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@Harvey Identify what you're doing that takes you out of that higher state of mind.

@Dizzy That's so beautiful.

@PretentiousHuman Your separation from source, your individuality - is strengthened by utilizing Facebook. As in "look at me, pretentious skull guy who is not the universe." Your separation is strengthened by validation, which is an idea in your head to begin with. Even when you feel validated, no one but you is actually doing the validation. I'm a "boss" (terrible term) and I dream of having a team of individuals who do not need validation. Your boss is playing you like a fucking sheep when he / she gives you validation. Stop needing it and you'll probably become a boss, no offense. It is beneficial to want and to get what you want, evidenced by clean and clear good feelings. It is not beneficial to be emotionally attached to any of it, evidence by a feeling of lack which is your mind making up a belief to sooth you by blaming. To escape this trap, skip over the typical years or decades most endure bullshitting themselves about meditation, and DO IT. Every morning for at least 20 minutes. Just sit there and return your focus to your breathing. Breathe involuntarily & naturally, but realize you are not breathing, rather the universe is breathing, as well as beating it's heart and orchestrating trillions of atoms that you refer to as your body, or skull guy. Within roughly two weeks, around the 16 minute mark, you will experience a sort of separation from your ego self. Kind of like a bird's on view on your mind and emotions. Another thought, if you're still reading... learn about the uncertainty principle. From what I can deduce, we live in a world where the vast majority don't change, even to benefit themselves. When people do change, it's usually painfully slow and then they undo it and return to habits. Don't be a creature of habit. The only reason for habit, or doing the next most probable thing, is you. It is equally as easy to do more and more and more of what you want. Not that - ... what you really fucking want. You can do it. The only thing that will hold you back is your perspective on it. The uncertainty principle is the best thing I've found to get deep enough into the perspective of choice within myself. Will most likely be something else that get's deeply into you, that's just a reference of what worked best for me. Btw, I might be kidding myself but it sure seems like you have a very very special energy. Feel free to tell I'm a weirdo, but am I right? Like, have you always known there is something about you that is hard to place or verbalized that is very different? Odd, I know, but I'm feelin it so I'm expressing it. And I'm curious.

@Afonso Dude. Let me preface this with acknowledging my perspective is the least popular on this site. But, seems like people are reinforcing your unwanted experience. Hollow? WTF? There's you, cells, atoms, electrons, then fields and forces, everything, and then nothing. You are all of that. Your consciousness is not unique. You are literally the universe being consciousness, as is everyone. You are the whole fucking show man. You can conceptualize, contemplate and experience anything. Keep in the direction of less Afonso and more everything.

@electroBeam Glad if it helped man. I appreciate you. I feel like I owe you. You gave me an ego slap that I needed a while back. Spend 4 days on psych's by myself in the middle of the woods. I don't even identify with whoever or whatever I was before that. Maybe the same would aid you currently? If you're able to, maybe get the fuck outta wherever you typically are and be somewhere you would not most probably be, and do things you would not probably do. I wish you insane happiness man. Thank you.

@Lai Some people take drugs and end up in psyche wards or even committing suicide. Some people take drugs and it aids in releasing them from depression, anxiety, neurotic behaviors, etc. It's up to you. You're underestimating the power of your mind. Look around, that's you. I don't pretend to be responsible for anyone here. I couldn't choose for them even if I wanted to, and why would I want to? Why is it that you want to?

@faith This simply breaks down to consciousness. An ant has a certain amount. A dog has a certain amount. A person doing the next most probable thing everyday has a certain amount. A person who sees the causations / probabilistic nature and lets go of their individualism becomes more of the everything. The consciousness is the everything (but not the nothing). So in terms of consciousness, there is separation / individual consciousness, and there is connection / more everything consciousness. This is just where the universe is relative to you now. Nothing to worry about though. Money and power have nothing on numbers. Changes for the masses only come from utilizing the sheer numbers of the masses. Many countries have already utilized Facebook to organize their masses and change things. Others will continue to follow. The more I focus on the lessor in this era, the more I am that. The more I focus on the greater, the more I am that. I'm just focus, choice and experience.

@electroBeam You triggered one of the biggest breakthroughs in my life. I hope to do the same for you and I'm employing audacity and ugliness because I think it has the best odds: You have picked to be where you re at. You can pick to be anywhere when you accept that. You were not born this way, no one did this to you. No one is ever going to help you. The fabric of reality is everything and it is you who filters out what you choose to filter out. ?

@Lorcan I have done this, millions of people have done this. More people are becoming millionaires now than ever before. The key is choosing to do so. The hard part imo is seeing the difference between thinking one is choosing and actually choosing. Once the income stream is functioning and a business is running, it will seem plain and ordinary and in hindsight it's easy to see that it was 99% the choosing that created it. It's what we let go of that brings expansion.

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@Real Eyes very clean shrooms

@Baul IQ tests are such a tiny tiny piece of information. Think about it this way, if you had a kid and rather than put him in school or offer any personal development, all you did was teach him the questions and answers to that IQ test. Then when he's around 12 years old he takes the test and scores higher than anyone ever has. Would he be any more intelligent then anyone else? I would suggest pursuing connection rather than IQ. Also, IQ is not a predictor of success at all. Just a reminder, Donald Trump is currently the president of the US. We all have our own connotation on what success means but I think being the president falls somewhere in the success zone, not to mention being a billionaire, and you're more intelligent than he is.

@Samuel daily morning meditation of only 20 minutes EVERY day will create a 'space' between those arising desires and your observance of them allowing you to choose in what feels like slow motion. You will benefit both by not reacting to impulses, and you will become more aware of a variety of impulses that you may not be aware of now. Also, not the best idea in the long term, but for now, why not just rub one out? As you know, your state of mind will change. Then you have all that time back to do what you want to. In summation, my advice is meditate and beat off, apparently.

@Real Eyes yes. 3 days in a row is a very different outcome than once, and then doing that for a few months is another level / outcome. also imo, experiencing enlightenment does not make for an enlightened person. Not trying to launch 300 pages on enlightenment though.

@Nicholas absolutely happiness should be in the process not the result. However, if you practice, you can have both.

@Shin I can relate man. It's almost a bummer in a way, because we have these hopes that it will be magical, then after, it's as normal as anything else and we're on to the next hope and eventual normality.

@Shin @Paintballer AStral projection, or whatever name you apply, is as real as what we typically refer to as real. Once you do it, as Shin now has, you see it completely differently. Until you do it, typically, your relative understanding is that it is like a dream or a hallucination. This is conflation; since you haven't experienced it, you reference what you have experienced to make the best sense of it you can. It is not at all like a dream or hallucination.

@JoseM We can be aware of what's around us, find deeper richness & depths in the ordinary, every day. We can be mindful of what's within each of us, what we are. We can be mindful that no matter who you are, or what you have or haven't done, that your attention will always be the greatest gift you have to give. One draws on the illusion, the other on the mind.

@Afonso Clarity is not a property of information, it's a property of the observer (you). If you want the teachings to become clearer, you must increase your clarity. You are the one collapsing the wave, it can only be relative to you.

@No-Thing In the same manor we are energy and pursue our own individual energy, the world is pursing it's own energy. The big change will come with zero point energy, which has been around for a while, but is currently suppressed by means of patent purchase suppression. The irony is, there already is no shortage of energy, food, space, love. There is a perception of these shortages, but that's part of the separation / Big Bang. So, we will likely 'solve' this with technology & science (zero point energy) long before the awareness that there is plenty of food, water, etc happens on a global scale. We can wake up, but we can't wake someone else up. One thing. Big Bang. Seperate things. "Waking up" is remembering it's all still one thing. There are no shortages to a need, just as there are no problems without inherent solutions, or questions without inherent answers.

@ShadowWalker wow

@PretentiousHuman thank you!

@The Universe You were born enlightened. Then added a lot of shit. Let go off all that shit and you'll be back to where you started.

@zunnyman Time doesn't exist. This might help you to realize you're using a made up reason not to pursue everything you want in this life.

You could choose any feeling, any attitude, any contributing activity of any kind, and this is what you have chosen. I honestly, totally believe you when you state there is no enlightenment for you. I do wish you the best.