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I have a memory of 'death' or not being Human and entering into my current 'reality'. It's basically like seeing the whole movie you're about to enter, but from another dimensional point of view. It's pretty grand experience, I think it may be what people call this indescribable shebang. What I remember about it is that I saw many images and was amazed at how beautiful everything is. So beautiful, that I had to go 'down' there again... To the 3d

Well there seems to be no looking either, there seems to be just the isness of it But I guess it can be seen/expressed in different ways

When I see an image and add no thought to the perception, the image is self aware/there is absolutely nothing on the other side perceiving it, there is nothing except the present image. There is no enlightened mind, there is no anything, if thought doesn't swoosh in, just the image, being itself - nothing about existing on its own or connected to something else. This is your present moment experience too, do you deny it?

forgot to add blank to the page. I kinda like the word blank, it gets me to some nice experiences. Also the word honey

Obviously there needs to be the knowing there in order to know this emptiness. But the knowing IS the emptiness itself I think you are talking about the same no-thing/nothing and are just fussing over how it is described.

Emptiness is such a clear concept. Yet people keep trying to add subtle somethingness on top.. I know im not qualified to speak with authority on this yet, but here's a cool related pic!

@Joseph Maynor Yes, I also suffered from the same thing! The antidote was placing faith in the practice of No-mind! Thanks to Leo who gave me some sound self inquiry tips for my specific situation which made me fully accept and surrender to the practice <3 In other words, all I need to know is that which is in my direct experience, because the rest can always be belief, so I cant personally attach to something that I know could be just a story in my head, while previously I would have thought it's truth and defend it all day.

@Joseph Maynor Yeah, there's an ocean of peace to be found in being ok with not knowing ?

Follow truth,not mental masturbation

Ok so you're just trolling, that explains a lot.

Then I am a bad bad boy ?

Actually Santa is one of the best examples that the power of belief to create reality doesn't work. It can create delusions, but truth creates reality, not belief/thought - yes, thought is not truth. Why is it one of the best examples? There are so many children who trully believe. Children are of pure heart, if anyone's beliefs should create reality it's their beliefs. So where is Santa? My gifts always came from my parents

For someone to curse me, they have to find me first... Im having trouble with that, what about someone else..... Thoughts are conditioned stories. They are not important. They need to be transcended. That's what we're here to do.

Ok, so if my thoughts are that its not real, and your thoughts are that it is real, then what is it? Both? Or is it like voting, whatever the majority of the collective thinks, thats it? So then why would you think bad stuff are true if thats how it works??

That's interesting that this thread pops up again exactly today. Last night I had a dream that I was conversing with some evil characters in my dream. Well I didn't really judge them as evil, but we all appreciated our joint interest in consciousness and spirituality. One of the guys said something along the lines of, "do you want to hear this cool evil mantra I know" and then spoke something rather satanic ? to which I replied something like: "Well I don't really believe in black magic yet, but I do believe in a version of Karma: If you do deeds with good/bad intention, your consciousness field gets "coloured" accordingly and at the end of your life this colour determines whether your next starting point will be a more favourable or a less favourable one". I think I might have talked some shady characters within me to slow down ?

I also beat my own argument later by noticing that time is also within the absolute ? so God's experience is not one in a point in time ?

Are you saying God has an Ego? I've had an experience of seeing an angel, but if it's past, i cannot be sure of their existence. Also of matter for that matter. How do you know that your experience /insperience from the past was absolute? Infinity never stops,in all directions. If God has an image of itself at one point, no matter how grand it is, God is already missing infinitely much of itself, the infinity beyond the circle of present perception of God. The Human is God being aware of a limited part of itself, because that's the only way God can be aware of itself. In other words if infinity perceives infinity, who perceives the bigger infinity. And so on.. (yes you can say there is no bigger infinity, but truth is infinity never stops growing. So at any point in time experiencing infinity will be an outdated version, because that very second God became infinitely more than what is perceived.) Where am I going wrong, and don't say its just thinking, i spend enough time not thinking too, it's time for some balance. Im not arguing im sharing my point of view and reasoning for saying what im saying.

Yes, but that's what I mean. In my understanding, the illusionist is impersonal awareness. How can something impersonal be alone? Isn't the aloneness factor a dimension added by individuality? What I'm saying is there needs to be an "I" for loneliness and aloneness. Otherwise to whom are these attributes pointing to? There's no one there. The illusionist is not an entity, as my investigation is leading me to believe. To explain what I mean even simpler: Aloneness and Loneliness mean: I + no-one else. If there is no "I", this is nonsensical.

I don't know that no one else exists, it's just a theory for me. As far as I know from a human standpoint, my reality is largly impacted by the other fields of consciousness on this planet. We may all be one in essence, but that essence is spread out over different vehicles which make it shine differently. That's beautiful If you ask me. Tbh, I dont think it's right to say awareness is alone, because awareness has no personality. Personality is part if the vehicle it runs through and shapes like water shapes a stone.

In Bulgaria we have a word 'Просвета', which means both Enlightenment and Education. I have memories of being in an afterlife, regretting that I didn't read more. Perhaps we are on this plane with the purpose to learn as well, not only fool around ? Like also to learn at our core, not only learning something that we'll forget after few days/months/years. Learning things that will stick with us forever n ever! Come to think of Bulgarian words... Свят means both World and Holy !

@tatsumaru Oh btw, to answer your question. Yeah it's not intellect, it's feeling-knowing that we should use here.

@tatsumaru I think assuming that there is a truth and that it's the simplest thing is pretty good thing to have on your radar - I certainly started like that too. For me personally, I've dealt with Mathematics in the past, and I just love clear and simple solutions to problems, not long winded 'smart looking' ones. That's the kind of truth I am looking for. Clear and simple, because complexity is shit basically Truth like : If it's not here now always, then it's not truth, cause it can be forgotten. I like the here and now to remind me what the truth is... In any situation... Because basically Im too dumb to remember!

But that doesn't only mean that non existence doesn't exist, it can also mean non existence is the only thing that exists. It depends on perspective. Non existence hallucinates existence and existence in return hallucinates non existence - the perfect strange loop ?

There doesn't exist an apple in this sentence. - non existence. There exists an apple in this sentence ?. - existence. It all depends on the zoom level. I think this conceptualization is not at all important, just a distraction. Only Infinite Void+ Infinite Light exist. The rest is monkey mind. Here's more conceptualisation for you

There was a pic once on this forum of a meditator or something - eyes open = hell, eyes closed = heaven. I wonder if anyone can help me to find it