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I think the same, I am not an expert but if feels like something created by the mind. Overthinking, trying to reach a place of "enlightenment"... something similar happened to me but in my case it was like I went crazy. What I did was try not to think, I tried to pay attention to the outside, to what's happening in the external world and not to be so much in my head. I began to be again the way I was before and forget about all religious or philosophical stuff... (at least for some time). When I felt again that I was in a "normal" state as before, I began to try consciousness work but much more careful than before and trying not to think about enlightenment. Enlightenment must come naturally, not through thinking. Like being aware of everything can take you to that place, but with no effort, no thinking... I am not enlightened, not an expert but I don't know. What I know is that I left that place of psychosis/craziness in that way, drawing, doing normal things and not thinking about it. My 2 cents.

“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.” — Wayne Dyer You can do nothing, just control your reaction but you can't change others...

It's basically complicated

Yes, that's true... hehehe... we are all atheist in a sense hehehe...

Probably he will see nothing and think "you see? I knew God didn't exist!"

Stop drinking the Kool-Aid!

Cool, I let you know how it goes. It's really funny, and good to read "between the lines" wisdom.

In my case when I am anxious or with fear what it helps me is to focus on what is real in the moment. Not paying so much attention to the mind, but mostly to what is happening and you will see immediately how fear diminishes. Being mindful is a great way to stop anxiety and negative thoughts. Focus on the sound of a car passing near your house, the noises in the ambient, pay attention to what you are looking without analizing it, just look. Smell... paying attention to the "outside" instead of the "inside" (thoughts or mind) is great. And is a path to enlightenment too... The problem is the mind that over analyzes everything, try to learn how to be more in the moment and not so much in your head.

The true self is the one that is looking through your eyes right now, IT is experience everything because IT is the ONE and ONLY. Pure existence. When you realize you are the self, you are experiencing everything, but because our beliefs run so deep the lower self or ego cannot realize that. Cannot access to that... Leo is talking from the POV of THE SELF, the true Self... that's all. It is not that the "character Leo" is looking through your eyes. But... some sages had glimpses of that universal truth, like when Jesus knew everything about a woman he was talking to near a well (if I recall correctly in the Bible)...

@No Self this is awesome, it is great to make a comics of it. I can make a one or two pages comic with it if you agree. :-)

Hell is eternal suffering, here there's an image of hell... take a look!

Reality check!!! Done!

I just found another interesting website! http://www.lucidity.com

And what are we doing so quietly all the time?

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I agree with that.

There are things in what Trump does that I agree, in some things like protecting the USA industry, and other things... but in the balance between the pros and cons, I feel that the cons outweigh the pros... But I understand and I try to be open to all points of view. Thanks for sharing your POV.

I am not defending Left, I am just saying what is happening. There weren't riots like this before, and the one that happens weren's so violent as now. Only one I remember during Obama, I think it was in Baltimore... but now we have all the time those riotings. Yesterday there was another killing of a Black men with mental health problems, and another riot happened in Philadelphia and in NY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Walter_Wallace And Trump instead of trying to calm things down he is adding fuel to the fire and trying to get political gains to the situation saying that Biden supports the rioters, that's crazy BS. (Note: I am not insulting you, I am just saying that Trump is saying BS)

I have an old friend, in fact he studied with me graphic design at school, long time ago. I lost contact with him. But he used to smoke marijuana and he told me similar things, that he saw everything like flat, like in 2D... hahaha... This is what is happening (I think now after knowing all this we are talking now) we are beginning to see reality the way it is when high but we don't recognize it because we are used to see reality differently.

The other thing that I don't like is that he is encouraging armed people, militias. That in my opinion, is terrorism inside the country. But because they are from the right leaning side, they see it as "armed militias" or as something that they have right to do. What happens is when he encourages those right wing extremists and they show them as "normal" obviously people who is in the left, who fought for certain rights will fear that those rights will be taken away from them. And they react on fear. And that's when there's manifestations from the left, and the looting happens because the left always thought that the rich or more conservative side of the spectrum is having advantages over them. So, they decide to attack the things that the right fear the most, their properties, the things that give money to them. Businesses, they took everything in there because they feel they are attacking the conservative right where they hurt them most. In their possessions. Now it is beginning to happen that the left is getting armed too... so we will have to sides that think that the way to solve this problem is through violence. That's what we don't need at this moment, and Trump is creating all this toxic situation. We need a president that can unite us, not one that divide us like Trump is doing right now.

I was thinking exactly the same. Thanks @Chris365 for sharing!!!