Superpowered Mind with Clare Dimond

Listener question : I was wondering how oneness and uniqueness are possible at the same time... how can any expression be more unique than another if there is no separation to begin with.. 

Listener question: Could you say maybe something about confidence and competition.Recently it became apparent that the I seems to be in constant competition in all areas of life. Keeping a hypervigilant gaze on the others who seem always better, more competent, more charming, compatible, positive, etc. It’s tough times for a lot of people, but somehow the I believes to be the utter underdog (at work for example) holding a belief that if times get even tougher I’m the first one out the door. Although objective evidence seems to be that I work in an environment where bosses and colleagues care about me. Confidence at all time low and confusion equally high. Maybe there is a question in this somewhere. 

Listener question: It seems that what we're calling "apparent reality" isn't the same as illusion or dream, it's the learned, conditioned perception each brain body has of reality. An illusion or a dream cannot be touched, it's intangible. Just like the imagination of the mind in creating future scenarios that aren't happening, they aren't real. Those are illusions/a dream. That's also why we say feelings in the body are the closest we can get to reality, because they are direct - although I would argue the body can generate sensations based on thoughts in the mind and therefore you can experience pain from imaginative thought. Apparent reality can be touched. It's what I call regular boring reality. Which goes back to a real body standing in a road can be hit by a real car. Are you saying that there is no objective reality because the brain-body can't know that objective reality any other way than subjectively through experience which is created by the brain, or as you say, mind? This is a slippery slope because the world of form is still here, even if we can only know it through our unique lens. To me there is an objective reality - yes if a tree falls in the forest it makes a sound even if no one hears it. Thank you!

How did you first really "get" this?  Was it a sudden Road to Damascus moment of utter seeing and knowing that in a flash changed everything forever, or was it rather a long slow drawn-out painful grind of  stops and stutters till you finally saw what an idiot you'd been seeing things any other way?  Book reference: Conversations in Non Duality: Twenty Six Awakenings by Eleanora Gilbert

Listener question: How does this conversation not slide over into there's no form and therefore no science to study that form, no laws to govern the interaction of forms (traffic speed laws or requirements on auto safety design), and no reason to treat one another well? This can just as easily slide into the other side of a conditioned response called nihilism. You've already spoken about how this isn't solipsism.

A listener request for comment on an email:I think I may have had an epiphany.  Or something.  I’m not sure.  I am a container for Mind.  A conduit for Infinite Intelligence.  An individual expression of the animating force of the universe.  It expresses through me. I think and I feel.  Thoughts and feelings come spontaneously, which generate behavior.  I have no control over any of it.  When I’m in a low mood, and behaving accordingly, I just wait it out.  It will eventually pass.  No matter what I am thinking and feeling, whether “good or “bad”, it is not who I am, but a manifestation of a self that does not actually exist.  When I let go of whatever I am thinking and feeling, it allows the Infinite to express though me, and my state changes naturally to one of Love, Peace, and Joy.  I don’t have to upgrade my feelings, or choose a better thought, but simply let everything move through me so my True Self, which is Love and Peace becomes my experience.  I do this effortlessly by simply being aware that I am thinking and feeling.  And this is who I really am – the Experience of Peace, the Expression of Love.  BTW, I must tell you.  While reading SANE, I had an awakening, of sorts.  When you wrote “my thoughts are not true” (or something to that effect), I suddenly felt a great relief.  A feeling that everything was suddenly OK.  Because I didn’t have to believe my thoughts, I was FREE, like a great weight had been lifted.  I felt a deep Peace.  A certainty that life was good, that I was OK, and everything was exactly the way it was supposed to be.  That feeling has not left.  It’s been a while now, about two weeks.  That’s why I wrote to you.  I felt so good after that, I was a little confused about the No Control thing.  I still am. I am new to the Three Principles, and new to non-dualism, but something tells me I’ve been searching for this my entire life. Please comment.

As I've worked through relationships and roles the common thread I am finding is the overwhelming sense of responsibility wherever there is suffering or stress.My question - does the sense of responsibility come from the need to control, or does the need to control create the sense of responsibility?

So beliefs, experience, action are revealing what has been learned by the form/being... But what about thoughts, feelings, emotions? Are they revealing anything/have any purpose? Or like the 3P people say, are they just randomly coming in from who knows where or what? Thanks!!

Listener question: please describe separation and no-separation

Can you please do a podcast on fate and destiny seen from the perspective of learning vs the impulse of life being lived.