the same exact thing happened to me, when i listened to SuperHuman RNA+ one day and then waking up the next day, almost shouting and bouncy, having only slept 6 hours, but what really nailed it was the moment i was exposed to the sun, it was something unreal to receive energy from the sun, i almost hyperventilated in the middle of my uber riding 
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It literally felt like somehing straight out of a Marvel movie, first time i felt alive… in a long time
Video game industry is now bigger than movie plus music industries combined.
Sounds crazy but is true. Ask the AI if you don’t believe me.
Back in the days, i.e. before 2010, video games were only for “nerds” and “non social” people, but today you automatically expose yourself as a Boomer if you go to the cinema lol.
Oh boy, how times have changed 
Yeah, and most of that money is made in mobile gaming lol. But yeah, it’s insane how big that industry has gotten over the years. And it’s only going to grow more and video game interactivity evolves and people get to play in their own universes.
And yeah, it’s funny how all the nerdy things (games, superheroes) came around to becoming worldwide phenenomons years later. Most people in their 30s/40s grew up playing video games and still play. Younger gen growing up is all in on games lol.
While I do not harbor religious beliefs like when I was a teen (I used to be Quite religious back then, Orthodox Christian and the mindset of it being the true faith and all of that), I still believe in… something lol.
Well, i believe in possibilities, the fact that new things are possibly, like for example fields and also subs, and other tools for self healing, self growth etc.
But Idk if it’s a belief, since I now know this stuff is real…
However, define real lol.
We have notions like Maya or other similar notions, in Hinduism, Buddhism etc., and Solipsism literally can not be debated properly…
I mean, is anything outside my own mind, real?
I choose the yes option lol, since it’s the practical choice, plus, in the absurdity that it’s all a grand illusion, matrix or I’m just a program (or mind, soul, human, whatever) experiencing a fabricated reality, what’s there to lose?
A logical conclusion can be reached that the most interesting and growth fueling option is simply going with the flow (illusion or not lol)..
As for my choice, to believe that I am real that everything I experience is real, etc., is simply done so since I can not prove nor accept that it’s not real either…
Mom, dad, me and my human experience, my life, you guys, pleasure, love, experiences, etc., I would never deny any of this…
My idea is this: although we can perceive only a tiny fraction of what is reality, life, the universe / whole, etc., it is still real, to us, to each one of us…
Of course “all is one”, “we’re all one”, such beliefs, approaches and/or experiences are in a way a solution to Solipsism and other philosophical similar views …
Science points in that direction, not only points, it clearly shows that all things are connected and that observation, consciousness, matter, etc. All interact with each other(s)… Etc. (double slot experiment and other more modern and contemporary discoveries and experiments and theories, plus the overwhelming data regarding subjects like NDE, out of body (experience), remote viewing, lucid dreaming, etc. are some of the subjects worth researching and connecting together…)…
Anyway, since I do want to end the reply, I will quote this:
“Frodo:” What are we holding on to, Sam? "
" Sam: "That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo..
and it’s worth fighting for."
Ending thought: love, evolution/evolving, curiosity and learning (well, evolution includes all of this or love lol, whatever) and the fact that nothing is truly lost are some of my beliefs…
We will have all our answers at a certain point, either trillions of years from now or well, perhaps we always had and have the answers, at a higher level (which operates above or well beyond our human or material or incarnational level(s)). ..
Edit: unnecessary suffering should be avoided, also simply staying true to yourself, along your Infinite path…
Are also some of my beliefs, to call them as such.
Another edit: the golden rule is quite practical, also helping yourself without damaging others or helping others without self damage also is a fine concept, yet love kinda transcends that too…
Anyway, TLDR: I have no hard beliefs, but some practical stuff like love (self love included), continuing to learn and to evolve and other things, like being authentic, are some of my current beliefs.
Impermanence too, unfortunately/fortunately…
If we do not give our authority or consent (at some level), nothing and no one would ever have any authority over us…
Gods are built as the ultimate authority…
For us to transcend.
At my deepest core, I simply do not view anyone as higher, nor lower, although in my everyday experience (practical level) I will kill the spider, destroy the countless poor bacteria, viruses and other Pathogens and simply use my mind and abilities to get out of any shi** situation in which I might find myself.
Basically love is a process and is only unconditional in my deepest self, otherwise, I simply discriminate and learn to discriminate better.
I judge and hopefully learn something from my judgment…
Lol.
Anyway, these sorts of views are less popular, therefore I only present them on the forum, since my relatives and the small circle I have access to are either religious or simply dont care about any non practical concept…
To not add another reply: I’m all talk on the forum, but in every day to day life, I have no qualms with any Deity, just my disclaimer lol.
I’m quite chill irl…
At least that’s my self perception.
Nice one.
That’s a fantastic insight…!
Oh yeah I was gonna say:
I strongly believe in the power of awareness
bro, I get where you’re coming from. At some point, obsessing over whether reality is “truly real” becomes less useful than asking what way of living creates the most growth, love and least unnecessary suffering within the experience we’re actually having. Love, curiosity, authenticity and refusing to give away your authority feel less like rigid beliefs and more like the best compass we have in a reality none of us fully understand. Whether this is Maya, a simulation, God or something beyond all those words… we’re still here, and how we move through it matters.
in what ways has believing in that power, helped you grow or better experience the world?
I firmly believe that the true Self can never become an object of knowledge. We can observe our thoughts, emotions, memories, and even our own identity, yet that which observes always remains beyond the reach of observation. Consciousness cannot know itself in the same way it knows an object, because it is the very ground of all knowing.
From the perspective of Kashmir Shaivism, this pure consciousness is our essential nature. Prior to every identity, there is simply the “I Am.” However, the moment we add anything after those words, “I am the body,” “I am successful,” “I am spiritual,” “I am a victim”, consciousness begins to identify with a series of filters that obscure its limitless nature. These attributes are not necessarily false, but neither do they describe what we truly are; they are merely temporary forms through which consciousness experiences itself.
For this reason, I believe that the injunction “Know Thyself” is, in a certain sense, impossible. What we truly are cannot be found as though it were an object hidden somewhere within experience, because it has never ceased to be present. The spiritual journey is not about acquiring something new, but about recognizing that which has always been self-evident, yet remains veiled by identification with the personality.
This perspective also transforms our understanding of the ego. Rather than treating it as an enemy that must be destroyed, even the desire to eliminate the ego still belongs to the play of identity. As long as there is someone attempting to conquer the ego, the sense of separation remains intact. The real question is no longer how to get rid of the ego, but who it is that claims to possess one.
Even spiritual longing deserves to be approached with discernment. The search for realization can itself become a new identity, a subtle emotional narrative in which the seeker falls in love with the role of being a seeker. Without realizing it, the desire to awaken can become yet another mechanism through which the separate self reasserts itself.
Perhaps the deepest teaching is also the simplest: there is nowhere to arrive. The consciousness seeking the Truth is the very same consciousness that is present in this very moment. The entire spiritual journey, then, is not about creating a different reality, but about removing, one by one, the veils of identification that make what has never been absent appear to be so. Realization is not the culmination of a search, but the recognition that what we were seeking was, from the very beginning, the very one who had set out on the journey.
I love this view and knowledge, which is also true, as simply identifying with anything (health, wealth, desires, experiences, heck “the I” probably too, since most probably it is the Ego, the self projection, yet not truly what or who we are, beyond every identification), limits or obscures true self knowledge, yet as you said right at the beginning “I firmly believe that the true Self can never become an object of knowledge” shows that any search for the “true Self” will never reach a stage where we can fully understand ourselves.
Thank you for sharing.
That’s Quite enlightening.
However, just a question might be added: what is knowledge? And can there be transcendental knowledge?
In the end, so to speak, can we truly understand or know ourselves or not…?
This seems like asking if we can know the Infinite…
And Idk I might be on the absurd view that we can know or find out the Infinite, although Idk the path, or perhaps the paths, like maybe stripping ourselves of all illusions OR maybe embracing it all and gathering all the possible experiences and knowledge and data, although this one seems impossible lol…
Or some other path, Idk.
Anyway, It might be all the result of my crude and less refined mind, thinking that we can truly know ourselves, since knowing is also true to our true self, knowing is…
Idk what if is lol, but I think it can be done.
Anyway, I sometimes ask myself if replying to someone else’s comment is the way to go or not.
Like is this thread even about any debates at all or about us presenting our views and beliefs, without inviting further dialogue or analysis of our thoughts?
Idk. Lol.
Anyway, as long as it’s fine for you, TheAlchemist16, is all that matters lol.
Edit: speaking of other paths, I think that reaching new levels of our being (even while incarnated), unlocking more and more of our selves (so to speak) and thus reaching new levels of “self” (if one even uses the self at a higher level Idk, maybe, but submerged in the ocean of pure or less filtered existance/of being Idk lll)…
Morphic fields truly changed my paradigm lol.
Now I’m thinking that we can “know the Infinite” even while being in our physical selves lol…
At the same time, if self realization is the ultimate goal, then all our experiences and our evolution simply points out or lead us towards that…
Yet, back to the original question: can we ever truly know ourselves?
Or is that impossible…
Idk lol. And that’s the mindset that I have: I think we can transcend our knowledge, methods and ways of knowing, thus reach higher and higher levels of self knowing…
But maybe Infinite truly can never be fully understood since we’ll it’s infinite lol…
Thank you for such a thoughtful response. I genuinely enjoyed reading it.
I think the key question is exactly the one you raised: what do we mean by “knowing”?
From my understanding of the Tantric view, ordinary knowledge always implies a subject knowing an object. There is someone who knows, and something that is known. But the true Self can never become an object in front of itself, because it is the very subject through which all knowing takes place.
So, I wouldn’t say that the Self cannot be realized. Rather, I would say it cannot be known as an object. Realization is not the acquisition of new information or the culmination of a search; it is the recognition of what has always been present, once identification with the limited personality begins to dissolve.
I also found your reflection about “knowing the Infinite” very interesting. Perhaps the Infinite cannot be grasped conceptually, but it can be directly lived. In the Tantric traditions, consciousness is described as self-luminous, it doesn’t need another instrument to know itself. It reveals itself simply by being itself.
That’s why I don’t see the spiritual path as becoming something greater or accumulating more experiences, knowledge, or even mystical states. To me, it’s almost the opposite: it’s a gradual unveiling. Every identification that falls away reveals what was never absent in the first place.
And yes, I absolutely welcome dialogue. These kinds of conversations are one of the reasons I enjoy participating in this forum. Thank you for taking the time to share your perspective.
but if it can’t know itself, that would mean a limitation, hence it wouldn’t be infinite… 
So, maybe, infinity alone can know itself while anything else cannot ? 
that makes sense to me.
I ended up with the same conclusion a while back and it was like a kick in the balls.
Everything. Every single aspect.
You know, thinking back let’s say teenager times, I would react to everything. REACT. If you react, you are not on your own terms, you aren’t acting, you aren’t the actor. If you react, you are at the whim of others, of everyone really, and everything.
I would be that way for the longest time. For real.
Nowadays I would still react, but the ratio has flipped dramatically from let’s say 100% reaction back then and nowadays about 1%. Literally flipped the table.
The power of awareness is that which teaches you that your attention is everything, and that you have the free will to place your attention on anything you wish at any time: the ultimate power and the ultimate freedom at the same time.
I wish I had learned this overnight but it took years. Plus it wasn’t a linear path.
So yes, you could say, it liberated me. Well, and the funny thing is: that means I liberated myself. And that really is the most empowering thing. And I truly believe everyone can do that, too.
Yup, well said. Knowing thyself is a paradox in itself. Cause yes, you are in essence limitless so… there is nothing yet everything to know about yourself. You are in essence, undefined. And it is in this space of no definition, that you are. This is the sort of thing that reveals itself over years of practice. But you know, I think reading things like this from those who have done the work… is so important.
It plants a seed in people’s minds so that what took you or me years to realize… may take less to sprout.
If it wasn’t for things I read in previous forums, dream, some of you guys and some great teachers… I would have definitely fallen into the seeking trap. Easiest one to fall into.
The spiritual path is so vague and I’d say the majority of teachers do end up falling into the egos little tricks that get you to identify with one thing or another. That isn’t always bad of course but the moment you fall into such identifications, you start flowing onto a linear path that disrupts that limitlessness.
I’m guilty of it at times too if I’m honest. I meditate all the time but I get pulled into one thing or another here and there. All part of the journey so I don’t ever beat myself up over it. I meditate enough to dissolve that. And what I love about my meditation these days is that I just do it… just to do it. In a way, for fun even. Seeing how long I can focus on something without interruption is a nice mental stretch, that the longer I stretch… the more I expand from within.
And that’s what I guess is often missing from such inner practices. It’s the doing for the sake of doing. Rather than doing for the sake of feeling better or finding peace or being abundant or whatever. That’s another paradox though of course because having such goals is what gives us the motivation to put in the effort to do it in the first place. Meditating consistently is grueling in the beginning.
Reading this reminds me that, in order to get to the core of your soul… is a matter of consistently tuning into the watcher. I was going to use the word identify but I think identifying with anything can become a sort of trap in the long run.
But yes, consistently just watching without judgement. Observing the observer. The I am is just pure awareness without identification. And the more you just watch without judgement or notice yourself drift into such thoughts, just continue focusing on pure awareness instead. Overtime, your awareness will just be that ‘pure awareness.’ The ego becomes something a tool you are
Easier said than done of course. As the pull of the ego
Well said and very much agree. It is through that kind of awareness, that we gain the ability to actually start choosing who we are and what we become.
It’s kind of scary to think how 99.99% of us live on autopilot. I would often get annoyed with the npc description of most humans but I… can’t quite fully deny we live like that. I was an npc at different times in my life too! Once our egos get enough momentum to build an identity, then we just continually react to the world automatically. Thinking before you speak or react would feel like mental strain lol.
Dang though, 100 to 1% is awesome. I commend that. Cause yeah, that kind of liberation just feels like the weight of the world off your chest. Life is still gonna hit you with things, but to have the ability to think before you speak or react makes suuuuuuch a big difference. Having choice in a way feels like starting your life all over again in a way
Yes
And I always wondered why I feel like a different person compared to years ago.
But this explains it really well and makes total sense
I believe in nothing and everything.
Ayyy, same here broski