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I'm not easily spooked but when I started answering in different voices and actually feeling the shift I could feel that this is gonna stay with me for the rest of my life. So powerful
Every question took so much thought except for the vast mind, where the answers "infinite" "everywhere and nowhere" "outside of time" came immediately without any thought as if they were the most obvious thing in the world
I had the same types of answers for the vast mind. Along with it, that "voice" seemed noticeably louder to the point that I slightly jumped at the answer. A very enlightening exercise.
Lol my answers were literally "I don't know exactly what you mean by vast", "yes, of course", "in Daniel's head", "yes", "now", "yes", "yes", and "yes". But yeah it was way faster than any of the other answers.
And I answered it so simply. Yes, no, maybe (not so much maybe. Maybe is just an example). I am vast, but I observe, therefore I have found out time and space exist inside and outside of me, since my experience has risen from the outside, which brings upon experience on the inside.
My silent witness was so silent that he didn't even know he exists. We were both surprised. The last part, vast mind, caught me off guard and I just couldn't hold back my tears. Thank for this, it was a beautiful experience altogether.
My vast mind answered everything so quickly and naturally without pause. It felt distant but also totally encapsulating. After the video I continued a conversation with it for a few minutes and it was truly comforting.
My silent witness and vast mind were the most intriguing of all. The silent witness seemed hurt and upset. They were tired of silently witnessing bs go down. And my vast mind....is so vast. They are infinite and everything. It was a very interesting dialogue. Thank you.
My vast mind just said "Nah I'm finite. I mean 'vast' itself describes something which is huge, but still finite, right? But for you, I might as well be infinite 'cause you'll never explore all of me." Gave me more sass than the Judge... Kinda respect that.
My Silent Witness was also hurt for me not giving it the time and appreciation it deserves. It loves when I meditate and we merge but it wanted me to do it more often. Like before. This was truly an amazing experience! Thank you.
I was particularly moved by the silent witness, who could barely speak in a whisper and cried by the end of their questioning. When asked what they liked, they simply stated, “Trees, water, light through the leaves, and an open field.”
I basically felt like I temporarily split my personality into *some of* its many identities. Except for the vast mind. At that moment I felt as if all the other parts of me were unimportant. I basically immediately fell asleep into partial lucid dreaming. This was something different and incredible.
It is clear where traditional religion stumbles upon "the kingdom of the heavens is within you". There is nothing outside of the participants (parts of mind) that project reality. We are the causes of all effects (experiences). Excellent exercise! Great presentation!
Each part of my mind responding, invoked different feelings. I cried with sadness in the silent witness when asked how it made me feel. The vast mind felt so sure, so aware and strong. It kinda brought a feeling of calmness and complete confidence and knowing. Thank you for this ❤️
I was looking to see if anyone else had the silent witness cry It was tired from being hidden behind judging and skeptic's lenses and never seeing the clear truth I also never cry and was shocked when tears started pouring out I don't think I properly connected with the vast mind so I might try it again
Like everyone seemingly most everyone else, the Vast Mind was the quickest, but the Judging Mind seemed to insist he was a king of Binah/Saturn and that the Skeptic was his servant. The Skeptic seemed particularly fond of you, for some reason. It honestly amazes me how much personality each one of them had, and how different they were from one another. This video was more helpful to me than you'll ever know. Thank you.
I am tears. What an overwhelmingly powerful thing to witness. How the silent witness is so present - and how offended my judgment was. But the vast mind - just completely made me weep with remembering. Thank you (for all of your work, but this especially).
Hi Lisbeth, I'm very moved by your words. I'm so glad you were able to follow the process through to the end and clearly experience it fully, the way it was intended. Thank you for reaching out, people like you letting me know you've benefited from these videos keeps me motivated to do more 😁
Foolish Fish I loved the excellent experience. But t I could not find the silent wittness. Unsure if it’s meaning. I guess. All others seemed to be present and understood their meaning
I'm ALWAYS tense, uptight, on edge, hyper vigilant, stressed. Right now, after completing the voice exercise, I feel so calm and peaceful at the moment. It's not a common feeling at all for myself and is even a little uncomfortable, even, what I'm experiencing. I can definitely listen to and complete the voice exercises daily. Especially if this is how I'm left feeling. Thank you!
This was the the single most beneficial video that I’ve ever come across. I have no words ..... only much appreciation for you creating & sharing this. Thank you so, so much.
This experiment is worth taking the time to give it full attention. It reminds me of the inner dialogues involved in Jung's Active Imagination exercise. I found I kept forgetting to speak out loud, as I have more practise in strictly internal dialogue--no vocal component. Yet having the video to follow along with helped remind me to use my voice. Thank you for this lovely experience. I appreciate the quality of material you present in your videos.
The vast mind seems to resonate most with my true self. The answers to the questions came almost before the question was even finished, while the constituent parts of the mind took some time to provide an answer - and even still they seemed a bit unsure as to the accuracy of the answer. The vast mind provided its answers with no question... thank you for this.
When I was a kid I had a jail cell in my head with all these identities locked away and just 'me' running the place. In the last few years I have relaxed that, and doing this exercise just now reminded me how many aspects of myself I have, male and female, strong and meek, forcefull and calm. When I got to the silent witness I was talking about how everyone else is happy to be moving about, but how sad I am for finally realizing I am more than I think I am on first blush. The silent witness commented a couple times on how I was crying with all these revelations of my different aspects actually loving me. Now I have even more parts of me to reconnect with. Thank you!
This was really a remarkable exercise. I've taken it a step further now and have begun to use this to examine and understand other parts of my personality like my sometimes agressive behavior that has caused me issues in my life. I can see using this as a great means of self-reflective therapy and ego management.
There is a psychological method called The Parts Therapy, or something. I can''t quite remember. But I bet it would turn up in a search. It's about just that - calling on all the "parts" of you and addressing issues with each part.
Wow, some of these where quite hard to answer without the others jumping in as I always seem to be having a hearted debate going on within my head. Thank you for sharing this, I will go through this experiment a few more times. I can see the amazing advantages of just realising that each of the parts of the mind has its place and its time and must be allowed a voice. Thank you so much, really!
@@ultravioletpisces3666 You can invoke every part you can name. I don't think they are numbered. Since those "parts" are not actual splits in your personality I believe. I see them of gatherings of psychological aspects being personalized. So if you want to question the part who likes to take a shit ask it. If you like to ask the part who hates to pay the bills ask it. The general questioning in the beginning of each part helps me to ease into it. So invoke whatever part you can come up with. But be aware that some answers you might don't want to hear.
Everywhere and Nowhere Baby, That's where I'm At!! That's what the Vast Mind Sang and Giggled!! Thank you so much, this is Amazing! Namaste and Kindest Regards, Andrea and Critter Family. XxX
This is the most powerful mystical experience I've had in years!!! Foolish Fish I have no words of gratitude to you, only vast emotions of gratitude and love! I shed no tears, but I found out that Skeptic has no role in me whatsoever, he's the dude that always slacks off and laughs at others for doing such a meticulous job, the Protector was so-so, the Judge was a fierce fella, but he cooperated, the Desire wasn't as kinky as I thought her to be, and when the Vast came - it was all so ONE, and all was simple and there. Here and there and everywhere, now and always, yes and no, no and yes and infinite * o * I am blown away, thanks again!!! I will be trying this many more times and I'm going to show it to my mystic friends, this is a must!
This one has been cropping up in my recommendations for a couple weeks and I finally went through it. Very interesting reaction when you asked the silent witness if you could speak to the vast mind. Immediate response was, "But you already are. I am the silent witness." That caught me off guard. Fantastic exercise.
@FoolishFish Thank you so much, I found the Protecting me, seemed to be the work of nearly Every part of my mind, Except for the Silent Witness & Vast Mind! This is absolutely the Best Thing Ever for Expanding the Consciousness and I am going back to this, and also playing this to my depressed husband!! Namaste 🙏 Andrea and Critter Family. XxX.
This video gives me the proof to silent the controller and the fixer, to give rest to the tired skeptic, to thank the judging mind for good , to lighten the work of the seeker of the way, to cherish the desire and the silent witness , and most of all, to give room to the seeker of Fun to seek how fun it will be to only speak to the Vast mind 🤗😊 a Huge mega fabulous wonderful THANK you for sharing this experience with us... I will make the most of it 🙏🏼🌸and share it too. So much Joy!!! You saved my day and you may have saved my life! Who knows 😉
What an extraordinary experience! I'm too caught up in the feeling that the top of my head's come off to offer any coherent thoughts at the moment, except to say thank you.
The Vast mind kept saying, it just is. "When are you? " it said, Present. Almost one word replies consisting of so much wisdom that I felt I've gained in meditation. Skeptic was baffled but he "played" along Controller was aware he wasn't wanted always.
I had a similar experience. My desire got irritated. He almost views the physical being as infantile and he needs guidance which is where they step in...
I'm still in that moment at the end. I haven't felt that way for a long time. Now that I'm looking around me, everything seems unimportant. This video has brought together many teachings and practices I've learned over the years - and they especially seem to have ramped up recently. This video has been a gift.💖 I would like to write more but may in the future. What I will say briefly, is that The Vast Mind came up with the briefest (very much so!) and most profound replies. I'm a compulsive comment reader, but will avoid that for now. I may come back to this within the next few days. PS although it wasn't mentioned whether one should or should not do this, I left the voice recorder going while I did this exercise because I suspected it would be "a good 'un" (and I was certainly not disappointed!!!). I'm glad that I did, even though I'm not sure if I will ever read it, but I like to think I might be able to evoke the memory of this experience more distinctly if ever I do read it. But who knows, it should perhaps be one of these experiences that happens and does not happen again.
Wow, that was incredible. Amazing, how with each aspect pulled out, I actually spoke in different tones: Silent witness whispered, while Skeptic sneered and said "bullshit" a lot, Judge made me sit upright, and Desire cried at being unloved so much. Thank you so very much for this. Incredible experience.
thank you for a beautiful experience in transcendence. Witness, "many of the other parts think and feel that they really f*$%#d things up and they did many times, yet all is good!" Witness is often noticed and feels shy. Then Vast Mind came, she's Empress/Goddess
I’ve started asking the vast mind if I should or should not take an action if I am unsure, and each time I’ve followed it’s reply and I can only say that the vast mind isn’t just present, it’s also in the past and the future at the same time. This has become one of the most fascinating videos that I’ve ever watched and will ever. Wow.
I felt each step was peeling back another LAYER, but instead of shrinking like if one was peeling an onion, each layer seems to grow more expansive until finally the VAST MIND brought me to a feeling of immense universal introspective thought/thinking... quite remarkable. I also found that many layers or steps were similar to the previous one, but the nuance grew in magnitudes from the previous layer/step. Thank you.
This was a wonderful experience, but the last two were too abstract for me to connect to. These were such surprising, challenging questions for the parts of my mind to answer, it took about two hours. It was like each part was a fractal of the last aspect summoned forth-so well organized
I felt the same way towards the end. I was into it, but for the last three or so I felt like I was starting to give rote responses, answering the way I knew the video was prompting me to answer.
Thank you so much! I have been suffering with burn out, anxiety, depression and loss of mind. It felt so small like I was contained in a tiny box. My mind used to feel infinite and I only knew this once it had reduced to almost nothing. You helped me tap into ot again. Thank you. Thank you.
This is incredible. For years I would speak aloud in my commute too work and on the way home. I could not help myself. Wondering if I had become mentally Ill ; I decide to search out what professionals say about it. The conclusion what talking you your self is the brains way of checking in on you to see if you are still there. The years of driving the same roads day after day drug it out of me.
This tech has been flushed out further. You can give permission to the body and complete tasks one thought was undoable. This is a method to overcome the mental disputes that stop us from doing things. For instance, the artist might be to afraid to come out and art. So, it can be given permission to work uninterrupted to actually create art, instead of being paralyzed.
I am literally sitting here thinking what to do with the 90% finished illustration that should have been finished months ago and couldnt make myself do the other 10% to reach the “finish line”. Oy vey
I have never felt compelled to leave a comment on youtube; I am usually a very private person. Just wanted to say thank you Foolish Fish, as this experiment left me with a unique impression (as compared to other elements of my practice). Never have I experienced some of the many aspects of Self come into such close, and constructive, conversation. My 'silent observer' was so deeply contented that each of these aspects were happy unto themselves while being amongst one another. Archetype has always been an abstract template used to decipher the psyche for me, and always I have dealt with each of them one-on-one. This was different, insightful, emotional, and corporeal. In the state of the Vast Mind at the end and on after the video I experienced an energetic rush/intensification that completely lit me up, opened every pore, stood every hair of the body on-end. I can only describe as "other, but me." Somewhat ineffable. Complete ecstasy, complete stillness. Time eternal yet, singular. The gap between macrocosm and microcosm became much smaller, if only for a moment. I apologize to anyone reading this in it's entirety. Much longer than I intended for it to be. But if anyone reading this can relate, then I suppose my words weren't in vain. Much Love
Woow, it Changed my life if within this few minutes. I got noticed the parts of my mind that I have now been paying attention to whn making decisions. This is deep experience. It pass meditation
@@FoolishFishBooks I really have an insight that I can take into meditation. I think it will be awesome if i will call the part of my brain responsible for what i will be meditating on in my meditation process. THANKS SO MUCH
100% on commodifying ideas, philosophy, and spiritual practice. I applaud you for talking about the concept by technically subverting the legalism of a ban on the use of the term but sharing the concept instead. An idea cannot be owned. And we wonder why the realist run the world. I was told flat out in my International Relations PhD program, "welcome to the discipline. All of the interesting frameworks that are not Realism or Liberalism, forget them if you want a job." I didn't finish my dissertation. I couldn't take it.
Each faucet of the mind felt like a balance. Each needed to work together to give us the human experience. I appreciate the skeptic because without it our intuition would not be. Skeptic is our survival that works with our judge and witness. Our vast is the acknowledgment of our creator and all this works harmoniously if we let it. (Just my own thought)
Thank you for this! I can definitely see this working with clients especially after an hypnosis induction, few sentences would have to be tweaked to maximise the desired effect but it’s a fantastic tool . And I agree with you, copyrighting self help ( or self transforming) techniques is not the most effective way to go about it. Thanks again for sharing this.
This is one of the most interesting and potentially therapeutic mental exercises I’ve ever seen. I noticed the patterns in the format structure, and realized why the aspects are sequenced in their particular order. I know someone close to me that could really benefit from this. I will do some research into various additional aspects of personality & role modeling, and possibly add perhaps one additional question to a few. Simple yet outstanding. Thank you for this gift! I was drawn to this channel by the esoteric & demonology. But I like & subscribed because of this post. Congrats Foolish Fish, I see you are LEGIT.
This really seems more like a very colourful psychological exercise more than anything esoteric. That's why it feels so therapeutic, 'cause it does what a therapist does: Puts you in the right states of mind and then asks questions that a simple, but deviously "hard" to answer in these states of mind. This really is starting to just validate my thought that all of esoterism, philosophy, psychology, religion, yogic practices, etc. Are just the same thing, but in different languages, rituals and exercises. All try to answer the same questions and get to same places, but by different means.
The answers/responses from almost every mind-perspective needed time and reflection. I expected my silent witness to be - well...silent. It was the most frustrated and emotional of all. Yet Vast Mind...perfect calm. No thought needed, no upset. No second guessing. No need to "re-state" my answer. No "time" was needed. It knew and I knew... It knew Itself. Without thought. What an amazing experience. Thank you, for offering this - deeply appreciated.
It was super interesting seeing how the different parts of mind talked differently. I learned my controller felt under appreciated, which was useful to learn. As a programmer, my fixer is very happy though ^ - ^ The Vast Mind was interesting, but its the mental place I go to when I’m trying to comprehend what solutions might look like to particularly hard mathematical problems, so it felt familiar to me, which was interesting. This reminded me quite a bit of tulpa type experiences people have. I think that people create Tulpas as instances of a combinations of various minds.
Very interesting experiment. I think what surprised me the most was the chaotic and fun energy of my "skeptic", who looks happy, appreciated but rested.
Holy smokes that was amazing! I never gave a voice to most of those aspects and I learned which have been dominating the space in my mind! My favorite was the silent witness. I always felt its precense but for it to speak out loud was quite interesting. Thanks Danny!!
Thank you. I spent a enjoybable evening watching your educational videos. Your teaching style is very engaging. I have plans to watch more. I was fortunate enough to be sent a link of one of your videos. By a member in my spiritual group I run. I gained a lot of profound insight from this therapeutic exercise. I am of now off to connect to my vast mind. Which I found out was infinite and has no boundaries. The boundaries it had. I placed on it myself. I am sure I will find more fascinating insights into my light/shadow self. I sense this excerice will be a major door opener for me to infinite knowledge and wisdom and divine connection. Just my cup of tea 🥰 Blessing 💖✨
Tremendous exercise - I had exceptional results within minutes of finishing. I walked a short distance to dispose of a bag of physical rubbish. When I walked back to my deckchair, three small feathers were perfectly aligned in front of it! I then observed other people and made a judgement on their presence. Swiftly my inner voice said "judgment". This recall & awareness continued throughout the day.
It’s amazing how fast the vast mind answered without having to think. It kind of made me want to trade in the rest of my mind and just call myself Vast. Where’s the video on that?
I practice majick almost every day and meditate almost every day, so each part of the mind behaved through this, and I was already aquainted with the vast mind. But this would work for people who've never meditated or practiced majick, so its very good. Now this video didn't tap vast mind like meditation can or ritual by any means, but for someone who's never experienced such a thing would have their doors blown off and they'd see a glimpse of where they can go, and hopefully spark a little thirst for it.
I have listened to this so many times and it nevers fails, the wonderful feeling of connectedness and the ease of answers from the vast mind. Thank you so much for posting this.
The fool is mad you didn't want to talk to him. lol. Seriously though, cool exercise. I've been studying psychology for years and only in the last couple have started getting into the esoteric side of things. I've always loved questionnaires and things that force me to learn more about myself. Getting into these states was pretty easy, with the exception of desire, which seems to be a bit low for a myriad of reasons. It's a very good exercise to vocalize these things too because it strengthens our abilities to comfortably talk to others about what are very essential human things to experience. We are all complex multidimensional experiences doing the human life thing. It's pretty neat. What's your favorite 'mode'?
Thanks for this. Despite some preconceived ideas of what the responses would be once I understood the theme of the exercise, I was suprised at what came out of the various "voices" of my mind. I found some previously contemplated ideas gained new insight and clarity. There was even a bit of dialogue between the aspects which had me smiling!
Thank you, you were a reflection of my mind screaming to be heard and seen. At the same time confirmed and released. I literally have a headache right now. Lots of pressure. Gratitude from all my mind. 🙏🏽⭐️✌️
@@humanrays I think it depends on personal learning, the more you learn about yourself, the more you can answer the questions, same with the vast mind, now that you - the vast mind - knows itself as unlimited - now you learn it, it learns it.
I really enjoyed this exercise but I felt very centered throughout all of my mental states for the most part haha. I don't know if that means I wasn't letting myself dive into the experiment or if I actually have more balance than I thought but by the end of it, I was answering questions without any thought and they seemed extremely clear and obvious. Thanks for this!
Same here i realized I’ve been working really hard to achieve inner balance and this proved it. “Everyone” felt appreciated and didn’t mind sitting back.
This exercise helped me realize that there are many parts of myself that I repress and that I should be kinder too. The vast mind was the only one where I quickly and easily answered all the questions without any hesitation.
@@sillakilla8674 Your mind is conditioned to respond to questions in a way that minimizes effort and risk. It's the effort and risk involved with social norms, protecting your own ego, and even just mundane daily things. People lie to themselves and ignore themselves all the time because it's more convenient both for emotional energy and for ego protection. The characters provide a context, focus, and outlet for thoughts that would normally be altered, filtered, or suppressed by the usual day-to-day operation of the mind. Obviously, people don't constantly walk around talking to themselves like this because that would be counterproductive to most standard activities. But the idea is to step out of the "standard activities" mind that is poorly suited (even oppositely suited) for self-reflection.
Didn’t read any comments before the vid. Came down afterwards to see others experiences. I’m blown away that mostly everyone experienced quick and precise responses to the vast mind questions
Oh, my protector is so tired. When she came out, she wept with just the purest exhaustion I've ever felt. It astonishes me just how much she's working, always, and how deeply interconnected she is to other parts, especially to the skeptic and the judging mind. I need to work harder at letting her rest.
It feels like skeptic is a general. His brother is the judge. Judge is very belligerent. Protector gets on with it. Desire is also highly respected. He guides. They work hard to impress the silent witness. Vast mind was speaking through me. I then realised im everything and everything is me...
exactly dude, like we all connected, and understood, and the silent witness was there to just observe, yet teach, so this was intense. glad u had a good time though dude love
@@angelhernandez2450 such an amazing discovery. The floor, the sky etc only exists because we do. Try and find a short story called the egg by john or andy weir ♥️
I can understand that. In my young life, all my feelings were wrong it seemed. If I was angry, I got in trouble. If I was sad, I got in trouble. Too silly...no good. Sarcastic...I got in trouble. Fear tended to bring an amused smile from my dad. If I voiced how this felt unfair or hurt me in any way, then I was too sensative. The only feelings that I was free to express were positive ones, ie; joy, happiness etc. This may not have anything to do with your experience, but children who are not allowed their full range of human emotions come to the conclusion that their feelings are 'wrong' and that eventually turns into 'I' am wrong, and they no longer trust their own thoughts or feelings, If this is true for you, a qualified caring therapist can show you the pure shining truth that all of the thoughts and feelings you have had, throughout your life were perfectly valid. And you will be able to begin trusting your feelings, and to stop examining every thought you have for validity, and it is truly...like being born again. The process here is called 'Internal Family Systems'( IFS). I hope I can say that without causing issues for channel! Good luck to you! You are beautiful, curious, open and authentic, all amazing things to be. When you are able to lose the fear of speaking your thoughts, you will amaze yourself. Love to you! 💕
@@lisabevans2639 looking back now, so much has changed for me and in me since I posted that comment! Wow! Feel like I've come farther along the journey of accepting and being kind to myself. Thank you for your kind words ❤❤
Almost all before the Silent Witness thought you were out to get them. The silent witness is so proud of and loving towards me, the Vast mind has no bounds, it is without limit in all aspects! I am amazed!
Hey I just want to ask if its okay to answer the questions in english even if this isnt my mother tongue? I can understand and speak it fluently (although I make littler grammar mistakes) but I get the meaning behind every word or sentence. Edit: I answered the questions in german because I could be more precise. And what happened there at the end... those last few questions... didn't need to pause, the answers came out of my mouth like gunshots so obvius were they! Thank you a lot for this great experience!
Vast mind was truly a revelation. Silent witness kept quiet but knew it was needed to quietly observe the what is. Thank you @foolishfish for such an enlightening video. Skeptic didn’t think much of it though.
My "protector" part was confused that you indirectly assumed through your questions that she did indeed stop doing her job at least once. In general, the exercise worked well for me by just answering those questions in my mind, without speaking aloud. It gave me a weird sensation in a certain part of my head at times, though, and I was fully aware what responded so naturally were *aspects* of me that ultimately are still me. But then, I'm a writer. I can create/synthesize dialogue in my mind rather well.
I absolutely loved this. I’ve been to vast mind before but this actually showed me that I have been. I loved meeting my protector and controller, the latter was very humble at this stage in my life... recognizing that it’s very purpose was it’s actual failure. Judgement with pity and judgement blamed me for not listening to it’s screaming red flags.
This was very powerful. I cried multiple times. It was very innate and very intuitive. Thank you for this experience. This was needed and will be very healing. Take care of yourself.
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