The Light Within the Darkness (Live Q&A with Angelo)
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About my videos: These videos are a resource for anyone wishing to wake up from the dream of separation. Awakening, enlightenment, and liberation are becoming far more mainstream possibilities than they once were. There are many good teachers out there, and if you resonate with the teachings of Eckhart Tolle, Rupert Spira, or Sadhguru, you might find resources here that address these deeper promptings to investigate your true nature.
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How to practice during activities or conversations? what to look for or pay attention to when there's no room to stop and inquire? it's easy to dial in when watching your videos because you're directly pointing me into the looking, during other conversation trying to be present and observe my thoughts and sensations makes me stop listening or finding difficult to engage with what is happening or with what I'm doing.
This is a VERY good question 🤯I've been struggling with this since awakening a year and a half ago.
Hey, I want to try to help you in case he doesn't answer.
What really helped me was to do the "do nothing meditation". Because otherwise what happens is that, when interacting with someone, you end up fearing FEELING.
So by practicing just doing nothing for long periods, you end up becoming comfortable with all the feelings coming up, so that at some point you don't react anymore and you can stay present. Takes work though
I can tell you how it happened to me.
Over time, noticing my direct experience (and through other types of practice) I’ve cultivated a meta-cognitive awareness that, even in fairly dense, mind-identified stages, would notice how lost in thought/ego identity I was.
At first, it was “debrief sits” at the end of the day. Then maybe I’d notice it a few hours after the acute event, and over time the gap of awareness of mind-fixation closed, becoming closer to real-time.
The more you pay attention, the more you pay attention.
Q: Being aware feels like effort.
A: Can you ask yourself this question, “Can I find that part of my experience right now that’s completely effortless?”
Very useful! I’m going to be using this one today. There is an effortlessness. The strain is actually near it but not all the way there. I’m holding myself just barely away from the effortless “center” as much as holding myself close to it. No wonder it is exhausting! Takes way more effort to come right up to it and not slip in. 😂
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One of the facilitators from Inside Circle, Rick Misener, runs a weekly circle online on Wednesday evenings from six until eight PST, the meeting often goes past 8 o’clock. At a few meetings, I’ve been to, most of the participants have not been incarcerated so it runs the gambit. Many of them have been going for years and doing other kinds of training at emotional release. Watching him work with somebody is quite fascinating. He just seems to know where the hiding is going on and how to shine a benevolent light on it. I don’t get a sense that people are looking for this kind of liberation. But it is a crowd that’s willing to look deep. And everything is confidential.
Always listening.
it is interesting the sweet feeling that I feel but just looking at you answering questions ;)
Anna brown interview?
When a person dies do they become an Angel?
I can only speak from my own experience but psychedelics continue to work. If anything, they work a little better ;)
Hey, thanks for sharing - I'm the one who asked about that! What effects do psychedelics have for you aside from visuals, sounds, and sensations (or loss of sensation)? Do they still do anything in the way of ego dissolution or is that already complete for you?
@@RyanBowcutt Haha I don't like answering the question, but considering you asked. I would say that yes, there was non-dual recognition here around 2 years ago after a long period after having the initial awakening.
Psychedelics were integral in me getting on the path initially, however I would say that they eventually became an addiction (even with the initial awakening) trying to "get back" to that place that I longed for (which is, as Tolle would describe it, as the now).
I've had the luxury of having experienced many different types of psychedelics along the path, and before and after both of the major milestones that most people go through. The initial awakening and then no self.
As I said before, I cannot speak for anyone else, but the last time I took them 6 months ago it was wild. 2.5g of penis envy, totally blew me away. I did 2 trips within a month, and it really surprised me at how much it affected me.
I would say the biggest difference between before and now is that the clarity that I have was still there during the trips. Awareness/consciousness never goes away.
In terms of "ego dissolution" I would say that the majority of what once was, is already gone, so taking psychedelics now is not going to be the same as someone who has never taken them.
However I think that they are still valuable if the only thing they give you is another perspective on your experience. That's why they can be so powerful in the beginning, you get to see reality in an entirely different lens, and get to contemplate your life's situation in a different manner.
I'm 100% sure that if I took enough of them as I used to do when I was younger, I wouldn't be able to function for a while. Once the dose gets high enough, you lose the ability to do basic tasks like speaking, using your phone, etc.
I don't recommend it, as I don't see any benefit. Psychedelics are really powerful, and the thing is, you eventually realize you don't need them anyways. They're simply a tool that need to be respected, there is NOTHING in them that is not in your direct experience right now.
And that's all they're there to show you, anyways. PS: I know that Eckhart Tolle mentioned he also took LSD after a lot of people asked him about it and even he stated that it affected him. But what is always there never leaves you!
From my own experience, I would tend to agree. Yet, after the biggest shifts, I really don't have any desire left for such experiences. I really am skeptical of the claim that it shouldn't have an "effect" on us after deep realization. If anything, it sounds pausible to enjoy such experiences more with deep realization without falling into thought-loops through mind-identification. Also, where does the desire to use psychedelics as a tool to find more conditionings come from when one proclaims they are fully or deeply realized? It seems like strong seeking energy and frankly is questionable as to whether that's even needed to progress after a certain point.
I can say that in the earlier stages, my sensitivity to everything got higher as shifts started happening, if anything.
And then again, everyone's biochemistry is completely different. 😊
@@indef93 I also can't say from my own experience that I'm 100% free from desire and fear. Regardless of whatever insight has been had.
@@roycohen. What about more subtle conditionings? I noticed how many subtle layers there are to identification, where corresponding conditionings are no longer adequately described, in my experience, by (gross) desire and fear. At the moment, although (and because of) not pushing or pulling on thought, it seems like primary thought conditionings are just up in my face like mosquitoes. These thoughts usually don't feel like influencing my experience, but have a more dry and light quality before I actively move toward them. The process seems to be all over the place.
The whole purpose of the news is to tell about problems. It appeals to that narrative, self part of our brain that is constantly scanning for how it is being threatened and how it can win. And how it can be right. I think a lot of us have also been influenced by Buddhism. we come to some of the spiritual work because we think that we want to live good lives and Buddhism is full of prescriptions for that and standards to meet. But it’s one of the reasons why I dropped back from it because I just felt like I was beating myself up because I could never measure up. I also realized I have a very excitable Amiga and it wasn’t really doing me or the people who are experiencing pain in the world for me to get all upset about it. I do look briefly at things, but for the most part these days, I don’t let myself, think too long on topics on which I cannot come up with some concrete action to take. I sometimes think that the concept that waking up is the best thing to do for the world might not necessarily be true because there are some teachers out there who really seem to have touched into thatplace beyond thought, but their conditioning is still there and people are getting hurt and their orbit.
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Hello
You mentioned that awakening generally doesn’t save a body from disease or illness and such, and in a sense I believe that, but in another sense I see I’ve held out hope that awakening would relieve my alcohol abuse problem by transcending it somehow.
That’s definitely possible. Also deep emotion work.
Sorry I missed this but enjoyed watching back - what is the panel discussion?
I guess you can't answer my question
Hey Angelo! How do you examine a thought or get close to a thought when it's an auditory thought? I'm really struggling with this.