Another way is identifying w/ larger and larger things. "You" start as a point behind the eyes can expand and move that "center". E.g while running you feel like your legs, while playing piano you feel like your fingers. Sex => whole body rooting.
What makes this easy is that everything that arises in awareness is by definition part of "you". By just identifying with yourself you identify with your awareness which is the highest resolution snapshot of the universe you ever get.
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Try this experiment. It's something common in meditation practices. Just "note" the sensations that arise in every moment. It might be something really slow like "In that last 1 second I had a sensation of coolness on my arm, then a blink, then a bad event at work."
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See how even though these sensations are discrete, they feel like "one" thing, they have almost unlimited resolution. e.g. the volume of data in a feeling of coolness is the same volume of data in "bad event at work".
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If you've ever exited a Flow state you've felt something similar. You see that entire snapshot of you in the zone as a single discrete snapshot happening across instant time. The reason flow states stand out is b/c they are *far* more detailed than regular daily sensations.
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It's also possible to feel very complex emotions like "My terrible childhood." or "My bad parents and all the time they XYZ." as singular discrete sensations.
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(* btw the reason they aren't *pointers* is because remembering the past is the same thing as recreating it.)
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The difference between these complex sensations and more simpler ones like "in-breath" or "out-breath" or "heat on arm" is because these simpler ones are more compressible even though they technically occupy the same infinite canvas output space.
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So sitting in a room and meditating can allow you to be the universe. You don't have to actually understand all of the universe just like you don't have to understand how your cells or nervous systems work to feel like your body.
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One interesting side effect of identifying with all the contents of your awareness is that unlike the gravity fight where you identify as earth => sun => galaxy to move the locus of the new enemy, at universal identification there are no more enemies b/c your enemies are you.
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TPR: if I move all my stat points into empathy (including sanity), do I become everything?
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addendum thought: "naming" has the ability to compress an infinity of meaning into one thing. They're useful when you "name" something you've experienced(for recall) but names are useless when borrowed externally. It's an empty pointer that recalls nothing.
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