A Fellow Lighter

Brilliant awakening. Very very perceptive ?

Reality is designed to enlighten you, not imprison you. Every limitation is placed in the name of Truth.

It's clear to me that this forum recognises Mind and the workings of the mind. But there's no sign that it recognises Spirit. I've never heard Leo mention the spirit in any of his videos, which leaves me thinking that perhaps the whole forum sees everything as MInd. But I don't want to project one man's beliefs to everyone else on this forum... So I ask.. do you recognise Spirit? Or is everything Mind to you as well?

@TheOneReborn you did well in translating this awareness into words, I'll say. Thank you so much for sharing! The awakening to Love/Light will forever be my most favourable awakening, simply because it is one that does not cease, always renewing itself like automn spring. The Source Creator is not a person.. Source Creator is unison.. so you're right in referring to God as the Light, for nothing exists outside the Light.

How so? Wow.. that sounds awesome. I know how it may be difficult translating these experiences into syntax, but I'd actually love to hear more of this. Do you think you could tell me more? Feel free to pm me if not here.

@Raptorsin7 so what you're saying then is.. God loves everything because everything serves a purpose, essentially.. yes? I have a follow up question. What exactly is the purpose of everything? I mean you mentioned a neat story about a kidnapping and the opportunity to save a marriage which is all so fortunate in our human terms, but what is in it for God? Let me rephrase this like so.. how does our day-to-day purposeful life, as you claim, serve God? Or does God only love everything because everything serves us humans, on relative terms? Basically, I want to see how the relative connects with the absolute according to your logic.

Wow.. very perceptive. Well done ??????

So you also believe in an external world.. that is outside your mind? I'm having a hard time making out what I see in your picture. I can tell it's surrounded by water droplets, though. I wonder what it is that I'm looking at. Anyway, so you can see Spirit? Like a psychic? What do you mean you recognise it?

What do you mean this? Serve how?

On moral grounds, I'd say the real Devil is in the very idea of a devil in the first place. I think it shifts responsibility, instead of a person owning up to his or her actions - s/he now has a demon to blame for her actions. In a spiritual sense, evil is the ultimate negation (suppression, oppression) of a person's individuality. Because you do not stand for what the other-self stands for, you demonise and attack him in all the subtle or gross ways. Basically negating what makes him or her different from you. But I don't go as far as to call that evil because the term has come to mean something rather unnatural. I was just translating it for you from a social perspective to a spiritual one. In truth there is no good and bad, just positive and negative vibes. You may dramatise their extremes by calling them evil or holy. But in truth.. all is Light.

The word “believe” seems to imply more than its use in the traditional sense. They could either mean that reality is what you make of it, literally.. or they could mean the straightforward notion that belief = reality. The meaning of the latter being actuality. And the former meaning being more psychological than actual in its essence. Personally, I'd say they meant the former.. Belief = Reality.. simply because of my insight on nonduality.

What “streams” these thoughts in your understanding? Is there a drive to it? Or is it all spontaneous? I ask because, in my experience, Mind isn't everything. If we account for the thoughts we have with the idea of mind then what of emotion?. what of motive?. What of the detailed bodies of the world and cosmos? If mind is thought, what of the many things that are not thought such as impulse or intuition? Mind cannot be everything. I don't necessarily consider them separate, I mean what can ever be experienced as separate in the world? Separation, I find, is subjective rather than intrinsic.. so much so that you may very well call it an illusion when making a point, just as you have. Mine is not to have these aspects of reality split up, but to rather see how exactly they come to be. It's a matter of recognition, not negation.

@Danioover9000 thanks for the very informative reply ?? Yeah.. the paranormal is most certainly an interesting subject on its own accord. With regards to the rules or the laws of physics in the astral-plane, I think most of its workings is determined by the karmic energy developed back when physically incarnate in the earth-plane. Because it's ingrained through experience in our consciousness that ground is something to walk on not to float through, and somehow we take that with us into the spirit realm and discover that we can almost function just as we did back in the physical world. I'm not entirely sure, but that's what karma essentially is.. it's memory, and it's the only thing that we can take with us to the afterlife. I also think intelligence plays its own role with this, I'm yet to figure out exactly how.

Could you expand on this? What do these models look like, and how do they work? I see. This is quite unclear for me. Are you saying that what you consider Spirit is synonymous to Mind and the Body of a toilet or any other object? Are you essentially saying they are all one thing?

I don't know, man. It just sounds to like you've got a type. When I watch porn I'd also go for my type. It doesn't sound that weird to me. I mean of course you'd focus on the black hair if you're interested in women with black hair, isn't that normal? I don't know what I'm missing here. Is something like this really considered an obsession. Anyway, finding yourself masturbating everyday is what I would consider the real problem. Usually this signals a fixation, something that you need to bring to your awareness and resolve as consciously as possible. Humans are sexual beings, yes, but we're not that sexual to the point where we need to masturbate everyday.. that's just absurd. Of course you end up feeling shitty about yourself if you're doing it everyday because at this point you know that you're now just abusing your sexual energy.. not expressing it. So I'd say try to deal with that instead of the black hair thing.. I wouldn't consider the hair thing an emergency right now.

I can totally resonate with everything you've just said. Except for the whether someone can be wrong or not bid. The thing is, on my part, I've never considered enlightenment to be some sort of doctrine with everything being strictly defined such as truth meaning this .. or god meaning that .. and enlightenment meaning so .. Leo certainly presents it as a doctrine which I don't really criticize him for since he is after all a teacher. Enlightenment is pretty inevitable if you ask me. The whole purpose of life is enlightenment, otherwise why must one be aware of it? Life.. that is to say. Why is there an awareness of life? In spirituality there is both awakening and enlightenment. I also view these two to be different. The former being something that is initiated, and the latter being somewhat inevitable. There is correlation though. Truth is not something to figure out conceptually unless you do so in retrospect. Truth is something to be lived, to embody.. this is the only way to learn of the truth, otherwise all you have are ideas of the truth and not the experience itself. See.. this is the point of living.. to learn of the truth.. this is what I refer to enlightenment. And once you learn you become more aware than you were before the life-enlightening experience.. this new expansion of awareness is what I refer to awakening. The key is initiative. All in all, I'd say that enlightenment is, first and foremost, an individual experience.. only you can know of it and only you can appreciate it. I say that the universe (which includes your other-selves) is always bent on enlightening you, however, whether you awaken/grow from that experience is your absolute choice. Because anyone can put out a candle that has been lit, right? Usually we call this ignorance.. ignoring what is.. it's that easy, one only has to discover the source of light and put it out.. this is ultimately expressed in what we call murder. Leo seems to see enlightenment as discovering that you're the Infinite Creator, but something tells me that the creator already knows that it is creator. I mean, why wouldn't it know? All that “God put himself to sleep” paradigm, it's a little too narrative for my taste. And I'm not really looking for a story as means to make sense of reality, I'm looking for God himself so that he can tell me himself what the truth is.. metaphysically speaking of course. So rather than sitting in my chair trying to figure out what exactly is going on here, I try to work hard enough in order to live my life to the fullest.. tapping into that limitless potential that is my soul.. and see what happens. The best way to learn of the truth is through creating experiences, otherwise nothing will happen and you won't learn a thing.

It's as if you've been speaking to me in a language stronger and purer than any language mankind could conceive. A language I understood clearly once upon a time, but decided to grow out of. This language is pure, with no room for misinterpretations or misnomers. It is universal. And here am I trying to learn this language, trying to tune myself back into the language of the universe.

Welcome... In this journal, I am a student of the light. Here, you will find no logic. Here, you will find no explanation (unless ask). Because here is my place of enlightenment. Here, you will only find that which I mind (care to be aware of).

There is an immense power about us that society has had us tune out from, but it is still there. It is the power of creation. And this power is vibration. You're doing it right now.. vibrating. Just pay attention to your body, to your mind, to your spirit. You are oscillating, going around and around in circles, you're doing it with your thoughts, your actions and your feelings. You're living your life in cycles, in patterns that do not necessarily bind you, but you abide to them. It's not a rational thing.. you sticking with these patterns.. it's not an intellectual decision.. it's solely spiritual.. it is the force not of mind nor body but spirit. And you'll not realise this (only conceptualise it) unless you have a spiritual awakening. Society doesn't teach you of this power because it wants to harness for its own good. It would rather have you ignorant of it so that you feel like you don't have much choice but adhering to the system. See, everything in this world is stationed by a frequency. What do you suppose produces this frequency? Vibration. There is nothing else. Everything that you do ultimately creates a vibration. Only the sensitive are aware of this. The sensitive and the spiritually woke. The mass remains oblivious to this power. And I don't use the word “Power” superficially, I literally mean that vibration is actual power. Vibration is the power of creation because it produces frequency. Everything has a frequency to it, a certain tone to it, and a certain energy field. These are all products of vibration. And all of this one can directly learn from paying attention to one's body and mind. The body is the intelligence of the self.

Welcome... So this thread won't be anything like my other journal (The Light) where I sorta just implode in my random thoughts and feelings in the most authentic way I know I can. Yeah, this won't be that kinda place for me. Here I'll be logically laying out my experiences and lessons I'm getting from engaging consciously with spirituality. I'll be doing a lot of reflecting and revelation-writing: talking about my awakenings and the most enlightening experiences. Also, the title of this thread is in fact inspired by the work of Shakti Gawain whose book, ‘Living in the Light - A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation’, I had quite recently stumbled upon and find myself really resonating with. It's really the most random and yet perfect-timing kind of thing for me to have come across that book, but I won't say too much. So, basically this thread is about the shifting of my view of reality - the way I see the world to be - so maybe just reality itself, into a world of more clarity and more power and more life. I'll be recording my shifts in consciousness, permanent or temporary, and just noting down the impacts like how it's affecting me and how it's reflecting in the way I live my life. So yeah, enjoy.

This is so beautiful.. thanks for sharing this awesome experience!

The most fundamental level is vibration. Sensory input is not as strictly input as much as it is projection. It is being generated in the mind. Personally, I don't take reality to be a dream, I take reality to be reality, and dream to be part of reality. I honestly believe that if I took reality to be mere dream then I wouldn't be as effective in my spiritual work. However, on the nondual level, reality has the equivalent tone of a dream. I say equivalent tone because it's not in the words themselves that the truth of existence lies, but rather in the effect they have on one's understanding of it. So, I'm not saying that the Infinite One is asleep as to induce a dream state of consciousness. I'm saying that at the Godhead, as this forum refers to it, all states of consciousness are dream states of consciousness. But to address the original question: sensory input is that of intelligence and imagination, rather than physical particles radiating electromagnetic waves to be interpreted by the brain.

Then I shall expand in the form of a Q and A. You are welcome to ask me any question from what I've stated thus far regarding the instrument and the process of creation. Yes. Nonduality does not mean the absence of form/appearance and diversity. Nonduality simply means that all is one.

Meaning that the universe is not held (or contained) by logic. I keep seeing people trying to rationalise their way to the Godhead, as this forum refers to it. I'm not exactly sure what the goal is with this but it sure cannot be awakening. With this I hope there is clear agreement. I'm not trying to be negative at all, just being sincere with this matter. Feel free to contemplate away if you wish. Yes, being contemplative and rational about spirituality is a noble footing, but in terms of expanding awareness this does.. well, almost nothing if it hadn't been for its adaptive effect on one's belief system. Of course, unless one has confused awareness with relatability with the other-self (meaning you can identify and communicate with ease what most have identified and learned to communicate) then this sure can create the illusion of awakening (the growth of awareness). Be careful with your work. I truly am not trying to discourage anyone from doing anything that they wish to do. I'm only trying to offer caution. When trying to learn about the nature of and the nature for this universe, understand that this is not like the world of academia where everything is only considered in theory until verified by phenomena. This is the world of spirituality, and what we're dealing with here is the power that holds the universe intact, the power that is holding your personal reality as you perceive it. If you believe that that power that is holding the infinite frequencies of the universe is logic, then I wish nothing upon you other than true enlightenment. But if you've already woken to the real power of the universe then I can wish nothing upon you, for only more power and expansion naturally awaits you. What holds the varying frequencies of the universe is not a logic or some conclusion that you've arrived at through whatever experience, for all conclusions and rationalisations can be abandoned at any time should the thinker will it. But there is something that can never be abandoned nor does anyone wish to forsaken it. And that is for me to keep and for you to awaken to. Truth is not Equation. Equate truth to whatever belief systems you use to function in this world, and Truth will prove ever so chaotic to you.

Beliefs are beliefs. And truth is truth. Either you awaken or you don't, this truth will make itself evident in your vibration, my friend, which is the way you live your life. You're familiar with the old saying: life is a test. What do you suppose it is that is being tested? It is your truth.. here, we can only live our truths, thus.. freewill is law, for one only ever is and does what s/he is willing to be and do. This is Truth. There's no way around it. So, for instance, if you believe that love is God.. but have not truly awakened to it.. then rest assured that this truth will reveal itself in the way you live your life. Truth is not a matter of choice. It does not need you.. it is you who needs it. Whether you choose it or your logic over it, this does certainly nothing to the truth. Learn the truth, don't learn the truth.. doesn't matter, it's still there.. forever.