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@George Fil Of course you can.

@zoey101 Youtube Joe Dispenza.

@Revolutionary Think Retail (ft) and delivered pizza for two places (pt).

Good to be aware of that. Do the emotionally difficult thing. It’s not like you have to be getting paid at a job to do psychedelics, and they’d make for a far better psychologist when you are ‘working’. If you dig a little deeper online, there are a lot of scientistists writing books and doing Ted talk type presentations on psychedelics. Ironically, one can help eliminate the fear of the other.

@Bernard Meditation (imo) is not-thinking time. Letting go. Allowing the natural, authentic self. You should have clarity, and feel free & rejuvenated afterwards. Self inquiry is adventurous & fun. It’s just good clean rabbit hole fun. It’s not knife tossing or jumping through hoops of fire. Nothing to be afraid of, quite the opposite. When “undesirable” ‘repressed emotions’ arise, thank them for what they are showing you, ask for more! This one is great for letting go and returning to awareness. (Check out these interesting meditations. The best one is the one that works best with you: https://sites.google.com/site/psychospiritualtools/Home/meditation-practices....check out the self inquiry on there too.) Breath Awareness Meditation (Basic Relaxation Meditation) PURPOSE/EFFECTS: Stress is an extremely unhealthy condition. It causes the body to release the chemical cortisol, which has been shown to reduce brain and organ function, among many other dangerous effects. Modern society inadvertently encourages a state of almost continuous stress in people. This is a meditation that encourages physical and mental relaxation, which can greatly reduce the effects of stress on the body and mind. Summary Sit still and pay close attention to your breathing process. Long Version Take a reposed, seated posture. Your back should be straight and your body as relaxed as possible. Close your eyes, and bring your attention to your breathing process. Simply notice you are breathing. Do not attempt to change your breath in any way. Breath simply and normally. Try to notice both the in breath and the out breath; the inhale and the exhale. "Notice" means to actually feel the breathing in your body with your body. It is not necessary to visualize your breathing or to think about it in any way except to notice it with your somatic awareness. Each time your attention wanders from the act of breathing, return it to noticing the breath. Do this gently and without judgment. Remember to really feel into the act of breathing. If you want to go more deeply into this, concentrate on each area of breathing in turn. Here is an example sequence: 1. Notice how the air feels moving through your nostrils on both the in breath and the out breath. 2. Notice how the air feels moving through your mouth and throat. You may feel a sort of slightly raspy or ragged feeling as the air moves through your throat. This is normal and also something to feel into. 3. Notice how the air feels as it fills and empties your chest cavity. Feel how your rib cage rises slowly with each in breath, and gently deflates with each out breath. 4. Notice how your back expands and contracts with each breath. Actually feel it shifting and changing as you breath. 5. Notice how the belly expands outward with each in breath and pulls inward with each in breath. Allow your attention to fully enter the body sensation of the belly moving with each breath. 6. Now allow your attention to cover your entire body at once as you breath in and out. Closely notice all the sensations of the body as it breathes. Repeat this sequence over and over, giving each step your full attention as you do it. Suggested time is at least 10 minutes. Thirty minutes is better, if you are capable of it. HISTORY: Breath awareness is probably the oldest meditation technique, and is certainly the most universally known. It can be found, for example, in the Anapanasati Sutta, a scripture which summarizes the Buddha's teaching on breath awareness mediation. Anapanasati means "breath awareness meditation in Pali. The Buddha had learned the basic technique from his own teachers, which means that it existed at least as far back as 500 BCE, although it was probably already ancient at the time. CAUTIONS: If you have any difficulties breathing, you should work with a qualified instructor. NOTES: If you find yourself distracted by a lot of mental chatter, you can use verbal labeling as an aid to concentration. For example, on the in breath, mentally say to yourself, "Breathing in." On the out breath, say, "Breathing out." Another possibility is to mentally count each breath.

@metwinn We see one facet of God, and believe it is the entirety.

@SoonHei Very nice. Yes...the light...heck of a clue for awakening...”Godspeed”. Einstein...I’m speculating...but maybe he was wise enough to be whysical & carefree. To sit and contemplate, ime, is quite useful....but for insights...they come while I’m driving & singing, playing in the sprinkler with my kids, entertained by a movie, etc. If you haven’t looked into entanglement, you’d probably like it. @cirkussmile ??...also, both ?❤️. @Victor Mgazi God is the space too, nothing is bound...as Nothing is infinite. God is all that does exist.

@Bernard Me freakin too brother. It’s the past though. I remember a very specific trip in which the love was pressing upon the identity, and it was getting a little rough if you know what I mean, downright gripping, and then the insight / release hit me. I was thinking....if I’m everything, like the Buddha says, then why in the F would I have had that happen to me?!? And it hit me.....That shit that happened to “me”, and the two weeks spent in the hospital recovering from it....that was when I identified the event / incident, with what I am. I’d been identifying with it ever since, for many years. Holding that incident by identifying with it had shaped my attitude unbeknownst to me. I realized what Letting Go is in that moment. I realized I am stronger for it having happened. Letting Go is an art worthwhile of mastery. It is liberation. That is a brilliant insight right there. This entire human experience hinges on forgetting. This is evidence You are remembering now. ❤️

When “ I “ or “me” is used & referred to here ^ , it is a thought of an I or me, it is not the actual Self. Maybe read this (below) and then read what you wrote (above), keeping the a priori “ I “ in mind... The a priori “ I “ ... a pri·o·ri Relating to or denoting reasoning or knowledge that proceeds from theoretical deduction rather than from observation or experience. As in, there is an “ I “ which the brain has constructed (an ego), it’s a group of memories & thoughts, it is theoretical, not actual. Thought is a circle jerk three cups and a peanut game, but there is no peanut. There is no end to the brain’s thinking, when the a priori “ I “ is allowed. The root of every thought must be identified / made aware of.

@Dino D “Empty your cup”, or say “Now is the beginning of self inquiry”. Start with all of those. When did I learn / adopt my beliefs? Did I read them? Was I raised being told them? The difference between belief & Truth, is that one of them is the Truth. I hope this doesn’t appear as argumentative.....that ^ is the actuality, the real eternal you. So maybe instead of remembering a state, the actuality is already the “floor” upon which sits thinking, surviving, desire, concern, (acceptable human selfishness) etc. Not egotistical personal selfishness, but rather who could blame you cause you have to survive in this world and therein people develop a relative perspective, seeing all things with meaning & value relative to their person kind-of-selfishness. Self inquiry like “Why in the fuck do I keep doing A, B & C?!” reveals, “transcends”, liberates. There’s going to be some scenes of fear, but upon going straight through it, the illusion is revealed / the Self is realized. And then it is VERY funny. Awareness alone is curative. Being aware of my whys is enough. The variable is how many times does life (which is actually me) have to kick me in the balls until I self inquire? For me, it was around two thousand lol. @Mikael89 nice!

@Dino D You should definitly not believe me. You shouldn’t be asking these questions to anyone. You should be self inquiring.

Precisely.

@Dino D I’m still an owl. Your accusations & pictures are mere proof. ........”who”? ? ??

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@Dino D “Proof” is looking at the bowl and saying it’s a bowl. I’m a freakin owl Dino. Now prove to me I am not an owl? There is no need for existential thinking or fear. It is enough to be genuinely curious. To inquire and wonder. Just to look around you right now and be sufficiently suspicious that the appearance of reality, is a little fishy.

@Dino D Exactly. You got it. The fish says “how do I make sense of everything?”. The water, fish & bowl are thought, reason, logic. The bowl is the veil. (Ego, ignorance) Outside the bowl is the infinite, and the fish, water & bowl are too. But the fish says “That doesn’t make sense of everything, to a fish”. And infinite says nothing, to no one. But this fish persists. This fish is done with fear.

@Bernard Godspeed my friend. Keep looking, keep inquiring. You will find the strength & the Love in you. You will find the inspiration.

@Dino D Take away the “you” which all of that is relative to and it makes perfect sense, as there’s no you trying to make it make sense.

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The Cosmic Joke.

That’s the attitude! Maybe death is ‘bad’ is nothing more than a belief! Self inquire...what is an a priori “I”? What is even meant by “I”? Been sayin it your whole life. Stop and contemplate what it is... and is it which says “I”, and refers to an “I”? In all seriousness, self inquiry is fun, exciting even. Don’t ever believe the gloom & doomers, that’s maya. @Key Elements I think I hear ya now. There’s been no service to anyone in this life, and yet, this entire life has been in service to ‘guests’. Ego is “escapable”, but there’s no escaping love. Not that one would want too. Service is great fortune. ❤️

Glass houses brother.

@Key Elements I don’t see the paradox.

Envy feels false. Doesn’t it, just simple put, feel false? Feels inhibitive right? Why? @SoonHei Orders of magnitude....remember that one pebble by the tree that you walked by 6 years ago? ... See how not-at-all-relative that pebble is to you right now? That’s your life to the magnitude of infinite. It’s not that it’s only a tiny bit relative, it’s that there is no relativity...it didn’t even happen, and You are perfectly at peace and complete. Like a movie happens on a screen, but really the movie isn’t happening....light from the projector appears as a movie happening on the screen, but you know it’s just light. Look around you right now, that’s “light” appearing as reality. That is one heck of a projector.

It’s awareness. Relative to homeostasis - hyperawareness - of “this human” “this body” “this mind”. That awareness can go all the way to the source. During the hyperawareness the ego is freaking out. Beyond it, just the ineffable.