This is a great thread and I'm happy to see it continue. Personally, I most definitely nominate it as a sticky.
Chris you share some great experiences.
For me a critical understanding is that there is always More, meaning whatever works for us today, can be surpassed by a higher Truth tomorrow (or when I'm ready).
People most often have major a break through under one teaching, and then become mistakingly loyal to that teaching believing it is the only one for them, when really, the teaching that broke them through was not a full truth, as there is always more, and it keeps us going in circles rather than climbing higher on the path.
For example, there are some that have breakthrough from fundamental Christianity with some alien channeled stuff that is not the highest, but includes more truth than their former community. This may be a step in the right direction, but may not be the most truthful teaching. Just because a teaching helped me get out of the level that I was at, doesn't mean I have to be loyal to it forever. If I am loyal to it forever, I will never surpass it. Yet no outer teaching can take us into the inner kingdom of Being that is inside of us here in the eternal Now, only a full shift in consciousness beyond beliefs can do so.
The ego is always seeking to define itself based and security in not changing, security in beliefs.
Whereas the Divine within us simply BE's MORE every NOW. Continuous transcendence, no attachments, always a higher Truth. Who I was yesterday is dead. I have been reborn into who I AM today, and tomorrow, I will BE who I will BE.
No belief system to defend, just a state of dying to every Now, and Being reborn every Now.
There's always More.
For me, the real key critical trick is seeing that when I'm talking about God in me, I'm not talking about God who is separate from me, or separate from anyone here. I'm talking about my own higher Self, who I really AM.
BEyond ego is ME. I AM that I AM, that's who I really AM. Each of us is a unique individualization of the infinite, and together we are MORE, and even it appears not to be the case, the reality is we are all already One.
I would like to address why I believe people find it very difficult not to transcend their pain bodies (see Eckhart Tolle for explanation of pain bodies), addictions and momentum's of anger and depression, but this posts is quite long so I will save it. The reality is however, that there is much more going on in our world than our 5 senses show us, and spiritual protection will in the not so distant future be something that becomes as common for humanity as washing our hands to protect us from germs.
Until then, keep up the great BEING every ONE!
