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@Dodoster Look out your window!

@abrakamowse Life on Earth that is.

@Dodoster Did you ever see a really cool comet like Hyakutake that is very close to Earth? I did and It was so amazing! It stretched 3/4 's the way across the sky. It was one of the most humbling sights I had ever seen in my life. If you haven't seen a close comet yet get ready, you will at some point. I have a great respect for comets since witnessing that event! They can just as easily create life as take it away.

I have that feeling too that something is going to change this planet in the near future. Maybe aliens will come to Earth and change our understanding of ourselves and the universe? Or maybe a global ascension could happen? Or nuclear Armageddon? Or a comet could come out from behind the sun with little warning on a direct collision course with Earth instead of a near miss like comet Hyakutake in 1996. Or a Coronal mass ejection (solar flair) that hits the Earth directly from our own Sun. Even a magnetic pole reversal would be a major disruption of everyday life. The fact is the Earth is well overdue for another major ELE or Extinction- Level- Event. The chances for that happening far out weigh the chances for a world wide spiritual ascension. But anything is possible. The question is "What will be the next chapter?"

EGO AT IT'S BEST!

@Delinkaaaa http://www.vipassana.com/meditation/mindfulness_in_plain_english_16.php

@Leo Gura I'm almost doing that now. I had 4 hours of wakeful sleep after that meditation and I'm back at it again. But yea, I gotta try a straight run sometime.

@Leo Gura After reading this post and watching the video I decided to give A late night "sleepy" meditation a try. It was interesting moving through different levels of awareness and waves of sleepiness /wakefulness while staying mindful. I did notice that the wakeful waves seemed to be progressively meet with heightened clarity of mind. At one point consciousness even became boundless as if cloudy skies had suddenly parted and became infinitely clear.

@Echoes

@Garuda Some monks practice sleep -meditate- sleep--meditate on a 6-8 hour schedule 24/7. They combine the two until there is only one state of awareness.

@Zingo Death is like a stock market crash of the self. It only effects those who have everything invested in it.

@Dodoster I was into Tears for Fears. Check this out!

@kyle barnett https://www.quora.com/How-was-Thich-Quang-Duc-able-to-burn-himself-to-death-without-moving-a-muscle

@Dodoster Haha It's been so long since that came out they changed the lyrics to "Pretty Spry for an old guy"

@heisenburger Same as learning to play the piano, discipline yourself or give it up.

How many times have you heard the words "all reality is phenomena". Now you know exactly what that means through direct experience.

Your breaking through. Welcome this opportunity and make friends with it. It's what Leo refers to as "getting traction". You may feel a bit schizophrenic right now? If so that would be a good sign, believe it or not.

@Scholar Sounds like you had a bout of ego death. "I must not be awake, for everything looks as it has never before. Or else I'm awake for the first time and all that was before was just a dream" Walt Whitman

http://www.gci.org.uk/Documents/DavidBohm-WholenessAndTheImplicateOrder.pdf

this is it

There is no place to be when all is one

@everythingisnothing https://www.insighttimer.com/

I must not be awake for everything looks to me as it has never before. Or else I'm awake for the first time and all that was before was just a dream. Walt Whitman