WelcometoReality

@Eternal Unity Was the diagnosis due to the scientific paradigms interpretation of your experiences or do you think you actually have that disorder?

@Flowerfaeiry To become selfless you need to let go of selfish feelings like shame, fear and anger and transcend into unconditional love. It's all about surrender the self imo.

"an unemployed human moron with a low IQ" appears as thought based on all the negative feelings that bubble up. Let go of those feelings. They are not serving you.

@Strangeloop Might be something to investigate further.

@Someone here An enlightened person has transcended grief, which is a low level emotion, into love and stillness. There will however still be sadness and happiness.

@Thought Art Seems like reality is just as real as it is not any realer or unrealer. ??

I like talking about me talking about me talking about myself. ?

Maybe it's the same consciousness imagining you and me imagining each other?

@Joelvs At first there is alot of identification to thought and feeling and we tend to get back into the identification fast in the beginning. What's important to point out is that the thing that's struggling to get back into pure awareness is the identification because it is the struggle. You already are pure awareness and going back into that place is effortless once you Let go of the struggle. It's like relaxing into an armchair, how much effort does that take?

@Gabith From his view of it there is still the problem of dead matter. If consciousness comes from the brain, which are made up of atoms where does consciousness come from? How can dead matter produce life and consciousness? If we instead see the brain as a receiver of consciousness, like the receiver of a radio for example that would be a more solid explanation in my opinion.

It's usually hard to convince people that they are wrong. If that's your mindset going into the discussion people will pick up on it unconsciously and then you'll have a polarized discussion on your hands and I don't know about you but I've never managed to convince someone that they're wrong, but maybe you're better at discussing than me. ? Usually when I start to feel when things are getting heated and feel the anger bubble up I recognize it and let it go. Check out David R. Hawkins book letting go. Great book on how to deal with these sticky and difficult feelings like anger. Then instead of keeping my original stand point I start to move in on their view point instead. Asking questions with curiosity on how they came to that conclusion. That's usually enough to loosen things up alittle and making it more dynamic. Not only does that keep things from getting heated but I find that I enjoy the discussion more when it's more an exploration together than a holding on to separate beliefs. I'm not an expert at this though. I still find myself stuck in my own view point sometimes. We're all a work in progress I suppose. ?

@Gabith Intuition usually guides you what to do in the moment but from my own experience it never expect the outcome of that doing. You might had the desire that you wanted to be friends or lovers (feeling/thought) but should is usually thought that is anticipating/demanding.

@xbcc Desire is a feeling and all feelings can be surrendered and when we do they are transformed into higher vibration feelings. You trust that the universe will provide you a girl that fits you. The desire of meeting a girl comes up. You see it and when it is at it's peak you release it and let the universe take care of it for you.

Fear of fear. I know that well. I've veen running from fear most my life.

@spinderella I have found that fear can be hard to stay with but the more we stay with the fear the easier it becomes to meet it. You don't have to torture yourself and sit with the fear when it becomes unbearable but sit with it until that threshold. Start with 10 seconds and work yourself up. Fear is an emotion the body uses to create action. Fight or flight is triggered. If you for example need to tell your boss that you want to quit your job but put it of (flight) the fear will come up again and again until you do tell him. So you prolong the fear by fleeing. By instead surrender to the fear and tell him right away you decrease the time which you feel the fear.

Nice ? Yeah that's good questions to ask. You could try to watch what happens between two thoughts. Does the world disappear?

@Gianna After the awakening comes a blissful phase (honeymoon phase) and after that a dark night. This is the time where all past trauma you've been hiding from resurface. It's not a question if you will experience one but when. From what you're describing it sounds like you are. The best in my experience is to let things resurface and let things happen by itself. By trying to pull your way out of it you are resisting it and thereby it persists for a longer time then if you instead were to surrender to it.

To me it seems like the mind wants to be stimulated and inspiration comes from the lack of stimulation. In the beginning of my awakening the mind could easily "take over" and things could get really out of hand, then suddenly I could snap out of that energetic movement just as sudden as a ballon pops. As the awakening has progressed I can easier see that mind movement before hand or the gap between mind taking over and me seeing it has shortened. Am I using the mind or is it using me? It's a great tool to have at my disposal for planning or contemplation. Dissecting certain ideas or information. It can use me by controlling events. Grasping something fun/intriguing to reject something boring/fearful/...

@RMQualtrough Can you inquire into the anxiosness and see what beliefs it is that's causing you this?

@ivankiss You can't control what you desire but you can control how that energy is expressed/manifests. I did go through something similiar post-awakening where there were alot of thoughts about sex and expression. I think it's a natural part that just needs to be gone through. Now not as much but still come up from time to time.

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Yes free to take on any perspective within consciousness because one has let go of holding onto any particular part.

Yeah. That resonates with my experience aswell. There is first the realization and honeymoon period of no ego and then ego returns and your work becomes more of an untwining of egoic thought and feeling. It seems like the gap between identification and seeing gets smaller and smaller with time and as you do the work.

So you never catch yourself getting angry? ? Even though thought has been transcended there is still beliefs which are tightly linked to feeling. Seeing through those can take a bit more "effort".

Misidentification sounds like there is something wrong with it. It's a natural evolvement happening. It's all one and it's aware or conscious however you want to put it. The illusory character is just thought. Transcending that is just the tip of the iceberg. Yes it's an unknowing. That emptiness is you but the only one holding onto freedom is the separate self.