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The Sacred Feminine in Chess Another thing I've been thinking a lot about is how the sacred feminine manifests in chess. When I started drinking ayahuasca 8 years ago, it was as if I started developing a relationship with the Queen (the holy mother of unconditional love, the sacred feminine, etc) the way she took the form through the medicine of ayahuasca and that particular flavor. The way I experience her she is sort of violent and compassionate at the same time. Ayahuasca is a pretty brutal medicine, and it feels like getting churned up by the cosmos in a brutal way, but then coming out of the process in bliss. The way I relate this to chess is ironically how the Queen is the strongest piece in that game. They also have a chess goddess or a chess muse which they call Caïssa, and when people become really hooked on chess they describe it as being possessed by Caïssa. The inner landscape of my mind these days is totally filled up with images from the chessboard and all the pieces, but it all has a bit of the same churning fractal geometric quality that I feel when I'm tripping on ayahuasca (and many other psychedelics for that matter), and especially when I apply my meditation technique to this process that I'm in. When I'm winning I feel great, but when I'm loosing I feel like an idiot. But as one of my chess mentors said - this comes from a wrong perspective. Loosing a game is great, because then you get to analyze what you did wrong so that you can improve. So in the deepest sense of it there is no winning or loosing - there is only going deeper in ones understanding and knowledge of this game - which in many ways is symbolic for the game of life. So by trancending the artificial duality between winning and loosing, one gets to a deeper sense of passion, love and wisdom. But loosing is painful - so it takes some purification to get to a point where one is ok with it. And winning feeds the ego - so even here it takes some purification to not get infatuated with it. So I have totally gotten possessed by Caïssa, and I see many similarities between her spirit and the spirit of Queen Ayahuasca. In the deepest sense, all aspects of life points back to the same love and passion that is the juice at the core of this existence that all mystery schools points back to. And I'm starting to believe that all kinds of passions can actually be seen as mystery schools bringing one back to deepest mysteries of this life, an giving one a greater sense of wisdom and mastery of this paradoxical process called life. It is always back to surrender and giving up control, especially when one starts to feel that one has some mastery going on. Life will find a way to pull the rug out from under ones feet again and again no matter how well one feels that one does. So please, dear Caïssa, teach me how to be humble and kind and always willing to learn and improve.

Some 2 hours ago I meet an amazing woman randomly, full of life and energy, amazing eyes. We connected in a blink of an eye. Then we talked and stuff, connected more. I asked her if she believes in God and she said ‘’Yes, I believe in God’’. She continued and said ‘’You must have God in your soul’’. I answered ‘’Yes, I do.’’ Then I just wanted to say it just for the fuck of it and because I felt that she really had some contact with God. I said ‘’I believe in God in my soul but I have also become aware that I am God.’’ She made a very strong eye contact with me and I cannot explain it, then she said ‘’Me too.’’ A shock came over me, never have I meet someone who is conscious that she or he is God. We talked some more, how we became conscious of God and so on. She told me she had to go to work and she gave me her number, I thanked her and told her that I will call you then we can talk more about God etc. I’m in bliss that I have meet someone conscious that she is God for the first time, that I will meet her again.

We handle Fear by going with it, staying in it, until bliss arises. There is no other way. What you run from it persists, always. You don't need to analize your thoughts. It only needs bravery, that is all.

Has little to do with posture, is more about inner rage while in extasis bliss and meditating no matter the activity.

Indeed. Bliss comes from the conscious knowing that I am God and immortal. Not the fish in the ocean, not a bird flying in the sky. The whole ocean, the whole sky. That is You. Or actually both.

Hello everyone. I want to share with you an amazing insight I just had with the help of 5-Meo just now. 7 hours ago I dosed 17mg of MDMA. I had experimented with mini and microdoses of LSD and 5-Meo in facilitating deeper self-inquiry and meditation sessions with successful results. I had just read something about people having very clear introspection when using MDMA alone, so I was curious as to how it would effect a session... (this was partly true, though my ego did just want an excuse to do MDMA and feel good, "i'll do some consciousness work while i'm on it, that makes it deep and not just impulsive!") I was honest to myself about this fact after dosing, and sat down to accept it. I could go pretty deep with self-inquiry, and instead of experiencing anxiety and distracting thoughts, I just felt more curious. After 30 minutes of self-inquiry, I thought it would be good to try a small dose of 5-Meo, though larger than anything I had done before. I wanted to practice letting go while my ego was being challenged, I wasn't looking for anything too profound. I weighed 6mg, halved it, and snorted each halve up a nostril, tipping my head upside down for 5 minutes. I laid down on my bed, arms out and palms up, and felt the sensation of my most body disappearing and losing the associations with the objects in my field of vision (absolutely love this), which I have experienced on psychedelics before. I reminded myself to let go, relaxed my core, face and sphincter muscles, and allowed things to happen as they came. It began to feel so natural. An insight came to me. I don't have to do anything. There is nothing I can do. Sam does things, Sam wants things, but all I have to do is let Sam deal with it. I'm just here to watch it happen! It all makes sense! Awareness became more aware of itself than ever before. This is huge. This is the happiest I've ever felt. I will do my best to integrate this experience, but remain conscious of how this bliss can tempt the ego. Letting go has a different meaning now. You don't have to do anything to let go, other than do nothing! I love you all, thanks for reading.

You start from the beginning. You simply admit to yourself that you exist. This is the truth. You do exist, don't you? So you say to yourself, "I exist. I know that for sure. I exist. I exist. That's all I know. I'm ignorant of everything else, but I do know that I exist because here I am." And, as you keep saying this to yourself, "I exist,” you begin to put more space between "I" and "exist." "I... exist." Say that to yourselves: "I... exist, "I... exist." If you're doing this correctly you'll soon find that “I” and "exist" are two separate words. In other words you'll come to the conclusion that you exist as I. You'll have to ask yourself, ponder, "Who is this I that exists? What is I?" You never answer. It will come to you of its own accord. When you sleep and you awaken you say, "I slept." When you dream you say, "I had a dream." And when you're awake, of course, you say, "I am awake." But that I is always there. You start to inquire within yourself, "What is this I that exists at all times? It exists when I'm asleep, when I'm awake, when I dream. Who is this I?" And now the inquiry starts. "Where does this I come from? From whence come the I?" You ask yourself. The answers are within yourself. And you keep asking yourself over, and over, and over again, "From whence come the I? Where does the I come from?" Or, "Who am I?" And you wait a little while, and you repeat the same question, "Where does the I come from?" While you're doing that, you follow the I deep, deep within. You keep following the I. You go deeper and deeper into the I. "Where does this I come from? Who is this I?" Whatever answer comes to you is the wrong answer. Do not accept it but do not deny it. You simply put it aside. And you continue with the self-inquiry. "Who am I?" And you wait. And you ask again, "Who am I?" It is not a mantra. Where did the I come from? How did it get there? Who gave it birth? What is the source of the I? You continue to abide in the I. As you continue this process someday something will happen. To some people it comes like an explosion within, where all your thoughts are wiped away. For you see, I is the first pronoun, and every thought that you have in the world is attached to the I. It is secondary. Think about that. Whatever you have to say about yourself has I in it. Everything in the world is about yourself. I am going to the movies. I am going bowling. I feel like crying. I feel terrible. I feel wonderful. I feel sick. I feel well. There's always an I, I, I. What is this I, and what is it all about? Everything is attached to the I. Subsequently, when the I is wiped out, everything else is wiped out and the troubles are over. All thoughts go with the I. Now there's no answer to "Who am I?" When you get to the answer there will be emptiness, a void. You will be of the unborn. But it is not a void like you think. It is not emptiness like you think. For want of a better word you can call it godliness, nirvana, sat-chit-ananda, bliss consciousness, absolute reality. It doesn't matter what name you give it. You will become that, and there will be no explanation. You will just become that, and you will feel a profound peace that you have never felt before. You will feel a bliss that is unqualified. You will try to explain it to yourself and to your friends, but you cannot, for the finite cannot comprehend the infinite. There are no words. That's the method you use, self-inquiry. You follow the I-thought to its source. How long does it take? It depends on yourself. How sincere you are, what else you're doing with your life. If you're using this like you do everything else... For instance, if you say, "Well today I'm going to practice the I thought, then I'm going to go to a movie, then I'm going to go bowling, then I'm going to watch TV, then tomorrow I'll do the same thing." Of course what's going to happen in a case like that? Very little, but if you put your energy into it, and you practice it every chance you get, and you put this first in your life, you will see amazing results, amazing results. But you have to put it first in your life. Think right now, what is first in your life? Don't tell me but just think. What comes first in your life? Can you take it with you when you die? Don't you see by now that you live in a world of constant change? That the only thing permanent in life is change? All facts change. Only truth is real, and truth is non-personal. You have to find it for yourself. For the sincere devotee or student they will put this first in their life, and then you will start seeing results. But if you're still worrying and fearing something, and you think other duties come first, then you've got to work on yourself. -- Robert Adams

This definitely can happen but I do want to throw in my experience which didn't go bad to see both spectrums. I had taken 1000ug this particular night when my highest dose prior was 500ug. Dumb move but I have no regrets. A lot of it was being glued to the floor seeing incomprehensible things but it was probably the end of the peak into the come down there was nothing but pure bliss. No sense of self accompanied with pure oneness and it was an absolute amazing feeling. There was no resistance only surrender.

I need to express this, excuse my arrogance. Will meditate later on the topic; do not worry. So...You experienced complete emptyness; now what? The first thing that comes to your mind, after infinite silence, is to go out there and tell everyone how everything is nothing and nobody exists? And you dare to call yourself a master of some kind? 'The actual fuck. I am extremely irritated by this at the moment. You show no respect to creation. Shame on you. Hiding behind the concept of nothing is the same as hiding behind the concept of ego. Or worse. How often do you use the word "delusional"? What do you suggest that indicates? Could it be that you are the most delusional of them all, by clinging to these stupid labels? We get it genius. Everything is meaningless and empty of truth. There is no self. Jeez. Is it really necessary for you to be stuck on repeating the obvious? Could it be...That you are stuck on pointing towards nothing...Because you are unable to create something? To value? Come the fuck on. Show some respect. Show some love. You are not invisible. No matter how hard you try to be nothing. Being selfless is not something you force. Or be a dick about it. Less self = more love. More compassion. Bliss. Joy. Excitement. Humbleness. Connection. Unity. Brotherhood. Don't fool yourself, nothing. You are still an ego. A massive one, to be frank. You are still where you are right now. What are you gonna do about it? Besides calling everyone delusional, of course. Level the fuck up. Nothing sees you. It's laughing at your bullshit. Stop hating on creation. Stop hating them poor thoughts. Stop hating emotions. Stop hating those who are yet to evolve. Create a fucking meaning. Be the master you claim to be. Sort your shit out. Also, if it helps; I am superdelusional atm. Spare me of your diagnosis. Help me understand this. Love.

Hello actualizers, I would like to give you an overall review and share my experience on meditating for everyday strictly about 1 hour. Maybe some of you would benefit from this. If you have any additional questions or things you curious about leave them in this thread. I started doing meditations strictly back in 2017. Started with 25 minutes every day and a month later experimented with 1 hour, 1 and half hour and only half hour. Because of my legs getting numb and hurt easily, I found my sweet spot around 45 minutes. So I stick with that number. The exact cause why I started meditations was simple, I had anxiety and depression issues. And I had panic attacks and anxiety attacks a few times before that. Those who wondering how intense my attacks was, once I remember waking up in the middle of the night for no reason. Even I had meditation on that day, after 20 minutes with intense panic and anxiety It made me cry for no simple reason . Meditations completely got rid of that. It worked like a magic tool for me. In parallel, I've developed a deeper understanding on almost all areas on life. It was like a secret wisdom, like a secret sight that had installed on me. Also started to get more interested about spirituality as-well, other religions and belief systems etc. self-inquiry and all kinds of other philosophic ideas, stoicism, red-pill strategy, men going their own way, self-improvement?, human psychology, self-actualizing (woot), mathematics, physics and all kinds. Meditating was my best friend. It was the most underrated (even how popular it is, yes it is underrated) most overlooked, fooled by its simplicity. It's drawbacks are pays long term, and needs steady commitment. We're living in a society where we want immediate results. But If you need numbers, here, I promise if you meditate for 3 weeks from now on everyday at least 20 minutes, you'll see its benefits in your life. It's been 2 month since I've intentionally stopped meditating. I do not remember exactly why, but this crazy idea somehow popped in my mind to give it a try: Stop meditating for 3 weeks then continue on doing it again. Then I simply wanted to experiment with this. Instead of a life with full meditation habit, I wanted to see how it is on the other side. So I stopped meditating. First week was tough because meditation was a key to overcome anxiety and all depression for me, crazy thoughts running inside my mind etc. In that period, I only once felt that I had to meditate because I felt overwhelmed by anxiety and the mind so that 3 week period only got relapsed by once. 3 weeks passed and I started doing meditations all again. For the next three days, was smooth and going fine without missing a day. On forth day and ahead I stopped doing meditations completely, and it got into a snowball effect. It's been 2 month since I've intentionally stopped meditating Now the best thing about this 2 years of meditation is it granted a permanent fix on me. It's been clearly one month of no meditation and I can say I am healed. I still preserve all the things I gained. No diminishment or whatsoever. Though I want to do meditations again but It is completely a personal misbelief about me believing it hit a plateau on spiritual development. If you have any additional questions or things you curious about leave them in this thread. Stay good! EDIT: I forgot to tell the best benefit. My everyday life became a meditation while not meditating. In simple terms: I almost feel like meditating every second even though I am not sitting lotus eyes closed. EDIT2: I do meditations when I feel like to do it on occasions like weekends on near a shore or some sort in nature. I sometimes even plan my trips in weekdays and long for it. It is immensely powerful peaceful event to meditate in nature. I would totally recommend anyone to do this in their life once. Warning! You might get addicted to doing meditations in nature because of pure bliss and silent (if not birds are singing although which is the best part!)

It was always a different approach from me, the usual practice and most efficient one that I found was the following: I ask the question: What am I, and I wait to catch anything raises upon and further ask questions to that sense. For ex: What am I? I wait, even I ask "What is this waiting sense?" sometimes, then follow upon. "What is this awareness?" "Who sees this awareness" The most important thing is to return the question "Who in the essence is the great watcher/seer of these everything happening" after a few questions I guess It would be more appropriate to say I stopped doing it as an habit. I do meditations whenever I like it to do. It is your expectations from meditation and life. I can't know what's your expectations from life to answer that "I'm fully satisfied with life". I wasn't expecting that so the only thing I expected really was get rid of anxiety and depression in which it significantly helped. Regarding "What are you going to do now" I don't gett that question, if you mind elaborate on that a bit? The premise of Enlightenment is to get rid of Ego completely thus achieving a complete state of bliss and joy. But I found that Ego is much more powerful than you think. Ego is much more wide than the words have been spoken on meditation. Ego can attach itself to the meditation habit and make you unaware of it. It is an experience that everyone has to gain for themselves. I can't really tell you about that. My intention was to add a little bit of clue of what has happened to me. Rather than strictly pointing towards to facts. Because it is not the way of non-ego-mind.

Day 2, 3, 1, 2: 5/10 Nofap news: I did a normal wank without fantasizing, and im suffering for it, the suffering that comes from me relapsing is being shown very clearly and it's a good thing, but also a bad thing: I don't want to blame that "this is an ego backlash" anymore but It feels like my ego has been resisting my schedule for a month nonstop. There are so many things that go into my schedule being successful. If I don't meditate I can't start my day properly, if I don't go to sleep in the right time I won't wake up with enough motivation to meditate, if I wake up late I will screw up my eating schedule, and if I eat poorly it all goes to hell! Do you get what im saying? The reason why Im not posting regularly is that im stuck in this cloud of problems to solve! And im trying and trying, backsliding and backsliding, fail after fail without success, as I keep falling into the same traps over and over again! I don't want to live this way, I need the strength to create momentum just for once, and I will never give up on that! I can't give up. I'll figure out a way. Maybe im just burning myself out... The first thing in the morning is my Kriya routine, and its always hard to get the ass on the mat, especially when I wake up late, the ego resists it every time, but as I finally get down, I always discover its hidden bliss 5 minutes into the routine, but I do of course forget that until the next morning. It feels like im living only for the Kriya these days. The point is that Im always approaching my routine with a mastery mindset. I am always trying my very best every time I sit down on the mat, and I try to be as aware as possible during the sessions and I feel like the awareness always improves the routine! In the same way, as im approaching my addictions with awareness and that really helps me to see how much suffering im creating for myself and how the addiction affects me, ultimately leading to the addiction kind of getting erased from my subconscious as I get more and more aware of what it acutally does and how it actually works! But ofcourse, my ego resists this awareness and indirectly robs me of my strength to actually do the work! If I won't do the Kriya, or if I wont exercise, I will more probably relapse into PMO, and the ego knows this. As you seem problems are very complicated and I have a tough time solving them. But the to have ups you gotta have downs and I know that the real breaktrough is near. I just gotta keep on trying and soon ill grow into becoming a different, more mature person. I have grown significantly since I started this journey.

With the mind calm and relaxed and the Self discerned, the mind is immersed in a kind of immense larder, a huge treasury of fat -- a subterranean store of rich provision, satisfaction. It's like a borderless but breathable block of jello. You are a figure in that jello made from that very same jello. That jello is what is wanted, is what is desired. And you are surrounded on all sides by it, effortlessly. Realize your jello-ness! It can simply rest there in that totality, that fullness, with "events" "happening" frictionlessly within it, mere images projected in that cool sweetness. Only it should not be tempted back by thoughts, various delectable offers to use the energy it now has towards one cause or effort or another. These are like Siren songs... "Should I do this? How about that? Oh that looks good/productive/tempting/wise/interesting." To all of these ideas it should remain relaxed, with its eyes "half-closed' mentally/figuratively speaking... unaffected, tranquil, simply resting in the richness of its environs. It is much like learning to carry a pot of water on your head wherever you go. Whatever happens, don't let the pot fall, don't let a drop of what's in it spill. Or in reality it's actually the kind of opposite of this, because carrying the pot is not a particular activity, it is a refraining from the activity of being diverted by various thoughts/goals/intentions/desires. Let them occur, if they occur, spontaneously and involuntarily. And if they occur, pay them no need, no mind, no attention. They do not require reprimand. And if the bliss comes, refrain from comment on it. "I am enjoying this" <-- one is already out of it. And again, if that happens, no need for reprimand. Simply drop the thought. This Self is the anchor in the changing environment, the one thing that is both “in the dream” and not of it. It's like something which appears in a dream but is actually in reality as well. On one side it's a dream object; on the other side it is not in the realm of objects at all. It's like some kind of anchor which one can hold by letting go of all other things. And don't think about what's good thought or bad thought. That's a distracting thought in itself. That will lead you down a wild goose chase. Good and bad and should and should not are dangerous distractions.

In a sense you can think of the indulgence of pleasure being reactionary. Being overly fascinated with objective experiences. Being influenced and overly focused on what memory has put together as the subject & object in experience. Implicitly identifying with the contents of thought and pursuing or trying to re-experience particular experiences and avoid others. Hence pleasure and pain are one and the same. Resistance to what-is. Resistance to an already inherent peace, bliss, sense of wholeness. It’s just ego always looks to objects of experience. With these objects rises the subject. So the already inherent joy/beauty of being is missed/overlooked.

Pleasure comes from a need to quench, Bliss comes from needing nothing ?

Don't try to manipulate the meditation, then you're not allowing. Meditation is all about becoming 110% present and allowing all feelings negative + positive, don't cling to the feelings or thoughts, just allow, allow, allow, and watch the emotions and thoughts pass again, notice the impermanence. Keep doing this over and over again, and a sense of general bliss will flow over you

There is nothing to win. Getting a job, having children, a house, a nice car, chasing temporarily pleasurable experiences - all this is pathetic. Become conscious of the non-dual One (God). All of reality will be understood and you will get your happiness. Then live life like before, consciously. Play the person character playfully, joyfully, consciously. Have your pleasurable experiences, just don't identify with them. They come and go. Find and become conscious of that which never goes. Be in metaphysical and epistemological bliss 24/7.

@Nahm happiness because happiness is our true nature? Perhaps bliss?

Consciousness of the non-dual One, awakening to the true nature of You as pure Consciousness (God), and the direct conscious illumination of ignorance (ego and person) - that is metaphysical and epistemological bliss beyond imagination, beyond any experience. You can get powerful non-dual states from psychedelics too, which can be as blissful as non-psychedelic induced states of consciousness. I like to use both.

I took some powerful stuff yesterday evening and smoked some strong weed along with it. I was determined to figure out this non-dual conscious One which I have been conscious of for the past 7 months or so. So I did this and just sat, waiting for something to happen. Then it hit me so strongly, I became fully conscious of the non-dual One. The first thing I became conscious of was that it was me, it was none other than me!! It was fully alive and conscious. I asked, are you everything? And in an instant, I just fully consciously cognized that yes indeed it is literally everything! It looked trough my aware eyes and looked at the objects around me and made it directly clear that everything It was looking at was It. Looking trough my eyes with love and pure awareness, I saw It as Myself and in Myself. At last, I finally became fully conscious that It is totally formless, invisible. And it has to be that way. It is the formless which manifests all form. It all happened by a flash, in an Instant, and I saw that it was the formless one who took on all form around me. It lasted for about 20 minutes more, then it subsided gradually. I was in tears after this episode, in shock and in metaphysical bliss. The understanding is regained completely due: - Form is formlessness. They are one and the same. - Everything is It. All objects, all energy, all matter, all human beings. All is It. - It is none other than I and You. Completely, fully. - It exists. The non-dual One (God, Consciousness, Absolute Infinity) exists, absolutely.

As for MDMA’s similarity to enlightenment—I am not sure I can remember that. No doubt spiritual paths can connect us with…feelings of lucid intoxication similar to MDMA. I wonder why we are not always in a state of constant bliss, clarity, insight and love—like heaven on earth? To be so mentally clear, and so full of love…I think it is the same for MDMA and other spirituals: Goodness and Beauty ARE there all the time. Maybe people are aware of different aspects of IT at different times; then sometimes a person becomes more aware. May the amazement go on forever, as we enter the ever-greater and ever-greater. I wonder whether some lack of pleasure is unnecessary? Probably yes. I think back on my spiritual experiences…and my MDMA experiences…and the memories remind me to love and contemplate. I recently re-watched the fantastic episode about taking responsibility one’s own happiness—“How to Stop Being a Victim- The #1 Reason You Are Stuck” … that is such a good episode, and it helped me a blockage of misery.

Yes, rapture and bliss in Jhana is comparable. @Serotoninluv My first ~10 MDMA trips had incredible magic and love to them and didn't cause any comedown the next day at all, in fact, I've always had a good afterglow for some time after. The last few times when I took it, there was no magic, little to no increase in empathy, two days of low mood afterward and this was after taking over 8 months break so I see no point to take it anymore. I think neurotoxicity with MDMA is a non-issue if used responsibly. Even though something had to change in my brain I see no negative side effects.

Great topic! A common trap is spiritual bypassing. For example, because I didn’t want to deal with “real” life problema (school, work, relationships etc), I started to do some very long meditation sessions (4 hours a day). Deep down, I wanted to numb my emotions, not deal with life, and live in eternal bliss. The result of this was terrible...

That is nice but the problem is not to have a glimpse of what you are talking about but to conduct your existential thread towards the ultimate. By existential thread I mean the point of view that stays during the process of birth and death, we can call it soul for common understanding. By ultimate I mean That thing that we are all searching for, that which will settle us for the rest of eternity. Not the experiencial eternity like heaven, hell or eternal bliss but actual eternity. Time is illusory so is actual eternity since there is only this moment so it would be more proper to say that the ultimate is this moment getting to absolute stillness. To stabilize to absolute stillness one important step is to be able to die properly, meaning consciously and blissfully or ecstatically, not panicking or trying to get one more breath. It is unclear whether 5meo helps to that end. Martin Ball seemed pretty advanced but you saw how he panicked when the system went in a certain direction, and that was after he surrendered to permanent 5meodmt effect (as he claims) that would have rendered many mad or dysfunctional. Had he died in this state of sleepless sleepiness it is unclear what it would have meant for his existential thread.

@Aakash Yah. This knowing fucked the ego, hard. LITERALLY, thoughts/beliefs dictate the reality experienced. LITERALLY. Existence is an infinite quantum field of possibilities and potentialities of all the distinct realities that can be created in this moment--based on the ego's vibrational offering, i.e., the thoughts and beliefs "you" are presently replaying in "your" head right NOW, "picks-out" one of those distinct realities to be experienced by "you," right NOW. This includes the small and big things in "your" life. “[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts." —Werner Heisenberg Perception of "facts" changes the so-called facts themselves. This is well known in Quantum Mechanics (yes, I did study Quantum Physics in University). Even down to dis-ease... If it is true that reality is a giant mind, then ALL dis-ease is 100% psychosomatic, because there is NO physical "body"--the "body" itself is a part of the giant mind, or it itself is made of mind-stuff, and so it is subject to "your" vibrational offering, your thoughts, just as the rest of the reality. "When your chronic attention is upon things you do not want, while the chronic attention of your inner being is upon things that you do want, overtime you cause a vibrational separation between you and your inner being, and that is what all illness is—separation, caused by your choice of thoughts between you, and your inner being." —Abraham If you believe something is good for "you," it is. If you believe something is harmful for "you," it is. This is why diet and nutrition and medicine will NEVER find consensus. The root is the mind. Belief dictates the "rules" of reality. Collective, and individual egoic beliefs. Therefore, the rules are VERY malleable. Metaphysics rules over physics. This conversation here? "I" attracted it into this present experience because "I" wanted to know how the fuck to reconcile law of attraction with spiritual enlightenment, or at least, feel the temporary comfort knowing that I'm not the only one that sees this, and my vibrational offering was positively enough aligned to allow that distinct reality to be in "my" experience; and it is, right now! Sure enough I logged in and saw this new post in perfect timing. Yet, this is just consciousness conversing with consciousness about consciousness... So to sum it up: The fabric of reality is LITERALLY thoughts/beliefs. "Your" movie is 100% a reflection of the ego and its perceived doings in thinking. When the ego realizes this, it's in Mini-God-Mode. Creation becomes deliberate, focused. The ego was always creating its own heaven or hell, but now it can be wielded deliberately by the ego. EVERYTHING becomes known to be possible. If you can imagine it, it's possible. And then it becomes no surprise why stories of turning water to wine, or feeding masses of people sourced from relatively morsels of foods exist. Siddhis or spiritual-psychic powers become possible... After all, EVERYTHING is possible. I know of a close friend personally who can manipulate objects, i.e., can make ordinary objects levitate. The only question is: does the ego desire a distinct, imagined reality, and if so, does its vibrational offering match the vibration of that desired, distinct reality? Can it pick it out into "material" manifestation? The enlightened masters can warp their reality, because vibrationally they match those realities, yet, ironically, they have little to no ego/desire to begin with to even care to manifest such things. They are perfectly at peace and content with divine manifestations that already are. This seriously fucked "me." "I've" already manifested desires, instantly, shooting stars, I can feel people's emotions now with uncanny accuracy, kundalini rising symptoms (uncontrollable convulsions, sweating, diet changes, etc), have literally witnessed miracles of problems resolving themselves that can only really be explained as by magic, and "I" can consciously influence people's behaviors and their moods/attitudes... "I" don't say this to gloat, only that, this is fucking crazy and yet I see so few people talking about this. The Kybalion described this as Principle #1 of The Seven Hermetic Principles: "THE PRINCIPLE OF MENTALISM, or "THE ALL is MIND; The Universe is Mental." I'm pretty sure this book is Leo's recommended reading list! Here's an excerpt for quick reference and summary of the principle: Source: http://www.kybalion.org/kybalion.php?chapter=II Law of Attraction is a spiritual tool for purification for the masses--it has the potential to enable egos to consciously and quickly manifest their desires (e.g. cars, sex, money, etc) so that they can burn through them and get on to the good stuff: spirituality, more specifically, permanent bliss, joy, peace, and love. Eternal happiness, rather than wavering happiness in the world of waves. Law of Attraction IS the Metaphysical law that like thoughts manifests like experiences. In the conscious ego, however, this tool can be used for a quicker annihilation, because it can deliberately use this law to attract all the necessary circumstances (e.g. environment, guru, money, etc) that will enable liberation. Law of Attraction is the master key to master Creation in the conscious ego. Life literally becomes a giant sandbox in the conscious ego that has realized this. It's like being the film director of your own film. I'd love to hear people's thoughts on this! I'm surprised there isn't much discussion about Law of Attraction on this page, although that might just be a manifestation as a result of my own beliefs... Won't go there. I want Leo to create a video on Law of Attraction, now that his understandings of metaphysics have advanced vastly and beautifully! I am so appreciative of all his work. And if this ego is a vibrational match to that desired reality, it WILL manifest. It is a law of the universe! "If this time/space reality has within it the ability to inspire a desire within you, it is our absolute promise that this time/space reality has the ability to yield you a full and satisfying manifestation of that same desire. It is Law."—Abraham And I'll leave this, what I thought at least, was a great explanation/reconciliation between spiritual enlightenment and law of attraction. Enjoy Source: https://www.inwardquest.com/questions/42477/can-the-law-of-attraction-and-eckhart-tolle-teachings-be-reconciled Cheers & Love!