line with non duality?” “Im looking for the opinion of someone who is advanced in non dualism and spirituality and has the authority to judge this.” Beliefs aren’t ‘in’, and questions for others don’t arise ‘in’, nonduality. You are quite literally God. The rest of the post is basically ideologies. (Lovely ones though) SD’s is descriptive, not actuality, non-dually speaking. Observation is not ‘in’ nonduality. Values without yes, within, no. There’s no self & society anymore, only Being. And of course, all of that is ‘in’ nonduality.

@Rilles Ya! That made me think, it’s doubly weird, because we’re asleep in robot / reaction world / mode, not thinking about what the heck we’re even doing, and then discover awareness, and then eventually ‘live’ in the synchronicity / awareness, not thinking about what we’re doing. ? Like learning what all these words mean, and then becoming aware they don’t have any meaning.

English Baxter!! You know I don’t speak Spanish!

@Rilles Omg what a great question...”Are you directly experiencing the difference between thinking and awareness when you meditate?” It’s hard to remember that awareness is first a thought about something called “awareness”. That’s freakin weird.

@Wisebaxter That is a wise way to go. Also, sorry...the dreams ended upon the ‘threshold’ or realization of ‘no self’ / ‘Oneness’ of all things, along with the cessation of thinking. Nondual realization was later. Maybe 2-3 years later.

Awesome...Being! I’d say yes, you are on the right track. Since nonduality, no dreams, so in hindsight they appear to be attempts to autobalance upon ‘waking’, mostly to do with identity (s) at play.

Recently during another Reiki attunement, I had a (not sure what to call it) inner-mind-yet-real-psychedelic-though-I-wasn’t-tripping-vision of multicolor lotus flowers blooming from the center of my body out through it and then going outward infinitely. Nothing is known anymore, but, Yes, Yes, Yes - get to work on spirituality! (Is that even sensible / believable? That Reiki attunements are an actual thing? Lol! Ya know?!) It’s puzzle pieces for a while, until you see the whole puzzle. But at that point there’s no seeing. God isn’t intelligent, God is intelligence. It’s your toaster. Your pinky toe! Your hand! Lol. Reality sure does seem consistent / objective. Perfect in it’s apparent imperfection. Unreal man.

@AlwaysBeNice I’ll be shutting up now, thank you very much.

@Tearos Love is infinite, thinking is finite. Discover the love which is thinking. How? Get your heartbroke, etc. ? What is that ego?

Yeah but what isn’t a myth, really?

@wingsofwax Sound ready. Start with small doses. ? Excited for ya man.

@zambize Awesome & thanks. Also, my post was about Nonduality & words, is like psychedelics & words. How can a person who’s experienced finite understand infinitude. “Oneness” doesn’t really communicate Infinite, and “infinite” can never communicate the you of nonduality. Sounds like you are doing well on the path man. Godspeed??❤️

@Joshe Was just messin with ya.

It’s not possible to fear death. It’s a thought. Focus on breathing from your stomach 24/7 and relax your body head to toe over and over, instead of over thinking. In one week you’ll have stopped believing your thoughts, and made countless beneficial changes to your body’s systems. Well being will be off the charts. Don’t bs yourself, simply notice how short the attention span was, and return focus to stomach breathing. It will increase, dramatically. The knower which knows anything at all, is your true nature. You’re taking knowing for granted. Imagine no knowing. You can’t. See? Imagine having a finite imagination. Hilarious. You do have a life purpose. It will arise in the empty space you make, by shifting away from over thinking, and 24/7 focusing on breathing from your stomach. Sidenote, honesty, humility, empathy, compassion.

I hear you, and I agree, but there’s no harm in talking...do you think there is your God, and your parents’ God, is what I was getting at. Perhaps this subject is simple and easy, and too much thinking could cause tension were it is not needed. I agree there too. It would be a shame if love made someone suffer. I guess some people just can’t stand love. “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” - Rumi

@Leo Gura Yup.

@zambize What’s it like, tripping on acid? I’ve never taken acid, but explain it so that I know, to the exact same degree that you know, so then it would be as if we both experienced acid.

@Dan Arnautu What did you mean then, “You can go sit in a cave otherwise and forget all about them“ ? Seems like you might mean - ‘you can go sit in nonduality, this is about duality’. But duality isn’t resolved in duality. Are the colors of SD’s not the back and forth of self realization, then recontextualization relatively with others (society), self, others, self, others, etc (duality (knowing society) / nonduality (knowing self)? If assessment is kept to only relative, it could literally go round and round forever, or stay at the first step.

@Dan Arnautu I’m sure you’re right, and it requires more thought. Much love to you as well! You have the cave analogy backwards, SD’s is in the cave, I was pointing to what is, outside of the cave.

@Elysian That sounds great. That it states there is an “inner” silence “maintained” does not resonate, and neither does the implication there is a “Divine” suddenly being radiated. but we’re pointing at the ineffable. It’s like going to the perceptions of seeing and thinking, and there is nothing there, just clearness, the word “crystalline” comes to mind. Somewhere between turquoise and nondual meaning is not, instead the “crystalline” is. (That’s a pointer not a thing - “crystalline”) If only without thought could be communicated without thought, but instead there is some meaning ascertained in appearance from communicating. Also, the favoring was to Jed, not SD’s, so your question changes all of the relativity.

Accept the ease of relating via Jibra'il, ?❤️. Venture inclusively and you will expand swiftly. Be like water with such situations, not a dualistic sledge hammer. What is the power of love found in such a bond, that your parents would die for you, as a reaction. The discipline involved in self love is eluding you. How many Gods do you figure there are anyways?

@Jed Vassallo What does that difference look like, between turquoise and nondual? There isn’t. That’s the difference. Is where siddhis are not also where cities are? If from the relative perspective you call it “coral”, would you not then have to, from the nondual perspective call it not-coral? Do you see the dilemma? Can you see that there is no dilemma? Is Nahm a physical separate object? Only if so, is ‘he’ coral, or are ‘you’ nondual? Or a mindf’y way to say that is...I recall you ‘slip into’ nondual in your trips much easier than most people. Ever ‘slip into’ nondual, while another person is ‘within your perception’? Not around the corner, not went to get something, not pissing in the woods, but nondual & a person in your ‘perception’ at the same time? Un-mindf’y? Is coral not a deliciously hilarious clever word for what is self sustaining? You are funny that way and I love it.

What is an enlightened person?