A Fellow Lighter

By knowledge I don't mean information nor do I mean understanding , no. By knowledge I mean direct awareness. With that being clarified, I hope you can understand the following: God is not an idea, god is knowledge from the god-state of consciousness. Love is not an idea, love is knowledge from that state of consciousness of pure love. Infinity is not an idea, infinity is knowledge from that state of infinite consciousness. Alien-consciousness is not an idea, alien-consciousness is knowledge from that state of consciousness. Now with that being said ... I've experienced a state of consciousness where I was aware that mine was the only awareness in existence. However, while this happened, form was still a thing, there was still an environment (of mind). I'm not sharing this to posit or negate solipsism. I had experienced long before solipsism was getting discussed here. And I'm not a philosopher as I've come to learn and understand that knowledge/experience = state of consciousness. I'm only sharing this to bring a little more light to the topic. What I realised, and what I'm hoping is understandable enough, is this. Nobody is actually aware out here. That is to say, there is no separate you and me who is equally or unequally aware. Why? Because there is, in truth, one awareness. And this awareness is bodyless. All the forms experienced about are psychedelic and mind in nature. To mind is to perceive. The hand is the mind, so is everything else, which means people, too. So if there's at least one thing you can take away from this post, let it be this: God is a state of consciousness, because it can only be known from the god-state of consciousness.

Not sure I know how to. I thought I was being elaborate already. Feel free to ask whatever questions regarding this? The main points here are: Nobody – that is no physical entity – possesses awareness. Because awareness is not an object of possession (in the first place) There is no separate or individual you and me out here who is more or less conscious than the other. This also being because of the first point ☝? Lastly, there is but one awareness, it is infinite, and, as I've said, it belongs to nobody.

Yes. However, “Forever” is only another choice, not a condition.

Spirituality is more fundamental, more real. Philosophy is the subset, sure, you could say.

Yes

Thank you for this post ?

@Reciprocality we are existence itself, as differentiated and polarised as it appears, we are nevertheless it. Perhaps, we may say we are expressions of existence itself. However, even so, the latter statement does not precede the first assertion. Yes. However, the word “mere” makes it sound absolute, as though it is all that there is to it. There is discovery as equally as there is creation. This is the duality. Yes. This is because existence itself was never the object of discovery/creation nor the end, for what existence is is already whole – with no polarity nor duality, nonesoever. Existence itself is absolutely unified/one. The problem, here, and philosophically speaking, of course, is none other than the fact that we have confused the pronoun, if you'll let me use this analogy, for the proper noun: the x instead of the true value, which is the very word “existence”. There is no true meaning in this word, no one knows what it actually refers to except for the minority who have received that insight. It is because of this reason that persons find themselves in an endless loop of logical paradoxes. Existence was never the matter of discussion. People are more interested in the meaning of life than what life actually is. [This fact alone should be a pointer.] This is because it is already known, already reconciled, or rather, already whole regarding what is. It's not that we are alive but, instead, are life itself. Yes. So the only matter that one can care about is not what is but what it means to be what is. By the way, existence isn't nothing, we are not nothing. Such an assertion is a typical example of what happens when one attempts to rationalise and make a subject of what was never meant to be rationalised. This is a common case of simply using the wrong tool to achieve something, in this case, logic for enlightenment. So clearly you see that existence is far from nothing yet you find yourself calling yourself Nothing.

Mind

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If I may... Existence discovers what it means to be itself through us.

Pure energy-flow... Or undistorted (undisturbed) light. Quite contrary to the concept of light that you're used to. It's not daylight nor sunshine that I'm talking about. But the actual light which is unreflected, not refracted, light in its pure transparent state of being. In this sense you may understand that the original light has neither form or colour – it's only quality being the pure flow of energy. And that's it. That's nothingness. But also, that's you without the potential for love, or rather, the activity of love. Think about the word infinity again. Look at it as if it's the first time learning of the word. And begin to decipher it as though you were a student of a foreign language: You begin with finity , understanding it as the quality of being finite. What has this quality of finitude if not everything we experience? Every thing is finite. Because every thing is form, and all form is, as you've probably learned by now, limited. So finity = form = something = a perturbation of some sort. Then you begin to decipher infinity: in-finity – a direct contradiction to that quality of finitude – meaning thusly without form, without limitation, without anything, for all things are forms. So what is infinite? Nothing really. Nothing except for light. Light is totally unified in its beingness. So much so that it's the only thing that science cannot begin to break down into smaller units. How so? Because light is energy itself. Because energy might not be a thing at all. And when energy flows purely, that is, without any control or means of direction, without distortion – it's appearance is Nothingness. However, nothingness has only ever been a word that describes an appearance, even if that description is the absence of an appearance. In truth, there is no Nothing, there is only you in your state of untapped potential. You are the current. You are that pure energy-flow. Because you Are. Perhaps it's not Nothingness that we've been talking about. Perhaps it's always just been, just is, Beingness amidst the confusion of many many (finite) loves. It's just light being distorted by love.

You exist without purpose. You exist without plan. You exist independently and autonomously. You are random. And, therefore, reality is random. However, the illusion you create is with purpose, is with planning. It is entirely dependent on you, and is not autonomous. If reality was truly Not random there wouldn't be a need to make sense of anything, because it would have already done that for you in plan and design such as that of a computer program and the computer – the computer never actually learns anything. Besides, making sense of reality is the sole matter of imagining separation in order to formulate and perceive patterns. For something to be random, it merely needs to be unaccounted for, like having something suddenly disappear or magically appear from nowhere. So randomness actually signifies absolute oneness, because there is nothing outside of Reality to account for Reality – it needs to learn of itself by itself, and that's exactly what it does, quite autonomous in this limitless endeavour. Being.. itself.. is the pedestal of randomness – it literally doesn't get any more random than existence as a whole. Nor does it ever hide from itself, this is illusion is created wherever separation is imagined.

My most recent and profound insight into the nature of reality. Deep and quite heavy to stomach, having to do with the long-winded and practically ancient debate regarding the nature of reality. Is it random? Or is there order to the chaos? New insight reveals how it's both. Here it is. Reality is absolutely random. Although it seems a counterintuitive position, hasn't existence always felt like such a random thing? Even now, if you only look, you can clearly see how reality is just random. Everything else is but a distraction. All you have to do is pay enough attention. Because that's all it takes – not theories, not philosophy, not math – just a good amount of mindfulness. There is really no explanation as to why it is or isn't random. It's too meta for that. But one thing is true, though. That it sure as hell appears almost entirely orderly, cause-and-effect wise. All this to the point where a good number of things are predictable and mathematically determinable. Why is this so? Yes, reality is absolutely random. However, it is equally true that it's infinitely intelligent. And new insight reveals that order is an illusion created as the result of intelligence. How? Because as it turns out, intelligence is nothing but the ability to perceive chaos. Not the ability to acquire and apply knowledge as defined by our societies. So, as your consciousness continues to evolve in the way that it does – that is to say, according to your will – reality will seem less and less random. But that's the illusion, that's the Maya. This applies to the opposite scenario: the less you're able to perceive chaos, the more you become conscious of how random reality actually is, because there isn't enough imagination to distract you from this truth. And that's it.

@Holykael you don't get it, yet. There is no such thing as an exclusive truth. TRUTH is all-encompassing, absolutely inclusive. There is only you imagining that there's only god's will and intentionality.

Oh, okay. No Biggie. So yeah, I agree with you there – everything seems to revolve around deepening in love. It's this love that I also find so mysterious. Like I can so clearly see that it's real, but as to where it comes from – that completely boggles me. Yeah, and I think it's good that we take the opportunity to discuss them because then it helps prevent them from turning into beliefs while sometimes opening our minds into further possibilities.

Thanks for the share. This is interesting content to consider.

What do you mean? What act? I thought we were having a genuine discussion, here. I don't understand what irony you're referring to. Anyway, it was a good conversation. I just needed to understand how you saw the matter since you don't see it as I do. Thanks for being engaged thus far.

Oh I see. So this deepening exploration of itself, as the energy structures gets more and more complex, is love.

“around deepening in love.”? Could you elaborate?

@Breakingthewall okay, sure. I accept that it can, that it can all, because there are no limitations. BUT, why does it is the matter at hand, here. The purpose of creation. Not the omnipotence, but the activity itself. For instance, I can do numerous things that I don't actually do but remain quite capable of. Only my will is determining my peculiar activity. You can agree with this basic understanding that potential does not equate activity, right? Every apple has the potential to fall from the tree, but there is equally a reason why they do (go from potential to kinetic). So basically I can understand the how, but why is the question. You see what I'm getting to, right?

I'm glad to see that there is a fellow member who has acknowledged that great mystery as well.

Not that I don't appreciate our discussion but your answers come across as quite inductive and very incoherent to me. Like, if infinity = nothing, then shouldn't it be the absence of anything? Your first sentence even seems incomplete: I'd like to understand “the absence of limits” to what?, “no limits” to what? Furthermore, can there be nothing and still be “reason” simultaneously? Doesn't reason count as something? In your last post you say that things happen because there's nothing to prevent them from happening. However it seems that you neglect the fact that there's equally nothing to provoke them from happening either. To say that something occurs because of nothing be there to prevent such an occurrence, is to assert a logic where there is supposedly nothing. Hence I asked you to tell what you deemed to be infinity, because I'm unable to understand your objections nor the least your context. If infinity is nothing, how can you use the word as an adjective, saying something like, “repeated infinitely”, wouldn't such a repetition equate to nothing occurring? There are too many isolated equations for a realm with supposedly no rules, or limitation, as you put it.

@Vlad_ I hope you're an outdoor person, you'll have to spend some time with nature. This practice is meant to get you in tune with your magical personality, and involves two of the four elements: fire and air. The setting is outside, in a forest if possible. It is done either early in the morning, or later in the evening. Create a small fire, encircling it with rocks. Have a good amount of extra wood because this is practically a wood-burning exercise. The fire is small for two reasons: so that you frequently need to feed it in order to keep it alive; and so that it's heat doesn't engulf you completely – you're aren't doing this for warmth. So you'll be sitting right by the fire all the way through. As you feed the flames, to keep them alive, you'll do this while paying attention to your breath. There's definitely breath-work involved. Now, another part is, perhaps the most important part, that you must do this practice without a full stomach. Not to say you should starve yourself before this, however, you must have some appetite during your time with the fire. This practice is done either early in the morning or late in the evening. So before breakfast or supper. You'll do this fire-meditation for at least thirty minutes, and within a period of seven days you'll notice a significant change in your awareness as you begin to be in tune with your magical personality.

Imagine that nothing existed, nothing but you and a mirror. Now imagine that somehow the mirror could only show you your thoughts rather than your reflection. This mirror only ever shows you what you think you are rather than what you actually look like. Everything you see in the mirror is what you imagine yourself to be. The mirror has no spatial or any dimensional limitations, so you're free to think or imagine anything. Alright, you can stop imagining. This mystical mirror is an analogy for what I've uncovered to be infinity and the nature of all beingness. You can call it consciousness if you want to. I just call it infinity because that is what I've realised, and this analogy is the closest thing I've come up with to make human sense of it. Infinity, as I've learned it, is not an endless series of something. It is not an endless number of parallel, or otherwise, worlds or anything. How so? Because all of that is still finite – a thing in its own accord. True infinity is that without finitude, no magnitude of any kind and no figuration of any kind. [But this is just for you to consider] Back to the mirror. This mirror is the infinity. And like I said, this is the closest thing I've gotten to in terms of putting it into language the nature of reality. It's literally just this one mirror, and no rule or law as to what you can imagine. The mind or will is your only limitation.

The closest experience I can relate with this analogy of the Mystical Mirror is that condition of lucid dreaming. In such a dream, the events happen as you imagine them, as you sequence them and such-and-such. So it is with the mirror, except there is no higher world or realm to awaken to. The experience is not a dream. It only becomes like a dream when you're lost in thought, when you've forgotten all about the mirror and believe that what appears is what ultimately is. Like I've said, this is what I've uncovered and realised to be true infinity. Of course, such a realisation has nothing at all to do with the principles of how an actual mirror works. What you realise is that you are the mirror. And forgetting that is what keeps you dreaming rather than thinking lucidly. An experience is but a thought to God.