In this 30‑minute YouTube monologue, Aaron Doughty explains his view of enlightenment as a state beyond belief systems, describing how our core beliefs shape reality and how shifting from belief to direct knowing can allow us to ‘go beyond the avatar’—the identification with the 3‑D physical body. He begins by asserting that beliefs create our lived experience and that changing them changes reality, then shares anecdotes from Paramahansa Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi about yogis performing seemingly magical feats, illustrating how belief limits perception. Aaron recounts attending a Bashar channeling conference, where Bashar (channeled by Darryl Anka) told him that enlightened people have no belief systems; they simply know that reality is an illusion and that they are inherently worthy. He expands on this by citing Sadhguru’s emotional enlightenment experience, emphasizing the realization that the self is a reflection of the whole and that identity dissolves. Aaron defines the “avatar” as the physical identity that confines consciousness, and argues that moving beyond it means recognizing oneself as divine source energy, treating each moment as new, and allowing the universe to flow through. He links this shift to practical outcomes—miracles, reduced ego resistance, and a more flexible life—while warning that personal development that merely upgrades the ego is insufficient. The talk concludes with a promotion for his upcoming live event, “The Shift Experience” (July 17), and an invitation to follow him on Instagram for Q&A sessions.
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This video, I'm going to be showing you the belief system of enlightenment and how you can go beyond the avatar. Welcome back to another video. My name is Aaron and I help people expand their consciousness. Now in this video, I'm going to be sharing with you how to go beyond the avatar and the belief system of an enlightened person. Now our beliefs create our reality and we get a reflection in our reality of what we believe to be true. So if we want to change our reality, we first go to the core of what we believe to be true and then that changes reality itself. Now I've known this for, or I've practiced this way of thinking for a while. It's been something that Bashar, if you've ever heard of Bashar, he talks a lot about this and it has to do with understanding our thought processes, our identity, and doing— going inwards and finding out what we believe to be true about reality itself, because that is what goes beyond even the law of attraction. A lot of times people are like, oh, law of attraction, thoughts create reality. Well, even beyond that, what you believe to be true is what creates reality, because you can be thinking about a Ferrari all day long, but if you don't believe you deserve it, If you don't believe that you can attain it or achieve it or whatever it is, then you're not going to actually take the action to do so. You're not going to actually do the things that wouldn't be necessary to put you in vibrational resonance with that Lamborghini, Ferrari, whatever it is. So it's about beliefs creating reality. When we change beliefs, we then create reality. So fascination for me has been wanting to understand the belief systems of an enlightened person. Because there are these stories that I've shared a couple of times before. One of them is a story from the book called Autobiography of a Yogi, who in— it's a book written by Paramahansa Yogananda where he talks about his firsthand accounts of meeting these enlightened gurus before in his process of enlightenment. And when he was going through these experiences, he'd come across a yogi that could do, they could do some really cool things. One of them could levitate. Another one was 400 pounds but never ate. It was something that kind of boggled the mind. It's like, how is that even possible? Yeah, he would, he would eat like every couple months and yet he was 400 pounds. They could do things like implant ideas in some of their, in some of their, what do you call it, not disciples, but some of their people's, you know, their devotees' minds. You know, one time Sri Yukteswar, who is Yogananda's guru, told him to come to the train station mentally because he was going to be there at a certain time. And then when he was getting ready to be on his way, like the next day, he was going to go to pick up Sri Yukteswar. He said, never mind, change of plans. This isn't— I'm not going to be there. And he said that mentally. And then the Paramahansa Yogananda just knew and he didn't go. Or actually, I think they did go even though he knew that it wasn't— that he wasn't going to be there because the guy that Paramahansa Yogananda was with insisted on it, even though he's like, just listen, I'm telling you the truth. He's just said, he said this to me mentally. And that was the case. That was true. It's just the other one wasn't open to it. So he didn't receive that message. And Yogananda was like, I sent the message to both of you, but you, but you didn't get it because you weren't open to it. What else was, was something that happened? Making objects instantly appear in someone's hand. One of the gurus that are the enlightened people that Paramahansa Yogananda's mom went to told her to go home and meditate and that there would be this locket that would appear inside of her hand that she would eventually give to Yogananda. And that's exactly what happened. One day she went home and at nighttime she was meditating and then she started to feel this this, uh, the silver appear in her hand like this weight. She looked open, there was this locket. So why can things like this, these magical things that happen, things that would literally blast open your beliefs about reality itself or the physics of how reality works, why can things like this happen and what can we do to have the same abilities, right? What are the belief systems of those enlightened people? And this is something that I have been toying around with, wanting to know more of. So what I did about a month ago is I went to a Bashar conference. Bashar is someone I've listened to a lot of his content. Bashar is channeled by Darryl Anka. He's been around for over 30 years. He's been doing this and the information is so solid, so quick. And basically what happens is he goes in front, he gets into his channeling state in front of like 100-some people, however many people are there. It is, uh, then what happens is you get to— people put their name into a drawing and if you get lucky then you get to go up there and ask a question and he'll do like a 15-minute dialogue. Then you go up, you ask questions and he's so quick when you answer it, when he, uh, answer, ask a question, the way it comes back, it's so cool. It's such a cool interaction. Now it was kind of cool cause when I went it was Lior, uh, Lior, Lior Alexandra, Victor Odo, Patty, his wife, and I, we all went to this Bashar conference and it was cool because we put our names in and Lior, Victor, and I all got to ask questions within the first half. So Lior goes up, asks her questions, and then a little bit later Victor goes up, asks his questions. Then I go up and ask my questions. Now my questions were, um, mainly that on enlightenment and the belief system of enlightenment because when I saw him about 2 years ago, I asked him that, what are the belief systems on enlightenment. So what I did is I expanded on this this time. So this is what Bashar said. It just really does resonate with me. And he said the first time I saw him, he said that beliefs— let me turn down this. Um, I didn't realize that the, the audio was so loud, so I'm sorry if it sounds like I'm blasting out. Hopefully it's still usable. So what happened is I went up and last time I saw him, what he said was, is I said, what are the beliefs of enlightened person? And he said something I didn't even expect him to say. I thought he was gonna say they believe that this or this or this, or they believe this and this and this. He said enlightened people have gone beyond beliefs and into knowing. They don't really, they have no belief systems. They don't need a belief system. They've gone into just straight knowing. So I thought that was very interesting. I was like, okay. And, and that I sat with for like 2 years and I, he said a little bit more about it. I don't remember exactly what it was, but then I went to him last this time and I said, so would they know? I just kind of like was talking out loud and he was kind of correcting me. I was saying, would they know then? Is it that because our reality is a dream, they have more flexibility within the dream to do what they want? Is it that they know reality is an illusion? He said, yes, they have gone beyond belief and into knowing that reality itself is an illusion. Because reality is an illusion, they have more ability to experience and do these things that we think to be magical. So it's not like a guru or an enlightened person has to believe, I am worthy. I believe that. No, they just know that reality itself is the way it is and that if they exist, they are worthy and they are void of needing any belief system. I think at a certain level when it comes to enlightenment as well, some of the profound ideas that I've seen is that you realize that everything in reality is a reflection of you. And vice versa. And when you look out into reality, like there's an enlightened guy named Sadhguru. Sadhguru said for his enlightenment experience, he went up to Chandni Hill or whatever hill it is in India. He went up there, he was meditating. What he could see is he could see very far and he all of a sudden just started crying. He was crying. He said he never really ever really cried. It was just something he really didn't do. He just starts bawling his eyes out. Cried so much that he was soaking his shirt. And he said that in that moment, he had this realization that he was looking out. He couldn't find out that which was him and that which was not him. He looked out and saw more of himself. He couldn't figure out. He thought it was beautiful and he would just cry and cry and cry. Then after that, he would go and he would look at the sky and cry. He would do these random little things and just cry. He was so emotional. And people would ask him like, Sadhguru, or whatever his real name is, and Sadhguru, but, um, or at least that's probably not what people call them, but why are you this way? Did you, did you pop something? Did you take something? And he was like, no, you just, he's had that enlightenment realization that everything is one and that everything is a reflection of him and vice versa. And he couldn't find out, figure out, he lost his sense of identity. You could say that this, when I say go beyond the avatar, the avatar is the 3D physical body that we use in our life when we identify with the senses. When we identify with the avatar, we think this is who we are, when in actuality we are so much more than we can imagine. Now, what enlightenment is, I believe, is when you go beyond identity, you go beyond the 3D physical avatar, and you go into a larger scope of consciousness. You become reality itself. You become a larger— the whole larger consciousness system. And that's when the divine can just flow through you. We are all divine beings, but we identify so much with our avatars that we don't have the ability to tap into that divine center that we have. That's why the more you focus on knowing that you are this divine, this divine being, you allow this energy to flow through you. So belief systems of enlightenment is that there are no belief systems. There is only a knowing, a knowing that you are divine, a knowing that you are source energy. That you are void of any type of beliefs. You don't know, you do not need to impose beliefs onto the present moment. I remember Sadhguru also talking about enlightenment and saying most people, they go into a situation, they carry the past with them. They carry the past thoughts about things that have happened. When they're talking to someone, they're thinking of the past experiences they had with the person subconsciously. Now the key to enlightenment is treating every situation as if it was the first time you were experiencing it. So in a way, it's like treating every situation with this curious childlike mentality. And because of that, you can create miracles in that because it's such a new energy. You see, when we know what to expect, we're going to do the autopilot things. We're going to think the same thoughts, feel the same emotions, do the same things. And because of that, we're going to get the same results. When you do something you've never done before, and you treat it as if it's the new, this new moment, you then create this opportunity for amazing things to happen. So the key to this process is going beyond belief and into being. It's shifting our own consciousness. And when we shift our own consciousness, we go beyond the avatar. Then we can allow this source energy to flow through us and it changes everything. You can then allow the universe to do things for you because you are the universe. If you want to ever make a shift on the outside, you first have to realize there is no outside. It's not a belief, it's a sense of identification. And if you let go of the identity with the 3D physical body, then there is no outside. So realize life is a dream, not from belief, but try it out for yourself. The more you open up to this idea, the more you'll notice that your life is much more flexible than you thought. The more you can allow things to just happen versus you having the ego, having to do everything. The old way of going about things is that the ego tries to change the ego. When the ego tries to change the ego, that's what we call personal development. We create resistance, we create this imperfection as if who we are isn't already whole and complete. We create resistance. And as Einstein said, you cannot solve a problem from the same level of thinking that the problem was created. It's the same type of thing. Instead of make the ego better, shift your level of consciousness into being awake and aware that this is a dream. And in this dream of life, you can create whatever you want because you realize anything on the outside isn't really the outside. If you change the way you relate to you, You then will see that the outside will change. That's just the way reality works. It's a mirror. You want to change someone else? Understand that version of them in your reality is the way you expect them to be. Change the way you relate to that person. Change the, the knack you have about how that person has to be. And by letting go of that resistance, they may change because the reflection can then change because you're not trying to hold it into place from the ego's avatar's perspective. So everything I'm sharing with you right now with the belief systems of enlightenment, how to go beyond that, how to realize life is more like a dream, how to go beyond the ego because the ego will keep you locked into the realities you are experiencing. Everything I'm sharing with you right now is a taste of what the shift experience is. The shift experience is going live on July 17th at 9 o'clock in the morning and it will show you how to shift your level of consciousness so that you start to allow this higher vibrational energy to flow through and so that you can then become free and not become a victim of the ego, not remain so identified with your avatar self, understanding more about who you really are. So if you want updates as to when that goes live, you will see it in the top of the description box below and the shift experience. Uh, I'll send you updates to that as well. Also, Something else I'll be doing is more live Q&As on Instagram. If you haven't followed me on Instagram yet, you can follow me right here. I post twice a day there, plus I also post live Q&As, uh, quite often. So if you have questions for me, you can ask me there. Other than that, I hope you enjoyed this video. Feel free to like this video if you liked it. Subscribe if you haven't already. Hit the notification here so you can see the daily vids that I do. Other than that, as always, peace, much love, and namaste.
