A Fellow Lighter

@tuku747 so I wish there were also a way to illustrate my analogy. But I can't because the illustration is already the present eternal truth of reality being experienced. @Moksha @Dazgwny Though I understand your concepts, the mirror I'm talking about transcends them profoundly. See, this mirror is unbound by anything, no frame whatsoever. And this mirror literally reflects only what you're thinking. So the “frame of relativity” would also be a thought appearing in the mirror. The cosmos and space between would also be a thought appearing in the mirror. The ‘Mirror Analogy’ is also but a thought appearing in the mirror. Everything appearing in the mirror is a thought. And not just any random thought, they are all your thoughts, getting reflected as you think.

@Breakingthewall what is infinity according to you?

Well there's also the common misconception of the Wiccan religion (and other heathen religions) being confused for the art. Witchcraft has absolutely nothing to do with any form of worship and code of ethics. That's a cultural/religious feature which any one, including a witch, is free to adopt. But perhaps the most biggest misconception of all is that the craft maketh the witch rather than it being a product of the witch. A person can be born a witch, do the things which any renowned witch can do, but on a subconscious level – meaning s/he is yet to realise exactly how s/he is doing it. I have a few more quite ignorant misconceptions which I find to be rather premature: People purchasing magical instruments and assuming that using them now makes them witches, for instance. No, the person who crafted that device for you is the real witch, and you are just using it – it's wielder. There's just an entire array of minor to major misconceptions. Some of them beginning to fade, like the witch being a woman‽

How so? What automates this manifestation?

Yes. The experience is always informative or ‘eye-opening’ as one might put it. There is no book that I would recommend because I wasn't initiated into the art through external mediums. I could recommend a practice that can initiate you into the art if you want. @Vlad_ the thing about witchcraft, as I've come to learn, is that it's widely misunderstood. Such a vast realm of science and engineering is readily narrowed down into one flimsy misconception like “black magic” and “white magic”. Yes there are practices, but there's also a great deal of engineering involved. Hence it is a witch's craft.

Yes.

Insights should only lead to ever more grander planes of exploration. Anything else is a manifestation of ego.

Animals, and any other life-form, have, like the human, the ability to raise their level of consciousness and acquire grander states of mind – the ego-mind is one of those states.

Only as a pragmatic tool. I already know what I am so there is no need for speculation.

@Someone here I agree. Creation has purpose. God wants to understand what it means to be it's Oneself. And it is easier and far more efficient to learn when there is something rather than when there is nothing, thus s/he creates. Only this point I don't agree with. God's choice to create isn't rooted in an inability or limitation. God knows oneself fully and far more perfectly than any other state of consciousness, for there is absolutely nothing between him and his truth – there is no veil or distortion of any kind. In fact, there is no reason (as such) at all to create. There is only love – it is a love for the light of wisdom. [I suggest you reconsider what is knowledge and what is understanding for this part of the query] Consider, if you will, that it is much wiser to attempt to understand your Oneness from actual creation than from mere intuition. God is the greatest philosopher – s/he is one who loves wisdom. God wonders, ‘What does it mean to be me?', just as mankind wonders, ‘What is the meaning of life?’. In both cases, existence is in question, and is ultimately the existence of one beingness. However God won't stop at ideating those answers, for like a true scientist, God is willing to put those ideas to the test. Thus s/he will invest itself in all the ideas of what it means to be the One Infinite. Hence you get the diversity of life-form which you find now. The point is, though, only love (or caring) for truth can drive a being with no prior disposition, or program, or law, to be wise. If it were not of love than it couldn't be wisdom that is being demonstrated. This is the same point which sets apart the natural intelligence of man from AI. Because the intelligence of AI stems from program rather spirit, hence only man can prove themselves wise in such a scenario. God is only interested in one thing – meaning... What it means to be what s/he is. The chair, dog and human are all but manifest thoughts in the process. Hence there is freewill, because meaning is an entirely creative/imaginative thing.

‘My mind’ is my field of experience, all the things that I experience (including thoughts and emotions) – so it is everything, really. “What is not my mind” is whatever I am not directly experiencing or conscious of at a given time. Those things can never be identified or specified because to do so would mean being conscious of it, and being conscious of it would mean bringing it into mind. So what is not ‘my mind’ is really nothing that I'm aware of. ‘What I am referring to with the word mind’ is the activity of consciousness which transitions and transforms indefinitely.

I think of myself as that flashlight in my day-to-day activity, because that's the view that is most useful for getting around. I only use the ‘light field’ view when I'm meditating on reality. It helps me focus.

The truth is that everything you do you do for yourself/soul. There's absolutely no point in life where you'll do something for an ‘other’. That's how powerful the truth is. The question of who benefits and who doesn't is based on psychological drama, not spirituality. There is good. Creation (or the dreaming) is good. There is only benefit for the One Creator in any and every situation, no one else to be disadvantaged from the creation.

There is no transcending this, for consciousness and unconsciousness is a matter of will. If you want you could simply stop caring about anything (including your physical survival) and just descend into the unconscious. Or you could remain conscious and continue to work to become more conscious. So what are you willing to do?

Yes. Mind exists. That within the Mind is not separate from the Mind, it is one with the Mind. So the pink unicorn exists because it is the activity, it is Mind, not outside the mind. This is where the concept of God should rightly come in. Take the traditional meaning of the word God as That Which Rules. Then we can ask, “Is the creation random? Or is the creation a response to an order, that is to say is it orderly?” Otherwise, why should there be a purpose? And if there is truly no purpose for anything, then why do we care to be conscious of things - why does the infinity Mind? I'll leave this to you to consider.

You don't just dream shit up as randomly as you make it sound. Your dreams are your Mind's response to the subconscious concerns you have. Every dream ties to a concern you have, something that you care about, something that has gotten hold of your attention but haven't yet realised it. If you had no subconscious concerns, you would have dreamless peaceful nights.

@Someone here I'd like to be of assistance, here. But in my responses, bear in mind that I've only realised that (awakened to) Reality is Mind, and haven't yet tapped into that Godhead which is.. what is referred here as Universal Mind. Okay The mechanism of creation is simple, it is self-evident and unveiled. The problem, here, is the common mistake of thinking about the Mind as a faculty/facility, instead of the One Activity of infinity (existence) Think of the Mind as a verb, not a noun. In this way, the mechanism which you seek is the very Mind in question. Look up the verbal definition of the word, it is along the lines of.. care to be conscious of something (anything).. this is the mechanism. Hence sayings like: “Don't mind that.”; “Never mind.”: “Do you mind?”. It's because Mind is an activity, the only activity, it's what the infinity does - to mind or not to mind - that is the question. And this truth can be verified just about anyone, all that is needed is for you to pay enough attention. Just look.. if you don't care about something, will you be conscious of it? There are a lot of things that aren't in your awareness right now, and so often the reason isn't the lack of intelligence, it is simply the lack of concern. The moment you care about a situation is the instant you become conscious of that situation, like, “OMG, I haven't fed my fish, today.” or, “I haven't done my homework.” and typically, “I did not realize my mistake.” But, as I've said, the mechanism of creation is a self-evident truth. Another problem which hinders you from perceiving it is the assumption of an external world - a world outside your Mind (direct experience/reality). Because of this assumption/belief, there is no way that Mind is an absolute because there is that activity which is outside of it, though, there is in fact none. If you can just pay enough attention to your direct POV in this instant, there is no way you could not realise that this is what Mind (verb) looks like. It is precisely this! Lastly, before you can realise Mind, you would have to realise Infinity, otherwise your experience of separation will forever be dominant and continue to hinder your ability to realise Mind, fully.

Then this is a sign. Sex is no longer that fulfilling/pleasing as it had been initially. It's clear that you're now just doing it out of compulsion rather than exploration. So I'd say this is a sign for you to invest that energy in something a little more worthwhile, a little more explorative. Of course, this is not to say abandon sex entirely. Just don't let it be the focus of your energy and the pinnacle/climax of your day-to-day life. Do you hear me, friend?

I consider meditation to be but a means to that end.

It is no duality at all. Mind is the absolute thing in existence. What you call “non-experience” , e.g. dreamless sleep, is only one state of Mind as opposed to “lack of conscious experience”.

Experience is Mind

@Aakash Vijayan the thought of you needing therapy for this comes across ridiculous to me. I'm with @Blackhawk on this one. Clearly being with her is not making you happy. Break up with her. Find someone who will care about your feelings instead of treating this relationship like some sort of corporate contract. She needs to care about you as much as you care about her. Plus, trust your intuition, bro. If you find her behaviour unsettling than chances are it's really not just in your head.

@Vlad_ I have a question for you. Do you still find sex as pleasant as initially? Or has it become more of a compulsion than a simple enjoyment, which drains or is a strain to your overall energy?

I'd say this is an ideal, with the retrospect that all of life is for the desire/love for truth of self. And that it's the strength of this desire which is a variant, or the level of the love (the spirit for the ‘game’) which varies. It is also truth that there is no other path out there, considering the destination of life is one and the same. I mean .. maybe from an external pov. But I don't see how one could lose their mind in a practice which only ever demands more (and more) mindfulness in order for there to be progress. Sounds a bit contradictory to me. Well sure, but this goes with anything. I mean fear is the general obstacle to doing anything new. And fear can only result from attachment to “self”. So I wouldn't designate this to the domain of learnt spirituality seeing how it defines life quite generally. Who would be the judge, though? You could still lose everything even if you're on a non-mystical path. It's just the reality of life trying to communicate an undetected truth that you're not understanding willingly. Life is just communicate like that, it's either we learn the easy way or hard way. That's literally what karma is - built up lessons needed to be learned.

God is considering all of those ideas, including the ones that you haven't mentioned. God is constantly wandering, thus s/he is constantly thinking, therefore God is constantly creating. Hence, reality is imagination, and it's energy is thought.