Wilhelm44

Yes the way the word nothingness is used by Jim is same as absolute potentiality

You mean like it's made up ?

I know you don't like the word Nothingness, but I'm not sure what else to use. From Nothing to Everything, how could Everything not be magical ?

Please could you elaborate ?

I think everything is magical

Yes, there's a lot of magic happening

My head spinning in this thread

Yes, we don't just learn from spiritual teachers, ofcourse.

We all are

Yeah, but you can't just look up a definition for enlightenment in the dictionary. Many teachers out there. I'm gonna sign off now. Cheers bro. Back to solipsism.

It's hard to fanboy over Nothing Yeah, I like solipsism, sorry for the derail

@Inliytened1 We just going to need to agree to disagree. Each to his own. Peace brother

The point is there's no single official definition of enlightenment Jim Newman doesn't even use that word

Nice that you don't want to answer that. It's not really possible to put in words what This is. Who is the Enlightened one It might do you some good to actually sit through a whole Jim Newman video

What would you say is Actual ? And what is your definition of enlightenment.

What would you say is Actual ?

Thank you

I appreciate your concern, but I can't invalidate my direct experience. This is not depersonalization or escape or anything like that. I feel more vibrant than ever. Mellowmarsh was right, it's not possible to debate this stuff. Each to his own. I know neo advaita or whatever it's called gets a bad rap, and I'm sure there are some people to blame for that. But the kind of radical nonduality that Jim Newman, Tony Parsons and others impart, is definitely the real deal.

I'm sorry, but this is rediculous. I remember Joe Rogan talking about Tony Robins once, saying: "But what has he really done ?" My God man, he's helped to change the lives of thousands of people for the better. You don't need to create Amazon to be impactful. You have no idea what impactful human beings Adyashanti, Leo etc are Simultaneously you also don't have any idea how impactful you are as a human being, if you're only measuring it by what you can see.

Could "it" just be Life itself.

"When you get out of the driver's seat, you find that life can drive itself, that actually life has always been driving itself. When you get out of the driver's seat, it can drive itself so much easier—it can flow in ways you never imagined. Life becomes almost magical. The illusion of the “me” is no longer in the way. Life begins to flow, and you never know where it will take you." Adyashanti So I'm guessing Adyashanti is also just in a state ? What people are calling God realization seems to be more of a peak mystical state, it doesn't last, not that I'm knocking it. What Jim, Mellowmarsh and Adyashanti are talking about is not a temporary state.

If there are a whole bunch of processes happening in the background over which you have no conscious control, and neither can you say that you are consciously deciding for the mind, can you see that perhaps the sense of the 'controller' might be an illusion, made up of a confluence of the senses, thoughts, emotions etc

Wow

Aren't those two, acceptance and resistance, more like energetic contraction or expansion/relaxation in the body, rather than thoughts per say

You have a wonderful way of erasing questions from the mind, thanks