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Reality is made of your body, it is not a sum of "things". If you would dramatically change your brain chemistry, reality would look truly alien and it would not be shared by anyone. The same principle applies to "this reality" which is nothing but your point of view and the only one. Consciousness "out there" is something you're projecting. Theoretically, there are parallel universes as well but they have no relationship with this one you're seeing right now.

I don't know why but this scenario sounds funny as hell ? IMO consciousness implies some level of CONTROL and since their hallucinations are not stable, they are actually less conscious and primitive, in a sense. Just like a person would see his image in a mirror and would creep out thinking there's a separate person on the other side. But although our hallucinations are more stable, we are less conscious than - let's say - an alien, or a person with paranormal abilities since they could be able to control their hallucinations better and alter reality. At least, that's how I see it.

This sounds absolutely amazing. But this is totally alien to me. I don´t really undertand what are the instructions I need to follow. The only instruction I stract from what you said is keep eyes fixed haha. I don´t really know how to let the brain thinks on its own or merger mind and physicality. If I observe the "brain" I am doing nothing, if I am thinking I am the thoughts. I guess a need to be an advanced meditator and then I could bring that skills to no-meditation time.

I begin to laugh as Leo brings up the image that my mother has hatched from an egg. It is so funny to imagine a little child picking through the shell and emerging like one of the aliens from the movie Alien. But then, why is that funny? It is equally mysterious, mindfucking and alien that a being would be birthed through a vagina.

Paranormal phenomenon of alien abductions

The paranormal phenomenon of alien abductions

The mysterious dobby alien creature on night camera in driveway doing chicken dance.

Alabama tin foil alien incident. Witnessed by Jeff Greenhaw. Falkville 1973 In 1973, another police chief in a small north Alabama town took a photo of what he thought was an alien being. That October, Falkville Police Chief Jeff Greenhaw responded to a call from a woman who was “excited” as she reported seeing something strange. Greenhaw responded and came upon a 6-foot tall metallic creature with an antennae on its head. “It looked like his head and neck were kind of made together... he was real bright, something like rubbing mercury on nickel, but just as smooth as glass-different angles give different lighting. I don't believe it was aluminum foil… It was running faster than any human I ever saw.” Greenhaw was ridiculed and lost his job. Many people believed someone had played a prank on the chief. However, the photo he snapped of the creature that night can be seen in books on alien life. Max Headroom incident.

1987-The Ilkley Moor Alien Photograph.. An extremely compelling account of alien abduction that took place in 1987 in the Ilkey Moor, Yorkshire, U.K. is a unique case which may include one of the very few photographs taken of a live alien being. The main character and only witness of a UFO and alien being is one Philip Spencer, a retired policeman. He claims to have been taken aboard an unidentifed flying object, and snap one photograph of an unknown being. Carmen Reed, Snedeker Connecticut haunting Smurl Family Haunting

The only difference between this and solipsism is like the difference between a human who has two eyes and an alien who has one eye.. It's basically the same awareness that's looking through your left eye is looking through your right eye. Same thing if both me and you are aware but it's the same awareness looking through our eyes. Makes no difference if it's one eye that exists at a time or multiple eyes.. There is only one awareness looking though whatever number of eyes we have.

Hey everyone just finished my first ever water fast that lasted 4 days. Thought I'd share some insights as its goal wasn't weight loss or anything like that but for mental discipline. I guess the initial thing that comes to mind is that your state of mind alters around day 2 into starvation mode. It almost felt like a psychedelic experience for me where I had a constant train of thought clouding my mind. When I was having conversations with friends, my speech felt alien and unnatural as well. On top of that my sense of touch felt off. In day 3 and 4, it was a real challenge to try meditate to keep my thoughts clear. The fasting also really puts things into perspective with food and water. By the end of day 3 I was feeling great -lots of energy, though the mornings were always tough. Every time I had a negative thought, my initial reaction was to find something to consume, usually some sort of carb. But really, as my body got water in it, the day got easier and easier, and by night I was full of energy. The concept of consumption was something that I meditated a lot about during my fast. Although I was planning on fasting for only 4 days, I got onto this through a friend who does water fasts throughout the year for weeks. He's also a father and a professor that works and researches every day. It was a fascinating time to figure out how to keep productive while fasting. For the first 2 days, my day consisted of fixations and distractions such as TV or video games. However, 3rd and 4th day I forced myself to do productive work and light exercise. To my surprise, work was a great fixation as I ended up working 8 hours straight and have been productive than ever! Also, as for the light exercise, it was hard at first but once I got a few push ups in it was good! This is strictly from my own personal experience but I'd love to hear about others as well. It was such an interesting journey and I'm planning on doing 5 days in December. Tips or suggestions are welcome!

I would say there is also underlying attachment and identification to beliefs. Imagine we were discussing what alien life in a far away galaxy might be like. Since we are just speculating, I would hold ideas loosely - especially if I’ve never been to this galaxy and have never met the aliens. For me, disclaimers are a surface level. I can say “This is just my opinion” and still be attached to the beliefs as if they were true. I’m then much more likely to get into debate mode in which my ‘speculations’ are more righteous.

Well cmon leo, don't be pessimistic. I might incarnate in an alien in an alian sociaty who lives in more unconditional love. By the way, if by your belief im god, i also can choose to incarnate in whatever i want. Right? If you incarnate in an animal. you would not be self conscious of your suffering. right?

A profound realization, which ‘sticks’, is coming. I can feel it in the bones in your regard. Can feel your doneness. Loving it. That is not pain. That is suffering. The difference, at least initially, is you’re causing one but not the other. Inspecting & realizing precisely how you are doing this is the key. Then, you can no longer actually create suffering. Pain, you might encounter, but that is transcend-able too. Ideally, this will be a bit triggering, and you’ll feel into any reactionary feeling....not a single word of that has any truth whatsoever. It’s a sympathetic intention, a story about a you that you keep retelling. It has zero truth whatsoever. If you’re going to continue story telling, tell the story you actually want, that feels good to you. Again, this is a story about a you. You’re made of passion. There are billions of options for friends, and as many common interests available to make them. “I” can not feel lonely. Uncover the label of lonely. It’s a write off, a cover up. A thought being taken to be feeling, but it’s not. Feel the loneliness then, don’t settle for thinking which doesn’t resonate, about it. Feel the feeling so deeply and profoundly, that it is either seen through and disappears, or it explodes into full realization of what it really is. That is subtle blaming. Instead, recognize you’re believing thoughts, believing a narrative about a you. You (can’t say this loud enough) are not actually passive whatsoever. That is a facade of suppression, of an infinite creator, of love yourself. Contemplate - where do desire & passion actually come from? Don’t take that they have a source for granted. Literally - inspect and find the source. Where are they coming from? Your parents? Ha! The sun?? Find the source which shatters every possibility of any doubt. Experience is the point of experience. You’re creating as you go, but yet to notice this. Fascinating life of a world traveler, or bored, passive, Settling for a narrative, blame, complaining, self doubt, etc - up to you. Nobody is coming my man. This ain’t no rehearsal. You’re already free - drop the bringing of the story of a you everywhere you go - and you’ll have fun & friends coming out of your ears, so to speak. Make a dreamboard. Get honest with desire. Shed all limiting beliefs, as reality becomes what you are wanting right before your eyes. Go into & through desire & passion, into The Self. It waits there for you. It’ll unconditionally wait for eternity. It can not do otherwise, as it is eternal & unconditional. That, that is your best friend. Been waiting all this time. Loving you. Knowing you. Wanting all for you, that you honestly desire. You have a conscience. Listen to it. Prior to every word you speak or type, listen to it. FEEL...and then. If you struggle to feel desire & passion, simply remain silent. It is unstoppable, and when thoughts are let go, it floats, rises. That is it’s nature. You’re normal. Bland. Plain. Common. (You know I say this to trigger, so you can feel those limiting beliefs & let them go simply by recognizing how they feel.) Weird is nothing, haven’t even started. Get outta that kiddie pool. Infinite love is mayhem. Love it. Don’t judge it. Yeah, mayhem. Love & understand it. That is transcendence / (trance dance). Lighten up. Loosen up. Laugh it up. Look at the weirdness, the craziness, and laugh. Break the mold of your mind. Don’t expect any one to be like minded. Look to share common interests. You eat, I eat. We’re already friends via the common interest of food. Don’t be picky, see how easy it is. Nobody dictates your acceptance or value. The feeling of Goodness which you are attributing to the actions, words or behaviors of others - is you. Don’t give you away in thought, in that manor. Use a pad of paper. Make a list of everything you don’t want. Then, leave it. For hours, or a day or two depending on how much undesirable emotion arose. Relax and completely allow it to clear. Then, go back to your list and write the opposite next to each thing you wrote. You’ve then derived what you do want, as well as shifted your attention & focus to it. Fell good. Milk the shit out of feeling good as you write the dream on your dreamboard. Let go of every and all thoughts about a future you doing anything. Reality is unconditional and will become it. You’re inevitably realize, this is already and always has been, the actuality. Again - don’t suppress, feel every feeling, so to speak. Be a student of feeling & emotion. Great. Now play in want, without attachment. And even that is not yet to have begun. Monks & no desires is a story you’re believing. Feel your way there. Be honest to where you’re at. You can skip on the path, but you can sip the path. Increase knowledge of spiral dynamics & listen to Abe Hicks. Or don’t. Again, always up to you. Don’t attach to the knowledge, allow it to come and go, to be your now ledge until which actuality unfolds. No past, no stories or narratives dragged into now. No future, and no worrying about it. Now only. Get serious about this attachment to thoughts. Stopping fucking around. Burden is felt. Feeling is telling you you’re full of shit. You’re not listening. Instead, you’re contextualizing & labeling feeling as “burden”. You believe you’re “alien” and lonely....then act surprised when what you pursue is aligned with your beliefs. Stop being so surprised. Start loving you, us, them, it, etc. LOVE unabashedly. Love the ability to see through your own bullshit stories. Love you. Indeed there is. You’re choosing to the delusion for lack of inspecting line. Up to you to let that thought go, or believe & express it. Up to you to hand your authority over to someone on a silver plate. (Again, triggering, loving you ? sometimes only a slap accross the face will do. Keep a look out for me as well. We all need one from time to time). Indeed. There isn’t even an identify or battle. That would still be narrative of the mind hijacking. In true humility, there isn’t a problem, or that story about a problem & solution. Stop underestimating that what is let go no longer exists, and you begin to realize the pure magic of attention & focus. You’re effortlessly creating, effort. Story about a past & a you, appearing now, and being believed. Drop the “Omni” horse shit for the actuality, mystery, and delight of not knowing. Or don’t. Story about a past & a you, appearing now, and being believed. Story about a past & a you, appearing now, and being believed. Story about a past & a you, appearing now, and being believed. Story about a past & a you, appearing now, and being believed. A psychedelic experience is no different whatsoever than the experience of this appearance right now. That there is any difference whatsoever, is just another story about a you & a past which ‘happened’. Wtf is this? Yes. Do that. Inspect from the ground up....sleep, diet, letting undesirable thoughts go simply for feeling, an hour of proper meditation every morning. Not guided bullshit, or thought labeling garbage. Get real with beginners mind, drop “the past”. Music to my ears. You’re great. I’m a Midwest dad & husband. Kids are the real guru’s, keeping me real, keeping me in line. Lol. My approach here, in case it isn’t obvious, is to provoke some catharsis a bit. And maybe to reveal this can be is fun as hell. Up to me.

@Nahm How understanding or distinctions do you have or make, between suffering, and pain? Suffering are thoughts. Pain is emotion in the body - in my stomach. For example - when I'm lying in my bed - suddenly my neighbor slams his door and immediately I feel physical pain in my solar plexus area and instantly suffering comes - negative thoughts about my neighbor, about my noise sensitivity, about unfairness of life. Thoughts about it, are not at all related to what the actual experience is. Yes. 5 years ago I decided I will do whatever to get enlightened. So I have renounced my "real" life, my business life, stopped meeting with friends, stopped my hobbies. Basically I went monk full-time. A "modern" monk doing only self inquiry, contemplation, meditating and psychedelics. I became more and more stuck in the head. I adopted one big belief - everything is illusory, pointless, and attached to identity. So my plan was to see through identity and after my "enlightenment" I wanted to start a new life based on some final "True Purpose". My past business "purposes" and hobbies were driven by ego - I only wanted approval and money. So I said to myself that I will not do anything business related and hobbies related until my permanent enlightenment. 5 years later - no luck. At the moment - I have no passions, no friends. I feel lonely. Thoughts about loneliness are killing me. So I rationalize them with my spiritual reasoning and stay passive. Tried to transcend them without fulfilling them - no luck. And there were many thoughts about starting new business, but I renounced them as well. And hobbies - nothing interests me... I see all hobbies as pointless. Why do anything... Why travel... Why go to another city - all cities are just concrete, asphalt and glass distributed differently. That's it. When it comes to people in my country... I have not met any weirdos like me... I tried to find like-minded people, but there are just phone zombies "In the streets" who do not like deep topics. So I am here on the forum and finally I feel more accepted/valued I really do not know what would I put in my dream-board... And if I put anything in my dream-board - those items would just remind me a lack of them... My dream-board would be a lack board. Or not? I tried to have no desires like monks do... I have seen futility of material things... I have all that I need. All sorts of electronic devices, apartment, girlfriend, 2 bicycles, and regular income from government. I do not need to work anymore. I am seeing girlfriend for only 1 hour a day. When it comes to loneliness - that is the biggest problem right after "ego" problem ... I feel like an alien. Lonely alien. I actually had an idea how to meet like-minded spiritual people - I wanted to start a you-tube channel/website to attract like minded people to me. In my country spirituality is still a novelty. There are not any spiritual youtube channels in my language. BUT - what holds me back: perfectionism - I said to myself that I will start teaching only after enlightenment. I want to say only perfect and true words coming from my Real Self, not from ego. This burden holds me back. Next thing that holds me back is that all those radical ideas I wanted to teach... Those ideas / truths actually made my life worse... Waking people up and opening their eyes is exciting, but also can do a lot of harm to them. You know... Sweet ignorance ... I consider unconscious people happier than me after 5 years of consciousness work... AND last thing - Who am I to teach them? I am depressed, I have more fears than them, more anxieties... Why would I make their life meaningless like mine... There are actually many people here on the forum who claim their life become meaningless after watching Leo's videos. How does this approach / perspective you are currently utilizing feel? I am deducing it does not feel good. Is there willingness to let it go, and adopt an approach which is rooted in, and entirely based on, feeling better? When it comes to fighting with my identity - I just came to conclusion that fighting is not the answer. This battle can't be won by any one. Today I basically I somehow uncovered my problem - glowing psychedelic experiences gave me a false expectations how everyday life is supposed to be. I realized - because there is no way out of experiencing life - thus I need to humble myself and accept life as it is. Omnipotent psychedelic experiences gave me false hopes of healing my illnesses. That's really sobering insight. Now I need to accept that and somehow move on. Omnipotent psychedelic experiences made me hate my ego. Omnipotent psychedelic experiences made me renounce "normal" life. Omnipotent psychedelic experiences made normal life pale in comparison to psychedelic experience. Omnipotent psychedelic experiences made me hate my humanness. From now on I think i should start working on balancing my life. Being a brute-force monk isn't the way for me... In the last 24 hours I let go a lot of anger... Anger for myself... Anger for my self deceptions. Anger for false hopes... BTW thank you Nahm, You're great.

Woah. So it doesnt matter if were living as lizards in the jungle or dmt elves. It doesn't matter if I'm an alien in the worlds of an unknown system. Or if I'm this being right now looking at this screen. Or if I'm a tiger in the jungle. It's all the same being endlessly morphing and modulating the level of consciousness between all its selves. Me and you and electrobeam and everyone else are the same entity. And almost no one knows this. Lots of us out there in the world are missing out on some amazing things. Big thanks leo for the help.

@Loving Radiance You submerge yourself under water, open your eyes and breathe in through your nose. As you come out the water you blow out the water from your nose. It will make you very alert and aware. From there, you focus on an object of meditation, my personal favourite is the beauty of a candle light in a dark room and you focus on that mystical actuality to the point where appearances seem almost alien to you. That's when you'll begin to understand the godliness of consciousness.

@Nahm Can you isolate, point to, and share specifically where the pain is being experienced? It is pain of resistance to What Is. Most of the pain is mental. Pain of believing thoughts. Pain of not being able to "switch off" thoughts. Pain of not being able to flow with life. Pain of constant searching for something... Pain of existing! I do not want to exist. Or at least to "just be" without this nagging "me"... Let everything be... But thoughts are making this scene hellish. I lost ability to see the scene as it is. Somewhere in childhood... Enjoyment was lost... Scene feels "negatively meaningless" . What is purpose of experiencing this dull scene? Scene is fragmented. Thoughts fragment scene. I want to be complete. Not just in psychedelic trip. I want to realize my completeness for once and for all. I want inner critic to disappear. Why am I listening to him? So basically there are 2 problems: inner critic that won't shut up & meaninglessness + I hate my disorders... + I hate my extreme noise sensitivity. I cant sleep properly anywhere because of my noise sensitivity. Even with white noise + high quality earbuds. I still hear even tiny noises from neighbors. Tried everything to solve this but no luck... + noisy neighbors, changed apartment 3 times, no difference. Have you made a dreamboard...written what you do want in life on it...let go of limiting beliefs..? Curious if you’ve done this yourself, and directly experienced it, vs thought or read about it. No. Thanks to my contemplative lifestyle I unveiled many illusions like "success, house, car, trophy girlfriend etc". After a ton of contemplation I am left with meaninglessness. Nothing from vision-board would make me happy. I want happiness from being/existing only. Somehow I know it is possible, and I am striving for that for last 5 years. No success... When it comes to limiting beliefs - yes, there are many in my world. One of my biggest beliefs is that I am still "someone" real that needs to be protected etc. Can you describe the one who is separate from God, making the references? Can you articulate specific properties, and describe the actual separation? He... It... He... He feels like life is "owning" something to him... Some "final" compensation, some treat for all his lifelong suffering and feeling lost... Feeling like an alien since childhood... He (or I?) wants some kind of liberation... Freedom to choose "not believing" thoughts. He's got expectations - scene should be joyful, meaningful, scene should be experienced with 100 percent acceptance and unconditional love. He wants to become the scene itself. He.... He.... I hate him! I want to kill him. He is limit. He limits my freedom. He is prison for my ..... ... for my ... potential. He disturbs my peace. He is idiot and I do not know what am I anymore. There is confusion in the scene now. trying to find him but he is hiding... coward. He always appeared in the content of thoughts... he will appear again... that is sure.

Except that's exactly what I think during my dreams as well. In my dreams I'm also 100 % sure that It's the waking reality.!, It's not so obvious. Don't you see there is literally no difference between the two states? Even If we just say we are in the waking state right now.. Now what the heck is the waking state? What is this waking state? Where did it come from? What is it's context? You could say the context of the dreaming state is the waking state like it is happening inside of it being rendered by the brain or whatever that is... Nice.. But what is the context of the waking state? What is rendering it? How do you know that your whole life is NOT one giant ass dream and that you actually are an alien in some alternative 5 dimensional universe and that we all are just figments of your Dream???? And just to save time and get to the point.. The answer is YOU DO NOT KNOW THAT. So what does this have to do with your question? Well you insist that everyone are aware and then you are wondering why can't you access their awareness. I'm telling you go make sure first that we are aware.. That's the assumption that you need to question first.. Because the reality is as you yourself stated that you don't actually have access to other people's awareness.. That means you don't actually know if they are aware or not. That is what's actually the case not the beliefs and fantasies about "I should have access to other's Awareness because we are all one". You are taking it all backwards. It turns out you dont have access to that nor do you "should".

it all looks nice on the outside. but i dont actually feel that way. there are days where i feel really out of alignment with my life vision, days where i feel like im a total imposter and alien compared to the rest of the medical community. for the most part. i have been struggling a lot, questioning everyday whether this is what im meant to do. theres no real difference between you and me. i have never worked my entire life until i started working as a resident. so before that, we were in the same boat. and we still are in the sense that i just followed the path that was layed out for me. and now i get paid. so i didnt carve out a path for myself either. the pôint is, dont compare yourself with others, because everything looks more glam from the outside. you are doing great and dont stop believing yourself!

“The Prime Directive” (PD) is just a fancy term that is mostly never adhered to in the Star Trek Universe. While Picard was more stringent on following the PD- other Star Trek Captains like Captain Janeway from the Voyager series always interfered - Interference produced more interesting episodes IMO However there is one episode I recall from ST Enterprise series *** SPOILER ALERT *** where all married couples on a certain planet use a especially fertile Being to procreate. This Being is not treated quite as fairly as other normal Beings. They do not receive any education or freedoms enjoyed by the Elite, who are allowed to Procreate using these fertile Beings as a surrogate. In this episode this one couple brings along their potential surrogate with them aboard the Starship and it’s clear that the couple simply treats this surrogate like a fly on the wall. One of the crew members notices this and decides to interfere (breaking the PD rules) and converse with and educate the surrogate in private resulting in some interesting dialogue and implications for the couple. Without giving too much away, let’s just say the ending of the episode does not end well of either the couple, the surrogate and the crew member that interferes. In my opinion when walking the PD bridge, you have to thread carefully. You cannot dive in with radical new ideas and opinions that are completely alien to a given individual, culture, society, nation or planet, this will usually always be disastrous. Perhaps your guidance / interference needs to be a small step up from the level on which they stand. In other words don’t introduce Yellow spiral values to a predominantly Blue or Orange culture. And who’s to say that perhaps another extra-terrestrial species is not currently interfering in our own affairs? Screwing up sometimes and sometimes offering some valuable guidance. Time will tell.

It is quite some time, that I have had a deep appreciation for just how diverse human cultures in the world can be. Some cultural worldviews can be so radically different than what we are used to, that they can appear alien to us (think of living your whole life in an uncontacted tribe deep in the Amazon). This has fueled my passion for travelling and watching various documentaries, coz the insights I get help me to be more appreciative of the life I live and expand my awareness of what's possible. One thing, that I've become fond of lately is pondering why certain cultures are like they are - what factors (geographical, demographic, climate, language, historical...) have contributed to the beliefs, ideas, customs they currently possess. The factors of geographical location in particularly is very undervalued, as most people in the west are not aware about just how fortunate for a decent region to live in. There are regions, that experience various natural disasters on regular basis... think of a culture, which has adapted over the centuries to living in an area, which gets impacted by a volcano eruption every 100 years. Could it be possible, that a native americans lost to europeans partly to the fact, that they were not living alongside "filthy animals"? More on this perspective here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgMa9WMzRP8 Or what about the current geopolitical tactics, that governments apply or problems they are challenged in overcoming? A channel providing a militarist/strategist perspective on countries is this one; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZJFozFsnIU Try to watch a video or two and you will see just how crazy of a role mountains, beaches and other biomes play in impacting the culture! Language is another huge factor... a cultural product, which shapes the cultural worldview (going full circle, tool for homeostasis). There are languages out there, which work in completely different way, have 10x as much words and provide super specific expressions. Examples; "Sami languages of Norway, Sweden and Finland have anywhere from 180 snow- and ice-related words and as many as 300 different words for types of snow, tracks in snow, and conditions of the use of snow." or the Japanese word "Bakku-Shan", which is translated as "a beautiful girl...as log as she is viewed from behind" or the Danish idiom "En sukkergris" - "As a farming country, it’s not surprising that pigs play a quite important role in the Danish language. If you have a sweet tooth, a Dane might describe you as a ‘sugar pig’". Imagine calling your child a sugar pig around your friends... what kind of reactions would you get? Now to finish it off, I'd like you to see an altered global map https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/490-map-of-the-worlds-countries-rearranged-by-population Imagine from one day to another the locations of the countries change in this way. Most likely many conflicts would errupt between new neighbors over strategic resources, positions or the radical differences in worldviews. The cultures would evolve along a completely different trajectory - the language would change, the diets and products sold in the shop would change, etc.

@datamonster @Member just as dogs and cats don't know they are pets, we may never know this either ?‍♂️ But also, you are the alien. @datamonster they are delicious, but yes it's a shame. Micro pigs are smart and so cute!

And it's very interesting how she was describing that she sees the "shapes of paragraphs", that goes to show that there are endless ways a conscious being can experience life and just within our species we have variations. Now let's just imagine what an alien's mind would look like, if they exist (which is likely) their "minds" will probably be so different from ours that they may not even be minds anymore but something even more sophisticated, who knows. It's freaking amazing honestly

@Sombra obviously if I were an actual alien I would try my best to fit in with humans and not try to alienate myself