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Absolutely haha. High doses actually stopped making me trip which was interesting, so now I've been micro dosing daily and the results have been great. Still no trip, but it profoundly boosts my awareness. It's like the most perfect cup of green tea.

Sure you can go to other dimensions haha, but that's not what awakening is really about. Interdimensional travel, psychic powers, and heightened senses are merely side effects. Awakening is about the change in the context of reality, not the change in the content. You can compare it to becoming lucid in a dream. When you become aware that you're dreaming, the context of your experience changes without the content changing. Awakening is similar to this recontexualization but on an even more fundamental level with many more facets to it.

The duality between religion and the experience of God just collapsed for Connor Murphy as it did for me. I was blind to this duality and the lack of love I had for religion. Your experience of God would not be the same if it weren't for your conceptualization of God prior to and after your experience. The experience of God cannot be separated from the conceptualization of God. All is one. You are non-dual. If you feel yourself having animosity toward any religion, this video is for you. The key is to love religion, but don't let your beliefs be limiting. See religion as imagination. See God as reality. See all as imagination. See all as reality. To truly know God beyond faith, you must have faith that you can know God. God is love.

Agreed.

Life is balance. Open-mindedness is tricky. Think about how expanding one's comfort zone works. They key is to find an experience that entails the perfect amount of discomfort. Too much, and you won't do it at all. To little, and it doesn't expand your comfort zone. The same idea applies to the ego and language. Too threatening of language, the ego completely rejects the idea. Too safe of language, the mind does not expand. Find the perfect balance, though, and magic happens.

I can do nothing you can't, because I am you. These were questions designed to expand your mind, not questions that I claim to have the answers to. Ask yourself if you've ever experienced being God before you were a human. Ask yourself if it's possible for the duality between the conceptual mind and the experiential mind to collapse.

I used to think this same exact way. It wasn't until I started having conversations with religious people about spirituality that my perspective switched. Everyone craves love. If you try to push spirituality upon a religious person by telling them religion is bad, their ego will fight back. It creates more separation when we're searching for unity. Egoic minds cannot feel love when someone tells them they're wrong. What I've found works best for opening people's minds is embracing all their beliefs, but making it clear that their beliefs are not the finality of spiritual experience. The ego responds better to validation rather than invalidation. To dissolve the ego, it must first become a healthier ego. The only thing that's holding back mystical experience from being part of religion is how we define religion. Why not redefine religion and unite the world rather than create more separation?

Why must it be one or the other? You are non dual. The brain creates consciousness as consciousness creates the brain. Reality is a strange loop.

Have you ever experienced Absolute Truth without first conceptualizing it? He did not brainwashed me. My brain only bathes in consciousness itself. I simply imagined my character having an awakening into the delicate balance between concept and experience.

You can't avoid it because you are it hahaha I'm not endorsing religion per se. I'm simply loving it and extinguishing my animosity toward it. The only thing I'm endorsing is love.

Also @Leo Gura I'll just leave this here. This video is actually a driving force behind my desire to speak with Mohammed. I hope this doesn't count as self promotion, since I am Leo.

Was God here before humanity? Have you ever directly experienced God before humanity? Or, are you as God imagining itself existing before humanity?

@Leo Gura Be honest with yourself. Would your awakening be what it is without religion? Would your awakening be what it is without previously identifying as an atheist? Could atheism exist without religion? Could awakening exist without religion? Could You exist without religion? Could anything in existence exist without everything else? Religion might be bullshit, but it's also love. The unconditional love that you've felt during your deepest peak experiences cannot be separated from your conceptualization of God. And your conceptualization of God was heavily influenced by religion. The key is to love All of reality, but also love it's impermanence. To accept all with non resistance but also with non attachment. Religion can be powerful if you don't allow your beliefs to limit you from your experience of God. Jesus was religious by the way. Is Jesus bullshit too?

Yes. Is this mind awake? Can it become more awake? Can different parts of it be distinguished? Does this mind still include dualities? Can non duality exist without dualities? Is it only one mind? Or is it many? Or is it both? Or is it neither? These are the questions to ask yourself.

The only way to end Zen Devilry is to realize that even Zen Devilry is... Love

I am the omniscient "stage" that sees all "stages" as perfection and seeks not to invalidate the perspective of a different "stage."

@Leo Gura Yet the other unawake minds, although part of your awake mind, are still unawake minds. Their unawakeness is dependently arising with your awakeness. Of course, those unawake minds can still awaken. Because those unawake minds are you, are You really awake if parts of you are unawake? The issue here is looking at awakening as an on/off switch from the perspective of Universal Enlightenment. This is a duality that can be collapsed. Awakening isn't just about the awakening of the mind but the awakening of all minds. The duality between the two collapses yet remains at the same time, for its collapse would be the creation of another duality.

To know Islam is to not truly know Islam.

I wouldn't call this the climax, but this could be considered the deepest and most powerful experience I've had. I started to realize that reality was a thought. I understood that reality was my imagination, but I hadn't fully understood what that meant. I began to realize that "consciousness" in the way I conceptualized it was not the "base" of reality. Instead, I had this incredible insight that just as smaller and smaller particles make up the physical world, Smaller and smaller thoughts make up consciousness. I now see consciousness as a stream of harmonious thought rather than some kind of substrate. Essentially your reality is a giant thought comprised of smaller and smaller thoughts. You can become directly aware of a part of your subconscious that you previously had no access to. You can become aware about how you are thinking that you are on planet earth right now. That thought never actually goes away in day to day life like you might believe, it just moves into the background. As I dove deeper and deeper into this insight I began to have the most dangerous thought you could possibly have. I began to have the one thought that can't ever be fully thought of. The thought that ends all thoughts. Even thoughts beyond the human mind. The thought of the cessation of all mortal and divine thought. I began to think that I didn't exist. And not I as the ego, but I as the true self. This wasn't any sort of ego death experience. I've had many of those to varying degrees. This was far deeper and more dangerous. If I were to think this thought, I wouldn't just die, but I would cease to exist. God would kill itself. Now of course, this thought could never actually be completely thought. That's the beauty of it. It's only possible to experience the onset. I experienced the beginning of a death so unfathomably ineffable that I would never attempt to explain it. But imagine being sucked into a blackhole the size of an electron. Then multiply that by infinity. This wasn't the death of the ego, but beginning of the death of God. This wasn't some experience to accept and practice non-resistance. This was an experience where resistance was mandatory. I did everything I could to ground myself. I thought of the most human thing I could do to snap back into illusion. I searched for the most unconscious porn I could find and started masturbating like an animal. After a few minutes, the thought subsided and I was back in the material world. This made me feel more alive than I ever had before. I was reborn. But I wasn't a new person. I was a new God.

I appreciate the advice and I will tread lightly, but the duality between self promotion and the promotion of awakening can collapse. For a true spiritual teacher, how could it be any other way? Also, I've never claimed to be Connor Murphy. Although the duality between Connor Murphy and I has collapsed as well.

Leo should switch over to Ayahuasca. Much healthier, more powerful healing qualities, AND it's legal haha. Also, it's good to have deep experiences, but shallower ones can be just as beneficial. Ideally you do a combination of the two. This attacks your ego from many different levels.

When diving deep enough into the nature of reality, contradictions are mandatory. Reality is a contradictory, paradoxical singularity of strange loops. Truth is beyond the logic and rationality in which contradictions are frowned upon. If Leo wasn't contradicting himself, he couldn't be teaching non-duality.

The bold words are bold for a reason haha. There are quite a few hidden messages in the initial post if you examine it closely.

Haha you mean Connor Murphy's yoga session? From what I know he's down to do yoga with any conscious individual haha.

This answer is so powerful it gave me another awakening.