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@fabriciom ? Nice one.

@Sven Hilarious.

If Love’s infinite, omnipresent, then thinking won’t do. You’d have to become directly aware of it. You’d have to go within, like a drop seeing ocean. Excellent name btw!

@Consilience Hi & welcome to the forum.

@stevegan928 Nice to be able to make that statement, now, isn’t it? I’m assuming there was a day when you were not aware of that...?

@the_end_of_me Not trying to be silly, but it’s self inquiry, so that’d be up to you. But I think a decent question is, what is aware of thoughts?

@Tony 845 Imo, the pertinent facet is, what do you think is going on with it? What does it feel like? What, if anything, led to it?

@Laymen Can I get a hell yeah!! That’s awesome man!

@Ali123 Nice! 1. It’s ok either way. 2. Like this: https://sites.google.com/site/psychospiritualtools/Home/meditation-practices/self-inquiry

@fabriciom No, but that would be one hell of a trip. I did shrooms for the first time maybe 4 years ago. Just my opinion, but that’s the beauty of psych’s, they don’t contain those properties, they show us if we do- as in, they show us if we hold falsities, as truth.

@Mikael89 30-60 minutes a day for 20 years. And a long list of other factors. I did not know about psychedelics, and I was not aware of how thinking arises reidentifying. Could have taken maybe 2 years. Wouldn’t change a thing though, as this was just one facet in my life. One part of a fulfilling life.

@Misagh Breath focused meditation.....then out of the blue, pop - oneness/no longer the body...then obe’s (only 2?)....then there was a ‘both’ period...then a hero’s dose....nonduality....no memory anymore of identifying as the body before all this.

@Rilles ??

@Key Elements Thank you for your thoughts! ?? That line...where is it? ? @Barna Thank you! Omg yes.

@DustyWhy Need for someone to convince you is lack of motivation on your own part. You’re afraid of yourself, what you can do, what you can see, what you really are. I don’t blame you at all. You’re terrifyingly powerful. You can real-Ize that. You can couch-call and speculate, but, you know, deep down, you know, you can never be beat. One day you will find yourself in the sanctuary of death, and if you like, you can take just one breath of bliss, just enough to expel, “I can never be beat”, and you can arise again to say “I can never be beat”. It’s now brutha. You’ve been dyin since you were born. You can.

@Faceless ??

@MiracleMan Can you get away, attend a retreat? Step away, empty yourself into the clarity. Then when you return, that clarity can be applied. The foot that kicks you in the face helps you see that you are the foot, like the life you are living helps you realize the life you dream. It’s already working out perfectly. What don’t you want, what do you want? Where do you keep the paper you manifested this on? Hanging on the wall in front of a treadmill of sorts, I trust? Let the pain convince you to believe in yourself. You can do anything.

@SoonHei I can see Windsor accross the water.

@Rich1 You have never experienced what another person thinks. How are you creating your doubt & fear? FYI, you’ll die eventually. Not now though. Now, you live. I am.

@now is forever ??

@Gligorije You shouldn’t be “really fucking happy”, you should be nothing! Yet, here you are. Not. Fucking. Possible. That’s what you should be. Not possible. But you are. You are!

@billiesimon That (op) brought me to tears man, thank you. Not the Teal stuff but the you stuff there. So beautiful. What else could the lion tamer seek, but the untamed lions, of course! Where could water and love flow, but to where it is not! What else could the lotus of death do but bloom! What could be more perfect than imperfection! ❤️

@Finland3286 There are many paradigms and paradoxes between where you are and where you’re headed, and a lot to let go of. Quantum mechanics, just via Youtube, is a great medium to see how rationality / science is an outcome of deeper levels - mystical and unexplainable. Like how you can effortlessly move your finger, but you can’t explain how. There is no supplement for going through the paradigms and paradoxes. You’ve been seeing this one side of every coin. You’ll see the other side. Your mind will try to resolve these sides. Eventually it will surrender / collapse, and resolve, outside / or transcendent to & of rationality. Be careful pedastooling anyone. The gurus and sages are within you, not separate. It takes you farther from the truth, not closer. I know that is not easy. Leo is so intelligent, you can only think you’ve grasped how intelligent he is. Makes me wanna barf right now just considering it. @Leo Gura ??❤️❤️❤️ ?

@Hello from Russia ?? @kev014 “Pretending you were born” is a heavy mental weight added in thought/belief/falsity, so after some inquiry & clarity, there is relief, release, lightness and inherent peace and ‘connection’ by default, as if intuition remembered who it is, very different from cognitive/brain memory, which is an adding and carrying of things, vs, a dropping or letting go of things. Another great model, biggest picture, is ‘getting down to nothing’, always ‘shedding yourself’, always letting go. Fear just shows we are still afraid of the unknown, which is completely understandable, I mean, you’ve spent your entire life with a completely opposite understanding of reality and self, almost all of us have. Awareness alone is curative, because you can become aware, through inquiry, that you indeed are not only behind adding self doubt (fear), but you are entirely creating your reality. Stay focused on “I am letting all this bullshit go, I’ve carried it long enough and I am putting it down now”, vs “trying to solve some big mindfuck riddle / enigma”. “Solving” things is for relativity, life stuff. Letting everything go is for enlightenment, and this paradox is as natural as sleeping at night, and doing stuff through out the daytime. So kick ass all day, and sleep well all night. Advance your life, and retreat in meditation. The more you zoom into life, the more you can zoom out, the more you can zoom out, the more you can zoom in. It only makes sense to love yourself unconditionally. If you feel “normal” or not, if you did good or fucked up - love yourself, regardless. That unifies you. Let love be the unifier of all that you are, and all that you experience, a lowest common denominator, plain, simple, connecting of all things. The presence of the Being that you are arises in love, and is hidden in frustration, hurry, impatience, etc. It’s the same as the adding thoughts/beliefs/concepts (weight & tension) vs letting everything go (freedom & love / Being fills in / is presence). (“Does it effect your ability to function normally for a few weeks?”) After the ‘watershed’ moment / ‘hereo’s dose breakthrough’, (shroom tea) ime, my “problem” was with having the capacity to experience so much joy, love, and synchronicity (not laughing and crying all day in bliss and elation). I honestly can’t relate to “being stuck here indefinitely”. The relativity of life is a big component of course. I meditated for about 20 years, go very fit and ate very clean for around 5 years - before the oneness occurred, and then started looking into psychedelics / enlightenment, which led to direct experience of Self, then no self, then awareness of the mental processes in which doubt returns. If there were a “normal”, then I did a lot of shit backwards. But, alas, there is no normal. Nobody is functioning ‘normally’, that reinforces projection of one’s own definition of ‘normal’, as a ‘thing to be’. You are already perfect, and everything is happening as it should be. Nobody is escaping that they are infinite love, no matter how shitty their ‘movie’ appears at times, All. Is. Well. All is God. All is You. This is true wether you know it yet or have realized it yet. The value of that, is if you have tension, you have added it, and you should be highly confident that inquiry and practices will reveal to you just how you are doing that. I’ve done from .5g to 8g shroom tea, and 5ug & 20ug 5meo. Everything I wrote (above) is as much of a part of enlightenment as the psychadelics / trips - or more simply, the 5meo was like really good nitrous, because the realization was already had through the practices, inquiry, and shroom tea. I saw that I already saw, if that makes sense. *one disclaimer...I’d like to try 30ug meo...and I don’t really know anything. Rambled a little. Hope some of this is useful. Follow those “intuitive hunches” and “flashes of inspiration”. IMO, those are insights, glimpses, into life without doubt, without fear.

@kev014 Great map / model. You might also like The Book of One, and Abraham Hicks. I’ve found loa to be highly effective, but after a deep understanding, through experience and many distinctions. Miraculous ideas, to some, appear impossible, then when made possible, hindsight explanations “demystify” the miracle with the fragmentation into “ordinary” materialism. It is far easier to manifest, to create a dream life, once we stop pretending we were born. As far as success stories, you can do anything. Awareness of resistant thoughts, and awareness anything only transpires now, are key additions to loa, imo. Whatever you put in front of you, whatever you pay attention to, you’re doing. Loa is great for those subtle powerful opportunities.