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Only one I have an interest in is Sat Yoga.. mostly to connect and share, once I feel like I've explored enough on my own.

I can come up with a few: - Healing - Knowing for the sake of knowing - Return to your true nature/God consciousness/Love - Re-dream the dream

? Yes, it's like cloning "yourself", in an unattached manner.

That's pretty sweet you had a spontaneous awakening! Well maybe a bit spooky if you didn't expect it . Yes.. I know that feeling. Or you can merge with it ?.

@Bufo Alvarius It seems closed-minded to me that he seems really convinced about how psychedelics can work mainly based on his own experience and that it would apply the same for everyone. Maybe he simply hasn't met someone who has both gotten awakenings on it and doing the work to raise their baseline, and that the awakenings on psychedelics played a crucial role to increase consciousness sober. But then if he's already closed off to this, even if someone did show up infront of him, they might get completely dismissed. A good lesson from this is that if you're in the "teacher role" for too long without every once in awhile rinsing yourself off to look at things afresh, it can lead to some traps.

Realize God's love for "you" which is totally unconditional.. the struggle for love is inching you towards God... A blessing in disguise.

@Nilsi From what I am gathering, there are awakenings you can get where you're still basically "localized in your current body"; and then there are the awakenings where you're totally "out of your body" and able to perceive all the infinite dreams that have been created or zoom in on any one dream if you wanted. The ladder seems very few people (only two that I know of) have experience with.

Good way to study the ego and how it defends itself... so you can let it go if you wanted or use it more intelligently... (you don't really need a degree though per se).

Well God is able to hold infinite paradoxical and opposing ideas, thoughts, and infinite identities, it's a tall order so I wouldn't be too hard on yourself if that's a struggle. Strangely it can also be very easy if you dropped "yourself" in the picture, but soon as you put your finite self in the picture (that wants a stake in it) it can feel like an uphill battle. Which "identity" to take on/see things through is entirely up to you and you have that freedom to do so.

The point is, whatever arises, aim to accept/love that, to see the beauty/divinity in every manifestation of consciousness, and to aim for the forgiveness of what is deemed to cause harm (including at times your own "unconsciousness" and inability to forgive). Including your "teachers" and "students" and where they're at. Then you have no problems and that is the embodiment of "God consciousness".

The challenge might be, you're still in this finite form and often have to face "others", and 99.99% of the people you interact with will project the seperation on you, and you're forced to act the same. In most situations it's probably not opportune to talk about ego-death and God with someone but sometimes you can't help but bring it up too and that's all okay and up to you how much to share. I guess my take on that is to set yourself up in a situation where you have more "alone time" for tripping and contemplating. And when you say threshold, it's just a matter of how much you spend time contemplating about nature of reality/tripping vs doing survival stuff. I pretty much do it whenever I'm not doing survival stuff. And it's not like you totally forget when engaged with survival stuff, but it is a temporary distraction. It's by design, to embrace both the finite and infinite ;).

Deep down there is a knowing of the true self but is not in the conscious, it's like very deeply buried, that's why you can remember on something like psychedelics. "Forgetting" also works.

Maybe the sense of "other-ness" being lost, it's okay to grieve about that, but also, welcoming a new perspective to take place - that everyone is you pretending not to be you.

Sorry to hear about that. It's really out of your control sometimes. I remember your thread about it recently. You just gotta remind yourself daily that in God's eyes there's absolute equality, you're not lower or higher, but maybe closer to God. And that everything is here to help you (specifically to evolve spiritually), including the hardships. When you're ready, one day you'll realize the ignorance was there to help you expand your love. The majority of people are very cut off from God and fall into the game of hierarchy. It's just that right now it is like a force of gravity anytime you try to interact with someone. Maybe you can write about it, create art out of your repressed feelings and visions, let it be fuel to your evolution. : )

Not exactly though I can see it being interpreted that way, only if it happened naturally not something to force upon. I'm saying that pursuing your desires can help you awaken and grow, if that's something you want. I think you already know my stance on polyamory. In practice poly is hard to pull off long-term in our current level of consciousness, but it's still worth trying if your heart is going in that direction. I mostly these days prefer it as a "dream" than a "manifested reality" unless someone suited for it and/or wanted the same came along. Nothing stops you from loving multiple people from afar however. But yes sex would be a different story and would complicate things unless you can find people with similar understandings/mindset..

Get paid doing something sustainable on your body and mind, use rest of your time to work on your projects. : )

You contain both duh, God just fooled itself into pretending it's not so through the illusion of your form .

The virtue of desire is for the purpose of awakening from one level of consciousness to the next.

Something not said often is.. you're allowed your "personal" relationship with God.

LOL I loved that duck story . Osho mastering the art of teaching. Humor is one of the most effective ways to "slide in" the kernels of truth to a dense mind : P

Guru: the Mind create the world. Therapist: the world create our mind. ? Ultimately: "guru" and "therapist" are one just as the "student" and "teacher" are one, as you integrate more and more of reality and "God consciousness" .