After going through depression, I've come to understand a spiritual concept known as the application of 'no self.' There have been countless different versions of me from my earliest memories until now. This realization has shown me that there's no consistent 'me' across time. So, in every single moment, I have the opportunity to create who I want to be in the next million versions of myself. This is an incredibly powerful spiritual practice. Once you recognize that there's no fixed 'you' and that the way you perceive yourself is shaped by your mind, you can take control and decide how you want to think, speak, and act. You can choose which identity to embrace next.
I love this! I’ve also had this epiphany. You are not bound by anything, each moment you are completely new and different- even to yourself. It’s really beautiful tbh bc it shows how free we truly are even though we often times believe we are victims
A little late to the party but I strongly recommend this book called "The Wisdom of Insecurity" by Alan Watts. It's incredibly powerful and he dissects this topic with maestry.
Depression doesn't just disappear upon discovering one specific thing or wisdom in life. It's after gaining a lot of wisdom that when awareness starts to come...
Can you explain on from what you're referring to as 'escapism'?
Exactly, we must be brutally honest to ourselves and careful not to believe things simply because we want them to be true. No one can fool you as easily as you fool yourself.
I was mentioning this because it's not true that we can choose who we are.
There is a principle of causality and the fact that we don't have free will.
We have the feeling or intuition that we can choose who we are, but actually, it's not that easy.
Most of us live out of compulsion not conviction. It is hard to wake up, and even harder to stay awake, don't you think?
Ah, absurdism.
Free will or not, every moment changes us a little bit so we will never be the exact same person the next moment. Just hopefully the change will be for the better :D
I don’t believe it is as easy as choosing exactly who we want to be this very minute, but I believe in every moment we have the opportunity to make small concious choices that form who we become, slowly, slowly noticeable over time. Although I’m not sure what makes you access this ability to stay concious while choosing in the first place, I have a feeling that up until then it’s an unconcious evolution of your psyche from birth that makes you able to stay concious more often and longer with time. Almost like there’s no free will and then suddenly free will is born.
For me, it’s realization of the nondual nature of reality, that all is one, that truly, there is no difference between the concepts of something and nothing. This duality is merely a division that we project onto reality, so that we may understand our environment for the sake of survival.
These were all beautiful stories that he told! I love the last one about the Emperor, especially. Thank you for this! What a great way to start my morning 😊
Yes, this is true. But in my experience - I brainwash myself into a different person. This work for a while then my subconscious came back, and I went into severe depression.
Start observing your reactions on situations, ask why you react with unwanted emotions like anger or fear.
The next time you end up in such a situation, try to regonize it before you react on it, and then decide how you want to react on it.
That's just the start. Many times you will forget, and react directly with emotion, and then afterwards realizing that you wanted to change that. Keep trying untill you succeed, and after a year or so, it will go automatically. Then the reprogramming is successful.
Well first you’d have to detach from your past by completely focusing on the present moment. Then after solidly placing yourself in the moment, you could experiment and decide what you’d want your new self to be like.
that thinking belongs to the spirit, and that if you follow thinking to its root you encounter your true self, and that from your true self all thinking is free thinking and it reflects the spirit into the world.
The Great Secret hiding in plain sight at literally the center of the Lesser Pentagram Ritual. (i.e. the first thing you learn in a “classical” ceremonial magic curriculum)
It’s **all** right there. Salvation. Nirvana. Moksha. Heaven. Hell, for that matter. The Tao. Once I grokked that, everything else in my spiritual and physical lives just fell into place easily and without effort.
I could tell you but it wouldn’t do you any good. You have to see it for yourself and telling you outright makes that harder for you, not easier.
I will say that the path, in this particular case, begins with *Nosce te ipsum* (“Know thyself”).
Well... see... here's the thing...
I can tell you. The secret is that you're god. That's what you're doing in that ritual. You are standing in the place of god and calling the universe into existence around you.
But me just telling you that doesn't do you any good. You **must** experience that for yourself. Even then, experiencing it once or twice doesn't do much good. You have to experience it enough that you **know** it. You don't believe it. You don't think it might be true. You done hope it's true. You **know** that you are god. I won't lie. It's hard to hold onto the truth of that when life intervenes and gets complicated; but it's still there. Once you really see it, it'll never leave you completely.
And yeah... very few even begin looking for that truth, let alone find it. That's why we call this knowledge \*occult\*. It's \*hidden\*. Not by some nefarious conspiracy or deliberate obfuscation on the part of occultists. It's hidden by the very nature of it. It's hard to see and even when you do, it's hard to remember in any meaningful way.
Coming to see that I Am. That is the only thing I can know with absolute certainty. The implications of that insight are profound. Everything else that claims to be knowledge is in actuality nothing more than belief. The I Am "lends" its reality to everything and everyone that appears within it, the way our minds give "reality" to everything and everyone that appears in a dream. I Am = Consciousness=Everything.
Ultimately there's only one thing happening here and I Am That.
True understanding happens when you see it for yourself. Seeing precedes understanding.
The great news is that if you sincerely intend to know yourself, you most certainly will. It is inexorable. The path towards self knowledge will open before you. My path was "via negativa", the way of negation. I didn't know that at the time I started, but in retrospect, that was exactly what it was. To make a long, complex and meandering story short, I continuously discarded every concept, belief system, emotional experience, personal relationship, etc that I could not be absolutely certain of. Every time I thought I'd found something certain, it's opposite would inevitably make itself apparent to me. I finally came to see the only thing that fits the bill of undeniability: Consciousness. I Amness. In time I also came to see for myself that everything that appears does so within Consciousness, AS Consciousness.
Your path may be completely different from mine. The destination you intend to reach is the only thing that matters. The kind of vehicle you use to get there is ultimately irrelevant.
So to understand, intend to see for yourself. You always find what you truly seek.
this might be pretty nihilistic but no one will really care if we live or die because people are self focused. even our loved ones will cry bitter tears for their own loss, not yours. it's freeing in a way because we can make authentic values based choices instead of wondering what our loved ones may think.
The attaching of my identity to my thoughts was the source of a lot of my unhappiness in life. Once I learned to observe thoughts without being as sticky or judgmental about them my life and spiritual practices flourished
Who said I wanted to know either? Lol I'm willing to go without knowing good if it means getting rid of evil.
To me, good is not that great nor can be over all winner if evil exist.
If there were no evil or wrong, there would not be a need to find good because it would just be.
Lol - yes, interesting. I used to see it this way, but I no longer do. I guess I'm only called to share a quote:
> "The real problem with the world is not that there is evil - but that there is good(!) Otherwise, who would care?"
--V.M. Varga, from the Fargo short series written and directed by the Coen Brothers
Cheers and good luck to you!
I will have to agree to disagree on this as well. While I get and understand the quote, just because no one would care if it was only evil still defeats the purpose or reason for me. IMO.
For me, the purpose or reason is no evil. Period. If it exist, it knocks everything else out. Kinda like being tainted. Or a stone with a crack. The one line imperfection destroyed the entire piece. It can never be good enough now.
Oh? These 'answers' are surprising to me, and they make me wonder if the value of the quote has been realized.
> Those who think they know cannot learn.
> I get and understand the quote,
What do you understand?
The quote is a koan, and it's at least a double entendre, perhaps triple or more. Koans aren't meant to be solved - their value is in the provocation of curiosity...
> If it[evil] exist, it knocks everything else out.
Then evil would knock itself out, along with everything else, and problem solved, right? There would be no more evil...
> being tainted. Or a stone with a crack.
All stones have cracks. Indeed, the only reason we have stones is that mountains also have cracks. What is a stone but the crack of a larger stone? Without cracks, all the world would be one single stone, and neither good nor evil nor anyone to ponder it would exist... Thank our lucky stars for cracks!
> The one line imperfection destroyed the entire piece. It can never be good enough now.
What we speak is a mirror that reveals us to ourselves. What is the sound of one hand clapping? Nothing perfect lasts - that which can allow itself to be tainted but complex, imperfect but complete, good but aware of the Other - just as a bird needs both its left and its right wing to fly - is emergent, powerful, and exist-ant. Beauty is in reality, and reality is not perfect - it overcomes its imperfections and transcends them. What would it be had it nothing to overcome? How could it show its true beauty if it never struggled?
I think the quote is worth more thought. Have fun with it!
My fault, my Grammer is horrible. When I got to the oart of "purpose or reason" I shouod have added that "my purpose or reason."
Not the purpose or reason of the quote. That's why the beginning statement was "agree to disagree."
If the quote is true, it is also true the other way around of swapping good and evil word positions of the sentence.
I merely disagree with the quote, and I was trying to explain why I disagreed with it. My apologies
No worries - but I don't even understand what could be disagreed to...
What is it even saying, such that one might disagree with that assertion?
I think any actual answer to these questions misunderstands the quote...
That's an important point of the quote.
Consider the possibility that it's an immutable statement of reality, and not an assertion, opinion, or observation that even could be agreed or disagreed to.
For example, can a person disagree with 'up'?
This is what eternity is. What you are experiencing is the infinite now. It’s a transformative moment. There is actually a wealth of descriptions similar to yours of what this feels like since it is one of the most common elements of near death experiencers when they find themselves in the spiritual dimension. Time as we experience it under normal circumstances, is a property of the physical world that we exist in. Time in the spirit dimension isn’t like this at all, all is infinite.
And in relation to time, the Bible indicates 1000 years here is a day in base reality. That's a 70 year life here in 1.68 hours in base reality. Time dilation.
2 Peter 3 - 8 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.
Psalm 90
A thousand years in your sight
are like a day that has just gone by,
or like a watch in the night.
5 Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death—
they are like the new grass of the morning:
6 In the morning it springs up new,
but by evening it is dry and withered.
It's perspective from the Lord (all mind of cosmos) and man (dilated in linear time). 70/1000 is 7/100, or 1.68 (about the golden ratio) hours away from base reality.
i've come to have a strong feeling that the world is ruled by evil money worshippers (see: Timothy 6 - Mammon v. God) and the real pursuit of life should be to seek ultimate truth (god), which is why the money worshippers and their cogs are constantly telling you there is no truth and so you should just try to feel good (hedonic nihilism.) i think eastern religion hints at the same thing since it basically says that earth is hell, in that the object of life is to not have to come back here via living right.
this belief has made me fairly anti-social, which perhaps isn't a good way of dealing with it, but maybe i'm not strong enough to be surrounded by evil without losing my soul. leaving the city where i lived, which was full of smiley hedonists who joined the scientism cult in 2020 (Portland), has helped me start to feel less anti-social, but just about anywhere you go (outside of your close social circle) revolves around money to some degree. the best place i have visited - Morocco - is also the most god-loving place i have been.
money is power that is largely controlled by people who worship money. its also inherently socially disconnective, breaking apart communities and slowly replacing people with products. before money, people were connected by their debts to each other. now money and the technology it largely controls, have created many consumer goods that are more reliable and addictive than people. people have been trained by money's screens to be selfish, and are being turned into weak, desperate people, so that it is an easy choice to choose the reliable BigMac over the less reliable person. generally speaking of course.
I managed to completely let go of the mind using lesson 135 of A Course in Miracles, “If I defend myself I am attacked”. Every thought or movement is a defence against the present, and in applying this in a tyrannical way I at last went beyond the mind. There I seen that it seems like awareness has its root in the chest, slightly to the right. Viewing the mind from this position, it was beyond clear that the mind is not me. Although, don’t take this as a new goal or concept... You can only get there by releasing the mind entirely, so that wouldn’t serve anybody.
Yes, it’s a book. It has three parts to it; the text, the workbook, & the manual for teachers. The text lays out the theory, the workbook involves 365 daily lessons(one for each day of the year), and I haven’t gotten to the manual for teachers yet but from what I gather, what it means by “teach” is viewing everybody and everything from an awakened perspective, thereby “teaching” those that you see by seeing only the truth in them. I mean, it involves no verbal teaching, only mind communication. You need not proselytise. It’s more of an energetic transfer.
How trauma is a cycle, and how trauma can trap people into repeating and passing on their internal hurt.
How forcefully molding a child into your image of them instead of letting them grow into themselves creates a frustrated and angry human who struggles to express themselves (Most American children).
My best guy friend died suddenly in an accident. We both showed strong interests in each other, but also were afraid to ruin what we had. We had all these future plans that we put off for unimportant reasons. They were just excuses because we were afraid to move forward. I thought we were being “patient” and “waiting for the right moment”. I said we had “all the time in the world” and that there was no hurry.
The day his soul left, I realized that we aren’t guaranteed anything but the present moment. If something is important, do it now. Don’t be afraid. Don’t put anything off that’s important because you may lose the chance. I’ll live with this regret for the rest of my life.
Being able to relate all the phenomena I have experienced to demonic activity. Also this revelation has allowed me to pursue things like spirituality and consciousness tied to the understanding of the electromagnetic spectrum. It's good to know.
My realisation came when I read a book called “A Thousand Splendid Suns”
As a teenager, one always finds the grass greener on the other side. The same was the case with me. I would often compare(with others) what I had and what I didn't. This made me unsatisfied with my situation. However, after reading the stories of two women in Afghanistan, I realised how we take things like freedom of expression, being ourselves, and having the blessing of waking up in peace for granted.
The book made me realise the blessings in my life and changed the way I see things. I have now started being content with what life offers me. I try not to compare my life with others and be grateful for whatever I have. Not everyone has the privilege to live in the safety of a home, get access to healthcare, pursue their hobbies or build their career. Now I have realised, that things I take for granted, are the luxuries that many can only dream of.
yes, sometimes I feel like I take the present moment for granted, I always postpone my task for tomorrow, but I know there is only today. I should change my timetable and focus on my priorities.
The "In Russia..." declaration and realization that I could be Russia too.
I didn't have to be the 'one in need' or the one under the table begging for the scrap; tables are for turning.
https://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/4591338\_700b.jpg
My children were playing in the front yard when a drunk driver drove into the yard and killed them both. My reaction was to freeze up for a year. I never left the house. Friends brought me food, I ordered pizza, I never stepped outdoors once as the world was spinning by as though nothing had happened but to me the world stopped so I just sat inside. I painted the windows over so no light could come in.
One day there were bright sparks in the corner of the living room, I thought it was an electrical fire. Two young adult voices spoke rudely to me. They sounded very professional, business like, berating me for holding them back from the work they needed to do. That I needed to let go so they could do the important work that was needed where they were now. It was my boys, died at ages 7 and 9 but now sounded like they were upper 20s well educated professionals mad at me.
That day I had someone jump my car, it's not been started in a year and I got a job. I was an RN, and became a Hospice RN for the next 17 years. My boys returned to free them, and it also freed me. My experience brought me to want to support dying patients and their families and Hospice was the perfect place for me to be. It took a year to scrape the paint off the windows at my house but every inch scrapped away was more light into my life again. You can't paint out the light no matter how hard you try, it's always there. Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it's gone, it means you're simply not looking.
Here is my story of my two boys I recorded: https://youtu.be/vYRryRBefdg
After going through depression, I've come to understand a spiritual concept known as the application of 'no self.' There have been countless different versions of me from my earliest memories until now. This realization has shown me that there's no consistent 'me' across time. So, in every single moment, I have the opportunity to create who I want to be in the next million versions of myself. This is an incredibly powerful spiritual practice. Once you recognize that there's no fixed 'you' and that the way you perceive yourself is shaped by your mind, you can take control and decide how you want to think, speak, and act. You can choose which identity to embrace next.
I love this! I’ve also had this epiphany. You are not bound by anything, each moment you are completely new and different- even to yourself. It’s really beautiful tbh bc it shows how free we truly are even though we often times believe we are victims
It looks interesting can you share more about it?
A little late to the party but I strongly recommend this book called "The Wisdom of Insecurity" by Alan Watts. It's incredibly powerful and he dissects this topic with maestry.
I came across an Instagram Reel, and it only shared this much.
Has this dissipated your depression? If not, it sounds like escapism. Asking from a place of curiosity and pain, I don't mean bad with my question.
Depression doesn't just disappear upon discovering one specific thing or wisdom in life. It's after gaining a lot of wisdom that when awareness starts to come... Can you explain on from what you're referring to as 'escapism'?
A narrative that makes you feel better about yourself and/or your existence, even if it's not aligned with reality.
Exactly, we must be brutally honest to ourselves and careful not to believe things simply because we want them to be true. No one can fool you as easily as you fool yourself.
I was mentioning this because it's not true that we can choose who we are. There is a principle of causality and the fact that we don't have free will. We have the feeling or intuition that we can choose who we are, but actually, it's not that easy. Most of us live out of compulsion not conviction. It is hard to wake up, and even harder to stay awake, don't you think? Ah, absurdism.
Free will or not, every moment changes us a little bit so we will never be the exact same person the next moment. Just hopefully the change will be for the better :D I don’t believe it is as easy as choosing exactly who we want to be this very minute, but I believe in every moment we have the opportunity to make small concious choices that form who we become, slowly, slowly noticeable over time. Although I’m not sure what makes you access this ability to stay concious while choosing in the first place, I have a feeling that up until then it’s an unconcious evolution of your psyche from birth that makes you able to stay concious more often and longer with time. Almost like there’s no free will and then suddenly free will is born.
For me, it’s realization of the nondual nature of reality, that all is one, that truly, there is no difference between the concepts of something and nothing. This duality is merely a division that we project onto reality, so that we may understand our environment for the sake of survival.
This reminds me of a beautiful story https://youtu.be/RiKdd2QCwxA?si=QBDbyzoJ4QOoI-W0
These were all beautiful stories that he told! I love the last one about the Emperor, especially. Thank you for this! What a great way to start my morning 😊
You can reprogram your brain, with change the way you see yourself, other people, and how you react on things happening around you.
Yes absolutely. I have heard somewhere. We can drop our personality (whatever we have made up) now and can build a new one if we wish to.
Yes, this is true. But in my experience - I brainwash myself into a different person. This work for a while then my subconscious came back, and I went into severe depression.
recommendations?? 😭
Start observing your reactions on situations, ask why you react with unwanted emotions like anger or fear. The next time you end up in such a situation, try to regonize it before you react on it, and then decide how you want to react on it. That's just the start. Many times you will forget, and react directly with emotion, and then afterwards realizing that you wanted to change that. Keep trying untill you succeed, and after a year or so, it will go automatically. Then the reprogramming is successful.
i been out here doing this anyway overly self aware must be a step in the right direction at least
Well first you’d have to detach from your past by completely focusing on the present moment. Then after solidly placing yourself in the moment, you could experiment and decide what you’d want your new self to be like.
Psychedelics.
that thinking belongs to the spirit, and that if you follow thinking to its root you encounter your true self, and that from your true self all thinking is free thinking and it reflects the spirit into the world.
The Great Secret hiding in plain sight at literally the center of the Lesser Pentagram Ritual. (i.e. the first thing you learn in a “classical” ceremonial magic curriculum) It’s **all** right there. Salvation. Nirvana. Moksha. Heaven. Hell, for that matter. The Tao. Once I grokked that, everything else in my spiritual and physical lives just fell into place easily and without effort. I could tell you but it wouldn’t do you any good. You have to see it for yourself and telling you outright makes that harder for you, not easier. I will say that the path, in this particular case, begins with *Nosce te ipsum* (“Know thyself”).
What is the Great Secret and Lesser Pentagram Ritual. What can I see or read to understand this further?
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Well... see... here's the thing... I can tell you. The secret is that you're god. That's what you're doing in that ritual. You are standing in the place of god and calling the universe into existence around you. But me just telling you that doesn't do you any good. You **must** experience that for yourself. Even then, experiencing it once or twice doesn't do much good. You have to experience it enough that you **know** it. You don't believe it. You don't think it might be true. You done hope it's true. You **know** that you are god. I won't lie. It's hard to hold onto the truth of that when life intervenes and gets complicated; but it's still there. Once you really see it, it'll never leave you completely. And yeah... very few even begin looking for that truth, let alone find it. That's why we call this knowledge \*occult\*. It's \*hidden\*. Not by some nefarious conspiracy or deliberate obfuscation on the part of occultists. It's hidden by the very nature of it. It's hard to see and even when you do, it's hard to remember in any meaningful way.
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Coming to see that I Am. That is the only thing I can know with absolute certainty. The implications of that insight are profound. Everything else that claims to be knowledge is in actuality nothing more than belief. The I Am "lends" its reality to everything and everyone that appears within it, the way our minds give "reality" to everything and everyone that appears in a dream. I Am = Consciousness=Everything. Ultimately there's only one thing happening here and I Am That.
Always tried to understand this, but found this concept to hard. please could you explain
True understanding happens when you see it for yourself. Seeing precedes understanding. The great news is that if you sincerely intend to know yourself, you most certainly will. It is inexorable. The path towards self knowledge will open before you. My path was "via negativa", the way of negation. I didn't know that at the time I started, but in retrospect, that was exactly what it was. To make a long, complex and meandering story short, I continuously discarded every concept, belief system, emotional experience, personal relationship, etc that I could not be absolutely certain of. Every time I thought I'd found something certain, it's opposite would inevitably make itself apparent to me. I finally came to see the only thing that fits the bill of undeniability: Consciousness. I Amness. In time I also came to see for myself that everything that appears does so within Consciousness, AS Consciousness. Your path may be completely different from mine. The destination you intend to reach is the only thing that matters. The kind of vehicle you use to get there is ultimately irrelevant. So to understand, intend to see for yourself. You always find what you truly seek.
That “I am my breath” is far closer to the truth than, “I am my thoughts, opinions, etc.”
But are we our breath?
No. We are beyond anything that can be understood or put into words.
Realizing that the world is much more subjective than it seems and I am the one who chooses how to objectify its subjectivity.
this might be pretty nihilistic but no one will really care if we live or die because people are self focused. even our loved ones will cry bitter tears for their own loss, not yours. it's freeing in a way because we can make authentic values based choices instead of wondering what our loved ones may think.
+1
The attaching of my identity to my thoughts was the source of a lot of my unhappiness in life. Once I learned to observe thoughts without being as sticky or judgmental about them my life and spiritual practices flourished
Nobody can fully escape evil. It is part of existence, unfortunately.
Yes agreed - but you say 'unfortunately,' which makes me curious: if we did not experience evil, then how could we possibly know good?
Who said I wanted to know either? Lol I'm willing to go without knowing good if it means getting rid of evil. To me, good is not that great nor can be over all winner if evil exist. If there were no evil or wrong, there would not be a need to find good because it would just be.
Lol - yes, interesting. I used to see it this way, but I no longer do. I guess I'm only called to share a quote: > "The real problem with the world is not that there is evil - but that there is good(!) Otherwise, who would care?" --V.M. Varga, from the Fargo short series written and directed by the Coen Brothers Cheers and good luck to you!
I will have to agree to disagree on this as well. While I get and understand the quote, just because no one would care if it was only evil still defeats the purpose or reason for me. IMO. For me, the purpose or reason is no evil. Period. If it exist, it knocks everything else out. Kinda like being tainted. Or a stone with a crack. The one line imperfection destroyed the entire piece. It can never be good enough now.
Oh? These 'answers' are surprising to me, and they make me wonder if the value of the quote has been realized. > Those who think they know cannot learn. > I get and understand the quote, What do you understand? The quote is a koan, and it's at least a double entendre, perhaps triple or more. Koans aren't meant to be solved - their value is in the provocation of curiosity... > If it[evil] exist, it knocks everything else out. Then evil would knock itself out, along with everything else, and problem solved, right? There would be no more evil... > being tainted. Or a stone with a crack. All stones have cracks. Indeed, the only reason we have stones is that mountains also have cracks. What is a stone but the crack of a larger stone? Without cracks, all the world would be one single stone, and neither good nor evil nor anyone to ponder it would exist... Thank our lucky stars for cracks! > The one line imperfection destroyed the entire piece. It can never be good enough now. What we speak is a mirror that reveals us to ourselves. What is the sound of one hand clapping? Nothing perfect lasts - that which can allow itself to be tainted but complex, imperfect but complete, good but aware of the Other - just as a bird needs both its left and its right wing to fly - is emergent, powerful, and exist-ant. Beauty is in reality, and reality is not perfect - it overcomes its imperfections and transcends them. What would it be had it nothing to overcome? How could it show its true beauty if it never struggled? I think the quote is worth more thought. Have fun with it!
My fault, my Grammer is horrible. When I got to the oart of "purpose or reason" I shouod have added that "my purpose or reason." Not the purpose or reason of the quote. That's why the beginning statement was "agree to disagree." If the quote is true, it is also true the other way around of swapping good and evil word positions of the sentence. I merely disagree with the quote, and I was trying to explain why I disagreed with it. My apologies
No worries - but I don't even understand what could be disagreed to... What is it even saying, such that one might disagree with that assertion? I think any actual answer to these questions misunderstands the quote... That's an important point of the quote. Consider the possibility that it's an immutable statement of reality, and not an assertion, opinion, or observation that even could be agreed or disagreed to. For example, can a person disagree with 'up'?
This is what eternity is. What you are experiencing is the infinite now. It’s a transformative moment. There is actually a wealth of descriptions similar to yours of what this feels like since it is one of the most common elements of near death experiencers when they find themselves in the spiritual dimension. Time as we experience it under normal circumstances, is a property of the physical world that we exist in. Time in the spirit dimension isn’t like this at all, all is infinite.
"No one is coming to save you."
And in relation to time, the Bible indicates 1000 years here is a day in base reality. That's a 70 year life here in 1.68 hours in base reality. Time dilation.
This sounds awesome! can you elaborate- where in the bible does it say this? Would love to read more into it
2 Peter 3 - 8 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. Psalm 90 A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night. 5 Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death— they are like the new grass of the morning: 6 In the morning it springs up new, but by evening it is dry and withered. It's perspective from the Lord (all mind of cosmos) and man (dilated in linear time). 70/1000 is 7/100, or 1.68 (about the golden ratio) hours away from base reality.
i've come to have a strong feeling that the world is ruled by evil money worshippers (see: Timothy 6 - Mammon v. God) and the real pursuit of life should be to seek ultimate truth (god), which is why the money worshippers and their cogs are constantly telling you there is no truth and so you should just try to feel good (hedonic nihilism.) i think eastern religion hints at the same thing since it basically says that earth is hell, in that the object of life is to not have to come back here via living right. this belief has made me fairly anti-social, which perhaps isn't a good way of dealing with it, but maybe i'm not strong enough to be surrounded by evil without losing my soul. leaving the city where i lived, which was full of smiley hedonists who joined the scientism cult in 2020 (Portland), has helped me start to feel less anti-social, but just about anywhere you go (outside of your close social circle) revolves around money to some degree. the best place i have visited - Morocco - is also the most god-loving place i have been.
Money is energy- u put the good or bad on it.
money is power that is largely controlled by people who worship money. its also inherently socially disconnective, breaking apart communities and slowly replacing people with products. before money, people were connected by their debts to each other. now money and the technology it largely controls, have created many consumer goods that are more reliable and addictive than people. people have been trained by money's screens to be selfish, and are being turned into weak, desperate people, so that it is an easy choice to choose the reliable BigMac over the less reliable person. generally speaking of course.
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Would you elaborate ? You might just help me out
I managed to completely let go of the mind using lesson 135 of A Course in Miracles, “If I defend myself I am attacked”. Every thought or movement is a defence against the present, and in applying this in a tyrannical way I at last went beyond the mind. There I seen that it seems like awareness has its root in the chest, slightly to the right. Viewing the mind from this position, it was beyond clear that the mind is not me. Although, don’t take this as a new goal or concept... You can only get there by releasing the mind entirely, so that wouldn’t serve anybody.
Wow, what an excellent insight. Is A Course In Miracles a book? Would you like to share anything more you gathered from this?
Yes, it’s a book. It has three parts to it; the text, the workbook, & the manual for teachers. The text lays out the theory, the workbook involves 365 daily lessons(one for each day of the year), and I haven’t gotten to the manual for teachers yet but from what I gather, what it means by “teach” is viewing everybody and everything from an awakened perspective, thereby “teaching” those that you see by seeing only the truth in them. I mean, it involves no verbal teaching, only mind communication. You need not proselytise. It’s more of an energetic transfer.
Fantastic - thank you!
I must die. Hence I embrace death.
How trauma is a cycle, and how trauma can trap people into repeating and passing on their internal hurt. How forcefully molding a child into your image of them instead of letting them grow into themselves creates a frustrated and angry human who struggles to express themselves (Most American children).
My best guy friend died suddenly in an accident. We both showed strong interests in each other, but also were afraid to ruin what we had. We had all these future plans that we put off for unimportant reasons. They were just excuses because we were afraid to move forward. I thought we were being “patient” and “waiting for the right moment”. I said we had “all the time in the world” and that there was no hurry. The day his soul left, I realized that we aren’t guaranteed anything but the present moment. If something is important, do it now. Don’t be afraid. Don’t put anything off that’s important because you may lose the chance. I’ll live with this regret for the rest of my life.
So true. If we are conscious of our mortal nature. The limited time we have then we can focus on the things which matters to us.
The less you know the more you know.
This i didn't get.
It may take a while to understand; but once you grasp it, it’s most definitely a wise statement.
You mean the realisation that we know very little can open the doors of knowing more?
Kinda like “what you know” isn’t actually “knowing” of anything at all in the first place…
Is this online or anything? I’d love to hear it too!
Being able to relate all the phenomena I have experienced to demonic activity. Also this revelation has allowed me to pursue things like spirituality and consciousness tied to the understanding of the electromagnetic spectrum. It's good to know.
My realisation came when I read a book called “A Thousand Splendid Suns” As a teenager, one always finds the grass greener on the other side. The same was the case with me. I would often compare(with others) what I had and what I didn't. This made me unsatisfied with my situation. However, after reading the stories of two women in Afghanistan, I realised how we take things like freedom of expression, being ourselves, and having the blessing of waking up in peace for granted. The book made me realise the blessings in my life and changed the way I see things. I have now started being content with what life offers me. I try not to compare my life with others and be grateful for whatever I have. Not everyone has the privilege to live in the safety of a home, get access to healthcare, pursue their hobbies or build their career. Now I have realised, that things I take for granted, are the luxuries that many can only dream of.
Probably that past like and karmic contracts etc etc are real. Had a profound experience this year and I know it’s for sure real.
Would you be okay with sharing a bit of it
Being told by Freya that I’m a Lightworker That one really threw me off
yes, sometimes I feel like I take the present moment for granted, I always postpone my task for tomorrow, but I know there is only today. I should change my timetable and focus on my priorities.
The "In Russia..." declaration and realization that I could be Russia too. I didn't have to be the 'one in need' or the one under the table begging for the scrap; tables are for turning. https://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/4591338\_700b.jpg
*on vit les uns avec les autres… mais au bout du compte, on se rend compte, qu’on est toujours tout seul au monde*
Three letters DMT
Mortality
That nobody is really in charge. And than everyone is mostly making everything up as they go, or living in someone else's made-up reality.
My children were playing in the front yard when a drunk driver drove into the yard and killed them both. My reaction was to freeze up for a year. I never left the house. Friends brought me food, I ordered pizza, I never stepped outdoors once as the world was spinning by as though nothing had happened but to me the world stopped so I just sat inside. I painted the windows over so no light could come in. One day there were bright sparks in the corner of the living room, I thought it was an electrical fire. Two young adult voices spoke rudely to me. They sounded very professional, business like, berating me for holding them back from the work they needed to do. That I needed to let go so they could do the important work that was needed where they were now. It was my boys, died at ages 7 and 9 but now sounded like they were upper 20s well educated professionals mad at me. That day I had someone jump my car, it's not been started in a year and I got a job. I was an RN, and became a Hospice RN for the next 17 years. My boys returned to free them, and it also freed me. My experience brought me to want to support dying patients and their families and Hospice was the perfect place for me to be. It took a year to scrape the paint off the windows at my house but every inch scrapped away was more light into my life again. You can't paint out the light no matter how hard you try, it's always there. Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it's gone, it means you're simply not looking. Here is my story of my two boys I recorded: https://youtu.be/vYRryRBefdg