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I always loved this scene. Very spiritual

@Carl-Richard Lol! Good news!

@AtheisticNonduality I think so too. And I HOPE this is just the beginning. Because when I listen to some of his latest videos, there are certain subjects and stuff I have never heard about before but are still very fundamental. I guess perhaps one way would be that in the future when psychedelics become more "mainstream" Actualized might make a bigger connection to just that. But these are just ideas. I wonder what this will actually evolve into...

This guys does not have a lot of followers but I have never heard anyone speak so clearly on the topic of meditation and spiritual enlightenment as he does. Give it a shot, you won't regret it

I wonder how this could be used for a spiritual purpose, to kind of appreciate life more, or perhaps a form of meditation?

Do you ever experience this? Lately whenever I wake up, for the first five seconds I have no idea who or what I am. There is this extremely powerful, overwhelming feeling of existential wonder that hits me, like a feeling of "what is life? Am I actually alive? Wtf is this?". I am still aware of everything, it's just like pure awareness without any sort of knowledge about anything. To be honest it is quite frightening at times but still it feels very spiritual in nature. Kind of like during an extremely intense psychedelic experience where you reach ego-death. I don't know how this short experience could benefit me on my path but I still believe there's something to it. My dreams lately are also extremely intense and they always share common themes. I used to have nightmares pretty much every night for the past months but now suddenly my dreams seems more like a therapeutic session where I resolve deep issues within myself. Anyone else experienced something similar?

I think calmness and peace is your natural state of mind. It is what you are fundamentally underneath all attachments and emotions and thoughts etc. So it's not about eradicating anything, but just becoming more conscious of what's beneath, becoming more conscious of who you really are, and from there expectations and attachments will not matter anymore

SWEDE CHECKING IN! Anyone living in Malmö? Actually Sweden is a very evolved country in terms of collective consciousness compared to many other countries and we should be grateful that we are living here.

How much are you dependant on survival? Is the question you have to ask yourself. What you might consider 'low consciousness' is when you are driven by fear because you want to survive. The 'higher consciousness' is going beyond just mere survival and focusing on higher pursuits, you are not run by fear.

It's all relative to the situation. Sometimes I can be a social retard and sometimes I can even impress myself

"Happier" how? One of the biggest traps you can get into is believing that wealthy people are happier

Kinda like this? I really enjoy editing videos etc. but I am not sure I have enough experience though since I've mostly done it as a hobby. Will be interesting to see the results of this new channel of yours!

Sorry for clickbait, but I highly recommend this documentary. Been contemplating what 'Death' is a lot lately, (no big deal, whazzeva') and it's very interesting to see what the mindset is of someone wanting to face their own cessation.

Let me quote that colored dude from The Shining: "Nothing... There is Nothing in room 237. But you ain't got no business going in there anyway, so stay out! You understand? Stay out!" Lol jokes aside, welcome to the path. Indeed you get special superpowers from realizing you don't exist and your whole life was a lie. You get to be born again but this time knowing you were never born and you will never die. You just are. Everything going on at this exact moment is all that you are and ever will be. There is no time, there is no distance, there is no you, there is no "other dimension". There only is. That is the greatest superpower one could ever have. Now, how do you reach this special superpower? You realize you already have it, but you just gotta "search your inventory", aka. yourself. When you realize there is no inventory to look into you'll find it. But by then you'll realize no one was even looking anywhere in the first place. Good luck!

The more people signing up to this forum the more idiots come along with it, that's just the way it is and to accept it

Watched it yesterday. Really good movie. Very spiritual in nature

Sometimes during my meditation sessions I get these random, intense flashes of images in my mind. They come suddenly, randomly and they do not make any logical sense at all. What I see are different objects and people and things that do not exist in this world but still I get the feeling that I have seen it before, either when I was very young or before I was even born. There is this feeling of 'knowing' when I see them and that I've either experienced it somehow or that there is this pre-life that happens before you are born that you exist in (kind of like the starting menu of a game) before entering life. I wish that I could describe the images that I see but they are very hard to describe. I remember yesterday that during my meditation session I suddenly saw a man whose head was shaped like a goat, he had beard and he was very kind, and I felt like I have seen him before in real life even though I know that I haven't obviously. And then randomly I saw a box with tentacle-like arms (but not really arms, more like flowers lol) reaching out, moving in a weird geometrical pattern with an amazing pattern of random colours. When I see these things I sometimes feel a bit overwhelmed and amazed, and it feels a bit "healing" to see them, as if there is something subconscious getting resolved and brought to life when I experience it. I don't really know how the hell to explain this in a proper way, it has a very psychedelic feeling to it but it only happens if I am in a very deep meditative state. Sometimes I "see"/"feel" Truths that should not be known, like seriously just a feeling of "this one image is the truth of existence and people should not know this, this is totally unimaginable but it is so fucking real at the same time". Just wanted to share this and see if anyone else have similar experiences. Some of the imageries reminds me of illustrations from Carl Jung's "Red Book".

Seems like this is more common than I thought then. That's quite a relief.

@seeking_brilliance Thanks, that actually makes a lot of sense

Hi everyone. I wanna get your advice on something that has been bothering me for quite a long time but I have been kind of scared to admit to myself. It's about the way that I state opinions about certain things, whether it's politics or philsophy or culture or whatever; my opnion changes based on the situation I am in and based on the people I am around. I don't feel like one side is more true than the other either, it's just like my personality completly changes based on my environment. I can see from multiple perspectives equally and fully understand it and feel it as if it was true to myself. It has gotten to the point where I don't even know what I actually believe in. To make it more clear, let's take a very simple example (made-up example for the sake of clarification)... Let's say that I am with my family and I start having a discussion about science with my dad, suddenly I start actually defending science and making arguments for why it's very practical and necessary to know about and all the good things about science, while he might argue in a different way. And then let's say I am with my friends, and we start discussing science, and suddenly my opinion completely changes and I start giving a more spiritual perspective and argue to why I do not think science is as necessary and important as we might think it is, and why we should focus more on the spiritual aspect of life (as what my dad argued for before). And then when I am just with myself, the two opinions become totally equal and I cannot really see any of the two sides as true/false, they just both share truth and falsehood. This makes people not really understand what I stand for and it makes it seem like I am constantly contradicting myself, although I do not feel like I actually am because I hate the idea that a person has to be a certain thing and stand for something specific, instead of just being a freeflowing experience being able to take part in any perspective. The thing that bothers me though is my emotional attachment to both sides when I am in a specific situation. Why do I get triggered in one situation and then in another triggered in the completely opposite way? Am I just not standing for any opinion, am I being objective, is this an ego thing or what is actually going on here? This is not just regarding any subject, this regards almost everything in my life depending on the time of the day, the people I am with, the country I am in or whatever situational attribution is occurring. I feel kind of split in my personality, but still when I am with and for myself I feel totally objective and I can take a step back and just observe and be able to see a slight truth in everything. However in social situations I am never congruent. Anyone else experienced this? How do I actually know what my "true" opinion is when everything feels totally equal?

The first awakening experience I had was in 2015 and I was completely sober. It was after an intense cardio workout and right away I meditated deeply. The experience got me a bit scared. From listening to Leo talk about spiritual awakening and reading books about it, still contemplating and wondering what the hell it was, to suddenly becoming everything in my room – that was quite a shift. I thought that I basically experienced fullblown non-duality and I thought that I had lost my mind, but I just really had a glimpse of it. I did not see 'infinity' or 'love' or 'God'. There was just a clear shift in my awareness. The physical separation of everything ceased to exist. It lasted for around 10-15 minutes. I just wanted it to stop cus' my ego mind was still there resisting. I later told my parents about it and they thought I was even more insane haha. Good memories

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*grabs popcorn* Enlightenment war!

When I show his videos or tell about him to people around me these are my typical reactions... My dad: calls him very intelligent My friends: calls him a drug addict, or says his videos are way too long ("Who the fuck wants to watch a 3 hour video wtf?") Strangers: calls him 'some random spiritual woo woo guy on YouTube'