Arkandeus

Tbh I don't care for enlightenment too! I just want to eradicate all my suffering, and if takes getting enlightened to do that, then so be it

the day will come that you will advance in spirituality and be able to radiate an aura of warmth and happiness no one will be able to ignore, you won't need words to convince them, they'll gladly hear whatever you have to teach them. people are intelligent, and they're always paying very careful attention to what you're doing, but they're not going to tell you that. What you're doing isn't bad, even if you're not all the way there yet, there's nothing wrong with spreading the word. But if you really aim to reach and convince a lot of people as Prabhaker said you'll have to make some serious work on yourself. or some very light work. depends on how you see it and like to approach it

the ego is violence, it's separation, it's hate. you can pat yourself on the back for your love is so strong that your ego directs all its violence inwards. what happens with out of control ego's in other people is that the violence is direct outwards, so they start abusing and hating other people, that is how you get murderers. You are by yourself containing all the evil that is the ego and you should be proud of yourself. The ego is a learned thing, it is not your fault, it is a result of thousand of years of human civilization, and when we're born we pick up on that subconsciously and get infected by it. The ego is losing the battle though as we get more and more loving and accepting as a society. What you feel is the battle of mankind, the struggle for evolution and it is happening in every one of us. To overcome is to first understand that you are not it, that it is an outside influence that has taken place inside you. You literally have a bundle of negative energy inside you, and it has nothing to do with who you are. The battle happens on the level of identity. If you believe that these bad thoughts are you, that this energy is yours, the ego wins because you then believe it can influence you. If you manage to stay true to your heart, you'll know that you are not this destructive energy. It's trying to pull you down, pull others down, don't believe in it, don't identify with it. Just do your own thing. Ignore the ego, do yourself. That's why it's important to know your identity. who are you really deep inside your heart and what do you want to do? if you can follow your heart, you'll know who you are and you'll know that the ego is not you. if you follow your mind, you will not be able to find your true identity and make a distinction.

you are stretching your sense of time, entering timelessness. It is normal that you don't need to breath as much. But then you get scared at the thought of not breathing. You have to be comfortable in letting go of time, in letting things get slower. You'll notice that your awareness doesn't get ''slower'' or ''faster'', your awareness is separate from time and space, or better said above it.

@Annetta @Loreena Hey guys it's alright, nothing bad happened, this was supposed to happen, it was supposed to go this way or it wouldn't have happened. Wasn't this encounter a wonderful chance to speak from the heart and bring out our deepest issues? and it is alright to do so. It's also a wonderful chance to practice love, yes, when do we have the chance to practice love but in these situations? These are the places and events where you will grow spiritually, where you can enforce your quality of love. Which is why nothing is random. You guys were attracted to each other, and as they said in the other topic, hate is but the other side of love. It's an occasion to forgive one another, you can only do that by understanding that the other party only meant well.....they meant to do good even though they hurt you and made you feel uncomfortable and bad. They did it out of a place of good, because they thought somehow it would make things better. Only if you see the good of others, can you love and forgive. This is not seeing the physical side of things, it's not looking with your minds for facts at why that person is good, it's seeing with the heart at the spiritual world, feel that the other person had good intentions despite the thorns that you felt. @Annetta You will never 'find out' if Loreena is messing with you or not, you are the one that decides how you view and interpret Loreena, that's your power of creation, what you believe, goes. I know it's annoying, you'd like to hang on to a 'fact' and rest on that, but if it wouldn't be this way then you wouldn't have the power to direct your life. I've had people act out against me in ways that I could deem either ''hostile and against my being'' or ''loving and in my own benefit''. It's all about perspective. People can hurt you in your benefit, but for that you have to able to trust that your higher self is actively at work in your life and attracting to you events from which you can learn and grow spiritually. And if I chose 'hostile' they wouldn't have grown to be friends of mine. Things can really be that subtle and subjective, and they are. The choices you make shape your reality. So I hope you'll make a choice that fits well with your spirituality of Peace.

powerful stuff my friend! sounds like a great experience

if it feels fun and joyful then it is not focus, it is being, as joy and passion are an expression of your being. just as when you walk, you don't focus on walking but you walk. sometimes I imagine stuff, but sometimes imagination comes to me, like being submerged by it. I appreciate the latter more, it feels more genuine. The question is, do you want to creatively visualize because you enjoy it or because you're trying to reach a certain state?

I think this video at 25:00min will help you find answers about the afterlife. She's a spiritual channeler that communicates with higher vibrational entities.

this was a good conversation, thank you for your input

you desire for death to be avoidable, so it is avoidable. you are the creator of your reality. I think that you will find through your spiritual journey as you get to know yourself better and you get to know the real meaning of death...that the ''death'' that is in your mind right now, your current concept of death, is avoidable, because it was never real. If 'death' makes you feel bad then that means you have attached something of yourself to it, that you view it in a bad way. Trust me that if you wish to know, you will know that the real meaning of death isn't hostile to you. Nothing is hostile to you in this universe, as you are the universe, everything is for you in your benefit. Your body might die someday but you will never experience the death that you fear so much in your mind.

good on you for infusing your meditation with aspects of infinity. meditate on music, meditate while walking, meditate outside/inside. as long as you keep the routine away, you make space for infinity, for nothing and everything

I think both of you guys are a funny example of taking spirituality too seriously, where it gets to the point where human dialogue gets shut down because of a spiritual concept.

I believe in the self, a soul identity that is not separate from everything else as different branches on a tree growing in their own individual directions they are not 'separate' from the tree and the other branches. for me the truth is like a crystal with many facets, it's not solid or static, the truth is as infinite as the universe. it may benefit one to believe that we are all ''one'' and that there is no separation if one wants to tune in with the highest vibration, the one of being '''one with everything''. Then that truth is guiding them higher, towards that place. That may the focus of Buddhism, just to reach that dimension where we're all ''one''. But one truth is not exclusive of the other. Feeling separated from the universe, feeling like a physical body in a foreign environment is also a real experience for me,it is also the truth otherwise it could not be experienced. And for those who wish to keep experiencing this ''dimension'' of being a body in a foreign universe they shall keep hanging on to that truth. I guess the ''truth'' is for me a malleable tool with which we guide our awareness to different dimensions of existence and vibration. But no ''truth'' is better then the other, everything is perfect as it is, everything that exists is valid. Whether it's to feel as one with the universe or not. that's my personal take on it How I came to this point is a mix of my experiences with psychedelics and without, by learning from various teachers and my own intuition. But at this point I couldn't really tell you exactly why I view the world in the way I do, I cannot think or rationalize my viewpoints anymore because for me these are matters the conscious mind cannot grasp, and so it cannot be explained anymore, I can only share some ''guidance'' and my vibration.

Separate no, we are our souls, the illusion of separation is our ''memory gap'' and in order to awaken and remember we need to be open-minded and open-hearted. Open to new knowledge, for that we have to be able to be in a humble state of not-knowing. Open to love, for that we have to be able to trust in the infinite intelligence of the universe, that everything is unfolding perfectly right as it should for you and me, so there can only be love with peace in the present, no conflict. For me this knowledge is streamed down through my personal experiences and my various spiritual teachers. Perhaps you mean that the Buddhists believe that we are all one? I do believe in that, that on the highest vibrational dimension we are all one, we are the universe. But I do believe on other dimensional levels we all branch off as individual souls with an unique essence in order to explore and express infinity. I don't believe one or the other to be exclusive, everything is happening now.

These are a few of the signs that I interpret in my daily life as direct communication from my higher self to me. I've been getting more and more aware of this communication so I decided to share it with you all, and if you guys have any signs like this in your life then I'd love to see them too.

yes by soul I do mean an individual eternal and infinite essence that may or may not reincarnate after death. on which part do you wish clarity?

whatever you do or decide know this : you are perfect, so whichever way you chose to go, it will work out this is a test of love, can you see the good in your teacher, can you see behind his aggression and relate to him? it's a chance to practice unconditional love...you can't practice unconditional love with people that are easy to love. Now to love is not to pander and agree, you can love someone and still call them out on their shit, but out of a place of companionship, not a place of ''me vs my enemy''. I can tell you that there's no enemy. Would you be more enlightened then your teacher wouldn't even bother you, he could tell you what you want and it wouldn't move you, that is inner peace. It's important to identify that the enemy is not the circumstance, the pain that you feel is the learning gap. You are always responsible for how you feel, it is good to know that because it brings back all the power to you. If you feel bad it's not your teachers fault, it is a fault in your perspective. Which you can correct by approaching the situation with an open mind and heart, which will open up inner space for learning and knowledge to stream into you. It can be that you are not ready to deal with this situation, that you are not ready to ''tolerate'' your teacher and explore how you both feel when you interact with each other. Which is fine, there will be other challenges when you are ready for them. If you feel like a certain source of negative energy is too overwhelming, that this teacher drains too much of your energy then you need to protect yourself. if I was really in your place I'd try to tolerate him, to accept the outer spillings of his inner suffering. If I was in your place in the sense that it's too much to deal with I'd talk directly to the teacher in private and call him out on his toxicness and ask him to stop and if he wouldn't I'd ask him to stop again, again and again, until I'd be forced to report him to the administration or something. These are my personal solutions and ways and are certainly not the ''best'' ways to deal with it. The best way is the way that feels right to you. If your idea is a very small form of resistance be it so, if it feels like your idea ,from your heart then it's good. simply put, either consciously tolerate him and try to practice a vibration of love, or defend your own vibration/state of being by doing something about it, anything.

As flow with life said, you can lock someone in prison out of love. just as you would with a child that misbehaves very badly, you put them in a corner. ''prison so to speak'' but the day that most of the population has attained such a high degree of love and spirituality that they are willing to let murderers roam free there won't be any murderers because any such negative energy will be immediately dispelled by the magnitude of love vibration. some might think that being ''loving'' is being weak and naive, but love and acceptance is of higher power then negativity, then dominance. Love is so powerful that when love and negative energy meet there is no fight. That's what love is, immediate peace. Higher vibrations of love reach directly into the subconscious of beings in its radius, and what would happen with a so-called ''murderer'' is that the very idea of murdering wouldn't even come up in their minds anymore. That is real healing. we tend to disbelief in the power of love because we have rarely seen true love. we see the mixed love that is a product of our collective consciousness. Then we compare it to power and think that love is weaker. Most of us are only at the mere beginnings of getting in touch with our love. deep love is extremely powerful and it is absolutely more powerful then negative energy.

to categorize one thing as real yoga and the other as childish is in my book putting labels and expressing elitism and close-mindedness. the only degree by which one should measure one yoga or another is if it feels good to yourself personally. If it feels good it's good yoga, if it feels bad then it's bad yoga. It's an entirely personal experience. So what I advise is try the first thing that comes to mind, if it feels good, keep doing it. There's no ''perfect yoga'' for you out there that you can't live without. If life is free and playful it could not possibly be this restricting? The thing about being perfect in every way is realizing that you are perfect in any way, no matter what you do. You could grow amazingly with one sort of yoga and amazingly with another. The common factor here is ''you''. That's why you're perfect, you can try anything and it will be of great worth and insights to you. So there's no need to feel pressured to seek the perfect circumstance, the perfect ''yoga'', you have everything you need right inside you and you take it wherever you go, whether it is the love you need, the spiritual lessons you need to learn, everything is within you at all times, so playfully navigate life. Your higher self is so intelligent it will manifest your life in a beneficial way to yourself no matter which direction you take.Whether it's yoga number 1 or yoga number 3, you will reap great benefits out of them, so just follow your joy, your curiosity.

the problem with the ego is that it never wants to learn, it doesn't want to improve, to improve means that is not perfect, that it is fallible. Your ego gives you the illusion that it wants you to improve, but in truth doesn't it always make you feel horrible if you're not doing things ''perfectly'' from the get go?How can there be a longing for improvement if the ego wants you to be perfect from the first try? That is a good way to detect your ego, it doesn't want you to make mistakes, which is why it doesn't see any benefit in failing. For the ego to make a mistake, means that your survival is threatened, because the ego assumes it is always right and perfect. It assumes it's complete. And you can't be 'complete' if you're making mistakes. Ouch. For the spiritual self, to make a mistake, it an occasion to learn and grow. The ''mistake'' is not a threat in any way. It's merely calibration. You are never complete on the spiritual path of learning and growing. There's infinity to learn and grow because the universe is infinite. The ego views things from above. From a place of perfection, any mistake is a ''step down'', it's painful. The spiritual self looks at things from below, any 'mistake' is an invitation to take a step up. Everything in your life is for your own benefit, to push you higher. Your world is yours, and it is the way it is so that you can grow, everything in your life is a helping hand trying to pull you higher.

wonderful to have experienced the infinity of reality....the same ''world'', the same ''concepts'', the same ''props'', but experienced in entirely different ways. It's like there's a blueprint, a world, people, animals, architecture , senses...but we all take this blueprint and make something completely different and unique out of it, just by the way we are aware of the everything. Our awareness is like a painting on a blank canvas. We all share the same canvas but not the same painting. And there are infinite ways in which to experience our reality. the one unshakeable thing that never changes when you transcend reality, that is you, everything can change around you, but there's one part that remains the same. which is why it never makes sense to focus on circumstances...there's never anything wrong with a circumstance, you could experience the same event, the same circumstance in a million different ways. always focus on yourself, you can create a reality just as vibrant as the one you created with the help of your psychedelic tool of exploring.

I think the mix of pain and sex is very interesting to look at if we want to get another perspective on this topic. The people who are into BDSM manage to use pain and suffering in a pleasurable way. I think it's a matter of opening your heart. If you truly believe and know that the pain and suffering in your life has amazing lessons to teach you, that they will lead you straight to new insights about yourself and the world you can experience these specific feelings in a new way. If you know that there's no distinction between pain and bliss, that they walk hand in hand, you could even be grateful when you're in pain because you know it will lead you to greater bliss. I already gave this example once but basically imagine this : if you knew you'd have to suffer intensely hard during 100 days, but after that you'd live forever in complete amazing bliss, you'd take the chance right away to suffer a 100 days. You'd have a hard time the first 10 days, but by day 50 you'd be counting down the days, looking forward to the end. You'd be in peace, because you know for sure that soon the pain will be gone. Peace in suffering and pain, is knowing that the suffering and pain is leading you to a greater place. It's not an obstacle, it's a stairway. To nurture this trust, to nurture this acceptance, is to nurture the inner fire that will you keep you warm and loved at all times, no matter what happens to you. when one closes their heart to pain and suffering, then it becomes very hard to live, any negative event that happens to you or someone else becomes torturous. If you open your heart and believe in the insights of negative events, if you believe in the positivity in the negativity, then it becomes easier to go through pain and suffering and to see others go through pain and suffering...easier and easier till you don't even notice when you're in ''pain and suffering'', because it has become a part of you, because even in ''pain and suffering'' you have this amazing joy in trusting the process, the growth, a joy that illuminates the pain and suffering and thus ''it'' disappears. And it appears that ''it'' was merely a negative definition of a part of your life.

goddamn, great stuff, I shall take this in

the thing about soul memories is that before you can access them you need to be ready and open-minded enough. If you're afraid to die and you're completely identified with your current body and life how will you be able to handle memories of you having a different body, of you dying many times over? You'd go mad, which is why your higher self will never stream down this knowledge until you're ready. It's all about being ready take up discrimination for example, if one has a tendency to discriminate people of other races he will not be able to access his soul memories because he won't be able to accept the lifetimes where HE might've been of different color. That's why everyone is a mirror. If you have problems accepting murderers and rapists you'll be in for a hard time because you might've been one in a previous life. Same if you're slightly sexist, you might've been the opposite sex in a previous life, so you're again looking down on yourself. Which is why people are literally mirrors of ourselves. The problem with accepting murderers and rapists is that we view them as deviants. They are not. They should be viewed as young toddlers that don't have much of an idea of what they're doing. They are in a deeper amnesia and know even less about their identity of love. while older souls that have passed more time on earth have more of an idea of who they are, and therefore aren't as confused. If you see that you are advancing spiritually in your life and being more loving, you should be able to recognize that the further you go back in lifetimes, the less spiritually advanced you were, and so the more confused and less loving you were and you could've very well made the same wrong choices as the so-called ''evil figures''. The key is understanding that it's all just a big game, we made the choice to forget our identity and play and incarnate in this civilization,and every single soul on earth knew the risks and degree of suffering, we all signed up for this so we could overcome and learn to grow our love even brighter. There is no such thing as a ''victim'' Only with open-mindedness, love and acceptance towards self and others can we access the higher truths of the universe and our real identity.

these guys are live proof that enlightenment can come from ANY direction, there's infinite ways to enlighten. They started with basic pick-up, how to connect with women, which pushed them to investigate the human mind and emotional states. And now they're past pick-up, and helping as many people as they can with direct shadow work on the subconscious, directly working on the release of the inner real self. I've seen a few videos of their sessions and it's powerful....it's great work. They are fellow lightbringers