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@cirkussmile Agreed. I would have given my right arm for one gem like that when I first started this journey, in the dark ages before internet.

@Leo Gura I can attest to this. I started this journey back in the late 70's after some substance experimentation and experianced somthing other than an "ordinary" state of conscionseness. I had no idea what that was or if I was crazy or something but I knew it felt truer than anything I ever experianced before. So the question became "Have I gone crazy from the drug" "What is this?" and " Can I have this awareness naturally without the use of drugs?". I had no idea at all. So I went to a book store in the local mall and finially found a book called "Cosmic Consciousness" and knew this is it. There was so little on the subject even in the local library. And what information was there on enlightenment wasn't very straight forward either. Actually it was buried like a tic on a dog. I mean what was there wasn't exactly labled in large letters "THIS IS WHAT ENLIGHTENMENT IS". At least not for a newbie who had no idea what to look for. Now with the internet, how lucky we are to have access to this wealth of in depth information on the subject. And also to be able to connect to ppl who can share their experiance and even have a place where we can ask a direct question and get a direct answer almost immediatly. Imagine for a moment being in the 60's or 70's and experiancing something you could'nt explain logically. What would you be thinking? What would you do? Would you ask someone on the street? Maybe travel to India? The simple questions I had that were so important to me at the time took years to find an answer to. And even if I did find the answer it wasn't a direct answer. That's why today I sometimes see these silly little questions like, "why does my left arm itch when I meditate". And I can't help to think, you can't come up with a better question to ask about enlightenment than that? I would have been happy just to know if I was going crazy or not. Or what is happened to me?. Or What is this? Leo is right. He sometimes spoils us by making it way too easy. All the internet guru's do. I'll go as far to say a lot of what I see actually does more to hand feed the ego a healthy meal of knowlage for it to get nice and plump on. You see it often. It's called "non-duality wars". That thing of one upmanship. A sure sign of a spoiled ego that has it way to easy and didn't do the real work at hand.

Here's one for Leo's recent video about Wage Slavery. "Working for the man"

@Gryner Quite a story you have there. I agree with Nahm that you gotta just hang back and chill for a while. You spent most of your life in a virtual world of gaming (not that reality isn't much different). Then you stopped gaming or at least tried to stop while at university. Than did a 10 day retreat to "end the gaming addiction". Wow. I think everything just rushed to the surface at once from an extream transition in a short amount of time. Like when ppl go SCUBA diving. After spending time at depth they have to s-l-o-w-l-y accend to the surface so the body can re-adjust. Sounds like you surfaced way to fast from the gaming and got the gaming bends. Just as staying in a hyperbaric chamber for a while is the cure for the bends I suggest sitting in nature and silently observing. Do a Tolle thing if you can for a while as you heal.

@Ingit One day your up-the next your down. That's how it is and you learn after a while to be neither. The other day you were riding a high. Today you are riding a low. See how it is all so transient? They are only "states". You are not the states that come upon you.

@YaNanNallari It took time for the illusion of ego to grow so the deconstruction of the ego will also take time. Old habits don't die easy. Also there is what is refered to as the DMN (defalt mode network). Basically your built-in natural survival instincts and sense of self. That must also be over-ridden for enlightenment to happen. Than there is the general navigating day to day life that keeps pulling us back into the ego. It's an up hill battle for sure as far as the ego/self is concerned.

@FrgttnDeer I think I know what you mean. Consciousness is the empty screen which the content appears on. But the content of fire does not burn the screen.

@FrgttnDeer That's the "gift" the woman in the video has. She would see their whole life.

@FrgttnDeer You gotta look beyond the labels and see what they point to.

@Serotoninluv @FrgttnDeer Watched this today. Lots of pointers here. Zero Point energy. Quantum Entanglement. Just to mention a few.

@Barna

For anyone who is interested http://www.edgarcaycenewzealand.com/pdf02/SL1401.pdf "We must develop the faculty between the finite and the infinite, so that the infinite may become a portion of us. We seek to become one with the infinite by the reduction of our soul to its simplest self - its divine essence - and realize this union and identity."

@SoonHei They are already there waiting. Meet 'em half way is all you need to do. Oh yea. watch in your dreams too.

It's the machine elves.

@Shin Are you alright there Shin? Why shouldn't love know no barriers such as space and time?

That's for sure. It ends up all dimensions of time are connected by love.

@SoonHei If you haven't seen it yet be sure to check out the movie Interstellar. It's a good one.

@Shin I couldn't help but to add a little something to it. Nothing has gone to waist.

@Shin The dream becomes reality and reality becomes the dream. What changes is not real. What is real does not change.

"You are prior to this consciousness and whatever is happening in it".

@SoonHei Yea, most do say the "book" comes rushing at them faster than light. Did you ever hear the expression "I thought I was going to die and my whole life passed before me in an instant"

@SoonHei I view reality as being like a book. All the information is at one single location of stillness. But the book can also be picked up and read page by page so it would than take on the addition of time/duration/experiance. It's the only way the mind can know the book. The mind warps reality which is a singularity and it smeers it out over time. That's why infinity escapes the mind. Infinity is not in time.

@SoonHei All time is within a single moment of stillness.

@Toby Yes Nisargadatta refers to beyond consciousness as turiatita or the fifth state.- the parabrahaman "All love for no-knowing" Any wittnessing or "knowing" is still the "I am". "Stay in the "I am" and in doing so you will trancend it". But how many ppl do you actually know who truly moved beyond the "I am"? When there is no one remaining to know there is no one there. The "siddha" state. When nothing but an avitar remains. The guru of guru's.

@Buba Right back at ya.