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The substance of the layer I dissolved? mind. I would say. It makes a bit sense yea. I don’t know if there’s an objective reality. Could you describe more the dissolution of the illusion you mentioned?

I’d say I agree

Basically it’s like this self that we have , this human ego has many layers to it. Kinda like layers of belief systems, that’s some of it. And the layers can dissolve one by one. When one layer “cracks open” or dissolves i call it a “shift”. So it’s like I had dissolved a structure in my mind that was this fixed belief system I had, that’s why I said my spiritual paradigm fell apart because it kinda did, but underneath that comes another paradigm so it’s not more “non dual” although it is in one sense since when the layers dissolve the self gets thinner and you feel less separate from enviroment

Something else. It was one of my more minor shifts, but still profound. It’s when my spiritual paradigm kind of fell apart and I saw it was just a mental construct kind of

I wonder what would happen if we showed everyone non duality in school or something. How would it be received. You have to understand that most people haven’t even heard of it, don’t even know it’s a thing at all.

I’m not sure. I have done both for some time. Spontaneously I’d say the longer mediation is better. I remember having a pretty profound shift when mediating for 3 hours a day for a week or two

That too lol

I agree that raising consciousness is related to dissolving the ego. It goes hand in hand. Also self awareness. So the more self aware you are the more “conscious” you are I think.

Interesting. Still somewhat vague though

I heard from Eckhart Tolle this exercise of body scanning. So while you’re going to sleep you focus your attention on different body parts one by one, then you end it with your whole body at once, and you should feel the energy of your body. I also did this thing don’t know where I heard it from, where I put like ridiculous amounts of alarms throughout the day, to each time stop, close my eyes and breathe deeply while focusing on my breath as a sort of short meditation. This is not doable though if you’re at work etc. You could just skip the alarms though and just do it as many times you remember to. edit: now that I read your title again where you said “not spiritual” I thought maybe my answer was spiritual oh my fault ..😅

”raisin” lol jokes aside, I would ask that question too. Seriously. Seems nobody can answer it

I guess…

I’d agree for the most part

Cool

For me now yes it is.

Thanks

Agreed. That’s my idea of enlightenment too

Depends on the context. If someone puts a gun to my head right now yes I will be afraid, but I think I’m just afraid of the process of dying if it would be painful. I don’t think I’m afraid of death in itself

I think enlightenment is permanent no self. So in that sense it’s a thing. Maybe I could say it’s something unknown, because the self can’t know the end of itself so it’s like you want something that you don’t know what it is. Basically it’s like it’s different from all other desires for defined objects

No I don’t know

Pursuing by doing spiritual practice. As I said before it’s a bit tricky because enlightenment is not a “thing”

I still wanna begin pursuing enlightenment

It’s a bit tricky there because in a sense you can’t want enlightenment because it’s not a “thing”

It can be slightly hard to comprehend sometimes but it’s still good writing indeed you have an interesting perspective. I can tell you’ve gone deep into this. Thank you

Lol