Shadowraix

I've had a few instances where my mind was so silenced it was like all thoughts were muffled, they were there but as whispers.

More like becoming immune to it. Ego death = suicide meditation will only bring you closer to it.

A lot of the problems that occur in an intimate relationship aren't due to inexperience with intimate relationships but problems with your own perception of yourself and others. Intimate relationships can really highlight these problems, but don't seem necessary to acknowledging them.

That is true but as I said Best to avoid reinventing the wheel if you can.

This has been an ancient tradition in many cultures that range to symbolism to explain parts of you to some literal entity that guides you. I started thinking about this because in high school I got the nickname of "The Deer" which has stuck ever since and I made a joke it was my spirit animal. The universe can use many tactics to guide you through life and perhaps manifestation of animal-like entities could be one. Its history in many cultures makes it an interesting one to research.

What is a demon?

Where does that perfectionism come from? What first came to thought is you have some idealized fantasy about how things should be and it becomes a bother when it doesn't match up exactly. This seems to be about control more than anything.

I think you might get a more clear answer if the question was redefined to: "Is it possible to not have thoughts in your direct awareness"

I did not say this! I said "may" follow. Its a risk worth being aware of. My first intimate relationship was a catastrophe because I got into it before I was self developed enough to really handle one like I can now. Learning from the mistakes of others is also a very valuable tool.

I've known quite a few people have success with ecigs despite their "vape lord" meme reputation. Its not "safe" per se but id call it safer than your usual cigs that aren't just pure tobacco. But you can make your own e-juices and taper your nicotine.

Experience does make a great teacher - although the pain and suffering that may follow it won't be easy.

Maybe its worth investigating what real actually means.

What is intelligence for you? After all your "human" intelligence derives from the intelligence of your source in which the source is infinitely more intelligent. Perhaps truth can be expressed by the summation of every single possibility?

I'm not attached to wanting to be something. I realized I am everything. Dissolution of separation into total unity. I said your awareness is limited to a bodily experience. Not that it is in your body. I suppose I should add if you haven't practiced to expand it.

You are creating a separation of me and whats inside of me. That separation does not exist. All is me.

The separation between you and rocks, trees, grass etc is a self created boundary that doesn't exist. These things are a part of the whole that I am. I am you. I am Leo. I am the sky. I am God. Its all one. Just because your awareness is only currently this body does not imply thats all you are. Do the work and you'll become aware of this. Thats an assumption on your part. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. We've found many creatures long thought to be extinct. Their existence is regardless of your belief. This is why the default position always goes to maybe.

What is change? If everything is fundamentally the same, is it really change? Is it perhaps just our perspective is only seeing one side of the coin and it flips?

If you chase immortality to become God-like, you know whats happening right? Your sort of higher self (God) has dictated for you to follow that path. You are merely a puppet. Your future and past is already happening. Surrendering is the only option you really have. You can surrender to what you laid out for yourself or resist it and suffer. Whatever you do, God already knows.

Good read guys, really enjoy this kind of stuff.

Say one can't prove this. Are you going to act as if they aren't conscious? Not being able to prove it only leaves us at a maybe rather than a definite no.

Eating meat doesn't prevent this kind of work, but you will likely not enjoy eating meat the further you get into this work. You will realize that everything is you. Insects, animals, trees, grass, rocks etc etc etc Any classification to say killing anything is right/wrong is arbitrary. Just act on your true desires. As far as who can feel what, you are experiencing everything. You are only aware of a specific human experience, but that does not mean you are not experiencing it. The separation between living and non-living things. Does this exist or is this an illusory idea I am creating?

If God is experience both infinite suffering and infinite pleasure, what does that result in? Is it a sort of -1 + 1 = 0 deal?

You could call the spiritual path a conceptual tool to help grow in realizing these deep truths. But you're right, there is no right or wrong path. Its a big thing to accept for those who have had profound realizations. Im sure many who get into this work at first get frustrated because they see people suffering from a perspective they have broken out of. Accepting and loving what we don't like is a very big test. Gurus/monks always let those who seek their knowledge come to them instead of directly trying to spread it to others.

Have you contemplated if your projections on who they are are accurate? Have you ever had a serious discussion with those who you felt treated you in a way you didn't like? Personally I feel like I would go to the moon and back for my friends. I would give them everything they could ever want if I could. Its not because I think they are incapable of handling life, its simply because I desire to reduce their suffering. People may think they are helping you when you think they are hurting you.

Anything we say you'll consider lying because you only consider your viewpoint as valid. You have yet to truly show yourself as being receptive to other ideas. Posting here will do nothing for you if you don't do the damn work. Are you going to keep posting wasting your time or commit the advice from people who have been in positions like yours and overcame them?