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This is interesting. I kind of see myself as an extreme case of HSP haha. Yes, spirituality / awakening sometimes feels like it comes easier to me. Its like I can easily tap into it at will. 9 out of 10 times meditation pulls me into some kind of awakened/mystic state. Which is great. I can grow very quickly in a short amount of time because of it. That said The downside is that I'm equally sensitive towards ego. Im very easily addicted for instance. In a weird way these two forces even themselves out. But life turns into this extreme eb and flow between spirituality and addiction. But, that's exactly what turns it into an oppurtunity for growth. Its very easy to notice these things happening to you when a lot of it is based in extremes. Took some time to appreciate that though. And lets not even begin about psychedelics.

I found this great video about how the brain can be rewired to change the way we experience reality. It seems it has a lot to do with focusing the mind at an elevated level. I found this video interesting b-c when I experienced my first awakening there was a distinct shift that felt as if thought had come to a point of perfect focus or hyper focus. Hard to explain exactly but something distinctly shifted in awareness. I remember thinking to myself afterwards "Holy shit I never knew that was possible". It was as if something that had been dormant was suddenly awakened. So that's why I feel it's important to share this video with you guys. It's a bit long but well worth listening to. I'm going to start practicing "re-wiring" of the brain by putting total trust in the fact that the universe knows way more than I do and in the process dropping my old patterned views and expectations of how reality works so that the doors are wide open to all possibilities. So the question is, can we completely re-invent ourselves through our thoughts? I say, why not? For the most part I invented this "self" that I experience now. Why shouldn't I be able to re-invent it?

I think I am not strong enough for this awakening. It is literally a psychological death, it feels like it. Please tell me I am not crazy, I feel like I am not exisiting in this concept of time anymore or I cant. I awakened myself by overthinking to a point where my mind automatically made me awake. Trust me. I FEEL LIKE SUICIDE WOULDNT BE MUCH DIFFERENT THAN THE STATE OF MIND IM IN FOR MONTHS NOW. Unfortunately I havent noticed any of the good yet. Just pure suffering. If that is awakening, I woudve for sure renounced it. Day by day I realize that "I" cant exist anymore due to circumstances in my mind. When will the moment come, when I feel one with myself, not feeling like regretting that I havent killed myself? I am literally not amused with the word "awakening", since it is such a life threatening issue in my case. I feel my ego is just nothing, very vague, about to break, protecting itself by telling me I have to kill it phsically. So when I am just not what I thought I am, my mind tells me everything of me is vague, why should it be so different to killing myself. It is somehow the easier way than carrying around the burden of this issue. It is the same as suicide, every enlightened person says that suicide is the ultimate enlightenment. It is a valid feeling of death. Just psychologically, so, how can this ever be a bliss? I am not suicidal. It just gets more serious in that matter, that everything in my mind I identify with is so existential, so deeply rooted.

Its important to point this out as my own perspective and assumption: I think the drug use has back fired on Leo, he seems to be seeking a drug induced state whilst he's enlightened. I might be wrong but he seems to be equating being enlightened to be the same as tripping on 5-meo. The normal state is an awakened state, but people are blind to it, they don't want normal, they want tripping balls. Not suprised why all the top Guru's are not drug fans, from Sadhguru to Eckhart, to Rupert. Drug use can make you seek drug induced states leaving you desiring much than your average sober experienece. Leo said himself he has a problem with "boredom", totally blew his shit off with all the mystical experiences on drugs. Let's face it awareness is not tied to your drug use, awareness is awareness, the brain is a receptor to awareness, when you use drugs you're causing all sort of chemical and chaos in your brian which AWARENESS IS AWARE OF, hence the CHAOS experiences. Leo was already supposed to be Enlightened in his lastest video before the 30 day meditation you can see he's still clearly seeking. I think he's also way too conceptual, he wants to work it all out logically and understand it, and explain it which you can't. Hence the full circle. Ace soundtrack tho

A young girl finds a baby bird and puts in a cage and watches and plays with it every day, for months she is so happy playing and being with this wonderful new colorful rainbow of a character that she had found, she loved it so much that she wanted to keep it forever! Several months went by and eventually the girl moved on playing less and less with the bird and moving onto new interests in life but still loving the bird(as much as she did) she never let it go. One day she realized the bird was unhappy, un-free, wanted it to fly like the other birds in the sky as she didn't have time to be with birdie all the time and wouldn't play anymore, at the same time she didn't wanna let it go though, (she loved it too much). As she grew older one day she had a breakdown and decided to let the bird free and fly away, at first it was hard for the girl and the bird wasn't sure what to do(because birds born in cages think flying is an illness) but slowly it got the idea then flapped about and eventually flew out of the cage all over the sky in such joy and happiness that the girl's breakdown healed instantly and awakened her that she now saw that she loved the bird more than ever before, this was a new kinda love, a pure love, a divine love that felt like home as she allowed it to be free, to be happy the bird can now be as happy as how the bird made her feel when she had found her and she finally understood that by letting go, you are capable of divine love by letting be, you are giving freedom. This in universal reflect gave her freedom and she became Enlightened. A flower cannot be picked, taken home and expect to continue growing, that is not divine love, A flower must be watered, and appreciated in order to grow in its divine way. This is Divine Love, This is Freedom.

Not for the awakened ones. ''Everything you give is returned'', this is a belief system that really works while you believe. It is bind to the human society as a norm, not as a natural state.

@Solace For a while, at the end of an awakening and for a time thereafter, I slipped into a state of consciousness that felt very much like becoming lucid within a dream, I began yelling internally at something to wake up. The impressions I got was that it was something important, something masculine, and something that we've been trying to wake for a long time. Now, I know how this comes across but I had taken lsa and smoked a tiny bit of marijuana, which led to a very crazy but profound trip. So I remain skeptic that it was just ramblings of my imagination, but seeing your post reminded me of this, and am open to it being taken literally or symbolically. Although you say that the masculine entity has already awakened... I slipped into this state a couple more times with Marijuana, following this, and yes I realize that pot could be the underlying cause of this "state of mind" but just wanted to see what you thought about this. It's also possible it was a complete representation of my own awakening, but for some reason I'm feeling something global. As if it will never wake up until there are enough minds meditating its /their own awakening. Sort of like a collective conscience, or hive mind, directing the overall attention and consciousness of... What? Earth? The galaxy? The entire pocket universe that we currently exist in? Directing the attention towards love and awakening. But to what end? Now I'll be sober tomorrow and be embarrassed for saying all of that but what the hell...

@WellbeingSeeker yes, any positive change can be wired in the awakened space, including positive affirmations that you want to "let in" and make a part of who you are.

Hi WellbeingSeeker, yes, any positive change can be wired in the awakened space, including positive affirmations that you want to "let in" and make a part of who you are. Does that help?

It is an adopted belief. But tell that to the guy I got it from, who experienced his past lifetimes first hand. And what would it matter if there were or were not path lifetimes? That's just another distraction from your heart. What I am saying here is that all forms of isolating yourself, non-dual contemplation or meditation where you "let go" of thoughts or watch out for the ego like a hawk, is becoming unnecessary. The only spiritual practice we need is to love our hearts, and from that foundation should we explore other spiritual practices. There is no work to do, no technique to become a master at, only a heart in need of love and attention. Maybe in a few decades you'll realize how you've already mastered the non-dual path, and with that in mind, you can see why I'm posting this: to save decades of searching for what is already found, and to instead anchor the divine feminine by embracing whatever arises in a endless meditation called reality. No longer are we to be awakened in private and inflamed in public, but to move to the next step, and master the relationship with our heart, and thus the universe. You are already apart of this heart-centered journey, dreaming you are awakening from a mind-centered illusion. It's not about the spiritual experiences we have, but how relaxed we are in each moment, which is a measure of how surrendered we are to what IS.

Not everyone. Depends if you have a narcissistic ego or inferior ego. The ego which uses the spiritual path to be superior to others still needs to awaken the divine masculine. Most people on this forum are past that stage for if you are wondering if you are a narcissistic ego that is exactly what an inferior ego structure would ask. As an awakened being in the mind, you decided to come back to Earth to open the heart. In regards to past lives, I don't know if we did have any for certain (just like I don't know if enlightenment is real either), but I have faith in the hundreds of spiritual teachers who tell us we did, for to believe is to see. Reality is infinite so anything that you could possibly think of in some way shape or form exists

I dont follow your line of thinking. What makes you assume we have had previous lives? And what makes you assume everyone got awakened in some previous life?

@Quanty Well, I suppose I am the one who told [me] that. I told myself this based on my observation of highly gifted individuals like my friends, and the people from the uni I am attending, and the research I did on the topic. I am not sure what you mean by ''destroy in IQ'', thus you have to clarify Also, please clarify the term 'awakened human being' I am not sure what that means either. All I am saying is that mathematics requires hard work, and that gifted individuals— especially young ones— are not used to hard work because they understand most things quite fast and without much conscious effort, thus they think that it has to do with genetics, talent, nature, IQ, ADHD, math deficiency so forth and so on. I do think that I know what you are talking about when you mean 'physical strength'! It is true that when people are in a life or death situation that because of certain chemicals that result in flow-state, adrenaline, endorphin rush, and so on, are capable of exerting more physical strength than usual. Example, lifting up a big chunk of a collapsed building to save someone! Cheers!

Who told you that? Is quite the opposite. An awakened human being will totally destroy in IQ and any field the un-awakened, even in physical strength.

In leo’s latest video, Hawaii Late Night Insights, he said that this awakening might make his body drop dead. Like can this work take you to that point, where you don’t even become awakened and die on the spot? I get physical and literal death as a part of the awakening process, but I didn’t know that your body can just drop dead. I’m not sure I heard leo correctly, but it sounds like he was making a distinction between phsyical/literal death and also that this work might make your body not continue by surrendering your life like a mahasamadhi. Was leo saying this as just something you have to accept, or are there actually cases where people do consciousness work and just drop dead on the floor? I know it is kind of ironic and paradoxical for me to say “I am willing to physically and literally die, but not willing to drop dead on the floor where my heart stops beating” but on a practical level I am doing this consciousness work for some payoff, not to drop dead.

After Enlightenment, you finally understand what it feels like to be Alive and Live Truly. Even a walk down the street is artwork of divine magnificence and pure joy of synchronistic intelligence as everything has awakened/reincarnated like the first time you ever experience Life as a baby. Now this (state of utter bliss and pure understanding) can last from several months to a few years or more depending on your self-work/care and lifestyle choices/situation or it can last indefinitely if you are already pre-prepared from previous awakenings whether it is this life or the previous that you have chosen to forget for a greater purpose. Grasping Oneness to the degree when you cannot differentiate between you and another or even you and an object for that matter is one of the most profound and enlightening experiences, it takes the feeling of HOME to a level beyond your wildest dreams. You can be anywhere in the universe and you will feel completely safe and home in pure love. Love is the Key! ^that is basically what one can explain with words, there is magic like stated above far greater than could ever be expressed but only directly experienced/understood/felt. Bless!

One can share joy to the world and family. But beware! Some people are super jealous while they laugh with you and in secret they want you dead. If one has seen death and can handle the pressure & has awakened, then no problem.

Be like Bruce Lee, Like water. Practice all the arts then absorb the best of each art and create your own. That's how he created Jeet Kune Do. Tommy is one of the best modern examples of Jeet Kune Do. but even JKD is only becomes a limit. This guy is also excellent that has understood bruce lee philosophy This was always natural to me since young, surrender to nature, to the ground, to the natural flow, using no way as the way, absorbing what is universal and effective and discarding what is not in harmony with its flow. Most people find what these guys do super impressive but to me its very simple and common universal sense. Tap into self and infinite knowledge is available. The simpler, the more effective it becomes. What happened with Bruce Lee i believe is that he became an Awakened Being through his Martial Arts but for him that was his focus so he mastered it as mastery comes with awakening. If he had a different lifestyle he would of mastered whatever he was focusing on.

It has been a while since I posted here, but I just wanted to share a great book that I highly recommend: Already Free by Bruce Tift. He is an awakened Buddhist that is also a therapist. The way he describes how the mind works is highly adaptable to western minds. Check it out and compare it to your experience, and I think that many of you will be pleasantly surprised. Anyways, check out the book!

You can only be honest with awakened human beings, the others will misjudge you every time.

I think that the ego takes a huge beating when you drink urine, which makes you more present and awakened how you manifest infinite love is up to each of us I am impressed with this urine drinking, it's creative and courageous, I won't partake but I get the spirit behind the practice

One needs to sleep depending on his spiritual awakened state. If you are 100% growing and in optimized health being awakened the subconscious, then it is likely that sleep is only an unbalance in the body/mind, this is a reason the majority sleep, to recover the balance. Personally i sleep very little or none. We all grow and have parts in our boby/mind that are still in a state of healing and optimization.

The awakened harmony in the body/mind leads to sleep. In harmony there is no need for sleep.

Ey guys (first, sorry for my english, i'm from Spain), just wanna start a new topic to help people like me on guidance for this situation: I recently had a huge spiritual awakening (6-7 months ago). From my point of view, a person who has no idea about personal development and has never known nothing about spiritually or truth, it feel like I rested in the ''awakened state'' for two or three weeks. During that time I feel like i knew what my path in life was going to be, i feel like everyone around me was completely asleep and cried for days seeing how my loved ones were not going to have the dream life I was going to have. I feel my soul when i looked my self in the mirror and cried because I was perfect, life was perfect, and I could see perfectly how people around me were just wasting this beutiful present of ''god''. During this time I found Leo's channel, so I thought my life was going to be great.Now, 6 months later, and after passing a hard identity crisis, I had a super huge ego backlash, anxiety in my chest, feel like I waste the opportunity of living a meaningful life, feel like I'm deeply back asleep, don't know what to do and I think I have some depression going on. During the first months nobody understood me and feel very very alone, insecurities started to kick in and i feel like I sold my soul to feel better during that time. Please tell me what do you think about this.

Unless both parents are awakened and live in harmony it wouldn't be wise.