How to Be in Two Places at Once

[@Tabrox22TomekGrzymski]

And how bbout people, you love? How do you see them? Isn't it lonely when you see everyone as yourself? Maybe next episode about solipsism vs non dualism? it would be interesting.

[@themeep2494]

its not lonely at all. The more shadow I recognize, the less suffering I feel, the less suffering there is, the less self there is, the more everything can enter. I don't know if you've ever felt unconditional love, it's the most incredible feeling in the world. Connection also comes with this journey, intimacy doesn't just ramp up, it's off the charts.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

It's quite the opposite, when you see everyone as separate they are essentially "objects." So then you assign higher value to the objects that are most important to you, but do you see how that is ultimately self centered. This is the root of conditional love, we feel love for those who can do the most for us rather than love them for who they are independent of the assigned value we give them. So mind identifications is far more like solipsism than non-dual realization. Good question.

[@johnnywlittle]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake great explanation

[@birgit8996]

Yes, great..... being Angelo at the same time when he appears (as a colored dot)😃😊

[@stelladonnelly2832]

A few years ago I woke up in the middle of the night, but was not fully awake, sort of the inbetween state. Awake enough to hear the rain which was beating down steadily on the roof - a lovely peaceful sound, but it's like I was feeling and hearing the rain inside my body and I just lay there until I fell fully asleep. It was so natural and enjoyable.

[@nat998]

I love falling asleep during rain and thunderstorms - it's my sensory happy place. That's a beautiful experience you described feeling you are the rain. I totally get what you mean by it. I too have felt this. Feels like you're in the womb, absolute tranquility.

[@deanf.6926]

The tip drop the wall (there is none), between outside and inside...very powerful

[@Koort1008]

It is a meditation or my bhakti, 24/7. The consciousness of an object necessitates a forgetfulness of the subject. All perception is an extroverted operation of consciousness. An object is a form of our consciousness. Just bring it back to the subject. It's an appearance. Even then there is more. The drop has to understand its relation to the ocean.

[@katye7727]

It's just a learned thought that "says" there's separation.This has always been known but wasn't learned. Primordial like you said. The shifting continues but this one was a wowie 👏🤸🤯🥳🙏

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

!!!!

[@gantonia99]

Outstanding!

[@Darksagan]

I am having more progress with self inquiry via questions than with meditation. Which is wild considering the various stages Ive experienced. Great video.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Yes! Inquiry is very powerful

[@yasminel-hakim4348]

love this video 🙏 as I go to bed very early (just like a chicken) it’s still not really dark now in spring, so I look at the scenery that is in front of my eyes. For example a part of the blanket, of my arm, of the shelf and the ceiling. Everything is in shades of grey and it’s easy to see the scenery as if it was a picture. The contours merge together. Dark spots and bright spots make it a beautiful art piece. In the beginning the arm is sensed belonging to “me” because I feel the lifeness of it, but with continued looking everything becomes a very close beautiful I-don’t-know-what. By the way, the shelf transforms into shimmering dancing, vibrating stripes of light. In daylight my daily practice is to walk about 25 minutes to the office and after work back. I focus on the sound and keep looking (staring) on the changing sceneries in front of me. Specially when crossing the park it gets intimate and strange feelings, like memories from childhood or other lifetimes arise. When this happens the shadows become darker, can’t explain it precisely.

[@JoyfulJabber]

Thank you for another great video! As a little technical thing, I really like that there is no music in the background on this one, as it helps me focus more on the message. My mind tends to want as little distraction as possible, and music seems to stir up emotions that somehow take quite a bit of my focus, taking attention away from the message. I guess it's something to practice, keeping the focus despite many things calling for attention. But this is serene, allowing me to fully focus on the message. I like that. 🙂

[@nevermind5228]

Let’s say I was so glad you were separated from the actions behind you. I was so caught into what’s going on there, didn’t know what you were saying the 1st time watching it. Yes visual perceptions sure go wild after I dropped the belief things should be certain way. One example, when driving up hill, the lines of cars in front of mine all go up into the sky 🤣

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Yep! Very difficult to describe how this is, yet its quite natural

[@domenictersigni999]

Thanks fellow being for sharing awareness and insights out loud with us

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

You bet

[@domenictersigni999]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake their is a betting going on lol again thanks fellow being for sharing the subjective/objective,good/evil better known in some students awareness the spiritual/material realm we observer from the observer energy

[@johnnywlittle]

Wow this is great, insightful explanation - really enjoyed. Thx Angelo

[@ssstrong529]

I'm curious how someone in deeper stage realization experiences ailments or disease in the body. I feel a big hurdle for me is desiring healing. This desire for healing, it's just thought? But the reality is the condition is present. Making peace with what is?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Yes much of that is fear based, and unnecessary thought. Conditions are conditions but what we interpret those conditions as is what causes suffering. Acceptance is important, but what is even more important is clear seeing when it comes to what is actually happening right now as well as what isn't happening. Specifically with the movement discussed in this video, the ongoing sense that there is something special about us is dissolved and so the preoccupation with our selves is dissolved.

[@ssstrong529]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Ahh I love this. Yes!! Herein lies another perception uncovered. Excited to sit with this one. Thank you! ❤️

[@nat998]

00:03:04 - 00:03:42✨ all what is perceived, is THAT... which _IS_ the perceiving... Consciousness-Awareness IS _This_ ("life" : all sensations arising). 🙏

[@MediDrawing]

that background looks amazing

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

:)

[@jgarciajr82]

It's not subjective and it's not objective it's transjective. 🙏

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Cool word

[@jamesphillips523]

This is a really clear description and I like your use of intimate. This is exactly how I could describe it if I could describe it if you see what I mean. One morning I went to a local shop for a paper passed over the payment then ‘it’ all dropped away and was left with intimacy intense peace and boundlessness. The separation did reappear later in that day but because ‘it’ happened, since, I can tap into it or get hints of it

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

exactly yes

[@MelFinehout]

What I found myself doing was looking out at the world, then without changing my focus looking inward at my mind, which looks the same immediately. Then repeating this until it doesn't make sense anymore. But then, I thought "I better do what the realized people say and stop making things up." Maybe I should trust my intuition?

[@dar_jada]

This is so CLEAR! You've approached this phenomena of experiencing the truth in so many different ways that it is like you are gradually chipping away at the perceptual filters that I have been conditioned to accept as truth. I KNOW what you are saying is true but it is as though someone has blindfolded me and is preventing me from taking it off. I experience a low level of anxiety now. It is constant. Sometimes it feels like I can't breathe. When I was a child I had a great fear of being blind. I would sometimes awaken from a dream and shout I am blind I can't see. To a small degree this is a similar experience. I'm here for the duration though for however long it takes. Thank you so much for your encouragement.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

I love your determination

[@eric-humanappliance]

I sometimes slip into a non-dual view on walks. Such a gift when it happens. And also a kind of hard reboot of the dualistic self. Upon return to conceptual state it's like someone cleaned house.

[@johnmedina9086]

What’s up Angelo.. a few months back I believe I experienced this 2 places in one thing… I was in a room with a few other people and all of a sudden someone said something directly to me and it felt like only me and that person could hear what was going on in this brief moment.. it was as if I was talking to myself from across the room.. it kinda freaked me out and my mind kicked in pretty quickly so this experience only lasted for a few seconds but is this similar to what you’re talking about in this video?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Yes those are glimpses or experiences of it. With practice one can experience this ongoing

[@OhhChrono]

I appreciate your work here, you explain in a language that resonates best with me apart from any other teacher, I think its because we lived in similar environments and so our relationship to words is similar 🙏

[@TheHealingCollective369]

DUDE!!! I FINALLY see what you're doing in these videos! That is freakin amazing! LMAO!!!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

!!!!!

[@chamarigangoda2196]

🙏🙏🙏 Great Explanation !

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Glad it was helpful!

[@angelinadancer]

2 places at once - very helpful, thanks 😊

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

You’re welcome 😊

[@jgarciajr82]

There's something behind the proposition. ❤️

[@aureliafox2924]

As I listened to you I kept thinking about In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak 😂 and when I listened again I realized why 🤓 it’s the same story! 💀😂😂😂 (also and initially, the tree and me line)

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Lol is it a book? I’ll have to check it out. I don’t even remember the story I told in the video

[@aureliafox2924]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake oh, you didn’t tell a story… you described one… but you said something about a “tree and me” which sounds similar to a line in the children’s story by Sendak:) and once I thought of the story I realized you’re describing the same thing Sendak is 👏😂👏

[@georgeshepherd3381]

Our dependence on Linguistics forces duality consciousness. Separating language from experience- that is, treating language independently from raw experience (say, through Vipassana meditation) is important.

[@edwardcottrill584]

Hi Angelo. Do you have any experience of "siddhis" -- e.g. knowing others' minds, remote viewing etc.? Do such things exist and, if so, how would they be viewed from your current level of awareness? Thanks!

[@mattspy4316]

Gold

[@benzapataful]

This is by far one of the clearest and most practical expositions I have ever heard/read about the object subject relationship, and the collapse of see-er and seen etc. , i.e. collapse of subject and object. Also the attempt of describing how the world feels after this seeming collapse as kaleidoscopic is intuitively accurate. Thanks, Angelo!

[@beckya7522]

I find this fascinating. Is there an adjustment period to get your bearings? Can you seamlessly continue to do activities requiring fine motor skills, depth perception, concentration...etc.?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

yes, but some adjustment is required if it shifts fast

[@harjotmahal8985]

When a devotee asked Ramana Maharshi if he may remove the thorn in his foot he said, " Where is the thorn? Is it in my foot or is it in your mind"?

[@humanbeing4995]

So what we perceive is a linear existence, instant to instant, with memory, yes? We are aware that perception is of and by relativity. Consider that an instant relative to the observer can unfold itself into infinity, much like a photon, when in actuality all that is began and ended in the same instant. Linear existence exists simply because it is part of an instantaneous incident. Even if it's just a thought experiment we can see how eternity and the instantaneous nature of existence are both different and the same. One could not exist without the other playing out. Real or more real ceases to matter. It is. Edit: Thanks for the lesson. As usual these are just my initial thoughts.

[@humanbeing4995]

@Ann Hello again 🙏 I'm happy to hear from you. 🤗 It's fun to think of reality as a puzzle as long as there's no overwhelming need to solve it. "I don't know" can be so much more than "it must be" 😁💛

[@HiluT]

After the shift, how do you find interest to do basic needs, like eat or physical activities?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Everything becomes faaar more interesting 😃😃😃, like seemingly mundane things, events, experiences take on a sort of magical quality

[@HiluT]

Thanks! That is a great news 😀 💗💗💗 I kinda knew it, because the journey itself is very fun and I can only imagine how much more the actual shift will be ❤️

[@JessBess]

Re: shadow work, would doing therapy perpetuate the separate self? I feel like I do get a sense of what you're pointing to, the 'I' never moves but me as Jess the character moves in it. When interacting with new people I do sense having a personal story, to be able to relate to others but I can also tell they're just words that are empty and with no real meaning or emotional charge behind it...

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Really depends on the quality and goal of therapy. Overall I'd say tho that if we avoid emotion and shadow work bc "there is no one to do that" we're probably bypassing 😆

[@JessBess]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake what type of therapy do you recommend?

[@dmc7324]

I started seeing object expand slightly when I first started doing this. Now I am occasionally seeing a whole scene fluctuate and can feel a little disoriantated. Is this normal?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Yep! Keep at it. Just not while driving :)

[@TheLegend-ct6ss]

Hi angelo i have a question, i recently askes the question “who am i” and this made my mind empty. No thoughts or emotions, and my question is if you could tell me what this is? Am i awakened? Is drug use dangerous when being in this state? Is this permanent?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Is it uncomfortable or peaceful? Does it feel intimate or disassociated? Is there an undeniable sens of I Am?

[@TheLegend-ct6ss]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake it feels uncomfortable as if i am too empty and there is still a sense of self and “i”

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@TheLegend-ct6ss ok that’s probably is more like a disassociative experience which is is fine but not the intimacy of non-dual. You can do Inquiry resting in the sense of I Am unduly it’s comfortable/enjoyable to do so then look for the precise location of the sense of I. Alternatively do some work as I described in that video I made yesterday to address emotional fixations.

[@TheLegend-ct6ss]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake how long does a dissociative experience last then? I really dont feel good in my skin thats why im asking. And btw i still have my problem solving and planning thoughts just the default network mode that is not active unfortunately

[@eric-humanappliance]

What is it that wants to wake up? Does the feeling, the drive, the curiosity have an origin? Not trying to build a conceptual framework, but maybe this could be a useful line of inquiry?

[@shlomobachar4123]

How you can feel intimacy with pain (for example)? Say if you are tortured?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Not sure I've never been tortured.

[@sarahabbey6276]

Talking about miracle

[@themeep2494]

What Angelo is discussing here is what the new age spiritual community calls 5D, but he's really helping me figure out some of my experiences such as being teleported to a different dimension. I exited my body through my third eye chakra and woke up from the dream, an instinctive knowing, not a thought. I will say it felt like I lifted my head, I was inside a room without a floor, walls or ceiling, like a 3D void space shaped like a room. I could see my body lying in front of me, my stomach was cut open four ways but there was no blood. I was receiving shakti pat as my kundalini began immediately after this. It took me a long time to understand this experience on any level but it now makes more sense than ever. I didn't teleport to another dimension, my consciousness was propelled through concentric rings in my third eye which gave me the feeling of travelling, but could now be interpreted as dialling through the filters of the conditioned mind into reality. I can't even describe how vivid everything appeared, like super HD. There was no movement, but a sort of energy melding is the best I can describe it as I saw the person giving me healing turn into a golden elephant, yes, sounds crazy, the mind will find any description it can, he was wearing a huge headdress and golden robe but it was the trunk that did it for me. Also, I was viewing everything from an alternative angle, of course I was, movement, separateness and subject/object are all illusionary. I'm afraid to say that I took what I could make sense of based on others' interpretations, it made sense! Angelo is radically changing me as an individual, calmer, less new age, more truth. Dude is so needed in the spiritual world.

[@dylanevartt3219]

I trust blue-shirt Angelo, but I'm not so sure about that red-shirt guy

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

NEVER TRUST THE RED SHIRT GUY!!!!!!!!

[@rulamazigi5839]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake 🤣

[@lynnhunter4493]

🙏🙏🙏

[@tuckerxclips]

How do I get rid of my desire?

[@humanbeing4995]

At the risk of sounding like a fool, contemplate/meditate on the nature of desire itself. Where does it come from? Why does it affect you? How does it seem to live in and effect others? Identify it and place it where it belongs, remember you are always free to redecorate.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

It can take some time even after awakening for seeking to completely subside. It's a matter of seeing clearly that seeking thoughts never deliver the goods, it's a hide and seek game. We hide our true nature from ourselves then endlessly seek it through surrogates.

[@humanbeing4995]

We can't forget the things we've learned. We can also remember a state we didn't have to learn to be in. 😉😁 It's very good to see you.

[@georgeshepherd3381]

Boundaries exist only in language.

[@freeman669]

❤️

[@deanf.6926]

The concept that it is very intimate...it is seen/felt, why this is said....but, intimate implies 2, and actually it's closer than close. But, alas, words fail, perhaps intimate is as good a description as any

[@shlomobachar4123]

Who are all others that respond to you?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

You'd have to ask them.

[@johnnywlittle]

7:00 there are a lotta ways, here’s some…

[@Stefan69whatever]

It appears pretty obvious that subject and object are mental constructs. However in investigating the visual field I found that the world is always seen from a certain perspective. So someone's position in the world is changing. I really don't know how to investigate further here. You just see the world in perspective. Not from everywhere.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Check out the fetter 6 playlist

[@kimweeber7521]

Great talk, but I had to turn off the video and just listen, as the changing background was too distracting and pulled my attention away from the message.

[@kebobscat]

But isn't my body the boundary between me and something else? If I walk into the tree, I'll bump into it...

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Conventionally speaking yes, but you are referencing a thought to "know" that... in direct experience it doesn't hold up, no body, no environment, no objects :0

[@aureliafox2924]

I rarely do this but I happened to watch the video as you are speaking of the visual field at around eight minutes… And I have a question. In the video background there are bubbles floating as if on water (not in air) and this morning I was watching the exact same thing in a little stream. Just for a minute or so I was listening to one of your videos about just the sense experience and enjoying the birds and the leaves rustling and the whole sensory experience my dog panting etc. etc. and the bubbles formed a really cool pattern with the swirling water and the sounds so they caught my attention. And the impression of being a bubble of experience in the Stream of whatever is happening popped into my mind and I think I even left a comment with bubbles in it on that video lol. And here they are in the background of your video. OK so that stuff happens to me all day every day I don’t even know why I went into all of that. Oh wait yes OK… My question! I have a question about the visual field. In my visual field I “see” synchronicity throughout but *knowing* the synchronicity, it isn’t “simply visual”… There is memory involved like in this example. Bubbles, bubbles, a theme in today… So when keeping attention on the “screen” … well, I am really expecting what I see to look completely different and that thought doesn’t go away!! I feel into equanimity and non-dual briefly but frequently. And my faith, I guess, or trust and understanding feel pretty vast open and simple. Anything can come or nothing. The hard stuff is as personal and perfect as the easy and it all flips around anyway. But everything LOOKS the same!! I just realized that I never think of it while I am at peace but I guess after the fact the thought was hidden from me that I’m still waiting for something to be… more … different ?!? Idk.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

The mind is so sneaky isn't it? Trust your immediate experience bc guess what, it IS the eternal, the Unborn. don't worry what the analysis says about it.

[@shlomobachar4123]

Even if all these nondual explanations seems logical and even true, still they don’t explain the localized body feeling and also death. I cannot feel myself as another person and always see the world within the same body, which seems to get older and someday will die.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

With the experience of non-dual realization the localized body sense is actually gone. It’s not logical or conceptual it’s glaringly obvious.

[@AnnM847]

I have been doing a lot of intensive inquiry recently, remaining as the self while observing thoughts passing without hooking into them. In the past week something has changed. Its odd, the only way I can describe it is that everything has become very close and appears clearly to made out of the same "stuff" The only thing is that I'm experiencing some de-realisation. I used to experience this frequently when I suffered from depression and it was really frightening. I don't suffer from depression any longer but recently the de-realisation and de -personalisation has come back on a couple of occasions. Its not so uncomfortable or frightening but I'm a bit concerned I might be doing something wrong that's encouraging this.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Yes, I generally don't encourage people to purposely construct a watcher state, "Watching thought," as among other things it can encourage dissociation :) As described in my book this is why moving toward thoughts, resting in unbound consciousness etc are important. Also working on any emotional triggers in a direct way will calm the tendency to disassociate

[@AnnM847]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Much appreciated, I need to read your book again to pick up on things I didn't fully "get" the first time. If you have time, could you remind which chapter covers dissociative states. Thanks

[@donotbegullible]

Once the imposter within 'You' is exposed, it can never hide again because you are pure Light (Awareness). In that Light, ego can never hide again FOREVER no matter how tricky or subtle it is. In the 'past', I was noise with some spaces of silence but 'now' I am silence with some spaces of noise. Be in that state right 'Now'!

[@nbenda]

Wondering why you are so obsessed with perception. There are so many possibilities, realms, states, etc..... they all appear in You. Interesting path the other way round. Inquiring perception to shift instead of inquiring yourself to shift perception as a result.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Well I wouldn’t say I’m obsessed with perception but I will say that at some point it becomes obvious that even the sense of you/me/I is seen to be mere perception. Also at sone point perception itself is dispelled so…

[@nbenda]

I agree, but it happens or not. Not sure we need to focus on it. I spoke to a guy, he can't imagine anything (I asked if he could imagine a beach) , it feels contracted. Isn't this also a new attachment to the now, or flow. Isn't it an attachment to no self, new perceptions, etc.... At the end, the character that is there, can't we integrate it in the "awareness space" . What about indifferent love?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@nbenda sone people have aphantasia (they have no inner eye). It’s totally normal and has nothing to do with realization

[@nbenda]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake so, you can still imagine a beach, or let's say imagining is still happening?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@nbenda yes, though it’s far more vague than it used to be. Realization doesn’t mean you can’t imagine. Conversely if you can’t imagine (aphantasia) doesn’t mean you are awakened.

[@stelladonnelly2832]

A few years ago I woke up in the middle of the night, but was not fully awake, sort of the inbetween state. Awake enough to hear the rain which was beating down steadily on the roof - a lovely peaceful sound, but it's like I was feeling and hearing the rain inside my body and I just lay there until I fell fully asleep. It was so natural and enjoyable.