This channel and it’s viewers must be in some kind of collective consciousness because you are sometimes exactly in sync with what life bring my attention to.
I enjoyed your BatGaP chat. I was one of those anomalies who had an awakening with no spiritual background or practice. I was used to having autistic shutdowns due to sensory overload/emotional overwhelm/overstimulation, where it was as if the pause button on my character was pressed for a time to recover. This one time though, when life was hellish to the nth degree, it was like the delete button was accidentally pressed instead. The ground dropped out from under "me", and all meanings disappeared. I remember awareness in deep sleep and waking up each morning as if I was a newborn. I was alone in this state for more than a week before the energy started to subside and I began to be pieced back together. I somehow found Adyashanti, and he let me know that I wasn't broken or insane. It feels now like I'm in 2 worlds at once and they are both fighting for my attention. I've been stuck in ambivalence for a decade. You're the first voice since then that rings some bells and makes some sense. Maybe it's time to practice. 💚
Thanks for your comments. You might find value in the practices in the equanimity playlist and the non-duality playlist. You’ve done the hard part now comes the fun part ;)
@Ann Thanks for the encouragement, Ann. 😊 I feel like an NDE-er who kept silent because nobody understood. It WAS a death experience, just not physical. That I contracted back into a little "me" was disappointing. It seems impossible to break free from the conditioning, even though it was all seen through. I'm reminded of a dream I had recently, in which I was lucid and knew that I was in a dream, but when I woke up, I had to wonder if I only dreamt of being lucid in a dream. How could I possibly know? I also have dreams within dreams within dreams, and I'll wake up from a dream and tell someone about the dream I just had, but I'm still dreaming. One time I touched a person's back thinking if I was in a dream, it wouldn't be solid or warm to the touch, but it felt as real as anything. I get strange looks when I say "I think I'm dreaming and I don't know how to wake up." Often in dreams, I wake up when I die (most recently, a gun shot), and it's always disappointing to wake up back into this little "me". Sometimes I confuse dream experiences with waking life. I suppose waking life is still the dream. Deep, dreamless sleep seems to be closest to the truth. I just want to wake up for real. Most of the dreams are nightmares.
I'll add that it's all so seemingly real, but it's all so unbelievable now, that it's no longer a horror, but a comedy. But it's exhausting to wake up exhausted because I just survived the apocalypse for the umpteenth time. 😜
The other is a refraction of myself, of pure conciseness. Love and empathy and the profound engineering of consciousness put that other in my little slice of reality
*love* the visual metaphors. I can't even always explain why or how they're so powerful, there's just a recognition and a sense of 'ohhhh, clever'. Find myself grinning as the inside of a joke
If I understand you correctly, (maybe we are not talking about the same thing,) I experienced the first stage after I shocked myself into dropping the ego during meditation and ended up in the void. When I came back, the mind was silent and everything around me was like a dance, all was dancing with itself, it was perfection, I felt the perfection of every movement and the stillness between movement like a perfectly choreographed dance. This perspective left me after a few days and I continued to do shadow work, but now I could tune into other peoples' energies, recognise their energies as the same, I saw relatives and loved ones in the faces of strangers, as if they are not individuals but other selves. Over lapping these experiences, I often drop my character these days, it feels like I suddenly wake up even more, I don't have an identity to wake up to and yet, I feel more me than ever, so familiar, like remembering who I really am suddenly and yet there's no-one there. I don't know who I am. Is this the second stage I wonder? It's such a surreal journey, I've had some remarkable experiences such as being teleported to another dimension and waking up from the dream, I saw demon eyes looking at me in the void and I see a bright light in my head quite often, a beautiful white light so bright, so clear, shaped like a cloud with brilliant dots inside it. I don't know what I'm seeing but I trust my journey. Any reply would be greatly appreciated.
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake OMG, I'm not sure if I am going to be able to put this into words but re-watching your video just gave me insight, this process is the deconstruction of time and space, which is essentially duality. Time and space need each other in order to exist but when I went to the void and realized that the sense of I AM, was infinite, I lost all value in time. One of the best descriptions for my return state of being was that the perfection I saw was in the timing, that's why I saw it as a dance, movement was like a precisely timed orchestration. I now realize that the second part of the awakening experience is the deconstruction of distance. This has occurred a few ways for me but to answer your question here, I didn't really understand what was happening to me until you asked. I lose identity of the self and in doing so, also drop judgement and concept and comparison. I see objects, I can walk over there, but the subject has been removed and by default, other is removed, so everything becomes nothing, or no thing. When this first started occurring, I would suffer existential crisis, reality was so real, I could hardly touch it with my senses, too real to handle. I was completely freaked out. Now its more like it's just occurring and then it goes away again and the character creeps back in. Thank you very much for that insight, it makes sense to me.
@@themeep2494 thanks for sharing in so much depth. Cool to hear about another’s profound experiences. I’m interested to know more about “shocked yourself” into dropping the ego. In meditation, I often feel the ego slipping, just as a consequence of ‘going deeper’ but inevitably that always initiates a thought about what is happening and it snaps back.
@@TEGVB- I've never been able to go that deep in meditation, all my experiences seem to just happen to me, I blunder along really. How do I explain how I shocked myself without removing the chance to shock yourself? It requires that you are not trying to shock yourself right? I've tried to return to the void using this method, I've come close but not close enough. I read somewhere that gurus occasionally use this method on their students. So, to be constructive here, I'd like to say that it took a great deal of arrogance on my part, plus a Ram Dass conversation coming to mind about his own self realization, when he saw himself sitting on the sofa opposite and said goodbye to every role he played in life until there was nothing left. I found myself doing the same thing with every part of my being, not roles so much as purpose which I guess is the role you play for yourself. I heard that the Rudra granthi means crying, because you have to let go of what you hold most dear. That really is key.
I’m on a thin line of realizing no seperation . It hasn’t really clicked for me but just ordered your book in hopes it can help the shift! I realize tho I am not this! I’m not thoughts or the body etc. fascinating shift!! I have 30 years of trauma that has been coming up through my organs causing pain and illness. I’m at a point now where I welcome illness to cone through. I love it and accept ❤❤❤ Thanks for explaining how you do! You have made a huge impact! You make it easy to follow. ❤❤❤❤ I can’t wait until the shift happens where I see people with no seperation
Awesome interview on Batgap, really enjoyed it, I could feel the wheels turning in Mr.Archers mind.💡So glad you will forever be in the archive so others will be able discover you. That channel has been a tremendous source of information for me, and I know for so many others as well. Also novocaine never worked for me and I spent an entire life tortured 😬at the dentist until a few years ago a dentist tried Septocaine instead-worked like magic, instantly.
Thank you for staying in touch with the relative and give further guidance that is understandable in daily life. I thought my story ended, the most bare desperate personhood that was left, that gave up seeking, after consuming so much knowledge...I had to face the fact that nonduality became a belief system. This hopeless leftover me had to die too, it could not dissolve itself, but it died, and there was just a wonderful recognition. Now...level 2 🙃
Excellent explanation 🙏 It always feels like questions like that and answers to them never actually meet ) By the time the person is ready to comprehend what might be called an “answer”, the question is no longer there.
Love the background on this one! Others to me present my need to look deeper. They don't mean to. They are me on more than one level - they show my delusion to me and they ARE the one consciousness. 🙏 Your talks are so good!
I see others in my consciousness. I sense they are auto bots 🤖 controlled by their illusionary Ego. I have compassion that they are unaware that their ongoing suffering is needless. The sadness in my body for their condition reminds me to accept every experience as it is.
"Separation is illusion", a saying I've heard before and it came to mind during this video. Thanks for your videos and for sharing time and effort with us.
If I may double dip I'd like to share a short story. A while back now, right before the new millennium a series of events happened that seemed totally impossible to me at the time. They were so odd but also so real that I thought I was losing my mind and I was schizophrenic. We've all heard of synchronization of events and for the period of about two years it was almost constant for me. If I was standing around with friends just talking whatever was in my mind at the time came out in what others were saying. I think it's called "thought broadcasting" in psychology. This extended to other things in my environment like tv, music, really anything. It began after I was sitting on my back porch one night and I heard a female voice call my name from a part of the back yard where nobody could have been. I went by both my first name and last name depending on when you met me, it whispered my first name, and then it spoke my last name very clearly. Of course this scared the crap out of me and I ran inside to temy friend what just happened but all I could do was laugh. Every time I tried to speak for the next ten minutes all that came out was uncontrollable laughter. From then on apart from the thought broadcasting alot of other weird things happened. Sometimes when speaking to a friend they would start talking about things in my life they shouldn't have known. I met someone that claimed to know what the voice was but all I could get for an explanation was "It's her calling you". There's plenty more to it but the comment is long enough as is. It eventually stopped when I asked it to because it had such a massive negative impact on my life I just begged for it to stop. I don't think schizophrenia just goes away, so I'm doubtful that's what it was. I think what kicked it off was that I had "deduced" that everything was singular by thinking that if God is real the only way for God to create would be to create from Itself, so we and everything else were just little slices of God. I think all of that was a confirmation that I was correct, but I wasn't really prepared to experience it instead of just thinking of it. Again, I don't think it was a mental illness because when that sort of thing starts to happen to people afflicted with schizophrenia it usually just doesn't go away, and small things like the above have happened over the years but nothing like the initial wave, so since what I saw was impossible from a material reductionist point of view and it wasn't a mental illness then I was "peeking behind the curtian" but I was fighting it and resisting it the whole time. I'm tentatively revisiting the idea again since I feel like I could just "go with it" now and wouldn't try to control it.
Thank you Angelo, your guidance is priceless as always, and listening to your videos always helps immensly to bring myself into a deeper presence. The one issue I currently have and it bothers me a good deal and pulls me out of this meditativeness, is that any time I am around people at work, etc. they keep on interacting with me with rather meaningless conversations (nagging, complaining, random bad jokes, anxious behaviour etc.) , and this pulls me back into the whole thought process due to me feeling rather confused about how to handle interactions with people, since I was never great at communicating with people anyhow (a long ongoing, rather nihalistic view about people and their affais). I keep feeling guilty, nasty and ignorant due to not being able to hold down a conversation, because I can hardly ever feel much of any compassion or interest to engage with them, since I just don't seem to have the ability to symphatise with them on most of the matters, as I don't really hold many steady opinions on things, or they are something these people would really rather not hear from me. The whole matter keeps on sucking me back into my "pain body" of thoughts (as Eckhart Tolle) calls it. I'm really not sure how to go around this... Has anyone gone through similar situations? I could do with some guidance on that matter.
Another great video Angelo! Would be interesting to have a video focused on the enquiry you mentioned would be useful during the second half of the video.
🙏 Only have there been moments of this when I’m not thinking about it. When I’m not looking for anything. When there is no charge. But there is charge with the way of the world. There is so much Shakti arising through this body. On its own. And there is action happening on its own; however, seems cannot rest at peace in the reality or in stretched out timeless moments where peace had been undeniably felt - as there is awareness and felt sense resistance with unfoldment of events that are felt false and a need to protect ‘other’. And a natural lure with a flow that is felt authentic. Yes. There is no untangling but there is still something with natural urges and inclinations to do something. To avoid something or someone at times. There is still a thought that questions and is not totally in the flow though awareness is ever present. Even in dreamtime and sleep. Ever present. A deep seeing into nothing and everything. Yet the shakti can be like a storm. The sense of incompleteness can be there every so often. Reflection can be there. And tears are spontaneous. There is an immensity felt yet there is also a very intimate aloneness felt also. An aloneness that can easily fade itself as no thing. Abyss. So the Shakti is what keeps things active in this world with its own sense of direction. There is still suffering of others felt. Still pain body is felt. And there is awareness of this urging to push past boundaries. I don’t know what this is. Maybe you or You appearing in me or me appearing in You can unlock or clear something.
The equanimity playlist has many approaches to calm that reactivity tendency that overlies energetic restlessness, by investigating reaction triggers and contraction tendencies directly. This can calm to degrees that seem impossible to the usual energetics of the relational mind :)
Many people are antagonists that challenge my controls. Tolerance & patience is important to keep away from anger. I keep telling myself to trust in my destiny & that it's divinely designed. Go easy on yourself. I deserve the best I can scrape out of this tough old world. Be open to new lessons, to learn & grow from. It's just a ride.
Thank you for the video. Interesting that you brought up "solipsism." I had a similar question about whether there are other people (minds/objects) existing from the individual's perspective (mind). It was a question I had because it was relating to my prior career. For example, do people (minds/objects) continue to exist after an individual dies? This question is two fold. One is from the perspective of the individual (who died) and the other is the existence of "people" or "others" after the individual dies. There is no one and only "single mind." There are billions of minds appearing as objects. But there is only one consciousness or awareness or eternal "I." In your video, thank you for sharing the experience of post-awakening (the sense of all encompassing being/consciousness/no separation/no self). Then you mentioned that perceiving, seeing, hearing, etc are still here after awakening. This implies that body/mind is still here. Why? If you wake up from a sleeping dream, all the dream characters and the content in the dream disappear. Why can't it be same with "post-awakening?" It has to be as simple as flicking the off switch of a movie projector. Consciousness, awareness, or "I" doesn't know (stand to be corrected) and doesn't care about the self, the others, or the universe. Did you say that after awakening, the sense of ego or self (small s) falls away and when the ego/self falls away, the "perception" of others fall away too? Thank you.
I realised everything is a concept, in duality, object creates subject and vice versa. Once me is seen as a concept then everything is unreal. There is no source, that would be conceptual too.....definitely falling.
My guess is the reason for creation and the illusion of separation is everything just being one. I don't know what it looks like from other perspectives but if I woke up one day and realized I was all that existed that would utterly terrify me. Maybe that view is too limited and I hope I'm wrong about that and creation is here just because, but even if it's an illusion it makes me feel much better to think others exist. It's not really solipsism in the sense that my perspective is the only one. All other perspectives are equally as real and valid as mine, but there's still only one. To use a modern analogy the individual terminals on a computer network are the network, and there are many computers, but the network is singular.
@@philipp176what you guys gotta understand is that the feeling of loneliness can only exist for a person that feels seperate. when you’re being the consciousness that you really are, then there is only a feeling of unity & completeness. i personally also wonder if we (our true being) is really God/All that is and we just made this “game of separation/individuality” because we were bored ? 🤣 i personally like to believe that there is an actual creator beyond that but who knows 🤷♂️ one day we’ll see i guess. i like the short story “the egg”, you should check it out :) it’s on youtube and only 7 mins long
If "other people" is just a projection of the mind, and pure Universal Consciousness underlies all thought forms, shouldn't those people who are Awake share the same consciousness? And if they do, why do their thoughts remain personal, or private? It seems like if one were merged with Universal Consciousness that all thought forms would be readily accessible, like a hive mind. It seems like there is still a barrier between one awakened person's Universal Consciousness and another awakened person's Universal Consciousness.
@@KK-qd6ro 😂... reality is so raw (fresh) it's still "mooing" like an animal that could have been saved by a vet, it's so underdone and rare. As a vegan, it felt surreal to type out this last sentence to you KK! 😜 Words are tricky buggers!
@@nat998 okay let me break this down for both of you. So cooking is a human invention. So raw means so unprocessed. It's still mooing means alive. It comes from the expression the steak is so raw it's still mooing meaning its practically still alive. So basically reality in is unfiltered state is unbelievably alive.
@@ami156 I think I kinda got the gist didn't I? 😂😜 I said the phrase "so rare it could have been saved by a vet" which in cooking metaphor-speak refers to something being so fresh and rare... Aka reality... It's a beautiful turn of phrase, and I love being schooled and "put in my place" ! ❤️😜
It's clear to me that the question of solipsism does not arise from the perspective of ultimate (non-dual) reality as it depends on a (dualistic) distinction between I and other. However, that doesn't seem to resolve the practical problem of solipsism as seen from the perspective of illusion. Namely, if there is only one perspective within illusion then there is no possibility for other, awakend perspectives to testify to the positive nature of awakening. Without such testimony there seems to be no basis to believe with any confidence that the experience of ultimate reality is not for example in actuality horrible beyond words and that without the illusion one would not fall into madness. How can one proceed at the crucial moment with this uncertainty?
Is it possible that after awakening I fall back asleep. I had phenomenal stages where I was so centered.However, recently, some of my old patterns keeps returning back. I though I was done with this. But.. don’t know. I really don’t want to get back to where I was. Any insights? Thanks
Hi Angelo and community, what about the difference in the access to my own perceptions (thoughts, feelings, sensations) vs other's which don't seem accessible to me. How is this in light of my true nature being the One awareness?
I've experienced complete solipsism from "awakening" gone wrong (psychosis), and to me there is no greater horror. To be that alone... I literally thought everyone around me was AI. Come to think of it, I still think some of them might be lol.
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Interesting. That's usually where I end up when I notice we are one consciousness. I guess it's just the fear based rip off awakening haha
Do you have any advices how to deal with solipsism phase? It sure feels like hell. Isn't it that separate self thinking it imagines others, when the truth is that there is no separate self and everything is one?
Look into disassociation and hii out w it can be used for avoidance especially of simple human situations. I recommend something that challenges your fears around others such as improv drop in classes, public speaking, acting classes (if any of that interested), also Metta practices , volunteer work and the like
i dealt with this shit too and it sure was hell. i had intrusive thoughts about it for months. the only thing that really helps is self-realization. realizing the oneness that has literally always been there. the seperate self (what you think you are) is just a filter that was laid upon reality and it’s actually not even real. remove that through watching the videos on this channel or doing self-inquiry and you will realize yourself to be literally everyone and everything. in that state loneliness can’t exist tho, loneliness can only exist for an unreal illusory person that feels separate. in that state there is only completeness, love, bliss, unity, happiness, peace ❤️
Hi, I took LSD and looked for my head (The Headless Way) and my sense of self fell away. I cannot do this while sober though for longer than a few seconds. What should I do?
Dude, love your super clear guidance. So thankful for you doing this. I've been trying to follow the path to truth since an awakening experience I had a year ago that lasted for a couple months in which I was almost constantly disidentified with thought. Eventually the ego regained control and I've been trying to find the way back but there's so much woo out there. So thank you again for the clear straight forward directions. What are your thoughts on using marijuana during meditation? At times it can really attune me to the present at other times I can go down very deep wells of existential insight but I know this is the activity of the mind and not true presence..
Hard to say for a given individual. Perhaps do it both with and without for a while and see which mediations are clearer. I generally find the use falls away for people over time but there's no absolute reason for that :)
So why would you get out of the way of a car headed straight for you (driven by "another person" that really isn't one)? What would be the point? If you do get out of the way, what are you implying?
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Just cuz seems like the cop out or "too cool for school" answer. With a car barreling for you, you could just as easily not move, knowing there is no self-other distinction there hence no reason to move as, technically, the car and its driver are just other manifestations of the larger consciousness that you are also a form of. I think there's a conventional/ultimate reality distinction that needs to be made here, basically a boilerplate set of qualifiers that account for your actions in the conventional reality space. You could also be distracted while you're driving and accidentally run over somebody's dog and give the same "No reason" answer, i.e., it all just happened, just like that. It might make you enlightened but not a responsible member of the space you're operating in.
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Ah! I think I know what you mean now. You're describing a non-thinking, free flowing (intuitive) automaticity about it. I think I was thrown off by the 'NO reason" response. It made it look like conscious (self-referential) reasoning had some standing in that space and just wasn't being used vs. what I think you mean - that it has no standing there at all there, in any conscious sense, i.e., my question or statement was sort of meaningless.
@@birgit8996 @Birgit always! 🤓 HERE is a virtual song dedication that best encapsulates the "journey home" 😜 "Skywind Official Soundtrack: Nerevar Rising" ( _Fredrik Jonasson_ ) Ignore the context of the orchestral piece, this is pure emotion. Listen with your eyes closed - it's epic! 💐✨
Angelo, let me rephrase the question (please excuse the "intellectualizing"), after awakening does the "conditioning" or "fixations" from the "past" (mind) continue to linger? (My guess is yes bc the video of the 'painful" incident/experience with your toe is proof.) Thank you.
It really depends on what you mean by conditioning. The body is conditioned to survive so that conditioning will remain. ie you won't suddenly forget not to walk in front of traffic. Howevber what changes is that identity completely disentangles itself from any conditioning and this makes all the difference.
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Thank you for the reply. The "conditioning" that I was referring to is a life up to this point (or up to the pointing of awakening) was based on thoughts. A life the a person was living prior to awakening was "conditioned" (made/perceived) by thoughts. Thank you again.
if i had a "friend" that had a particular situation happeing with them. a person they love and suppossed to be close with constantly treats my friend in a dehumanizing way , what would you think or say about that situation?
Here's the thing people don't get about solipsism. First, the Source of All Creation--that is, the ambient and latent energy underpinning all the Universe's matter, as abstract as you can imagine so as to wrap your finite mind 'round an Infinite concept, hence why most of us just use "God" to simplify this longwinded explanation--that Source is "us" at the same time that we're "It." Creator and Creation are essentially the same thing, and Life--note the capital L, as this is more of thinking in terms of hard technical philosophy/theology--Life is what I also call "God's excuse." Basically the Sartre idea that Hell is a man locked in a room with two women is a bit...misleading. The truth I at least have arrived at is that solipsism is what most people experience when they truly encounter "God" this way. I mean, it makes sense--who would ever suspect that every "Other" one could meet in the course of their life is merely another expression of that same Source as themselves. To simplify, it's that line from Buckeroo Banzai: "No matter where you go, there you are." This apparently is true in Everything, from someone dealing with addiction (absent-in-mind as opposed to present) to the mechanics of reincarnation. So yeah, I think all "Others"--that is, any consciousness recognizable as "not myself"--are myriad manifestations of that same Source parallel-processing Itself to essentially self-create the Universe and all the life within it. This may also explain why "the Observable Universe" doesn't seem to end no matter how far our telescopes are able to see to its edge. I think that horizon never ends, just dissolves into the same brightness as depicted in the opening shot from the Robert Zemeckis film Contact, which lends itself to this idea that "God" hides Itself as Souls. (My discovery of All This was a bit of a letdown, felt to me like Garret Reisman did looking down on Earth from the vantage-point of the International Space Station: "Meh" was his exact word for how it looked. "Meh" is also my response to a pantheistic, or even panpsychist, Universe as it Intrinsically Exists re whatever my Soul's choices were that led to such a "revelation lite." Yet here I am, still not so disappointed with God to talk with other avatars about how obvious it is and thus how annoying interacting with the pointlessly holy-rollering Religious are because of how much they over-personify the energies of God in ALL the wrong places. Granted, some Religious people don't flood me with that florid language which is all metaphor but always proffering the burden-of-proof onto you--"Are you ready to work in Service to the Lord?" and the like. In moments like that, instead of flaunting my atheism back at them, I go into "Alien Anthropology" mode and talk with them like I'm writing this. [It works!]) Anyway, yeah, "God" is IMO better thought of as an ambient Source so mania and zealotry don't occur quite so much, which helps. Yes, this DOES mean that all matter is energy condensed to a much slower, denser vibration: all the rocks and dirt and substances we derive from it (even our own excrement, which fertilizes the land)...all ALSO Source, emanating matter the way our souls--the logical counterpoint to the Universe as a macrocosm is each of us as a microcosm ("Creator and Creation," Source's secret hiding right in plain sight, for those discerning enough to find it for themselves)--seem to emanate our bodies. The "from" flows both ways is all. Best part of these ramblings of mine is it's all for my novels anyway. I don't give a flaming f**k about Religion. Besides, Fictive worldbuilding--that is, making stories to entertain others--is my telos as much as it is the work toward that same telos. Just look at what Robert Jordan did with the Wheel of Time by figuring out his story's cosmology first. The biggest part of that story seems to be that solipsism is a misperception of Source's enormity, as well as how humanity direly misappropriates itself by pointlessly infighting when we're all the same behind what Incarnation into "the lower geometries" does to us. (Yeah, the metaphor of humanity as "fallen from grace" is also a misperception. Fact of the matter is, the world wouldn't feel quite so hellish if other people weren't all around us BELIEVING in the world as it is. Not thinking of the shifting, protean, shapechanging nature of the Universe--of which scientific evolution is very much a part--is what makes that hellishness more concrete, and the more people believe IN such self-referential concreteness, the more solid it seems to become. Denying it outright is even worse. But that's where my mind bridles with what I like to call "God's Own Ego"--that's the classic idea that "Love Conquers All" because Love is the highest emotional state possible. With this is mind, one could theoretically tell "God" to "go f**k Yourself, my Lord!" and you've said something rather funny, especially if one's Intention isn't to "rape God" but to tell "God" to "be fruitful and multiply" more ironically than George Carlin or Bill Hicks managed to do because they didn't have the full definitions. So though it SOUNDS like an expletive as well as an insult--which it is, 'cause you CAN use Source itself, say the empty air right next to you, as the greatest stress-call ever pretend its a chunk of coal you're crushing into a diamond just holding it, etc.--it's also a blessing sent out to all the Universe's children Anywhere Ever. Creation is that vast, after you get that much of a handle on your own thoughts, controlling them rather than the other way around, the addictive just-lull-me-to-sleep-already inertia that marks most such states...) Just sayin', don't be afraid to have fun with it despite all that. "Turn[ing] the other cheek" CAN be fun. So can idle pedantry like mine. ;)
I had a very powerful DMT experience and the first question I kept asking myself out loud was other people? Other people? Like I had no idea what that is No one was there with me it was super interesting and confusing 🤣
When you say 'filters', I'm assuming that you're referring to thoughts and thoughts act as filters since they are "born" from memory, which act as a persisting filter. Is it this that veils what you are referring to as 'enlightenment'?
Yes tho there are gross and subtle thoughts. In later stage awakening the filters or non-conceptual and very subtle so easy to overlook they are even there :)
Good question. The key insight with deep realization, specifically realization of no-self, is not the absence of thoughts, but rather the complete disentanglement of identity from thoughts and perceptual filters such that the appearance of self/selfing in all its forms is obliterated.
@Ann Hi I'm still around I think. I'm embracing paradox as my new norm. Like listerning to a soft lyrical voice speaking crap. LOL🎶😵💫 There's a lot of strange people on youtube. Come back to Doc for some sanity.😄
Not two! Hah 😂... "a soft lyrical voice talking crap..."!!!!! I love your humour, too funny😜 "People are strange, when you're a stranger..." - The Doors... Check out Buddha at the Gas Pump's interview with Marc Leavitt. I'm half an hour in and it's blowing my mind! Got his 3 books on kindle and def plan to read 'em. What a fascinating dude and story. Everything he says makes total sense - love his lucid dreaming analogy. I've been into the philosophical nature of reality and dreaming since I discovered Castaneda as a teenager. So this is right up my alley 😎
There appears to be stages but stages appear and disapear. Nothing ever gets built. So you really never go anywhere or get anything. You end up in the same exact spot you started. It does seem like its somehow seen different tho. Theres no importance to imagination and whatever seems to happen.
Do you think one is better or worse? The experience of sex or the experience of food? Is one divine and one mundane? Does one lead to suffering and the other not?
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake In my current perception yes there is a difference. Between food and sex, between pain and pleasure, etc. Those are different kind of sensations.
@@shlomobachar4123 when you say between food and sex, is that a different distinction than between pain and pleasure. Which distinction between a more primary? Which cones first and which as added on after?
where does ( demonstrable informatioon) sit with this? dont we have millions of peices of demonstrable information that 7.8 billion human beings exist on earth? each with their own inner experiance just like yours? ( as opposesed to 4 billion unicorn do NOT exist on earth, because of (demonstrable information) the entire inner investigation is based on ( demonstrtable information ) you are using that which can be demonstrated as a way of differentiating between nonsense and reality. I dont understand this aspect sir.
This channel and it’s viewers must be in some kind of collective consciousness because you are sometimes exactly in sync with what life bring my attention to.
One of us! One of us! Lol!
seriously, how do these videos not have more views?
People are most interrested in the Kardashian familly.
I enjoyed your BatGaP chat. I was one of those anomalies who had an awakening with no spiritual background or practice. I was used to having autistic shutdowns due to sensory overload/emotional overwhelm/overstimulation, where it was as if the pause button on my character was pressed for a time to recover. This one time though, when life was hellish to the nth degree, it was like the delete button was accidentally pressed instead. The ground dropped out from under "me", and all meanings disappeared. I remember awareness in deep sleep and waking up each morning as if I was a newborn. I was alone in this state for more than a week before the energy started to subside and I began to be pieced back together. I somehow found Adyashanti, and he let me know that I wasn't broken or insane. It feels now like I'm in 2 worlds at once and they are both fighting for my attention. I've been stuck in ambivalence for a decade. You're the first voice since then that rings some bells and makes some sense. Maybe it's time to practice. 💚
Thanks for your comments. You might find value in the practices in the equanimity playlist and the non-duality playlist. You’ve done the hard part now comes the fun part ;)
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Thanks, Angelo. I, too, look forward to your next book! 🙃🙂
And yeah Adyashanti is about as good as it gets. Can’t say enough good about that guy.
@Ann Thanks for the encouragement, Ann. 😊 I feel like an NDE-er who kept silent because nobody understood. It WAS a death experience, just not physical. That I contracted back into a little "me" was disappointing. It seems impossible to break free from the conditioning, even though it was all seen through. I'm reminded of a dream I had recently, in which I was lucid and knew that I was in a dream, but when I woke up, I had to wonder if I only dreamt of being lucid in a dream. How could I possibly know? I also have dreams within dreams within dreams, and I'll wake up from a dream and tell someone about the dream I just had, but I'm still dreaming. One time I touched a person's back thinking if I was in a dream, it wouldn't be solid or warm to the touch, but it felt as real as anything. I get strange looks when I say "I think I'm dreaming and I don't know how to wake up." Often in dreams, I wake up when I die (most recently, a gun shot), and it's always disappointing to wake up back into this little "me". Sometimes I confuse dream experiences with waking life. I suppose waking life is still the dream. Deep, dreamless sleep seems to be closest to the truth. I just want to wake up for real. Most of the dreams are nightmares.
I'll add that it's all so seemingly real, but it's all so unbelievable now, that it's no longer a horror, but a comedy. But it's exhausting to wake up exhausted because I just survived the apocalypse for the umpteenth time. 😜
The other is a refraction of myself, of pure conciseness. Love and empathy and the profound engineering of consciousness put that other in my little slice of reality
What is that other is a guy with a knife trying to stab you?
*love* the visual metaphors. I can't even always explain why or how they're so powerful, there's just a recognition and a sense of 'ohhhh, clever'. Find myself grinning as the inside of a joke
the Universe grinning!
If I understand you correctly, (maybe we are not talking about the same thing,) I experienced the first stage after I shocked myself into dropping the ego during meditation and ended up in the void. When I came back, the mind was silent and everything around me was like a dance, all was dancing with itself, it was perfection, I felt the perfection of every movement and the stillness between movement like a perfectly choreographed dance. This perspective left me after a few days and I continued to do shadow work, but now I could tune into other peoples' energies, recognise their energies as the same, I saw relatives and loved ones in the faces of strangers, as if they are not individuals but other selves. Over lapping these experiences, I often drop my character these days, it feels like I suddenly wake up even more, I don't have an identity to wake up to and yet, I feel more me than ever, so familiar, like remembering who I really am suddenly and yet there's no-one there. I don't know who I am. Is this the second stage I wonder? It's such a surreal journey, I've had some remarkable experiences such as being teleported to another dimension and waking up from the dream, I saw demon eyes looking at me in the void and I see a bright light in my head quite often, a beautiful white light so bright, so clear, shaped like a cloud with brilliant dots inside it. I don't know what I'm seeing but I trust my journey. Any reply would be greatly appreciated.
Awesome, deep insights indeed. Do you experience physical boundaries like are objects "over there," in the visual field?
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake OMG, I'm not sure if I am going to be able to put this into words but re-watching your video just gave me insight, this process is the deconstruction of time and space, which is essentially duality. Time and space need each other in order to exist but when I went to the void and realized that the sense of I AM, was infinite, I lost all value in time. One of the best descriptions for my return state of being was that the perfection I saw was in the timing, that's why I saw it as a dance, movement was like a precisely timed orchestration. I now realize that the second part of the awakening experience is the deconstruction of distance. This has occurred a few ways for me but to answer your question here, I didn't really understand what was happening to me until you asked. I lose identity of the self and in doing so, also drop judgement and concept and comparison. I see objects, I can walk over there, but the subject has been removed and by default, other is removed, so everything becomes nothing, or no thing. When this first started occurring, I would suffer existential crisis, reality was so real, I could hardly touch it with my senses, too real to handle. I was completely freaked out. Now its more like it's just occurring and then it goes away again and the character creeps back in. Thank you very much for that insight, it makes sense to me.
@@themeep2494 thanks for sharing in so much depth. Cool to hear about another’s profound experiences. I’m interested to know more about “shocked yourself” into dropping the ego. In meditation, I often feel the ego slipping, just as a consequence of ‘going deeper’ but inevitably that always initiates a thought about what is happening and it snaps back.
@@TEGVB- I've never been able to go that deep in meditation, all my experiences seem to just happen to me, I blunder along really. How do I explain how I shocked myself without removing the chance to shock yourself? It requires that you are not trying to shock yourself right? I've tried to return to the void using this method, I've come close but not close enough. I read somewhere that gurus occasionally use this method on their students. So, to be constructive here, I'd like to say that it took a great deal of arrogance on my part, plus a Ram Dass conversation coming to mind about his own self realization, when he saw himself sitting on the sofa opposite and said goodbye to every role he played in life until there was nothing left. I found myself doing the same thing with every part of my being, not roles so much as purpose which I guess is the role you play for yourself. I heard that the Rudra granthi means crying, because you have to let go of what you hold most dear. That really is key.
So well written, thank you
You have helped me enormously . You have an uncanny gift of communicating truths like few others have. Thank you so much
You are so welcome
The question makes me smile 😊.
Thanks for another video. ❤
My pleasure 😊
Grateful for this.
Thanks a lot! This is a question I couldn't find any answer that satisfied me. Finally.
I’m on a thin line of realizing no seperation . It hasn’t really clicked for me but just ordered your book in hopes it can help the shift!
I realize tho I am not this! I’m not thoughts or the body etc. fascinating shift!! I have 30 years of trauma that has been coming up through my organs causing pain and illness. I’m at a point now where I welcome illness to cone through. I love it and accept
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Thanks for explaining how you do! You have made a huge impact! You make it easy to follow. ❤❤❤❤
I can’t wait until the shift happens where I see people with no seperation
Excellent answer to my question! Dr. D is keeping it WAY REAL and tunic-free!
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Awesome interview on Batgap, really enjoyed it, I could feel the wheels turning in Mr.Archers mind.💡So glad you will forever be in the archive so others will be able discover you. That channel has been a tremendous source of information for me, and I know for so many others as well.
Also novocaine never worked for me and I spent an entire life tortured 😬at the dentist until a few years ago a dentist tried Septocaine instead-worked like magic, instantly.
Oh awesome, glad you figured that out. It’s quite painful 😣
Thank you for staying in touch with the relative and give further guidance that is understandable in daily life. I thought my story ended, the most bare desperate personhood that was left, that gave up seeking, after consuming so much knowledge...I had to face the fact that nonduality became a belief system. This hopeless leftover me had to die too, it could not dissolve itself, but it died, and there was just a wonderful recognition. Now...level 2 🙃
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Excellent explanation 🙏 It always feels like questions like that and answers to them never actually meet ) By the time the person is ready to comprehend what might be called an “answer”, the question is no longer there.
Yes, exactly
Love the background on this one!
Others to me present my need to look deeper. They don't mean to. They are me on more than one level - they show my delusion to me and they ARE the one consciousness. 🙏
Your talks are so good!
I see people as wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube men. The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind... 🌬
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Love it
All this fleshy jiggling is oddly funny😅
I see others in my consciousness. I sense they are auto bots 🤖 controlled by their illusionary Ego. I have compassion that they are unaware that their ongoing suffering is needless. The sadness in my body for their condition reminds me to accept every experience as it is.
"Separation is illusion", a saying I've heard before and it came to mind during this video.
Thanks for your videos and for sharing time and effort with us.
My pleasure!
If I may double dip I'd like to share a short story. A while back now, right before the new millennium a series of events happened that seemed totally impossible to me at the time. They were so odd but also so real that I thought I was losing my mind and I was schizophrenic.
We've all heard of synchronization of events and for the period of about two years it was almost constant for me. If I was standing around with friends just talking whatever was in my mind at the time came out in what others were saying. I think it's called "thought broadcasting" in psychology. This extended to other things in my environment like tv, music, really anything. It began after I was sitting on my back porch one night and I heard a female voice call my name from a part of the back yard where nobody could have been. I went by both my first name and last name depending on when you met me, it whispered my first name, and then it spoke my last name very clearly. Of course this scared the crap out of me and I ran inside to temy friend what just happened but all I could do was laugh. Every time I tried to speak for the next ten minutes all that came out was uncontrollable laughter.
From then on apart from the thought broadcasting alot of other weird things happened. Sometimes when speaking to a friend they would start talking about things in my life they shouldn't have known. I met someone that claimed to know what the voice was but all I could get for an explanation was "It's her calling you". There's plenty more to it but the comment is long enough as is.
It eventually stopped when I asked it to because it had such a massive negative impact on my life I just begged for it to stop. I don't think schizophrenia just goes away, so I'm doubtful that's what it was. I think what kicked it off was that I had "deduced" that everything was singular by thinking that if God is real the only way for God to create would be to create from Itself, so we and everything else were just little slices of God. I think all of that was a confirmation that I was correct, but I wasn't really prepared to experience it instead of just thinking of it. Again, I don't think it was a mental illness because when that sort of thing starts to happen to people afflicted with schizophrenia it usually just doesn't go away, and small things like the above have happened over the years but nothing like the initial wave, so since what I saw was impossible from a material reductionist point of view and it wasn't a mental illness then I was "peeking behind the curtian" but I was fighting it and resisting it the whole time. I'm tentatively revisiting the idea again since I feel like I could just "go with it" now and wouldn't try to control it.
That’s pretty wild, perhaps you have access to a sort of telepathy. Thx for sharing.
Thank you Angelo, your guidance is priceless as always, and listening to your videos always helps immensly to bring myself into a deeper presence. The one issue I currently have and it bothers me a good deal and pulls me out of this meditativeness, is that any time I am around people at work, etc. they keep on interacting with me with rather meaningless conversations (nagging, complaining, random bad jokes, anxious behaviour etc.) , and this pulls me back into the whole thought process due to me feeling rather confused about how to handle interactions with people, since I was never great at communicating with people anyhow (a long ongoing, rather nihalistic view about people and their affais). I keep feeling guilty, nasty and ignorant due to not being able to hold down a conversation, because I can hardly ever feel much of any compassion or interest to engage with them, since I just don't seem to have the ability to symphatise with them on most of the matters, as I don't really hold many steady opinions on things, or they are something these people would really rather not hear from me. The whole matter keeps on sucking me back into my "pain body" of thoughts (as Eckhart Tolle) calls it. I'm really not sure how to go around this... Has anyone gone through similar situations? I could do with some guidance on that matter.
As always 🙏🏽 . I needed this today and will listen again tomorrow 🥰
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The background visual and sounds were spot on for this topic!
Another great video Angelo! Would be interesting to have a video focused on the enquiry you mentioned would be useful during the second half of the video.
Great suggestion!
Thank you! 🙏❤️👍
🙏 Only have there been moments of this when I’m not thinking about it. When I’m not looking for anything. When there is no charge. But there is charge with the way of the world. There is so much Shakti arising through this body. On its own. And there is action happening on its own; however, seems cannot rest at peace in the reality or in stretched out timeless moments where peace had been undeniably felt - as there is awareness and felt sense resistance with unfoldment of events that are felt false and a need to protect ‘other’. And a natural lure with a flow that is felt authentic. Yes. There is no untangling but there is still something with natural urges and inclinations to do something. To avoid something or someone at times. There is still a thought that questions and is not totally in the flow though awareness is ever present. Even in dreamtime and sleep. Ever present. A deep seeing into nothing and everything. Yet the shakti can be like a storm. The sense of incompleteness can be there every so often. Reflection can be there. And tears are spontaneous. There is an immensity felt yet there is also a very intimate aloneness felt also. An aloneness that can easily fade itself as no thing. Abyss. So the Shakti is what keeps things active in this world with its own sense of direction. There is still suffering of others felt. Still pain body is felt. And there is awareness of this urging to push past boundaries. I don’t know what this is. Maybe you or You appearing in me or me appearing in You can unlock or clear something.
The equanimity playlist has many approaches to calm that reactivity tendency that overlies energetic restlessness, by investigating reaction triggers and contraction tendencies directly. This can calm to degrees that seem impossible to the usual energetics of the relational mind :)
Thank you
Welcome 🙏🏼
Many people are antagonists that challenge my controls.
Tolerance & patience is important to keep away from anger.
I keep telling myself to trust in my destiny & that it's divinely designed.
Go easy on yourself. I deserve the best I can scrape out of this tough old world.
Be open to new lessons, to learn & grow from.
It's just a ride.
Thank you 😊
You're welcome 😊
Excellent explanation. Very clear. Thank you!
I Like this,,,,The road of liberation îs the liberation itself,
Practice-Enlightenment (Dogen's term not mine )
I love your production choices and your voice.
Thank you
dude, this is deep.
its all in the Now.....
What is looking out Every ones eyes is the same ONE Awareness
Thank you for the video. Interesting that you brought up "solipsism." I had a similar question about whether there are other people (minds/objects) existing from the individual's perspective (mind). It was a question I had because it was relating to my prior career. For example, do people (minds/objects) continue to exist after an individual dies? This question is two fold. One is from the perspective of the individual (who died) and the other is the existence of "people" or "others" after the individual dies. There is no one and only "single mind." There are billions of minds appearing as objects. But there is only one consciousness or awareness or eternal "I." In your video, thank you for sharing the experience of post-awakening (the sense of all encompassing being/consciousness/no separation/no self).
Then you mentioned that perceiving, seeing, hearing, etc are still here after awakening. This implies that body/mind is still here. Why? If you wake up from a sleeping dream, all the dream characters and the content in the dream disappear. Why can't it be same with "post-awakening?"
It has to be as simple as flicking the off switch of a movie projector. Consciousness, awareness, or "I" doesn't know (stand to be corrected) and doesn't care about the self, the others, or the universe. Did you say that after awakening, the sense of ego or self (small s) falls away and when the ego/self falls away, the "perception" of others fall away too? Thank you.
I realised everything is a concept, in duality, object creates subject and vice versa. Once me is seen as a concept then everything is unreal. There is no source, that would be conceptual too.....definitely falling.
Very nice
'Once me is seen as a concept' - That really clicked!!! Thank you John!!!
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Gratitude.
My guess is the reason for creation and the illusion of separation is everything just being one. I don't know what it looks like from other perspectives but if I woke up one day and realized I was all that existed that would utterly terrify me. Maybe that view is too limited and I hope I'm wrong about that and creation is here just because, but even if it's an illusion it makes me feel much better to think others exist.
It's not really solipsism in the sense that my perspective is the only one. All other perspectives are equally as real and valid as mine, but there's still only one. To use a modern analogy the individual terminals on a computer network are the network, and there are many computers, but the network is singular.
Hey, I am in a similar state as you describe here. Has this perception/insight changed for you since you wrote that comment? Thank you for a reply 🙏
@@philipp176what you guys gotta understand is that the feeling of loneliness can only exist for a person that feels seperate. when you’re being the consciousness that you really are, then there is only a feeling of unity & completeness. i personally also wonder if we (our true being) is really God/All that is and we just made this “game of separation/individuality” because we were bored ? 🤣 i personally like to believe that there is an actual creator beyond that but who knows 🤷♂️ one day we’ll see i guess. i like the short story “the egg”, you should check it out :) it’s on youtube and only 7 mins long
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If "other people" is just a projection of the mind, and pure Universal Consciousness underlies all thought forms, shouldn't those people who are Awake share the same consciousness? And if they do, why do their thoughts remain personal, or private? It seems like if one were merged with Universal Consciousness that all thought forms would be readily accessible, like a hive mind. It seems like there is still a barrier between one awakened person's Universal Consciousness and another awakened person's Universal Consciousness.
Reality so raw it's still mooing 🐄
your words confuse me. do you mean reality is a wounded cow?
@@KK-qd6ro 😆?
@@KK-qd6ro 😂... reality is so raw (fresh) it's still "mooing" like an animal that could have been saved by a vet, it's so underdone and rare. As a vegan, it felt surreal to type out this last sentence to you KK! 😜
Words are tricky buggers!
@@nat998 okay let me break this down for both of you. So cooking is a human invention. So raw means so unprocessed. It's still mooing means alive. It comes from the expression the steak is so raw it's still mooing meaning its practically still alive. So basically reality in is unfiltered state is unbelievably alive.
@@ami156 I think I kinda got the gist didn't I? 😂😜 I said the phrase "so rare it could have been saved by a vet" which in cooking metaphor-speak refers to something being so fresh and rare... Aka reality...
It's a beautiful turn of phrase, and I love being schooled and "put in my place" ! ❤️😜
What other people...there is only one...resistance is futile....there is only Borg!
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It's clear to me that the question of solipsism does not arise from the perspective of ultimate (non-dual) reality as it depends on a (dualistic) distinction between I and other.
However, that doesn't seem to resolve the practical problem of solipsism as seen from the perspective of illusion.
Namely, if there is only one perspective within illusion then there is no possibility for other, awakend perspectives to testify to the positive nature of awakening.
Without such testimony there seems to be no basis to believe with any confidence that the experience of ultimate reality is not for example in actuality horrible beyond words and that without the illusion one would not fall into madness.
How can one proceed at the crucial moment with this uncertainty?
And the so called enlighten people, and they are not.
That is their vanity.
Humility is not the opposite of vanity
hey man, thank you so much for your videos!!
After a DMT trip I was really just asking out loud, other people? Other people? No one was there to hear me
Is it possible that after awakening I fall back asleep. I had phenomenal stages where I was so centered.However, recently, some of my old patterns keeps returning back. I though I was done with this. But.. don’t know. I really don’t want to get back to where I was. Any insights? Thanks
A treeue awakening is only the beginning ;) Start with the equanimity playlist :)
Hi Angelo and community, what about the difference in the access to my own perceptions (thoughts, feelings, sensations) vs other's which don't seem accessible to me. How is this in light of my true nature being the One awareness?
I've experienced complete solipsism from "awakening" gone wrong (psychosis), and to me there is no greater horror. To be that alone... I literally thought everyone around me was AI.
Come to think of it, I still think some of them might be lol.
That’s not awakening (at least what I refer to as awakening), but rather severe disassociation. Shinzen Young calls it “enlightenments evil twin”
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Interesting. That's usually where I end up when I notice we are one consciousness. I guess it's just the fear based rip off awakening haha
Do you have any advices how to deal with solipsism phase? It sure feels like hell. Isn't it that separate self thinking it imagines others, when the truth is that there is no separate self and everything is one?
Look into disassociation and hii out w it can be used for avoidance especially of simple human situations. I recommend something that challenges your fears around others such as improv drop in classes, public speaking, acting classes (if any of that interested), also Metta practices , volunteer work and the like
i dealt with this shit too and it sure was hell. i had intrusive thoughts about it for months. the only thing that really helps is self-realization. realizing the oneness that has literally always been there. the seperate self (what you think you are) is just a filter that was laid upon reality and it’s actually not even real. remove that through watching the videos on this channel or doing self-inquiry and you will realize yourself to be literally everyone and everything. in that state loneliness can’t exist tho, loneliness can only exist for an unreal illusory person that feels separate. in that state there is only completeness, love, bliss, unity, happiness, peace ❤️
Hi, I took LSD and looked for my head (The Headless Way) and my sense of self fell away. I cannot do this while sober though for longer than a few seconds. What should I do?
Work on awakening/kensho. The playlist basics of awakening then awakening approaches. Also my book is geared largely toward awakening
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Thanks, I have seen your book recommended before. I will order it soon.
so fun to run into you here. I never get these backgrounds on my zoom settings. Do you just take extra shrooms and they emerge?
So much of this (it seems) is in letting things be. Where IS that lad who assumed everything and one needed fixing? 😂
Exactky. Great question
When it îs All sayed,,,,the reason of comentary drop,,,but beyond reason are will or wish some kind of sentence,,,,in this case the comment îs Yes!?
Dude, love your super clear guidance. So thankful for you doing this. I've been trying to follow the path to truth since an awakening experience I had a year ago that lasted for a couple months in which I was almost constantly disidentified with thought. Eventually the ego regained control and I've been trying to find the way back but there's so much woo out there. So thank you again for the clear straight forward directions. What are your thoughts on using marijuana during meditation? At times it can really attune me to the present at other times I can go down very deep wells of existential insight but I know this is the activity of the mind and not true presence..
Hard to say for a given individual. Perhaps do it both with and without for a while and see which mediations are clearer. I generally find the use falls away for people over time but there's no absolute reason for that :)
So why would you get out of the way of a car headed straight for you (driven by "another person" that really isn't one)? What would be the point? If you do get out of the way, what are you implying?
NO reason , it just happens
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Just cuz seems like the cop out or "too cool for school" answer. With a car barreling for you, you could just as easily not move, knowing there is no self-other distinction there hence no reason to move as, technically, the car and its driver are just other manifestations of the larger consciousness that you are also a form of.
I think there's a conventional/ultimate reality distinction that needs to be made here, basically a boilerplate set of qualifiers that account for your actions in the conventional reality space. You could also be distracted while you're driving and accidentally run over somebody's dog and give the same "No reason" answer, i.e., it all just happened, just like that. It might make you enlightened but not a responsible member of the space you're operating in.
@@numidieyou’re intellectualizing it. This is about direct insight not analysis. When the insight is clear it’s very obvious.
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Do you do advising or coaching?... or are you available for Q&A type exchanges?
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Ah! I think I know what you mean now. You're describing a non-thinking, free flowing (intuitive) automaticity about it.
I think I was thrown off by the 'NO reason" response. It made it look like conscious (self-referential) reasoning had some standing in that space and just wasn't being used vs. what I think you mean - that it has no standing there at all there, in any conscious sense, i.e., my question or statement was sort of meaningless.
...No others.....⭕
@Ann
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..and others too (as a thought)....at the same time....it's crazy🙃
One being, nothing else.....yet different by thought (separation)
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pure love xx
@@birgit8996 @Birgit always! 🤓
HERE is a virtual song dedication that best encapsulates the "journey home" 😜
"Skywind Official Soundtrack: Nerevar Rising" ( _Fredrik Jonasson_ )
Ignore the context of the orchestral piece, this is pure emotion. Listen with your eyes closed - it's epic!
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Angelo, let me rephrase the question (please excuse the "intellectualizing"), after awakening does the "conditioning" or "fixations" from the "past" (mind) continue to linger? (My guess is yes bc the video of the 'painful" incident/experience with your toe is proof.) Thank you.
It really depends on what you mean by conditioning. The body is conditioned to survive so that conditioning will remain. ie you won't suddenly forget not to walk in front of traffic. Howevber what changes is that identity completely disentangles itself from any conditioning and this makes all the difference.
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Thank you for the reply. The "conditioning" that I was referring to is a life up to this point (or up to the pointing of awakening) was based on thoughts. A life the a person was living prior to awakening was "conditioned" (made/perceived) by thoughts. Thank you again.
@@Robert-yi8hh yes I agree. The initial shift is a shift out of a solidly thought conditioned identity.
if i had a "friend" that had a particular situation happeing with them. a person they love and suppossed to be close with constantly treats my friend in a dehumanizing way , what would you think or say about that situation?
should you stay with a person unwilling to treat you well? or get away from them?
Here's the thing people don't get about solipsism. First, the Source of All Creation--that is, the ambient and latent energy underpinning all the Universe's matter, as abstract as you can imagine so as to wrap your finite mind 'round an Infinite concept, hence why most of us just use "God" to simplify this longwinded explanation--that Source is "us" at the same time that we're "It." Creator and Creation are essentially the same thing, and Life--note the capital L, as this is more of thinking in terms of hard technical philosophy/theology--Life is what I also call "God's excuse." Basically the Sartre idea that Hell is a man locked in a room with two women is a bit...misleading. The truth I at least have arrived at is that solipsism is what most people experience when they truly encounter "God" this way. I mean, it makes sense--who would ever suspect that every "Other" one could meet in the course of their life is merely another expression of that same Source as themselves.
To simplify, it's that line from Buckeroo Banzai: "No matter where you go, there you are." This apparently is true in Everything, from someone dealing with addiction (absent-in-mind as opposed to present) to the mechanics of reincarnation. So yeah, I think all "Others"--that is, any consciousness recognizable as "not myself"--are myriad manifestations of that same Source parallel-processing Itself to essentially self-create the Universe and all the life within it. This may also explain why "the Observable Universe" doesn't seem to end no matter how far our telescopes are able to see to its edge. I think that horizon never ends, just dissolves into the same brightness as depicted in the opening shot from the Robert Zemeckis film Contact, which lends itself to this idea that "God" hides Itself as Souls. (My discovery of All This was a bit of a letdown, felt to me like Garret Reisman did looking down on Earth from the vantage-point of the International Space Station: "Meh" was his exact word for how it looked. "Meh" is also my response to a pantheistic, or even panpsychist, Universe as it Intrinsically Exists re whatever my Soul's choices were that led to such a "revelation lite." Yet here I am, still not so disappointed with God to talk with other avatars about how obvious it is and thus how annoying interacting with the pointlessly holy-rollering Religious are because of how much they over-personify the energies of God in ALL the wrong places. Granted, some Religious people don't flood me with that florid language which is all metaphor but always proffering the burden-of-proof onto you--"Are you ready to work in Service to the Lord?" and the like. In moments like that, instead of flaunting my atheism back at them, I go into "Alien Anthropology" mode and talk with them like I'm writing this. [It works!]) Anyway, yeah, "God" is IMO better thought of as an ambient Source so mania and zealotry don't occur quite so much, which helps.
Yes, this DOES mean that all matter is energy condensed to a much slower, denser vibration: all the rocks and dirt and substances we derive from it (even our own excrement, which fertilizes the land)...all ALSO Source, emanating matter the way our souls--the logical counterpoint to the Universe as a macrocosm is each of us as a microcosm ("Creator and Creation," Source's secret hiding right in plain sight, for those discerning enough to find it for themselves)--seem to emanate our bodies. The "from" flows both ways is all.
Best part of these ramblings of mine is it's all for my novels anyway. I don't give a flaming f**k about Religion. Besides, Fictive worldbuilding--that is, making stories to entertain others--is my telos as much as it is the work toward that same telos. Just look at what Robert Jordan did with the Wheel of Time by figuring out his story's cosmology first. The biggest part of that story seems to be that solipsism is a misperception of Source's enormity, as well as how humanity direly misappropriates itself by pointlessly infighting when we're all the same behind what Incarnation into "the lower geometries" does to us. (Yeah, the metaphor of humanity as "fallen from grace" is also a misperception. Fact of the matter is, the world wouldn't feel quite so hellish if other people weren't all around us BELIEVING in the world as it is. Not thinking of the shifting, protean, shapechanging nature of the Universe--of which scientific evolution is very much a part--is what makes that hellishness more concrete, and the more people believe IN such self-referential concreteness, the more solid it seems to become. Denying it outright is even worse. But that's where my mind bridles with what I like to call "God's Own Ego"--that's the classic idea that "Love Conquers All" because Love is the highest emotional state possible. With this is mind, one could theoretically tell "God" to "go f**k Yourself, my Lord!" and you've said something rather funny, especially if one's Intention isn't to "rape God" but to tell "God" to "be fruitful and multiply" more ironically than George Carlin or Bill Hicks managed to do because they didn't have the full definitions. So though it SOUNDS like an expletive as well as an insult--which it is, 'cause you CAN use Source itself, say the empty air right next to you, as the greatest stress-call ever pretend its a chunk of coal you're crushing into a diamond just holding it, etc.--it's also a blessing sent out to all the Universe's children Anywhere Ever. Creation is that vast, after you get that much of a handle on your own thoughts, controlling them rather than the other way around, the addictive just-lull-me-to-sleep-already inertia that marks most such states...)
Just sayin', don't be afraid to have fun with it despite all that. "Turn[ing] the other cheek" CAN be fun. So can idle pedantry like mine. ;)
Thanks for your comments :)
What about the dream state? Do you experience stories? Do you dream?
Thank you for your being.
The BATGAP interview I just did, we discussed that actually. I think it will be posted tomorrow.
I had a very powerful DMT experience and the first question I kept asking myself out loud was other people? Other people? Like I had no idea what that is No one was there with me it was super interesting and confusing 🤣
Can you please talk about siddhis? I find them entertaining and utterly confusing .
When you say 'filters', I'm assuming that you're referring to thoughts and thoughts act as filters since they are "born" from memory, which act as a persisting filter. Is it this that veils what you are referring to as 'enlightenment'?
Yes tho there are gross and subtle thoughts. In later stage awakening the filters or non-conceptual and very subtle so easy to overlook they are even there :)
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake in your experience have even the most subtle thoughts just, “on their own”, just fallen away?
Good question. The key insight with deep realization, specifically realization of no-self, is not the absence of thoughts, but rather the complete disentanglement of identity from thoughts and perceptual filters such that the appearance of self/selfing in all its forms is obliterated.
Do you offer one on one sessions?
Hell is other people..
“They” are not others….
“They” ‘ R Us.
Not two. 🙃
All one. 😁
@Ann Hi I'm still around I think. I'm embracing paradox as my new norm. Like listerning to a soft lyrical voice speaking crap. LOL🎶😵💫
There's a lot of strange people on youtube.
Come back to Doc for some sanity.😄
Not two.
Not two! Hah 😂... "a soft lyrical voice talking crap..."!!!!! I love your humour, too funny😜
"People are strange, when you're a stranger..." - The Doors...
Check out Buddha at the Gas Pump's interview with Marc Leavitt. I'm half an hour in and it's blowing my mind! Got his 3 books on kindle and def plan to read 'em. What a fascinating dude and story. Everything he says makes total sense - love his lucid dreaming analogy. I've been into the philosophical nature of reality and dreaming since I discovered Castaneda as a teenager. So this is right up my alley 😎
@@nat998 That sounds interesting I'll have a look. I've watched some of this interviewer ,he has that soft voice. 😜
3:57 🫣
There appears to be stages but stages appear and disapear. Nothing ever gets built. So you really never go anywhere or get anything. You end up in the same exact spot you started. It does seem like its somehow seen different tho. Theres no importance to imagination and whatever seems to happen.
And just a simple ok-ness with everything.
All true
What is pleasure? What are different pleasures? Say pleasure from food? Or from sex?
Do you think one is better or worse? The experience of sex or the experience of food? Is one divine and one mundane? Does one lead to suffering and the other not?
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake In my current perception yes there is a difference. Between food and sex, between pain and pleasure, etc. Those are different kind of sensations.
@@shlomobachar4123 when you say between food and sex, is that a different distinction than between pain and pleasure. Which distinction between a more primary? Which cones first and which as added on after?
God knows.
I don’t even know what I am?
This body is simply a pile of biomass :)
where does ( demonstrable informatioon) sit with this?
dont we have millions of peices of demonstrable information that 7.8 billion human beings exist on earth?
each with their own inner experiance just like yours?
( as opposesed to 4 billion unicorn do NOT exist on earth, because of (demonstrable information)
the entire inner investigation is based on ( demonstrtable information )
you are using that which can be demonstrated as a way of differentiating between nonsense and reality.
I dont understand this aspect sir.
Thank you