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Can anyone confirm if what I've had is a genuine awakening?
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Hello good people! I had something of an awakening experience a week or so ago and I wanted to check whether or not my understanding is correct. I really did feel like I "got" it but I still wanted to confirm with like-minded others. Here is what I have discovered:

All of my perceptions, thoughts, and emotions take place in an open, infinite, eternal (or dimensionless) "field" or "space" of awareness, like a borderless container in and to which all perceptions and experience appear. That awareness is my true self since that is the only constant element of my experience. It is inherently peaceful and unperturbable, though it can only be "known" by way of negation (neti neti), meaning that it is not an object on which attention can be focused. However, it is not entirely correct to say that experience appears "in it", because all there is to experience is the knowing or experiencing of it. Therefore, it's more like that aware field modulates itself or vibrates to give form to my thoughts, emotions, and perceptions. Thus there is no duality - only infinite consciousness taking the form of anything and everything. This means that nothing ever truly dies or disappears, but just returns or dissolves into the Source. This "being" is shared by everything. Also I feel absolutely huge and infinite, and for example when I'm looking at the sky I know that my Self is infinitely bigger than it (but contains it and the sky is made of It). It feels as if this body-mind I've always thought was "me" is just a part of the gigantic dream-dance-play of the dreaming Higher Mind or God's Mind, not separate. Living and decision making has been increasingly effortless.

Oh also, when I first had this realization I was ecstatic and full of bliss. Is it normal that now things have sort of calmed down and I just feel this all-pervading peace? Thanks in advance!

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