if you identify with any body, you are not enlightened. And things like souls/subtle bodies/blah/blah are just different bodies. If a body can change/die it is not you.
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You know that I favor thinking in terms of Lesser Enlightenment (self-possession / daimon) and Greater Enlightenment (no ego / non-dual)
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What does daimon mean?
I tend to go with awakened v. enlightened. Took me a long time to realize that when Vinay told me I was enlightened, he meant awakened (first solid understanding of what you are, without full enlightenment).
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as for self-possession, the problem is that you can skip past it and get stuff you shouldn't have till you are self-possessed (as I understand the term).
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Ah. Definitions of atman seem to differ. I recently ran into a very advanced guy who has atman=soul, but that wasn't my understanding. Can you define further?
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(And I mean super advanced. In terms of energy body stuff, one of the two most powerful I know of. Capable of truly crazy stuff.)
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The HGA/daimon/whatever is one’s highest self — joyful, fiercely compassionate, clear on one’s personal dharma, liberated from attachment — experienced as distinct from the self (though “really” the place where the self touches the cosmic whole)
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hrrrm. I think these are different paths, honestly. Even personal dharma is ultimately *whatever*.
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I for one am not interested in pursuing full awareness of the nondual. It is enough for me to know it to be true.
Full awareness of my dharma, though, is compelling.
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I got interested in the non-dual stuff because my HGA was a bit too creepy and overbearing for my tastes, but YMMV of course...