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Q: How is a belief like a quart of milk? A: Both have an expiration date.

@thesmileyone Sweet! Now that's what I'm talking about but not just as a visualization but actually getting out in nature.

Oh, that sounds familiar to me. I call it tapping into the collective consciousness of the planet as a whole. It literally bought me to my knees in tears one day I was so overwhelmed with both joy and sorrow.

I wasn't suggesting seeing a doctor, (unless you think you should)

@Crauli I get that too sometimes. I'll let others diagnose what that may be. But as a suggestion, a nice long walk and sit in nature really helps me to get grounded. If you can (weather permitting) take your shoes off as to make direct contact with the Earth under your feet.

@Omario I don't see a problem. Except it, don't try to change it. When the time is right you'll shed it like and old pair of worn shoes that only serve to hurt your feet.

@Joseph Maynor Are you sure it's both? What if it's neither?

@Crauli What David Bohm has to say here about the ecology is interesting.

@egoless They are the same- same mind.

@emind Enlightenment work (meditation) itself is a type of a slow- controlled depersonalization. It should be positive though because the ego is slowly falling away. Sure it's a bit freaky when you first experience it head on as you did. But the truth is you have no physical location because your not the body. So what you experience did have some truth to it because you are everything. But it caused a paranoia in you only because you held to the ego's finite location of the body/mind instead of just letting it all go. If you want to make some real progress, the next time that happens, just let go. Total surrender! I did when the same thing happened to me. At first it freaked me out a bit. I don't have to tell you, it's really different to experience. So I backed off out of fear. Than I thought, what the heck, maybe this is a rare opportunity presenting itself. So I let go and trusted the universe and surrendered to it. When I did I went into a Samadhi type experience of transcendence and union. It was as if I had connected with my true being beyond the body. Which I never knew existed until it was experienced directly. I now welcome that (no location) or out of body feeling because I know it's a doorway to a higher self. So don't freak yourself out with the depersonalization thing exactly as it's defined. This isn't that.

@mohdanas What do you think is going to happen that will devastate her? I'm trying to tell you it's all in your head.

@mohdanas Hi. That's your ego trying to hold you back from fully letting go. You'll find if you just observe it you will take the power out of it rendering it harmless. Remember, it's all just mind. That's why it's called the "gateless- gate".

@molosku Great share.

@art I was just looking for a better place to put this topic but it doesn't seem to fit in anywhere. Sorry Art.

@Phillip Hi Phillip. Generally speaking God or the absolute is the emptiness on which everything appears within consciousness. It's not something you can put into words or communicate directly because we only know from appearances. So that being said, the fingerprints of God are all around you.

If you think you occupy a space..........................

@Slade There is no one to judge progress. There is no being to become more conscious. There is only consciousness. All else is just ripples appearing on consciousness as the illusion of separateness.

@Shin He's stashing em' in the void.

@Lynnel @Peace and Love took the TM course. They may have some useful info for ya. I do know it cost about $1500.00 US.

@Star Net "life" is a dream. Why not have any dream you choose to have. Have the dream you dreamed you had. When all is said and done, it really was all your dream. Knowing this you hold the stars in the sky.

What is "Scrapple" made from ?

@MarkusR Hi Markus. The metaunderstanding of consciousness is that everything is consciousness. And everything that appears within consciousness is illusion. If you would, really think about that statement for a moment. Look at your hand. What you are experiencing is consciousness creating the illusion of a hand (with the help of your mind). So that being said, all knowledge is consciousness. Science is consciousness. University is consciousness. Investigations are consciousness. Location is consciousness. Time is consciousness. Body is consciousness. Practice is consciousness. Meditation is consciousness. Sense of presence is consciousness, ect. Do you see what I'm really saying? You can not- not apply consciousness to any field because everything is already consciousness. How could you apply consciousness to a field when it's already there and in fact created that very field. I mean, you can in an illusory way. But it wouldn't be a full meta-understanding of what consciousness really is.

Yes, and the "collective" being consciousness IMO. "Me" and "you" are just the embodiment of consciousness. As far as recollecting Atlantis, I don't know how he did it. Just a guess, a pure mind or transcendence of mind with an intention put behind it? And sometimes it just happens as if out of nowhere. Some people do seem to have that ability to tap into something beyond the "normal" senses.

Everything known happens within consciousness. Everything that is, is consciousness.

@Faceless Consciousness isn't bound to the laws of time and space as mind is.