Arthogaan

This is a monkey mind thinking about the experience that happened in the past. That is conceptualizing, ego playing it's games. The direct experience is that you can make a choice to respond or not. Ideas about some factors in the brain are just stories. Just as brain is a story. @Someone here

You can always choose to focus attention on the beingness itself.

You chose to respond to my thread. And then you chose to delude yourself that you didn't decide that, that it just happened.

Exactly.

You chose to respond to my thread. And then you chose to delude yourself that you didn't decide that, that it just happened.

Let's be so charitable and assume he actually does. Then wouldn't you agree that this pointer is pretty poor as most people will be stuck in an "enlightenment" with emptiness facet but no love facet? Because that is exactly what happened to me on my journey after listening to old Leo and Jed Mckenna. I was stuck for a long time in this raw, kinda dull enlightenment of no-self. Love is just the best word for Love.

Yup. Then wouldn't you agree that disagreeing with someone on the forum and then just saying that I have to increase my consciousness to understand is kinda pointless? Everyone could write the same.

God = Imagination = Reality -> this is what I am trying to point to when saying God imagines reality. Words get tricky. I agree that there is no process of doing and result. Because God=Imagination=Reality then you could have some fun with words and as well say those 3 things: 1) God gods god. 2) Imagination imagines imagination. 3) Reality realits reality. Which is all the same as what @Bazooka Jesus wrote: "Reality is" - but all of the above are different perspectives. And of course GOD = YOU, Imagination = You, Reality = You.

I am speaking from direct experience and my current understanding. If you want to assume the person you are speaking with has smaller understanding of God and just disagree by saying "you just have to raise consciousness bro and then it becomes obvious that you are wrong" that's fine.

Great elaboration my dude. Just like in nightly lucid dream, if you dream up the dream with no pain and no suffering it is very easy to realize it is a dream and that you are God. But when you turn on/imagine the pain of the body, the hunger, the drama the dream becomes very juicy and GOD (you) forgets that it is only a dream and therefore it is more immersive.

Would you elaborate?

But would you agree the less suffering in a dream the less immersive it is?

Being just is and that being is Imagination. Just like in nightly dream being = imagination

I am not sure if you want to agree or disagree with me, because what you wrote seems congruent with what I wrote.

If you (as God) want to imagine living in a body, you have to create suffering. Because without suffering the illusion of the body would be too easy to see through, and you would not survive few days. So suffering is something necessary for a good dream. Suffering is there out of Love.

What a beautiful post. @JuliusCaesar any updates on becoming a Powerful Being? Some crazy experiences? Please share your past two years in the context of this post and that intention.

All that you have written I agree with and again this is exactly what I get from Leo's Solipsism video. I think we are too little charitable to Leo.

To me it sounds exactly like what Leo is describing with Absolute Solipsism but with a bias against word "You"/"I". It points to the same way of seeing. You just misunderstand what Leo means by "I" and assume any ego left there imho. @Water by the River @Bazooka Jesus @Breakingthewall

Of course. I would probably add kriya yoga to that. For me weed is really difficult and usually does not show me that much about reality, more about my self and some remains of trauma and repressed emotions. Brother it would be really valuable for you and for the community on the forum for you to try the classic psychedelics and comment on them. Cheers.

@Osaid This is not an attack or anything I am just genuinely curious - why did you not explore psychedelics more? For me it is just so obvious that if I am interested in spirituality and exploring reality then if there are chemicals that change perception so much then it is really natural and obvious impulse for me to explore them to the fullest? Why you don't see it that way, why are you not curious?

I totally agree. I would argue then that Direct Experience of Absolute Solipsism in a state of no conceptualization is TRUTH. But the second you start to conceptualize/analize/put it into words you lose it's essence. But we still need to use pointers on a forum (well we do not really need to but not everyone has acces to 5-meo) and IMHO "You as consciousness is all that there is" is a better pointer than "There is no YOU". But that may be just a personal (hehe) preference.

Yes, I agree. For yourself yes, but when communicating and discussing on a forum then it really is a poor tool.

Well said.

This is good stuff, thank you @Breakingthewall. I somewhat agree, but then still... it's like in this radically consciouss state where as you write: "outside the conceptual mind there is only pure existence, there is no you, no others, no god, no nothing, there is the infinite now existing". I agree, but there is still this PURE EXISTENCE, which is made out of PURE EGOLESS I AM. Pure Awareness, Pure Imagination/ Pure Mind. And in that state there is only one PURE EXISTENCE, not two, not 8billion. THERE IS ONLY ONE I AM. Again using analogy of the dream. In reality there is no my dream character and no other dream characters. But the dream is still Solipsistic as there is only ONE MIND dreaming it. Absolute Solipsism does not claim there is only one character inside the dream. It claims that there is ONLY ONE MIND dreaming the dream and that you are THE MIND and not the character inside. @Leo Gura @Bazooka Jesus @Breakingthewall: Saying that "YOU ARE THE ONLY THING EXISTING" has it's risk that someone will think that their dream character is the only thing existing which would not be true. Because from the point of view of the dream character there are other minds. (Like @Razard86 described, when you imagine that it is true) And another approach is saying that there is no "YOU" in this PURE EXISTENCE state. But it has the risk of not dissolving the idea of objective reality and other EXISTENCEs/MINDS outside of THIS PURE EXISTENCE. So using words to describe this bring certain conceptual misconception risks. And I genuinely believe that we all try to describe the same PURE EXISTENCE. But the language is just so poor.

@Breakingthewall @Bazooka Jesus This is good discussion. Before responding I want to start by stating that all what I am writing is backed by direct experience from my 5-meo and LSD trips and it is not all intelectual altough I am still not sure of it. I did not reach a state of which Leo speaks about that "maybe it is possible to Absolutely know that other minds can't exist". I still have my doubts which is why those discussions are so interesting to me. Yes that makes sense to every possible concept that is NOT ABSOLUTE. But if we want to describe the SUBSTRATUM then it does not. Because Reality is made out of Something/Nothing (depending on how you look at it) and the substance of this Something/Nothing is precisely Awareness/I AM-ness. Yes, using any word does not do it justice beacuse if it is Absolute then language loses it's meaning, but that is only language's weakness. But the fact remains that this DREAM is somehow constructed. And the substance of it is Emptyness/Light/I AM-ness. I geniuinely believe that we are trying to point to the same thing but you look at the emptyness/formless aspect of this thing and you try to point to it by using ->> " ". But I try to point it by using the concept "I AM-ness" which is also a bad word but it gets you the feeling of the nature of this SUBSTRATUM. The is no "me" in this egoless "I AM-ness" but still I AM/Awareness is what reality is.