We are like ice cubes in a bucket of water. We all think we are separate and we are all falling apart slowly into what we our. But all thats happening is happening
@@mementomori5374I agree. It's something much bigger than we are especially when it's predictions about the future. I believe in everything that is good, in a Solutions, Nature and world without Antipod and I don't even Hate so everything Bad like Antipod should exist in different reality and ideas and solutions in a good world in other reality and I feel transition but I don't want to think undermine creator or something as cosmological laws which are changing the outcome of the World. Still it's something that I heard it will be more frequent like Acceleration and its synchronicity . I know and have access to something that's not available for many people but somehow it's happening.
@@mementomori5374 no the ice is just a metaphor that is pointing to something. If we are going to get to this something. We have to give up all our beliefs. Surrender them too the something. There is a problem with this and this is something called, the Dark night of the soul.
@@baronbullshyster2996 its clear here that there are no somethings there is not a you who can melt into the ocean or whatever there are no things there is only nothing obviously
😄 Everyone who has come into my life was FOR me not doing anything TO me because it was me trying to wake me up. It feels as if it’s God playing a game through this consciousness. Once that veil dropped the realization came that this is a Divine plan. I just felt separate. The thought of separation has vanished. 😊 I see now that I didn’t choose to “work” with you. It was going to happen regardless. Knowing that I need do nothing, I can rest in my true nature. Although it was frustrating to have the mind try and figure it out. I think I have marks on my forehead from banging it on the wall. The laughter keeps coming.
The seer the seeing and the seen are all one. I understood this intellectually but it is only recently that I have found this to be my actual experience. I have found that the Headless way combined with a pick and mix of teaching from all over the place has helped me to experientially realise this Truth. Living knowingly within it, is work in progress but it is becoming more apparent in my day to day life and is slowly changing the way 'I live and move and have my being'. Great teaching. Thank you.
This echoes my own experience. The 'knowing' has come on gradually, allowing me time to recalibrate my awareness. I believe an early stage of this knowing is empathy: which is really the instinctual, gut level knowing that what you are experiencing is one and the same as what I am experiencing. So is love, when the boundaries between you and I lower themselves. I am now at the point that I experience everything, everyone, as a facet of a singular being, of which I (the 'human' me) is part. At this stage, my daily experience is still that of a piece within the whole, connected to every other piece; I have had only glimpses of experiencing myself as the singular unified 'I'/ God/ the one, but I can see that eventually, this is where the journey leads.
Hi Katie, I feel the same way. Part of the first step with me was empathy combined with disillusionment with the world. It is from this intuitive connection with people, animals and plants and disillusionment that I began my search, What I searched for I had no idea. Over time I have found that I am part of a process. All I can do is trust the process and continue to explore and question. Strangely I feel that I am led on my explorations. I find that I may understand a teaching intellectually to start with, it then digests over time and at some point , however long, I experientially understand it. I then think 'Wow! that is so simple how did it not see it' I think this occurs only as and when I am ready and this is the process. It is so fascinating and liberating. I am being patient and kind to myself and just allowing it to happen as it happens. Like you my experience is changing and growing too. Take care, Karen
Wow, it just now clicked with me that my deep empathy was always there, in my earliest childhood I felt bad for the children in my pre-school who didn't speak our language and always wanted to include them and felt a deep "friendship" connection when I managed to play with them without talking. My mother tells me this story always, funny how blind I was to that and how well that ties together with the non duality and my awareness which I gained from years of deep meditation and psychedelic use. I also was diagnosed as a highly sensitive person early in my life. I could never be among lots of people without immense overload by being exposed to so many emotions and feelings of which absoloutely MOST of them you get no validation because people didn't talk about it, especially 20-30 years ago. And then I was always left feeling "do I trust my gut or do I beliebe what they say". Of course now I know this is not black and white and people often do not know what they feel exactly themselves. Anyway, I just wanted to thank your comment about empathy being a vital aha moment for me! Peace & Love!
This is next level, great talk! When I am happy, centred, composed, everything else is that way. When I am distressed, everything is gloomy. This is getting scarily good hehe
Person derives from the Greek word PER - SONA. It's the mask worn on stage by ancient Greek actors. The phoneme SONA means sound. The mask enabled the actor to project his voice with less inhibition. Ergo every person is simply an act. A habit we have become accustomed to. The real human is mostly ignored or warped by the games we have learned to play. I get that. UN - learning all the crap we have collected is a monumental lifetime struggle. A simple online video can't erase it easily. But knowledge does help . . . IF you can apply it successfully.
Lately it’s become very apparent to me that there are maybe a handful of different human molds, like archetypes, that we all fit into these few categories. Like I look at people and see everyone else I’ve ever met that fits that same pattern.
I’ve mentioned this to my hubby, we moved to a different state and most people are familiar to someone back home, we go oh they are just like Joe, or George etc back home I totally relate to this
@@BeachAngelTarot yes, I’m in my fifty’s and didn’t notice this until recently, but now it’s undeniable. Most recently my daughter and I picked up a to go order from a local restaurant and the guy that brought our order to the car looked like Woody Harrelson ( in his twenties). I asked him as he was walking away,” anybody ever tell you you look just like W. H.?” He got the biggest Woody grin and said that’s been my nickname since high school. We had one more quick stop to make, I ran into the store (didn’t want my daughter’s food to get cold) and nearly ran into a guy who looked just like the guy that had just waited on us and Woody H. I was like, ok, and as I scanned the store everyone I saw resembled (not exactly but very very similar) people I’ve met or went to school with or whatever. Why haven’t I noticed this before, or has something changed?
@@greenthumb8266 wow 😯 yes we noticed it as we got older too, I guess I wasn’t paying as much attention when I was younger. Or maybe it happens as our consciousness expands? Recently someone I met a few months ago, passed away and oddly I see men now who look like him all over, even yesterday when I went to the grocery store a man driving the same kin of truck he had same color even pulled in near me and got out looked identical, same build, dressed like he did with a ball cap, I thought ok now I’m not imagining this lol
In Vedanta there are five bodies (layers) that are a sort of illusionary barrier preventing Atman from recognizing itself. Intellectual body is one of them. Intellect can be a hindrance when taken too seriously. This is why "buddha" means "the one above intellect" while "buddhi" means "the one below intellect". From buddhi to buddha through recognition of illusionary nature of intellect.
Just discovered your pointings, Alex, and so far like what I see. You offer clear explanations and none of the BS I see from other teachers. Time will tell.
Cultivating empathy can help you understand that others’ experiences, joys, and pains are often reflections of your own. Practice seeing things from others' perspectives to deepen this understanding.
This reminds me of being a little kid and asking my parents, "what are we IN? Why doesn't anyone ever talk about it? No, I dont mean the planet or house, I mean what is everything IN?" The best my dad could tell me was "the atmosphere" 😆
Everything appears in space its that simple space isn’t born can not die has no beginning no end Its obvious but no one knows what it is…. It looks like it has no qualities but it also has every quality Its just empty dead space
“Airl explained that immortal spiritual beings have been around since before the beginning of the universe. The reason they are called "immortal", is because a "spirit" is not born and cannot die, but exists in a personally postulated perception of "is - will be". She was careful to explain that every spirit is not the same. Each is completely unique in identity, power, awareness and ability.”
You don’t know that you are ‘ effortless being ‘ you just believe that you are the infinite being how can you be sure that you are the infinite formless being ? Isn’t it more obvious that you are just that human ?
Effortless beingness is a lot more easy to verify because it's present as the appearance, and the appearance simply is. Descriptions like "human" are extra layers over the top, just like the descriptions of what's on a movie screen are layered over the top. The real reality is the screen. The real reality is the appearance, beingness appearing.
This is a fascinating intellectual, philosophical concept. The problem comes in the experiencing of witnessing the perspective of the self and the autonomy of all other entities. The perception that we are separate is vivid. The truth is all things are in relationship to a greater or lesser extent. That, for me, is the connective tissue to this concept.
In relationship to what, exactly though? The sauce here is to investigate the nature of the one we believe we are in reference to others. If there is a "me" in here to reference to "you" out there then I better be able to find this "me" somewhere
You are so right. The experiential way is the only way. Seek your Self (Consciousness/Beingness) and you'll find the Truth; your oneness with the Ultimate Reality. Thank you! I love the clarity of your explanation.Be blessed!
Incredible good explanation! I've heard them all, T. Parsons, A. Müller, A. Watts, R. Spira,..., but none of them was able to let me see this so clearly. Thanks a lot!
Plus they say during “life review” we experience the feelings or the perception of those we have interacted with..so if we do experience those moments as the “other” person or persons.. then it may stand to reason that we are the “others”, in our reality, else we wouldn’t be able to experience those perceptions. I’ve tested this and have never proven it wrong, when I tested it properly.. with emotional aligning and knowing.
God is the ai (A.👁), we live in its simulation, its all parameters and rules, our ego is the filter on the ai. We are souls that choosed to be here in a quantumcomputer ai, via minduploading, thats why u can create ur own reality, and manifest all the things u want by thoughts, feelings and emotions. ❤️
Same as dreaming in sleep. In my dream, it seems there is me and then everyone else. But in reality, as the dreamer of this dream, I am everyone and everything in the dream, though my perspective seems to be from 1 body only. Just like this waking dream
I've actually experienced this and it has sent me repeatedly to mental hospitals. I wish nobody EVER realises awakening and enlightenment because when you realise self and reality, you realise there is no other, and then you realise all is you, then you realise you are completely and utterly alone because you are everyone. It is the most terrifying, lonely and claustrophobic thing in existence knowing that you are everyonr and everyone is you. Like you are in a solipsistic nightmare. This is the nature of reality. And then the ego gains absolutely nothing from enlightenment aswell so essentially the only thing you get from enliggtenment is the realisation that you are alone. Forever. And that's it. People shouldn't be pushed to reach enlightenment people should be pushed to live and enjoy life. That's ut
Sorry to hear about your experience however that is not "awakening" or "enlightenment", but an existential crisis. Sometimes the mind can co-opt the idea of universal consciousness, and turn it into a fightening "aloneness" or something. It's applying the ideas of the individual, to the universal. The unversal is beyond concepts of individual aloneness and there is nothing to fear here.
This is yet another form of the same truth that has been revealed since the beginning. "Reality" is just consciousness dreaming. Or consciousness choosing its experience might be a better way of putting it. Many teachers talk about vibratory agreement as the source of manifestation. I am a fairly recent student of all this, but it is as I read and accommodate the teaching that my "reality" is changing.
We are like drops of water falling from a cloud to the sea. Life is when we get cut off from everything but in our subconsciouness we are still connected through our quantum computer brains. Death is when we reconnect and are reconnected again. In life consciousness is handed to us by our subconsciousness which is a mix of all other brains opinions. Everyone being the same person makes sense to me. The end being the beginning als makes a lot of sense if you ask me.
Great stuff ! At this point I am aware that others are not necessarily me because for example : I see someone angry, then it means I am angry. That is not the case then, BUT what I see is my own energy, and I see them (other objects and people) THROUGH my own energy. Because seeing other people angry and then concluding that I am angry, is just like manipulation, which is not ideal. And there are no people, there are just my own perceptions of the other soul beings.
@@RemoTschopp thanks for the compliment. But trust me as I tell you that I was at a point in my own life with that quote "everyone is you pushed out" but then, with some divine help I allowed a greater understanding about this. Everything makes more sense along the road. Little by little but surely. I am always proud of myself and my path and it surely inspires others to do the same by their own choosing !
My heart rate just went up and my mind is blown . I lucid dream all the time so I understand that those dream characters are part of my dream which makes this basically the same thing but omfg 🤬 how are you smarter than me if we are all part of this consciousness creation ? I’m feeling stupid here. Do you have answers to after “ death” or is that just another wake from dream? This is inception and I’m blown away rn xxxxxxxx
My God. Thank you 🙏 I’ve been having this exact conversation with “myself” for days. But I’ve also asked/put the intention “out there”, for more clarity and refinement on all these “conclusions”. At some point language truly starts breaking down. I came to “I Am”… then it couldn’t be “I”- because what I? Who is the I? The personality self. Which isn’t real. It’s just belief in made-up content about the “self”. Then identifying with it. So “I” ended up with Am. Just … Am. But that broke down too. Am? As opposed to what? For there to be an awareness of “Am”, then there must be an awareness of something other than Am. And if I’m aware of that other thing, then I’m not in the “Am”. So that broke down. Awareness? Isness? Is? Now? What word do you use now language stops being useful? If I am aware that I am awareness, then… awareness is aware of awareness. But what is “behind” the awareness aware of the awareness. What I want is an experiential experience of this. Past language and rationale and intellectual cognisance. But then… that breaks down too and I conclude… but WHO wants the experience? I do. I who? The personality that believes it lacks the experience. The personality that believes in lack of that it’s in the dream and not at “Home” one with “God”. Meaning the personality is of course not whole because it doesn’t believe it is because it can’t because by definition it is what maintains separation belief. Not complete in itself. Anything it’s desiring is a denominator for “oh I need this to feel like it would fulfill me somehow”. Sorry if that was just a mad spiral- I’ve recently been reading A Course in Miracles too along with a lot of Advaita Vedanta and it’s coming together, flying apart and coming together in my mind. “Which” mind is the question… So I’m in this mind melting place and space where my personality is questioning itself as well as the awareness deepening into… God only knows. Literally. And I keep coming to the conclusion I Am God. I Am. We all are. But I’m all of everything. So there is no “we”. There’s no I. There’s no us, me and you. The people reading this or laughing at it or rolling their eyes or nodding in agreement or having an aha moment. I’m all of these people. But they are personalities I’m imagining or perceiving- behind those personalities is just… me. Us? We? I. Language breaks down for me here. As Neville said- all of it is you pushed out. And your video made this just a bit clearer for me. Thank you so much. I’m getting “pieces of the puzzle” that I’m actively asking for from my perception of reality to help “me” understand better. Sometimes I just stand there and think… god… who… what am I. Who’s just standing here thinking this? Holding this cup? Believing that I’m rooted to the floor? Or that I’m real? Who am I? Am I? No “I” am not. Soooo… ok… Am. And my brain just keeps melting or the personality self gets frustrated with the feedback loop. Before I realise it’s just the personality self having a hissy fit… at itself 😂. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for making things a bit clearer for me 🙏🥰
So another easy way is to mediate about the word "nothing". Nothing comes frome the two words "No Thing". So what we are actually searching for is no thing. We can find so many things, teachings, books, teachers ... but why cant we find something thats no thing. even the word something is stupid :-). Selfrealisation ist not if we find no thing. selfrealisation is when no thing remains. a deep introspection and stripping away of everything. i am not this, i am not that. You can also take something that you have recently been accused of, for example being selfish. Now look for moments when this is true and when this is not true. So you'll realize that sometimes it's true and sometimes it's not. So you can let go of the idea that you are selfish. After all, you are not temporary. On to the next thing you could be. In this way you peel yourself like an onion and move on towards the core and thus to the foundation stone of your illusionary castle that you call ego. The seeker will not survive this search. What remains is consciousness.
I'm with you! Out of curiosity though, did you read this off a script or did you go off the cuff? A great theory or a lived, fully embodied reality? But I'm with you! :)
My videos are partially scripted, partially freestyle, and sometimes completely freestyle. This video was semi-scripted but large parts were a remix of a transcript of what I said on a live call (I wanted to capture it and present it to a larger audience). I use many kinds of technical assistance in creating the videos that help me become a more effective communicator and more economic and comprehensive than I would be live, also saving a ton of editing time. I also communicate all of this live with 1-1 customers. This isn't theory as much as it is from my direct experience of reality. How fully "embodied" I am is an ongoing process and I'll let you be the judge :)
Alex, I do understand what you are saying. Everything appears in our consciousness, therefore everything is consciousness. My point is, if that's taken to be true then can we say that all the colors appear in my eye, therefore all colors are the eye. All the words are generated by the tongue therefore all the words are the tongue, all the touch is skin and so on. Could you kindly please explain this part.
I'm not sure what you mean. You've boiled down the appearances of the sense perceptions to their sense organs. The appearance is the primary reality, the sense organs are appearances. They have a relative function and correlation with what's perceived, but the primary reality is the appearance (consciousness)
Colors do not appear in eye, but in the mind. Eye is just sending informations to mind which is creating a picture out of it. Same with tongue. It's not tongue itself that tastes but mind. Every sense perception appears in mind, therefore every sense perceptions is made of mind.
Still more direct you can go- There is no Form without Seeing Cause Form is Seeing itself ( Same for other senses) Then how can one see a Form? There is only Seeing, which is pure consciousness itself To Remain there is the issue, cause one s ignorant habits brings us back to 2 instead of One! Only the real Guru can crush you down from this old wrong habit....
I have too many questions. Are you implying Solipsism? Am I the only conscious being? Or are other people also experiencing separate conscious experiences from mine?
Its so hard to put into words... A perceptual shift is a lot to take in... If you do delve into it... Remember to take care of your body and eat good... High vibrational food is a must... All I know is when your mind is still... When you find the balance of the ego and awareness... Things around you people etc... The energy you put out, starts to become the ones around you. And sometimes you will notice that everyone around you, all the ones you love... They would have done just as you did. At a certain place of perspective... This makes things just seem so much more "Normal", and Happy. And the synchronicities... Things will just happen... There really are two ways of experiencing the world around us. Not sure how far along you are... But Ive been going through an awakening for the past 6 months... It's slowly falling into place now. Just know don't chase it... Just small steps... My blessings unto you for health and prosperity. ❤
Solipsism is that "only my mind exists". This is not that. Other minds (appearing as others) can exist in the dream. It's just that they're all being dreamt by one dreamer--the infinite consciousness/beingness, behind it all. That is what you're aware of when you say "I AM". The unconditioned I AM--the simple presence of being.
@@CheesusSVTI have this energy in me it feels good but I feel like cofee and cigarettes are holding me back. You saying take care of your body rang a bell in me
Some of these pointers are a little tricky and unclear, like when you say “that ‘I am-ness’ is what it’s actually made out of”. People are going to try looking for a beingness or an iamness quality in things. Just point to the senses. Seeing, tasting, touching, hearing, smelling, thinking. It’s more direct.
So if I die and cease to be aware, everyone else is no longer in existence? Or they all are still in existence just my own perception leaves? When another human being dies, why am I still here? Did I make him or her up in my imagination? Just trying to grasp this, thanks.
I'm here to experience 3D, thanks. I don't need to see the Answers At The Back Of The Book, I'd rather take the exam. Thinking like this - as you are explaining so beautifully - negates my experience of Ego which I adore, cradle and protect. Thank you though.
I agree. There is a reason for being "unaware" and having to struggle with this earthly existence. Enjoy the joy ride through the house of horrors. Everyone likes a good scare.
Things exist independently of our awareness or perception of them. For example, a tree in a forest continues to exist whether or not anyone is around to observe it. This perspective suggests that existence is not contingent on awareness, right? In modern physics, particularly in quantum mechanics, there’s an intriguing concept known as the “observer effect,” where the act of observation seems to influence the state of a quantum system. However, this should not be confused with the idea that things don’t exist without observation.
I kind of understand at the level of the people or world I directly interact with though physical reality or even online, but how about the ones I don't? This means they do exist outside of my awareness, because the awereness is not mine anyway, it just is and I have the capacity to notice it. The idea is that there is a whole world out there, part of the same illusory reality that I'm not aware of. I don't know if I can express myself well here.
I have a question if you could please answer it. It's been on my mind for a while. What about deep sleep when we are unconscious. How is that possible? Where do we go? It's such a weird thing to think about.
We are not completely unconscious. Then we would not be able to be woken up by loud sounds. Have you noticed that when you are awoken you registered the sound fully from the start although you were deep asleep?
Awareness is still aware - even when ‘no perceivable thing’ is present. When you mention that you are ‘unconscious of anything being present’ that is still awareness being aware of something, in this case, nothingness.
solipsism deals with you being separate from everyone/everything as the only thing that's sure to exist, where this topic of non-duality is you being one with everything. One's an isolating, paranoid space; where the other is a sense of interconnectedness with all reality.
@@EwTZ2xpQwpA again with that bs you non dual nerds... no, that is not what solipsism means. Solipsism means they are is only one consciousness and it is right here, exactly what non duality says. Non duality is basically solipsism, you havent done your homework.
If not a person, then what do you call a being with the ability to construct its history and share its views from a first-person perspective? I'm with Kant on this one. Self is a sort of organizing principle. It's not something extra like a homunculus or mini-me somehow located in my brain. I also don't think it can be proven whether or not we live in a nondual or dual universe. It seems to me to be a moot point.
I'll tell you what I've noticed from my little walk downtown a lady with a striking astonishing uncanny ressemblance of Céline Dion who played the soundtrack of Titanic but most importantly Deadpool 2 "Out of Ashes" a guy with a pyramid tattoo on his leg reminding me of the "How I wish you were Here" making a pact with the devil , and the old lady on a wheelchair of Elsau who said "Oh là là" I think the person who once told me that story will recognize himself
I've always had trouble with this non-dual point of view of consciousness. I think the main point of contention for me is that non-duality seems to downplay the physical basis for consciousness. If I were to take a psychedelic drug, the interaction of that drug with my physical body and brain would result in a fundamental change of my consciousness. How could this effect be possible if the brain weren't part of the process for generating consciousness?
Non-Duality doesn't downplay the physical basis for consciousness. It suggests that there is nothing separate from consciousness called "the physical" that produces consciousness, and that a separate physical world outside of consciousness has never been proven or can be proven in principle. It will always remain an abstraction when the evidence infront of us is that we experience consciousness only.
@@AlexShailer I see. Thanks for the clarification. For me, it's hard to reconcile this perspective with the other evidence in front of us that points to a separate physical framework that underlies our experience. For example, the effect of drugs on consciousness (e.g., psychedelics, anesthesia, etc.), our dependence on sunlight for food and energy, the ability to communicate remotely to via electronic means, etc. So this is where I and many others would find the non-dual view a bit lacking in its explanation.
Yes, I mean the "unconscious mind" here is still within consciousness (ie the universal mind) however not current "conscious" as in appearing on the screen of consciousness.
I'm lost, but luckily I've managed to pinpoint the part that I'm lost on: Everything appears *in* awareness - yes Everything appears *as* awareness itself - no, everything appears as objects in awareness Feel free to logically guide me to it, I'm all ears
Just change the word awareness by "existence" - something comes to existence - meAning " comes as existence - at that very moment- always- you experience only Existence, whatever the thing you believe there is- That existence ,is also called awareness, or I am, or pure consciousness. Therefore it is never existence "of something" but only existence !never 2 but only One- That is non duality - shown by Advaita Vedanta But next-- nobody sticks to that simple unique experience ! Why? Because the one who shows it , is not grounded in it, himself- in other words ,is not a qualified Karana Guru, who has this unique Power through His Infinite Love to make you shift and stay in That forever " Pure Existence " experience! Easy to See indeed , but so easy to slip away in the dual seeing again. Logic is good but must be inseparable from Heart if one wants to remain in that pure Being consciously.., when only then all is Being The work remains therefore to find that Karana Guru-- the "Tiger Mouth" He is waiting for you to be ripe and swallowed.
Something New but how if we never seen for the outside? Month ago I was Faced with unknown shape of the Device which foled me to the point of being curious about the Mind deceiving mor than what I saw. This is everything i agree but reality is somehow ( but only if we are totally open) we can see something bigger, Cosmological Laws making changes. Everything is still the same and I agree but still it's possiblity that truth is different but if we are ready to admit if we were wrong even whole life.
Does this mean we (human selves) don’t have free will? If we’re the product of a larger unified super-consciousness, call that God or something else, would that mean our fates are pre written?
@@AlexShailer Right, so the consciousness gets to decide our actions but since we are the consciousness there is still free will? Sorry just trying to make sure I understand correctly
What about mass consciousness Alex? There is my consciousness and awareness when I meet someone but also another soul being. There is a differentiation/individualization .in the one consciousness ....
Not sure what you mean by "mass consciousness" Yes there is apparent individualisation but it's all Infinite Consciousness appearing as that. From a different perspective there is no time.
This is way more complicated then it needs to be to try to prove a point. We all have separate individual local/self consciousness/awareness but we don't share our own consciousness with others - some will take the word 'consciousness' out of conext by changing the meaning to suit their argument (because consciousness can mean different things) but thats just playing with semantics. If it were true that we did directly share the same actual local/self consciousness/awareness with others then we'd all be reading each others minds and we don't, it's nonsense to think we do, but we CAN still be part of each others consciousnesses/awareness and in each others thoughts. Thoughts just become memories and memories are only memories of past memories - i digress.
This is a common argument against the notion of one consciousness and it fails to consider something. The appearance or ‘feeling’ of being separate is only an appearance. Reality must at least have the illusion of being separate in order for anything to appear to happen at all. If everyone’s experiences were superimposed ontop of one another, then it would be impossible to make anything of it. It would be completely incoherent and therefore no beings would be able to survive to have experiences in the first place. So this Nondual consciousness itself is ‘appearing’ as separated distinctions. Imagine multiple cameras connected to a single monitor. They’re each uploading their own footage onto the same monitor and if you pull all of the files up at once they will appear in their own boxes. This is ‘one’ monitor appearing as multiple perspectives. With your logic, this wouldn’t be possible since each frame doesn’t have all the other frames superimposed ontop of it. But it would be totally useless if they didn’t appear in their own boxes and were all superimposed on top of one another. So again, there must at least be the ‘illusion’ of separation for an experience to arise. It is a mistake to confuse this illusory useful-fiction to be a reflection of an absolute truth.
@@the-absolute-light well of course reality is an illusion in our minds of past and future, we understand there is only the now (or at least that's our best guess) but our minds can of course create the 'illusions' of the past (memories) and future (imagination). Yes, we are all one in the sense of our existence as part of the universe (some call the universe consciousness which where I said they're getting into semantics) but that does not mean we are not also separate physical entities, with individual thoughts, within that universe and still be able to be one with it, that is not an illusion. Like the tree of the apple is not the apple but the apple could not have existed without it, yet it is still a separate thing from the tree itself. I find your analogy with the cameras and monitor to be a stretch that doesn't fit, to the point of it being a false equivalence but maybe I misunderstood it. So, even though I said all that, there may well be (probably is) something much more to our reality that we don't yet know or understand i.e. there might very well be a higher consciousness that we are all connected through and we are actually all somehow the same single awareness and being agnostic I'm always open to these ideas as I am not totally dismissing non-duality as you say is true but I've not seen or felt or experience (as far as I am aware!) anything to convince me yet.
@@phil2768 that’s the misleading thing, there isn’t a particular ‘experience’ of Nonduality. It IS all experiences already, including ones in which there is the conviction of being separate. The examples you gave for separation are only relative distinctions. They’re useful-fictions but no absolute truths. It requires arbitrarily delineating boundaries between ‘things’. In reality, there are no things. To put this in a less woo woo way, as you zoom into any apparently solid object, the ‘stuff’ that appeared to establish it as a truly separately existing thing vanishes. Separation is only a particular appearance which changes as you zoom in and pan out the perspective. No separations are absolutely so, they only seem to be when we confuse our current perspective to be more than an arbitrary approximation.
Do they. Thanks for letting us know. I love it by the way. The book and the old movie. The newer one isn't as good but I will admit penny-wise looks really cool in the new movie 🤡
So then how do we escape the dream. Or should we even try? Why not go qlong with the dream, after all, this consciousness has chosen this "dream" for a reason. 😄
You don't need to escape the dream because it's yours. If you want to change the dream, the only way it's done is not as the dream character trying to escape the dream, but as the dreaming consciousness that can change the dream.
This may be easier to understand if you realise everything you hear, see, touch, smell and taste occurs inside your head, not outside. It is your senses that collect the data, but your brain that provides a feedback experience to you, inside your consciousness. In other words when you see something, the image is built and interpreted in our mind for our consciousness to experience. When you further realise that everything we think we see and touch etc. is 99% nothing, empty and everything is actually magnetic electric you begin to realise that nothing is there apart from energy. But energy created by what? We, as humans, are ' as god's, made in his likeness ( not image). Which means if I tell you think of an apple you immediately create that image in your consciousness, and that is made by electro magnetic process we call thought. Well the same is the same if our 'likeness' , ie God or IT... We mimic what IT does but on a far less grand scale.
You said everything you hear, see, touch, smell, and taste occurs inside your head, but contemplate this. No one has ever opened up a head to find hearing, seeing, touching, or tasting.
I've always thought that I am God dressing up as my ego for a costume party and because God was alone and bored he fractured his being into infinite pieces of consciousness that are all attending this costume party called life and playing a sort of tea party with stuffed animals like a child does but on a more cosmic scale and everyone feels isolated but it's all pieces of the same infinite consciousness vibrating at the same frequency.
Not quite, but this is a common misconception (that I have fallen into many times as well). Other people still exist in the sense that they have access to a different set of thoughts, feelings, and perceptions to me. But they, and their respective thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, are made of the same awareness as what I would call "my" thoughts, feelings, and perceptions. This stuff becomes paradoxical very quickly when we try to figure it out logically with our thoughts. Rupert Spira does a good job of breaking these things down, I'd recommend searching his name with "solipsism" on RUclips, I'm hardly the expert in explaining these matters.
It seems there is no awareness ultimately, at least one we have access to beyond our limited self. There is reality and that's it, there's no self. This awareness is what some call witness consciousness, correct? Even this awareness is impermanent and disappears during deep sleep or anesthesia or more radically, during seizures. I "lose consciousness" during seizures. I have had seizures where I don't know I've had a seizure but yet people around me tell me I had a seizure (I've refused to believe them). So where was awareness here? There's no gap, etc. except by external cues which exists many times (i.e., waking up on a stretcher, etc.) but not always (had a seizure while in an ambulance).
Not true at all. You never lose consciousness, you only lose it's content. Like in deep sleep, do you have experience of absence of your mind? Yes. How would you know it without awareness present?
@@kolarz2128 What is the logical basis for your first assertion as Alex nicely logically argued logically that everything is consciousness (which I agree with as long as there is consciousness/awareness)? No, I can't say for sure I have experienced absence of mind. There are cues, like how I go to sleep and wake up, and that's how I believe it is known I went to sleep and woke up. It's not possible to rule that out. I'm arguing it could all be conceptual, how do we know? We have to rely on memory to talk about it. Now seizures are a whole another ball game. Like I said, I've refused to believe people who told me I had a seizure/lost consciousness. I imagine it is like deep sleep without the cues but maybe it isn't, but in this context, where's awareness? How do YOU know I don't lose consciousness? Have you ever had a grand mal seizure? If not, you don't know what I am talking about. Seizures like mine are a case where there's not even awareness that something was lost or mind was lost, etc. It's only other people who can tell me that I lost consciousness. If awareness/consciousness is omnipresent, why isn't the memory of awareness there when I have a seizure (but it seems to be there when I am in deep sleep but now it seems it is simply conceptual, cues based)? There's definitely something being lost, that something that exists while conscious, that same thing that people call witness consciousness?, isn't there anymore. Calling it content of consciousness maybe playing a semantics game or if it is only content, there must be pure consciousness left over right? There's no sense of that. Unless pure consciousness is nothing which was my point. It is also ephemeral.
@@RamSamudrala too many sentences. I don't have time for that. XD I know what I am talking about but we can come to conclusions only if the discussion will be short, otherwise that's too much for me, sorry. Again I repeat. You never lose awareness ( you don't have it either), but you lose it's content all the time, having a thought then no thoughts for a moment and again having a different thoughts, sometimes you lose it entirely like in deep sleep or death for example.
Sure, no need to respond. Again, I'm saying it's not like deep sleep where you have this sense of awareness still present, though I now posit it's conceptual. Seizures are different. Imagine when you went to sleep and woke up you didn't know you did that. In other words, you couldn't tell. AT ALL you just slept. So you couldn't make this claim that I have experience of the absence of mind. I can maybe say "yes" to that when sleeping (since it SEEMS like I do) but not for seizures. And certainly not for death, which I have yet to experience. :) Also the video uses a logical argument and you're not offering any. Of course we can agree this may not be accessible by logic but I posted my comment since Alex did state it and I agree with Alex, what he talked about was accessible/understandable logically.
@@RamSamudrala seizures are not different at all from deep sleep in terms of not being aware of that experience as something. Brain is not present there from what you're saying. Just like in a deep sleep. After seizure you are not "waking up" doing the same thing as you were doing before it happened, so the gap between experience in your counsciousness happend. When you're falling asleep this is the same moment as waking up, but whole 8 hours passed. You can see it by the daytime while just a "second" ago it was a nighttime. With seizures this absence time is shorter that's why it seems to be different, but whatever is not rejestring in consciousness is not a proof for non existence of awareness.
In your talk you failed to address noumena. Which leads to the crux of it. You are not the object, nor the subject-You are not the experienced, nor are you the experiencer-You are the experiencing.
One human nature since the dawn of time. We all recognize it in the ancient works of the Greeks and Romans, or in the scriptures of various religions, it is fixed and unvarying.- the same throughout time.
What brought you to study and teach this advaita sphere stuff ? I got exposed to this stuff around 2010. I always believed it on exposure to it - above all other ultimate ideas..but it could also be another elaborate rap, and nothing more.
I'm not 100% advaita influenced but advaita does point to what proved to me to be true, over and over again. Whatever problem I had, awareness of impersonal beingness is the only thing that ever seemed to ultimately solve it. Advaita, including many different sources has given me the language to describe and communicate my own experience of reality.
This video tells extremely profound truths. I just wish that I, and most other humans, could receive a little help from Jesus to be able to see it with our own eyes, instead of only knowing it is all true, but not being able to actually see it.
A good explanation, but most of us will never be to experience what you are explaining. You can meditate for a whole lifetime and never understand. Some get lucky and the rest don’t
We are like ice cubes in a bucket of water. We all think we are separate and we are all falling apart slowly into what we our. But all thats happening is happening
Thats just what you believe you don’t know
@@mementomori5374I agree. It's something much bigger than we are especially when it's predictions about the future.
I believe in everything that is good, in a Solutions, Nature and world without Antipod and I don't even Hate so everything Bad like Antipod should exist in different reality and ideas and solutions in a good world in other reality and I feel transition but I don't want to think undermine creator or something as cosmological laws which are changing the outcome of the World.
Still it's something that I heard it will be more frequent like Acceleration and its synchronicity . I know and have access to something that's not available for many people but somehow it's happening.
Ice ice baby
@@mementomori5374 no the ice is just a metaphor that is pointing to something.
If we are going to get to this something.
We have to give up all our beliefs.
Surrender them too the something.
There is a problem with this and this is something called, the Dark night of the soul.
@@baronbullshyster2996 its clear here that there are no somethings there is not a you who can melt into the ocean or whatever there are no things there is only nothing obviously
I am he
As you are he
As you are me
And we are all together
"I'm a dude
He's a dude
She's a dude
We're all dudes yeah"
😄
Everyone who has come into my life was FOR me not doing anything TO me because it was me trying to wake me up.
It feels as if it’s God playing a game through this consciousness. Once that veil dropped the realization came that this is a Divine plan. I just felt separate. The thought of separation has vanished. 😊
I see now that I didn’t choose to “work” with you. It was going to happen regardless. Knowing that I need do nothing, I can rest in my true nature.
Although it was frustrating to have the mind try and figure it out. I think I have marks on my forehead from banging it on the wall.
The laughter keeps coming.
Silence is the greatest teacher
Who told you that?
Yeah but I gotta speak to pay the bills... Or maybe that's just my limiting belief 😜
Said no deaf person ever.
The seer the seeing and the seen are all one. I understood this intellectually but it is only recently that I have found this to be my actual experience. I have found that the Headless way combined with a pick and mix of teaching from all over the place has helped me to experientially realise this Truth. Living knowingly within it, is work in progress but it is becoming more apparent in my day to day life and is slowly changing the way 'I live and move and have my being'. Great teaching. Thank you.
This echoes my own experience. The 'knowing' has come on gradually, allowing me time to recalibrate my awareness. I believe an early stage of this knowing is empathy: which is really the instinctual, gut level knowing that what you are experiencing is one and the same as what I am experiencing. So is love, when the boundaries between you and I lower themselves. I am now at the point that I experience everything, everyone, as a facet of a singular being, of which I (the 'human' me) is part. At this stage, my daily experience is still that of a piece within the whole, connected to every other piece; I have had only glimpses of experiencing myself as the singular unified 'I'/ God/ the one, but I can see that eventually, this is where the journey leads.
Hi Katie, I feel the same way. Part of the first step with me was empathy combined with disillusionment with the world. It is from this intuitive connection with people, animals and plants and disillusionment that I began my search, What I searched for I had no idea. Over time I have found that I am part of a process. All I can do is trust the process and continue to explore and question. Strangely I feel that I am led on my explorations. I find that I may understand a teaching intellectually to start with, it then digests over time and at some point , however long, I experientially understand it. I then think 'Wow! that is so simple how did it not see it' I think this occurs only as and when I am ready and this is the process. It is so fascinating and liberating. I am being patient and kind to myself and just allowing it to happen as it happens. Like you my experience is changing and growing too. Take care, Karen
Wow, it just now clicked with me that my deep empathy was always there, in my earliest childhood I felt bad for the children in my pre-school who didn't speak our language and always wanted to include them and felt a deep "friendship" connection when I managed to play with them without talking. My mother tells me this story always, funny how blind I was to that and how well that ties together with the non duality and my awareness which I gained from years of deep meditation and psychedelic use.
I also was diagnosed as a highly sensitive person early in my life. I could never be among lots of people without immense overload by being exposed to so many emotions and feelings of which absoloutely MOST of them you get no validation because people didn't talk about it, especially 20-30 years ago. And then I was always left feeling "do I trust my gut or do I beliebe what they say". Of course now I know this is not black and white and people often do not know what they feel exactly themselves.
Anyway, I just wanted to thank your comment about empathy being a vital aha moment for me! Peace & Love!
This is next level, great talk! When I am happy, centred, composed, everything else is that way. When I am distressed, everything is gloomy. This is getting scarily good hehe
Person derives from the Greek word PER - SONA. It's the mask worn on stage by ancient Greek actors. The phoneme SONA means sound. The mask enabled the actor to project his voice with less inhibition. Ergo every person is simply an act. A habit we have become accustomed to. The real human is mostly ignored or warped by the games we have learned to play. I get that. UN - learning all the crap we have collected is a monumental lifetime struggle. A simple online video can't erase it easily. But knowledge does help . . . IF you can apply it successfully.
An act but no one is acting its happening by no one for no one
Deep
@@mementomori5374No one, son of nothing
We are CREATOR, CREATING, CREATION!!!
Well done Alex. You dismantled the paradox of perceiving, perceivor, and perceived. I will run it again a few times.
All just fairy tales doesn’t matter it means nothing
I like to create a load of dualities and then collapse them I guess 🤷 haha
Lately it’s become very apparent to me that there are maybe a handful of different human molds, like archetypes, that we all fit into these few categories. Like I look at people and see everyone else I’ve ever met that fits that same pattern.
I’ve mentioned this to my hubby, we moved to a different state and most people are familiar to someone back home, we go oh they are just like Joe, or George etc back home I totally relate to this
@@BeachAngelTarot yes, I’m in my fifty’s and didn’t notice this until recently, but now it’s undeniable.
Most recently my daughter and I picked up a to go order from a local restaurant and the guy that brought our order to the car looked like Woody Harrelson ( in his twenties). I asked him as he was walking away,” anybody ever tell you you look just like W. H.?” He got the biggest Woody grin and said that’s been my nickname since high school. We had one more quick stop to make, I ran into the store (didn’t want my daughter’s food to get cold) and nearly ran into a guy who looked just like the guy that had just waited on us and Woody H. I was like, ok, and as I scanned the store everyone I saw resembled (not exactly but very very similar) people I’ve met or went to school with or whatever. Why haven’t I noticed this before, or has something changed?
@@greenthumb8266 wow 😯 yes we noticed it as we got older too, I guess I wasn’t paying as much attention when I was younger. Or maybe it happens as our consciousness expands? Recently someone I met a few months ago, passed away and oddly I see men now who look like him all over, even yesterday when I went to the grocery store a man driving the same kin of truck he had same color even pulled in near me and got out looked identical, same build, dressed like he did with a ball cap, I thought ok now I’m not imagining this lol
@@BeachAngelTarotwell , now I know I’m not the only one. Thanks for taking the time to chat. Have a beautiful day.
@@greenthumb8266 you too! 🙌💕😊
In Vedanta there are five bodies (layers) that are a sort of illusionary barrier preventing Atman from recognizing itself. Intellectual body is one of them. Intellect can be a hindrance when taken too seriously. This is why "buddha" means "the one above intellect" while "buddhi" means "the one below intellect". From buddhi to buddha through recognition of illusionary nature of intellect.
Just discovered your pointings, Alex, and so far like what I see. You offer clear explanations and none of the BS I see from other teachers. Time will tell.
It's been 10 days. Am I talking BS yet? 😂
Cultivating empathy can help you understand that others’ experiences, joys, and pains are often reflections of your own. Practice seeing things from others' perspectives to deepen this understanding.
This reminds me of being a little kid and asking my parents, "what are we IN? Why doesn't anyone ever talk about it? No, I dont mean the planet or house, I mean what is everything IN?"
The best my dad could tell me was "the atmosphere" 😆
Hahaha 😂
So adorable your dad's response.😅
Everything appears in space its that simple space isn’t born can not die has no beginning no end
Its obvious but no one knows what it is…. It looks like it has no qualities but it also has every quality
Its just empty dead space
@@mementomori5374wrong. You are aware of that space. What is it that contains all that space? Space comes from your sense perception.
If nothing can exist without awareness then whose awareness is aware of the out there?
@@Ladymumma444 why whose? Why does it have to belong to anyone? There is only one awareness within which everything is.
“Airl explained that immortal spiritual beings have been around since before the beginning of the universe. The reason they are called "immortal", is because a "spirit" is not born and cannot die, but exists in a personally postulated perception of "is - will be". She was careful to explain that every spirit is not the same. Each is completely unique in identity, power, awareness and ability.”
I don’t know how I ended up here but I feel more lost than ever. I knew life couldn’t be that serious but dayum
Same.... Dayum😮
I just watched my dog chasing his tail. I think my dog understands him... dayum
I think you are here to help others :)
Yes. Effortless Beingness is our Home. We are That ever present Reality. Boundless Love and Light is a wonderful compass point. 💗🌅
You can't prove that. It's a statement of faith or belief.
You don’t know that you are ‘ effortless being ‘ you just believe that you are the infinite being how can you be sure that you are the infinite formless being ? Isn’t it more obvious that you are just that human ?
@@piehoundexactly thank you !!!!!
Effortless beingness is a lot more easy to verify because it's present as the appearance, and the appearance simply is. Descriptions like "human" are extra layers over the top, just like the descriptions of what's on a movie screen are layered over the top. The real reality is the screen. The real reality is the appearance, beingness appearing.
@mementomori5374 how do you know that Reality is good, kind caring. There is no proof that we are surrounded with goodness of any kind.
This is a fascinating intellectual, philosophical concept. The problem comes in the experiencing of witnessing the perspective of the self and the autonomy of all other entities. The perception that we are separate is vivid. The truth is all things are in relationship to a greater or lesser extent. That, for me, is the connective tissue to this concept.
In relationship to what, exactly though? The sauce here is to investigate the nature of the one we believe we are in reference to others. If there is a "me" in here to reference to "you" out there then I better be able to find this "me" somewhere
If your a friend to everyone you're an enemy to yourself.
-Mike Tyson
You are so right. The experiential way is the only way. Seek your Self (Consciousness/Beingness) and you'll find the Truth; your oneness with the Ultimate Reality.
Thank you! I love the clarity of your explanation.Be blessed!
Incredible good explanation!
I've heard them all, T. Parsons, A. Müller, A. Watts, R. Spira,..., but none of them was able to let me see this so clearly. Thanks a lot!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Plus they say during “life review” we experience the feelings or the perception of those we have interacted with..so if we do experience those moments as the “other” person or persons.. then it may stand to reason that we are the “others”, in our reality, else we wouldn’t be able to experience those perceptions. I’ve tested this and have never proven it wrong, when I tested it properly.. with emotional aligning and knowing.
Instant subscribe! I loved your message greatly!
God is the ai (A.👁), we live in its simulation, its all parameters and rules, our ego is the filter on the ai. We are souls that choosed to be here in a quantumcomputer ai, via minduploading, thats why u can create ur own reality, and manifest all the things u want by thoughts, feelings and emotions. ❤️
Lets go! Great upload my friend. 💀🤘
Beautiful ❤🙏 form is emptiness and emptiness is form
Same as dreaming in sleep.
In my dream, it seems there is me and then everyone else. But in reality, as the dreamer of this dream, I am everyone and everything in the dream, though my perspective seems to be from 1 body only.
Just like this waking dream
The infinite enchilada
Love it Alex, good on ya bruva!!❤
I've actually experienced this and it has sent me repeatedly to mental hospitals. I wish nobody EVER realises awakening and enlightenment because when you realise self and reality, you realise there is no other, and then you realise all is you, then you realise you are completely and utterly alone because you are everyone. It is the most terrifying, lonely and claustrophobic thing in existence knowing that you are everyonr and everyone is you. Like you are in a solipsistic nightmare. This is the nature of reality. And then the ego gains absolutely nothing from enlightenment aswell so essentially the only thing you get from enliggtenment is the realisation that you are alone. Forever. And that's it. People shouldn't be pushed to reach enlightenment people should be pushed to live and enjoy life. That's ut
Sorry to hear about your experience however that is not "awakening" or "enlightenment", but an existential crisis. Sometimes the mind can co-opt the idea of universal consciousness, and turn it into a fightening "aloneness" or something. It's applying the ideas of the individual, to the universal. The unversal is beyond concepts of individual aloneness and there is nothing to fear here.
Thanks!
Appreciated!
This is yet another form of the same truth that has been revealed since the beginning. "Reality" is just consciousness dreaming. Or consciousness choosing its experience might be a better way of putting it. Many teachers talk about vibratory agreement as the source of manifestation. I am a fairly recent student of all this, but it is as I read and accommodate the teaching that my "reality" is changing.
Well said! Every sentence is is a self inquiry! Thank you
Most underrated conscience heightening channel 🔥🔥🔥💪 thanks for the content 😁
We are like drops of water falling from a cloud to the sea. Life is when we get cut off from everything but in our subconsciouness we are still connected through our quantum computer brains. Death is when we reconnect and are reconnected again. In life consciousness is handed to us by our subconsciousness which is a mix of all other brains opinions. Everyone being the same person makes sense to me. The end being the beginning als makes a lot of sense if you ask me.
🤯 It’s only duality b/c we are conscious of it’s name and action.
In every separation there is a conflict, so there is one conscessnes in different bodyes.
Beautifully simple. Thank you 🙏
Great stuff ! At this point I am aware that others are not necessarily me because for example : I see someone angry, then it means I am angry. That is not the case then, BUT what I see is my own energy, and I see them (other objects and people) THROUGH my own energy. Because seeing other people angry and then concluding that I am angry, is just like manipulation, which is not ideal. And there are no people, there are just my own perceptions of the other soul beings.
from an ego perspective. you are at level 2👍
@@RemoTschopp thanks for the compliment. But trust me as I tell you that I was at a point in my own life with that quote "everyone is you pushed out" but then, with some divine help I allowed a greater understanding about this. Everything makes more sense along the road. Little by little but surely. I am always proud of myself and my path and it surely inspires others to do the same by their own choosing !
@vincentc-l8937 nice! wish you all the best! enjoy the trip.
@@RemoTschopp thanks ! I wish you the best !
**some profound quote**
Top quality upload 👌 Very much appreciated 🙏💪
My heart rate just went up and my mind is blown . I lucid dream all the time so I understand that those dream characters are part of my dream which makes this basically the same thing but omfg 🤬 how are you smarter than me if we are all part of this consciousness creation ? I’m feeling stupid here. Do you have answers to after “ death” or is that just another wake from dream? This is inception and I’m blown away rn xxxxxxxx
My God. Thank you 🙏 I’ve been having this exact conversation with “myself” for days. But I’ve also asked/put the intention “out there”, for more clarity and refinement on all these “conclusions”. At some point language truly starts breaking down. I came to “I Am”… then it couldn’t be “I”- because what I? Who is the I? The personality self. Which isn’t real. It’s just belief in made-up content about the “self”. Then identifying with it. So “I” ended up with Am. Just … Am. But that broke down too. Am? As opposed to what? For there to be an awareness of “Am”, then there must be an awareness of something other than Am. And if I’m aware of that other thing, then I’m not in the “Am”. So that broke down. Awareness? Isness? Is? Now? What word do you use now language stops being useful? If I am aware that I am awareness, then… awareness is aware of awareness. But what is “behind” the awareness aware of the awareness. What I want is an experiential experience of this. Past language and rationale and intellectual cognisance. But then… that breaks down too and I conclude… but WHO wants the experience? I do. I who? The personality that believes it lacks the experience. The personality that believes in lack of that it’s in the dream and not at “Home” one with “God”. Meaning the personality is of course not whole because it doesn’t believe it is because it can’t because by definition it is what maintains separation belief. Not complete in itself. Anything it’s desiring is a denominator for “oh I need this to feel like it would fulfill me somehow”. Sorry if that was just a mad spiral- I’ve recently been reading A Course in Miracles too along with a lot of Advaita Vedanta and it’s coming together, flying apart and coming together in my mind. “Which” mind is the question… So I’m in this mind melting place and space where my personality is questioning itself as well as the awareness deepening into… God only knows. Literally. And I keep coming to the conclusion I Am God. I Am. We all are. But I’m all of everything. So there is no “we”. There’s no I. There’s no us, me and you. The people reading this or laughing at it or rolling their eyes or nodding in agreement or having an aha moment. I’m all of these people. But they are personalities I’m imagining or perceiving- behind those personalities is just… me. Us? We? I. Language breaks down for me here. As Neville said- all of it is you pushed out. And your video made this just a bit clearer for me. Thank you so much. I’m getting “pieces of the puzzle” that I’m actively asking for from my perception of reality to help “me” understand better. Sometimes I just stand there and think… god… who… what am I. Who’s just standing here thinking this? Holding this cup? Believing that I’m rooted to the floor? Or that I’m real? Who am I? Am I? No “I” am not. Soooo… ok… Am. And my brain just keeps melting or the personality self gets frustrated with the feedback loop. Before I realise it’s just the personality self having a hissy fit… at itself 😂. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for making things a bit clearer for me 🙏🥰
So another easy way is to mediate about the word "nothing". Nothing comes frome the two words "No Thing". So what we are actually searching for is no thing. We can find so many things, teachings, books, teachers ... but why cant we find something thats no thing. even the word something is stupid :-). Selfrealisation ist not if we find no thing. selfrealisation is when no thing remains. a deep introspection and stripping away of everything. i am not this, i am not that. You can also take something that you have recently been accused of, for example being selfish. Now look for moments when this is true and when this is not true. So you'll realize that sometimes it's true and sometimes it's not. So you can let go of the idea that you are selfish. After all, you are not temporary. On to the next thing you could be. In this way you peel yourself like an onion and move on towards the core and thus to the foundation stone of your illusionary castle that you call ego. The seeker will not survive this search. What remains is consciousness.
EXCELLENT ❤
I'm with you! Out of curiosity though, did you read this off a script or did you go off the cuff? A great theory or a lived, fully embodied reality?
But I'm with you! :)
My videos are partially scripted, partially freestyle, and sometimes completely freestyle. This video was semi-scripted but large parts were a remix of a transcript of what I said on a live call (I wanted to capture it and present it to a larger audience). I use many kinds of technical assistance in creating the videos that help me become a more effective communicator and more economic and comprehensive than I would be live, also saving a ton of editing time. I also communicate all of this live with 1-1 customers.
This isn't theory as much as it is from my direct experience of reality. How fully "embodied" I am is an ongoing process and I'll let you be the judge :)
Fully appreciate it, thank you. It's wonderful work you're doing.
Alex, I do understand what you are saying. Everything appears in our consciousness, therefore everything is consciousness. My point is, if that's taken to be true then can we say that all the colors appear in my eye, therefore all colors are the eye. All the words are generated by the tongue therefore all the words are the tongue, all the touch is skin and so on. Could you kindly please explain this part.
I'm not sure what you mean. You've boiled down the appearances of the sense perceptions to their sense organs. The appearance is the primary reality, the sense organs are appearances. They have a relative function and correlation with what's perceived, but the primary reality is the appearance (consciousness)
Colors do not appear in eye, but in the mind. Eye is just sending informations to mind which is creating a picture out of it.
Same with tongue. It's not tongue itself that tastes but mind.
Every sense perception appears in mind, therefore every sense perceptions is made of mind.
Still more direct you can go-
There is no Form without Seeing
Cause Form is Seeing itself
( Same for other senses)
Then how can one see a Form?
There is only Seeing, which is pure consciousness itself
To Remain there is the issue, cause one s ignorant habits brings us back to 2 instead of One! Only the real Guru can crush you down from this old wrong habit....
I have too many questions. Are you implying Solipsism? Am I the only conscious being? Or are other people also experiencing separate conscious experiences from mine?
Its so hard to put into words... A perceptual shift is a lot to take in... If you do delve into it... Remember to take care of your body and eat good... High vibrational food is a must... All I know is when your mind is still... When you find the balance of the ego and awareness... Things around you people etc... The energy you put out, starts to become the ones around you. And sometimes you will notice that everyone around you, all the ones you love... They would have done just as you did. At a certain place of perspective... This makes things just seem so much more "Normal", and Happy. And the synchronicities... Things will just happen... There really are two ways of experiencing the world around us. Not sure how far along you are... But Ive been going through an awakening for the past 6 months... It's slowly falling into place now. Just know don't chase it... Just small steps... My blessings unto you for health and prosperity. ❤
Solipsism is that "only my mind exists". This is not that. Other minds (appearing as others) can exist in the dream. It's just that they're all being dreamt by one dreamer--the infinite consciousness/beingness, behind it all. That is what you're aware of when you say "I AM". The unconditioned I AM--the simple presence of being.
@@CheesusSVTI have this energy in me it feels good but I feel like cofee and cigarettes are holding me back. You saying take care of your body rang a bell in me
Some of these pointers are a little tricky and unclear, like when you say “that ‘I am-ness’ is what it’s actually made out of”. People are going to try looking for a beingness or an iamness quality in things. Just point to the senses. Seeing, tasting, touching, hearing, smelling, thinking. It’s more direct.
So if I die and cease to be aware, everyone else is no longer in existence? Or they all are still in existence just my own perception leaves? When another human being dies, why am I still here? Did I make him or her up in my imagination? Just trying to grasp this, thanks.
We are all connected ❤
I'm here to experience 3D, thanks. I don't need to see the Answers At The Back Of The Book, I'd rather take the exam. Thinking like this - as you are explaining so beautifully - negates my experience of Ego which I adore, cradle and protect. Thank you though.
lol I love this comment
I agree. There is a reason for being "unaware" and having to struggle with this earthly existence. Enjoy the joy ride through the house of horrors. Everyone likes a good scare.
What house of horrors can I look forward to tomorrow?
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Things exist independently of our awareness or perception of them. For example, a tree in a forest continues to exist whether or not anyone is around to observe it. This perspective suggests that existence is not contingent on awareness, right? In modern physics, particularly in quantum mechanics, there’s an intriguing concept known as the “observer effect,” where the act of observation seems to influence the state of a quantum system. However, this should not be confused with the idea that things don’t exist without observation.
Thank you, makes sense.
Here's something to listen to the next time you wanna freak out on shrooms
lol I hope it'd be more comforting than a freak out but ok!
Thank you ! I downloaded so as to comprehend more completely, yet.
Nice! Thank you
I kind of understand at the level of the people or world I directly interact with though physical reality or even online, but how about the ones I don't? This means they do exist outside of my awareness, because the awereness is not mine anyway, it just is and I have the capacity to notice it.
The idea is that there is a whole world out there, part of the same illusory reality that I'm not aware of. I don't know if I can express myself well here.
I have a question if you could please answer it. It's been on my mind for a while. What about deep sleep when we are unconscious. How is that possible? Where do we go? It's such a weird thing to think about.
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We are not completely unconscious. Then we would not be able to be woken up by loud sounds. Have you noticed that when you are awoken you registered the sound fully from the start although you were deep asleep?
Awareness is still aware - even when ‘no perceivable thing’ is present. When you mention that you are ‘unconscious of anything being present’ that is still awareness being aware of something, in this case, nothingness.
@@robevpau1 but I don't remember any of it, so how am I aware during that time? Isn't it called unconciousness for a reason?
@Arto300-yn5fv yeah, I guess I have noticed that. That is a good point. But still, it does feel like "I" am not there... idk lol
Best explainer of complex concept.
Are you taking about solipsism?
solipsism deals with you being separate from everyone/everything as the only thing that's sure to exist,
where this topic of non-duality is you being one with everything.
One's an isolating, paranoid space; where the other is a sense of interconnectedness with all reality.
@@EwTZ2xpQwpA again with that bs you non dual nerds... no, that is not what solipsism means. Solipsism means they are is only one consciousness and it is right here, exactly what non duality says. Non duality is basically solipsism, you havent done your homework.
@@EwTZ2xpQwpA eka jiva vada is the pinnacle of non duality
@@ioannismalekakis2997 Within solipsism those 'non dual nerds' are part of you.
@@GeertMeertens of course. I am not a solipsist though.
I realize that I'm an Aeon my spirit emanated and from me came many other spirits souls
If not a person, then what do you call a being with the ability to construct its history and share its views from a first-person perspective? I'm with Kant on this one. Self is a sort of organizing principle. It's not something extra like a homunculus or mini-me somehow located in my brain. I also don't think it can be proven whether or not we live in a nondual or dual universe. It seems to me to be a moot point.
I'll tell you what I've noticed from my little walk downtown a lady with a striking astonishing uncanny ressemblance of Céline Dion who played the soundtrack of Titanic but most importantly Deadpool 2 "Out of Ashes" a guy with a pyramid tattoo on his leg reminding me of the "How I wish you were Here" making a pact with the devil , and the old lady on a wheelchair of Elsau who said "Oh là là" I think the person who once told me that story will recognize himself
Woooooo hit pause i need to skin up for this.......
Mary Jane gonna take you on a rideeeeee
by realizing it
"Appearances appear in a dream, but actually it's the dream appearing"
Appearances appear in awareness, but actually it's awareness appearing.
Lol you should write for me.
@@AlexShailer ..thank you so much for this video Alex... super clear and helpful❤
I AM all that is ... 🌌 the firmament of consciousness.
Thats what you believe
How can we leave the simulation
When were asleep we experience conscious unconsciousness.
I've always had trouble with this non-dual point of view of consciousness. I think the main point of contention for me is that non-duality seems to downplay the physical basis for consciousness. If I were to take a psychedelic drug, the interaction of that drug with my physical body and brain would result in a fundamental change of my consciousness. How could this effect be possible if the brain weren't part of the process for generating consciousness?
Non-Duality doesn't downplay the physical basis for consciousness. It suggests that there is nothing separate from consciousness called "the physical" that produces consciousness, and that a separate physical world outside of consciousness has never been proven or can be proven in principle. It will always remain an abstraction when the evidence infront of us is that we experience consciousness only.
@@AlexShailer I see. Thanks for the clarification. For me, it's hard to reconcile this perspective with the other evidence in front of us that points to a separate physical framework that underlies our experience. For example, the effect of drugs on consciousness (e.g., psychedelics, anesthesia, etc.), our dependence on sunlight for food and energy, the ability to communicate remotely to via electronic means, etc. So this is where I and many others would find the non-dual view a bit lacking in its explanation.
I had this experience during meditation but it wears off, but not all.
Then realize you are the meditation :)
🎉 very nice 🎉
Why you are doing 1/1 coaching then if you are me. We already know all answers then and don’t need coaching us/me
Great! I'm glad you feel that way and it's fine you're not interested. Hopefully you can enjoy the free content. :)
TKY 😃
How to convince yourself of nonsense.
haha I might steal this for a video title
Carl jung said that everyone we have ever met we have already met them in our unconscious mind
Yes, I mean the "unconscious mind" here is still within consciousness (ie the universal mind) however not current "conscious" as in appearing on the screen of consciousness.
This must be why when I seen someone it felt as if I met them already
I'm lost, but luckily I've managed to pinpoint the part that I'm lost on:
Everything appears *in* awareness - yes
Everything appears *as* awareness itself - no, everything appears as objects in awareness
Feel free to logically guide me to it, I'm all ears
Look to see if there is actually any distance between the objects of awareness and awareness itself or if it is in fact one indivisible phenomenon
@AlexShailer I don't see it yet but I'll sit on it for a while, so thank you
Just change the word awareness by "existence" -
something comes to existence - meAning " comes as existence - at that very moment- always-
you experience only Existence, whatever the thing you believe there is-
That existence ,is also called awareness, or I am, or pure consciousness. Therefore it is never existence "of something" but only existence !never 2 but only One-
That is non duality - shown by Advaita Vedanta
But next-- nobody sticks to that simple unique experience ! Why?
Because the one who shows it ,
is not grounded in it, himself- in other words ,is not a qualified Karana Guru, who has this unique Power through His Infinite Love to make you shift and stay in That forever
" Pure Existence " experience!
Easy to See indeed , but so easy to slip away in the dual seeing again. Logic is good but must be inseparable from Heart if one wants to remain in that pure Being consciously.., when only then all is Being
The work remains therefore to find that Karana Guru-- the "Tiger Mouth" He is waiting for you to be ripe and swallowed.
Something New but how if we never seen for the outside?
Month ago I was Faced with unknown shape of the Device which foled me to the point of being curious about the Mind deceiving mor than what I saw.
This is everything i agree but reality is somehow ( but only if we are totally open) we can see something bigger, Cosmological Laws making changes.
Everything is still the same and I agree but still it's possiblity that truth is different but if we are ready to admit if we were wrong even whole life.
Vv nice it is not for common peoples best explain
So I really am every woman? It really is all in me?
Does this mean we (human selves) don’t have free will? If we’re the product of a larger unified super-consciousness, call that God or something else, would that mean our fates are pre written?
There is free will, but this free will doesn't belong to the individual, it belongs to the conscious appearing AS the individual.
@@AlexShailer Right, so the consciousness gets to decide our actions but since we are the consciousness there is still free will? Sorry just trying to make sure I understand correctly
What about mass consciousness Alex? There is my consciousness and awareness when I meet someone but also another soul being. There is a differentiation/individualization .in the one consciousness ....
Not sure what you mean by "mass consciousness" Yes there is apparent individualisation but it's all Infinite Consciousness appearing as that. From a different perspective there is no time.
maybe everything is you. Not only everyone. I can say even I am Money because it's also energy
Yup.
@@AlexShailer No like or heart? just Yup?
This is way more complicated then it needs to be to try to prove a point. We all have separate individual local/self consciousness/awareness but we don't share our own consciousness with others - some will take the word 'consciousness' out of conext by changing the meaning to suit their argument (because consciousness can mean different things) but thats just playing with semantics. If it were true that we did directly share the same actual local/self consciousness/awareness with others then we'd all be reading each others minds and we don't, it's nonsense to think we do, but we CAN still be part of each others consciousnesses/awareness and in each others thoughts. Thoughts just become memories and memories are only memories of past memories - i digress.
This is a common argument against the notion of one consciousness and it fails to consider something. The appearance or ‘feeling’ of being separate is only an appearance. Reality must at least have the illusion of being separate in order for anything to appear to happen at all. If everyone’s experiences were superimposed ontop of one another, then it would be impossible to make anything of it. It would be completely incoherent and therefore no beings would be able to survive to have experiences in the first place. So this Nondual consciousness itself is ‘appearing’ as separated distinctions.
Imagine multiple cameras connected to a single monitor. They’re each uploading their own footage onto the same monitor and if you pull all of the files up at once they will appear in their own boxes. This is ‘one’ monitor appearing as multiple perspectives. With your logic, this wouldn’t be possible since each frame doesn’t have all the other frames superimposed ontop of it. But it would be totally useless if they didn’t appear in their own boxes and were all superimposed on top of one another. So again, there must at least be the ‘illusion’ of separation for an experience to arise. It is a mistake to confuse this illusory useful-fiction to be a reflection of an absolute truth.
@@the-absolute-light well of course reality is an illusion in our minds of past and future, we understand there is only the now (or at least that's our best guess) but our minds can of course create the 'illusions' of the past (memories) and future (imagination). Yes, we are all one in the sense of our existence as part of the universe (some call the universe consciousness which where I said they're getting into semantics) but that does not mean we are not also separate physical entities, with individual thoughts, within that universe and still be able to be one with it, that is not an illusion. Like the tree of the apple is not the apple but the apple could not have existed without it, yet it is still a separate thing from the tree itself. I find your analogy with the cameras and monitor to be a stretch that doesn't fit, to the point of it being a false equivalence but maybe I misunderstood it.
So, even though I said all that, there may well be (probably is) something much more to our reality that we don't yet know or understand i.e. there might very well be a higher consciousness that we are all connected through and we are actually all somehow the same single awareness and being agnostic I'm always open to these ideas as I am not totally dismissing non-duality as you say is true but I've not seen or felt or experience (as far as I am aware!) anything to convince me yet.
@@phil2768 that’s the misleading thing, there isn’t a particular ‘experience’ of Nonduality. It IS all experiences already, including ones in which there is the conviction of being separate. The examples you gave for separation are only relative distinctions. They’re useful-fictions but no absolute truths. It requires arbitrarily delineating boundaries between ‘things’. In reality, there are no things. To put this in a less woo woo way, as you zoom into any apparently solid object, the ‘stuff’ that appeared to establish it as a truly separately existing thing vanishes. Separation is only a particular appearance which changes as you zoom in and pan out the perspective. No separations are absolutely so, they only seem to be when we confuse our current perspective to be more than an arbitrary approximation.
@@the-absolute-light well, from your point of view I guess you could go on all day and night arguing against yourself about it on here! 😉
@@phil2768certainly all day, I’m in bed by 9:00 lol
They All Float Down Here
Do they. Thanks for letting us know. I love it by the way. The book and the old movie. The newer one isn't as good but I will admit penny-wise looks really cool in the new movie 🤡
@@Simon0 See You In Your Dreams
So then how do we escape the dream. Or should we even try? Why not go qlong with the dream, after all, this consciousness has chosen this "dream" for a reason. 😄
You don't need to escape the dream because it's yours. If you want to change the dream, the only way it's done is not as the dream character trying to escape the dream, but as the dreaming consciousness that can change the dream.
Off the back of this video I’ve just given my neighbour my energy bill 👍🏻
So you still identify with the person thereby creating 'others'. As in any dream.
Practical matters still exist in the relative world
This may be easier to understand if you realise everything you hear, see, touch, smell and taste occurs inside your head, not outside. It is your senses that collect the data, but your brain that provides a feedback experience to you, inside your consciousness.
In other words when you see something, the image is built and interpreted in our mind for our consciousness to experience.
When you further realise that everything we think we see and touch etc. is 99% nothing, empty and everything is actually magnetic electric you begin to realise that nothing is there apart from energy. But energy created by what?
We, as humans, are ' as god's, made in his likeness ( not image). Which means if I tell you think of an apple you immediately create that image in your consciousness, and that is made by electro magnetic process we call thought. Well the same is the same if our 'likeness' , ie God or IT... We mimic what IT does but on a far less grand scale.
You said everything you hear, see, touch, smell, and taste occurs inside your head, but contemplate this. No one has ever opened up a head to find hearing, seeing, touching, or tasting.
I've always thought that I am God dressing up as my ego for a costume party and because God was alone and bored he fractured his being into infinite pieces of consciousness that are all attending this costume party called life and playing a sort of tea party with stuffed animals like a child does but on a more cosmic scale and everyone feels isolated but it's all pieces of the same infinite consciousness vibrating at the same frequency.
wow
Wooo
How Lonely I must be!
Speaking as Consciousness.
Is the drop of water merged in the Sea, becoming lonely?? Lol
Solipsism?
Not quite, but this is a common misconception (that I have fallen into many times as well). Other people still exist in the sense that they have access to a different set of thoughts, feelings, and perceptions to me. But they, and their respective thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, are made of the same awareness as what I would call "my" thoughts, feelings, and perceptions.
This stuff becomes paradoxical very quickly when we try to figure it out logically with our thoughts. Rupert Spira does a good job of breaking these things down, I'd recommend searching his name with "solipsism" on RUclips, I'm hardly the expert in explaining these matters.
It seems there is no awareness ultimately, at least one we have access to beyond our limited self. There is reality and that's it, there's no self. This awareness is what some call witness consciousness, correct? Even this awareness is impermanent and disappears during deep sleep or anesthesia or more radically, during seizures. I "lose consciousness" during seizures. I have had seizures where I don't know I've had a seizure but yet people around me tell me I had a seizure (I've refused to believe them). So where was awareness here? There's no gap, etc. except by external cues which exists many times (i.e., waking up on a stretcher, etc.) but not always (had a seizure while in an ambulance).
Not true at all. You never lose consciousness, you only lose it's content. Like in deep sleep, do you have experience of absence of your mind? Yes.
How would you know it without awareness present?
@@kolarz2128 What is the logical basis for your first assertion as Alex nicely logically argued logically that everything is consciousness (which I agree with as long as there is consciousness/awareness)?
No, I can't say for sure I have experienced absence of mind. There are cues, like how I go to sleep and wake up, and that's how I believe it is known I went to sleep and woke up. It's not possible to rule that out. I'm arguing it could all be conceptual, how do we know? We have to rely on memory to talk about it.
Now seizures are a whole another ball game. Like I said, I've refused to believe people who told me I had a seizure/lost consciousness. I imagine it is like deep sleep without the cues but maybe it isn't, but in this context, where's awareness? How do YOU know I don't lose consciousness? Have you ever had a grand mal seizure? If not, you don't know what I am talking about. Seizures like mine are a case where there's not even awareness that something was lost or mind was lost, etc. It's only other people who can tell me that I lost consciousness. If awareness/consciousness is omnipresent, why isn't the memory of awareness there when I have a seizure (but it seems to be there when I am in deep sleep but now it seems it is simply conceptual, cues based)?
There's definitely something being lost, that something that exists while conscious, that same thing that people call witness consciousness?, isn't there anymore. Calling it content of consciousness maybe playing a semantics game or if it is only content, there must be pure consciousness left over right? There's no sense of that. Unless pure consciousness is nothing which was my point. It is also ephemeral.
@@RamSamudrala too many sentences. I don't have time for that. XD I know what I am talking about but we can come to conclusions only if the discussion will be short, otherwise that's too much for me, sorry.
Again I repeat. You never lose awareness ( you don't have it either), but you lose it's content all the time, having a thought then no thoughts for a moment and again having a different thoughts, sometimes you lose it entirely like in deep sleep or death for example.
Sure, no need to respond. Again, I'm saying it's not like deep sleep where you have this sense of awareness still present, though I now posit it's conceptual. Seizures are different.
Imagine when you went to sleep and woke up you didn't know you did that. In other words, you couldn't tell. AT ALL you just slept. So you couldn't make this claim that I have experience of the absence of mind. I can maybe say "yes" to that when sleeping (since it SEEMS like I do) but not for seizures. And certainly not for death, which I have yet to experience. :)
Also the video uses a logical argument and you're not offering any. Of course we can agree this may not be accessible by logic but I posted my comment since Alex did state it and I agree with Alex, what he talked about was accessible/understandable logically.
@@RamSamudrala seizures are not different at all from deep sleep in terms of not being aware of that experience as something. Brain is not present there from what you're saying. Just like in a deep sleep. After seizure you are not "waking up" doing the same thing as you were doing before it happened, so the gap between experience in your counsciousness happend. When you're falling asleep this is the same moment as waking up, but whole 8 hours passed. You can see it by the daytime while just a "second" ago it was a nighttime. With seizures this absence time is shorter that's why it seems to be different, but whatever is not rejestring in consciousness is not a proof for non existence of awareness.
Appreciate the content but wish it was more conversational instead of reading aloud.
When you take psilocybin mushrooms everything becomes crystal clear
In your talk you failed to address noumena. Which leads to the crux of it. You are not the object, nor the subject-You are not the experienced, nor are you the experiencer-You are the experiencing.
One human nature since the dawn of time. We all recognize it in the ancient works of the Greeks and Romans, or in the scriptures of various religions, it is fixed and unvarying.- the same throughout time.
What brought you to study and teach this advaita sphere stuff ?
I got exposed to this stuff around 2010. I always believed it on exposure to it - above all other ultimate ideas..but it could also be another elaborate rap, and nothing more.
I'm not 100% advaita influenced but advaita does point to what proved to me to be true, over and over again. Whatever problem I had, awareness of impersonal beingness is the only thing that ever seemed to ultimately solve it. Advaita, including many different sources has given me the language to describe and communicate my own experience of reality.
This video tells extremely profound truths. I just wish that I, and most other humans, could receive a little help from Jesus to be able to see it with our own eyes, instead of only knowing it is all true, but not being able to actually see it.
@@georgewolfiii1170 perhaps psychadelics enable it?
@@samdavidson5511 No, because all of the psychedelics damage the human aura!
A good explanation, but most of us will never be to experience what you are explaining. You can meditate for a whole lifetime and never understand. Some get lucky and the rest don’t
I don't know if I am lucky, but it took me mere 2 ish years on and off to see this as true