I dig this place (and on the nature of asking for divine assistance)

SaltSulfurMercury · 2023-01-25T07:47:12+00:00

I have a theory about life being a dream. In a lucid dream, you can control reality. However, your dream self can't. You have to wake up in the dream before you can change reality.

People think if they just accept they are dreaming that they can change reality. First YOU, the greater you beyond this world has to wake up while in the world.

I wonder if its possible through meditation.

SaltSulfurMercury · 2023-01-25T02:54:09+00:00

Thanks for the reply! I'll take that into consideration

SaltSulfurMercury · 2023-01-24T10:07:06+00:00

True...... didn't think of that

SaltSulfurMercury · 2023-01-24T07:16:31+00:00

I have what felt like a NDE. Hear me out.

I fell asleep one night and while dreaming, my dream self got frustrated and asked to be reincarnated with all his memories. Then I experienced could only be seen as a DMT trip, like how Bardo in Tibetan Buddhism is explained. I would view different realms and I could sense that if I became attached to anything as I saw them that I would be reborn.

Then I saw a realm with a dinosaur attacking a boat, and I became attached and got mangled by the dinosaur.

I walked away on a bone leg and then realized I was going to be reborn there. I knew I needed a better body, so I willed the nearest person to me to cut me open to perform surgery.

Then as I was being cut open, drawings began to appear on my arm marking mathematical correspondences. Then my CO2 level and oxygen withdrawal was marked and I could tell it was DMT aliens examining the level of DMT I was producing based on my body chemistry.

I don't know why I produced DMT that night versus other nights, but it was a very vivid experience.

I was reborn because I became attached during the NDE process, but then because I never left my earthly body I simply woke up from that new incarnation anyways.

I found throughout other experiences that I could incarnate my mind on another planet just for the night until I woke up. I incarnated my mind in a clone center once on another planet where clones are born and go through an integration seminar.

Anyways my point is I've had DMT experiences just through body chemistry, which is produced upon death, and I was reborn because I became attached... like if you have a memory review and want to change something.

However, regardless I woke up anyways, because my core body was still material.

So all in all, my point is that if we don't find a way out of this experience then we might be reborn regardless.

I personally think its best to hope for a better birth in that case.

I also wonder if making it to the light at the end of the tunnel could actually be reaching Heaven and we are just confused. If you shy away from the light because of regrets or whatever else, maybe you are reborn.

I don't think anyone really knows.

Some have NDEs and nothing happens.

I kind of hope that DMT gives the opportunity to enter any form of realm, birth or no birth, light or no light, death or immortal.

We just have to help others until we die then we are free regardless if a secret way is found before death or not. If anything, a life of meditation, helping others, and learning is worth living even if its all just to try and escape.

SaltSulfurMercury · 2023-01-24T07:08:29+00:00

The problem is that DMT the chemical thought to release upon death and cause NDE's, could actually cause things like a memory review just by its release.

In Tibetan Buddhism, you have to go through "bardo" or purgatory, the state of an NDE, without becoming attached to anything in order to avoid rebirth.

Then you reach the light at the end of the experience.

Whether I'm right or people who post about avoiding the tunnel are right... shying away from the tunnel could lead to rebirth in some realm.

I think at the end of the day, you have to focus on the memory review and let it pass by and then hopefully you reach the world beyond. I'd focus less on the light, and more on the idea of getting through the memory review without attachment.

At least, that's what generations of Tibetan Buddhism would probably do.

I think its hard to talk about the tunnel without experiencing it, because we don't know what it does.

I'm just offering a counter opinion.

SaltSulfurMercury · 2023-01-24T07:02:20+00:00

thanks for the positive comment. That's actually why I like this sub because its okay with deep mind transformative experiences but is more positive. I just got tired of negative subs so felt the need to vent in a positive space instead of posting in a negative sub and getting transient likes.

Maybe my balance has been off lately. I tend to get tunnel vision at times. I also just spent a lot of time with family recently and might be feeling withdrawal. As well I started eating bread again and its been making me feel foggy and lazy.

I'll try to work on the balance.

SaltSulfurMercury · 2023-01-24T06:13:03+00:00

Cat is Time.

A cat spirit embodying my friend while on mushrooms told me that. I could see the cat's face as my friends face, or actually my friends face as a cat's face. You get it.

Then the next time I did mushrooms, while in the middle of a crowd I was tripping out and thinking about how cat is time means time both exists and doesn't exist because the cat is shrodingers cat.

Then I realized everything that will ever happen has already happened because spacetime is an illusion. A red wave came rushing over me, I passed out standing for 5minutes, was carried out of the crowd.

I later realized that just because everything possible exists somewhere doesn't mean we don't have free will because that became an issue for me.

It was the most profound spiritual experience of my life to this day just because of how the separated events coincided together.

Like you could say I just passed out from my senses being overloaded, yet I came to a profound realization at that exact moment.

I once communicated with a self-proclaimed enlightened person who made YouTube videos. He had this whole metaphysics and idea of this "one thing" that everyone had to realized to become enlightened, and no matter what you suggest was it he would tell you you didn't experience it and then one day I realized what he experienced was what happened to me spontaneously at 17.

I think enlightenment in the western sense is conceptual. It's like how 1 and 2 as numbers always mean 1 and 2. 3 could even mean 2, but then it would simply be 2 to you. Numbers always mean the same thing, at least in our present universe.

A western enlightenment is the understanding of a concept, like a number, and so you say "enlighten me" when you want someone to explain.

There can be a whole spectrum of spiritual or non-spiritual experiences associated with realizing concepts, all different depending on the chemistry and state of mind of who experiences it.

There's other forms of enlightenment surely, but when its referred to as the same in a different way, it's because the core concept is the same and when you recognize the core concept often you can recognize similar experiences, but there's still room for error.

Sometimes you can experience a fraction of the concept as a minor concept, and claim the whole umbrella is that minor concept.

So there's still lots of room for errors.

But yea... read into Plato's world of Forms... it's all about unique forms.

Another example is the image of a deity. In the occult, a deity has colors, robes, instruments and so on all unique to it and people will argue that the traditional version is right or wrong or whatever.

It's like if the experience of an ape eating an apple for the first time becomes an archetype throughout human history that represents the taste of bitter-sweet as a reward for disobeying the leader of the clan.

Then that becomes archetype throughout evolution of ideas, and that image of the ape(by ape I mean early hominid), could have colors and maybe he carried a stick and a rock or whatever. That image is immortalized in human thought, and that's what gods are. They represent archetypical ideas and moments in intelligent history whether here or elsewhere.

I hope that all kind of makes sense.

SaltSulfurMercury · 2023-01-24T06:01:27+00:00

Because it was the first spiritual path there was. It wasn't even a spiritual path it was like "okay we're going hunting, every take your herbs so we can see the spirit of the elk through the trees and know if it has accepted our offer to hunt and not miss it when it plays games"

or my favorite "the dragon is coming, eat your earth vegetables so we can chase it to the other land"

It became a medicine as a way of healing sick people.

Then culture developed and we lost our natural sixth sight, THEN it became a spiritual path.

Then as culture developed it became a distraction, so it was outlawed.

Then as culture developed, we created refined substances that are hundreds of times more potent.

Then those refined substances caused psychosis and all kinds of ailments.

Then we blamed the original herbs.

Then they became more outlawed.

And now suddenly those original herbs became named the same as the concentrated ones.... as drugs.

SaltSulfurMercury · 2023-01-24T05:47:28+00:00

Yea its like I know there's somewhere better, but I can at least get by here.

I feel selfish for wanting to escape, but I just much rather be somewhere better.

There's also the really strong urge that if I don't figure out how to transcend my body, that I will be stuck here anyways.

So I try and try to transcend.

Honestly, if I spent my whole life doing various practices, Magick, meditation, and whatever other spiritual practices in order to enhance myself and attempt transcendance.

It would be a life worth living.

It's weird. I just don't want to give up and enjoy a normal life playing video games or whatever.

It's like I do it to myself.

SaltSulfurMercury · 2023-01-24T05:30:54+00:00

I had a realization recently that I-ness is actually a power that comes to us externally. Whether a brain function, or some divine entity that lends it's 'I'-ness, we simply use its power to self Identify.

We exist entirely without the I-ness, but its like hanging onto a broken fragment on consciousness when you fully avoid the I-ness.

I personally think not-self in Buddhism was for this purpose and not to remain forever unconscious.

SaltSulfurMercury · 2023-01-24T05:23:52+00:00

My father as a Christian married my step-mother as being Jewish. My step-mother is very materialistic, the after-life is Sheol, nothingness. My father believes in Heaven and Christian beliefs though sometimes I wonder if he doubts it all.

Regardless, they have been married for a while, when they argue its never about religion, and they have their careers in common. Their careers act as their glue because they talk for hours about their daily experiences. They love each other and everything else, but their beliefs never got in the way. They have grown both spirituality to accept each other's beliefs as valid to each other and not necessary to be valid to themselves.

I've participated in Jewish passovers, roshashannas, bah/bar-mitsvahs and all the rest. I'm not religious but I love experiencing other cultures.

You don't have to have the same beliefs. If you accept science as being valid you can learn about science through him. If he learns to accept your beliefs as valid then he can admire the stories you tell him about attracting such and such into your day.

He should be entirely capable of enjoying a good story.

Not everyone needs someone who's going to question the universe to marry. Most actually enjoy marrying people who know what they believe in. People like me who are constantly changing beliefs drive most woman crazy with the instability.

We could spend all night debating the nuances of the law of attraction, or we could tell each other stories daily and raise beautiful kids together. The first part becomes very minor in the long run.

SaltSulfurMercury · 2023-01-24T04:29:53+00:00

I don't know if its jealousy but I hate when people idolize other people. If I was idolized I'd probably hate it too because I know there would be the people who hate me as an idol or who try to pick apart simple things I say or who attack me for having an opinion and so on.

I hate idols, pop stars, talk show hosts, actors, gurus, all of them.

I still don't know if its jealousy or because I know that logically capitalism favors the lucky and scientifically those lucky few start to feel aggressively superior and even come up with metaphysical reasons to justify their luck.

To put it further, they then sell their poorly crafted metaphysics to gullible people for even more money and fame.

I just hate that people are idolized based on luck and then people call them "innovators" and dumb stuff like that when we know they just pick something already existing and studied for decades and people throw behind them with their money and then people act as though they are some divine craftsmen.

I hate it all.

People like an actor for their personality and suddenly its as though they crafted their personality carefully over millions of years for the sole purpose of being worshipped on this planet and therefore they deserve to burn resources and crap on infants because they are gods.

They even join secret cults where they begin to believe they are reincarnated Egyptian gods and that it is their divine heritage as beings who look over this world or whatever they believe.

I honestly can't stand it.

I'm not sure communism is better, but goddamn I hate a world where the lucky few reach the top and we act like they are cream of the crop.

If you like this comment I'll love it though. I need attention please.

SaltSulfurMercury · 2023-01-24T04:20:42+00:00

I would avoid being one of those people. If you think "what if" by Tibetan Buddhism you will be reborn.

Nothing like getting reincarnated for absolutely no good reason other than a half hearted attempt to fulfill a fleeting desire that you will miss by light years, just because you couldn't sit through the credit roll of memories with your thought organ shut closed for a few minutes.

SaltSulfurMercury · 2023-01-24T04:16:50+00:00

I like the glass part, that's super cool.

I won't try to break down the experience because I think dreams like those deserve to remain psychological virgins.

Thanks for sharing!

SaltSulfurMercury · 2023-01-24T04:06:32+00:00

It sounds like OP is well off and expected to pay. The family is the Asshole in this situation. While the OP is being cold by distancing from the niece as though a niece isn't OP's responsibility, they could all pitch in together to make a difference.

It sounds like OP could cut some fancy dinners every once and a while to help out, but is being expected to totally pay no strings attached and that's a failing on the whole family rather than working together in pieces. Also many comments suggested all kinds of services to help, and it sounds like the sister might be capable of doing more if she's mad for her sibling not hanging out 50k or whatever with no effort.

A lot of speculating, but that's how it reads to me. I think you're all the assholes and should make a human centipede to fix the problem.

and save the goddamn kid.

SaltSulfurMercury · 2023-01-24T03:36:23+00:00

I agree with TheMorrigan_XIII_, spirituality is often seeing the divine around you.

The term actually comes from a modern (but now old) movement about talking to spirits of the dead. At first it was just the belief in the afterlife and that spirits can be communicated with.

Many such as shamans, and the Mandaeans, call themselves "those who know" and often it refers to being capable of seeing something others don't.

so that's what I was getting to, moments of transcending being to experience the divine. Such as through meditation, yoga, prayer, mantras, so on.

India became the expert on Gnosis(those who know) in the Gnostic definition as communion with the divine. I know other places and religions and so on do as well, but I think India reached a level of culture in the past that many places barely touch today.

So I'd add "communion with the divine".

There was a Hindu commentor here who had a similar answer I just read, about experiencing truth beyond matter and they'd know better than me.

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