BlueOak

You could be an Adventurous Meditator. I used to think the spiritual experiences were a great adventure. They can still be fun. Part of meditation is getting a headstart on your day with intent, its you letting YOU arrange the day before you begin. Its also taking minutes in the middle of a hectic schedule to settle the mind/body/spirit. Some of the most successful people out there have a small amount of downtime mid-day. The mind needs space to organize, if its rush rush rush, then there is no structure or organization.

Yes and No. Yes. In dreams your limits dissolve and can come into reality. I have only experienced this out of curiosity/realisation/awakening, rather than material gain, or wanting a specific result. That was being me for a time, not the illusion of me I create for myself. Created so I understand that dreams from the absolute me bleed into or shape the waking world, as well as the other way around. In the correct state, operating from a place of love for yourself/others/all of you, yes. You did construct these limits, by dividing yourself - That doesn't mean start dreaming up sports cars and trying to pull them out of dreams :D. It means becoming/accepting/loving you, and things appearing in both dreams and life naturally. What part of yourself do you want? Or better what parts do you not want? You are everything, and the more you realise it the more you connect/integrate/align/resize/re-field/ yourself.

As we accept all. Heal all. Love all. Things become more settled. We are in a period of consolidation at the moment as well globally, drawing back, conserving, doing more with less etc. It rewards efficiency and refined routine.

I envy your upbringing and structured mind. My life was a mess of illogical inconsistencies. Vague metaphors. Decisions made out of fear. A constant uncertain environment. Unexpected spiritual experiences and general insanity for the first 30 years or so. You are your reality. So that's what I was.

Whatever you decide is wrong or right about it. Whatever meaning you assign to it and whatever connections you make to other beliefs or experiences you've had. The Ego can feel threatened and that puts you into a defensive mindset, survival, loss of identity, feel like you are dying, or what you consider important in life is fading away. That happens to all of us in life sooner or later, because that's how life is designed, this work speeds it up. Most people face their identity falling away for one reason or another. Most people feel what they considered important to their life fading away or passing away literally. Whether they are spiritual or not, everybody goes through it.

Gratitude En-joy. Someone once told me, Master any one thing completely and you'll reach similar conclusions about life. So far i've found this to be true. For me it was writing, and coming across dualities. Then listening to the frequencies of the sun in the most raw form I could find. I'd had a few as a kid without realising before that many years earlier, consciousness growing/shrinking etc.

Enlightenment. Is to en-light-en. For me it was literal. You become a white light reality and if you are able to stabilize divine love or infinite love as Leo calls it, you are everything, and no longer a dualistic human being for however long you are in that state. The more I say about it the less it is, divided up into pieces. Its everything. Where you are all things, accepted and loved. If you are able to observe that and experience it. It will be the single most beautiful state you've ever had. If you do, try to hug it, without moving. It'll stick around longer. After just five minutes of infinite love. The white light part of it stuck around for two days with me, I was at the train station a day later and the reality was cloudy white still. There are no prerequisites, there is no judgment, there is no requirement. No substances needed. Just love. That's it, that's all that exists in that state of reality/mind/body. For me its one more observable state, leo says infinite love what we all become (already are) when we are done with earth or duality (maybe both are true). The same as if I observe I am so big time and space no longer exist as a concept. That's still just one more observable state. I'm still just the observer. How did I get into that state. Gratitude for everything. -> Joy for everything - Love for everything. Every event, every person, everything you come across because its all you. My challenge is, loving any unresolved issue in your life can cause pain/conflict and pulls you out of that state when you are confronted with it. But that's why I started incarnating on earth in the first place, I sort out conflict and became the reflection of it. Although I have no idea if it will help your own journey, I used these steps. Toltec Shamanism, the fifth agreement is a great start, for one path I took. I purified my body with a very strong detox to get metals out, the secret energy website/group used to have a great detox that moved through each organ, pushing the toxins from one to the next as the body does. I did a lot of kundalini yoga - http://www.biologyofkundalini.com/. I switched to raw vegan and did a lot of energy work. There is an energetic release when you eat uncut raw foods, and it's always a great opportunity to experience gratitude and put that into your reality to experience it reflected. Self-inquiry for the mind to remove identity issues. Meditation, of course, a lot of facing the sun when doing so, barefoot out on the grass, a lot of time in nature away from electronics. Electronics interfere, and so do metals, and when the body's energy is moving, you will literally mess up computers when you touch them. Which was hilarious at work, every time i touched a screen it shorted out the till, metals might actually hurt you to wear. I also spent time seeking out spiritual masters, especially using the dream body before bed (dreams - when you have no boundaries, no limits). Closing dualities was also useful, I don't have a list for them to hand, but you can search for a list of dualities. Spend some time realizing how they are the same thing, and close them in yourself so you are more whole. Other than that, burn some white sage for clearing the space (which is you), do some crystal work, realise that when you can connect with yourself, you will answer any question you've ever had. (Because you made them all). All the best. Gratitude. Hope it helps.

What does enlightenment mean to you?

You have certain understandings and a sincere desire to share them. Parts of yourself have different perspectives. People use those perspectives to say one is better than the other, or something should be worded in a certain way. We are all ignorant until we come to realizations. Accepting that and hearing it voiced might allow you to better speak to that person (part of yourself).

If you want to experience people who are enlightened be enlightened. Whatever you consider that to be, be it. 1) Set the intent, then be receptive. 2) Use your dreamstate, set the intent before you sleep. Time doesn't exist while you sleep, there are no boundaries or rules. Set the intent to meet those pieces of yourself (them) in the dream. 3) Seek them out with an open heart/mind. 4) Start loving yourself. That's every piece of life (you) that you see, hear taste or touch. Be the reality that you want. If you want enlightenment or to experience it, its all coming from you. Like this post for example is a great start.

Are you creating a duality between your preferred state and the states that you observe in yourself?

Influenced sure. I am not the only piece of me represented in our dream. There are many billions of representations all interconnected, and their relationships with each other continually create reality out of them. This part, you, I am talking to is influencing reality right now. I am representing what you say to myself and then seeing, interacting, and experiencing reality slightly differently. People dismiss conversations all the time on this forum when they realise its themselves, but its the fundamental nature of you or life. Do you want to experience the development or the ability? Because we can create the need, the want, the process, the challenge, or the journey rather than the ability. Then let everything fall into place at the right time. Most of this stuff only happened, for me, when i'm focused on someone else AND in a self-loving state. I've had small experiences. Nothing huge or flashy. Shared dreams and reliving someone else's memory via the family tree or connection. Letting answers guide intuition is an easy one to show. Do you do any group work? That's where it might manifest with the least static or resistance, where its just fun for a small group. When everyone is in a state that is allowing it. Allowing yourself to find an object someone put in a room for you to find, when you both have the intent, drawing a message for the other person, those are fun sorts of activities for anyone reading. Act as a kid does, because every day to a kid is a magical mystery to observe. Letting reality guide your feet, is one I like doing in public, not caring where it wants to take me that day. (If anyone ends up walking in circles learn to laugh and let go a bit)

Reality influences reality. Its how it builds itself. Everyone would benefit from really focusing on that concept in depth. Emotion, feeling, energy, intent, trauma, belief, others around you... All of these influence reality. Everything influences reality. The state of your room influences you and reality. The state of your relationships, With yourself, with those you are around, with the tool in your hand, with success, with spirituality, with money, with fear, with... relating is as big an influence as anything else. The connections one to the next, they make the next, and so on. Dreams for example. You can do a lot with dreams. When you are formless there are no structures but what you or the collective you put in place. Meditation, again outside of structures there are no limits.

Everything starts and ends in your own mind. Any source outside of it would be something imaginary in your own mind.

Oh and that other thing anyone wants to tell me about I haven't seen, well its represented in my mind the second it's spoken about.

Nothing has or ever will exist in your mind, that isn't in your mind. Everything you see, taste, touch etc must be in your mind for you to know about it. The mind is everything that you will ever experience. You can be larger, smaller, blissed out, or depressed as hell, and all of that is in your own mind, represented to you by you and observed by you.

Yes 100% I did too. The backlash I felt it too, I blew my crown chakra. The trauma manifested in one of the people most responsible for it literally bursting through my door. I seemed to like dramatic rather than subtle back then in my reality, now I much prefer subtle. I had warning of it about to happen. Its unresolved traumas and conflicts. Split parts of ourselves that manifest and it's quite painful. Things did gradually get easier with that person, and life in general. There is still conflict but I don't initiate and I choose to be fierce when that part of me is trampled on. Its a way to heal, the same as being sympathetic to someone else suffering and feeling that in myself. Once I accepted the identity of being an outsider, and that was okay, there was no more anxiety or pain related to that. Everyone here is an outsider, (some will also tell you they are insiders too :D) but they are all outsiders as well. Being an outsider allows an expanded perspective over anything, it allows you to step outside of an immediate event or routine to get a view of the whole process. So its very useful too. I hope you can accept the parts of you that you don't love, that you fear and you can help them integrate into you. I found teal swans, the completion process book, invaluable in that regard. Its about visualizing the damaged aspects of your being as you feel them, or just sitting with the emotions that come up. In essence, it helps mentally and emotionally for those emotions/traumas to get the attention, protection, time, healing or whatever else benefits them. Go into it with no preconceptions, and a faith you'll know what you need. For the mental aspects of myself, I also found self-inquiry very liberating.

Infinity Yes. As is the process for doing so. On duality. I observe a lag delay. Say for example me taking the concept of your division and then creating an opposite position to it. Which would be a duality in itself. From what i've observed all reality is created ahead of us seeing/hearing/experiencing it. Which explains things like people seeing the future or metaphors of it in a dream, they are observing a reality which is already created or ready to be. Duality seems to happen in the moment but it's still after reality.

One day every single observer here will realise they are cutting off their toe and wonder why we are still not walking right. Every ism is needed in balance. Including the dreaded demon of them all socialism. The one everyone has made out to be the villain so they can maintain a separation of their ideology, and structure their own version of what is right or wrong.

Dividing yourself? Human and Not Human.

Why can't god be a humble person in a chair, tending his plants, paying his bills and wishing everyone a happy day? Why does he/she have to be an all knowing spiritual guru that peaks behind the curtain to see reality before it happens? If you really want to you can put yourself back to your old states easy enough Though perhaps retain some looser distinctions or divisions, and for all us a want to keep the plant/tree parts of you from turning into a dry wasteland. That'd be great to sustain our dream. Cheers.

What I usually say to myself is, all there is, is observation. All I am is observation and I am everything I see, taste, touch, hear. I am also everything I don't. Everything that could be, that is, that was and will be. The realization of being nothing would be as powerful as being everything at once. Because we are both and both are the same. We split reality into pieces to observe it, not knowing the process of doing so is us, that understanding things are both the same and different. So we argue over the process, the separation, the distinctions. Seeing the differences is us. Experiencing the difference is us. Seeing the whole is us. Experiencing the difference is us. Seeing/experiencing the reflection of others doing this process is us. Reality shapes itself to us/them, for us/them, by us/them, through us/them. Us/them being everyone, the collective, all pieces of you in your mind.

No better or worse. No hierarchy. No Greater or Lesser. No Higher or Lower. Higher and Lower. Hierarchy. Better and Worse. Greater and Lesser. Nothing to penetrate. Everything to Penetrate. Form and Formless. All and None. Have a go*d. Day. All the best.

If there is nothing to observe. (Then I realise nothing would still be a state) If you are having an experience where you enlarge big enough there is no time and space for example, that distance is meaningless. Then you are still observing something. *If you have the experience where you become an emotion, so reality reflects that completely. Let's pick what I call divine love, and a cloudy white reality experience. Then you are still observing something. I should add I was considering this answer this morning, and this was what came up. That all my experiences have still been an observation.

Yes and things in reality, have definitions and meanings we assign to them to represent them to ourselves. So everything is conceptualized when its given form.