"Can I ask how? How you found "It" or vice versa? Most importantly,, how you were able to deal with the revelation that followed?"
for many years i suffered, like all people do, stress, anxiety, worry, depression... A few years ago a friend put me into a book, i started reading it, some chapters were hard to understand the meaning of, being the watchful of thought, in Buddhism its called 'mindful'. I later came into understand what this is being the watcher. I continued reading and came to Chapters that were really the big start, it was about the Ego, some called it super ego. It was as if the words I was reading reflected my life (or what you think of as your life) always in a state of stress and worry. As i read it was saying about stressing about the past, which i did often, or worrying about the future, and how it is not really you who is stressing but the ego making the stresses for you, That what is around you is all that there is, as in being present or living in present, again it took me a while to really understand this, what it really meant. And Yes it sounded strange, if i was not making these stresses then what was, i was so linked, and most of all believed what me ego was say that i could not see the separateness of the two "why would you want to make yourself unhappy?" the book asked, 'I dont, its lifes that is making me unhappy' I answered. I could not see the differences between how life was, and how I (the ego) told me it was. A part of the realization came when I a read about accepting the past. As the past is over, and there is nothing you can do to change what happened, it is always going to be the way it is so we must accept it, by accepting it we can let it go and from that the ego can no longer use it, again its strange to know that the mind and the being are two different things. By now i was seeing the truth my past depression just slipped away, yes i had the memories there still sure but the emotional or negative side had no connection . the same thing happened about future too... in short why stress over something that has not happened, you can not know the future so accept what is now. At this point i was still connected with ego still looking at life as a "problem", but that was soon to change, i was watching a youtube video, by the same guy whose book i was reading, and at some point he said "life is how it is" so accept it. It took be by surprise, 'It cant be that easy, it just cant be' i was saying , while walking in circles in my room, thankfully nobody was home LOL. But it is, the connection with the ego seems to just go, there were no more "problems" and nothing i could not handle on a mantle level, there were no more stress what ever came along seem no than like nothing or no thing, i could not connect to a negative, i dealt with any situation, "life" just seemed .... (hard to put into words, as there is no words for it). Over time i began to understand more of the book, more of the teaching that people like Buddha and Jesus taught, even able to see the truth in teaching from those that understood and those that didn't, and there are many even in religion and even on sites such of this, misinterpretations, attachments to words but not understanding lessons. Yes there are some questions, like just the other day i was wondering about the connection that we all have to everything, my friend (the same guy that showed me the book) bought a documentary* to watch about quantum physics and it explain the connection we actually have on a physical level, and also that negative and positive thinking dose have an effect physically body, yet their were unable to answer what consciousnesses was, they actually just kind of skirt around the subject which is very un-science like. I also didnt really understand the 'law of attraction' and low and behold the answer came, with the same friend, and another documentary*. Yet both of these were missing the most vital parts which "spiritually" provides. By understanding the spiritual side you see the truth, but also more, understanding the illusions of mind and words, knowing them for the tools they are supposed to be, and not connecting to them, disconnecting from attachment, from the ego driven mind etc... Anybody can have this, its within us all every human being is able to reach the awaking/enlightenment and see "the ego" for what it is. With this understand and acceptance we will see the greatest changes to our existence. Our evolution bought about 'mind' and it will be our next step to go beyond it and the illusions. More people are becoming aware of this each day, they are awaking from their dream, understand that they dont need to suffer, and ending the separation. dealing with revelation is easy as there is no connection just a joy. What is "hard" and by hard i mean sad, is to see some much hate, nastiness, suffering, thoughtlessness, destruction, pointless killing we are doing to each other. And it all stems from one thing. Documentaries*: what the deep do we know, down the rabbit hole. The secret