Yo! My man! Send me your Discord, I had to make a new one!

Totally agree with your observation... If we observe our thoughts, and our feelings, we realize that they are not "us"... I observe it best when I'm lying down and I start breathing. I listen to my breath and it's like I'm a horse, or a gorilla, or some kind of mammal. I'm witnessing this. But I get the feeling that there is a powerful, visceral distinction between the mammal body of a highly evolved bipedal hominid, and, the felt presence of being a spirit (consciousness) operating this complex bio-machinery.

When you ask the question "are we everything but our thoughts", I would kind of look at it and say "you have a body, you have a car, you have cigarette, you have a meal".... you have a thought

You are no more your thoughts than you are your car.

I would say that being "more awakened" could very well be a ego-thing like I'm looking back at all these elevated states of awareness and cross-dimensional perceptions I've experienced and going "now even if I eat this mcdonald's burger I'm better than the guy next to me because he hasn't had those other experiences, he only knows the mcd's burger"

In reality I don't think there is anything like a "more awakened" because that's the trap of letting our ego stake its identity in our sense of spirituality, and that just creates the same problems down the line as we have before "feeling more spiritual"...

So the ego must go and we shouldn't get attached to our feelings of being more calm, more present, more still, more at peace, more perceiving, more connected... Those feelings, thoughts and the like will pass and lead to more...

I think there has been a fair bit of a resistance and I also think that all resistance is futile... In fact the more I've resisted the shift, the more sick, beaten-up, ugly and miserable I've felt... So it's unsustainable... I know I can't be out of allignment and let poor judgment keep me making the same mistakes because the consequences of bad decisions always getting more and more intense and unpleasant...

And the rewards for being good and wholesome and healthy and calm and patient and present just keep getting better and better

So I would say, at least in my life, but I think for every last human on the planet, God uses a carrot and stick approach to get us to move, but he never forces us to do something...

We can make the same damn mistake over and over and over and over and over and over again... Eventually, when we've fully figured out, and there's no reason to do it except sheer force of habit, or laziness, or bad will... God will get impatient, and start the "punishing" process of hitting us with the stick.

And if we start resisting God and getting bitter... Woah... You'd have to be really thick, and really immature to do that lol.

Those are the people who go to jail for 5 years and the moment they get out they're back to doing the exact same thing as 5 years ago... It's like : "LEARN MOTHERFUCKER"

Learn, keep trying, never give-up, be grateful, be humble... It'll all work out. No need to over-stress ourselves to be goodie too-shoes or little perfect saints for everyone to be so impressed by us... Virtue-signalling gets us nowhere but where the rubber really hits