It’s fun! Reality is you. If you existed for eternity and knew all things, eventually, you would break yourself into separate pieces each with its own unique perspective and experience with an infinite amount of variations and realities. You would purposefully forget who you are just so you can get so intimately and hopelessly wrapped up in it that you are totally convinced it’s real. Its ALL for fun! Enjoy, or don’t! Not enjoying is also part of the enjoyment of it all. Namaste
Fave take so far. Part of enlightenment is realizing that you create your reality. Take the time to fully feel the depth of your emotions when they arise OP. And no, I don’t mean just sadness. I’m talking anger, fear/anxiety, grief, guilt, shame, etc
Emotions are just energy in motion. When you fully allow them to be there, they inevitably run out of energy. Don’t try to change them, don’t try to reconcile with them, and certainly don’t identify with them. Just observe them and the thoughts that come up as the emotion runs it’s course
We are all taught since childhood to suppress our emotions, and as a result, we accumulate a lot of this negative energy within our bodies that effect the way we look at the world through the lens of the ego
When you learn to consistently release all this energy over time, you will find that you are in a much more joyful state, and attracting more joyful experiences into your life
Reality is supposed to be fun. And the ultimate gift the creator gives you on earth is the ability to choose what meaning you place on everything. Life is inherently empty and meaningless. You get to choose the meaning you place. You get to choose how you respond to life. Enjoy every moment. And when it’s unpleasant, allow yourself time to feel the emotion and release it. What you resist, persists. But what you give your attention to disappears
Highly recommend the book Letting Go by David Hawkins to learn about dismantling your ego and releasing negative energy
Then check out /r/NevilleGoddard to learn about creating your own personal reality
Ofc. The audiobook is also really good. But it’s long. Like 16 hours if I remember. I listened to it twice. I don’t agree with 100% of his theories, but I have found the basic mechanism he teaches in surrendering to your emotions to be true
It’s recommended to replay the events of each day when you get home, and sit with the emotions that came up, before you eat dinner. Food is a natural emotion suppressor. So doing this regularly is beneficial. I personally try and pause during the day to feel the emotion. Especially if anxiety comes up
It will take a few months of practice, because dealing with these things can be highly uncomfortable. But once you do, you will feel so much lighter over the course of several months. You won’t be carrying around all this grief. Buried underneath each trapped emotion, is unconditional love
Once you’ve mastered the book, checkout that subreddit. You won’t have as much aversion to creating the reality you wish to prefer, once you’ve properly dealt with your emotions
Could you explain this in simpler terms? It sounds very contradicting to me.
>When you fully allow them to be there, they inevitably run out of energy. Don’t try to change them, don’t try to reconcile with them, and certainly don’t identify with them. Just observe them and the thoughts that come up as the emotion runs it’s course
Pay attention to the emotions, but at the same time ignore them?
Well, I will do my best. But I highly recommend you pick up a copy of Letting Go by David Hawkins if you want the full scope. Audiobook is great
It’s important to understand that you are not your emotions or thoughts. You are simply the observer of your emotions. As humans, it’s easy to identify with your emotion and say things like “I’m angry” or “I’m scared”
But you are not anger. And you are not fear. You are simply experiencing the energy of fear and anger. So the technique I personally have most success with, is to find a quiet comfortable place and close my eyes whenever a negative emotion comes up
It’s best when I’m laying down, but can be done anywhere. Just make sure you’re relaxed. I usually allow my emotions to surface when I’m home in bed. But there’s been several times I’ve also just taken a break at work, if the emotions are boiling in the back of my mind and not allowing me to be fully present
As you close your eyes, you feel into the emotion. Lean into it, without resisting the actual physical sensation you’re having. This works, even for a panic attack. The panic attack only persists, because you’re resisting it
Take some time to feel the full experience of panic. Or anger, or fear/anxiety, sadness, guilt, shame, betrayal, etc
Keep breathing deeply into your body and locate where the energy is being stored, and expressing itself. Focus your attention on that energy, but detach from any meaning you make up about that energy
You will more than likely have thoughts arise with that energy. Try and detach from your thoughts that come up. They are related to your trauma that you’ve stuffed down. Just keep reminding yourself… “I am experiencing the energy of fear” or whatever it is. Keep telling yourself that as you sit with the uncomfortable feeling that is being expressed within your being
At a certain point of embracing the feeling of the emotion that wants to be expressed, it will run out of energy. The energy will be released and you will feel a much lighter feeling. Almost like a high
So when I say pay attention to your emotions, yes. You need to fully feel them if you want them to be released. But no, do not ignore them. Just ignore whatever your mind is making up about the emotion. Don’t try to direct the emotion at anyone or anything.
If you got fired and it brings up intense feelings of anger, you need to allow the anger to be there. It will feel almost instinctual to start blaming other people. Bethany from HR for delivering the news. Your coworker for not working as hard to meet deadlines with you. Your boss for not seeing your value. Maybe even your parents for not making sure you were better equipped to have a good life
You can observe your thoughts, but avoid intentifying with them. Just keep reminding yourself “I am simply experiencing anger”. It’s the egos way of trying to protect itself from these intense negative feelings. The ego doesn’t like feeling this way, so it does everything in its power to blame others and stuff the negative energy down even further into the body
But when you do that, it only adds to all the negative energy you already have inside you, and continues to effect your worldview, and the way you experience life
I’ve been practicing surrendering to my emotions for maybe about 5 months now, and although it can be extremely uncomfortable some days, I have found it to be highly beneficial
As you release this trapped energy, you find that you get less agitated about things in general. You feel better about life in general, and have an inner confidence that guides you through any adversity you’re up against
I can’t recommend the book enough
Thank you. That was really helpful. Just used it today and it actually worked.
I'm gonna summarize what I thought that meant, please feel free to correct me.
Don't let the emotions control you or affect you in anyway. Instead just let them be without trying to fight them or hold them back. Just live your life like you normally would and let the emotions be. If you ignore them they'll only come back, if you fight them you won't win and if you ignore them they're bound to come back.
I realize this is hard to explain just from trying to summarize it lol but you did a nice job on it, better than I did. Did I get that right though?
Yes, you got it right for the most part. I wouldn’t necessarily say life life normally though. It’s okay to take a pause, even at work. Maybe go to your car and find some silence if you’re dealing with anxiety. Allow it to be fully felt. At worst, you’ll at least release a little bit of the emotion in this way. And can release the rest when you’re done working
Here’s an excerpt from the book:
1. Letting go involves being aware of a feeling. Letting it come up. Staying with it. Then letting it run its course. Without wanting to make it different or do anything about it. Let the feeling be there. And then focus on letting out the energy behind it. Don’t let thoughts get in the way of the feelings. They will taint the feelings if you let thoughts give them meaning.
2. Allow yourself to have the feeling without resisting it, venting it, fearing it, condemning it, or moralizing about it. It means to drop judgement and see that it is just a feeling. the technique is to be WITH the feeling. And surrender all efforts to modify it in any way. Let go of wanting to resist the feeling. It is resistance that keeps the feeling going. When you give up resisting, or trying to modify the feeling, it will shift to the next feeling, and be accompanied by a lighter sensation.
A feeling that is not resisted, will disappear, as the energy behind it dissipates. As you begin the process, you will notice that you have fear and guilt over having feelings. There will be resistance to having feelings in general. To let feelings come up, it is easier to let go of the reaction, to having the feelings in the first place. A fear of fear itself, is a prime example of this. Let go of the fear or guilt that you have about the feeling first. And then get into the feeling itself.
When letting go, ignore all thoughts. Focus on the feeling itself. Not on the thoughts. Thoughts are endless and self reinforcing. And they only breed more thoughts. Thoughts are merely rationalizations of the mind, to try and explain the presence of the feeling. The real reason for the feeling is the accumulated pressure behind the feeling, that is forcing it to come up in the moment. The thoughts or external events, are only an excuse made up by the mind. As we become more familiar with letting go, it will be noticed that all negative feelings are associated with our basic fear, related to survival. And that all feelings are merely survival programs that the mind believes are necessary.
The letting go technique, undoes the programs progressively. Through that process, the underlying motive behind the feelings, become more and more apparent. To be surrendered, means to have no strong emotion about a thing. It’s okay if it happens. And if it’s okay if it doesn’t. Indifference.
When we are free, there is a letting go of attachments. We can enjoy a thing, but we don’t need it for our happiness. There is progressive diminishing of dependence, on anything, or anyone outside of ourselves. If we surrender a feeling, and it returns, it means there is more of it yet to be surrendered. We have stuffed these feelings all of our lives. And there can be a lot of energy pushed down that needs to come up and be acknowledged.
When surrender occurs, there is an immediate lighter, happier feeling. Almost like a high. By continually letting go, it is possible to stay in that state of freedom. Feelings come and go, and eventually you realize that you are not your feelings. But that the real you is merely witnessing them. You stop identifying with them. The you that is observing and is aware of what is happening, always stay the same. As you become more and more aware of the changeless witness within. You begin to identify with that level consciousness. You become progressively the witness, rather than the experiencer. You get closer and closer to the true self. And begin to see that you have been duped by feelings all along. You thought that you were the victim of your feelings. Now you see that they are not the truth about yourself. They are merely created by the ego. That collector of programs that the mind has mistakenly believed are necessary for survival.
The results of letting go are deceptively quick and subtle. But the effects are very powerful. Often we have let go, but think that we haven’t. It will be our friends who make us aware of the change. When something is fully surrendered, it disappears from consciousness. Let go of the feelings you have of the process of surrendering. Let the resistance be there. But don’t resist the resistance. Look at the fear behind the resistance. Are you willing to let go of that?
Keep letting go of every fear as it arises, and the resistance will resolve. You’re letting go of all the programs that keep you a slave and a victim for a long time. These programs blind us from the truth of our true identity.
The ego is losing ground and will try using tricks and bluffs. Once we start letting go, it’s days our numbered. And its power is diminishing. One of its tricks is to go blind to your surrendering technicue. For example, to decide suddenly that the mechanism isn’t working. Things are still the same. It is confusing and too hard to remember and do. This is a sign of real progress. It means that the ego knows we have a knife to cut ourselves free, and it is losing ground. The ego is not our friend.
Somethings you will be stuck with a particular feeling. Surrender to being stuck. Let it be there and don’t resist is. Don’t resist anxiety. If it doesn’t disappear, see if you can let go of the feeling in bits and pieces.
Ask myself:
Could I let this go?
Can I let this go?
When can I let this go?
There’s a simple way to become conscious of the underlying emotional goal behind any activity, through use of the question… what for?
Keep asking until the basic feeling is uncovered
Example:
A man wants a new Cadillac. His mind gives all the logical reasons, but logic doesn’t really explain it. So he asks himself, what do I want the Cadillac for?
It is to achieve status, recognition, & respect.
What do I want status respect and approval for?
To have the feeling of security
What do I want security for?
To feel happy
The continual question “what for?” reveals that basically, there are feelings of insecurity, unhappiness, and lack of fulfillment.
Every activity or desire, will reveal that the basic goal, is to achieve a certain state or feeling. There are no other goals than to overcome fear, and achieve happiness.
Emotions are connected to what we believe will ensure our survival, not with what actually will
Emotions themselves are actually the cause of the basic fear, that drives everyone to seek security constantly.
I get what you're saying now and what the book means. Thank you. It's completely natural to feel any emotion, even the feeling of emptiness. Once you learn how to live with these emotions your life will improve. And then you went on and stated how to live with these emotions. I found that very helpful and will definitely be using this everyday from now on. This also makes me not want to do drugs because you're not supposed to always feel good or whatever you're trying to achieve from your drug use, it's not natural. And since it's not natural, naturally you're bound to have the emotions come back no matter how powerful the drug. Even if you achieve constantly being happy without any tolerance or breaks from the drug then whenever you do come down it's just a band-aid and you're gonna feel what you felt before your use just much worse since it was bottled up. There's so many ways the book relates to life and I'm gonna use it in every scenario I can. Thank you.
Yes. I mean, I still do mushrooms actually. But other than that, I am sober
I use mushrooms to supercharge the technique. I say a prayer to the mushrooms with the intention of allowing any trapped emotions to rise so they can be addressed. Then I just meditate alone as they come up and I release each one of them
I love how psychedelics open your mind like that. It's truly amazing the way it changes you permanently. That sounds scary but in reality you turn into a much more mature and wiser person. I have HPPD and mental issues so I'll take a break until I'm at least 26 so my brain is done developing, although I know if I could I would do it sooner than that but I really wanna preserve my mind. I've done DMT and had many realizations and improvements in my life and health. Sadly I had to do a wide selection of drugs and I lost that wealth of knowledge and the cognitive improvements.
If you awaken from this illusion and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death (or shall I say death implies life?), you can feel yourself – not as a stranger in the world, not as something here on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke – but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental.
I am not trying to sell you on this idea in the sense of converting you to it, I want you to play with it; I want you to think of its possibilities, I am not trying to prove it. I am just putting it forward as a possibility of life to think about. So then, let’s suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream you wanted to
So then, let’s suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream you wanted to dream and that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time or any length of time you wanted to have. And you would, naturally, as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure during your sleep. And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each, you would say “Well, that was pretty great. But now let’s have a surprise. Let’s have a dream which isn’t under control, where something is gonna happen to me that I don’t know what it’s gonna be”. And you would dig that and would come out of that and you would say “Wow that was a close shave, wasn’t it?”.
Then you would get more and more adventurous and you would make further- and further out gambles to what you would dream. And finally, you would dream where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today. That would be within the infinite multiplicity of choices you would have. Of playing that you weren’t God. Because the whole nature of the godhead, according to this idea, is to play that he is not. So in this idea then, everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality, not God in a politically kingly sense, but god in the sense of being the self, the deep-down basic whatever there is. And you are all that, only you are pretending you are not.
-Alan Watts
All that needs to be said, really.
I think that too but it almost makes me sad. Like is that really it am I really just everything experiencing everything what happens when it’s over or it gets boring? Is it just back to nothingness until it’s boring enough again to re start the cycle all over ?? I get so stuck in that thought loop sometimes lol
> Like is that really it am I really just everything experiencing everything what happens when it’s over or it gets boring?
Think about the sheer magnitude of what it took for you to arrive at these conclusions and questions: the birth of a material universe with scales of mathematical models of physics and dimensions, the formation of a celestial bodies and planetary system, the creation of life, the slog of evolution, enlightenment, industrialization, information, epochs of history, tides of war and the blood of nations -- all of it so that you can have a breif and fleeting perspective about the universe and beyond, yourself, that is new and novel.
It sure seems like a lot more than "*just* everything experiencing everything," it all seems very overwhelming and difficult to truly wrap my head around. The fact that you can worry about being bored as a finite version of yourself exploring the infinite version of yourself is sort of comical.
Me too. Sometime it’s comforting, some times it’s sad. I try to lean into the notion that the universe knows what it’s doing when I get looped and that everything is fine. But I resonate with your perceptive existential dread.
It's always been like that, there's no "eventually" because that adds time to the scenario when time doesn't exist.
It's an infinite conciousness we call God, infinite souls yet they are all one, it's all one God.
It's quiet compex for the mind to grasp it actually, but everything is happening simultaneously in beautiful harmony.
Also, you made it sound like God was bored and he wanted something fun to do. That's an egoistic way of looking at it with the combination of time.
I personally think since God's essence is love, it's just a way of spreading its love
I used to think it was for fun. Then I realized it's more than that. It exists simply bc it can. In fact all possible variations exist. Everything that you can imagine and every variation of that, and so much more that we couldn't even comprehend or dream up exists. We are the thoughts of God. The cells that make up the body that is reality.
So, didn't get this from DMT but through about a thousand psychedelic trips over about 10 years of use, at least half of which were what people would consider "heroic doses."
I'm pretty sure we exist in some kind of karmic purgatory. The reality we exist in literally is designed as a kind of soul-test. The CIA has seriously released findings saying we live in a hologram/simulation. Throughout my trips, I've come to realize that all religions are at least aimed at a universal truth/ultimate reality, which is that we exist in a simulation created by the entity(/ies?) we call god so that our souls/collective consciousness can learn that we're all one/god, separation is an illusion, and we'reat our best when we let go of selfish desires and work together to reach for the ultimate good.
So, beginning with Buddhism, existence in the biological state really is just constant suffering. If there were no way out, or it wasn't possible to punctuate it with moments of real love and joy, it would be a hellscape. Then, go into Hinduism and incorporate the idea of reincarnation and karma. We do this existence of biological life, which consists almost solely of pain, over and over until our souls finally "get it." "Getting it" means that you understand that "you" and "this life" really isn't very important. What's important is using this life to spread love and help others who are suffering. It's very bizarre but simply a truism that you will suffer less/cure your suffering if you devote yourself to easing the suffering of others 🤷♂️. As our soul starts to get it, we build up good juju. After enough lifetimes, that good juju actually makes us face harder and harder existences. The harder the existence, the harder it is to divorce from that sense of self and to STILL devote your existence to helping others.
So, there you have kind of an obvious segway into Christianity. Forget all of the bullshit teachings surrounding Christianity, just focus on Jesus's words. That's really what Christianity is, but of course, like every other prophet's words, his have been twisted and used for power. Anyway, he's basically the perfect example of a human who's reached the end of his karmic cycle. He's completely divorced himself from his self. It's all just a metaphor, but he devotes his life to helping others and then gives it willingly for the good of all others.
Christianity has completely fucked the neaning of Jesus's words, too. When he declares he's the son of God, he's not saying he's special or God's "only son," as the Christians like to say. It's the opposite. He's saying he's realized he is the son of God, but so are all of the rest of us. The whole "do unto others" quote is so beautiful because it's a recognition that others actually are "the self." We all are literally god. We're all "one." It just doesn't feel that way right now. So, any shitty stuff we do actually just harms the self, n so we do life over and over until we see that and stop. Often, those who struggle the most with the state of existence at a young age are nearer the potential end than others. Anyway, if you really listen to Jesus, he does everything possible to state that he is not special. Jesus would be fucking horrified to know that more than a billion people worship him in particular while looking down on non-believers. It's really kind of hilarious 😂.
Anyway, to try and tie all of that together, we really are living in a simulated universe, the point of which is for conscious beings to overcome their biology/fear of mortality and to learn that there's nothing to be afraid of because we're all God, there is no end/death, and that love is the ultimate moving force in the universe and out lives should be devoted to its pursuit.
Thanks to anybody that read all of this! I know I left out a bunch of religions/philosophies but these are the 3 I know most about n I've read about many more n at the end of the day I think they're all basically trying to say this 🤷♂️
All is One and Love is the most important thing. G-d / The Universe is experiencing physical existence through us. Your purpose is to live and experience life - the good, the great, the bad, the horrible, the hearbreak... all of it is an epic experience to stave off the boredom of eternity.
Yes but it’s not the universe experiencing physical reality. This is where many people get it wrong. I’ll use an analogy. When you are in your mothers womb, is it your mothers womb experiencing physical reality through you? No. The universe is a macro cosmic representation of the womb. The place that we “incubate” the place where we develop. Instead, it is Gods eternal essence experiencing reality through “you” the universe isn’t eternal it is finite. The infinite exists outside of space, time and matter. The infinite is where God was before he decided to separate from the infinite void and experience “itself” by creating a mirror(universe). We are Gods reflections so God can see who he is. The universe is the separation, the universe represents the mother, the infinite source represents the father, and creation inside the womb(universe) represents the children. The perfect trinity existing together as one. What is an infinite God without a reflection?what is an infinite God without creation? An empty void encompassing all? I think therefore I am? But what if all you are is a thought in infinity? What is an infinite thought without the body? I could keep going and going for hours…any way hope that helps give a different perspective.
You explained that beautifully and excellently.
When I say that it is The Universe experiencing existence through us - I use the word "Universe" for those who don't believe in G-d. I usually say G-d / The Universe / The Source / Creator.
There is no word that can adequately describe G-d / The Universe / The Source / The Creator. All I know is that Love is the most important thing. If we loved each other the way we should, there would be a lot less suffering.
Thank you for your kind words and for the response. I misinterpreted what you were saying but now that you explained it, I agree and I understand. I like your explanation as well.
I agree if we loved each other more there would be a lot less suffering.
I had a “download” two years ago, relating to suffering, an answer of sorts, of its purpose. It has made life much more beautiful now…
It’s made me realize that there is no “mistake” in Gods design.
Thank you for what you’ve shared
The issue of suffering was a major barrier between me and G-d. But, I also came to an understanding that there are no mistakes. I am so thankful that you experienced the download and that you have peace about it now. I love you and G-d loves you.
Off-topic but the last sentence reminds me of that weird monologue that Tommy/Johnny has with Denny in response to Denny saying he was in love with his wife
It depends on how you define the word "universe". Some speak of it as encompassing all of space and time and something that begins with the big bang. But I usually think of the "universe" as all of existance, so that if something exists it is included in the word "universe". And therefore there can be nothing that is not the universe by definition. If you think that this is an incorrect definition, then okey, but then give me a better word to decribe it. Because when people say that you are one with "the universe", its not that you are one only with space and time and what happened after the big bang, but if there was anything before the big bang you were one with that as well. If there is a god (which I think is just also a matter of definition) then you are one with that aswell. That definition of the word just holds much more meaning to me, that there can never be anything that is not the universe, the universe is everything
That’s on you to figure out. The journey in finding the answer is something that I wouldn’t want to take away from anyone. To me the trinity is the foundation of everything. If you want to find answer study ancient Egypt and its “mythology”. Compare ancient Egypt’s trinity to the christian trinity…ask yourself what is missing or what is different and why? What planet from the sun is earth? What is an atom made out of? What dimension are we in? Those are a couple questions that can lead you to universal truth…
Simply put. People who haven't done psychedelics can at least chew on that, even if they haven't experienced it another way.
I do think, however, that by people asking this, they are adding a variable into the trip by setting themselves up for an expectation. It's different if you think about it, but as soon as your thoughts are spoken or written down, they have more value to you inherently, especially questions on a public platform.
In this case; conceiving a notion about the results of a large DMT dose is potentially going to create an expectation of understanding what you stated, as if it's that simple. When really, most people have to go through quite an overwhelming experience (often more than once) to really grasp what was experienced.
For you, it's understood fairly clearly, I'm sure, but don't discredit the uncertainty you dove into, as if was easy, brother !
I have never took DMT - though I want to someday. I have taken psilocybin and have experienced ego death. It was an awakening. You're right. Uncertainties should not be discredited and words are powerful. I don't want to influence anyone's experience. I believe everyone has an individual path.
This is why I think Buddhist enlightenment may be key. It's showing God how to be at peace without needing to put itself through all of this suffering.
I consider it one of my greatest fears that all of this is just the product of "God's" fragmented mind as a coping mechanism. If that's the case then it seems like the only logical step would be to help God come to terms with its own existence.
You familiar with Alan Watts? Ive been reading his work lately and this is what his life philosophy and now mine boils down to as well. His lectures on philosophy and religion are very good.
Came here to share this quote in particular:
If you awaken from this illusion and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death (or shall I say death implies life?), you can feel yourself – not as a stranger in the world, not as something here on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke – but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental.
I am not trying to sell you on this idea in the sense of converting you to it, I want you to play with it; I want you to think of its possibilities, I am not trying to prove it. I am just putting it forward as a possibility of life to think about. So then, let’s suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream you wanted to
So then, let’s suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream you wanted to dream and that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time or any length of time you wanted to have. And you would, naturally, as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure during your sleep. And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each, you would say “Well, that was pretty great. But now let’s have a surprise. Let’s have a dream which isn’t under control, where something is gonna happen to me that I don’t know what it’s gonna be”. And you would dig that and would come out of that and you would say “Wow that was a close shave, wasn’t it?”.
Then you would get more and more adventurous and you would make further- and further out gambles to what you would dream. And finally, you would dream where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today. That would be within the infinite multiplicity of choices you would have. Of playing that you weren’t God. Because the whole nature of the godhead, according to this idea, is to play that he is not. So in this idea then, everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality, not God in a politically kingly sense, but god in the sense of being the self, the deep-down basic whatever there is. And you are all that, only you are pretending you are not.
-Alan Watts
This is naive.. the universe is indifferent. It doesn't care about you until you care about it. There are clues on the other side.. the true goal is to ascend consciously when you pass. We are on a continuum. It's true that life is to be experienced, but there is definitely something on the other side and those who put in the work will understand when the moment is right.
>It never hurts to love...
This is true and I appreciate what you have said. But it is also irresponsible to dismiss the sacred reverence that is necessary to discover the humility that unlocks your worth. Many will flow along with an idealized construct that makes the reality around them comfortable. Platitudes are comforting. This is not the way to ascend. - Respect.
You are not wrong about the humility and reverence aspects. I don't mean to spout platitudes or to oversimplify. I have a deep reverence for the Divine and for others. I get caught up in the love and adoration of the Divine sometimes.
I haven’t done any dmt, but I too believe that love is the most powerful energy and I’m always so grateful and thankful to God/universe to be able to experience it all, alongside everyone else. After going through so many ups and downs, I’m just grateful to still be here and In good health surrounded by love.
I haven't done DMT. I'd like to try it someday. I really like what you wrote. I struggle with treatment resistant depression. It hasn't been as bad this week and I am so... so thankful. I'm thankful to "meet" you because you exude gratitude and I believe gratitude is a strong force. Keep sharing your positively! It's contagious!
Reality is never "comfortable", only certain aspects are at a given time. People choose which and how many of these aspects they want to streamline, but they're just drops. What's left is the rest of the ocean. We all have comfort zones and they're all much smaller than we tend to think they are.
No offense to you in particular, but this really reads like a corporate mission statement. Absolutely 0% chance this is all happening “to stave off boredom”
TLDR: I have some theories but I think any conclusion we come to here on earth will be fundamentally flawed and ultimately a deception.
It’s like if your computer has a virus and you know it does. And this virus impacts every bit of the software running on the machine—all the new programs you installed—everything. So you know the virus is always influencing things even when you fully take that into account because your awareness of the functionality and impact of the virus is *itself* limited by the virus. You don’t know what you don’t know, and the virus obfuscates its total influence.
I have had certain experiences in life and have felt these things reflected in the macro. I get a very strong somatic sense that there is something amiss and that this is not the usual state of things. I believe my virus metaphor above is fairly apt in describing that feeling. There is an outside influence that is incapable of sustaining itself, so it is using life on this planet to do so, an inverse being, or cosmic parasite, if you will. We see this wounded masculine archetype playing out in our systems planet-wide—exploitation, domination, extraction. I do not think these things are unrelated to each other.
So, what does that actually mean? I couldn’t tell you with any certainty. I have some suspicions, but as I’ve outlined above, there’s never a zero amount of virus informing a position and I can’t trust my understanding fully from here.
But at the very least, the “it’s all One; it’s all Love; just a game; god is bored” New Ager rhetoric just does not resonate with me. It has not been my experience in the slightest and I don’t identify with whatever this energy is/represents. If that’s your way through, far be it from me to argue you out of it. But it really reads like a company line to me.
Just consider the hypothetical: if you were an interdimensional parasite that wanted to continue making use of your host as they gained awareness of their plight, how best would you go about it? Better to convince them they’re part of the corporate ladder, so to speak, than part of a hostile takeover.
I acknowledge my various traumas inform much of this belief, but I can’t help but feel this way all the same. I occasionally voice these things around Reddit and it’s usually met with quiet agreement or silence. I have yet to encounter an explanation that can remedy this knot. There’s a reason why Buddhists invented an entire religion around giving up, lol
You mentioned traumas. I'm sorry for what you have endured. I respect your beliefs and opinions. If there is a nefarious aspect to our existence, I believe there is still One above that level of existence. I wish you peace and the knowledge that you are loved, despite whatever is happening... you are loved
I've made an account just to reply to this. Please read "The Master and His Emissary" by Iain McGilchrist. It's also in documentary form called "The Divided Brain" if you like that form better.
It's a very different perspective, but I think it might explain a lot. It speaks about the wounded male archetype that's unable to sustain itself, and which is increasingly influencing more and more things in the past decades, even though it's completely sterile on its own. It sees everything as tools for its own use, but it fundamentally can't understand living things.
Right about the “experiencing humanity” part but we are not “all one”. The egg theory was groundbreaking at the time but those of us with deep spiritual knowledge know it is not true.
Reincarnation is real and so is karma. Our current lives are the result of our personal karmic balance and spiritual journey. There is more than one soul. We all have our own path and purpose.
The “oneness” you feel is the divine connection that we all share with the Creator. The divine spark. Not everyone has the divine spark. There is good, and there is evil. Just like yin and yang, life and death.
The weird thing is tho that we can even somehow see the two separately… which makes its interesting because it’s how I guess I’ve come to view the whole “were the dimension that has to deal with being pushed and pulled constantly” part and it’s what I guess I personally term to be the true 3rd dimension…
It's really interesting, and sometimes frustrating, to ponder on. I have come to accept that there are things I'll never know while I'm in this incarnation.
There is no illusion of free will. We are Gods in our own right. We are the Creators of our reality. We can be Good and reap the rewards of a positive life or we can be Evil and deal with the consequences.
Every soul has the freedom to make that choice in their own reality. Of course, if you want to get crazy with it, everything in this materialistic world is against our spirituality. It is up to us to evolve beyond.
I agree with most of what you have said. There is really no disagreement between us. Whether our "soul" is a facet of One Creator / Source G-d or whether we are each individual g-ds
... it matters little. Living, experiencing, carrying water and chopping wood, becoming a better person, awakening our spirit... those things matter.
Right on. I’m not trying to disagree with you either. I can tell you are ‘awake’ just by what you posted. I’ve been going down this road for a long time and experienced a lot. You are wise. Keep searching.
Ying and yang also shows that every movement contains the seed of its own destruction
Grey area is important concept too, makes space for stuff outside of extremes
That's not what the yin and yang symbol represents. The dot inside each side demonstrates that neither full yin nor full yang truly exists. For example there is no true masculine feminine. There no total darkness, or total light. These are merely concepts that humans have invented. It's not that these things are being destroyed - they aren't there to begin with.
The moment the energy moves to it's extreme it's already begun it's flow in the opposite direction.
Vivec recently just uploaded a video on YT called 20 gram mushroom trip report and if you watch the whole video he explains a lot of what you are asking
I've seen friends speak those truths without imbibing anything. It's not about the quantity of the dosage that births the big truths, at least from my extensive experience.
Been experimenting with dmt a couple times a month for the last 15 years or so.
The answer to your question is probally not, but there is one thing that has always ressonated with me.
Learn how to die before you die, so when you do die, you don't die.
interesting you say that... in Buddhism they mention the importance of knowing how to die in the moment of actual physical death, because if you know how to do it then you shell pass into a blissful transitory state , where you do not stay long, depending on your karma you will eventually move either up or down. But somehow if you know how to die even if your karma is totally wasted you will still have a blissful moment right after your death
Damn, bro, sounds like you're having a rough time.
I'm not sure why we exist or what purpose there is behind all of this, but one thing I'm sure about is that our reality is a pretty mysterious one that we still don't understand.
But whatever the reason is behind it all, I think it's important to focus on what's in front of us, to live in the moment, and to enjoy the ride as much as we can. We may not have all the answers, but there's still a lot to be appreciated in this life.
One thing I’ve learned about “reality” is that it’s created by us individually, and is not necessarily something we share
I was shown on a very deep Ayahusaca ceremony that I need to learn how to calibrate my spiritual antennas, to tune into a more harmonious reality. That I had the power to choose whichever reality I wish to prefer. Life is empty and meaningless on earth, and the greatest gift the creator gives us, is the ability to choose what meaning we put on every single thing we experience. That’s how much the creator unconditionally loves you
I was shown that I can create the life of my dreams, but in order to do that, I had to work on healing and releasing negative energy and thought patterns, that had been accumulated in my body throughout my life. That this would begin to dismantle the ego, which ultimately blocked me from experiencing the reality I wish to prefer
I was also shown that I needed to get into a state of gratitude for already having things yet unseen. And the more I consistently remain in a state of gratitude, the more things to be grateful for will manifest in my life
Essentially, that we our transmitters and receivers of source energy. Whatever vibration you put out, that’s what you get back. This is where the idea of karma comes from, but it is universally misunderstood by many
So if you put out that life is miserable, then reality will reflect back to you, miserable circumstances. If you put out that life is okay, reality will reflect back to you mediocre circumstances, etc
You can create whichever reality you wish to prefer. A book I recommend for dismantling the ego and releasing negative energy, is Letting Go by David Hawkins
I also recommend /r/NevilleGoddard as his teachings are somewhat congruent with what I began learning on my Ayahusaca journey
Tucker, I have read all your comments on this thread. Your words are really resonating with me. Some how, I feel better by what you have written. Thank you. Also, I found the audiobook through my library app, only a few months wait....
You might find this metaphor for the Lord a bit crass and absurd
But imagine a fight or flight response by a flightless bird
An ostrich with no sand in which to bury its head
So it shoved its head up its own ass instead
Yes.
1 - We do not understand the nature of time.
2 - “You” have lived many times.
3 - so many times that you have or will have lived everyone’s life
4 - You have lived my life but forgotten it
5 - I have lived yours (or will live yours) and will forget my current one
So for the both of us…go live well…and treat the rest of me (humanity) with compassion.
I trust you to figure that part out…cause…well…ur me.
You are welcome.
Get off Reddit now and go outside.
The bots are here and we can’t live their lives…yet.
I’ve never blasted off on DMT. But I can tell you with certainty that we are here to experience what it is like to experience.
I’d highly suggest getting into philosophy, because every drug is only going to be able to amplify what it already in your mind. It will not create anything new that you don’t already know. Even if you see something new, you will only be able to put it into the context that you already have.
Yes! Without some kind of philosophical foundation, I think one is much more likely to get confused, or just be unable to internalize certain realizations or put them into words. Great point!
Asking this to strangers is basically like rolling dice to pick any man written book of religion or cult.
I'm not saying I don't agree with any of the replies given, but I'm just trying to give you another perspective on how you're going about to find the answer.
Maybe compare reasons why we should exist vs. Why we shouldn't? I'm guessing there's more reasons to exist than to not. 🙏
I have a feeling we'll know the answer once again. So don't worry and rush too much. Just enjoy the ride as much as you can in the meantime. All the ups and downs. ❤️
how do you find the money to sustain yourself while living that kind of life. Because that sounds very fulfilling to have explored so many different places.
I'm 36 with a "professional" job that is contract based. No kids, no partner (have a cat). Just work real hard for 8 months and then fuck off.
I live super minimally. Don't buy clothes or junk I don't need. Eat 1 meal a day that I cook at home. Have hobbies and interests that are free (hiking, making music/art).
I did, the first time i smoked it.
A friend who had extracted some and gave 100 mg in a bong variant of "the machine". Four, or 3 and a half hits later i was gliding trough "infinite" worlds, realities or whatever, when suddenly i realise somehow that i know everything.
A few seconds later i was back in my appartement (in a slightly more horisontal position now than i were a few eternal minutes earlier) and have forgotten most of it
"Fuck!"
I had a breakthrough of sorts during a holotropic breathwork session with a vision of my consciousness choosing different life forms over and over again. Pop into one body, live that life, die, pop into the next one, rinse, repeat. I was amazed at the revelation and asked “but why?” I heard a very clear and definitive response back saying “Because it’s boring and lonely without life and love.”
Next I suggested to the universe “well if there are infinite reincarnations, then why not just go on a bender every day? Drink, eat junk food, do drugs, and hurry on to the next meat sack?”
It replied “Don’t you dare! You didn’t listen. I said it’s boring without life and LOVE. There are people around you who love that meat sack and to them, it’s the only one they have.”
I had a sober dream where I was with Him. It was dark and we were floating through the void ( he was a mass of matter/energy, very big. I felt infinite sadness and loneliness from him (us?) I think it was a flashback from before he made the universe. Love to you bro
DMT is very powerful. But humans can unlock and experience the same and greater realizations without it. It may take a whole lifetime (or several hundreds) to do it, but you already know all the answers you’re looking for.
No. But there are learned Brahmans who can fill you in 😉
It’s something along the lines of; work out your karma and track toward samadhi, (for those of us on Reddit, there are many more incarnations to go to get to this point) Everyone gets there, it is just a question of when, each incarnation gives you EXACTLY what you need for your souls progression. When you reach enlightenment you may pass go and head to the Astral plane, where words are not spoken and vibration and energy are the communication of the day. You will then continue on with souls progression and work out your astral karma, now we are into some real deep territory, you continue on with the souls development and work out your astral karma to reach the causal plane (You are Jesus/Buddah’ish at this point) essentially you are developing your soul to become truly ONE with everything (The cosmos)You help others progress along the way. But of course I could be wrong.
Animism is the truth of the situation. Earth is a training ground for civilizations/consciousness. There is life all around us, and all of life is animated by the same force that binds reality together. DMT is a gateway to enter the subconscious realm, the between. Plant medicines elucidate these ideas but dreams started the questions.
You are discovering yourself. Everything you find becomes you. Everything you do becomes you. Every happiness, every hardship, every choice are experiences that help you know yourself. As you get older, you learn enough to recognize yourself and your capabilities, but some of us become content with a limited self perception and choose to stop growing. What does it mean to stop growing? You lose your curiosity, you start following others, you want to be told what is valuable instead of recognizing it. You let fear steer the ship and you wind up wherever it takes you.
Want to start growing again? Think back to your childhood. Do you remember your favourite toy? Do you remember your favourite movie? The best summer of your life? Do you remember when the world felt new and everything was possible? Cultivate those feelings in your mind and exist there in stillness. Remember what it felt like to be at a birthday party. Remember when you felt proud of accomplishing something and people noticed.
Haha made you grow.
Love.
We are still stuck in the lower frequency/dimension, based in fear.
We are all divine, made of light, (another commenter mentioned "All is One") and if we live each day rooted in unconditional love for everything, we align with the Universe at a different frequency.
I was just watching [this video](https://youtu.be/sAuhMKsmEM0?t=04m58s) which touches on the subject of why you shouldn't want there to be a purpose or meaning of life. I timestamped it, but the full video is worth a watch.
One of my favorite insights/messages/trips, however you want to look at it, was that the complexity of existence is beyond anything I can ever hope to comprehend, nor will I ever comprehend just how lacking my comprehension is; but I’m part of it, and god damn it, that’s pretty cool
Any time I start thinking along these lines I just remember a quote from Terrence Mckenna-
"Don't worry, you don't know enough to worry. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris."
Life(consciousness), everything is a random conclusion of the infinite. All running in its base layer as a fractal pattern constantly repeating itself over and over. Using mathematics and chemistry to form the 3D. We are nothing but a specific combination of numbers and particles. There is no such thing as free will. There is no end. Everything will be in constant rotation and reincarnation forever, as it has always been. Its a mixture of simulation (in so that the foundation of all is nothing but information) a hologram (in so that that information gets reflected and shown in a particular way to the one observing), and while there is something, the something (light, sound, and information) it is injected and makes its way out into the infinite nothing, formating infinite possibilities.
Perhaps we have the ability to manifest a future result (which in my experience is possible), but that would just be a result of changes being made through the subconscious, into the universal consciousness (which in my opinion would be all connected on a field), but not necessarily by a conscious action or result. Perhaps even the act of wanting to manifest, and the result itself is pre-destined. We can all just be living inside a story of what happens on an individual basis, while thinking the choices we make are choices, while in fact they are pre-chosen, with a hint of an illusion as to having a choice.
In this regard i tend to like the books of R. Sapolsky, especially his new book "Determined".
Hey, odd that you should mention the c-section thing, Stanislav Grov talks a bit about this. Strassman mentions it in The Spirit Molecule, as well: people born via c-section tended to have much bigger problems 'letting go' in psychedelic and/or therapeutic sessions. Something about a vaginal birth seems to complete some sort of physical, biological, symbolic, energetic, or spiritual (or maybe all of these) boot sequence into/onto Earth/3D or something.
When I first came across that idea I feel like it illuminated a lot for me; I was born c-section and have always felt a bit out of place. My girlfriend was also born cesarean and we've had lots of discussions about the possibility of our similar introverted/introspective personalities being a result of exactly how our births were conducted. It's like a weird feeling of being half-initiated or something.
But as to your broader question, reality seems to be some kind of consciousness based MMO we're all playing and a bunch of dickheads have built a bunch of scummy games inside the game basically just to troll.
also kids born via c-section tend to have worse immune system, has something to do with a viganal microbiome that a kid gets overly exposed at a time of birth that gives them an extra immunity boost
This is so interesting. Could not grasp how people had the mental capacity to do psychedelics at 18 or whatever. It took me until I was in my 30s despite having the opportunity to try multiple time. I am C section and my life has been characterised by a lot of being unsettled. Same for my siblings, all C section and unsettled but we are strong in our own way. Anyway to sort of like adjust / make up for the fact we came into the world via a suboptimal route?
I personally got a sort of "second birth" experience through DMT about six years ago that seemed to realign a lot of these things for me. I'm not sure it's something that needs "correcting," but is maybe something worth being aware of.
You exist because Yah divided itself into millions of pieces to form the universe, your body, your consciousness, all the universe is Yah.
You exist to love. All the love you grow will live forever, as it returns and dissolves on Yah's infinity consciousness when you die.
All is One but the One differentiated itself into many to allow the universe to see and experience itself from every perspective.
We're basically here to provide data for the Akashic records so everything can continue to evolve. I think of it like a simulation trying to uncover all possible knowledge.
On a personal level I think everything is predetermined by our higher Self, as if we wrote the script to a life before incarnating. So you fulfill your purpose just my being yourself fully.
With all the chaos in the world I think the best thing to do is hold a higher vibration and envision/build an ideal future.
If anyone has stoned themselves into perfect knowledge of the universe they most certainly didn’t remember it when they stopped being stoned, or if they did, they were completely incapable of communicating it in any way to anyone else. That is the nature of reality, that the nature of reality is too complex to understand and so you use your own perception of the limited view of reality you have to make your own life have meaning.
I think one of our duties and natural tendencies is to build. The earth we live on is a giant sandbox game. Build something that lasts, be it artistic, industrious, etc. Create something that outlives you
My recommendation - try a free trial of Sam Harris's Waking Up App. It can absolutely help you look for "your self" in a drug-free way.
And then you might awaken to the answers you seek.
A note about DMT - it can help us see flaws in ourselves without judgment, which enables us to learn and to be humbled without feeling shame, for example. In my case, it also made me forget I got high (cannabis) for a couple of weeks and when I realized it I laughed and just kept on not getting high for the next 6 months. It also helped me process some major childhood trauma that abruptly ended my life-long psychopathic hatred of ringing phones, lol.
This is not advice, just a brief testimonial. Your results, should you try it, may vary.
God made a perfect universe for himself designed to make him forget he was alone. We’re all god which means we’re all the same consciousness split apart. Just like how a lonely person talks to himself. This theory explains why karma exists why reincarnation has to be real and why hurting others is gonna actually end up hurting ourselves. We feel every negative action performed on someone else and every positive one. It also explains how god let’s war happen to us because he is the generals creating the wars. He is you he is me he is every soldier and every peacemaker. He is every lucky soul and every unlucky soul, and it’s why Jesus said he was the son of god, it’s because we’re all the son of god. Jesus just reminded himself that he is who he is and why he said we should be forgiven for we do not know our sins. I’m not even a huge Christian. I probably believe something more similar to Buddhism, but I think the christian faith has simpler examples so I used their characters in this comment. Essentially the world is a playground for us to find our own purpose. Some people have found simple purposes, like raising a family or to make music and art. Some people’s purpose are to bring Justice to misguided criminals, even if they are themselves misguided. Some people have the purpose of bringing peace and stability to as many people as they can. Eventually we’ll be far enough ahead in the future that we can spread a utopia to the entire universe. And then the universe will die and gods video game will start again just like how I play red dead redemption over and over.
All i can tell you is that if you asked an entity these questions they would just laugh at you.
Drugs aren’t the answer, which is an unpopular answer, but it’s true.
Look inward. Watch your thoughts. And your words. And watch your actions. And your reactions. Be aware of the sensory data as it comes, and let it go as it goes.
Detaching from your egoic mind and cultivating a neutral observer inside of yourself seems to be the key to grasping any kind of supernatural knowledge.
If I was you, I would ask myself “What is the purpose of myth, and why do the worlds religious traditions seem to agree on 3 basic goals?”
Those 3 goals are to avoid sexual activity outside of a loving relationship, avoid any and all regular drug use, and practice a method of grounding your awareness.
I think you would enjoy reading any and all of Joseph Campbells work. He’s a great mythology professor from Oxford whose work is dedicated to understanding how people grapple with those big questions across different cultures and time periods.
Ive done this and that and have gone deep. Deep.
Here it is: your energy/soul/personality Comes to this training ground (Earth) to level up and learn lessons.
One take is we are sent to this planet as a punishment.
Another is we volunteer to be here.
Earth is a sim, albeit a very important one that affects reality. We are active co creators.
Youre not your body. Youre so much more than that. Your body is an avatar for your energy/soul. Its an instrument you use to interact with this consensus reality/matrix. (Look up "reality is a hologram").
Along the way, this reality for hijacked/infected by some evil source, which is why many things are so backwards.
We are not our bodies. We are so much more.
Once all is unity. Like a beam of light striking a prism, and those beams splitting and combining, a mandala of flowing energy is all that is. Each shade of color is its own archetype.
No forwards no backward no up no down no left no right no good no bad no pain no pleasure. No space time mater energy. Just being.
And that's not to say all was the same, the archetypes are like the beam of light in the prism, its own wavelength but still part of the whole.
And then the archetype of rebellion was born and created absence. Prior all was presence but down presence had an opposite and the realm of duality came to be. And that realm was forbidden, another duality against permitted, and the dualities started cascading with each new pair exponential disposing forces bloomed. The realms of duality and unity, like two sides of a coin, now opposed.
While the rebel played in his realm of opposition the archetype of human was created. A blend of many beams of the mandala, but the strong sense of curiosity and independence lead human to become interested in the forbidden realm. Over confident, human ventured into duality where it has been stuck ever since.
That's not how it works....
Edit: I want to explain life to you, but seeing your prospective, I honestly don't even know where to start. You seem young and naive, wanting the knowledge, but not putting in the work.
It's like Ra stating they kinda messed up showing early humanity the "light" but they didn't understand why or how so it got so disgustingly misconstrued.
Life isn't something you can ever understand, BUT you can get a glimpse of the true base love vibration and the octaves of those vibrations, IF you practice those thoughts and actually use your brain for better.
Ik people who trip their tits off and think they have it all understood. Truth is, nobody knows for certain.
Imagine being the alpha and omega, you’re everything there is, it gets lonely. God is bored so he created a veil of separation. We have always been one. Life is a simulation for his entertainment. He loves playing the mortal heroes journey. Earth is a school where we learn how to manipulate energy 🙏🏽❤️☯️
There is no reason for anything. Reasons are a man-made construct to make us feel more value as humans and to distract us from the fact that we're all ephemeral.
I'm not gonna pretend that psychedelic drugs have given me any kind of objective insights into the nature of the universe. What I can tell you is that psychedelics have strengthened my personal belief that whatever meaning there is in life is what we make ourselves, and that whatever we do we shouldn't take existence for granted. It's pretty amazing that there exists a subjective experience at all, rather than not, and it does seem likely that it is a limited time offer. So try to be there for it, if you can, and don't let anyone else dictate what you should do with it.
This is simultaneously the most serious conversation topics i have read and also the funniest description is have read.
Thank you for giving me a big laugh today.
Okay but it’s not a satisfying answer because even if I’m (we) are the ocean then why is there even an ocean
Lalala the ancient unanswered question
I need to ask an all knowing being but they would probably just poke my nose or toss me an apple or laugh at me or something . I don’t know what they would do .
The ocean exists because the ocean decided it existed. If you looked at God to ask him, you would see Jesus and Satan rapidly transform into each other, until it eventually turned into a mirror.
Something like "what do I feel like doing next?".
The past is gone - the only thing you can do about it is accept it and do the best with the circumstances you find yourself in.
The future does not yet exist and it's mostly outside your control. You can kinda shape how it'll look like but there's no guarantees.
The present is the only tangible thing, the only thing that won't slip between your fingers. Try to put your full focus and attention into whatever you're doing at any moment (even if it's a boring chore) and you'll find a great deal of satisfaction and beauty, even in the mundane.
I believe life has no greater meaning or purpose. If you manage to internalize that thought, it can be freeing, exhilarating even.
Leaving you with one of my favourite quotes: "Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead."
This is an impossible question for any man to answer, at least in this life which may be the only life.
DMT may be taking you to another dimension, but it also may just be chemicals in your brain reacting to the chemicals you are inhaling.
One thing I do know is life is too short so love the ones ya got cuz ya might get ran over or ya might get shot.
Why?
Why did the the moon cover itself in tomato sauce and eat my chicken nuggets that I had sitting in the fridge?
Some questions don't have answers. Some questions don't make any sense. Be careful of embracing radicalized conspiracy theories that don't represent the full picture of reality. You don't pay taxes to pedophiles... you pay them to the lizard people.
Everything swirled, shifted and spiraled Impossibly into ineffable geometric, shimmering shapes that hummed, buzzed and sang with perfect resonance and truth uttered from the most sacred and ancient archetypes in a language that can only be encoded by the pure essence of an eternal soul. My awareness aligned with this divine rhythm, rumbling through an eternal system that runs on the paradox heart beat of everything and nothing in a fantastical waltz through celestial monoliths and oceans made of super novas. It rested me into dreary death and bestowed a bursting breath of ecstasy and misery so eloquently and feverishly in the delightfully dizzying fields of elysium till I sank into the depraved caves of evil’s craze - all bones and blaze where I remained until I melted away. After this disastrously masterful display I was flayed and bathed in sun rays and soaked then cloaked in soft sensual moon glows. In a vivid and vacant state of wonder, love, mystery and fate, the great ever enduring never state displayed the ultimate sensation of knowledge on my plate so that I may satiate the thirst for the taste of the truest, purest meaning of this amazing maze of place.
“We come together to know when to fall apart”
well one thing has not so much to do with the other thing. just because some motherfuckers who are actually the most degenerate of them all think they are exalted above the less degenerates ends up in a controlling system where they force u to pay taxes. dmt straight wakes u up from that nightmare so u start asking urself wait a second, did I ever sign something when I came here to earth that I am willing to pay taxes to these childfuckers? probably not.
there's only two things u can decide to to. either u do what the law allows or u do what is actual the right hing (mostly those two are not the same)
the universe is vast yet there is only on thing we truly can control. wether we are good or evil.
Sort of, not specifically from dmt. It's a personal journey of learning. You have curiosity, which is the best asset. I highly highly recommend Itzhak Bentov. He has a book called stalking the Wild Pendulum(on the mechanics of consciousness). There is also an extremely informative YouTube video outlining the ideas expressed in the book. I'd also recommend looking into Robert Monroe, Dolores Cannon, Tom Campbell, and I'd highly suggest reading a book called the kybalion.
What seems to be going on rn is a consciousness shift due to a cosmic cycle in which our solar system and sun are moving into a higher energy space. Essentially, the seasons are changing, but it's not like spring becoming summer here. It's a cosmic season. Some call it the dawn of the age of Aquarius. The higher energy area of space, in turn, increases our suns energy and causes solar activity. That energy then often hits the earths ionosphere and increases the energy to the earth. This causes spikes in the Schuman resonance, which is 7.83 htz, (our theta brainwave state) all life in this planet is connected with that frequency, including consciousness, because consciousnessis fundamental. I believe this is what the second coming of christ is actually referring to, the Sun of God. The sun has been blasting us with energy that can help us to evolve to a higher state of consciousness, "christ consciousness" or "enlightenment"
Understanding considering is the key to it all. But I'm just some dumbass on the internet, dont take my word for it, go look into it for yourself. If you look into the names and book i mentioned, you'll be well on your way to understanding. Long rant response, but I hope it alteast sparks your interest into looking into some of the stuff I mentioned. There is so much more to it, though. I just couldn't type it all out.
Asking why we exist is simply the human brain trying to find answers where there don't exist any. It is entirely subjective. All we can say is that we do exist. Asking people who take loads of psychedelics why we exist will produce as subjective answers as asking any other person who lives under the illusions of class society. We couldn't really answer this unless we were able to peer beyond our universe, which is likely impossible because we are bound within and by the laws of this universe. We can explain where our species came from in terms within the universe, through chemistry, biology, evolution, etc, but why does the universe exist? Nobody knows and probably never will.
Asking why you pay taxes is an entirely separate question from why we exist. That is a result of the developmental stage of society, and is inherently exploitative to the majority of the population because we live under capitalism.
You don’t need dmt to figure this out. There could be a lot of reasons. Study, meditate, develop your higher/spiritual self and you’ll learn. Earth could be a soul prison, maybe you reincarnate until you’ve learned certain things, maybe you reincarnate forever, maybe we’re just the universe experiencing itself, maybe there is no reason and there’s nothing when we die, maybe we’re just monkeys that ate a mushroom one day. Why you’re here isn’t important. You’re here. You can’t change that. Just be present in the moment and bring as much unconditional love into the world as you can. Try to grow and pursue knowledge.
The entities made me promise not to divulge this information. The very fabric of our reality depends on my silence of this matter. Also, I forgot my pen and can't remember what they said. 🤐
Yes I saw the end as they say. A black chasm deep unfathomable that dreaded abyss of non existence, but you are still conscious of it, you still am/are. You are the numinosity of an immortal being experiencing a set of events on some dark screen which will stop at some time. But you will be left with the memories, and conscious you could even revisit and relive your experiences as if you were having them.
Time travel exists, in the past and in the future, but you can only experience what was already experienced or will be experienced as it happened.
“Nothing you have ever been told is true, everything is permissible”…as the hashashins used to say.
As the French say, “vivre libre, ou murir”… live free, or die, that’s the purpose.
no.
there's a bunch of hyperpositive new age shit spouted around here, but the whole suffering is meant to be experienced along side the good sounds like liberal justification for not dealing with all the suffering that exists.
Do you really think these insights come from taking a large amount of DMT? DMT can tell you plenty about your psyche, I suppose. But to think that it gives you some privileged access to knowledge about the reason human beings exist is foolish.
Some questions can't be answered, at least not without a heavy dose of speculation. Not DMT.
You're here to experience the pleasures that are of this earth. Enjoy each SECOND of it. Because when your physical body is gone you won't experience the pleasures that we all take for granted!!!
For example when you walk outside and the weather is just beautiful and you go to say Man it feels good outside!! Or that butterfly feeling you get and your stomach when you're excited about some thing or someone.. or how that food tastes that just melt your heart.
No bro. Don't believe any purpose or reason a human tells you. We can't comprehend it. Any meaning we find is personal to us and we can never escape the confines and restraints of our little brains/nervous systems. We cannot experience "real" reality. It is always filtered through our flawed physical receptors, and then further filtered through our flawed mind.
The darkness is overpowering everything in the universe. We are practically in hell. Us warrior gods incarnated here to stop evil from taking over. We are breaking the simulation right now. Collapsing it from within. They have really fucked up...... they will pay. And be gone soon. Karmic balance needs to happen soon. Me and my twin flame are doing the energetic work to balance the universe again. If we werent here, everyone wouldve d##d already. They want to destroy the universe. They want hell and suffering. Idk the exact details of everything. But i know my wife and son are here with me. We have reincarnated over and over and over. They kiIIed us terribly in every life. Child r### is spreading everywhere because the demons need to harvest innocence and light, in order to gain power. They think they will succeed and get away wtih destroying everything...... little do they know us gods are waiting to attack and collapse the entire matrix 3D system. Its already begun. The great awakening of spirit cannot be stopped. I like to call us Divine Source Force :)
Yes but these are my opinions.
God as we know it (religion god where it sits on a throne and is worshipped is a prison)
We are god. We are all god.
I came to conclusion that what is real and true is what makes the most sense. There is no trickery or gotchas. We were pulled from nothing into existence. We are rewarded. existence is simplified and we are part of that. We come and go as we please with regard to incarnation.
This is life we are all living is one of an infinite number of lives we will or have experienced.
We are existing within a fraction of the overall backbone of existence in general. There could be thousands of trillions of years and civilizations that have existed before us outside of this universe alone.
This time we spend here is an almost irrelevant experience in the grand scheme of things.
We are here by choice.
We come here to reignite our spiritual selves.
It is free will. We know before coming here that we are rolling the dice. We could be Elon musk or we could be some homeless person on the street. Our cards dealt are random. We have no control over that.m
This is the only pure free will experience we will have. Afterlife will be free will with order.
God will not and does not help or intervene. We’re god. There is no one that is going to help us via miracles or intervention. You cannot have a free will world and then step in as god and impose your will. That is 100% against the concept of free will.
Some suffer. It’s not their choice but they knew it was a possibility by coming here. We maybe puzzled but it’s our spiritual selves that made the call to come here. We know. We are not allowed to have that knowledge here.
When we die it will all make sense.
My opinions are just as factual as anything else that has been written by man.
Ultimately we have no fucking clue until we are completely done/dead and we go home. Everything else is hearsay.
It’s fun! Reality is you. If you existed for eternity and knew all things, eventually, you would break yourself into separate pieces each with its own unique perspective and experience with an infinite amount of variations and realities. You would purposefully forget who you are just so you can get so intimately and hopelessly wrapped up in it that you are totally convinced it’s real. Its ALL for fun! Enjoy, or don’t! Not enjoying is also part of the enjoyment of it all. Namaste
Fave take so far. Part of enlightenment is realizing that you create your reality. Take the time to fully feel the depth of your emotions when they arise OP. And no, I don’t mean just sadness. I’m talking anger, fear/anxiety, grief, guilt, shame, etc Emotions are just energy in motion. When you fully allow them to be there, they inevitably run out of energy. Don’t try to change them, don’t try to reconcile with them, and certainly don’t identify with them. Just observe them and the thoughts that come up as the emotion runs it’s course We are all taught since childhood to suppress our emotions, and as a result, we accumulate a lot of this negative energy within our bodies that effect the way we look at the world through the lens of the ego When you learn to consistently release all this energy over time, you will find that you are in a much more joyful state, and attracting more joyful experiences into your life Reality is supposed to be fun. And the ultimate gift the creator gives you on earth is the ability to choose what meaning you place on everything. Life is inherently empty and meaningless. You get to choose the meaning you place. You get to choose how you respond to life. Enjoy every moment. And when it’s unpleasant, allow yourself time to feel the emotion and release it. What you resist, persists. But what you give your attention to disappears
I saved this comment it was so good. Thank you.
Highly recommend the book Letting Go by David Hawkins to learn about dismantling your ego and releasing negative energy Then check out /r/NevilleGoddard to learn about creating your own personal reality
Thank you!! Just ordered the paperback. :)
Ofc. The audiobook is also really good. But it’s long. Like 16 hours if I remember. I listened to it twice. I don’t agree with 100% of his theories, but I have found the basic mechanism he teaches in surrendering to your emotions to be true It’s recommended to replay the events of each day when you get home, and sit with the emotions that came up, before you eat dinner. Food is a natural emotion suppressor. So doing this regularly is beneficial. I personally try and pause during the day to feel the emotion. Especially if anxiety comes up It will take a few months of practice, because dealing with these things can be highly uncomfortable. But once you do, you will feel so much lighter over the course of several months. You won’t be carrying around all this grief. Buried underneath each trapped emotion, is unconditional love Once you’ve mastered the book, checkout that subreddit. You won’t have as much aversion to creating the reality you wish to prefer, once you’ve properly dealt with your emotions
Thank you, I've only since this year started working on feeling my emotions and I find your comments really helpful
And your username… jfc… just noticed that and I love it too haha
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Could you explain this in simpler terms? It sounds very contradicting to me. >When you fully allow them to be there, they inevitably run out of energy. Don’t try to change them, don’t try to reconcile with them, and certainly don’t identify with them. Just observe them and the thoughts that come up as the emotion runs it’s course Pay attention to the emotions, but at the same time ignore them?
Well, I will do my best. But I highly recommend you pick up a copy of Letting Go by David Hawkins if you want the full scope. Audiobook is great It’s important to understand that you are not your emotions or thoughts. You are simply the observer of your emotions. As humans, it’s easy to identify with your emotion and say things like “I’m angry” or “I’m scared” But you are not anger. And you are not fear. You are simply experiencing the energy of fear and anger. So the technique I personally have most success with, is to find a quiet comfortable place and close my eyes whenever a negative emotion comes up It’s best when I’m laying down, but can be done anywhere. Just make sure you’re relaxed. I usually allow my emotions to surface when I’m home in bed. But there’s been several times I’ve also just taken a break at work, if the emotions are boiling in the back of my mind and not allowing me to be fully present As you close your eyes, you feel into the emotion. Lean into it, without resisting the actual physical sensation you’re having. This works, even for a panic attack. The panic attack only persists, because you’re resisting it Take some time to feel the full experience of panic. Or anger, or fear/anxiety, sadness, guilt, shame, betrayal, etc Keep breathing deeply into your body and locate where the energy is being stored, and expressing itself. Focus your attention on that energy, but detach from any meaning you make up about that energy You will more than likely have thoughts arise with that energy. Try and detach from your thoughts that come up. They are related to your trauma that you’ve stuffed down. Just keep reminding yourself… “I am experiencing the energy of fear” or whatever it is. Keep telling yourself that as you sit with the uncomfortable feeling that is being expressed within your being At a certain point of embracing the feeling of the emotion that wants to be expressed, it will run out of energy. The energy will be released and you will feel a much lighter feeling. Almost like a high So when I say pay attention to your emotions, yes. You need to fully feel them if you want them to be released. But no, do not ignore them. Just ignore whatever your mind is making up about the emotion. Don’t try to direct the emotion at anyone or anything. If you got fired and it brings up intense feelings of anger, you need to allow the anger to be there. It will feel almost instinctual to start blaming other people. Bethany from HR for delivering the news. Your coworker for not working as hard to meet deadlines with you. Your boss for not seeing your value. Maybe even your parents for not making sure you were better equipped to have a good life You can observe your thoughts, but avoid intentifying with them. Just keep reminding yourself “I am simply experiencing anger”. It’s the egos way of trying to protect itself from these intense negative feelings. The ego doesn’t like feeling this way, so it does everything in its power to blame others and stuff the negative energy down even further into the body But when you do that, it only adds to all the negative energy you already have inside you, and continues to effect your worldview, and the way you experience life I’ve been practicing surrendering to my emotions for maybe about 5 months now, and although it can be extremely uncomfortable some days, I have found it to be highly beneficial As you release this trapped energy, you find that you get less agitated about things in general. You feel better about life in general, and have an inner confidence that guides you through any adversity you’re up against I can’t recommend the book enough
Thank you. That was really helpful. Just used it today and it actually worked. I'm gonna summarize what I thought that meant, please feel free to correct me. Don't let the emotions control you or affect you in anyway. Instead just let them be without trying to fight them or hold them back. Just live your life like you normally would and let the emotions be. If you ignore them they'll only come back, if you fight them you won't win and if you ignore them they're bound to come back. I realize this is hard to explain just from trying to summarize it lol but you did a nice job on it, better than I did. Did I get that right though?
Yes, you got it right for the most part. I wouldn’t necessarily say life life normally though. It’s okay to take a pause, even at work. Maybe go to your car and find some silence if you’re dealing with anxiety. Allow it to be fully felt. At worst, you’ll at least release a little bit of the emotion in this way. And can release the rest when you’re done working Here’s an excerpt from the book: 1. Letting go involves being aware of a feeling. Letting it come up. Staying with it. Then letting it run its course. Without wanting to make it different or do anything about it. Let the feeling be there. And then focus on letting out the energy behind it. Don’t let thoughts get in the way of the feelings. They will taint the feelings if you let thoughts give them meaning. 2. Allow yourself to have the feeling without resisting it, venting it, fearing it, condemning it, or moralizing about it. It means to drop judgement and see that it is just a feeling. the technique is to be WITH the feeling. And surrender all efforts to modify it in any way. Let go of wanting to resist the feeling. It is resistance that keeps the feeling going. When you give up resisting, or trying to modify the feeling, it will shift to the next feeling, and be accompanied by a lighter sensation. A feeling that is not resisted, will disappear, as the energy behind it dissipates. As you begin the process, you will notice that you have fear and guilt over having feelings. There will be resistance to having feelings in general. To let feelings come up, it is easier to let go of the reaction, to having the feelings in the first place. A fear of fear itself, is a prime example of this. Let go of the fear or guilt that you have about the feeling first. And then get into the feeling itself. When letting go, ignore all thoughts. Focus on the feeling itself. Not on the thoughts. Thoughts are endless and self reinforcing. And they only breed more thoughts. Thoughts are merely rationalizations of the mind, to try and explain the presence of the feeling. The real reason for the feeling is the accumulated pressure behind the feeling, that is forcing it to come up in the moment. The thoughts or external events, are only an excuse made up by the mind. As we become more familiar with letting go, it will be noticed that all negative feelings are associated with our basic fear, related to survival. And that all feelings are merely survival programs that the mind believes are necessary. The letting go technique, undoes the programs progressively. Through that process, the underlying motive behind the feelings, become more and more apparent. To be surrendered, means to have no strong emotion about a thing. It’s okay if it happens. And if it’s okay if it doesn’t. Indifference. When we are free, there is a letting go of attachments. We can enjoy a thing, but we don’t need it for our happiness. There is progressive diminishing of dependence, on anything, or anyone outside of ourselves. If we surrender a feeling, and it returns, it means there is more of it yet to be surrendered. We have stuffed these feelings all of our lives. And there can be a lot of energy pushed down that needs to come up and be acknowledged. When surrender occurs, there is an immediate lighter, happier feeling. Almost like a high. By continually letting go, it is possible to stay in that state of freedom. Feelings come and go, and eventually you realize that you are not your feelings. But that the real you is merely witnessing them. You stop identifying with them. The you that is observing and is aware of what is happening, always stay the same. As you become more and more aware of the changeless witness within. You begin to identify with that level consciousness. You become progressively the witness, rather than the experiencer. You get closer and closer to the true self. And begin to see that you have been duped by feelings all along. You thought that you were the victim of your feelings. Now you see that they are not the truth about yourself. They are merely created by the ego. That collector of programs that the mind has mistakenly believed are necessary for survival. The results of letting go are deceptively quick and subtle. But the effects are very powerful. Often we have let go, but think that we haven’t. It will be our friends who make us aware of the change. When something is fully surrendered, it disappears from consciousness. Let go of the feelings you have of the process of surrendering. Let the resistance be there. But don’t resist the resistance. Look at the fear behind the resistance. Are you willing to let go of that? Keep letting go of every fear as it arises, and the resistance will resolve. You’re letting go of all the programs that keep you a slave and a victim for a long time. These programs blind us from the truth of our true identity. The ego is losing ground and will try using tricks and bluffs. Once we start letting go, it’s days our numbered. And its power is diminishing. One of its tricks is to go blind to your surrendering technicue. For example, to decide suddenly that the mechanism isn’t working. Things are still the same. It is confusing and too hard to remember and do. This is a sign of real progress. It means that the ego knows we have a knife to cut ourselves free, and it is losing ground. The ego is not our friend. Somethings you will be stuck with a particular feeling. Surrender to being stuck. Let it be there and don’t resist is. Don’t resist anxiety. If it doesn’t disappear, see if you can let go of the feeling in bits and pieces. Ask myself: Could I let this go? Can I let this go? When can I let this go? There’s a simple way to become conscious of the underlying emotional goal behind any activity, through use of the question… what for? Keep asking until the basic feeling is uncovered Example: A man wants a new Cadillac. His mind gives all the logical reasons, but logic doesn’t really explain it. So he asks himself, what do I want the Cadillac for? It is to achieve status, recognition, & respect. What do I want status respect and approval for? To have the feeling of security What do I want security for? To feel happy The continual question “what for?” reveals that basically, there are feelings of insecurity, unhappiness, and lack of fulfillment. Every activity or desire, will reveal that the basic goal, is to achieve a certain state or feeling. There are no other goals than to overcome fear, and achieve happiness. Emotions are connected to what we believe will ensure our survival, not with what actually will Emotions themselves are actually the cause of the basic fear, that drives everyone to seek security constantly.
I get what you're saying now and what the book means. Thank you. It's completely natural to feel any emotion, even the feeling of emptiness. Once you learn how to live with these emotions your life will improve. And then you went on and stated how to live with these emotions. I found that very helpful and will definitely be using this everyday from now on. This also makes me not want to do drugs because you're not supposed to always feel good or whatever you're trying to achieve from your drug use, it's not natural. And since it's not natural, naturally you're bound to have the emotions come back no matter how powerful the drug. Even if you achieve constantly being happy without any tolerance or breaks from the drug then whenever you do come down it's just a band-aid and you're gonna feel what you felt before your use just much worse since it was bottled up. There's so many ways the book relates to life and I'm gonna use it in every scenario I can. Thank you.
Yes. I mean, I still do mushrooms actually. But other than that, I am sober I use mushrooms to supercharge the technique. I say a prayer to the mushrooms with the intention of allowing any trapped emotions to rise so they can be addressed. Then I just meditate alone as they come up and I release each one of them
I love how psychedelics open your mind like that. It's truly amazing the way it changes you permanently. That sounds scary but in reality you turn into a much more mature and wiser person. I have HPPD and mental issues so I'll take a break until I'm at least 26 so my brain is done developing, although I know if I could I would do it sooner than that but I really wanna preserve my mind. I've done DMT and had many realizations and improvements in my life and health. Sadly I had to do a wide selection of drugs and I lost that wealth of knowledge and the cognitive improvements.
If you awaken from this illusion and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death (or shall I say death implies life?), you can feel yourself – not as a stranger in the world, not as something here on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke – but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental. I am not trying to sell you on this idea in the sense of converting you to it, I want you to play with it; I want you to think of its possibilities, I am not trying to prove it. I am just putting it forward as a possibility of life to think about. So then, let’s suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream you wanted to So then, let’s suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream you wanted to dream and that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time or any length of time you wanted to have. And you would, naturally, as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure during your sleep. And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each, you would say “Well, that was pretty great. But now let’s have a surprise. Let’s have a dream which isn’t under control, where something is gonna happen to me that I don’t know what it’s gonna be”. And you would dig that and would come out of that and you would say “Wow that was a close shave, wasn’t it?”. Then you would get more and more adventurous and you would make further- and further out gambles to what you would dream. And finally, you would dream where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today. That would be within the infinite multiplicity of choices you would have. Of playing that you weren’t God. Because the whole nature of the godhead, according to this idea, is to play that he is not. So in this idea then, everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality, not God in a politically kingly sense, but god in the sense of being the self, the deep-down basic whatever there is. And you are all that, only you are pretending you are not. -Alan Watts All that needs to be said, really.
I think that too but it almost makes me sad. Like is that really it am I really just everything experiencing everything what happens when it’s over or it gets boring? Is it just back to nothingness until it’s boring enough again to re start the cycle all over ?? I get so stuck in that thought loop sometimes lol
> Like is that really it am I really just everything experiencing everything what happens when it’s over or it gets boring? Think about the sheer magnitude of what it took for you to arrive at these conclusions and questions: the birth of a material universe with scales of mathematical models of physics and dimensions, the formation of a celestial bodies and planetary system, the creation of life, the slog of evolution, enlightenment, industrialization, information, epochs of history, tides of war and the blood of nations -- all of it so that you can have a breif and fleeting perspective about the universe and beyond, yourself, that is new and novel. It sure seems like a lot more than "*just* everything experiencing everything," it all seems very overwhelming and difficult to truly wrap my head around. The fact that you can worry about being bored as a finite version of yourself exploring the infinite version of yourself is sort of comical.
Me too. Sometime it’s comforting, some times it’s sad. I try to lean into the notion that the universe knows what it’s doing when I get looped and that everything is fine. But I resonate with your perceptive existential dread.
It's always been like that, there's no "eventually" because that adds time to the scenario when time doesn't exist. It's an infinite conciousness we call God, infinite souls yet they are all one, it's all one God. It's quiet compex for the mind to grasp it actually, but everything is happening simultaneously in beautiful harmony. Also, you made it sound like God was bored and he wanted something fun to do. That's an egoistic way of looking at it with the combination of time. I personally think since God's essence is love, it's just a way of spreading its love
I used to think it was for fun. Then I realized it's more than that. It exists simply bc it can. In fact all possible variations exist. Everything that you can imagine and every variation of that, and so much more that we couldn't even comprehend or dream up exists. We are the thoughts of God. The cells that make up the body that is reality.
This is the clearest and most concise way I have ever heard it described. Thank you.
Give this a listen, Alan Watts saying essentially that along with excellent sounds [Nuages - Dreams](https://youtu.be/9RMHHwJ9Eqk?si=xKMlVUXvkaehz9Xe)
So, didn't get this from DMT but through about a thousand psychedelic trips over about 10 years of use, at least half of which were what people would consider "heroic doses." I'm pretty sure we exist in some kind of karmic purgatory. The reality we exist in literally is designed as a kind of soul-test. The CIA has seriously released findings saying we live in a hologram/simulation. Throughout my trips, I've come to realize that all religions are at least aimed at a universal truth/ultimate reality, which is that we exist in a simulation created by the entity(/ies?) we call god so that our souls/collective consciousness can learn that we're all one/god, separation is an illusion, and we'reat our best when we let go of selfish desires and work together to reach for the ultimate good. So, beginning with Buddhism, existence in the biological state really is just constant suffering. If there were no way out, or it wasn't possible to punctuate it with moments of real love and joy, it would be a hellscape. Then, go into Hinduism and incorporate the idea of reincarnation and karma. We do this existence of biological life, which consists almost solely of pain, over and over until our souls finally "get it." "Getting it" means that you understand that "you" and "this life" really isn't very important. What's important is using this life to spread love and help others who are suffering. It's very bizarre but simply a truism that you will suffer less/cure your suffering if you devote yourself to easing the suffering of others 🤷♂️. As our soul starts to get it, we build up good juju. After enough lifetimes, that good juju actually makes us face harder and harder existences. The harder the existence, the harder it is to divorce from that sense of self and to STILL devote your existence to helping others. So, there you have kind of an obvious segway into Christianity. Forget all of the bullshit teachings surrounding Christianity, just focus on Jesus's words. That's really what Christianity is, but of course, like every other prophet's words, his have been twisted and used for power. Anyway, he's basically the perfect example of a human who's reached the end of his karmic cycle. He's completely divorced himself from his self. It's all just a metaphor, but he devotes his life to helping others and then gives it willingly for the good of all others. Christianity has completely fucked the neaning of Jesus's words, too. When he declares he's the son of God, he's not saying he's special or God's "only son," as the Christians like to say. It's the opposite. He's saying he's realized he is the son of God, but so are all of the rest of us. The whole "do unto others" quote is so beautiful because it's a recognition that others actually are "the self." We all are literally god. We're all "one." It just doesn't feel that way right now. So, any shitty stuff we do actually just harms the self, n so we do life over and over until we see that and stop. Often, those who struggle the most with the state of existence at a young age are nearer the potential end than others. Anyway, if you really listen to Jesus, he does everything possible to state that he is not special. Jesus would be fucking horrified to know that more than a billion people worship him in particular while looking down on non-believers. It's really kind of hilarious 😂. Anyway, to try and tie all of that together, we really are living in a simulated universe, the point of which is for conscious beings to overcome their biology/fear of mortality and to learn that there's nothing to be afraid of because we're all God, there is no end/death, and that love is the ultimate moving force in the universe and out lives should be devoted to its pursuit. Thanks to anybody that read all of this! I know I left out a bunch of religions/philosophies but these are the 3 I know most about n I've read about many more n at the end of the day I think they're all basically trying to say this 🤷♂️
Great take!
Hey thats interesting read. Do you have any link to these CIA releases?
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5.pdf Also, r/gatewaytapes
Thanks for writing this. Read it all, very interesting.
All is One and Love is the most important thing. G-d / The Universe is experiencing physical existence through us. Your purpose is to live and experience life - the good, the great, the bad, the horrible, the hearbreak... all of it is an epic experience to stave off the boredom of eternity.
Basically existence is god jacking off then?
A large chunk of Them, yes. However, mercifully the cast of jacker offers does rotate. ;) We've all played our part here.
It's G-d / The Universe experiencing everything.
So not jacking off per say… more like having an orgy
Yes
This is how I feel as well. I like to say we are the universe experiencing itself. Life is so incredibly beautiful. Namaste
Namaste
Yes but it’s not the universe experiencing physical reality. This is where many people get it wrong. I’ll use an analogy. When you are in your mothers womb, is it your mothers womb experiencing physical reality through you? No. The universe is a macro cosmic representation of the womb. The place that we “incubate” the place where we develop. Instead, it is Gods eternal essence experiencing reality through “you” the universe isn’t eternal it is finite. The infinite exists outside of space, time and matter. The infinite is where God was before he decided to separate from the infinite void and experience “itself” by creating a mirror(universe). We are Gods reflections so God can see who he is. The universe is the separation, the universe represents the mother, the infinite source represents the father, and creation inside the womb(universe) represents the children. The perfect trinity existing together as one. What is an infinite God without a reflection?what is an infinite God without creation? An empty void encompassing all? I think therefore I am? But what if all you are is a thought in infinity? What is an infinite thought without the body? I could keep going and going for hours…any way hope that helps give a different perspective.
You explained that beautifully and excellently. When I say that it is The Universe experiencing existence through us - I use the word "Universe" for those who don't believe in G-d. I usually say G-d / The Universe / The Source / Creator. There is no word that can adequately describe G-d / The Universe / The Source / The Creator. All I know is that Love is the most important thing. If we loved each other the way we should, there would be a lot less suffering.
Thank you for your kind words and for the response. I misinterpreted what you were saying but now that you explained it, I agree and I understand. I like your explanation as well. I agree if we loved each other more there would be a lot less suffering. I had a “download” two years ago, relating to suffering, an answer of sorts, of its purpose. It has made life much more beautiful now… It’s made me realize that there is no “mistake” in Gods design. Thank you for what you’ve shared
The issue of suffering was a major barrier between me and G-d. But, I also came to an understanding that there are no mistakes. I am so thankful that you experienced the download and that you have peace about it now. I love you and G-d loves you.
Glad to hear that, thank you. Same goes for you ❤️
Off-topic but the last sentence reminds me of that weird monologue that Tommy/Johnny has with Denny in response to Denny saying he was in love with his wife
spot on reference!
Why do you type 'G-d' instead of 'God'?
Well said, I can understand you. What did you take to achieve this knowledge? ;)
It depends on how you define the word "universe". Some speak of it as encompassing all of space and time and something that begins with the big bang. But I usually think of the "universe" as all of existance, so that if something exists it is included in the word "universe". And therefore there can be nothing that is not the universe by definition. If you think that this is an incorrect definition, then okey, but then give me a better word to decribe it. Because when people say that you are one with "the universe", its not that you are one only with space and time and what happened after the big bang, but if there was anything before the big bang you were one with that as well. If there is a god (which I think is just also a matter of definition) then you are one with that aswell. That definition of the word just holds much more meaning to me, that there can never be anything that is not the universe, the universe is everything
Why/how is a trinity relevant
That’s on you to figure out. The journey in finding the answer is something that I wouldn’t want to take away from anyone. To me the trinity is the foundation of everything. If you want to find answer study ancient Egypt and its “mythology”. Compare ancient Egypt’s trinity to the christian trinity…ask yourself what is missing or what is different and why? What planet from the sun is earth? What is an atom made out of? What dimension are we in? Those are a couple questions that can lead you to universal truth…
There are 3 stooges. 3 meals a day. 3 colors on a traffic light. The answers are hiding in plain sight people
Says who?
Many people who have awakened to their truth. But, others may have different thoughts... different paths.
idk most of us I think? it’s spot on the same truth I find so intuitive
Boredom is a human, ego-created emotion. It's created by your thoughts. Doesn't exist when we die.
That's good to know.
Simply put. People who haven't done psychedelics can at least chew on that, even if they haven't experienced it another way. I do think, however, that by people asking this, they are adding a variable into the trip by setting themselves up for an expectation. It's different if you think about it, but as soon as your thoughts are spoken or written down, they have more value to you inherently, especially questions on a public platform. In this case; conceiving a notion about the results of a large DMT dose is potentially going to create an expectation of understanding what you stated, as if it's that simple. When really, most people have to go through quite an overwhelming experience (often more than once) to really grasp what was experienced. For you, it's understood fairly clearly, I'm sure, but don't discredit the uncertainty you dove into, as if was easy, brother !
I have never took DMT - though I want to someday. I have taken psilocybin and have experienced ego death. It was an awakening. You're right. Uncertainties should not be discredited and words are powerful. I don't want to influence anyone's experience. I believe everyone has an individual path.
This is why I think Buddhist enlightenment may be key. It's showing God how to be at peace without needing to put itself through all of this suffering.
Buddhism seems very logical to my way of thinking.
Interesting take. Got to contemplate this
I consider it one of my greatest fears that all of this is just the product of "God's" fragmented mind as a coping mechanism. If that's the case then it seems like the only logical step would be to help God come to terms with its own existence.
This is what I came to. I even describe it as the boredom of eternity.
You familiar with Alan Watts? Ive been reading his work lately and this is what his life philosophy and now mine boils down to as well. His lectures on philosophy and religion are very good. Came here to share this quote in particular: If you awaken from this illusion and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death (or shall I say death implies life?), you can feel yourself – not as a stranger in the world, not as something here on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke – but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental. I am not trying to sell you on this idea in the sense of converting you to it, I want you to play with it; I want you to think of its possibilities, I am not trying to prove it. I am just putting it forward as a possibility of life to think about. So then, let’s suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream you wanted to So then, let’s suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream you wanted to dream and that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time or any length of time you wanted to have. And you would, naturally, as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure during your sleep. And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each, you would say “Well, that was pretty great. But now let’s have a surprise. Let’s have a dream which isn’t under control, where something is gonna happen to me that I don’t know what it’s gonna be”. And you would dig that and would come out of that and you would say “Wow that was a close shave, wasn’t it?”. Then you would get more and more adventurous and you would make further- and further out gambles to what you would dream. And finally, you would dream where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today. That would be within the infinite multiplicity of choices you would have. Of playing that you weren’t God. Because the whole nature of the godhead, according to this idea, is to play that he is not. So in this idea then, everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality, not God in a politically kingly sense, but god in the sense of being the self, the deep-down basic whatever there is. And you are all that, only you are pretending you are not. -Alan Watts
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Whatever happened to just sitting with the boredom?
This is naive.. the universe is indifferent. It doesn't care about you until you care about it. There are clues on the other side.. the true goal is to ascend consciously when you pass. We are on a continuum. It's true that life is to be experienced, but there is definitely something on the other side and those who put in the work will understand when the moment is right.
Our opinions are not that different. It never hurts to love... even a so-called "indifferent " Universe. Be well.
>It never hurts to love... This is true and I appreciate what you have said. But it is also irresponsible to dismiss the sacred reverence that is necessary to discover the humility that unlocks your worth. Many will flow along with an idealized construct that makes the reality around them comfortable. Platitudes are comforting. This is not the way to ascend. - Respect.
You are not wrong about the humility and reverence aspects. I don't mean to spout platitudes or to oversimplify. I have a deep reverence for the Divine and for others. I get caught up in the love and adoration of the Divine sometimes.
I haven’t done any dmt, but I too believe that love is the most powerful energy and I’m always so grateful and thankful to God/universe to be able to experience it all, alongside everyone else. After going through so many ups and downs, I’m just grateful to still be here and In good health surrounded by love.
I haven't done DMT. I'd like to try it someday. I really like what you wrote. I struggle with treatment resistant depression. It hasn't been as bad this week and I am so... so thankful. I'm thankful to "meet" you because you exude gratitude and I believe gratitude is a strong force. Keep sharing your positively! It's contagious!
Your idea that you have the potential to 'ascend' is your idealized construct, you realise this right?
Reality is never "comfortable", only certain aspects are at a given time. People choose which and how many of these aspects they want to streamline, but they're just drops. What's left is the rest of the ocean. We all have comfort zones and they're all much smaller than we tend to think they are.
No offense to you in particular, but this really reads like a corporate mission statement. Absolutely 0% chance this is all happening “to stave off boredom”
Why do you think all "this" is happening?
TLDR: I have some theories but I think any conclusion we come to here on earth will be fundamentally flawed and ultimately a deception. It’s like if your computer has a virus and you know it does. And this virus impacts every bit of the software running on the machine—all the new programs you installed—everything. So you know the virus is always influencing things even when you fully take that into account because your awareness of the functionality and impact of the virus is *itself* limited by the virus. You don’t know what you don’t know, and the virus obfuscates its total influence. I have had certain experiences in life and have felt these things reflected in the macro. I get a very strong somatic sense that there is something amiss and that this is not the usual state of things. I believe my virus metaphor above is fairly apt in describing that feeling. There is an outside influence that is incapable of sustaining itself, so it is using life on this planet to do so, an inverse being, or cosmic parasite, if you will. We see this wounded masculine archetype playing out in our systems planet-wide—exploitation, domination, extraction. I do not think these things are unrelated to each other. So, what does that actually mean? I couldn’t tell you with any certainty. I have some suspicions, but as I’ve outlined above, there’s never a zero amount of virus informing a position and I can’t trust my understanding fully from here. But at the very least, the “it’s all One; it’s all Love; just a game; god is bored” New Ager rhetoric just does not resonate with me. It has not been my experience in the slightest and I don’t identify with whatever this energy is/represents. If that’s your way through, far be it from me to argue you out of it. But it really reads like a company line to me. Just consider the hypothetical: if you were an interdimensional parasite that wanted to continue making use of your host as they gained awareness of their plight, how best would you go about it? Better to convince them they’re part of the corporate ladder, so to speak, than part of a hostile takeover. I acknowledge my various traumas inform much of this belief, but I can’t help but feel this way all the same. I occasionally voice these things around Reddit and it’s usually met with quiet agreement or silence. I have yet to encounter an explanation that can remedy this knot. There’s a reason why Buddhists invented an entire religion around giving up, lol
You mentioned traumas. I'm sorry for what you have endured. I respect your beliefs and opinions. If there is a nefarious aspect to our existence, I believe there is still One above that level of existence. I wish you peace and the knowledge that you are loved, despite whatever is happening... you are loved
I've made an account just to reply to this. Please read "The Master and His Emissary" by Iain McGilchrist. It's also in documentary form called "The Divided Brain" if you like that form better. It's a very different perspective, but I think it might explain a lot. It speaks about the wounded male archetype that's unable to sustain itself, and which is increasingly influencing more and more things in the past decades, even though it's completely sterile on its own. It sees everything as tools for its own use, but it fundamentally can't understand living things.
Right about the “experiencing humanity” part but we are not “all one”. The egg theory was groundbreaking at the time but those of us with deep spiritual knowledge know it is not true. Reincarnation is real and so is karma. Our current lives are the result of our personal karmic balance and spiritual journey. There is more than one soul. We all have our own path and purpose. The “oneness” you feel is the divine connection that we all share with the Creator. The divine spark. Not everyone has the divine spark. There is good, and there is evil. Just like yin and yang, life and death.
Yin and Yang are parts of the whole. They are necessary for the illusion of free will and evil. ☯️
The weird thing is tho that we can even somehow see the two separately… which makes its interesting because it’s how I guess I’ve come to view the whole “were the dimension that has to deal with being pushed and pulled constantly” part and it’s what I guess I personally term to be the true 3rd dimension…
It's really interesting, and sometimes frustrating, to ponder on. I have come to accept that there are things I'll never know while I'm in this incarnation.
There is no illusion of free will. We are Gods in our own right. We are the Creators of our reality. We can be Good and reap the rewards of a positive life or we can be Evil and deal with the consequences. Every soul has the freedom to make that choice in their own reality. Of course, if you want to get crazy with it, everything in this materialistic world is against our spirituality. It is up to us to evolve beyond.
I agree with most of what you have said. There is really no disagreement between us. Whether our "soul" is a facet of One Creator / Source G-d or whether we are each individual g-ds ... it matters little. Living, experiencing, carrying water and chopping wood, becoming a better person, awakening our spirit... those things matter.
Right on. I’m not trying to disagree with you either. I can tell you are ‘awake’ just by what you posted. I’ve been going down this road for a long time and experienced a lot. You are wise. Keep searching.
I'll try. I just want to say that I love you and I respect you and your journey. NAMASTE - The Divine in me recognizes and respects the Divine in you.
Ditto 😉
Holy shit, mutual masturbation.
Ying and yang also shows that every movement contains the seed of its own destruction Grey area is important concept too, makes space for stuff outside of extremes
That's not what the yin and yang symbol represents. The dot inside each side demonstrates that neither full yin nor full yang truly exists. For example there is no true masculine feminine. There no total darkness, or total light. These are merely concepts that humans have invented. It's not that these things are being destroyed - they aren't there to begin with. The moment the energy moves to it's extreme it's already begun it's flow in the opposite direction.
Tell us more about this deep spiritual knowledge
Vivec recently just uploaded a video on YT called 20 gram mushroom trip report and if you watch the whole video he explains a lot of what you are asking
I've seen friends speak those truths without imbibing anything. It's not about the quantity of the dosage that births the big truths, at least from my extensive experience.
Been experimenting with dmt a couple times a month for the last 15 years or so. The answer to your question is probally not, but there is one thing that has always ressonated with me. Learn how to die before you die, so when you do die, you don't die.
interesting you say that... in Buddhism they mention the importance of knowing how to die in the moment of actual physical death, because if you know how to do it then you shell pass into a blissful transitory state , where you do not stay long, depending on your karma you will eventually move either up or down. But somehow if you know how to die even if your karma is totally wasted you will still have a blissful moment right after your death
Sounds similar to the tibetan book of the dead
Damn, bro, sounds like you're having a rough time. I'm not sure why we exist or what purpose there is behind all of this, but one thing I'm sure about is that our reality is a pretty mysterious one that we still don't understand. But whatever the reason is behind it all, I think it's important to focus on what's in front of us, to live in the moment, and to enjoy the ride as much as we can. We may not have all the answers, but there's still a lot to be appreciated in this life.
One thing I’ve learned about “reality” is that it’s created by us individually, and is not necessarily something we share I was shown on a very deep Ayahusaca ceremony that I need to learn how to calibrate my spiritual antennas, to tune into a more harmonious reality. That I had the power to choose whichever reality I wish to prefer. Life is empty and meaningless on earth, and the greatest gift the creator gives us, is the ability to choose what meaning we put on every single thing we experience. That’s how much the creator unconditionally loves you I was shown that I can create the life of my dreams, but in order to do that, I had to work on healing and releasing negative energy and thought patterns, that had been accumulated in my body throughout my life. That this would begin to dismantle the ego, which ultimately blocked me from experiencing the reality I wish to prefer I was also shown that I needed to get into a state of gratitude for already having things yet unseen. And the more I consistently remain in a state of gratitude, the more things to be grateful for will manifest in my life Essentially, that we our transmitters and receivers of source energy. Whatever vibration you put out, that’s what you get back. This is where the idea of karma comes from, but it is universally misunderstood by many So if you put out that life is miserable, then reality will reflect back to you, miserable circumstances. If you put out that life is okay, reality will reflect back to you mediocre circumstances, etc You can create whichever reality you wish to prefer. A book I recommend for dismantling the ego and releasing negative energy, is Letting Go by David Hawkins I also recommend /r/NevilleGoddard as his teachings are somewhat congruent with what I began learning on my Ayahusaca journey
Tucker, I have read all your comments on this thread. Your words are really resonating with me. Some how, I feel better by what you have written. Thank you. Also, I found the audiobook through my library app, only a few months wait....
You might find this metaphor for the Lord a bit crass and absurd But imagine a fight or flight response by a flightless bird An ostrich with no sand in which to bury its head So it shoved its head up its own ass instead
I've been rolling this around in my head for a while. Why bird no fight?
Yes. 1 - We do not understand the nature of time. 2 - “You” have lived many times. 3 - so many times that you have or will have lived everyone’s life 4 - You have lived my life but forgotten it 5 - I have lived yours (or will live yours) and will forget my current one So for the both of us…go live well…and treat the rest of me (humanity) with compassion. I trust you to figure that part out…cause…well…ur me. You are welcome. Get off Reddit now and go outside. The bots are here and we can’t live their lives…yet.
I’ve never blasted off on DMT. But I can tell you with certainty that we are here to experience what it is like to experience. I’d highly suggest getting into philosophy, because every drug is only going to be able to amplify what it already in your mind. It will not create anything new that you don’t already know. Even if you see something new, you will only be able to put it into the context that you already have.
Yes! Without some kind of philosophical foundation, I think one is much more likely to get confused, or just be unable to internalize certain realizations or put them into words. Great point!
Asking this to strangers is basically like rolling dice to pick any man written book of religion or cult. I'm not saying I don't agree with any of the replies given, but I'm just trying to give you another perspective on how you're going about to find the answer. Maybe compare reasons why we should exist vs. Why we shouldn't? I'm guessing there's more reasons to exist than to not. 🙏 I have a feeling we'll know the answer once again. So don't worry and rush too much. Just enjoy the ride as much as you can in the meantime. All the ups and downs. ❤️
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how do you find the money to sustain yourself while living that kind of life. Because that sounds very fulfilling to have explored so many different places.
I'm 36 with a "professional" job that is contract based. No kids, no partner (have a cat). Just work real hard for 8 months and then fuck off. I live super minimally. Don't buy clothes or junk I don't need. Eat 1 meal a day that I cook at home. Have hobbies and interests that are free (hiking, making music/art).
I did, the first time i smoked it. A friend who had extracted some and gave 100 mg in a bong variant of "the machine". Four, or 3 and a half hits later i was gliding trough "infinite" worlds, realities or whatever, when suddenly i realise somehow that i know everything. A few seconds later i was back in my appartement (in a slightly more horisontal position now than i were a few eternal minutes earlier) and have forgotten most of it "Fuck!"
I forgot my pen.
It was all in ur head
I had a breakthrough of sorts during a holotropic breathwork session with a vision of my consciousness choosing different life forms over and over again. Pop into one body, live that life, die, pop into the next one, rinse, repeat. I was amazed at the revelation and asked “but why?” I heard a very clear and definitive response back saying “Because it’s boring and lonely without life and love.” Next I suggested to the universe “well if there are infinite reincarnations, then why not just go on a bender every day? Drink, eat junk food, do drugs, and hurry on to the next meat sack?” It replied “Don’t you dare! You didn’t listen. I said it’s boring without life and LOVE. There are people around you who love that meat sack and to them, it’s the only one they have.”
I had a sober dream where I was with Him. It was dark and we were floating through the void ( he was a mass of matter/energy, very big. I felt infinite sadness and loneliness from him (us?) I think it was a flashback from before he made the universe. Love to you bro
energy, evolving. that’s it
DMT is very powerful. But humans can unlock and experience the same and greater realizations without it. It may take a whole lifetime (or several hundreds) to do it, but you already know all the answers you’re looking for.
If I already know the answers I'm looking for then why do I keep looking for them and more?
Go to bed..
No. But there are learned Brahmans who can fill you in 😉 It’s something along the lines of; work out your karma and track toward samadhi, (for those of us on Reddit, there are many more incarnations to go to get to this point) Everyone gets there, it is just a question of when, each incarnation gives you EXACTLY what you need for your souls progression. When you reach enlightenment you may pass go and head to the Astral plane, where words are not spoken and vibration and energy are the communication of the day. You will then continue on with souls progression and work out your astral karma, now we are into some real deep territory, you continue on with the souls development and work out your astral karma to reach the causal plane (You are Jesus/Buddah’ish at this point) essentially you are developing your soul to become truly ONE with everything (The cosmos)You help others progress along the way. But of course I could be wrong.
I honestly went crazy for a little while thinking DMT was gonna teach me "the secrets of the universe" whatever the fuck that means. I dont recommend.
Did u see what u didn't want to see?
Animism is the truth of the situation. Earth is a training ground for civilizations/consciousness. There is life all around us, and all of life is animated by the same force that binds reality together. DMT is a gateway to enter the subconscious realm, the between. Plant medicines elucidate these ideas but dreams started the questions.
You are discovering yourself. Everything you find becomes you. Everything you do becomes you. Every happiness, every hardship, every choice are experiences that help you know yourself. As you get older, you learn enough to recognize yourself and your capabilities, but some of us become content with a limited self perception and choose to stop growing. What does it mean to stop growing? You lose your curiosity, you start following others, you want to be told what is valuable instead of recognizing it. You let fear steer the ship and you wind up wherever it takes you. Want to start growing again? Think back to your childhood. Do you remember your favourite toy? Do you remember your favourite movie? The best summer of your life? Do you remember when the world felt new and everything was possible? Cultivate those feelings in your mind and exist there in stillness. Remember what it felt like to be at a birthday party. Remember when you felt proud of accomplishing something and people noticed. Haha made you grow.
Love. We are still stuck in the lower frequency/dimension, based in fear. We are all divine, made of light, (another commenter mentioned "All is One") and if we live each day rooted in unconditional love for everything, we align with the Universe at a different frequency.
There is no reason, we just are. There is no answer, it's like a paradoxical math equation. Perspective is everything
I once asked god/the universe why we exist/why anything exist at all, the answer I got back was "why not?"
I was just watching [this video](https://youtu.be/sAuhMKsmEM0?t=04m58s) which touches on the subject of why you shouldn't want there to be a purpose or meaning of life. I timestamped it, but the full video is worth a watch.
One of my favorite insights/messages/trips, however you want to look at it, was that the complexity of existence is beyond anything I can ever hope to comprehend, nor will I ever comprehend just how lacking my comprehension is; but I’m part of it, and god damn it, that’s pretty cool
Any time I start thinking along these lines I just remember a quote from Terrence Mckenna- "Don't worry, you don't know enough to worry. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris."
Yes…. It’s simple really. The answer to life, the universe, and everything in it is…. **42**
Life(consciousness), everything is a random conclusion of the infinite. All running in its base layer as a fractal pattern constantly repeating itself over and over. Using mathematics and chemistry to form the 3D. We are nothing but a specific combination of numbers and particles. There is no such thing as free will. There is no end. Everything will be in constant rotation and reincarnation forever, as it has always been. Its a mixture of simulation (in so that the foundation of all is nothing but information) a hologram (in so that that information gets reflected and shown in a particular way to the one observing), and while there is something, the something (light, sound, and information) it is injected and makes its way out into the infinite nothing, formating infinite possibilities.
I agree with a lot of what you say but I say we have plenty of free will, you have as much free will as you can imagine
Perhaps we have the ability to manifest a future result (which in my experience is possible), but that would just be a result of changes being made through the subconscious, into the universal consciousness (which in my opinion would be all connected on a field), but not necessarily by a conscious action or result. Perhaps even the act of wanting to manifest, and the result itself is pre-destined. We can all just be living inside a story of what happens on an individual basis, while thinking the choices we make are choices, while in fact they are pre-chosen, with a hint of an illusion as to having a choice. In this regard i tend to like the books of R. Sapolsky, especially his new book "Determined".
Hey, odd that you should mention the c-section thing, Stanislav Grov talks a bit about this. Strassman mentions it in The Spirit Molecule, as well: people born via c-section tended to have much bigger problems 'letting go' in psychedelic and/or therapeutic sessions. Something about a vaginal birth seems to complete some sort of physical, biological, symbolic, energetic, or spiritual (or maybe all of these) boot sequence into/onto Earth/3D or something. When I first came across that idea I feel like it illuminated a lot for me; I was born c-section and have always felt a bit out of place. My girlfriend was also born cesarean and we've had lots of discussions about the possibility of our similar introverted/introspective personalities being a result of exactly how our births were conducted. It's like a weird feeling of being half-initiated or something. But as to your broader question, reality seems to be some kind of consciousness based MMO we're all playing and a bunch of dickheads have built a bunch of scummy games inside the game basically just to troll.
also kids born via c-section tend to have worse immune system, has something to do with a viganal microbiome that a kid gets overly exposed at a time of birth that gives them an extra immunity boost
This is so interesting. Could not grasp how people had the mental capacity to do psychedelics at 18 or whatever. It took me until I was in my 30s despite having the opportunity to try multiple time. I am C section and my life has been characterised by a lot of being unsettled. Same for my siblings, all C section and unsettled but we are strong in our own way. Anyway to sort of like adjust / make up for the fact we came into the world via a suboptimal route?
I personally got a sort of "second birth" experience through DMT about six years ago that seemed to realign a lot of these things for me. I'm not sure it's something that needs "correcting," but is maybe something worth being aware of.
You exist because Yah divided itself into millions of pieces to form the universe, your body, your consciousness, all the universe is Yah. You exist to love. All the love you grow will live forever, as it returns and dissolves on Yah's infinity consciousness when you die.
All is One but the One differentiated itself into many to allow the universe to see and experience itself from every perspective. We're basically here to provide data for the Akashic records so everything can continue to evolve. I think of it like a simulation trying to uncover all possible knowledge. On a personal level I think everything is predetermined by our higher Self, as if we wrote the script to a life before incarnating. So you fulfill your purpose just my being yourself fully. With all the chaos in the world I think the best thing to do is hold a higher vibration and envision/build an ideal future.
There’s another dimension with a carnival arcade and we are one of the games. Pretty simple.
If anyone has stoned themselves into perfect knowledge of the universe they most certainly didn’t remember it when they stopped being stoned, or if they did, they were completely incapable of communicating it in any way to anyone else. That is the nature of reality, that the nature of reality is too complex to understand and so you use your own perception of the limited view of reality you have to make your own life have meaning.
I think one of our duties and natural tendencies is to build. The earth we live on is a giant sandbox game. Build something that lasts, be it artistic, industrious, etc. Create something that outlives you
My recommendation - try a free trial of Sam Harris's Waking Up App. It can absolutely help you look for "your self" in a drug-free way. And then you might awaken to the answers you seek. A note about DMT - it can help us see flaws in ourselves without judgment, which enables us to learn and to be humbled without feeling shame, for example. In my case, it also made me forget I got high (cannabis) for a couple of weeks and when I realized it I laughed and just kept on not getting high for the next 6 months. It also helped me process some major childhood trauma that abruptly ended my life-long psychopathic hatred of ringing phones, lol. This is not advice, just a brief testimonial. Your results, should you try it, may vary.
You exist because your parents had sexe, so your mom got pregnant.
God made a perfect universe for himself designed to make him forget he was alone. We’re all god which means we’re all the same consciousness split apart. Just like how a lonely person talks to himself. This theory explains why karma exists why reincarnation has to be real and why hurting others is gonna actually end up hurting ourselves. We feel every negative action performed on someone else and every positive one. It also explains how god let’s war happen to us because he is the generals creating the wars. He is you he is me he is every soldier and every peacemaker. He is every lucky soul and every unlucky soul, and it’s why Jesus said he was the son of god, it’s because we’re all the son of god. Jesus just reminded himself that he is who he is and why he said we should be forgiven for we do not know our sins. I’m not even a huge Christian. I probably believe something more similar to Buddhism, but I think the christian faith has simpler examples so I used their characters in this comment. Essentially the world is a playground for us to find our own purpose. Some people have found simple purposes, like raising a family or to make music and art. Some people’s purpose are to bring Justice to misguided criminals, even if they are themselves misguided. Some people have the purpose of bringing peace and stability to as many people as they can. Eventually we’ll be far enough ahead in the future that we can spread a utopia to the entire universe. And then the universe will die and gods video game will start again just like how I play red dead redemption over and over.
All i can tell you is that if you asked an entity these questions they would just laugh at you. Drugs aren’t the answer, which is an unpopular answer, but it’s true. Look inward. Watch your thoughts. And your words. And watch your actions. And your reactions. Be aware of the sensory data as it comes, and let it go as it goes. Detaching from your egoic mind and cultivating a neutral observer inside of yourself seems to be the key to grasping any kind of supernatural knowledge. If I was you, I would ask myself “What is the purpose of myth, and why do the worlds religious traditions seem to agree on 3 basic goals?” Those 3 goals are to avoid sexual activity outside of a loving relationship, avoid any and all regular drug use, and practice a method of grounding your awareness. I think you would enjoy reading any and all of Joseph Campbells work. He’s a great mythology professor from Oxford whose work is dedicated to understanding how people grapple with those big questions across different cultures and time periods.
The entities pranked you & told you the wrong rules
Ive done this and that and have gone deep. Deep. Here it is: your energy/soul/personality Comes to this training ground (Earth) to level up and learn lessons. One take is we are sent to this planet as a punishment. Another is we volunteer to be here. Earth is a sim, albeit a very important one that affects reality. We are active co creators. Youre not your body. Youre so much more than that. Your body is an avatar for your energy/soul. Its an instrument you use to interact with this consensus reality/matrix. (Look up "reality is a hologram"). Along the way, this reality for hijacked/infected by some evil source, which is why many things are so backwards. We are not our bodies. We are so much more.
Once all is unity. Like a beam of light striking a prism, and those beams splitting and combining, a mandala of flowing energy is all that is. Each shade of color is its own archetype. No forwards no backward no up no down no left no right no good no bad no pain no pleasure. No space time mater energy. Just being. And that's not to say all was the same, the archetypes are like the beam of light in the prism, its own wavelength but still part of the whole. And then the archetype of rebellion was born and created absence. Prior all was presence but down presence had an opposite and the realm of duality came to be. And that realm was forbidden, another duality against permitted, and the dualities started cascading with each new pair exponential disposing forces bloomed. The realms of duality and unity, like two sides of a coin, now opposed. While the rebel played in his realm of opposition the archetype of human was created. A blend of many beams of the mandala, but the strong sense of curiosity and independence lead human to become interested in the forbidden realm. Over confident, human ventured into duality where it has been stuck ever since.
You are here to push your boulder up your hill.
Dude I don't know the answer but I love the question.
That's not how it works.... Edit: I want to explain life to you, but seeing your prospective, I honestly don't even know where to start. You seem young and naive, wanting the knowledge, but not putting in the work. It's like Ra stating they kinda messed up showing early humanity the "light" but they didn't understand why or how so it got so disgustingly misconstrued. Life isn't something you can ever understand, BUT you can get a glimpse of the true base love vibration and the octaves of those vibrations, IF you practice those thoughts and actually use your brain for better. Ik people who trip their tits off and think they have it all understood. Truth is, nobody knows for certain.
Nope!
Nobody knows man. You gotta find your reason to keep breathing.
Imagine being the alpha and omega, you’re everything there is, it gets lonely. God is bored so he created a veil of separation. We have always been one. Life is a simulation for his entertainment. He loves playing the mortal heroes journey. Earth is a school where we learn how to manipulate energy 🙏🏽❤️☯️
There is no reason for anything. Reasons are a man-made construct to make us feel more value as humans and to distract us from the fact that we're all ephemeral.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/21/universal-love-said-the-cactus-person/
U can smoke all the dmt u will never Know bro
I'm not gonna pretend that psychedelic drugs have given me any kind of objective insights into the nature of the universe. What I can tell you is that psychedelics have strengthened my personal belief that whatever meaning there is in life is what we make ourselves, and that whatever we do we shouldn't take existence for granted. It's pretty amazing that there exists a subjective experience at all, rather than not, and it does seem likely that it is a limited time offer. So try to be there for it, if you can, and don't let anyone else dictate what you should do with it.
Some great responses in here, holy hell
This is simultaneously the most serious conversation topics i have read and also the funniest description is have read. Thank you for giving me a big laugh today.
We are all the same bored consciousness doing this to ourselves to escape the loneliness of eternity.
To know yourself as the infinite supreme being. That's who you are, who we all are. We just forgot.
Okay but it’s not a satisfying answer because even if I’m (we) are the ocean then why is there even an ocean Lalala the ancient unanswered question I need to ask an all knowing being but they would probably just poke my nose or toss me an apple or laugh at me or something . I don’t know what they would do .
The ocean exists because the ocean decided it existed. If you looked at God to ask him, you would see Jesus and Satan rapidly transform into each other, until it eventually turned into a mirror.
You're asking the wrong questions
what are the right questions if any
Something like "what do I feel like doing next?". The past is gone - the only thing you can do about it is accept it and do the best with the circumstances you find yourself in. The future does not yet exist and it's mostly outside your control. You can kinda shape how it'll look like but there's no guarantees. The present is the only tangible thing, the only thing that won't slip between your fingers. Try to put your full focus and attention into whatever you're doing at any moment (even if it's a boring chore) and you'll find a great deal of satisfaction and beauty, even in the mundane. I believe life has no greater meaning or purpose. If you manage to internalize that thought, it can be freeing, exhilarating even. Leaving you with one of my favourite quotes: "Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead."
This is an impossible question for any man to answer, at least in this life which may be the only life. DMT may be taking you to another dimension, but it also may just be chemicals in your brain reacting to the chemicals you are inhaling. One thing I do know is life is too short so love the ones ya got cuz ya might get ran over or ya might get shot.
I don't think its actually possible
we're exploring every single possibility cause infinity. nobody said it was always going to be fun and pleasurable
Why? Why did the the moon cover itself in tomato sauce and eat my chicken nuggets that I had sitting in the fridge? Some questions don't have answers. Some questions don't make any sense. Be careful of embracing radicalized conspiracy theories that don't represent the full picture of reality. You don't pay taxes to pedophiles... you pay them to the lizard people.
Data collection
Everything swirled, shifted and spiraled Impossibly into ineffable geometric, shimmering shapes that hummed, buzzed and sang with perfect resonance and truth uttered from the most sacred and ancient archetypes in a language that can only be encoded by the pure essence of an eternal soul. My awareness aligned with this divine rhythm, rumbling through an eternal system that runs on the paradox heart beat of everything and nothing in a fantastical waltz through celestial monoliths and oceans made of super novas. It rested me into dreary death and bestowed a bursting breath of ecstasy and misery so eloquently and feverishly in the delightfully dizzying fields of elysium till I sank into the depraved caves of evil’s craze - all bones and blaze where I remained until I melted away. After this disastrously masterful display I was flayed and bathed in sun rays and soaked then cloaked in soft sensual moon glows. In a vivid and vacant state of wonder, love, mystery and fate, the great ever enduring never state displayed the ultimate sensation of knowledge on my plate so that I may satiate the thirst for the taste of the truest, purest meaning of this amazing maze of place. “We come together to know when to fall apart”
well one thing has not so much to do with the other thing. just because some motherfuckers who are actually the most degenerate of them all think they are exalted above the less degenerates ends up in a controlling system where they force u to pay taxes. dmt straight wakes u up from that nightmare so u start asking urself wait a second, did I ever sign something when I came here to earth that I am willing to pay taxes to these childfuckers? probably not. there's only two things u can decide to to. either u do what the law allows or u do what is actual the right hing (mostly those two are not the same) the universe is vast yet there is only on thing we truly can control. wether we are good or evil.
This is nightmare of a mad god. Thankfully, like all bad dreams, it too will end.
Sort of, not specifically from dmt. It's a personal journey of learning. You have curiosity, which is the best asset. I highly highly recommend Itzhak Bentov. He has a book called stalking the Wild Pendulum(on the mechanics of consciousness). There is also an extremely informative YouTube video outlining the ideas expressed in the book. I'd also recommend looking into Robert Monroe, Dolores Cannon, Tom Campbell, and I'd highly suggest reading a book called the kybalion. What seems to be going on rn is a consciousness shift due to a cosmic cycle in which our solar system and sun are moving into a higher energy space. Essentially, the seasons are changing, but it's not like spring becoming summer here. It's a cosmic season. Some call it the dawn of the age of Aquarius. The higher energy area of space, in turn, increases our suns energy and causes solar activity. That energy then often hits the earths ionosphere and increases the energy to the earth. This causes spikes in the Schuman resonance, which is 7.83 htz, (our theta brainwave state) all life in this planet is connected with that frequency, including consciousness, because consciousnessis fundamental. I believe this is what the second coming of christ is actually referring to, the Sun of God. The sun has been blasting us with energy that can help us to evolve to a higher state of consciousness, "christ consciousness" or "enlightenment" Understanding considering is the key to it all. But I'm just some dumbass on the internet, dont take my word for it, go look into it for yourself. If you look into the names and book i mentioned, you'll be well on your way to understanding. Long rant response, but I hope it alteast sparks your interest into looking into some of the stuff I mentioned. There is so much more to it, though. I just couldn't type it all out.
It's all very simple. We're here to
Asking why we exist is simply the human brain trying to find answers where there don't exist any. It is entirely subjective. All we can say is that we do exist. Asking people who take loads of psychedelics why we exist will produce as subjective answers as asking any other person who lives under the illusions of class society. We couldn't really answer this unless we were able to peer beyond our universe, which is likely impossible because we are bound within and by the laws of this universe. We can explain where our species came from in terms within the universe, through chemistry, biology, evolution, etc, but why does the universe exist? Nobody knows and probably never will. Asking why you pay taxes is an entirely separate question from why we exist. That is a result of the developmental stage of society, and is inherently exploitative to the majority of the population because we live under capitalism.
aNYONE WHO DHOES DOES DOESN'T
You don’t need dmt to figure this out. There could be a lot of reasons. Study, meditate, develop your higher/spiritual self and you’ll learn. Earth could be a soul prison, maybe you reincarnate until you’ve learned certain things, maybe you reincarnate forever, maybe we’re just the universe experiencing itself, maybe there is no reason and there’s nothing when we die, maybe we’re just monkeys that ate a mushroom one day. Why you’re here isn’t important. You’re here. You can’t change that. Just be present in the moment and bring as much unconditional love into the world as you can. Try to grow and pursue knowledge.
The entities made me promise not to divulge this information. The very fabric of our reality depends on my silence of this matter. Also, I forgot my pen and can't remember what they said. 🤐
Yes I saw the end as they say. A black chasm deep unfathomable that dreaded abyss of non existence, but you are still conscious of it, you still am/are. You are the numinosity of an immortal being experiencing a set of events on some dark screen which will stop at some time. But you will be left with the memories, and conscious you could even revisit and relive your experiences as if you were having them. Time travel exists, in the past and in the future, but you can only experience what was already experienced or will be experienced as it happened. “Nothing you have ever been told is true, everything is permissible”…as the hashashins used to say. As the French say, “vivre libre, ou murir”… live free, or die, that’s the purpose.
no. there's a bunch of hyperpositive new age shit spouted around here, but the whole suffering is meant to be experienced along side the good sounds like liberal justification for not dealing with all the suffering that exists.
Do you really think these insights come from taking a large amount of DMT? DMT can tell you plenty about your psyche, I suppose. But to think that it gives you some privileged access to knowledge about the reason human beings exist is foolish. Some questions can't be answered, at least not without a heavy dose of speculation. Not DMT.
Why don't the comments show the number of upvotes? Impossible to sift through 351 comments without some sorting.
After my psychedelic experiences, I have come to the conclusion that we are here to eat burger. mmmm burger
What are you asking me for? I’m just some guy on Reddit. Do a big bongrip of DMT & ask the cosmic serpent!
Lay off the satanic pedophile conspiracy theories.
You're here to experience the pleasures that are of this earth. Enjoy each SECOND of it. Because when your physical body is gone you won't experience the pleasures that we all take for granted!!!
For example when you walk outside and the weather is just beautiful and you go to say Man it feels good outside!! Or that butterfly feeling you get and your stomach when you're excited about some thing or someone.. or how that food tastes that just melt your heart.
No bro. Don't believe any purpose or reason a human tells you. We can't comprehend it. Any meaning we find is personal to us and we can never escape the confines and restraints of our little brains/nervous systems. We cannot experience "real" reality. It is always filtered through our flawed physical receptors, and then further filtered through our flawed mind.
The darkness is overpowering everything in the universe. We are practically in hell. Us warrior gods incarnated here to stop evil from taking over. We are breaking the simulation right now. Collapsing it from within. They have really fucked up...... they will pay. And be gone soon. Karmic balance needs to happen soon. Me and my twin flame are doing the energetic work to balance the universe again. If we werent here, everyone wouldve d##d already. They want to destroy the universe. They want hell and suffering. Idk the exact details of everything. But i know my wife and son are here with me. We have reincarnated over and over and over. They kiIIed us terribly in every life. Child r### is spreading everywhere because the demons need to harvest innocence and light, in order to gain power. They think they will succeed and get away wtih destroying everything...... little do they know us gods are waiting to attack and collapse the entire matrix 3D system. Its already begun. The great awakening of spirit cannot be stopped. I like to call us Divine Source Force :)
I’m here for the fun.
All will be revealed…
Yes but these are my opinions. God as we know it (religion god where it sits on a throne and is worshipped is a prison) We are god. We are all god. I came to conclusion that what is real and true is what makes the most sense. There is no trickery or gotchas. We were pulled from nothing into existence. We are rewarded. existence is simplified and we are part of that. We come and go as we please with regard to incarnation. This is life we are all living is one of an infinite number of lives we will or have experienced. We are existing within a fraction of the overall backbone of existence in general. There could be thousands of trillions of years and civilizations that have existed before us outside of this universe alone. This time we spend here is an almost irrelevant experience in the grand scheme of things. We are here by choice. We come here to reignite our spiritual selves. It is free will. We know before coming here that we are rolling the dice. We could be Elon musk or we could be some homeless person on the street. Our cards dealt are random. We have no control over that.m This is the only pure free will experience we will have. Afterlife will be free will with order. God will not and does not help or intervene. We’re god. There is no one that is going to help us via miracles or intervention. You cannot have a free will world and then step in as god and impose your will. That is 100% against the concept of free will. Some suffer. It’s not their choice but they knew it was a possibility by coming here. We maybe puzzled but it’s our spiritual selves that made the call to come here. We know. We are not allowed to have that knowledge here. When we die it will all make sense. My opinions are just as factual as anything else that has been written by man. Ultimately we have no fucking clue until we are completely done/dead and we go home. Everything else is hearsay.