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What am I "not getting"?

Getting what?

Perception doesn't require anything. Hence, infinite. Are there opposites or not?? Pick one. You can't be a non-dual dualist.

Distinctions are quite literally made of what isn't. In order for there to be lower consciousness, there has to be what it isn't (higher consciousness). No contrast means no distinctions.

No. Consciousness is being the sleep and wakefulness. You can make the distinction, but it wouldn't be other than consciousness.

Only by pointing at what it isn't. "Evil" is also a distinction. It's not really about good and evil, as that would be more distinguishing. It's just about seeing that the nature of distinctions is such that it's never actually being. It's precisely what isn't. It's like the word "non-existence".

In order for there to be a distinction, it has to be against something other than itself. That's how all distinctions work. You are making a distinction between higher and lower consciousness. A table is only a table because it isn't a lamp. If there is only higher consciousness, then there isn't lower consciousness. If there is only lower consciousness, then there isn't higher consciousness. You can only make the distinction (between higher and lower consciousness) because you've pitted consciousness against itself as if it is other than itself.

Consciousness doesn't go higher or lower than itself, because it's just itself. That would require something other than itself (to be higher or lower than it), and at that point the consciousness you describe would be limited, not infinite.

Dark would be other than light, hence the distinction. Lower consciousness would be other than higher consciousness, hence the distinction, which implies that there is something other than consciousness. But you've never been conscious of that.

And yet, somehow, "levels of consciousness"?

Love wouldn't be separate.

That's right, but you just aren't separate. That would be separate, or other than you. If you concede that you are a head, then at that point there is no difference between you and your head, and so there isn't actually either thing since they aren't distinct from each other. The distinction is imagined.

Pretty much. It (ego) only appears as if it "always exists" by referencing time, like the past. Otherwise there's literally just what exists, not what used to exist, or what will exist. It's as if someone believed they were inside the reflection of a mirror. If you asked such a person, "Who or what are you?", in response to the question they would have to hold up the mirror and point at it and say "There, that's me!". Similarly, in self-inquiry, you ask "What am I?", and in response to the question you hold up all the thoughts and beliefs about yourself, and you say "There, that's me!".

Yeah totally. That would be a "distinction", or "other than experience", which thus wouldn't actually be experienced. Interestingly, it's very easy to say what isn't experience rather than what it is.

Is something "prior to experience" experienced, or is that more of what isn't experience?

Hate is a belief. It's how beliefs feel. It's not caused by women or any gender. You can debate endlessly, no statistic you find or justify to yourself will ever find a cause or solution because there isn't even a problem, as in, it will never prove cause and effect (which is the initial assumption). Jealousy and hate have no gender, it's just beliefs about yourself being projected from yourself. It's how you're relating to it.

You hate women cause they're blessed and don't suffer?

It's really just about focusing on what matters the most (the present). Fear is just the "otherness", and so, unreal.

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Yes, totally. The psychedelics "bring to light" all the different beliefs and ideas you pushed away in the sober state. In the same way how when someone gets physically ill, it "makes space" for beliefs about illness and death to be questioned. The psychedelic has brought up beliefs about yourself and your life to the forefront, and those are being felt. What I'm suggesting is that you don't actually have to do anything. All the resistance, and all of what is felt, is actually all the doing. "I have to do this, I have to do that" feels like misery. There is no difference between the idea and the emotion. In meditation, if you sit still for a while, such thoughts and feelings will literally just vanish without you having to do anything, because they are actually temporal (time-based) beliefs which aren't actually in perception. They are self-referential thoughts. Meditation allows them to "fizzle out". A fear of "things happening again" is cyclical, which indicates time or some sort of logic or belief which is "looping" as a thought-loop. It's essentially a fear of the past or future, which would be overlooking that you have never actually experienced any past or future and that you are only present.

Anything other than the truth would have to be false (resistance). ❤️ Nothing real can be lost, thoughts appear as if there is what is unreal (other than reality or the truth).

It's beliefs (about yourself) brought to the surface by the psychedelics, and therein how the beliefs feel (emotion). All assumptions and ideas about what you are, are felt as real, because you are all that is real. The "problem" is quite literally just the idea that there is a problem, and all the resulting memories and stories you have to justify it. Truth, or reality, is what is already the case prior to anything, and so it is completely effortless and non-resistant because you don't need anything to "get there". Any ideas otherwise would feel "off", or "resistant", to that which is already the case (like being miserable). Resistance requires two, whereas there is only the truth and the reality that you are, and nothing other than it. Sit with feeling (meditation). Let it completely "pass through you". Don't "deal with it", just allow yourself to feel it without moving away from it. Don't judge it or reason with it, just look at what is already the case. It is more so the desire to "solve" or "run away" from feeling which is itself the feeling (of being miserable). "Miserable" is the idea that you need to fix something or solve something about yourself. "How do I fix being miserable" is like the same idea x2. Don't get caught up in "that". Reality could not know any such thing, as it would be other than it.

It serves beliefs about how to survive, which are dysfunctional. That's just what the ego thinks that it is, and that's how the ego justifies authoritarianism to itself. The political space is a projection of beliefs from whoever is elected. Trump believes that getting rid of all the immigrants and isolating the country is what is best for functionality (because of his narcissism), so that is what he is doing. If you asked a bunch of people in a room what they believe is best for societal function, they would all give different answers depending on what beliefs they have about themselves and the world. "What I believe is best for the country" would entirely consist of people's beliefs about reality, and someone with NPD who has the power to act on those beliefs would turn to an authoritarian regime. It's still narcissistic in nature and it will have the same effect on someone as a narcissist would, it doesn't matter what the intentions are. If there is a hierarchical structure where you can't question anyone, that is the exact same structure a narcissist would use to control people, there is zero perceivable difference. The ideology of narcissism is the same ideology that controls other people for personal benefit. A teacher in North Korea might not care about Kim Jong Un, but they will still teach it to the students because they were ordered to do so from above. What they are doing is narcissistic even if they themselves are not narcissistic. When someone tells you to praise Kim Jong Un, that is narcissistic whether they themselves truly believe it or not. That being said, the key difference is that someone who is not truly narcissistic (like a soldier or North Korean teacher) would immediately stop what they are doing as the orders stop, because they have no pathology. The orders come from narcissistic structures, not the soldiers or teachers themselves. There is no incentive otherwise. They are a cog in a narcissistic structure or a narcissistic regime, otherwise there is no motivation or functionality. The bigger aspect of all this is that these kinds of indirect narcissistic structures are what traumatize people and breed narcissists in the first place. Often it comes from narcissistic parents, but these kinds of systems can also traumatize similar to how parents would.

It's so relative, in fact, that it doesn't exist. No one was born and no one dies. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

What isn't experience?