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@SoonHei Instead of asking conceptual questions and expecting conceptual answers why not sit in silence and find what is truth in your direct experiance. I'm only saying this b-c conceptual knowledge will only get you so far but direct experiance is everything. Look at it this way, you can ask a million questions about skydiving, but only the direct experiance of actually jumping out of a plane can show you what is beyond the concepts. I'm giving you this friendly advice b-c you don't want to miss out on the importance of having direct experiance for yourself. The conceptual knowledge pales in comparison to direct experiance.

@SoonHei Michael Talbot David Bohm-holographic universe. Awesome stuff. In his book, The Holographic Universe, Michael Talbot said, “There is compelling evidence that the only time quanta [electrons] ever manifest as particles is when we are looking at them. When an electron isn‟t being looked at, it is always a wave.” To put it the other way around, the natural state of an electron is as a wave. It only pops out of its wave state to form a particle in a specific location in space and time when it is being observed. Then, when it‟s not being observed, it goes back into its wave state.

@Lakeven look out for Leo. Zen Stick Slap. Welcome to the forum.

@David Turcot It's you. Your looking right past it.

The "hippies" of the 60's and 70's also seen this massive awakening starting to bloom. They called it "The Age of Aquarius" and it continues today.

St. Michael

Yea- it just goes deeper and deeper into the silence and becomes ever more nuanced- infinitely refined. Like a fractal for example.

It could be said of him that while others chased the mirage of happiness, he was happy with being content.” “Happiness is a reality of NOW, it not not something that you pursue in the future. Don't pursue happiness, but EXUDE happiness.” “Meditate upon yourself and you'll find bliss.”

@Charlotte This is just my opinion but I don't think contemplation is for asking a direct question and expecting an answer. For me it's more about having some realization than allowing that a space to expand.

@Viking I'd suggest living under a bridge for a month and see how that goes first.

@ChimpBrain https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/jacksonville/parents-doctors-concerned-by-pass-out-game

@ChimpBrain Your friend didn't hold on to you? Woops!

@zoey101 That's the spirit!

@MrDmitriiV We used to do this shit when we were kids. The same thing you describe but a friend would come from behind and wrap their arms around your stomach and on the hold breath they would squeeze and you'd pass out.

@Viking Yea that's right. If you run into them by chance just flip em the bird and they will make all your problems go away.

@Viking If you believe the problem is created internally than you need to reprogramme the negative patterns into positive affirmations or else you'll stay stuck in a vicious cycle. If you believe the problem may be due to outside circumstances than you need to consult the I ching. That's what I do when the situation seems like there is no answer to the immediate circumstances. You could be at a crossroad in life right now so what you choose to do could be important for the overall outcome.

@Viking Could be you ready for a breakthrough of sorts. Think of it this way. When a flowing river meets a waterfall, before the waterfall the water becomes turbulent. After the waterfall (breakthrough) the water is calm.

@Viking Well there you go! There must be plenty of lonely 60 year old widows with lots of experiance. They love the young flesh. It makes them feel young again. You'd be doing them a great service. Think of it as volunteer work.

@zoey101 It's a short video but the point made can change your entire life.

@zoey101 I just found this and thought of you.

@SoonHei You can come up with some good questions. Once you awaken you see the truth has always been there. Know this with total conviction: The absolute is all there is. You were asking about contemplating too. Here is something juicy to contemplate. I'm having somewhat of an enlightenment experiance now from contemplating it so just wanted to share so here it comes. None of this is real. I know, a real mind fuck it is. Enlightenment is in plain view but it's hidden the last place the ego dares to look because it will realize that it is unreal. Even the knowing that it is unreal, is unreal. I'm so deep right now I'm partially faded out of existence. This experiance of "I" is temporary. You know this. That is all the proof that is needed for it's unreality. Take a huge step- call it a leap out of this "experiance of reality" and into the absolute. That is what you are. "Don't pretend to be what you are not. Don't refuse to be what you are" -Nis Contemplate that my friend and it will answer your question. Take it in so deeply that only the absolute remains. Liberate the consciousness don't confine it in a tempomporary state of self. Right now the "experiencer" that is me looks to be as if an interference pattern happening on consciousness. Does that make any sense? The word sense makes no sense right now. haha I wanna laugh my ass off. I'm trying to hold a connection here so I'm about 50-50. This must sound like a trip report but it's only contemplation. Contemplate that quote and dissolve into it. Whoa! You'll see.

@Leo Gura I totally agree. It's a meditative silence with a focused attention on a subject. Without the "subject" it would be meditation. The subject in my example was "All is God". For clarification tho it probably would be more accurate to say meditative 'stillness' on a subject.

@SoonHei You mentioning the trip reports. Just a hunch but you may want to search "microtubules". I have a feeling these experiences may be drawing from or connecting with latent information from within the DNA/ cellular structure, ect. Again-just a hunch.

@SoonHei I've heard stories of that too. People often refer to it as "downloads". Never had a direct experiance of that. What i'm referring to is the transcendence of all phenomenal knowledge and therefore all questions cease.

@SoonHei There is a level of conscious awareness where all questions cease because the questioner ceases to exist. Only the identity of a separate self has questions.