Raptorsin7

Suffering can end. If there is still a sense of energetic suffering then I would say you are not done. You can collapse the suffering and the sufferer.

Okay yeah I don't disagree with this. If your understanding ultimately points you back to living in harmony then it's true. So you are done on the path?

What is reading this right now? What's there perceiving existence? There is a natural intelligence and order to life that can be tuned into. Unless you are at peace and believe you are done on the path, i don't see how that perspective is useful or beneficial

Yes, but what you are aware of in any given moment consists of an entire history of beliefs, sensations, emotions etc. You can simply be aware of all the trauma in your experience and it would be completely consistent with what you're saying. When you take responsibility for inspecting and transcending the blocks in awareness what accounts for that shift?

Yeah this makes sense to me. I think it's about going prior to pure conscious being. Once the identity shifts from little self, to the more expansive totality of consciousness I think you can start to resolve some of these paradoxes. And yeah I agree, this sounds like spiritual bypass/nonsense. You can't on the one hand acknowledge the role of thoughts in our suffering and well being, but then completely abdicate yourself of any responsible for the thinking process by taking a position that denies any control or acknowledgement of the process

How do you account for the role of thoughts in shaping how your life unfolds. Some thoughts feel good to focus on, and some thoughts lead no where or are destructive. If there is no control over thoughts, then how does someone who inherited negative beliefs and thoughts transcend those beliefs and see the flipside

@WokeBloke Are you saying that you choose thoughts, as in you are consciousness chooses thoughts to focus on? I agree it doesn't make sense to say there is no thinker, because it can be interpreted as not taking responsibility for your thoughts. I don't see how you can argue for there being no you thinking, while also believing that it is possible to take responsibility for your thoughts

Unless you haven't resolved the energetics and felt suffering from conditioning. Everyone can experience now, but not everything can experience the positive qualities of being if there are obstructions

Hey, I'm listening to Reality Transurfing by Vadim Zeland, and from what I've listened to so far I like where it's headed, but I'm curious if anyone on the forum has experiences with the techniques and concepts from the book? Has anyone read/listened to it? Any thoughts on the book?

Yeah that kind of advice is nonsensical. There is truth there but it has no utility.

Haha no it's a he/him

Would you consider yourself a pacifist? Meaning, if there were a war or violent situations you would refuse to take part in any violent action. So if there was a war that you viewed as a just war you would still refuse to participate because you don't want to contribute to violence in anyway. I guess you would expect a spiritual forum to have a higher % of pacifists, but I also suspect a lot of people have strongly held beliefs and would be willing to fight for them.

I guess just limit the context to war and physical violence.

Sweet hair

Yeah I am the biggest devil in my own existence

Haha I'm the angel they send to kill all the devils

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Lol you beat me to it, I was debating whether I should call this guy out for being so personal but dam...

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I don't know if he has a specific book on creativity, but Dr John Demartini has the best insights into self development that I've ever come across.

Do you believe that consciousness is limited in it's creative potential by the practice constraints of being a human in the 21st century with certain tech, natural laws, intellectual capacity etc? I was thinking about how cool it would be to create my very own video game and incorporate all the elements I like and basically design the ultimate game i'd love to play, but then I thought there are likely practical constraints that will limit my vision and basically I will never make an amazing game I'd love because i'd be limited by technology. But on the otherhand consciousness seems to be unlimited and so maybe our wildest dreams are really plausible and possible. What does everyone think?

It's like how working through trauma and changing your perspectives can deepen your meditation practice. I think its possible to combine many technologies that will help facilitate deeper insight from meditation etc. It's like you and me both do self inquiry. But you feel your being light up and vibrate, but I just feel the density and tension in the head. How do you account for that difference

It makes sense to me and I agree 100% Unless you value embodiment and your sober quality, you have resigned yourself to suffer 99% of the time for the 1% of time where you get your peak understanding. Fundamentally, what is the point of life. It's to live in harmony moment by moment. Not just have 1/100th of your moments be meaningful and the 99/100 you just reminisce about your past glory

I have a vision in thoughts of how I want the game to unfold. My only concern is that I will be limited by technology and so the entire project will not be feasible. It's like I either want to do it right and execute my vision or i'd rather just place my attention else where. I'm also concerned about the time it would take to finish the product. Right now I am very interested in the topic, and I like just thinking and reflecting on different dynamics of the game, but if someone told me it would take 10 years to finish the project or something idk if I would be as happy to pursue it. Part of me thinks that if I just follow these good thoughts and genuinely want to create something based on my vision, then consciousness will find a way to make it a reality for me. But idk I'm skeptical, even though I want to believe