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Depending on where one's baseline consciousness is, and how open minded, awakening can happen with self inquiry alone - I would like to see Leo emphasize this a bit more. There may be spiritually gifted folks out there that don't even know it yet. So yeah it is not always necessary to do a complete deconstruction of paradigms - depending on how tightly they are held -because meditation and self inquiry into the self (which is a form of deconstruction but of the self) can trigger a profound mystical experience that will shatter previous paradigms on its own. Or at least encourage them to delve into the teachings here in a serious way. But perhaps since most normies are not gonna have mystical experiences via meditation it wasn't worth discussing in more depth with the time allotted. You gotta remember he had a limited amount of time with which to work.

Yes. It must be genuine. The map is not the territory

It takes compassion and selflessness towards others to actually awaken and only THEN is it realized that all others were actually held within your mind all along - the Mind of God. And God drowns in its own Love for Itself.. Oneness is not realized through selfishness.

Maybe you had the realization that @Gabith as whole, the self, is merely an idea or a concept. It is shocking. But you can also realize that what remains is God and Love. That you are God and that you are Infinite Love. So death is a very powerful illusion. Of course the only thing now that keeps us in this form is our attachments and fear of formlessness or going to another form. (The conceptual death of @Gabith) But so what? Once you have realized God and Love you will be deeply conscious that this fear is illusory and that you can remain in this form for as long as you choose. Hold on as long as you want. After which you will melt into Divine Love forever.

@Gabith have you had deep awakenings or is this just something you have conceived in your mind after listening to spiritual teachings?

Exactly I totally did not expect it to go that deep that fast but you handled it well with the time you had...it probably flew over a lot of heads though.

@traveler yeah it gets better and more powerful as it goes on.....

I'm not all the way through but this is epic.

@herghly it seems like you kinda have that sense now of non-dual awareness and lucidity- similar to when you are a lucid in a dream.. your consciousness expanded from the break through. Why does being lucid have to be a negative - it's a wonderful meta awareness to have. If you worry about it then you will anxiety about it. But if you just let the thoughts go and flow with being in the moment it should allow you to adjust and slip back into duality naturally. So just relax and be. Enjoy the ride and everything will fall into place. Try not to label it as a negative. If you find yourself meta aware than that's awesome.

It's about becoming conscious of your own Infinitude - that you have no beginning or end.

God is still manifesting through form. But in these states there is no ego or thought which is finite.

@EntheogenTruthSeeker the thing is - God realization isn't found through religion. I was raised a Jew. It's not like I'm not Jewish anymore, I am but it's more of just part of my egoic identity.. God transcends all religions. God is found within - yet religions tend to look outward for God. Never once did I find God in temple - or in a church with one of my girlfriends who wasn't Jewish.

You gotta remember that possible and impossible go out the window AS Infinity. Possible and impossible or 2nd order. So Omniscience is prior to that and can't be grasped here. Reality is an Infinite fractal that goes on forever yes, but that is reality Being itself. Reality can understand itself entirely because who else would? Reality created itself!

All that melts away in a non-dual state because all of that is just imaginary content within the dream. Omniscience is just infinite understanding of reality as a whole, outside of space and time. (Which is also content) It can't really be described.

Yeah it was one of those insights/awakenings that dropped me to my knees for a long time.

You're equating a difference between nothing and something and experience. There isn't any this is Absolute Nothingness right now. That's a mindfuck to become conscious of. But it will shatter all previous paradigms.

?? indeed...and you are the Now. The Actual. @Holygrail which is why if you ever tried to capture the present moment it slips away - because you ARE the present moment - so it's prior to capturing . Can just BE it. And in fact you're being it right now.

@Tim R there was a post about the Lion King here before a few years back. It's one of the greatest movies of all time IMO. I cried like a baby with the original. I still do whenever I watch it.

Honestly karma is all imaginary. Your currently imagining that you have done worse things. That only exists in your mind. If you release that it's gone. Things don't happen precisely as the do because of karma - they happen precisely as they do, because they happen precisely as they do. Reality is it's own end.

For me I call the tingling Being...you may tingle for a while and consciousness may stay elevated for a while too.

Exactly. It happened precisely as it was supposed to. Guilt is also an illusion - albeit a powerful one - so there is no point in beating yourself up. Just grow from it and move on.

This is true - but don't take it as a license to go out and be a devil. And yeah OCD sucks but can be transcended

@SS10 nice! Yes it is Divine indeed - Space and time melt away as does all illusion. Still basking in it?

Think of a dream or a video game. Within the context of the game there is. In a video game, for example, if you performed laser surgery on your eye, you would find your cornea may not be optimally shaped. Yet this was how the game was designed by the developer. Or in a dream, it is what is being dreamed by the dreamer.

@Beginner Mind