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That's it.

Yes. I think that's it. He gives crystal clear examples of what it means to discover your true nature. He challenged someone in the audience who had a solipsistic take on non-duality. And the love he had for each and every person there. So many people in tears of joy. Just....

Great point. Thanks

Thanks for your interest Anna1 :). I asked if being a parent and this path were compatible. I was fearful that awakening may impact on my ability to parent my children and have been pursuing this with a metaphorical weight of concern. He said, and I'm paraphrasing, that there is nothing about non-duality that isn't compatible with being a parent. You can be a parent, and be attached to and love your children. The suffering comes when you don't realise you are not separate beings and in adulthood they will have to deal with your non realisation. However, being enlightened can give you the means to help them come to their own understanding. Later on, someone else asked something and he referred back to my question, and said that when you become enlightened your goals (being the best parent you can be) don't necessarily change but your motivations do.

So much. So very much. He's the real deal. I was also lucky enough to have a question answered which has allowed me to carry on with my spiritual practice in more peace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bKQXmvdr8o He is awesome.

Hi All, I've been making some significant progress with meditation and lucid dreaming/dream yoga on a path to awakening. I have had insights into ego death, the feeling of not being my body/mind during meditation and outside of meditation. Having those realizations that "of course" the I does not exist and everything is one. I have found this to be very amusing and laugh spontaneously at the absurdity. I have experienced an increase in senses, to the point of when I am reading a book the pages feel delicious to touch. Staring at my hand as if I've never seen it before. After sobbing during one mediation, I was left with a feeling of bliss lodged in my chest. I am smiling and happy and this won't go away. However, this did not scratch the surface of what happened in my dream last night. This was in the very early stages of sleep after a bought of insomnia. In my dream, I was sitting at a table with a friend (also very spiritual). Suddenly, I had an incredible feeling of disassociation with my body. This increased exponentially, until I slumped over the table (in my dream) as the feeling increased infinitely. My freind was saying "it's ok, it's ok". My ego died, and I was left with the most unbelievable feeling/experience of being God I suppose! It was beautiful and terrifying. I can't describe it. A trillion trillion trillion diamonds all shattering at once, leaving a viscous pool of infinity. It was incredible. Oh god the feeling. I still can't process it. The feeling became so intense, it woke me up. What the fuck was that? I've opened Pandora's Box. How deep does this rabbit hole go?? Please, and comments/reassurance would be MUCH appreciated!

Could be remote viewing rather than Astral Projection. Still amazing!

Hi Ryan, I have found Erin Pavlina's techniques the most useful. Here's what you need to do. Although I said AP and Lucid dreaming are different (they are) conversely, you need to learn how to lucid dream as it put's you in the same physical state you need for AP. Ie being asleep, but realising you are asleep. So have your lucid dream, then at the end of the dream you want to bring yourself back into your physical body. This is the easiest way to put you in a state of sleep paralysis (but there are other methods. Ending a lucid dream is just one). Then you've cracked it. You're consciousness is at that point separate from your physical body and you can initiate separation. You will possibly experience several symptoms of this. Loud whooshing sound, like a jet taking off. Or voices. Or a heavy weight. Then you can just float out of your body. Or you can ask for help from other entities (pretty cool). You can sink down. You kind of end up floating around your mattress, but you can fly off from there. Or you can whoosh out of your body. I hope that helps get you started!

Hi OBEler. Yes, I have gone astral. I just wanted to lay my astral cards on the table and say my experience of AP is very different to lucid dreaming. It's one of those ongoing arguments about AP, you know? My experience of AP so far has been incredibly positive. Even when being tugged out of my body and audible "hallucinations" during separation. It's a goal of mine to work on this year. I think it's and important part of spirituality and raising of consciousness. And it's soooooooo cool! You can fly to space! I mean, who doesn't want to do that!? Have you ever AP's to a black hole? I have not, but am so incredibly curious about it!

I hope not or humanity is truly fucked!

This thread started off about a man eating a burger. Leo mentioned enlightened Monks raping children.

I can. I've decided raping women and children is wrong.

Yes, I have. It's utterly mind blowing. You get the confirmation that your consciousness is separate from your physical body. And you can fly and go into space! And you can experience other beings. Just to be clear, my experience is it is very different from astral projecting being the same as dreaming or lucid dreaming.

You don't say?! Rape is non consensual sex. If a woman consents to non consensual sex, then it's just sex acted out under certain conditions. But it's not rape. Also, rape and fantasy role play rape is the difference between being force fed shit and being invited to dine at a gourmet meal. It seems that enlightenment is being used as a fantastic excuse to do what ever you please, because, you know, your God etc etc, blah blah blah, and under these conditions it's usually, women, children and animal who suffer. As with most (every?) other religion. I hope Leo, who is in a remarkable position to promote enlightenment as a reason to exercise compassion and love, does this. At the moment, it seems not.

Not read it, but my first response would be if it's rape by consent, then it's not rape, it's a contradiction. Rape is non consensual. To me it seems like enlightenment, from the perspective of actualized.org is going down the same route as every other religion. And women, children and animals don't do so well out of those. It seems best it best serves young, single men. Oh well.

Yeah... enlightenment an excuse to subjugate, exploit and abuse women, children and animals. Just what we need more of. A woman being raped is the same as a lion eating it's prey? If that's what enlightenment means then you can keep it.

Some resources I found helpful to meditate and make running a mindful exercise, and could also be useful for those who struggle with sitting meditations. There was a third one, mindful running with the Sakyong, but bizarrely it appears to have been blocked. I'll see if I can source it elsewhere. Enjoy! ?

1) Reconciling parenting and enlightenment. I simply cannot 'detach' from my children. And the fear that goes with this. 2) The different paths of spirituality. Astral projection /paranormal/spirit guides or angels/enlightenment

This is classic sibling rivalry and you need to tell your parents to stop framing you as the victim and him as the aggressor as you are both living up to those labels. THEN once they do that, take responsibility for balancing the relationship and stick up for yourself! Don't be a victim and don't allow him to dominate you!

I have been running my business, very successfully and profitably for about a year. It is a conscious company which I direct to positively contribute to the people it provides a service for. Some of those people being the most vulnerable in our society. My business has two strands. One could make such an amazing, life altering contribution to so many people if I turned my full attention to it. I fully believe it could make a difference, initially locally, but then nationally and there is no reason why not internationally. It could really make a change, be a force for good and I am good at it! BUT it would need my undivided and full attention. The second strand to my business is the money generator. It makes some contribution to the industry sector I work in, but it is limited due to the amount of people I can work with at any one time and it is quite frankly boring. BUT and it's a huge BUT, it brings in the money! I keep on getting tempted to take on more work, because it pays me very well and you know, I've got bills to pay and mouths to feed. I have responsibilities in my personal life which transcend all other commitments. So I throw myself open to the mercy of the Actualized.org community! Any ideas?

Plan your morning routine, set goals (implemented with daily to do lists) and implement habits. Basic practical personal development done!

By the way, you can achieve most of this with Astral Projection. No mind twisting involved! Great if you want evidence of consciousness outside the physical. Just the visiting other spiritual realms. Not necessarily enlightenment. Thought I should make that clear!

I certainly have experience of manifesting what I desire - both positive and negative and experience constant synchronicities. So yes, the law of attraction is certainly more than psychological phenomena in my experience. It's a powerful tool which can be utilised and leveraged for outstanding results.

@Pallero Lucid dreaming and Astral projection are two very different things. Lucid dreaming is still just a dream. Astral projection is your consciousness leaving your physical body. Can you lucid dream you are astral projecting? Yes. But it ain't astral projection. Can you dream you are astral projecting? Yes, but its not astral projection. Astral projection is the validation you might seek to experience the ongoing nature of reality outside the physical.