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Thank you for this video! "Check if you yourself are contributing to injuring another being." "The Truth, the basic understanding is that we are one, love is our nature." "Each one of us (body and mind) has different proclivities to express this love."

@Evilwave Heddy Hi. Look for persons that already do what you want to become. In a slightly other field (Rome) see Darius Arya; lecturer, consultant, archeologist, historian, tv-presenter, etc. etc. Multiple websites, face booker, twitter, instagram. Young and active. http://www.dariusarya.co Or see Michael Scott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Scott_(author) also young and very active. Or old and active, Maarten Van Rossem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maarten_van_Rossem a guest in a lot of talk shows, news programs, writer, has his own glossy. So, find your niche and use modern technology to display Ancient Egypt.

Self inquiry meditation not care about what others think I should be doing

@MarcusJ I assume you mean awareness/consciousness with 'higher self"? I absolutely don't know. Experiences just happen. Not any experience is wrong or good. Living and dying, happiness and sadness. All experiences. Only to an ego is an experience wrong or good. Awareness does not care, because it has no agenda. It is timeless, it will never die. Only the body and the ego can die. Why should awareness/consciousness care?

What names? What are the names of your teacher(s)? Other question; You mentioned in another post that "It works for me". How do you know it works? What "results" did you have? How do you measure progress? How do you know you are following the right teacher/teaching? What problems have been solved?

@Naviy I got away from my toxic wife. I saved some money last year. I did the life purpose course. I am still not 100% sure of what to do. I am thinking about OR going on with my job and do more meditation in the hope my life purpose will come from within. The money I saved over the last year was to start my life purpose or do a course/education for that life purpose. But since I do not know it yet, I was also thinking about option 2: taking 2 months sabbatical and do a home meditation/vipasana retreat in the hope that my life purpose pops up from within.

@Matthew Lamot I know you don't like the idea of a thread about Advaita Vedanta, only to be forgotten in three hours. But I do it anyway. I read the document you linked to in your signature, but I miss some concrete steps to do. I am interested in learning more. What are some sites you can recommend to learn more? Any books you can recommend? Any Youtube video's you can recommend? Any meditation technique or self inquiry technique or question you can recommend? (There are no Advaita Vedanta teachers in my country)

That is right. It was actually the day before yesterday that it happened and yesterday and today I was frustratingly trying to have the experience again, but the more I want, the further away it seems to drift. Only when I surrender the experience comes closer. But then when it comes closer I get excited and it drifts away..

Before reacting to your reaction, I decided to read the pdf you so actively promote around the forum. I begin to think that you are a shareholder of the Shining world Corporation It is actually quit interesting, though I do not understand everything because it's not in my native language. But there were some passages that made me thinking like "After all, someone who strives for the experience of oneness does so because he or she holds an ‘intellectual’ conviction that experience is the only path to enlightenment." But on the other hand, don't you (Matthew) agree that an experience can be helpful? quote "And the ‘experience of non-duality’ gives a glimpse of the Self which can be an aid to understanding." And lastly, "The many seekers of self experience that eventually become disillusioned because they are unable to obtain a permanent experience of the self need to convert their quest for experience into a quest for understanding if they wish to free themselves from bondage to their attachment to experience...which prevents them from enlightenment."

Today I did 55 minutes of strong determination sitting. The first 30 minutes I had a lot of thoughts. After that I began the self inquiry / neti-neti. I asked myself: "who am I?", "I am not my body, not the sounds I hear, not my breath, not my feelings, not my thoughts." "What am I when all this falls away?". Then at one moment I saw myself in an elevator shaft, hanging on to the ramp with one hand, clinging to it. A voice said: "let go. Just let go". I let go and what I felt was like an orgasm. It was a release. I fell down the shaft. Everything went black as I was falling down in this black hole. I felt a tinkling sensations in my whole body like an orgasm (not in the genitals btw). Mostly in my head and spine. But as I got emotional about this breakthrough sensation, I started thinking about it and then the effect stopped. Anyone had similar experiences?

@Abhijeeth Leo has a lot of videos in meditation. Start at the beginners video's. Try it for at least 30 days and determine for yourself what works and what not. Also remember that it may take a year to even see positive results. The beginning of meditation can be frustrating, stressful, give you illess, sleepless nights, etc. It all depends on how much rubbish is in your 'attic'. Meditation is cleaning up the attic. If you have a lot of shit stored up there, don't be surprised to find some rotten corpses while cleaning up the attic.

@Grue Welcome to the forum. I can't give you a good answer, but here is your first Reputation! Of course you are a soul which in this context is synonimous for awareness, consciousness, God, etc) At the same time, all these words are just labels and just pointers to what you really are. You CANNOT think about what you are. You can only be it. The label you give it... Soul, is just a label.. Ooops, I see now that I DID give an answer...

@BHL_20 I think you could say that a fetus and a baby are enlightened. They see the world as one; non dual. But already whilst being a baby, grown ups are injecting the kid with duality: giving it a name, saying they are mom and that...labeling EVERYTHING around the kid. So from that moment on, the kid gets more and more separated from it's essential being. It sees itself as being separated from everything else. It thinks it is the ego. It has become an ego. This ego builts up and up, until you get enlightened.

@Taavi I think I am in a similar position. I think that being more conscious, the life purpose will come more and more from within. It will be more authentic. Read the book on the recommended book list "D....... Y... L... P......" by R... T..... He explains your life purpose on a spiritual level. I found it very helpful.

According to Rupert, it is the only purpose... (of course there are more levels of life purposes.. on the level of spirit and on the level of form)