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@vinc3nc This is it exactly. You can however still enjoy duality. The trick is as God you need to be able to shift seamlessly betweenn duality and non-duality. In duality your perspective or level of consciousness is back to being finite - aka you are imagining you are a human and furthermore you are imagining that that is real and poof it becomes real for you. Amd others are real. So you can still enjoy everthing - maybe even more so. But fresh off a mystical state it will be tough as you are seeing now - and you will feel like you are going insane - consciousness is still elevated - and it feels like driftng between duality and non-duality. After a long while you get back to normal human levels of consciousness and the ego settles back in - but scarred for life as it is revealed to be imaginary. But yeah once you know the Truth the ego doesn't wanna go back there because it dissolves. I had those mystical realizations myself through meditation and now to get there i would probably need psychedelics or completely forget everthing again. Spirituality is some serious stuff. But anyway maybe its time to explore the depths of Godhood now and do many more trips. There is still more stuff you can become conscious of.

Infinity is a motherfucker

Exactly. Language is dualistic and limited. Truth IS. Which is why this place is a lounge for discussion in between doing the practices.

It is possible to understand yourself completely. You may lose it again - but it is. But in that moment of Absolute understanding you must forgo that which is finite

You speak of the Self reference problem. Something totally One is unable to step outside of itself to reference itself or validate that it is there - which is grounding. Something that is one and thus unlimited can therefore have no ground. It simply needs to be conscious that it IS itself.

Indeed it is. What is beaitiful is that reality has absolutely no ground because it is One and thus Infinite. It cannot reference itself because anything it could try to reference itself with is actually itself. And because it cannot reference itself - it just IS itself. See Leo's video "Reality is a Strange Loop". But to actually become directly conscious of this is to remove the illusory references to nothing we are making now and to actually BE it. Pure Being. And that my friend - well that is Divine bliss.

Reality is a strange loop/paradox. Something is Nothing.

Being and Knowing are identical - it's just that right now all you know is knowing by itself - which has divided from Being and therefore finite.

Your efforts are not a joke. But you do realize that to actually become conscious of Truth you as the ego must die right? This isn't like a project you do for work in which there are phases to completion. Oh no - spirituality is much more nuanced than that. Your entire life is on the line. So one can have all the concepts in the world but that must all collapse at the point of Being. There is nothing for you to attain you see? You just have to become directly aware that you are awareness and not a self. Then the floodgates to other realizations will open.

There is no mistaking Infinity because you become it. And it will be Absolute Certainty. Infinite Intelligence. So it sounds like this is intuition guiding you. Maybe its time to try psychedelics. Your ego is probably still in the way. The ego thinking "why is this so hidden" is pushing you deeper into the illusion and farther away from Truth - that's actually a form of ego defense. The ego needs to be overwhelmed completely or taken off guard.

The ego is what is imaginary. God/Infinity/Pure Consciousness enlightens itself. Or you can say God wakes up to itself. You will know the Absolute when you become it.

I mean both are subjective. You are not consciously thinking "that guy isn't real" in a dream. It's just happening from your perspective.

Not really. Contemplate closely. There isn't as much contrast as you think between the two.

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That's right - but newsflash - you can wake up from the waking dream! Actually you will care more because you have become conscious of Oneness and maybe even Love! Love encompasses compassion. And when you go back to sleep you are completely bought into the dream!

Your thoughts of other's perceptions still lay nested within your own perception. This can be shown to you by yourself as God.

How so? Right now in the relative you exist to me. Yet from the Absolute perspective i know you are but a projection of my mind. Again - from my relative perspective you are real as fuck. Which is what makes reality so real - distinctions. If it weren't for distinctions there could not be a reality such as this.

Here is the mindfuck. What is being conscious other than what you imagine another person to be. Another being's consciousness is yet another idea in your mind - and ultimately an idea in the Mind of God.

Indeed. Who is disputing this? Are you worried or wondering about another being actually being conscious when they speak to you?

What is proof of anything? Proof in its entirety is finite and relative. The relative cannot grasp the Absolute. Because proof require others. The Absolute is total Oneness. The point is all distinctions ultimately break down. The distinction between self and other - between you and me - they are illusory or imaginary and must collapse. This can't be grasped from the ego it requires God mode And God will dream and infinite number of dreams for that is Inifnity.

@BipolarGrowth There is always Consciousness. But finite consciousness can forget what it had for breakfast. It doesn't matter because Absolutely speaking there is only the present moment. Only right now.

To rediscover that it is Absolute. Collectively as a society. Over and over. Just like if you won a game of Monopoly and then wiped the board clean and started again.

@Tim R the others had some really good answers for ya. It really doesn't matter if he was enlightened or not. If you were to wonder though, it would really depend on what you consider enlightenment to be - it's relative. If you consider enlightenment to be accessing non-dual states of consciousness - aka mystical experiences - (samadhi) that accompany realizations of various facets of the Absolute - then yes you can be enlightened as a mofo and your ego can still be addicted to stuff. Because the ego completely dissolves during such states. If you consider enlightenment to be fully embodying Being all the time - even as the ego -and thus abiding in it even back in duality - (in which case the individual works to purify their ego by vanquishing addiction and other things that can trap the ego and mask suffering with "pleasure". This is really where the real work comes in. It takes a lot of inner work and strength to embody God on an everyday basis and not give in to the ego's selfishness. But typically it will tend to be a lot easier and even completely natural to beat these things for someone who has accessed mystical states of consciousness, because these people tend to be pretty conscious as it is of what is real and what is illusory.

What are you waiting for

@blankisomeone because you as God are dreaming a particular dream that adheres to a certain rule set. Other people are just part of that dream. When you become directly conscious that you yourself as the ego are an idea - that is when you as God will awaken from your own dream.