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@Ingit Anytime you think your in a body your using "ghost powers". My ghost powers are hitting these keys now.

@Cortex@Widdle Puppy For a brief moment consciousness became liberated from the body/mind location. That is reality. Not consciousness being held captive at a body/mind location. That is illusion. Albeit a persistent one. The "ghost in the machine" that is.

@Cortex Nice! Just for conversation- this should make sense to you. Someone was asking during the week about what meditation technique to use because there are so many and nothing is really working for them. My suggestion was just practice being the "empty screen of consciousness". Sounds like you've found what I was referring to. No thoughts of self, no thoughts of time passing, no sense of space. All thoughts are left behind and all that remains is empty awareness. It's like a vacation from all the mental activity that usually goes on. This is why it's sometimes said "meditation is more restful than sleep". Even during sleep there is still mental activity. Meditation goes beyond that. It is the fourth state of consciousness and unless it is directly experienced through practice most ppl would never know it exists.

@luismatos Don't miss this one!

Your whole life is a way of discovering what you are. Keep the possibilities wide open. Let it not be limited to what the mind believes to be true.

@Ingit Than your close to experiencing something your not yet ready for. Hang back and just let it slowly gel. Don't go to fast.

@Ingit Or maybe your awake for the first time and all that was before was just a dream.

@Ingit Don't fight it. Something is happening. Expand beyond the self so you understand what the self really is.

There is nothing that transforms into something. That could be a trap. Consciousness is always present. It's just overshadowed by the mind b-c it's subtle so easily hidden. Here is another something that Ramana said that may apply. Paraphrasing here: When digging a well the hole is always there. One only needs to remove the dirt that's filling it. You gotta think about that one for a moment.

@pluto8 I was just listening to Ramana "What is the self"- something close to that. Anyway he was saying the 3 "states" waking, dreaming and deep sleep all happen on the blank screen of consciousness. And listening to that I thought becoming one with the empty screen of consciousness is what deep meditation is IMO. So that being said to be at one with consciousness one would need to turn the attention away from the activities of mind and allow thoughts to fall away on their own. No pushing away, no following. Just allow them to subside of their own as they are just projections on the screen of consciousness. With continued practice the blank screen of consciousness will slowly become more evident as you move away from the projection of mind/thought.

@Sashaj This is kind of deep but here's a paraphrase of Nisargadatta "That which witnesses your birth and your death".

@Sashaj That's something worth contemplating

@Samra This was hidden in the vaults for 50 years. 1946 it was made.

@SomethingFromNothing Turn the question around. How can nothing emerge out of something? Where does something go when it is no more? Or does nothing emerge out of something? Or is nothing -something and something- nothing. Maybe it's all cyclical in nature and dancing an infinite dance from nothing to something to nothing to something. Maybe-it's all an illusion.

@SoonHei Search- "Akashic Records"

@Miguel Oliveira I don't know what how close your relationship is with these people but would they understand if you explained it to them. Everybody carries some baggage that needs to be faced. Maybe they should think about joining you.

@Miguel Oliveira If I understand the question correctly- let it speak for itself.

@Nahm Good observation! Funny you should mention this. Yesterday afternoon I was thinking the same thing while looking in a mirror. Well maybe a little deeper tho. Not only is there nothing in the mirror but there is nothing on this side of the mirror either. It helped in some way to see the illusion of reality since I was seeing a reflection of myself as a body within a room. You get the idea. haha

@SoonHei You wouldn't miss having an ego if an ego was never instilled in you from the beginning.

@non_nothing If you had Leo as a father it may have gone something like this............... Leo (dad) is sitting in the meditation room and you ask him- -Daddy? -(Leo) -yes. -(you)-How an I able I move my hand? -(Leo) -In reality there is no "you" so there is no "your hand". These are only perceptions/illusions arising within the emptiness of absolute infinity as manifestations. Secondly since there is no "you" within reality there is no free will to do anything either. Then Leo -(dad) would think "isn't that cute how children make up fantasy stories about their imaginary existence within reality. Glad I nipped that one in the bud early or he may be having imaginary friends next".

@SoonHei Safety nets are for the ego. That is not total surrender. The surrender must be absolute/complete. The "moth before the flame" so to speak. What if anything of you returns, who knows.

@Alfie Sure a good cushion can make a difference. Especially if your thin and don't have much natural padding. I researched cushions extensively and the best I found are actually the ones made for wheelchair users. Truck drivers use them too. Some of them are air filled and adjustable to your liking=zero pressure points. But it's like your azz is floating on air. A little pricey tho @ $200-$369.00 US

@Joseph Maynor I can remember back to when I was about 4 and 5 years old. What I remember most vividly is the experiences of oneness with existence that would happen out of nowhere from time to time. I suddenly felt as if I had two mothers when it would happen. One a physical mother. And one a mother that was everywhere/everything/infinite. Than as I entered school that feeling of universal connectedness slowly went away as I developed a separate personality and became an "individual". That continued all through my teenage years/high school until I was about 21. At that age I experienced something that brought me back to that original awareness of oneness that I had long forgotten about. It was like "hello old friend- It's been a long time". Bottom line, this awareness started as far back as I remember. Maybe it took a hiatus for a while. But it's always been here.