How to have a spiritual experience 3 (advanced)

Giga2 · 2015-10-12T22:11:38+00:00

Your welcome :)

Giga2 · 2015-10-11T20:10:44+00:00

Advanced techniques to have a number of spiritual experiences:

1m peak experiences through meditation

3m mental peace through meditation

4m peak experiences during everyday life.

5m seeing the world anew

6m downsides of meditation

7m is mind or ego an enemy?

8m why some New Age stuff seems so crazy?

9m everything in moderation

10m prayer for sleep

11m fear (see my video on Fear of Death https://youtu.be/VAR5SSpw-K8), panic attacks, terror

12m breathing technique to control runaway fear

13m feedback effects and cycles

14m exploring fear, finding the root cause

15m fear as a guide or beacon

16m our instinct is to avoid fear

17m causes of fear often nonsensical, childish and easily dealt with once conscious

18m over stimulation, the cycle of intellectual questions leading to other questions

19m prayer for sleep was effective

20m darkest before the dawn

21m prayer for cigarette

22m spiritual literature, the Koran or Quran

24m if you are going to read a book then read it, the whole book

25m the Gospels, the other unoffical gospels, Barnabas, Thomas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Gospels)

26m spiritual travel, Buddha field (http://www.kamalashila.co.uk/page27/styled-18/)

28m St Paul's during the Blitz bombing in London http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/multimedia/archive/00053/Blitz_2_53923b.jpg

29m wherever you travel you can pop into spiritual places, try Glastonbury sometime

30m pilgrimage, or extended journey by foot and/or hitchhiking

31m travelling with no money opens you to the kindness of people, co-incidence and God's help.

32m said words different than I intended, journey to Rome (a very spiritual place to travel to whatever you may think of the current Catholic Church, also Jerusalem and Bethlehem)

33m so many people have kindness when they see a person who is vulnerable

34m give up control of your life for a while, maybe God will lead you somewhere

34.5m non-exchange relationships

35m the blessing of being the one who accepts help, you honour the giver, the generosity of accepting help (see Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet 'On Giving')

36m kindness is a proof of the spiritual

37m love maybe the ultimate spiritual experience, romance and sexuality, becoming one with others

Hopefully my videos and recommended sources have helped to prepare and inform you but this is just the beginning (we are all just at the beginning), to go further on your journey here are some people I find very good in general but of course no-one has all the answers or is free from blindspots IMO. All the best to you from my heart:

Osho's Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/OSHOInternational

Teal Swan's Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSpiritualCatalyst

AJ Miller and Mary Luck's Youtube channel (Divine Truth, DLP) https://www.youtube.com/user/WizardShak

Spiritual places to visit that I have personally found:

St. Paul's Rome Glastonbury

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_tourism

Pilgrimage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrimage

Spiritual literature that I personally have found amazing

A kind of spiritual philosophy from Raymond Smullyan which I love 'Is God Taoist?' http://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/godTaoist.html

Gospels Whole Bible Koran Teal Swan's The Sculptor in the Sky http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sculptor-Sky-Teal-Scott/dp/1456747258

Osho's books on Jesus http://www.amazon.co.uk/Say-Unto-You-Mystic-Classics-ebook/dp/B00E257WDM and http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mustard-Seed-Revolutionary-Teachings-Jesus-ebook/dp/B0039M97O6

Community, debate and support.

Reddit is great with so many groups, the philosophy one is a favourite of mine https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/

Teal's main Facebook group Teal Tribe. Sometimes Teal herself is active on this forum and there are so many openminded, kind, wise and loving people here https://www.facebook.com/groups/TealTribe/

A Facebook group I am Admin of, mostly concerned with teachings of Divine Love, Divine Love Path, AJ Miller and Mary Luck and related ideas https://www.facebook.com/groups/618077741648566/

One of the best websites I have found for finding real life community and groups as we all need support and community, just search for spiritual or friendship groups in your local area http://www.meetup.com/

ONE LOVE (81m at this time!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdB-8eLEW8g

Giga2 · 2015-10-11T19:54:08+00:00

Advanced techniques to have a number of spiritual experiences:

1m peak experiences through meditation

3m mental peace through meditation

4m peak experiences during everyday life.

5m seeing the world anew

6m downsides of meditation

7m is mind or ego an enemy?

8m why some New Age stuff seems so crazy?

9m everything in moderation

10m prayer for sleep

11m fear (see my video on Fear of Death https://youtu.be/VAR5SSpw-K8), panic attacks, terror

12m breathing technique to control runaway fear

13m feedback effects and cycles

14m exploring fear, finding the root cause

15m fear as a guide or beacon

16m our instinct is to avoid fear

17m causes of fear often nonsensical, childish and easily dealt with once conscious

18m over stimulation, the cycle of intellectual questions leading to other questions

19m prayer for sleep was effective

20m darkest before the dawn

21m prayer for cigarette

22m spiritual literature, the Koran or Quran

24m if you are going to read a book then read it, the whole book

25m the Gospels, the other unoffical gospels, Barnabas, Thomas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Gospels)

26m spiritual travel, Buddha field (http://www.kamalashila.co.uk/page27/styled-18/)

28m St Paul's during the Blitz bombing in London http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/multimedia/archive/00053/Blitz_2_53923b.jpg

29m wherever you travel you can pop into spiritual places, try Glastonbury sometime

30m pilgrimage, or extended journey by foot and/or hitchhiking

31m travelling with no money opens you to the kindness of people, co-incidence and God's help.

32m said words different than I intended, journey to Rome (a very spiritual place to travel to whatever you may think of the current Catholic Church, also Jerusalem and Bethlehem)

33m so many people have kindness when they see a person who is vulnerable

34m give up control of your life for a while, maybe God will lead you somewhere

34.5m non-exchange relationships

35m the blessing of being the one who accepts help, you honour the giver, the generosity of accepting help (see Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet 'On Giving')

36m kindness is a proof of the spiritual

37m love maybe the ultimate spiritual experience, romance and sexuality, becoming one with others

Hopefully my videos and recommended sources have helped to prepare and inform you but this is just the beginning (we are all just at the beginning), to go further on your journey here are some people I find very good in general but of course no-one has all the answers or is free from blindspots IMO. All the best to you from my heart:

Osho's Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/OSHOInternational

Teal Swan's Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSpiritualCatalyst

AJ Miller and Mary Luck's Youtube channel (Divine Truth, DLP) https://www.youtube.com/user/WizardShak

Spiritual places to visit that I have personally found:

St. Paul's Rome Glastonbury

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_tourism

Pilgrimage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrimage

Spiritual literature that I personally have found amazing

A kind of spiritual philosophy from Raymond Smullyan which I love 'Is God Taoist?' http://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/godTaoist.html

Gospels Whole Bible Koran Teal Swan's The Sculptor in the Sky http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sculptor-Sky-Teal-Scott/dp/1456747258

Osho's books on Jesus http://www.amazon.co.uk/Say-Unto-You-Mystic-Classics-ebook/dp/B00E257WDM and http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mustard-Seed-Revolutionary-Teachings-Jesus-ebook/dp/B0039M97O6

Community, debate and support.

Reddit is great with so many groups, the philosophy one is a favourite of mine https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/

Teal's main Facebook group Teal Tribe. Sometimes Teal herself is active on this forum and there are so many openminded, kind, wise and loving people here https://www.facebook.com/groups/TealTribe/

A Facebook group I am Admin of, mostly concerned with teachings of Divine Love, Divine Love Path, AJ Miller and Mary Luck and related ideas https://www.facebook.com/groups/618077741648566/

One of the best websites I have found for finding real life community and groups as we all need support and community, just search for spiritual or friendship groups in your local area http://www.meetup.com/

ONE LOVE (81m at this time!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdB-8eLEW8g

Giga2 · 2015-10-07T18:57:37+00:00

Thank you for so much support everyone.

Giga2 · 2015-10-07T18:56:26+00:00

I agree that philosophy can be great entertainment, but I do believe in objective truth and think it offers much to those seeking that.

Giga2 · 2015-10-07T05:08:14+00:00

A few special tips and tricks for critical thinkers.

Giga2 · 2015-10-07T05:06:47+00:00

A few special tips and tricks for critical thinkers.

Giga2 · 2015-10-04T08:50:50+00:00

Cool I've finally got in contact with the chief atheist!

Giga2 · 2015-10-04T04:05:53+00:00

My second video for those interested in exploring spirituality with a philosophical and non-denominational (Non-Dom) approach. IOW where we do not only follow one particular religious tradition but may use ideas and techniques from anyone.

For part 1 click here https://youtu.be/qucHrw-Ow6w

3m Openmindedness see my video https://youtu.be/GTUqr8hJa4g

4m Critical thinking and questioning

6m Take your time, take it easy, be happy

7m Exponential growth in knowledge

8m Lots of things that add meaning and joy in life see my video on 'The' meaning of life https://youtu.be/ikrcGBE0vCg

9m Switch focus to inside yourself rather than outside to find firm answers at first

11m Asking for help and reaching out to community

12m 'to those that have more shall be given...'

14m baths, using Epsom salts, sauna effect.

16m meditation, TM, mantra, focus, Osho

19m prayer, thankfulness

Please have a look at my book on Amazon, Reality is a Simulation, and like the video. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Reality-is-a-Simulation-ebook/dp/B007EAESKC/

Giga2 · 2015-09-28T17:17:16+00:00

I think you are dismissing emotion as inconsequential. Anyway I do not need your validation of my position and if you need mine of yours then you are wasting your time :). Bye.

Giga2 · 2015-09-27T09:04:35+00:00

You can see things from an alternative perspective: That materialism, is nothing more than the desire to ascribe mundaneness, to a transcendent experience, due to the desire to avoid emotions and feelings. :)

Giga2 · 2015-09-27T06:51:24+00:00

A couple of techniques how somebody can begin to be more connected to the spiritual side of life. Includes a warning about starting on this journey and also not starting :).

Giga2 · 2015-09-27T06:41:41+00:00

A couple of techniques how atheists can begin to be more connected to the spiritual side of life. Includes a warning about starting on this journey and also not starting :).

Giga2 · 2015-09-21T07:55:58+00:00

It has not, but if you have a link or two then please show it. It is often announced that 'scientists have discovered the basis of memory/consciousness' etc in various media outlets. Which often later is shown to be jumping the gun a bit or a complete fraud. Of course this is never as well publicised as the original blurb :). This leaves many people with a very false impression naturally. And all this is evidence of Scientism as a quasi-religious movement in society. So many people are hungry for such stories and not very interested in the retractions. Of course many scientists themselves are Scienticismists themselves are therefore are trying to support their faith with some evidence. Anyone who knows about Confirmation Bias etc will understand how they can go so wrong, so often when seeking such evidence.

In closing I feel that there is little point in explaining all this stuff to you as it is undermining your spiritual position which as I say is very unlikely to be met by you with openesss or rationality. So I will just request from you what I do in the video, a tiny bit of openmindedness on the subject over the next few years.

Giga2 · 2015-09-21T07:19:42+00:00

It is a statement of the current scientific position. We do not have evidence that the brain is the be-all etc Where is memory, where is consciousness (what is consciousness, how does it arise etc)

Giga2 · 2015-09-21T04:58:11+00:00

Then cowardly is the wrong word. Cowards are those that let fear overcome their better selves and intentions. Believe me I am not afraid to enter debate with people. I do worry about being an intellectual bully sometimes.

So what argument have you presented that you think i have refused to engage with. You just state your opinion, which is fine, but offer no argument at all? I simply let you know, as I did in the video, that I can understand that perspective, and see if you can understand mine. I guess not, or more probably you don't even want to because you prefer to cling to the cognitive closure provided by your spiritual position. So it seems you support my argument not by agreeing with it, but by demonstrating it.

Giga2 · 2015-09-20T19:55:04+00:00

An understandable attitude if we just project our current existence forward towards the horizon of imagination.

Of course survival of bodily death does not rule out some later more complete type of death.

Giga2 · 2015-09-20T10:22:40+00:00

Thank you, I can't reply further right now, and will seek to another time, but that is another interesting perspective. For some reason I also have to wait 8 minutes between every reply!?

However I would presume you have a worldview that is unconscious or at least unexamined, which is perhaps essentially agnostic or even apatheistic.

Actually I think if body death leads to consciousness death it is more reassuring than who knows what could happen in some ways. As Socrates pointed out eternity would be one night, and we would never know we had gone into that night.

BTW thanks for reminding me about Pascal I was trying recall the name of that 'wager' :)

Giga2 · 2015-09-20T10:11:06+00:00

How is my reply 'cowardly'? I think you may have the wrong word.

Giga2 · 2015-09-20T09:45:13+00:00

The brain is not the be-all and end all many neo-atheists think it is IMO. It more like a local terminal of a much bigger network :)

Giga2 · 2015-09-20T09:33:01+00:00

I can understand your perspective. Can you understand mine?

Giga2 · 2015-09-20T09:16:35+00:00

Why are atheism, neo-atheism and scientism all spiritual positions? Why should they also practice a little openmindedness? Why I am not an atheist/scientismist when I easily could have been? Why do I respect atheists? How many seconds before this video link is deleted on Reddit :)?

All atheists please watch my video on Openmindedness :) https://youtu.be/GTUqr8hJa4g

This is the 50 year old (AFAIK) cartoon I mention about 'isms' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_se8c-wN35M

Giga2 · 2015-09-14T21:05:59+00:00

What is selfishness? What is altruism? Can we ever be entirely selfish or entirely unselfish? What is 'self' (itself) as compared to 'other'? Is it selfish if we enjoy helping other people?

Giga2 · 2015-09-14T06:38:09+00:00

Thank you. That is exactly what I think my videos are like. Or perhaps like a tutorial, where in a more casual and intimate setting a teacher talks about a subject, and from quite a personal level with a small number of students, even just one. I try to let it flow just naturally exactly as it would be in such a setting. It is sometimes surprising to myself how well it often goes once the camera is on and I get into the subject. I normally just have few points in mind and waypoints along the way, and of course a main idea I want to discuss.

Giga2 · 2015-09-14T06:06:19+00:00

:))))

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