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@electroBeam This guy has an interesting story to share of how he started living the van life.

Welcome brother and come on in!

@electroBeam I started the journey when I was 25. It seems like just yesterday now. I seen then it was all a game but decided to play the game but get my life set up with what I needed, saving as much money as I could to retire as early as possible and live a simple life. I retired at the age of 50 and have no regrets. My 25 year career was building homes and I loved the work and the guys I worked with. I was mostly outside year round in the fresh air in nature watching the seasons change. I never minded going to work b-c I never considered it "work". So my suggestion: Find something worthwhile you love to do as a career. Save as much money as you can. Retire as early as possible and have no regrets.

@Shin I just watched the video and was thinking that a float chamber would probably work well here.

@Shin This may be a little different than astral projection but last night as I has falling asleep something pretty wild happened. I was really tired and just wanted to zonk out. So as I'm falling asleep in the darkness of my mind, it was like a curtain suddenly opened and all these amazing shapes and colors came pouring out. And just that fast it closed up again. I was so tired and it was so unexpected that I just thought to myself "well that was interesting" and fell off to sleep. But it was as if a portal had opened or something.

Teachers can only point to the gate. Each decides when to walk through it.

It's the flowers fragrance and color that spreads it's pollen.

I think Leo refers to that as " heavy lifting".

@zazed The dude was flogging himself with medium sized pinecones. Colorful and entertaining?

Right back at you both.

@JD8 Welcome. It's said that meditation is a forth state of consciousness. Waking, sleeping, dreaming being the first 3. If I had to describe what I experience in meditation I would say it is silently observing a still mind.

Embody the process unfolding. There is no deeper connection with life.

But what a powerful option that is. Undoing everything that is the individual. It's simply brilliant! Everything we have folded into being a person is unfolded before our eyes. This is where God awakens through us. It's not about the destination- it's the process!

@Real EyesYes it does Use a thorn to remove a thorn and throw both away.

"it is as futile as trying to assist an airliner off the ground by pulling on your seatbelt. Allen Watts

Everything happens in the absence of doing.. What better place to hide it!

Those magic moments where everything comes into total synchronization. You can feel awareness shift into perfect alignment with the true nature of everything.. Total completeness. The beauty of it is is that it is always accessible and takes no effort. The sun came out from behind a cloud and lit the room. I see no effort there.

@Dodo It may be even simpler than that. I remember times when I was young that suddenly everything was happening in this moment of now. There wasn't a yesterday or tomorrow or anything else. There was only this very moment that contained everything. It was effortless because I was a child.

Seeking is a duality in itself. It infers another time, another place. The search for something missing that needs to be gained. It should really be called "losing" rather than seeking. It's more about losing something than finding something. When the ego is lost, all that remains is what is. Which is everything.

@WaterfallMachine Nice! Sounds like you had a non-dual experience. I experienced something very similar too. It was as if I became aware of the collective consciousness of the entire planet. It was total love, acceptance and mostly compassion for the planet and all it's inhabitance. I was seeing the good, the bad, the suffering, the joy and accepting it all as being one planetary entity instead of fragmented parts. It happened again but this time it was the entirety of the universe. I was looking up at a deep blue sky with white clouds floating by one day. And I realized that just behind the blue sky with puffy clouds was the entirety of the universe. And something connected with that and it was as if the universe suddenly came out of the sky poured into me and consumed me.

@username Watching this video woke me out of my spell of self delusion. It was my first experience of no-self after many years of following the path and getting nowhere. It will work like 5meo-dmt, if you let it ( well almost). The first 5 times I watched it nothing happened because I wasn't willing to let go and directly experience what Leo was saying.. But when I finally surrendered, boom! All I can say is, Thank You Leo for your radical openness!

No, I just took the sugar coating off it. That is the reason I spent years spinning my wheels. Everything I had read about enlightenment was so sugar coated that it got me nowhere. This is not about farting rainbows.

@Martin123 I understand exactly what username is experiencing. I went through the same for years and it was like being suspended in limbo. There is nothing fun about that at all. Finally one day I through total desperation I went for broke and everything became perfectly clear. So it is with great compassion that I say what I said.

@Martin123 Are you sure that is what it is?

I agree with @Martin123 . You need to let go of EVERYTHING that is you. Everything since the day you were born. You gotta go WAY beyond your comfort zone. It's a total surrender of the most precious thing you own, the self. Even the seeker is an illusion. This needs to be confronted head on. Do that over and over until the truth breaks wide open..