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What do you think? This is the Foreword to the book "The Book of Mirdad" by Mikhail Naimy. The mysticism he describes is something completely different from what I generally see people engaging in, and frankly, I probably saw only one or two persons on the forum, about whom I though they walk this path. What's your view?

I've done an in-person enlightenment intensive as well as online one. I'd say that both were just as powerful (given that I lived alone during the online one and there was nothing to distract me). Yes, I recommend enlightenment intensives very much.

I'm really sorry guys, I thought it would work. I thought I could write from this and share it with you, but it seems like this writing just doesn't want to come in English. I'll keep writing in my native language, but it's not for this forum then. Thanks for checking out the thread Here is some of the writing in my native language: and here is the dearest M.: END OF JOURNAL!

TOTAL FREEDOM As this Total Freedom, I am free from everything. I can never be touched as I have no body or point, by which I am defined. I am pure space, but when looked closely, not even that. People and circumstances act as if there is an entity inside this body (or anywhere else) - all that is an illusion. No-self is bigger than a thought could ever think. Allowing, giving in, dissolving are all the play that is hardly noticed. There is nothing anywhere at all. Total freedom is freedom from life, ultimately. Resting into death - as the freedom from anything whatsoever.

THE BIG JOKE The joke of it all is, that we live as if something actually was real. We plunge into the ‘realness’ of our struggles, living fully and nobly, giving it our all, only to - sooner or later - come out the other end and admit it was all a joke. It was a play. And here we are, resting in seeing the illusion of all things, knowing it full well to be only one side of the coin of Existence. The coin is turning, the other side coming again. Welcome.

THE TRANSPARENCY OF EVERYTHING However heavily we might believe in all the things that we claim exist, the fact remains that they are a transparent apparition. There is no solid realness to anything. The flow of things, one after another, is what we point to as the evidence, when we say that there is a solid ground. The same flow of things reveals that everything is just a movement in pure space, or even less then that. It’s all good, I as a person, have nothing to say. Cause I’m encompassed by the Big One, and I am its play.

in my exeprience, the only way an endless thought-stream like that can keep running, is if I am not aware of what's going on in the body - in the feeling system. Start translating the endless thought streem into the feelings that keep it running and deal with it there. If you can start feeling, you've found your levrage to set yourself free.

woh, good job! thanks

yeah, they are the same. If you are not conscious of the pain of your pain body right now, it means that it is uncosncious.

Check out Peter Ralston's body-being teachings. Zen Body-Being Principles of Effortless Power

I think this video might answer it for you.

End your perceptions and your body - instructions on dissolving into the Void These instructions are meant to guide you into dissolving your perceptions of the world and of the body into the Void, which is non-objective and prior to them. That process of dissolving perceptions into the Void will result in the complete destruction of belief in their inherent solidity and reality. Start by witnessing all the activity of the mind dispassionately, non-reactively. Unify all that is perceived into one field - sights, sounds, feelings, thoughts - realize it is all mind. After a while start wondering what is all this activity revolving around. Start honing in on the core of your mind. Build up a strong (strong! Like a needle penetrating your brain) felt sense of the core of your mind. Explode from that point - let go of everything. If this is done correctly, you will find your awareness dwelling somehow unexplainably beyond everything. Start surrendering ever subtler perceptions of the body and the world into that Void. Slowly come back.

@Imponderable I am not denying perceptions, just their status as absolute. That is what these states I'm pointing to reveal.

@Javfly33 no man, perceptions are like a mirage - you can drop them. Kinda like when you go to sleep (but in this case Wide Awake).

@Vibroverse lol, yeah, I give no guarantees @SQAAD dissolving that "I" will do just as well

I spoke with a classical Advaita Vedanta teacher. She explained that the difference is that Advaita Vedanta refers directly and is grounded upon Adi Shankaracharya as the source. Neo-Advaita isn't.

Perception is the veil we hold on for dear life - it is the self. When all of perception is let go off, when the core of the mind is released, Beyondness is realized. The structure we call mind starts cracking - the history, the way of seeing starts falling off. It is total Destruction. When that "central" part - me - falls of, for the self it is as if reality skipped a beat. Awareness sees that. And that's the beginning of the End.

There might be a deeper truth in actually being kind.

Real nice, enjoy! https://clairvision.org/books/altmc/a-language-to-map-consciousness.html

oh, I like this. Very important:

I also see the body side of things as a blind spot of Actualized.org, which makes the teaching quite one-sided and unholistic (granted that Leo has a specific niche, which is philosophy and mind). I don't necessarily mean extrem sports like @samijiben, but rather the opening of the body - the physcial body, the energy body... all that jazz. This actualy is related to spirituality very much. As much as we need awakening, we need the container (the body) to hold that consciousness from moment to moment. Otherwise awakening is simply an experience that comes and goes. Even such notions that I heard Leo speak about somewhere on the forum like (I paraphrase) - "Don't try to heal your body with consciousness, go see the doctors" - while they have some validity, there is an enormous misunderstanding here. It's as if we are anyhow apart from the body or a victim to it - exactly that attitude gets demolished by progressive entering, relaxing and embodying. It's a huge piece of work that I think is not given the due credit here.

@Goldzilla you're right. I don't know what your experience is.

Seems to me like @Goldzilla and the rest are talking different language here. I don't think you would even agree on what awakening means. From what I hear, Goldzilla speaks about complete coming into the Ground (the body). As he says, making the subconscious conscious, total transformation and embodying of the human being. Here, yes, gender is central and absolutely real. (frankly, basically nobody else on this forum speaks about this ascpet of awakening lol) The rest that post here speak about deconstructing of the mind. Where gender and even the body is seen as conceptual stuff. (this is the aspect of awakening basically everyone is involved in here on the forum) I strongly believe that however paradoxicaly opposite these aspects may seem, they are not mutualy exclusive.

Also had that. It's a whole new awareness of what it is to be a man after you've been a woman Might be that the gay men are women on the inside just how you became there for a second?