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@Leo Gura I do have cannabis license so do you think that eating cannabis would be helpful for expanding consciousness? I have never tried cannabis by the way.

@Someone here If I look away, the car coming is imagination, but I still hear the car coming, which is actuality. I am not walking on the highway, the highway is walking through me. I am imagining that I am not imagining. That whole highway with cars is all in your imagination. Right? Look at your hand. Highways and cars are imaginary. Everything is just an appearance. @Someone here it’s not a theory, it’s just what it is. Everything is imagination. This forum is a hallucination. Isn’t “reality” just a collective hallucination agreed upon?

Okay! Thanks everyone for your help. I will stare at my hands till the cows go home. Lol. Some day, I might start using shrooms with the actuality practice. I am not quite at a point right now in life where I can use psychedelics yet. I would prefer to do it Buddha style lol.

That’s my problem. I watched your perception video with God being the sponge and me being the perceptual bubble, but when I look at my hand, all that exists is all that is in the perceptual bubble from my point of view. All other perceptual bubbles, galaxies, universes, etc. that are outside of “my” perceptual bubble are imaginary from “my” point of view. How can I experience all of the bubbles that are outside of “my” Direct Experience? How can I have a Direct Experience of all the perceptual bubbles when “I” am stuck within my own?

When I look at my hand, I realize that there is no looking happening. Looking implies a looker, and all that there is, is just my hand. My hand is just Being with the rest of the world, but my hand is just a distinction in DE, and all distinctions are imaginary.

That’s a good point, but it seems like they are “my” creation, but maybe the dream is just dreaming up that it is me dreaming that it is dreaming the dream. That was confusing, but basically the dream is dreaming “my life” and dreaming up other people and dreaming up conversations. But the only world that I know is the one I am dreaming up now. Other dreams that I am imagining are imagination. Man I am going to meditate on this. Good point. I am stuck in this dream, and the idea of other dreams seems like they cannot be known because all others are within the dream of me. This is my main problem: how can I know anything outside of the dream? This seems like solipsism to me because everything is just occuring with the dream of “my life.” The idea of other dreams are couched with “my” dream because that is all that I know.

Here’s how I see it. Reality is like a dream. Everything you experience in your dream: people, cars, conversations, trees, planets, aliens, what have you, they are all a product of your own mind. When you wake up, you realize that it was all you and was all your imagination. It never happened! But the question is how is this, right here, “the waking world” different from “the dream world”? Waking and Dreaming are one right? So that is what I mean by solipsism is True. Everything is imagination with no imaginator because that itself is imagination with the dream.

What about when I do see cars? Aren’t they also imaginary too? I believe that my senses are reality, but I do not know this. All I know is that there is a direct experience of something happening. I could be inside of The Matrix, which would mean that all the senses that construct reality will all be false. There is no car, No human being, No walking, and No highway. Isn’t all of this the Matrix of duality?

I don’t know. The only world I have ever know has been “my own.” I believe that we may be experiencing the same color differently, but I really do not know. I am imagining this.

I get that conceptually, but it feels like I cannot experience that in Actuality because it feels like I am inside of a fish bowl of perception (The fish in water). Any world outside of Direct Experience is conceptual in nature and cannot be known to exist. But then again, I don’t know that either. It’s unknown to me about whether things continue to exist when they are not being observed. But do things exist even when “I” do “observe” them. For instance, I am thinking of “my” bicycle. That is imagination. Does my bicycle exist beyond my senses and imagination? I don’t know. I think a better question is does that bicycle exist even when I am observing it? The world of the senses is the only world I have ever encountered. Every thought and imagination is based upon the senses. I assume that my senses are based in reality, but I do not really know.

Okay. It just really feels like Solipsism. This perceptual bubble seems to be the entire world. Anything else imagined outside of this world is imagination. In "my" experience, the observer and observation itself is imagination. All that there is, is just Pure Being. I am not really sure how else I can explain it, but this perceptual bubble that "I" seem to be in defines everything that "I" can know. Other minds and other perceptual bubbles are imaginary, which seems like Solipsism, which is also imagination itself. What exists beyond the bubble of perception? I don't know, but whatever it is I think it is, it is imagination. Everything outside of the bubble of perception is imaginary, which seems to be no different than solipsism. I realize that solipsism is itself an idea and worldview, but it seems like that it is the best description of what is happening. Like Jed McKenna says: "It's not just a belief, it's just the way it is."

I mean how do you know your ego is or isn’t corrupt? I mean all your doing is just listening and verifying everything that any teacher teaches you. How do you know that your taking a shit? You hear something and verify if it is actually hitting the toilet. You don’t just believe, you verify. But at the same time, you have to have an open mind to start anywhere. If your too skeptical to get a drink of water, you are going to die.

Welcome to Actualized.org! Enjoy the coaching. That is basically what this forum is lol! The coach is right in front of you! If you watch Leo’s videos on YouTube, he will give you many reasons and benefits of “pursuing” enlightenment.

There is no such thing as awakening others. You can lead a dog to water, but you cannot make him drink. Leo is encouraging and guiding you to the water, but you are not drinking it.

I’m not sure if you follow. I am telling you to experience the color red instead of asking others. Self-deception is what is creating your reality. The ego is playing mind games with you. You are in a magic show that has convinced you that you are the magician of the magic.

That’s the thing! You don’t know! Why should you trust other people who claim to be enlightened? Do you know how easy it is to bullshit enlightenment? How do you think Cults are started? If enlightenment can be comparable to knowing a pro athlete from an amateur, then why do you think many people delude themselves into cults and believing they are enlightened? The Evil Demon is ego and is very tricky. Watch out. Rationality is a tool of the Devil. Don’t believe, verify. Beliefs get you nowhere in life. Actually experience and verify all the things people are saying to you. Experience it for yourself. The color red exists! Don’t believe me, experience it for yourself!

It’s easy to prove your a great athlete because that is measurable. You cannot measure enlightenment because it is totally Subjective. The only way you can measure another person’s enlightenment is if you could someone peek into their mind to see their mental gym and experiences. You are trapped within your own experience, and since the ego is The Evil Demon, you should not trust other people because how do you know that you have a consistent way of detecting self-delusion in other people when it’s hard for you to even detect it in yourself?

Please watch Leo’s videos on Actuality vs concept and true/false skepticism. Ground yourself in actuality. Look at your hand. That is Direct Experience. That is actuality. Look at your hand for 5 hours. That is Absolute Truth. All of your skepticism, beliefs, and thoughts about your hand are just concepts and imagination. I am not sure if Enlightenment is something you want to pursue because you have to accept that some things in life cannot be explicated. Enlightenment is gaslighting everything you think you know and what remains after that is Truth. Are you willing to surrender your life for Truth at any and all costs? Nobody can ever write Enlightenment in a book. In the same way, you cannot tell me what the color red is. No matter how much you talk about the color red, you are no closer to the end than where you began. You have to explore the buffet of life for yourself. How do you know that we are telling you the truth? You don’t. You have to find it for yourself. I can talk about the taste of sugar all day, but that will not tell you anything about the actual taste of sugar. The same thing is with enlightenment. You have to live life in the primary, not secondary. Heres a starting point. Write down the Truth. Go ahead. Write it down on paper and realize how what you wrote down is false. Keep writing the Truth by asking yourself “what do I know for certain?” Once you write it down, you can attack each statement to be less full of shit. See my post on Spiritual Autolysis or google it.

Ok. Gl. I wish you well. Of course. Imagination is a distinction that is itself imaginary. There is no difference between real and unreal. All there is, is Consciousness. You can either be present in DE or you can imagine in Consciousness. But either way, Direct Experience is all there is. You can either be fully present or absent.

Non-existence is imagination. All Beliefs are false and imaginary. What is non-existent? You are thinking of Hiroshima; therefore it exists as a concept in Consciousness. This is not about believing. It is about what is True. Truth does NOT = Belief The belief that Hiroshima existed or does not exist is still in your imagination. Do you believe there is an external world? Do you believe that you are on a rock called Earth that is orbiting a sun? Notice what that is: It is concept and imagination. Again this is dualistic and imaginary. The Evil Demon is you. Enlightenment is about the death of all that is false until only Truth remains. Dangerous metaphysics? I am assuming that you are "pursuing" enlightenment. If that is the case, you may be "journeying" on the wrong path. There is no pursuit, journey, nor is there any person that gets enlightened. Enlightenment = Death. But it is not how you imagine it to be. Basically in Enlightenment, you are throwing all of your stories, beliefs, identities, and all the bullshit that is believed to be true, you are gaslighting it. What are you without a story, ideas, and beliefs? Enlightenment is probably the most dangerous metaphysics you will encounter because it is ego annihilation. There is no danger in Absolute Truth. Danger is a tool for the Devil. No you can't. There is no demonstration or proof. All of that is imagination. Understand that Truth is prior to proof, and there is no way to demonstrate or explain Absolute Truth to anyone. In fact, everything that is typed here, everything that you read, or is spoken to you, is not the Absolute Truth. "Everything you hear is an opinion, everything you see is a perspective." --- Marcus Aurelius

The answer that you are looking for comes from within.

All of that is imaginary. Time is an illusion within Consciousness. Gateau is your imagination. You are imagining that you are not imagining. Remember that parroting others is imaginary and not True. The Truth is in DE. Truth is primary. All others that you imagine are secondary. When you pursue Truth, you are all alone. You are imagining that you are talking to others and that it is not imaginary, but real. There is only DE. No you. No other. No duality. When you are in DE, you will realize that there are no issues, problems, fears, pain, vacation, God or morality. Whatever you think God is, is not God. God is beyond everything you think because thinking itself is dualistic and ego. Rule of thumb: Any time you are thinking, you are in ego. You never left square one. There is no returning. No location. No leaving. Everything is already as it is. Where else is there for you to go if there is no here nor there?

Okay. Thank you. I will keep "looking" at "my" "hand" until "I" can "become" directly conscious of Infinity. I have a conceptual idea that everything I see is an infinite regress, but I need to make it Actual.

Interesting. But isn't Actuality all that there is? Whatever I think is outside of Actuality or beyond Actuality is inside Actuality? I guess that there may be different levels of Actuality, but this is getting too conceptual now.

Awesome. "I" cannot wait to discover the other facets of DE. How can "I" go beyond Actuality and Pure Being? I mean since all pain, suffering, and fears are imagination, what is left is I guess a kind of "paradise" in the Eternal Now or DE. All that there is in DE is complete acceptance and oneness with what is, but I am not for sure if that is what you mean.