Stages of our shared Journey

[Keryo Koffa]

I intended to sleep but the idea of a post about discovery and delusion came to me. We keep having similar insights, arguing about similar things in similar ways. So I wanted to capture that and my own and talk about it. Have fun conversations, share perspectives, an open discourse to add more and more insights and make the forum more meta. I just made the terms up, they're pointers, you can change them if you have something more universal or catchy

Dogma Repeat: Denying the existence of feelings and duality, non-creative engagement in arguments and continuous repetition, in opposition to useful guidance and versatile communication of understanding

Solipsist Hubris: Fake sense of omniscience and control over others' as an ego trying to borrow god's powers

Cosmic Inside Joke: The feeling that everyone knew they were god before you the entire time and you just became part of the group that gets it

Less is More: Paragraphs become tedious to read and content is predictable, the infinity of experience can be dynamically interpreted with ever less conversation and ever more skillful pointers

Annihilation Drive: An unhealthy obsession with non-existence to escape suffering

Disillusionment: Transcendence of ordinary life can feel like a trap when one doesn't realize the implications of spirituality far enough and feels unease due to a lack of grounding

Conscious after Dissociation: Moments when one's unconsciousness becomes apparent, when one suddenly becomes aware of the value and meaning of the present moment

Identity Exchange: When one set of beliefs is changed for another, ex. when stories from crazy psychedelic trips become another set of beliefs instead of intuiting the arbitrariness of all identity

Spiritual Identity: When mantras, attire and belonging are acquired as a comforting identity rather than personally (re)invented

Crushing Responsibility: The feeling that one is god despite still having an ego and is obligated to be a good person, solve all the world's problems and has to keep up awareness not to dissolve all of reality for everyone

Solipsist Loneliness: A feeling of absolute inescapable loneliness due to the fundamental structure of reality, an illusion as egos always have others and non-egos have no worries or thoughts about such dualities

The Puppeteer: A sense of presently constructing all of reality and controlling everyone and everything, everything being connected by one's threads and being the result of a game just out of vision of the ego

Infinite Middle: It appears like you're in the middle of a holistic system that scales and repeats infinitely up and down

Sensory Expansion: Psychedelics especially make one feel the sudden shift of sensual awareness, body control, mind capacity, pattern recognition, interconnected intuition, thermal awareness, magnetic field perception, stare between atoms, infinite wisdom in nature

Holistic Humanism: The recognition of everyone's desires and identity manifestation, collective drives, neurosis origins, shared desires, spiral dynamic stages, fluent navigation, intuitive empathy

Mind Expansion: Feeling of an overloading light bulb constantly lighting up with blinding light, spawning infinite insights through awareness alone

Ego-Death: Becoming aware of the dumbness of one's limited construction of identity and the dissolution of borders and the ease of acceptance with the identification of all aspects of oneself through the entirety of the world and the necessitation of all dualities towards any dualistic identity

Awakening: Becoming aware of one's previously limited perspective, being present and seeing the world more clearly, conscious awareness and acceptance without judgements and attachment to arbitrary divisions, sense making from a perspective of knowing the ego illusion, being aware, present, knowing, undisturbed

Edited December 22, 2023 by Keryo Koffa