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Definitely doesn't look like a fly. But I have definitely seen planes, and helicopters, that look just like that, moving in the same way. And the changes in intensity of light in this clip happen at the same time the rest of the screen changes focus. Can't really say I find anything abnormal about it but I wasn't there so I don't know.

It's like he's so smart his ego has woven an amazing story to behold indeed.

I really have no opinion on the matter but a particularly awesome scenario which makes sense to me is if they are like higher order hive minds, our finite minds could be connected to theirs in some way, so they'll literally show up AS we cease to disbelieve in them, or just when the time is right. Law of One kind of stuff. That's basically just fiction but from here certainly I see no reason for why it couldn't appear to happen in the universal play!

It's a total story, but: if ET's (perhaps even "trans-dimensional's" or something) are in a superhuman, highly or fully integrated state of consciousness, or higher order beings in some way, maybe it's possible they will show up literally as we stop disbelieving in them, collectively and perhaps to some extent, individually. Since nothing is truly separate anyway. But that's on the relative level which is inseparable from distortion. The video itself, on the other hand, I can't really say anything else about. Maybe some more here will view it and let you know what they think. It definitely looks like it could conceivably be plausible, but beyond that I don't have any opinion on the matter.

Could be. Not saying this isn't a UFO -- in fact I would actually prefer that it did convince me that it was; it'd make for more interesting times -- but with the quality of that video, that could have been a plane. I have seen planes like that such that the lights, as they do in the video, don't falter even for long distances. And the periodic increase in intensity of the light seemed to correlate with a sort of focus difference / haloing effect. Not a naysayer in any way on this topic -- I'd be amazed yet at the same time perfectly unsurprised if we made contact with extraterrestrial life -- I just don't think this video is profound evidence. Maybe that's just at first glance for me. Let's see what others think. Not saying I disbelieve it at all, I just have no opinion on the matter either way as of yet in particular for this video.

How does Faith require god? In the exact same way God requires faith.

Thanks.

Yeah, all of that resonates. Self never stops because it itself is the absence of stopping. The assumption that it can stop perpetuates the experience that there is a self which could stop. If it does apparently stop it's seen as never having started, so it never stopped, to the bitter and beautiful end, which isn't an end because there is already only the end, which is also the beginning. There's no separation to the entirety of the whole. The degree to which enlightenment is not seen, could be described as the degree to which there seems to be a real (or true) difference between 1. Anything and 2. Everything. Which generally strongly correlates negatively with any self-referential maladies (or vigor's) including self-esteem, self-hate, self-pride, self-shame, self-love (even... but only: in a sense / so to speak), etc.

^^^ Precisely. To want enlightenment is to misunderstand enlightenment. Any claim to knowledge is a confession of ignorance. The only truth is that there is truth. I am that I am. Nothing that makes sense on either side of enlightenment makes sense on the other.

There's no cycle There's only all there is.

When scientists refer to a Theory of Everything, what they really mean is a Theory of the Universe... Well... Not only is the universe not everything, it's not even anything. Yes a theory of everything will never be created because it's actually too simple to describe. Everything we regard as real is composed of what we cannot regard as real.

Impressive! If I'd never used psychedelics there's probably no way I'd be as wise as you seem to be.

If that's what appears there, it's the truth, as that's all there is, unless it is seen to be other than its observer-taken-as-true as that would mean it's other than truth / what you really are. Wonderful! Not really sure what your disagreement was though! That's perfect.

Yep. It certainly is lol. Context is as unreal as it is real, and it's exactly as real as it seems. Nothing is hidden from view. "Reality" in this sense is not true because it is not not-two. There is absolutely no real context. Mind blowing, indeed. Utterly. There is no position or location. There is only everywhere i.e. nowhere. The illusion is simply the apparently real difference between 1. Anything, and 2. Everything. As there is no real context, there can be no real wrong. Or right. No exclusive right, anyway -- you could say that whatever is, is right.

The real answer is merely the question: Why not? Truth is all there is, so to experience something else, the infinite hides itself as being 1. everything and 2. unknowable -- the fear of non-being or the unknown (which is actually not death, as there is no death, but is rather everything and nothing) is vital to the experience of being a person.

It doesn't feel like I'm talking with myself. It just seems like this character is talking to that character, but in actuality no one is speaking or being spoken to. There's no alternative though because no one is separate from everything. That's it.

True. But the character speaking is never the enlightened one. The enlightened one is the underlying truth that there is no character. However, in a sense, prayer can certainly still happen, but it won't be to anything -- it'll just be an integrated appearance; a manifestation of authentic desire and an alignment with truth devoid of self-interest. Kind of.

Exactly. Which is why from here is it obvious that there is no reality, since reality changes, and Truth (guess you could call it God) doesn't. Just terminology. You're not wrong. Actually, it's impossible to be wrong, since reality is exactly as real as it seems, and everything that is real is equally unreal.

@BipolarGrowth @Zeroguy For sure! Or Appearance = Changing = Reality = Untruth Consciousness = Unchanging = No-Other-ness = Truth Those who say consciousness is not the absolute are not wrong, as they refer to consciousness as that which one can have more or less of. That's not the consciousness referred to above. It doesn't change or move, ever.

In that case: My meditation practice wouldn't have gotten off the ground without faith in the process. Years ago, I read Culadasa's TMI. Since I already had two experiences of cosmic oneness (on LSD), I knew that my imagination of the impossibility of higher states was just that. The faith was quite labored until first jhana -- then faith was no longer required, it was simply my reality that profound states of consciousness could be reached with meditation. None of that really has anything to do with God or enlightenment though. You never reach "God" or enlightenment by perfecting your dream state (i.e. meditation) -- you do so by stripping it away and breaking free (i.e. self inquiry, desire for truth, fearlessness, and utterly radical skepticism [everything you see might as well be a total lie])... Takes quite a bit of desire and passion, and (imo) solitude, and is certainly not achieved through aversion to suffering or fear of death.

Absolutely. Some can guide quite well... But in the end, the teacher must be destroyed by seeing them as merely an inner aspect of self, and not really a teacher who is "out there" and other than you.

Happy New Year!!! @Someone here Lookin' good brother!

What does God -- the only God; not merely an offshoot of God -- experience right now? If you're honest, it's clearly unimaginable -- and that's true. But... It's certainly not exactly what seems to be happening here and now, and not something other than that... duh... Right? Wrong. This is the absolute. There is no other.