Jim Carrey's Awakening

[Ariel]

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Jim Carrey's Awakening

[Faceshapes]

Great to see it all go so public. When people like Tolle speak, they're suspected of dishonesty and fraud because they make their living off of people who listen, but Carrey's experience has no mitigating factor, no built-in bias. This should be among the early few of many public affirmations of the experience of oneness.

[Ariel]

Yeah definitely.

It cracked me up to see some of the youtube comments talking about how this is a path that leads to destruction and that Jesus is the true way. Makes me wonder if Christians would even recognize Jesus or his message in the first place if he did come back again for the second coming.

[humanist]

Seriously, Jim needs to lay off the drugs.
He's starting to sound like Tom Cruise...

[CaterpillarWoman]

Makes me wonder if Christians would even recognize Jesus or his message in the first place if he did come back again for the second coming.

I've wondered that for years.

As for Jim Carrey, I don't know what to think, but it does occur to me that the initial stirrings of awakening are usually only that: initial. I have no way of knowing nor can I guess at Jim Carrey's state of awareness, but it does seem somewhat unlikely that he one day read a book and is now completely awakened. But, well, stranger things have happened, so who am I to judge? I guess only time will tell, and even then, it's not really possible to guess at someone's state of "enlightenment", so to speak...

[Ariel]

Yeah, his descriptions seem to match what I've seen in terms of initial awakenings as well with respect to "What is this that's watching my thoughts... OMG I'm EVERYTHING!! I lost it, how do I get it back? How do I get it to stay?"

Basically the familiar non-abiding glimpses.

[CaterpillarWoman]

Basically the familiar non-abiding glimpses.

I kind of suspect that all those moments of non-abiding awakening are to kind of ... I dunno, prepare your mind, I guess. I suspect that for an awful lot of minds, a sudden awakening would be so shocking it would just crack your mind apart and you'd never get it back together again.

I have a journal full of wonder and awe at those moments and peak experiences, of course, but these days, I'm sort of in the "Oh, cool, I'm not attached to my identity. Whatever," kind of mentality. These things come and go, just like the weather....

[Ariel]

Yeah. It seems that's part of the natural maturation process. It's like you really need to see for yourself that as utterly incredible and amazing the experiences are, in the end even they are not IT. Feels kinda strange to find that the experience of... oneness, nothingness, unity, whatever, even that is still not it considering how long I really thought that was the point... to have a lasting experience of non-separation or whatever it is that enlightenment is supposed to bring. I'll admit I still haven't fully accepted that.

Actually, now that this is being written, it makes so much more sense why teachers suggest not to get too caught up in the siddhis and phenomena. It's not that there's anything bad or wrong with them in any way whatsoever. It's just that as fun as they can be, they can actually become a sort of detour along the path that slows one's progress.

[CaterpillarWoman]

Actually, now that this is being written, it makes so much more sense why teachers suggest not to get too caught up in the siddhis and phenomena. It's not that there's anything bad or wrong with them in any way whatsoever. It's just that as fun as they can be, they can actually become a sort of detour along the path that slows one's progress.

I love how writing things down can bring them into clarity. It doesn't work as well when I write for strictly private reading, because I tend to jot down notes instead of really taking the time to write clearly, as if it's going to be read by someone other than me. This is part of why I like boards such as this one.

Anyway, I'm starting to get the impression that the "whatever" is actually what it's all about, because it happens when you lose your attachments to this or to that or to some experience as opposed to some other. But, eh, I dunno. And at this point, I don't really care. It unfolds as it unfolds and it is what it is. That seems to be my motto lately: it is what it is. I should put that into Latin or something....

[Ariel]

I love how writing things down can bring them into clarity. It doesn't work as well when I write for strictly private reading, because I tend to jot down notes instead of really taking the time to write clearly, as if it's going to be read by someone other than me. This is part of why I like boards such as this one.

lol, it's funny, isn't it? They say the teacher learns more than the student and quite honestly, this whole writing thing is one of the most selfish and beneficial things I can do for myself! It really helps elicit clarity as you said, it brings up extra ego stuff to be faced and cleared out, it makes you make sure you're walking the walk and not just talking the talk or else you get called out in public, etc.

and as it turns out, being totally selfish in this way really benefits everyone else! It seems this is just icing on the cake.

Anyway, I'm starting to get the impression that the "whatever" is actually what it's all about, because it happens when you lose your attachments to this or to that or to some experience as opposed to some other. But, eh, I dunno. And at this point, I don't really care. It unfolds as it unfolds and it is what it is. That seems to be my motto lately: it is what it is. I should put that into Latin or something....

Yeah, you really do stop caring, not in an negative apathetic way, but in a sort of acceptance of what is way... it's almost like you quit demanding the world and your experience of it to be any way other than it is. It is what it is. Your experience is what it is. You are where you are. It's like you just stand naked and face this moment as it is, with no story or demand for anything to be different. It is what it is. Pure. Simple. Nothing really.

It's quite liberating in fact, isn't it? Here we are. There's really nothing else to it.