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Paul Chek That would be a pretty awesome conversation since he actually understands God.

Solid 10/10

Y'all dreaming up Sadhguru.

That escalated quickly.

Yeah, this is good stuff. I use it everyday for sleeping and sometimes when I exercise.

Yup. This very topic you created is made by using this infinite intelligence.

What'd the bully say to the solipsist? Stop hitting yourself. Anyway, solipsism is no joke. I had a trip a while ago where I woke myself up and I pretty much realized that I invented this dream and 'other' people (my family, friends, coworkers, spiritual teachers, every single person on Earth) are figments of my imagination. If I recall correctly, this trip was a ~year ago. Still integrating it and if I'm completely honest, it's also haunting. So yeah, be careful what you wish for.

Existential Kink by Carolyn Elliott my favorite book on shadow work. Short, practical and incredibly powerful. It helped me a ton. One side note though, don't get discouraged by the weird woo-woo language of the book. The method(s) described in it is very effective.

Now we're cooking.

The survival instinct of the materialist paradigm would kick in and the scientific collective ego would find some kind of "explanation" for it through excessive mental gymnastics.

Thanks for sharing, this is super interesting.

Well, if you think about meditation in a simplistic manner (e.g. blankly staring a wall for months and years), then yes, it can seem as a waste of time. However, meditation is not about brute-forcing the mind into silence. Personally, when I think about meditation, I see it as a complex spiritual practise which is good for developing the following qualities: - Mindfulness - Concentration - Body awareness - Relationship with aversion (discomfort, pain, etc) - Relationship with thoughts and emotions - Experiencing altered states of consciousness - Being in the present moment and appreciate it as it is There's one caveat though. You need to be serious about it. If you meditate once in a while for like 5-10 minutes and then skip days, well, then it's not really effective. If you take it seriously and practise daily, it can transform your life in a radical way. This is where I disagree with Leo. Yes, you can get massive gains in a retreat setting, but a serious daily practise in your home can also be benficial tremendously. With that said, meditation is not the be-all and end-all and it is certainly not for everybody. For some people yoga, exercise, being in nature, etc is much more effective.

The solipsism one. It can be pretty devastating.

Now that's a mature video. I imagine it must have been pretty gut-wrenching to come up with your weaknesses and shadow stuff, let alone talking about them publicly. However, I truly think that now you're ready to take Actualized.org to the next level and come up with even more valuable insights. Hats off to you!

@Dodo Can you verify these things in your direct experience?

Not trying to be arrogant, but I think only those people argue about solipsism who haven't experienced it directly.

Until Nothing makes you happy.

Your posts seems quite authentic and "pure" to me. This is what this forum lacks most of the time unfortunately.

Yeah well, we could also say that

Yup, but my question is usually "what is this?". Then I just wonder.

What'd the bully say to the solipsist? Stop hitting yourself.

When you reflect that this world is filled with death, and that your body, too, has to be relinquished, God’s plan seems very cruel. You can’t imagine that He is merciful. But when you look at the process of death with they eye of wisdom, you see that after all it is merely a thought of God passing through a nightmare of change into blissful freedom in Him again. Saint and sinner alike are given freedom at death, to a greater or lesser degree according to merit. In the Lord’s dream astral world- the land to which souls go at death- they enjoy a freedom such as they never knew during their earthly life. So don’t pity the person who is passing through the delusion of death, for in a little while he will be free. Once he gets out of that delusion, he sees that death was not so bad at all. He realises his mortality was only a dream and rejoices that now no fire can burn him, no water can drown him; he is free and safe. But such is the delusion of desire for material things that, after a time of freedom from the body, he wants to come back to earth. Even though the soul knows that the body is subject to disease and troubles, these delusive desires for earthly experience veil that knowledge and deceive his consciousness. So after a karmically predetermined time in the astral world, he is reborn on earth. When death comes, he goes forth once more from the gross dream of this earth experience to the finer dream of the astral plane, only to be drawn back to this world. And again and again he returns, until he is no longer desirous of an earthly life. Birth and death are doors through which you pass from one dream to another. All you are doing is going back and forth between this gross dream world and the finer astral dream world; between these two chambers of dream nightmares and dream pleasures. Thus reincarnation is a series of dreams within a dream; man’s individual dreams within the greater dream of God. Someone is born on earth in France as a powerful king, rules for a time, then dies. He may be reborn in India, and travel in a bullock cart into the forest to meditate. He may next find rebirth in America as a successful businessman; and when he dreams death again, reincarnate perhaps in Tibet, as a devotee of Buddha and spend his life in a lamasery. Therefore hate none and be attached to no nationality, for sometimes you are a Hindu, sometimes a Frenchman, sometimes an Englishman, or an American, or a Tibetan. What is the difference? Each existence is a dream within a dream, is it not? Will you continue helplessly to go through all these delusions and the difficulties they create? Each nation thinks its ways are justified, its customs the best. Are you going to go on with this delusion? I am not. For unless wisdom is supreme, reincarnation is a very troublesome experience. One should avoid forced reincarnation because it is a painful continuation of this dream delusion. For how long will you pass through these changes called life and death? Until you realise fully the dream nature of creation, and awaken in God from its nightmares. Extract from the book “Divine Romance” by Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda.

I had a similar experience in a Greek island called Methana. We visited a volcano there and the whole atmosphere was something else. I couldn't put into words but yeah, I could also 'hear' the silence there and everything was vibrant and still at the same time. I could've meditated for days there.

In my opinion that's only a phase. A really important one, but a phase nonetheless. Eventually it'll go full circle and you'll do the same things (pretty much). What really changes are your motivation and your attachment to the outcome.