Endangered-EGO

Try, to move your hand really fast so you don't see it in exactly one position. I'm not sure I can help you, but maybe you view the now as a frame, an instant, like a picture of a video that has 21frames per second, so for example, the "now" in a video would last 1/21st of a second. That's not correct. It's a representation of time in terms of something else. I know that I had those ideas of time.

I'm not going to waste my time questioning if the stupid shit he says would be true in some sense, because what he said is simply wrong. I'm not going to gaslight myself into his cult.

He is unfortunately, behind his loving facade is a moron that doesn't understand that a lot of his arguments don't have any value. 2 of his claims are that his brainwaves stop entirely when closing his eyes and that mercury can only be fluid unless he uses his magic. Unfortunately most of his followers have no idea about neurology or chemistry. Not saying he isn't enlightened, but a lot of the things he sais are taken as prohpecies and truth even though he just rambles non-practicable nonsense.

Well that's some good news. Only 10 years of craziness left for me lmao.

@KennedyCarter If your doctor is sure it's because of serotonin, then there are SSRI. That only has an effect on serotonin. I took them, I don't know if I recommend them or not, I'm not qualified to answer that question.

@Enlightenment me too!

@KennedyCarter What I'm talking about, you already had it before your ego was developed. You don't need concentration or an addition of consciousness. Just go back to what you knew when you were a child before you had thoughts abour your self-representation. Everything I told you, you knew as a child. There's a knowing that is before thoughts and associations. Awakening is to some extent only remembering what you are and that you never forgot what you were. You just added thoughts to it. There are deeper levels if awakening, but who cares for now.

Hey, I feel you. You have ups and downs because of the cycle. You'll be okay with the ups and downs. Its not what consciousnes work is about, its not about trying to be "up" all the time. If you do mindfullness, the path consists of changing the coping mechanisms from fighting/distraction/supression towards accepting/concentration/feeling it. It being every aspect of consciousness. Also, if you do self-inquiry. You're not a woman. You're not a woman having consciousness. You're consciousness. You're also not consciousness experiencing a woman. You are the consciousness-now. For that particular realisation I recommend Rupert Spira and ekhart tolle. (And advaida vedanta).

@Enlightenment Leo needs to be confronted with other teachers. I hope he will continue to do podcasts, it will be good for him and for his subscribers. Not only for metaphysics but also for enlightenment.

That's what I tend to think now. Absense of suffering is probably not enough.

I'm going to put it as simple as possible: I look at my hand, and it becomes "alien". The visual perception of my hand isn't an extension of myself or my body, just an alien thing happening. What can I do once my visual perception of my hand isn't in reference with any thought or concept or feeling or anything else. When it's just the happening of a weird field of "something"? Clarification: -With alien I basically mean "weird", "unfamiliar" "confusing", "empty". I don't mean extraterrestrial or extradimensional. -It's also not ego death or dying or merging with the visual field or anything spectacular. I could just watch my left hand for hours. (somehow it works better with the left one than the right one, don't ask me why). I think about a few things: 1. Look of theres anything else left that I don't notice. 2.Analyse the weirdness of the experience. 3. Conscioulsy switch between it being weird and it being associated with me again. I'm going to do all of those things because I'm curious of that weirdness, but what would you intuitively tell me to do. What's the next step when I am into that weird "experience"? No psychedelics for now. To be able to be in that "state" I needed to surrender to everything the last 2 days. I don't know if that plays a role. It definitely had an effect on me.

@The0Self ok so the things that come up after the experience.

@Nahm I feel like you have some intuition about it.

@KennedyCarter I'm vaping and smoking. Don't convince yourself that this is preventing you from spirituality. It's only a mild inconvenience. It's like you can still build muscle if you vape. But stopping vaping will not build muscles. You need to work out first. If you want to optimise it 5%, you need to stop vaping. But the 5% (let's say) from stopping vaping can only be gained if you do the basics right.

@jdharvey6 experiment with various methods/paths towards enlightenment and find the one that corresponds to you best. You will need to experiment. Watch Leo's videos on enlightenment. Look into self inquiry and vipassana. Mindfullness. Shinzen Young, Peter Ralston, Adyashanti, sam harris, ramana maharshi. Are IMO more focused towards enlightenment. Eckhart Tolle, Rupert Spira and other lot's of others are more focused towards the liberation side of enlightenment. You need to listen to what they say, do their methods, be confused, listen again, try it again and still be confused. Also ask people on the lath you chose for help and guidance, this will prevent your from being lost in your mind about theory and if you do it right etc.

TLDW: Enlightenment happens during the dying process you enlighten before you die of old age. (And other paranormal phenomena too.) So I guess the good part of a slowly dying of old age is you'll get one last spiritual awakening.

@Goldzilla No institution invented death. And no institution invented the pandemic. You also have a relative life, that had a beginning and an end. Never seen someone die? What makes you think your ego-self will never go through that?

@Goldzilla I never said this was the only way of awakening. Just that awakening has a natural tendency to occur, the longer you're alive. Yes ageing is natural.

Your question doesn't make sense. When you dream about being a dog, why do you have a tail and why does it wag when you're happy?

@universe Zen story time: Student:" Master, How long will it take for me to get enlightened?" Master:" About 10 years" Student:"Oh that's very long, what if I work towards it twice as much as possible?" Master:"... 20 years then."

@Blackhawk Well, I imagine that people who die young and quickly have no time to transcend the ego. That's why I specifically said "old people slowly dying of old age." But then I guess that some of them don't get NDE's either. Who knows why...

I don't feel any different

@ZeN I'm curious, try to raise my LOC. And tell me how high you raised it, I'm going to tell you how different I feel afterwards.

@ZeN I'm not sure if this was your doing or mine, but my energy flowed right into the spot/vertebrae that had a problem. I doubt that this small amount of prana will be sufficient but let's give it a few days. 670could is really accurate for today. Other days it's usually lower. How do you perceive that and how do you heal? Every time I tried I was aligned with "God's will", which stated" "it's all right".

@ZeN Let's give this a try! Just heal my Body on the left side. Don't raise my LOC. But if you want to speculate feel free to tell me what you did, and how high/low my LOC is. I don't consent to anything that is not aligned with love.