Sane interpretation of no-self: the self is an illusion, so I don't have to believe thoughts derived from having one.
Real-world interpretation of no-self: the self is an illusion, so if you use personal pronouns or have personal preferences, this means you are not awakened.
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I see how you can have serious doubts about energy bodies and Jiva Mutki (I mean, I do...), but nondual awareness and witnessing are not so different from other more-or-less permanent changes in perspective. Those are mundane & dirt common.
Unless Nick parsed as all four at once
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One has serious doubts about energy bodies till one gets one or meets someone who has one and uses it in a way that is brutally obvious.
I don't think true non dual is all that common. Very rare, except there are a lot of people in the world. Full time witnessing is pretty rare.
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I've had experiences that fit the cosmology easily enough. I can sense people's personal presence in a way that certainly *feels* energetic (and some do have WAY more) but I don't have much reason to believe it isn't just synaesthesia or something.
Yet, anyway.
And as concerns people who can do strange things with personal presence etc., I am too jaded to believe I'm not just being played in some manner.
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