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It was a completely different level of consciousness. The ego was dead. I was consciousness itself and was directly conscious that i was experiencing all perspectives simultaneously. I was not even able to look anyone in the eye for almost a week. A human cannot function at that level of consciousness.

Like i said, you are God - you can do whatever you want :)❤?

Becoming conscious of the nature of reality for one...a few days ago you were poo pooing Absolute infinity but that's what reality is and you can have a mystical experience of that - and become conscious that you are literally nothing. Another one is Oneness - as in you can have a mystical experience in which your consciousness expands to super human levels in which you can mystically shift to God's perspective and discover you are completely alone. All of this is being dreamed up in your one mind. The mind of God. Its very radical. And of course becoming conscious that you are in fact consciousness itself - and realizing that consciousness is God. These mystical experiences may seem insane to you now - but hopefully you can be open minded about it. (I don't mind either way, or if you think I'm nuts) but these are some of the awakenings i have directly experienced. ❤?

Yes - it is all relative at this point. You can do whatever you want. Literally. Thats your freedom as God. That's what it means to experience yourself. But remember God is completely selfless, and the self is selfish. The ego is division not unity.. God ultimately wants to reunite with itself. Fighting this process can ultimately lead to more suffering than has to be. To survive as a particular form is to suffer to some degree. Because you have separated yourself from yourself. That's the cost of experiencing yourself.

You still have more to go. Discovering there is no self is just one realization/awakening

Regarding specifically the ego -- good points by all. @VeganAwake yes your point about waking up and rendering the ego harmless is a good one. It is paradoxical because as @Highest states - the ego is still part of God and should be loved. God creates the separate self to experience itself through - and it creates all of duality to experience itself through. This should not be overlooked. But this separate self, in order to be separate, must be finite. A finite thing has to survive as a self. Without a sense of self you would be dead. This means the self needs to be selfish to survive. The ego tends to run away with this - seeking pleasure outside itself - but when you awaken to your true nature you see through this because you're consciousness goes through the roof. You go meta on the ego and can be content with just being. Being is what you are fundamentally. This is wisdom. You can still experience yourself plus you filter out all the negative aspects of the ego. Purification.

@DLH very nice!

@LfcCharlie4 thanks for taking the time to shed the light on the matter - im sure it will be quite helpful to everyone. ?❤

Just that it is imaginary. There is nothing physically separating anything. Consciousness fundamentally is mind stuff - that's why the fact that anything exists at all is miraculous. That Infinity is infinity is a miracle. Remember something infinite is EVERYTHING. That includes nothing. Nothing permeates through everything, yanking the ground out from under it and rendering it a dream. So it must imagine separation.

You and the Universe are one and the same. You just haven't had a radical shift in consciousness yet to become conscious of that. Its OK.

Mystical experiences. Non-dual states of consciousness. Look at the chart you laid out. Mystical experiences that revealed to me the nature of all of reality instantaneously. Mystical experiences that revealed that i am pure consciousness / Infinity. Oneness realization. By becoming the Absolute / collapsing the self into Being. Must i go on?

They are not offending me, but it needs to be pointed out so that others reading your posts are not mislead. By no others i am speaking from the Absolute perspective. There is nothing wrong with quoting great masters - but do you have thoughts of your own on such matters? You see, ultimately you can become conscious that you are your own authority, and the need to quote others really goes away, because you are your own authority and can think for yourself.

This is not my direct experience. I had massive awakenings just days into meditation. So it is very relative to the individual.

The analogy of a virtual partition in consciousness is a good one. Consciousness partitions itself. But the separation is virtual. Within your partition, you feel separate. As you should be. From your partition or perspective, you are. That is the whole point of partitioning in the first place. That's a feature. But it is possible as you know, to hack your own partition (mysticism) and access the whole hard drive. And then you realize its all one drive. For the partition who hasn't done this yet, he has no idea that the partitions are virtual.

This very question really bothered me ever since i was a kid. It was only after i found spirituality that the question could finally be answered. You see, if you are coming from the materialist paradigm, then this question should bother you. If it doesn't you are probably never gonna have a chance at ever awakening. Because if there was an objective, physical reality, then how could something exist if no one is there to be conscious of it? The materialist would chalk it up to "oh well, its just beyond our understanding. Its happening without anyone seeing it and that's that. God sees it from the clouds. Etc etc." But when you discover that reality is a mind - it is consciousness - then it all makes sense. And the tree and the sound exist as pure consciousness - pure potentiality. It only collapses into a tree when being observed. A subject / object duality is created What's really going on is pure being. The raw data, sights and sounds are there when not being "perceived" or "heard", existing as Being. Leo's video on what is perception can really help clear this up for you. Quantum mechanics revealed this as well. That is why if you are actually able to collapse yourself into Being, you will literally cease to exist as you. You will be Being! You've collapsed the subject/object duality.

There is no need to resort to name calling. Please keep the posts free of personal attacks.

Ok that's a completely different thing.

Of course it has no need to care. It is prior to caring. Only the illusion of one to care can care. But that small self that can care, when it discovers it's true nature - it discovers that to resist itself as a self is just interrupting the process so to speak lol. So wisely it steps out of the way. It goes meta. Like you said, it is designed to be seen through.

@Anna1 You from the Absolute perspective, or awareness itself

Or you can say an illusion only becomes illusion after it is revealed. In other words, when you are in it, it is not an illusion, to you. The illusion here is in regards to one's purest nature as consciousness, which is total selflessness, not a self. In truth, consciousness is imagining it is a self. But what is not explored by those simply dismissing the self as an illusion is the question of why. After all, this is not the matrix. When you wake up, there isn't another realm to wake up to. There is only isnesss or awareness itself. Isness or Being/awareness cannot know itself because it is prior to knowing. It deeply desires to know itself. In order to do this, it must create the illusion of a knower. Thus, It experiences itself through this illusion, because that is all it can do. But note, it is still awareness - its just that rather than being formless it is shapeshifting into a particular form. Therefore to deny illusion, or to deny form, is to deny yourself. The point of the post, i deem, is not to dispute illusion. Not really. The point of the post is to accept the imaginary self, and embrace it. You must embrace.

You know not what you speak. You are confusing what you have heard (concept) for actuality - and that is dogma. it is clear from this, and the time you spend quoting others, that you still have a long way to go for your own awakening. You can realize one day that you no longer need to quote others because there will be no others.

Yes. And you will notice that nothing bothers you anymore. If a truck cuts you off on the highway, nearly killing you, you will experience it. You will accept it. And you will move on. The egos desire to lash out at the truck driver has dissolved. Nothing phases you anymore. There is only Love and compassion.

@Adodd what type of meditation are you doing? Remember, self inquiry is a type of meditation. So is the do nothing, no thought. So is contemplation. So is concentration - which in a way merges with do nothing, but here you are focusing in on one thing in your direct experience. If you are only doing one particular type, then i suggest to switch it up. Work your way to at least 30 min as well.

@TheAvatarState yeah...i have to go back and watch that again. But yeah, the word that came to mind over and over again when i had my awakenings was simply - its a miracle. Its a miracle on so many levels. And you are the miracle.

Indeed it does. What is presently actual for you is what is true for you. That is the distinction between actuality and concept. The words anyone speaks to you (including me) are concepts. It is second order. Actuality is first order. Do not mistake concept for actuality. Doing so turns it into dogma. Be open minded that concept may or may not be pointing to something that can become actual for you. But the only way for anything to become actual for you is to actualize it in your direct experience. Meditation can be key here because it connects you directly with what is actual.