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This is what you look like without an ego.

The mind will always be the prisoner of it's own walls.

@Will Bigger Something tells me yes. Consciousness is blind to itself. Pure consciousness or God has no self awareness. It's perfection is that it knows not of itself and yet it gives everything. Only through the eyes of imperfection can God be realized. That is the magic of it all. The great dance. Everything is happening, and at the same time, nothing is happening at all.

@Azrael Nice! Best of luck to you brother in 2017 and all inhabitants of this planet. May we all awaken from these small existences to realize what we really are is simply one God being God in many different ways. I too have awoken to something very recently that has changed everything. I dared to travel into the heart of God and it was there that I seen a tiny little bubble floating in infinite love. When I looked closer, that little bubble turned out to be all of existence. I can't even express how the emotion and tears just poured out of me at the realization that everything is perfectly in it's place. Always looking forward to any new insights you may have to share. Love and Peace

The wind is coming across the open field, hits the building and has no where to go so starts circling around against the incoming wind. He can see and hear the wind before it even gets there. I get these wind devils against the south side of the house all the time with leaves and snow. I was watching them just yesterday. I could of shot a vid. of me doing "aerokinesis" too. I'm not saying there isn't energy's that can be developed but this isn't it.

@LetTheNewDayBegin I like your name. It is a new day. I've had awakening experiences before that shook my little world of existence. But the problem was that I could never really see where that fit in to the big picture. Now I see it crystal clear. It's not me that is happening at all. It's God. All of it.

I think I've seen something and wanted to share. All existence is like a tiny little insignificant bubble floating in infinite divine love within the very heart of God. The only truth within this little bubble of existence is love. Everything else is illusion that God has infinite capacity for through divine love and compassion. *I know the words themselves don't say much here. But for a moment just stop everything. Shift the location of everything happing within existence. All this IS happing within the heart of God. Move Everything you know of to that location and everything changes!!.

Is there a difference? This is what I see now that I didn't see yesterday.

@Neo I think that's called "superposition"? Is that right. Just to ask, did you see the video I posted "Expert explains the holographic universe". There was a lot there that made sense to me and answered a lot of questions I have about different experiences through life. Even before I knew anything about higher levels of awareness, enlightenment and such. I'd like to hear your thoughts on it too.

@Neo Yea hard to believe but that seems to be the consensus. Everything exists in the mind except paying the bills. hehe I ask Leo why we share the same reality between different observers. That's the part of this that doesn't quite add up. He said reality is expressed in patterns that we share. I try to keep reminding myself that no matter how reality seems to be, it is all happening in my mind. And that doesn't exist either? Am I just talking myself into this? But it is true that we only know reality through our 5 senses and not directly. Lately I've been researching the theory that reality exists as a hologram. It does give a decent explanation of what creates reality (information). Some people in the science community are also on board with the theory of a holographic universe. David Bohm was one of the first and he was a brilliant observer. Most of that debate stems from black holes. Maybe human minds are tuned to the wrong realm of the physical and living in delusion. I have no direct proof of that in my experience though.

@ULFBERHT Time, space, movement and a seemingly continuous experience (duration) are just a few of the tools the mind uses to navigate within it's reality. Otherwise everything in reality would be bunched up into one heap. As it truly is.

@Leo GuraDoes any of this fit into your experience with 5meo, God/infinity and reality?

I watched a vid. today on David Bohm and The Holographic universe. I thought it was excellent btw. But here's the thing, in it there was a part about the pineal gland producing natural DMT and a duct that leads from it to the back of the throat. Have you ever tasted "The Nectar of Enlightenment" during a deep meditative state? It's said to leave a bad taste in the mouth. Thought that was interesting.

When I was little sometimes reality would suddenly become one fabric with a texture to it almost like cotton. Not to the touch but I would just see it that way but not as the eyes see it either. That experience would have a very surreal feeling to it. It wasn't a bad feeling, just very different. Maybe that childhood memory has some real truth to it. Do you ever perceive reality as being one fabric woven in the mind?

@Dodoster Yea, it is a paradox. Size has no bearing over any of this. It also seems to be self replicating at the same time. Something can come out of seemingly nothing from nowhere. That's where the common sense needs to be thrown out. Is there really any difference between what is infinitely small from what is infinitely large? Infinity is infinity. *just talking about this moves us out of this dimension. This is why the common sense in not applicable here. Here is an excerpt from Allen Watts The art of contemplation We believe so firmly in the maxim "ex nihilo nihil fit" – "nothing can come out of nothing" – that it is almost impossible for us to see that emptiness is the essential prerequisite for every form of being, unless we can conceive that space has some structure concealed from our senses.

@Dodoster Check out The Banach-Tarski Paradox. It gets pretty deep so common sense doesn't really apply here.

0 contains all numbers from one to infinity because it is empty.

This makes me think of what physics refers to as Calabi-Yau spaces. Infinitely small spaces that are infinite within themselves. But yet they exist in infinite numbers.

For whatever it's worth. I was just meditating on infinity with an intention for it to show itself. To maybe get a glimpse of infinity like Leo describes. But something else happened. What I first experienced was a mind that was totally empty of all content. The usual meditation but deeper. I observed the mind in that state for quite a while. And just as a note, that totally empty mind does feel like it is infinite. Infinitely empty. So that is the closest I experience of being infinite. But than the infinitely empty mind vanished too. There was nothing there. Not only was the pitcher empty of all content. But the pitcher itself no longer existed. So did the pitcher return to infinity? Or did it return to nothingness? Or something else? What is that when it happens? It's just a total blank space there. Where would experiencing infinity fit into this? Anybody else experience this happening to them? Maybe all the time? Maybe never? I just don't know where this fits in. Should I try to stop that vanishing from happening for now on and just remain in the experience of mind empty of all content? I really don't know what to do here and it's happened before on occasion. Does somebody have some experience with this happening to them too? Thanks

Stare at Leo's vid for 2 minutes than look at your keyboard and see what happens. Woah!

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@Deep That's interesting because one time I purposely surrendered within a state of Samadhi just to see what would happen and I vanished for a while. Of course I didn't realize I had vanished until I returned to the Samadhi state (sorry, I don't know all the exact lingo but you get the message). 2 days ago I left a reply on another topic that stated "At the heart of Samadhi lies nothingness". That experience, or should I say non-experience, is what I was referring to when I said nothingness. There was no awareness of anything because I didn't exist (no mind/thoughts). There was no experience, no bliss, no infinity, no God, no awareness, no emptiness, no nothing. After that happened I wondered if there was a level of awareness that enlightened people have achieved that could experience that state of absolute nothingness. So I'm asking, what do you see here that I may not. What are your thoughts or better yet, direct experiences on this? You seem to have knowledge in this area. Thanks

@Joel3102 Yes I've had that experience of flat field from time to time. Sometimes it just happens out of the blue. The first time it happened to me I was doing a no-self exercise and something very similar to what you describe here happened to me. I also freaked out a little and backed off because everything was getting so strange. I was definitely out of my comfort zone. At that point I gathered up all the nerve I could muster and thought to myself "something is presenting itself to you, just go with it". So I did by surrendering to it and I entered into a state of Samadhi. As far as I remember I had my eyes open but what I was seeing was not the surrounding room any longer but removed to what felt like a field of absolute calm. It gave me the impression that it was the source of all things. It was absolute emptiness but yet it had an overall quality to it that is really hard to explain from a mental/physical point of view. It felt as if I had entered another dimension or something. Just to mention also, as it was starting to happen I noticed a dramatic shift in awareness. It felt as if awareness became super concentrated. It came to a heightened point of focus that I never experienced before and was no longer only located at my body location but was filling the surrounding area. That feeling was really freaky because I felt ghostly. That was just before I surrendered and the Samadhi state happened. The next time it happens to you it won't feel so strange and different. For me it was more like "Oh, there it is again". It was still strange but not so freaky as the first time. If you can, when it happens again, just surrender to it and see what happens.