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Evil is causing unnecessary suffering to others.

Of course none of these sacrifices were made for the God Leo talks about. Most religious traditions do have a nondual component, but for the most part they worshipped dual gods within creation. These gods are powerful astral beings that can be perceived by psychics. Some of these gods are quite wrathful and actually wanted such sacrifices. But I guess in most cases, these sacrifices weren't made because the gods demanded it, but because the humans believed sacrifices would please the gods the most and these humans were too primal and selfish to consider alternative offerings. Sacrifices were made in the hope that the gods would then help and bless them in return. And less commonly, sacrifices weren't made for a god but purely for the energy. Suffering and death releases a lot of energy, some black magicians would go as far as doing sacrifices in order to use that energy to empower their sorcery.

I just remembered that @Yog made a big list of good OBE resources:

Research The most important part of sleep yoga, WILD and astral projection is to achieve body asleep + mind awake. If that is achieved, all else is relatively easy. Unfortunately, hardly any resources go into any depth on that issue. Some time ago I went through around 30 OBE books. Pretty much all were quite low quality (regarding that issue), these were the best: Travel far by Darryl E. Berry Jr. Astral Dynamics by Robert Bruce Hacking the Out of Body experience by Robert Peterson and for DEILDs of course: The Phase by Michael Raduga the Way of the Projectionist by John Kreiter also brings an interesting perspective. (And in "the Way of the Death Defier" he also writes a bit about sleep yoga) The best resources actually seem to be WILD and astral projection tutorials on dreamviews and reddit and other forums. The quality of those seems to be better than other internet resources or youtube videos, even better than most (or all) OBE and sleep yoga books. So if anyone wants to do some further research, I can recommend dreamviews, reddit and these books.

Let's just say being mindful means to be present, to be not on autopilot, to be conscious of what's happening.

If you use your phone and want to play several audios simultaneously (like binaural beats, audio recording of "aware", subliminals, morphogenic fields,...) you can do that with the apps "Music Speed Changer" and "Rocket Player". Usually, only one audio can be played. If you use the 2 above mentioned apps + any normal audio player app, you can listen to 3 simultaneously. I think on the laptop it's a lot easier to play several audios simultaneously by using different audio players. Another option is to merge mutliple audios into one audio, for example with Audacity (it's free). Just make sure you don't lose audio quality.

Some time ago there was a small discussion of that topic/video:

@machiavelli Reality isn't structured with "prior than" or "secondary". Everything is on the same level, no dualties. Nothing = Something/Everything Appearances are not imagined by a mind. That is dualistic. Mind is imagination.

Enlightenment doesn't necessarily completely dissolve the seperate self. The seemingly seperate self consists of appearances. Enlightenment usually doesn't dissolve these appearances, it just shows that the belief/sensation that you are exclusively these appearances is an illusion. With deeper degrees of enlightenment, the belief/sensation that you are the seperate self completely dissolves, but the appearances of the seeminlgy seperate self still remain. So from the relative perspective, a self still remains. In order to have a healthy self (from the relative perspective) NLP can be useful.

The facets of awakening are logical, imo. You can reach conceptual understanding of Reality through studying nondual theory and contemplation, that's conceptual awakening then. And when you increase your consciousness enough, you reach direct understanding. The difference between conceptual and direct understanding is your state of consciousness.

FACTORS that determine whether you can remain conscious during sleep. let's first define some terms. mindful. There are different kinds of mindfulness ("mindfulness" defined in the context of sleep yoga) (for example, being present, conscious of what you are doing, conscious that you are conscious, conscious that you exist,...) and different degrees to mindfulness. Generally, to be mindful means that you have any of the above mentioned kinds of mindfulness, basically that you are not on autopilot (the way most people are 99,9% of their day). mind awake: means that you are not unconscious. You can be mind awake and mindful. You can also be mind awake and not mindful. Willpower + concentration = mindfulness - Straightforward Factors: Brainwave skill: the ability to remain mindful with little concentration and willpower at low brainwaves. (The brainwave skill also includes the skill to intentionally lower (and raise) your brainwaves, but that isn't very important for sleep yoga, because tiredness is doing that for us) Concentration. The more powerful your concentration/focus, the easier it is to remain mindful. So, the more powerful your concentration skill, the easier it is to remain mindful during lower brainwaves, and thus remain conscious during sleep. Willpower, determination, discipline, motivation, desire. Willpower is required to induce and maintain concentration/focus and thus mindfulness. Relaxation. your body needs some degree of relaxation to fall asleep. The more tired you are, the less relaxation is required (extreme example: if you are very sleep deprived you can fall asleep while standing), also, the more tired you are, the easier your body relaxes just on its own. So the less tired you are, the more important your ability to relax becomes. The benefit of practicing sleep yoga while being not very tired is that it requires less concentration to remain mindful. Technique I think that I rank higher on all five of these factors than 90+% of those who are able to have WILD lucid dreams and astral projections, and yet, despite all my effort, I haven't had a single WILD so far (not counting DEILDs here). That means there are more factors. - Mysterious Factors: The ability that your body can fall asleep easily and quickly even though you are still "mind awake" and conscious, and not deeply relaxed. Whereas for most people losing consciousness is more necessary in order for their body to fall asleep. As a result most people's body can only fall asleep once the mind is asleep too. However, someone who is talented in that skill, can remain conscious while the body falls alseep, just by doing one of the basic astral projection techniques. For most people that simple approach doesn't work. The ability to remain "MIND AWAKE" during low brainwaves even when you lose mindfulness. Most people need mindfulness in order to ensure "mind awake" at these brainwaves. There are most likely more of these mysterious factors. Based on your genetics (and other factors) you have a certain starting point ranking on all of these factors for sleep yoga. The difference between straightforward and mysterious factors is, that the straightforward factors are far more flexible and easy and straightforward to improve. I believe that those who are considered naturally talented in sleep yoga and astral projection, are naturally talented mostly in these mysterious factors. I guess the only practical way to improve in these mysterious factors is by practicing sleep yoga. Also, by improving much in the straightforward factors, you can compensate for weak mysterious factors. - How to improve the straightforward factors: - 1. Brainwave Skill The best way to improve that skill is by practicing sleep yoga listening to binaural beats (below 12hz) during your normal meditations. - 2. Concentration 2.1. First Component: Concentration skill doing concentration and mindfulness practices like: concentration meditations, mindfulness during daily activities, practicing sleep yoga. This is the main way how you progress with sleep yoga. Put most of your effort into concentration and mindfulness practices. training your brain with morphogenic fields: training your brain with gamma binaural beats Magick. For example the "Mental Focus" ritual from "Greater Words of Power" and the "Mental Clarity" ritual from "Archangel Magick". Both books are from Damon Brand. And Uiazel from "Angels of Omnipotence" by Jareth Tempest. 2.2. Second Component: Energy. The more energy you have, the easier it is to remain concentrated and mindful. Some ways to increase that energy: energetic absorption techniques from John Kreiter's Magnum Opus book. In his death defier book he explains the role of energy for sleep yoga. Transmissions and Invocations naturally lead to some increase in energy physical energy (health, diet, working out) advanced qi gong practices semen preservation can help too - 3. Relaxation body scanning tensing and then untensing muscles massaging, stretching, moving or warming muscles tiredness My use of the words concentration and mindfulness might have been confusing at times. Sometimes these words are pretty interchangeable while at other times there is a difference between them. It's 4 am right now, I couldn't come up with an easier way to explain this stuff haha.

Good to hear You seem talented, if you keep practicing you will probably progress very fast! You mean transmissions from me? I don't think I can give strong transmissions as of yet. But thanks for the offer! Eventually I will need someone to test it haha. Currently I don't really care much about improving my ability to give transmissions. My focus is fully on sleep yoga now. I think one of the effects of sleep yoga will be that my ability to give transmissions will greatly improve quickly (one reason for that is because the more altered your state of consciousness (which becomes far easier to do with sleep yoga mastery) the more energetically sensitive you become). That means much more improvement with far lesst effort (higher efficiency), compared to what current practices would yield.

Absolute perspective: No one and God. Relative perspective: you, a psychic non-physical being. Hard to pinpoint and to perceive what that is but from the relative perspective, it is very real and has free will and can control thoughts if it puts effort into it.

Last summer my focus was on transmissions and then up to the beginning of this year on invocations I was doing some sleep yoga practice but not seriously most of the time. Now I'm fully focused on sleep yoga. Slow progress has been due to: I was probably less naturally talented (starting position) in sleep yoga / WILD lucid dreaming than the average person ineffecient approach my stupidity and lack of enough discipline no perfectly reliable way to wake up once I've lost consciousness (the best scenario would be to have someone who does sleep yoga as well. One person practices and the other watches and wakes one up immediately upon losing consciousness. And then switching jobs. Progress would be so much faster) I think the most important component is your focus/concentration skill (among the things you can impact). I recommend practicing that as much as possible. Formal concentration meditations, as well as trying PERFECT mindfulness during daily activities. - Some new ideas: the faster you mentally repeat "aware" the easier it is to remain aware I recorded myself repeating "aware" and let that audio play during sleep yoga practice (it's a very good anchor to remain aware, and if you lose some consciousness, you might regain it because your subconscious is reminded of remaining aware). I also don't really work with sleep deprivation anymore. Simplified, my practice is divided into two versions, based on tiredness levels. -right before each version listening to motivation music reverse blinking - Very tired (lets say I had 7 hours of sleep the previous night, then just remaining 1-5 hours longer awake than usual, at least one hour before sleep yoga practice no blue light) (body wants deep sleep): sitting theta, delta or epsilon binaural beats alarm clocks every 1-3 minutes + questions constantly repeating "aware" + "aware" audio recording + constantly mentally checking whether you are still aware maybe FILD in darkness maybe SAT video - tired (body wants REM and light sleep): lying down gamma binaural beats alarm clocks every 5-20min + questions constantly repeating "aware" + "aware" audio recording + constantly mentally checking whether you are still aware (holding one hand up if too tired) not in darkness physical relaxation is important With this approach progress has been speeding up lately.

@softlyblossoming Hey man! I wish. I'm still at stage 1 or 2 LMAO. ...Depending on how you define "body asleep". If I were observed in a labratory, I'm sure the state I reach would be considered light sleep. But I personally consider "body asleep" to mean that my body is either sleep paralysed, having vibrations or the body sensations are extremely faded and I'm already partly in the void. None of that yet though. I'm still very interested in reaching stage 7!

@Arthogaan Both pictures are quite dualistic. There is no formless God vs God in creation vs God's eye vs God's vessel,... There is One Consciousness/God which shapeshifts into appearances of the present moment. These appearances are then interpreted to mean that there is a body, a person, sensations experienced by that person, other people, POVs, ... But there is just God/Consciousness pretending to be these appearances. All of that isn't affected by your state of consciousness. Reality works that way, whether you are in God consciousness or human consciousness. Your state of consciousness just affects whether you are conscious of all that or not. God is Consciousness and One/Singular, therefore there is nothing outside It/You (your present moment). In that sense only your present moment exists, and the rest of Infinity doesn't exist (All of Infinity is shapeshifting/collapsing into the present moment). But from a more practical perspective, God keeps shapeshifting forever, and therefore shapeshifts into the rest of Infinity too. Practically speaking, all of that happens at once. In that sense the other bubbles are just as real as your bubble/present moment.

If you inquire you will find that it feels like you are like a point of consciousness or a camera, a subject that observes objects, but that can't really observe itself. Everything that you can observe is an object. It could be a part of yourself, but it can't be the core of what you are, the subject. So your hand could be a part of you, but it can't be the core of what you are, the subject which is doing the "looking". That's is the purpose of this particular exercise. But then the next step is to realize that this subject which you think you are, which looks at objects, doesn't really exist in the way you first assume. The subject is not like a hidden entity that observes objects. The Subject is everything that is. At that point the duality of subject and object collapses. There is only One, that which is, and it could be called both subject and object. This One is Consciousness, thus it is the Subject, what you truly are. And it is also everything you previously considered "objects out there". No duality, complete Oneness, just One. So the hand is in fact you, just like everything else. Nothing is more or less you. There is no "core of you", all is You. You don't perceive a hand or a chair by observing it, but by being it. You are the chair. Knowing, being and being conscious of are the same.

One way to conceptualize the enlightened state of consciousness is to break it down into a recognition component and altered state of consciousness component (here explained in more detail). - To get the recognition component into your baseline consciousness, you first need to deeply recognize what Reality is in peak states and then keep trying to recognise the same (in a more subtle version) during your normal consciousness. Grinding with self inquiry, until the illusions are firmly seen through. - to get the altered state of consciousness into your baseline you need to spend more and more time in altered states. The more time you spend in altered states and the deeper these states are, the more your baseline is affected. So that's mostly about time × quality (depth of altered state). And gradually baseline brain chemistry changes. Based on genetics and some other factors, these baseline changes are more or less easy to achieve.

As close to your chest as possible (and only as close as is comfortable for your neck) The most important component of kriya supreme fire is the breathhold, ime. Second important is the root lock. The other components don't make much of a difference ime.

Shaktipat and SAT in one transmission:

It's explained in Santata Gamana's kundalini book. in short: long breathhold after the in-breath contract your perineum and anus muscles (root lock) suck your stomach in and up chin as far to your chest as possible tongue to the roof of the mouth and as far back as possible focusing on root, navel region, heart chakra, crown or somewhere else. Yeah in my experience the Wim Hof breathing definitely increases energetic sensitivity.

As far as I know, rainbow body and enlightenment are two different things. You could have a rainbow body without enlightenment, or be enlightened without a rainbow body. Enlightenment is about higher consciousness. Rainbow body is about transmutation of the physical body. I guess it is possible to achieve the rainbow body with psychedelics, but that would require very regular and deep tripping, but it's still unlikely, because psychedelics are not the best tool for that. Psychedelics are for awakening.

@Vibes Too slow to tolerate. Mostly due to stupid resistance to discomfort. I've got a new attitude since this morning though, progress is gonna speed up now.

@Striving for more If you're so energetically sensitive then transmissions might be worth a try. Gareth's live transmissions are really nice. I think transmissions are one of the most effective ways to increase one's happiness and peace. Yeah, hanging around high vibrational people makes a difference. And every city and country definitely has it's own energy, which has some impact on people's happiness and spirituality. And what you called "energetic virus" is usually called thought form. People's thoughts and emotions can intermingle and form into objective primitive non-physical life forms which then again affect everyone around.

@Striving for more You have the right attitude. To reach your specific goals, I don't think meditation is the best practice. Meditation is good but there are more effective ones. I'd recommend the following: transmissions psychedelics pick up lucid dreaming magick (with Damon Brand's books) All day meditation: Try to remain present, mindful and conscious during as much of your day (driving, cooking, tv, work,...) as possible. Don't waste formal mediation sitting time with this. shadow work and contemplation and self reflection. dive into your psyche and deal with your fears and wounds.