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@AleksM Hope you don’t mind but I found the “stages” from your link so clear and precise I thought I’d just post them here. Question for you also...I would say one’s reality - as in surroundings & relationships - their ‘microcosm’ - miraculously transforms along with them somewhere along these stages of awareness. If you’re view is similar, where would you estimate that it begins to become apparent that this was happening all along? Shame – Just a step above death. You’re probably contemplating suicide at this level. Either that or you’re a serial killer. Think of this as self-directed hatred. Guilt – A step above shame, but you still may be having thoughts of suicide. You think of yourself as a sinner, unable to forgive yourself for past transgressions. Apathy – Feeling hopeless or victimized. The state of learned helplessness. Many homeless people are stuck here. Grief – A state of perpetual sadness and loss. You might drop down here after losing a loved one. Depression. Still higher than apathy, since you’re beginning to escape the numbness. Fear – Seeing the world as dangerous and unsafe. Paranoia. Usually you’ll need help to rise above this level, or you’ll remain trapped for a long time, such as in an abusive relationship. Desire – Not to be confused with setting and achieving goals, this is the level of addiction, craving, and lust — for money, approval, power, fame, etc. Consumerism. Materialism. This is the level of smoking and drinking and doing drugs. Anger – the level of frustration, often from not having your desires met at the lower level. This level can spur you to action at higher levels, or it can keep you stuck in hatred. In an abusive relationship, you’ll often see an anger person coupled with a fear person. Pride – The first level where you start to feel good, but it’s a false feeling. It’s dependent on external circumstances (money, prestige, etc), so it’s vulnerable. Pride can lead to nationalism, racism, and religious wars. Think Nazis. A state of irrational denial and defensiveness. Religious fundamentalism is also stuck at this level. You become so closely enmeshed in your beliefs that you see an attack on your beliefs as an attack on you. Courage – The first level of true strength. I’ve made a previous post about this level: Courage is the Gateway. This is where you start to see life as challenging and exciting instead of overwhelming. You begin to have an inkling of interest in personal growth, although at this level you’ll probably call it something else like skill-building, career advancement, education, etc. You start to see your future as an improvement upon your past, rather than a continuation of the same. Neutrality – This level is epitomized by the phrase, “live and let live.” It’s flexible, relaxed, and unattached. Whatever happens, you roll with the punches. You don’t have anything to prove. You feel safe and get along well with other people. A lot of self-employed people are at this level. A very comfortable place. The level of complacency and laziness. You’re taking care of your needs, but you don’t push yourself too hard. Willingness – Now that you’re basically safe and comfortable, you start using your energy more effectively. Just getting by isn’t good enough anymore. You begin caring about doing a good job — perhaps even your best. You think about time management and productivity and getting organized, things that weren’t so important to you at the level of neutrality. Think of this level as the development of willpower and self-discipline. These people are the “troopers” of society; they get things done well and don’t complain much. If you’re in school, then you’re a really good student; you take your studies seriously and put in the time to do a good job. This is the point where your consciousness becomes more organized and disciplined. Acceptance – Now a powerful shift happens, and you awaken to the possibilities of living proactively. At the level of willingness you’ve become competent, and now you want to put your abilities to good use. This is the level of setting and achieving goals. I don’t like the label “acceptance” that Hawkins uses here, but it basically means that you begin accepting responsibility for your role in the world. If something isn’t right about your life (your career, your health, your relationship), you define your desired outcome and change it. You start to see the big picture of your life more clearly. This level drives many people to switch careers, start a new business, or change their diets. Reason – At this level you transcend the emotional aspects of the lower levels and begin to think clearly and rationally. Hawkins defines this as the level of medicine and science. The way I see it, when you reach this level, you become capable of using your reasoning abilities to their fullest extent. You now have the discipline and the proactivity to fully exploit your natural abilities. You’ve reached the point where you say, “Wow. I can do all this stuff, and I know I must put it to good use. So what’s the best use of my talents?” You take a look around the world and start making meaningful contributions. At the very high end, this is the level of Einstein and Freud. It’s probably obvious that most people never reach this level in their entire lives. Love – I don’t like Hawkins’ label “love” here because this isn’t the emotion of love. It’s unconditional love, a permanent understanding of your connectedness with all that exists. Think compassion. At the level of reason, you live in service to your head. But that eventually becomes a dead end where you fall into the trap of over-intellectualizing. You see that you need a bigger context than just thinking for its own sake. At the level of love, you now place your head and all your other talents and abilities in service to your heart (not your emotions, but your greater sense of right and wrong — your conscience). I see this as the level of awakening to your true purpose. Your motives at this level are pure and uncorrupted by the desires of the ego. This is the level of lifetime service to humanity. Think Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Dr. Albert Schweitzer. At this level you also begin to be guided by a force greater than yourself. It’s a feeling of letting go. Your intuition becomes extremely strong. Hawkins claims this level is reached only by 1 in 250 people during their entire lifetimes. Joy – A state of pervasive, unshakable happiness. Eckhart Tolle describes this state in The Power of Now. The level of saints and advanced spiritual teachers. Just being around people at this level makes you feel incredible. At this level life is fully guided by synchronicity and intuition. There’s no more need to set goals and make detailed plans — the expansion of your consciousness allows you to operate at a much higher level. A near-death experience can temporarily bump you to this level. Peace – Total transcendence. Hawkins claims this level is reached only by one person in 10 million. Enlightenment – The highest level of human consciousness, where humanity blends with divinity. Extremely rare. The level of Krishna, Buddha, and Jesus. Even just thinking about people at this level can raise your consciousness

@RawJudah What we are is mystical, magical and amazing, and all is well. Not good or bad, but perfection. Consistent ‘reality’ is an illusion. Tolle’s awakening could be considered an inconsistent event, and indigestible if we’re in a paradigm of consistency. That sounds ridiculous if we’re in a science paradigm of biology, neurology, brain, evolution, etc - the “being right” paradigm. It’s logically unacceptable because it’s rationally inaccessible. Logic & reason are real - ized as limitations to Tolle now (I assume, I don’t know him). Imo, this is what @AleksM is pointing to for us. Jim Carrey comes to mind. Many think he’s batshit crazy because what Jim is pointing to is transcendent of logic & rationalization, transcendent of being ‘right’. Transcendent of ego and the paradigm of consciousness being a product of the body & brain, vs the body & brain being an illusion of consciousness. Even the word consciousness....

@AleksM It’s really an amazing thing how people can ‘be in the same location’, and have completely different relativity and experience.

@Joseph Maynor The practices or foundation are directly related to the ‘letting go’ for the trips, and also are the means of integration after trips. In my experience, the default / baseline awareness pops to a higher permanency sort of out of the blue, but is still directly from the discipline of practices and increased doses. So, practices & psychedelics. One without the other is half, and half is a yo yo ride. Jo - Please don’t take this like I am implying you are not on top of your practices. I am sharing experience & my best understanding of them. I did the practices for many years before I started the years of psychedelics. Surely, my view is biased by this.

@Shakazulu How are they different to you?

@nightrider1435 ? I use an aqua gear pitcher that goes in the fridge, and fluoride free toothpaste...

@Annetta

@makouda It’s like when you hear something and get it, and then a minute later get the deeper joke, or deeper meaning, connect the story, see what’s really going on, etc, but staying with an inquiry for 5, 10, 30 min, etc. That’s over simplifying it. Here’s Leo’s video on contemplation, and the enlightenment exercises. The comments on the enlightenment exercises are really great. https://www.actualized.org/forum/topic/9425-contemplation-the-most-important-tool-summary/ https://www.actualized.org/forum/topic/7587-list-of-enlightenment-exercises/ https://www.actualized.org/articles/contemplation

@Mike Rivers That’s really well done Mike. Nice. Accept only the truth. You can seek either, and find either. Psychedelics, there’s no substitute.

@SOUL you’re right.

@Epiphany_Inspired Awww what a sweetie! Same here!! I really do think that would be a great thing @Leo Gura could do. It hits all fronts; going full minimalist for a duration, career forwarding, a rare way to help a lot of people, and a very intimate rare experience for him...and actualized would be the better for it. Btw...how’s Vancouver? Headed there in a few months.

@Aquarius This is gonna seem like I’m being rude as hell, but I’m hopin it reaches you in that second level or deeper awareness where the relief is, but, this.... ”I know the past doesn’t exist” Is actually not true at all. If it were, there wouldn’t be this.... Ever since I was 14......etc, etc, etc. The usefulness in realizing the past doesn’t exist is to be present now, without the filters & perpetuated view based on past experiences. This is that Now Tolle’s got on lock. It’s a real mind blower, the actual Now. You will notice this through your days with other people from now on. People almost always state the answer they need, and then the problem they are having. Like “I know it doesn’t matter but, blah blah”. You can tell it matters, because they’re talking about it.

@Epiphany_Inspired I’m usually wrong, but I think the point is to get livin! As in, that’s kinda what he is spending his working life doing. Helping people wake up and live their lives - not falling for the lazy comforted don’t have to do anything-technology built me a cozy nest that I’ll sit in until I die, trap. Being aware of it.

@Shin

@Epiphany_Inspired you got this! & I happen to recall, that you have done unbelievably harder things in the last couple years than simply picking something to get started with. A while back, I used to trick myself by saying... I’m just going to do that for like 2 minutes to see if I feel like doing it. Once I started, I kept going.

It’s atoms. Which are nothing. You can make a foundation, take enough psylicibin, and see for yourself also. The double slit is nice too. But, for the love of God, this is my opinion, it’s nothing more than nothing. I am wholly fake. Every word of this is fake. I’m not claiming to even know what the claiming is.

@Shanmugam There’s all the scientific evidence necessary to see we are an illusion, but tell someone, and they would not believe it!

Just yesterday, my wife & I argued about garbage day being a day later due to the holidays, and I ended up being right. So, anything is possible guys! Never give up on your dreams! You can!

DItch permanent residence living for a while, go full nomad. Stay with each of us for a day or two, around the globe. Shoot an hour or so video live, a one on one sit down with each person. We’ll cover your expenses and ship the equiptment to the next guy / gal. Sell the ‘episodes’ to a tv network. Can you even imagine traveling the world, capturing it all on tape? All the countries and cultures? ?

@Ruby White Hi Ruby! I’d love to hear it. Just a friendly heads up, it’s a bit of a brutal honesty environment round here, so..thick skin. ?

We all channel our self.

@egoless yeah, but Rupert didn’t really decide to make that video. jk

@Jamie Universe Since all is in actuality self, there is a direction and spectrum to the visual & audible aspect of waking up. Typically, it starts with a lot less thinking / mental filtering activity / projection (or the rare “fuck all” / suicidal trigger of awakening), resulting in increased awareness of our person and surrounding - appreciation of our “beingness”. Animals & botanical life don’t have our intensity of thinking filter, I presume they are total “beingness” - “infinite intelligence”. So there’s a connection with nature we ascend to, and likewise nature resonates with our awakened presence - there is twoness in the illusion, but of course oneness in the underlying reality. Then we experience it with people. Then inanimate “reality”. “Reality” itself, is not consistent, it certainly appears to be, but perception is everything, as there is no “reality” which is perceivable, only reality perceiving, only One, which is perceiving it’s self. It really is a “Jamie Universe”, quite literally.

@Znib94 I would keep your focus on breathing from the stomach, and keep relaxing your entire body over and over, with spine straight. The healing will happen regarding your knots. I assume you meant “calmer” but man that is a funny typo. Congrats on doing this for yourself! ❤️ In the Buddha’s story, armies of demons came at him, and when he remained still, their arrows turned to flowers. To defeat them, he simply touched the ground, or ‘connected’. I know it’s a story, but there is truth in it. It’s hard for the mind to accept that simply sitting in meditation can cure such things, but it’s technically not curing anything, just removing what we’ve added unknowingly.

Bible wise...I think this is interesting.... “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them” Image: a reproduction or imitation of the form of a person or thing; especially : an imitation in solid form.