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    I know that it's just a week and a half until Leo will most likely post his Stage Yellow video, but still, I'm really interested whether or not some of you might already be able to explain a bit about it, because it seems relatively foreign to me, even though I feel quite familiar with Green and Turquoise alike.

    So as far as I understand it, it's based rather heavily on conceptualisation and thinking in models and systems, but beyond that it's quite unknown territory to me. What would interest me in particular is how it emerges out of Green and why it is above it as a stage (even though I kinda already know why, I'd just like it to be explained by someone else once more:D) Also, in which ways does its way of thinking differ that much from Orange? Is it a certain holistic characteristic to it that unifies what Orange couldn't, or is it something entirely else?

    Thanks in advance for replying and who knows, maybe this thread will also serve Leo to see which misconceptions or misassumptions people might have of Yellow, so that he can address them later in the final episode.

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    Reason for Edit: Grammar

    Well, if you ask me, this "constant bliss"-thing isn't really what it seems to be to most people. Many report that after their enlightenment, or total release and/or surrender to put it in different words, they experience that state of total bliss which has a non-defined duration that is individual to everyone, but for some it may last weeks or even months. It is very rare and uncommon to hear that people are abiding in that state for years on end, because in the end, it is always safe to say that it will slowly become less and less pronounced and you will take it on as your default state, more or less - unless you totally dissolve in it and.... die (I don't know for sure, but I'm quite certain that it does have something to do with achieving a conscious death, but there's surely a lot more to it). IMO though, the bliss that is often mentioned over time actually just transitions into pure love and compassion which is the absolute source of the deepest bliss you could experience anyway. 

  11. Posted · Edited by DocHoliday

    Here are some excerpts from the book that I'm currently writing which seemed fitting to me describing the transition-mindset from orange to green. In this particular section I was writing on, I was indirectly focusing on the ways our subconscious drive for survival is linked to- and manifested in our contemporary (largely orange-dominated) society and culture.

    "The further we are away from the losing end, the lesser we could care about the consequences of our actions or about what happens to other people, animals or the environment, since our own self-agenda is not primarily built upon the wellbeing and benefit of people or creatures that are not ourselves. In other words: the lesser we are able to identify ourselves with things that are different and seemingly other than ourselves, the more we are capable to inflict harm or damage upon them." 

    "Thus, modern culture is still largely built upon the crab-mentality that represents the basic behaviour of crabs in a bucket. Whenever one tries to escape it, all the other crabs will pull it back down so that in the end, all crabs will die together. If I’m going to die, you will die with me – privilege that is exclusively granted to you is unbearable to me, as I always come first and what happens to all the others is not my concern."

    "It’s undoubtedly purely narcissistic and egocentric behaviour that we essentially all live by, without ever admitting that we do it. [...] But, just like crabs in a bucket, there is no way to achieve the best for all if we can’t come around to acknowledge our behaviour and to start acting selfishly in a more unified and cooperative way, based on the knowledge that what I want, is basically what you want too."

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    Dreams are awesome... Paying attention to your dreams pays off so much, it's overwhelming. So fascinating how something so simple and something taken for granted so heavily, day and day again, can actually prove to you through first hand "experience" that all of life and all that we commonly think of as reality is nothing but pure surreality - an illusion and a dream.

    I've had many dreams before where I actually experienced sensations of whatever was going on but they were mostly related to the sense of touch. Today, in addition to touch, I experienced taste for the first time ever in a dream -  and it was the most perfect taste you could possibly imagine. Nothing ever tasted so pure and just outright... perfect as what I have experienced. If you could get an orgasm merely from the sensation of taste, that's how good it was.

    But apart from the experience itself, it just strikes me time and time again that something as simple as a dream can basically lead you to Infinity or the Absolute the more you incorporate the insights and experiences that you have - even though to me personally, the words insight or experience don't even truly describe what such a dream can do to you. It's more like a simultaneous breakdown and reinforcement of reality, and to me, it really just presents a radically new way of BEING, more than anything else - and it feels great! So, yeah, in a sense all I wanted to do was to report about this experience as it was so fascinating to me, but other than that, what you will draw from this post is kinda up to you I guessxD Up until now, I've never had the chance to experiment with psychadelic drugs, but I'd actually dare to say that also dreams (including all sorts of stuff like lucid dreaming, astral projection and whatnot...) can also, additionally, give you a strong (awakening) experience if embodied and incorporated correctly, granted you go far enough with what you were able to draw from them. It (the experience) may not be as absolutely overwhelming and/or crushing as psychadelics, but I think they are also a very good catalyst for one's awakening/journey that is fortunately super easily accessable and available with an infinte abundance. 

  16. Posted · Edited by DocHoliday

    @who chit No, it's perfectly fine, it's nice that you reminded me of that fact. I've also watched Leo's episode "Life is a Dream" again and in it, he said that there are certain rules or boundaries to them dream, much like guidelines along which "reality"/the dream plays out, soo... yeah, I guess that's quite synonymous with "simply taking reality as it is". And you're correct, I was in fact simply theorizing - and perhaps got a little lost in it, so thanks again for reminding me.

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    @who chit Well yeah, that's exactly what I was saying, essentially. Being awareness. But, based on that, just why couldn't you then be aware of a totally differnt body for example in the "waking dream"? While in deep sleep and while consciousness is unbounded you can literally experience anything, hence the infiniteness of consciousness, but why does "my" body then first need to die in order for consciousness to inhabit a differnt mind and body? That's the question I'm interested in. 

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    23 minutes ago, tsuki said:

    The other duality is the duality of sleep/no sleep.
    If you do not remember your sleep - how are you so sure that you're not sleeping right now and the 'the other side' is the dream?
    What if you go to sleep and the moment you're 'out', you wake up as another person and live their day?
    You don't necessarily go back to your 'current' body back when you wake up as your memories are not a reliable basis for identity.

    I've thought about that as well. The consistency of the "waking dream" is what makes it feel so real and gives you the impression that you're "awake" and "actually there" in reality. Night time dreams don't have this consistency and therefore, we like to draw the distinction between them and attribute different values and meanings to them, for the "waking dream" is certainly the "more important" or real and relevant dream for many people. 

    As for identity, what would you then suggest to be a reliable basis for identity ? I think that memories are indeed a valid basis for identity, even though it is surely just conceptual. But at the end of the day you simply have to identify as something, right? Running around and merely saying that you identify as consciousness/nothingness/awareness isn't that practical I think. 

  21. Posted

    Thanks for the replies but you didn't quite understand my question properly. All I want to know is why it couldn't be that when we go to sleep, we wake up as a differnt person for example with a completely differnt life, given that consciousness is infinite. Why is it that it's always exactly my body and my life that I have known for years and why not potentially a completely differnt one. 

  22. Posted

    Reality is only consciousness, non-physical and only a dream, and consiousness is infinite, then how come we always wake up as the same person after we went to sleep? As Rupert Spira once said, the waking state is contracted consciousness and while asleep consciousness opens back up to its boundless form - but, why does it then always come back to the same contracted form (Me) till the day I die?