I know the feeling!heidi wrote:Lately, through inquiry, I've been finding myself unfindable!

I know the feeling!heidi wrote:Lately, through inquiry, I've been finding myself unfindable!
Hi Marcel,Marcel Franke wrote:Hi Andy,
Andy:
> Ego means accepting and nourishing a false self.
Then what is it that does that ?
Hello Gen,gen6 wrote: I find the question , Who am I, who are you, useless anyway. Don't you? All the people you know say that they are their body when you ask them who are they?![]()
The Universal Force gives us these glimpses from time to time, to encourage us to keep going and looking for more. This continues until the Highest or God consciousness has taken over our whole being and we dwell constantly in Its presence and awareness. With love - AquariusMystic wrote:
. . . When consciousness expands, the ego's uncertainty is seen in the light of increased understanding. There is a release from fear. The pull of the ego becomes weaker. The pull of the Super-consciousness becomes stronger. From duality of the ego self to Oneness of the Absolute awareness... The One Life...
Sometimes I have these shifts? in consciousness, and for a few timeless moments I am not a separate isolated self. I am life. There is only one life and that life is everything.
I am certainly not in the camp that says there is no self. Quite the contrary. As to the consideration that everything is real, I would suggest that no 'thing' is real when you realize that things are more of an appearance based on energy and vibration. That said, what is real is experience. So while the chair I sit in may fundamentally be energy and vibration more so than substance and form, the experience of the chair as substance and form is quite real.AnanasPie wrote:You guys and everybody else who say there is no self is basically saying that all the senses like sight, hearing and taste are REAL but the inner life which is made up of neurons firing isnt real because it is not as "visible" and good as the most obvious senses.
It would be more right to say everything is real, everything i sense is real because everything i think have to be created by something (the brain).
Thanks for the answer.Webwanderer wrote:I am certainly not in the camp that says there is no self. Quite the contrary. As to the consideration that everything is real, I would suggest that no 'thing' is real when you realize that things are more of an appearance based on energy and vibration. That said, what is real is experience. So while the chair I sit in may fundamentally be energy and vibration more so than substance and form, the experience of the chair as substance and form is quite real.AnanasPie wrote:You guys and everybody else who say there is no self is basically saying that all the senses like sight, hearing and taste are REAL but the inner life which is made up of neurons firing isnt real because it is not as "visible" and good as the most obvious senses.
It would be more right to say everything is real, everything i sense is real because everything i think have to be created by something (the brain).
WW
Is that all it is? Or are neurons firing just another type of experience perceived from an awareness greater than the brain? Neurons firing may give information about the nature of the chair in an electrochemical form, but it is consciousness that interprets that information and perceives it as a useful format. There is nothing like any conclusive evidence that indicates consciousness is a product of the brain. There is however, considerable evidence that consciousness continues when the brain no longer functions.AnanasPie wrote:But the experience of a chair is made up in your head by neurons firing,...
I am currently in a period of "resistance", even if i still try to be more in the now do i question some things that comes with this "philosophy". There are so many religions and beliefs out there and the all claim to know the truth. And even if this doubt can be descirbed as the ego fighting against enlightenment do i take that risk.Webwanderer wrote:Is that all it is? Or are neurons firing just another type of experience perceived from an awareness greater than the brain? Neurons firing may give information about the nature of the chair in an electrochemical form, but it is consciousness that interprets that information and perceives it as a useful format. There is nothing like any conclusive evidence that indicates consciousness is a product of the brain. There is however, considerable evidence that consciousness continues when the brain no longer functions.AnanasPie wrote:But the experience of a chair is made up in your head by neurons firing,...
If consciousness survives and therefore transcends the brain, the brain cannot be the seat of self or consciousness. Ego in my view is primarily a belief in self built upon identification with thoughts. That is not necessarily a bad thing, it just a design feature that creates unique opportunities for experience based on a construct of assumptions.
WW
Just follow what feels right. If it feels right to question, then question. If the question feels fear based, question the question. There is no test here to get right or wrong. There is only the experience of greater or lessor clarity of being. What does being feel like when words are not present?AnanasPie wrote:I am currently in a period of "resistance", even if i still try to be more in the now do i question some things that comes with this "philosophy".
Religions 'out there' are someone else's belief about truth. If it's out there then it's not in here. In here is where truth can be known. In saying that I do not suggest there is some final truth to be grasped and held. Evolution of consciousness and being is not stagnant by its very definition. There is always more. There is always greater clarity to be realized.There are so many religions and beliefs out there and the all claim to know the truth.
Does it feel like the best course to take a risk? Does it feel right to avoid such risk? Isn't avoidance a risk in itself? Feel it out....even if this doubt can be descirbed as the ego fighting against enlightenment do i take that risk.
You're thinking in linear terms here. It's not a matter of space but one of vibration. All stations are on the same radio dial. The apparent distance is only in terms of frequency. A physical form is a result of a certain range of frequency. The whole of the physical universe is such.It's a very nice thought that you are everything instead of your body. But isn't this just a matter of scale. The moon is very far away from us seen from the earth. But seen 400 lightyear away from us do a alien think the moon and the earth is in the same spot.