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@Ishanga Nicely said, agree with almost all of this, seems like what I understand now is, at it's core, the same thing from a different perspective.Thank you! @theleelajoker seems like you have had some similar insights about reality. As for people on how to teach formula, there is non that you can prove are actually awake, that's why it has to be you who does it for sure, assuming the fact that you are one of the characters from your past life or simply an alternative reality where you are in a different body. But that might be a reach It's fun to entertain this idea.

@Malekakisioannis And bless you too, brother!

@Someone here Thank you. I will try to clarify now my further insights on how can this be known. Theoretically i'd explain it as this: since You are the Son Of God, an extension of God himself who is infinite consciousness, love, awareness, Brahman - whatever your definition is. And you are the extension of Him. But since You have decided to try and separate from God, you created the world of illusion - your life, this dream, a seemingly legitimate reality, where you play a part of a character that You think is real and true called an Ego. And there are billions of people around the world who seem to be as real as you and have egos. Yet you cannot really prove that they have the same exact experience as you, even though it can be described in words. Words do not necessarily lead directly to truth, so direct experience is needed. If you sit in silence, and watch your mind, body, the world as if it was a movie in a cinema, with God (Or Jesus, Buddha, Holy Spirit, Angels) and be completely non-judgmental. So you can have several seemingly real people experience this, but you are still kind of stuck in this dream, with other people. Then if you watch long enough, sit in silence, all thought will disappear and the dream begins to fade. If you go beyond the dream, with enlightenment experiences, where everything becomes One, there's no more questions that you are God, the one and only dreamer. The problem is that you can have a glimpse of this on various states and stages of awareness, you can't really full awaken yet. Usually because it's not the right time. How does that sound? I hope it makes sense.

I have spent the last 12 months on a journey towards waking up from the dream a bit more "seriously". I have realized that it is a long process and it cannot happen spontaneously, unless it is destined to happen at that point in time or due to a specific experience that is just a part of the plan. Well, for this part I cannot say I am 100% sure, but that's my hypothesis. So let's get to business. Here's my take on reality. - It can be described as a dream / illusion / hallucination - It's not actually "You" who is the body and a part of your lower mind - It seems that there has been separation from you and God, but in reality it never happened. - What you are experiencing is simply a mistake, but it was instantly corrected by God, you're just experiencing it as some body and mind, personality - until you wake up. - You have Higher Self that can guide you when listened to in peace, although it is not purely meditation or it's practice. It's more of a focus shift between two minds. - I believe you have had past lives, but I have not had direct experiences of this - I believe that there's a cycle and if you do not learn the main lesson you will be reborn again with past karma. - The world you perceive is a mirror of your inner self and it's current state. If you perceive evil, wrong, pain, guilt, fear - you will experience it in your daily reality through various explainable and inexplainable events - There's only one dreamer, solipsism is true but it has levels. From the point of "human experience" and "ego" there are several dreamers from different perspectives. But only one dream is true, Yours. Since it's all one in the end, it's just one dream. - Mind over matter. Your mind is powerful and can change your reality, or perspective of it from right to wrong, once identified with God you can cure your pain, disease or anything else, but you must surrender it to God fully. This is tricky - Practice awareness of your thoughts and non judgment of the thoughts, the world, the events of your experience and you will be free from suffering. What I still need to figure out: - Relationships (tricky, because I am afraid it is an egoic trap) - Money and material things (I am well off, but would love to be more well off, but I am not sure if that's a healthy need) - How much nutrition really matters - Is enlightenment or waking up as an experience - is pre-determined in this life. It is said that enlightenment is simply a choice and you can choose it and be awake instantaneously. Let me know what ya think!

Hi Leo, after taking a break from discussing this forum and dedicating the year towards searching for truth, I have had some experiences that changed my perspective on reality. I have not finished the video yet, but I am happy that you are back, you have been a big inspiration to hop on this path, but I believe there's no such thing as different levels of perspective. There are only two. Higher and Lower. Or the right one and the wrong one. The right one is straight source from God, Spirit, your True Self, Infinite Consciousness. The wrong one is the Ego. When you believe your thoughts and the world and the body, and that something can hurt you or that there's ever been a separation from the source, it's all an illusion anyway. And whenever you are not aware of this, the perspective will be lower or simply wrong. Whenever you are aware of your Identity and no longer identify as an ego, all you need is to simply watch your thoughts, the world an the perspective will be the right one. The Holy one. Perhaps drugs offer an illusion of higher levels of perspective, but from my experience it's just a variety of different flavors of the same thing - right mindedness and wrong mindedness. I am not saying i am 100% right here, just entertaining these ideas in my head after recent realizations I had.

@Leo Gura What's the way out of this? Surely you can break out of the cycle, does a significant enlightenment experience need to happen in order to have your consciousness shift towards looking for truth, like for example on psychadelics? Because after every trip I feel like I will live the spiritual life, but I always fall back, because it's just too different from my daily survival life.

@itsadistraction It's simply do-nothing approach, right? As in i meditate because I want to, not because I need to. I contemplate because i feel like it, not because I have to, and I shouldn't be chasing anything?

This is something I tried to grasp after several ego-backlashes. There are period in my life where I can meditate, do some trips, contemplate and have some new realizations, be very in tune with God, dedicate every day thinking about what true reality is and what im experiencing. And then something happen in real life that makes me so tired and maybe even pointless to pursue it, I just have no natural pull, it seems that it's something that you "have" to do rather than "want" to do. And then I become less and less aware, which leads to some suffering, not being happy with material things - money, sex, career, drugs, etc. and then I go back to meditating, contemplating, reading books of god-realized authors. And then I fall again. Yet over the years my sense of reality, even at the points where im not living very consciously, I feel a slight change in perspective. Like sometimes I'd be very busy and focused on survival and it hits me how pointless it is, or it's just all a dream, and that regardless what I do or pursue, it really doesn't matter unless I can become awakened and break the cycle. Sometimes Im fine with the idea that it may take several lifetimes. And sometimes Im not. Curious about your struggles with this.

There's only a handful of people on this forum that you should take seriously. Everything else is just bullshit - a bunch of people thinking they are awake or enlightened, when they are in-fact very far away from truth. My suggestion: Follow only mods and Leo, maybe a couple other users.

The first time i realized that LoA works is when I was at the rave, front stage and manifested a water bottle. There was guy walking past, I asked for a sip and he gave me away his water bottle. Also the time i got a 70k$ bonus at work, after manifesting riches for 2 years. Also the time I manifested the apartment that I bought. And the time I manifested a relationship that ended up teaching me something. It's all very real. Once you clearly see how these things come to fruition, you will forever be conscious of your desires and what you are manifesting, because you can manifest bad things too,

@PlayOnWords Thing is, It doesn't surprise me a lot when girls compliment me a lot, but this one was a big one. She told me she thought I was gay, because i was so hot, so I guess that's why i fell for it, LOL. I have not found such place, but I haven't searched much to be honest, I just don't feel the need to go to these spiritual meeting places just yet, but I know that if it continues, i'll probably start going to them around age 30 or after 30 when im a bit more mature and done with regular party place. I know there are festivals around the country where people do shrooms, lsd and do more hippy stuff than in your usual festival. Thanks !

I'll try to keep this as concise as possible to give my experience. Just turned 26. I have virtually no real experience in long-term relationships, longest I ever lasted was maybe 3 months or so. It always felt forced, or I'd just straight up realized that this is not the right person very quick and quit the relationship at whatever stage it is. About 1.5 month ago I met a girl in a company event, we texted before, because we matched on Bumble a few months later, but she ghosted me. However, in real life she couldn't keep her eyes off me and it was sooo easy to just talk with her, she told me im hot as fuck in about 1 minute of us starting the conversation, so it was going well. Anyway, we made out that day, but we were both pretty drunk and I already saw some red flags there - very bossy, she asked me to choke her right away when we were kissing, and she seemed unstable, because once I told her she was crazy, in a sort of a good way, she kept insisting for me to explain or leave if " I can't talk". So I left her here and there right after we stopped making out. Anyway, I texted her next day, she apologized and asked to forget what happened. We started over. We kept dating, going on events, making out, having sex and watching movies for a few weeks, meeting maybe 2-3 times a week. Then one day we didn't text each other much, but I knew from my friend that she's probably going out on a friday night with her friend, and she didn't text me anything. The thing is, I had this idea in my head, that it's probably not gonna work out. Like I had this feeling all the time but couldn't quite tell what exactly it is. When I was spending time with her, it was all nice and fun, but once she leaves, I felt like it was a burden. So with this idea, I also thought to myself, it would be very funny, and very convenient if I saw her and her friend with some other guys in the club so we could break up here and there, which would then result in me not having to have "the talk", I know, pretty immature, right? But, if she was a bit of a better person, i'd probably not want to do that to her. Anyway, we went to the club with my friend, and in about a few hours I see my girl and her friend with a couple dudes at a bar, they are buying them drinks. Then I stay on the dancefloor, they come together, all hugging and shit and I just asked her "what's up?", she was shocked! Couldn't say anything, well atleast whatever she said i didn't hear, it was over for me here and there. She tried to save the situation by leaving the guys somewhere in the smoking room and talking some bullshit with me, but at that point I was already done. A week has passed now, and all I can say is that it sort of hurts a bit more than I expected, but one question that was always in my mind: "do I want to be in a relationship?" has been answered. I do. And I want that person to be a bit more spiritual than materialistic. I just feel like these materialistic girls have almost no values, and they are only good for short term fun. And I think that with the right person, the highest highs of a relationship is something that is impossible to experience in any other way, it can only be imagined.

@Princess Arabia why would anyone, ever, care what celebrities do or feel like, especially as delusional as those two. Useless analogy.

Loneliness. How you deal with it. If you are depressed because you are lonely, feel lonely all the time and that really hurts you, then realizing that you are the one and only will definitely fuck you up, because then you will be even more alone, forever. Also any big mental/psychological disorders. Also this: And this: I met so many people who have done psychedelics' in a completely different way and call themselves spiritual, when all they do is play games, watch movies and go outside occasionally, and they think that whatever realizations they have on psychedelics' is just the state of psychedelics' itself and that it's not at all real.

Something I've been struggling with for a while now, because alcohol makes me FEEL things. Make me happy when im with friends, crazy good with girls and pickup, flirting, it makes me do some stuff I would never do sober, because I have mild anxiety. It also makes the music I mix sound better and easier ( I DJ as a hobby), It gives me some good feelings. But lately I've been feeling depressed whenever I drink too much on my own. And in the past few years I realized that I was drunk or buzzed more often than I was sober, by a large margin. And ever since then I started looking at it like it was a bad thing, and now I feel even worse, because whenever I tell myself that I wont drink, it's much much harder to resist, and when I slip, I get the negative emotions again. So it's a very slippery slope. However I always imagined myself sober in my 30s. Well, I got 5 more years I guess. Plan now is to atleast be sober more often than Im drunk, maybe have a drink or few on the weekend, maybe when there's something going on (birthdays, celebrations, etc.) I also quit weed, which used to be a substitute, so now I just vape nicotine. Really, hard to replace one addiction without adding anything else.