If you want to ascend: descend first!

[WaveInTheOcean]

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If you want to ascend and transcend, you first have to (or at least simultaneously) descend, integrate, accept and ground yourself in so-called physical reality. You can't fuck with survival. You can't intellectualize your way out of survival. First step towards true growth as a person is to accept and acknowledge that we are all in this dream of life together, that we are all fucked up in subtle different ways from childhood, and that we are all basically just doing our best to survive/reproduce socially and physically.

We are all longing for getting immersed, bathed & dissolved in the luminating, burning light of 'Pure Self-Less Consciusness' and 'Infinite Unconditional Love'.
We often think that wisdom, love, heaven, God, peace and happiness is somehow external to us; something we must find and hold on to in the outer, physical world.
Now, this isn't entirely untrue. We need to search outside ourselves in order to realize that money, sex, materalism, success etc. only give us temporary peace and happiness.
Then next, we have to be wise enough to turn our focus inward and recognize that True Love, True Peace, True Happiness & God & Heaven & Consciousness & Wisdom *always* comes from *within*.
You are the architect. You're 'The Whole Universe' hallucinating being a human being accidentally stuck in a chaotic, physical, outer world.
But this isn't a belief-system to adopt, this can only be directly experienced by relaxing into oneself in a profoundly meditative way, where only completely lets go and accepts The Present Moment completely as it is: Unconditional Infinite Love ... - so intense that almost none can surrender to it. Cos surrending to 'it' means giving up one's preconceived 'idea of self', which feels like dying.

Dying is an illusion though. All that dies during a mystical experience is illusion. That which remains is You, whatever You is.

Ego-death, Death, is really just a stripping away of all that is not you. If you can let go of yourself and accept all the Infinite Unconditional Love that is immanent in EVERYTHING,... - then you will become that: Love. You will become trans-human. You've always been it though. You've always been Love Itself. You just know it now. You're awake at last. Lucid dreaming. You remember again... that what you truly are is Infinite Unconditional Empty Love having an imaginary hallucinating, illusory 'human experience', in which You completely fooled and tricked Yourself into believing you were 'a poor little me' -- fragmented, temporary, separated.

For what purpose? Play. Divine play (Lila). Reality is inherently playful. Play Consciously & Lovingly, but most importantly: play. Do the things you know you gotta do, but which you are scared of. From the PoV of The Absolute (Love, Consciousness, God, Norhingness) there is really nothing to fear (except fear itself, although even that is also just play, imaginary). 

Life isn't a journey from A to Z. Life is best described in terms of music ? ???☯️ ???️?. You don't go to a concert to hear the last splashing note being played as fast as possible, right? You go there to participate in play. To enjoy the Whole of it. Just like when you're dancing: you aren't trying to 'get to anywhere'... - the dance itself IS the 'getting to', the purpose, the point.
It's so obvious: the meaning of Life is to live. Love. Play. Excitement. Contrast. Divine Infinite Imagination. ☯️☯️☯️☯️?????????????

[WaveInTheOcean]

And it is so important to be able to talk about the most vulnerable shadowy aspects of yourself. With someone. With someone who listens and understands and accepts and forgives and loves you unconditionally.

By doing the above, you're letting the shining, healing, burning, loving light of Consciusness illuminating 'your shadow' into 'your illuminating, unconditionally forgiving, non-judging empty awareness'.

We are social creatures. Only by "reflection and mirroring through 'others'" can we truly understand ourselves.

Consciousness is so contagious.

When we are fucked up (and we all are), we really need someone who acknowledges THAT ... - and despite THAT still forgives, loves and understand YOU. Someone who truly LISTENS.

I pray that every person in the ? has at least one other person who listens, and understand you on a deep level.

[justamirror]

this sounds just like repeating a philosophy, how are you sure about all this narrative

[WaveInTheOcean]

Cute projection.

Everything i wrote i did not write.

It just happened.

It comes from a place of direct experience.

But believe whatever you want.

I have mercy for your soul beautiful spiritual fellow being. I am you.

[justamirror]

Yeah and everything is a dream and ilussion 

[WaveInTheOcean]

That's reality, yes ???????