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Post by laughter on Apr 1, 2021 4:12:27 GMT -5
I always thought he [Rush] was an alarmist, a drama queen, going on and on about how the "left" wanted to "destroy America" and "shred the Constitution". I was the one that had to open my eyes about that one over the last few years. And where did you get to with that, Laughter? What do you think The Left are trying to achieve? "The left" was in quotes because that's how Rush liked to frame the issue, but I think in more fluid and entangled terms. Always have. I've been concerned about the U.S. debt my entire adult life, and it was clear to me since Regan that in many ways the "left/right" divide is a complete sham. Especially with the debt. What we have is a situation where a myriad of special interest groups grab what they can, and collude together in a grand bargain where "you get what you want, we get what we want, and everyone else be d@mned". While I favored Trump, his indifference to this is, was and will continue to be my greatest misgiving about him. The 2nd biggest concern of mine - prior to the steal - was misuse of the American military for purposes that not only have nothing to do with the national security of the U.S., but are often contrary to it. Why is it that we spent so much on our military, in relative terms to the rest of the world these past few decades? It's a prime example of the special interest phenomenon. It's also one were were warned about by Eisenhower. Ike actually warned of TWO perils in that speech. The second was the "rise of an expert class". Rather than left/right, I think in terms of a "kleptocracy". The two trends that I find the most alarming out of the kleptocracy are not new, but the intensity with which they've been pursued in the past 5 years is troubling. One is the establishment of an orthodox narrative ostensibly founded in science, but can very easily be characterized as a cynical means of control. The planned vaccine passports, for example, and the mandates that people wear masks regardless that those masks don't filter particles even many times the size of the virus they're supposedly to protect from. The prime mechanism of control is fear, and fear and division along every conceivable cultural line is another hallmark of the kleptocracy: "race" (which is ultimately a fallacious concept), "class", socioeconomic condition, gender, "generational" etc.. The institutions that educate our young and entertain, heal and inform and connect us have all been used as agents to promote these divisions, and each of these are directed and run by their respective "expert class". The consolidation and constriction of power toward the top of these hierarchies grows more extreme over time. Interestingly enough, the contradictions and inefficiencies this concentration produces seems to me to sow the seeds of the eventual and inevitable destruction of the edifice. Much of this - most of it, really - is simply human nature playing itself out against the backdrop of our current cultural circumstances. There's always a mix of intentionality involved: there are deliberate, top-down lines of thought and action, there are organic, bottom-up lines of influence, and all sorts of various combinations thereof along a wide spectrum. Very few people playing key roles within the drama see themselves as "evil", and most see themselves in opposite terms. Almost none of them seem to me all that conscious of how they've failed to learn from history. As I wrote to farmer, the simplest way that I see to gain clarity on WIBIGO is to "follow the money". Generally speaking, I'd turn the old "right-wing" social orthodoxy on it's head at this point, and pull the old "left-wing" perspective - long since discarded now - out of the dustbin into which it was chucked: wealth and power, rather than self-proving of virtue, are self-proving of vice, and the more wealth and power one has, the more likely than not it is the result of exploitation, fraud, violence and theft.
Clearly, there are vast swaths of exception to this rule. Millions of people in America are quite well off and got that way by honestly being of service to their fellow man as a life's work. I'm not applying this rule to them, only to the leaders. Only to the people at the apex of their particular .. "expert class".
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Post by laughter on Apr 1, 2021 4:13:02 GMT -5
Emperor Palpatine was actually a very good leftie. He had admirable ambitions for the galaxy. Very questionable methods of achieving it.
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Apr 1, 2021 6:01:17 GMT -5
1. I googled for it before posting, and it seemed legit. It may be a paraphrase, or not. 2. I found that life learning works by giving you the opportunity to learn; if you don't learn it this time, you'll get it again, and again, ... even if you believe you have nothing to learn. Some people eventually learn during this life. Reincarnation is an interesting belief - you might want to look into questioning it. Fake quotes aren't subjective: the person either said it or they didn't. In this case, it turns out that we actually have proof of the negative, but that's besides the point. The quote is fake unless it can be substantiated. Reincarnation is essentially a non-issue, it's very complicated. The self we consider ourselves to be, the small s self, doesn't reincarnate, it dies in the Bardo. Our unprocessed energy gets another go, but 99.999% of people have zero direct knowledge or experience of 'who/what' incarnates. A completely new cultural self is formed upon incarnation. So, in one sense there is no reincarnation and in another sense, there is. Why is it a non-issue? "Liberation" occurs in only-one-particular-life. In a certain sense it is a timeless phenomenon, time is a factor, until it isn't. Basically, all the energy of the samskaras and the vasanas has to be transformed. Until that occurs the journey is not over. We can live in imagination and think the journey has ended...
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Apr 1, 2021 6:34:52 GMT -5
Emperor Palpatine was actually a very good leftie. He had admirable ambitions for the galaxy. Very questionable methods of achieving it. As always. The wrong means can never be used to achieve the right results. The war will never end. Each side knows they are correct (which isn't possible). I am exceptionally disappointed in the last 4 years. After the first couple of weeks of Trump taking office, I never expected anything from him ever again, contention gets nobody anywhere, and that's all Trump is, CONTENTION (I should have realized that the art of the deal for Trump only means getting what I want). My disappoint is with Republican leadership who went along with him...and those that still do. I think in politics, my heart will now forever rule my head. I will mostly likely never vote for a Republican ever again in any election. The problem, Democrats are going to join the Dark Side (concerning means). I may never vote again, period. Politics in a Democracy/Republic can only function with compromise, and balance. I put it on Republicans for destroying that. Payback will be hell. It has started. The pendulum always swings. Politics is not war. Those who think it is will always be the losers in the end. The truth will always win in the end. The first countermove threat, the threat to move the MLB All Star game from Atlanta. Fairness cannot be built upon lies.
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Apr 1, 2021 6:54:25 GMT -5
I think that the ex-believer's "realization" was more about his self-delusion, and not blaming anybody else for that. You can have a "realization" that you are perfect, then another "realization" that you were mistaken. Victimhood is a lower way of being. There can be no misunderstanding of what I wrote, and what I meant: View AttachmentView AttachmentDialogue is superfluous if one doesn't understand the other's position. That might be a sad truth.
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Apr 1, 2021 7:15:46 GMT -5
And where did you get to with that, Laughter? What do you think The Left are trying to achieve? "The left" was in quotes because that's how Rush liked to frame the issue, but I think in more fluid and entangled terms. Always have. I've been concerned about the U.S. debt my entire adult life, and it was clear to me since Regan that in many ways the "left/right" divide is a complete sham. Especially with the debt. What we have is a situation where a myriad of special interest groups grab what they can, and collude together in a grand bargain where "you get what you want, we get what we want, and everyone else be d@mned". While I favored Trump, his indifference to this is, was and will continue to be my greatest misgiving about him. The 2nd biggest concern of mine - prior to the steal - was misuse of the American military for purposes that not only have nothing to do with the national security of the U.S., but are often contrary to it. Why is it that we spent so much on our military, in relative terms to the rest of the world these past few decades? It's a prime example of the special interest phenomenon. It's also one were were warned about by Eisenhower. Ike actually warned of TWO perils in that speech. The second was the "rise of an expert class". Rather than left/right, I think in terms of a "kleptocracy". The two trends that I find the most alarming out of the kleptocracy are not new, but the intensity with which they've been pursued in the past 5 years is troubling. One is the establishment of an orthodox narrative ostensibly founded in science, but can very easily be characterized as a cynical means of control. The planned vaccine passports, for example, and the mandates that people wear masks regardless that those masks don't filter particles even many times the size of the virus they're supposedly to protect from. The prime mechanism of control is fear, and fear and division along every conceivable cultural line is another hallmark of the kleptocracy: "race" (which is ultimately a fallacious concept), "class", socioeconomic condition, gender, "generational" etc.. The institutions that educate our young and entertain, heal and inform and connect us have all been used as agents to promote these divisions, and each of these are directed and run by their respective "expert class". The consolidation and constriction of power toward the top of these hierarchies grows more extreme over time. Interestingly enough, the contradictions and inefficiencies this concentration produces seems to me to sow the seeds of the eventual and inevitable destruction of the edifice. Much of this - most of it, really - is simply human nature playing itself out against the backdrop of our current cultural circumstances. There's always a mix of intentionality involved: there are deliberate, top-down lines of thought and action, there are organic, bottom-up lines of influence, and all sorts of various combinations thereof along a wide spectrum. Very few people playing key roles within the drama see themselves as "evil", and most see themselves in opposite terms. Almost none of them seem to me all that conscious of how they've failed to learn from history. As I wrote to farmer, the simplest way that I see to gain clarity on WIBIGO is to "follow the money". Generally speaking, I'd turn the old "right-wing" social orthodoxy on it's head at this point, and pull the old "left-wing" perspective - long since discarded now - out of the dustbin into which it was chucked: wealth and power, rather than self-proving of virtue, are self-proving of vice, and the more wealth and power one has, the more likely than not it is the result of exploitation, fraud, violence and theft.
Clearly, there are vast swaths of exception to this rule. Millions of people in America are quite well off and got that way by honestly being of service to their fellow man as a life's work. I'm not applying this rule to them, only to the leaders. Only to the people at the apex of their particular .. "expert class".
Concerning special interests. I saw a program within the last two weeks about NASA, I don't recall where. The reporter was asking about NASA's approach to future projects and why not use more companies like SpaceX in order to save money. NASA officials said they agreed, private sources would be the better way to go, and this view was expressed to Congress who controls the money. But Congress decided to go a different route, to spend billions of extra dollars, unnecessarily, basically for jobs in states. Crazy, spend a dollar instead of a dime. Same can be applied elsewhere. So yes, always, follow the money.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2021 7:20:34 GMT -5
Reincarnation is an interesting belief - you might want to look into questioning it. Fake quotes aren't subjective: the person either said it or they didn't. In this case, it turns out that we actually have proof of the negative, but that's besides the point. The quote is fake unless it can be substantiated. Reincarnation is essentially a non-issue, it's very complicated. The self we consider ourselves to be, the small s self, doesn't reincarnate, it dies in the Bardo. Our unprocessed energy gets another go, but 99.999% of people have zero direct knowledge or experience of 'who/what' incarnates. A completely new cultural self is formed upon incarnation. So, in one sense there is no reincarnation and in another sense, there is. Why is it a non-issue? "Liberation" occurs in only-one-particular-life. In a certain sense it is a timeless phenomenon, time is a factor, until it isn't. Basically, all the energy of the samskaras and the vasanas has to be transformed. Until that occurs the journey is not over. We can live in imagination and think the journey has ended... Hi SDP, I'm curious, what makes you think the underlined part? Do you feel you know for sure, or is it more a hunch of what you think might be true? I'm of course curious what happens after death, what happens to "me" (the "me" that feels like an individual being, but may not exist, if I believe the previews of 'truth' from non-dual teachers). But I'm skeptical that I'll ever be able to know any of this with certainty. So when someone says they know, I'm curious how they know, and their level of certainty.
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Post by andrew on Apr 1, 2021 7:43:45 GMT -5
Emperor Palpatine was actually a very good leftie. He had admirable ambitions for the galaxy. Very questionable methods of achieving it. As always. The wrong means can never be used to achieve the right results. The war will never end. Each side knows they are correct (which isn't possible). I am exceptionally disappointed in the last 4 years. After the first couple of weeks of Trump taking office, I never expected anything from him ever again, contention gets nobody anywhere, and that's all Trump is, CONTENTION (I should have realized that the art of the deal for Trump only means getting what I want). My disappoint is with Republican leadership who went along with him...and those that still do. I think in politics, my heart will now forever rule my head. I will mostly likely never vote for a Republican ever again in any election. The problem, Democrats are going to join the Dark Side (concerning means). I may never vote again, period. Politics in a Democracy/Republic can only function with compromise, and balance. I put it on Republicans for destroying that. Payback will be hell. It has started. The pendulum always swings. Politics is not war. Those who think it is will always be the losers in the end. The truth will always win in the end. The first countermove threat, the threat to move the MLB All Star game from Atlanta. Fairness cannot be built upon lies. As you are somewhat suggesting, I think more than anything, what the world would benefit from most right now, is truthfulness. And I think we are ripe for that truthfulness, and yet the ripeness won't protect many from the hurt and the pain of that truth. I agree that there are lies on all sides. I also won't vote again. I didn't vote between the years of 1997-2017 (though I could have done). I somewhat uncomfortably voted in 2017-19 here in the UK, but I'm done with it again now.
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Post by andrew on Apr 1, 2021 7:50:50 GMT -5
Dialogue is superfluous if one doesn't understand the other's position. That might be a sad truth. I was reflecting on something similar this morning. I tend to make genuine efforts to see things from other people's point of view when discussing issues. After all, nobody acts without good reason (from within their model). And I also ask myself, how could I possibly challenge that person's values and beliefs without first understanding their good reason for doing what they do? Of course, sometimes I make the effort to understand and then decide that their model is 'unchallengeable'. There are psychopaths in the world too, how do you explain the value of empathy to someone, when they have such little reference for it? In those situations, I find it useful to remember that nature itself is beautiful in its incredible diversity. Perhaps it also goes back to what you used to say about Hawkins....we tend to talk to people either '2 steps above or 2 steps below'. I think you used to say that, I could be wrong.
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Post by andrew on Apr 1, 2021 8:01:17 GMT -5
Reincarnation is essentially a non-issue, it's very complicated. The self we consider ourselves to be, the small s self, doesn't reincarnate, it dies in the Bardo. Our unprocessed energy gets another go, but 99.999% of people have zero direct knowledge or experience of 'who/what' incarnates. A completely new cultural self is formed upon incarnation. So, in one sense there is no reincarnation and in another sense, there is. Why is it a non-issue? "Liberation" occurs in only-one-particular-life. In a certain sense it is a timeless phenomenon, time is a factor, until it isn't. Basically, all the energy of the samskaras and the vasanas has to be transformed. Until that occurs the journey is not over. We can live in imagination and think the journey has ended... Hi SDP, I'm curious, what makes you think the underlined part? Do you feel you know for sure, or is it more a hunch of what you think might be true? I'm of course curious what happens after death, what happens to "me" (the "me" that feels like an individual being, but may not exist, if I believe the previews of 'truth' from non-dual teachers). But I'm skeptical that I'll ever be able to know any of this with certainty. So when someone says they know, I'm curious how they know, and their level of certainty. In the days in which I suffered great mental distress, I would contemplate suicide. I would find that the moment that I decided that it was a genuine option for me, that there was a letting go, a peace would rush in, and there was no longer a movement to contemplate it. This decision and letting go couldn't be 'manufactured', I couldn't make it happen. It had to happen of its own accord i.e I had to experience it as a genuine option. I came to strongly know through these experiences that 'something' does not dies. I don't mean this in a non-dual way, it's more a new age thing (but I understand the non-dual sense too). While I can say I 'know' this, I can't say I know what happens, I 'believe' that there are many different paths. Some might 'dissolve' fully into pure awareness. For others there might be a retaining of 'consciousness' in some way i.e other dimensions of experience. I don't know, but I think lots of potentials. I read a book last year called, ''The Afterlife of Billy Fingers''. I'd known about it for many years, and had read quotes from it, but on reading, discovered it was quite a different book to what I had expected. If you are bored one day, I'd recommend it. I didn't just find it interesting, it actually 'stretched' me.
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Post by zazeniac on Apr 1, 2021 11:22:27 GMT -5
Hi SDP, I'm curious, what makes you think the underlined part? Do you feel you know for sure, or is it more a hunch of what you think might be true? I'm of course curious what happens after death, what happens to "me" (the "me" that feels like an individual being, but may not exist, if I believe the previews of 'truth' from non-dual teachers). But I'm skeptical that I'll ever be able to know any of this with certainty. So when someone says they know, I'm curious how they know, and their level of certainty. In the days in which I suffered great mental distress, I would contemplate suicide. I would find that the moment that I decided that it was a genuine option for me, that there was a letting go, a peace would rush in, and there was no longer a movement to contemplate it. This decision and letting go couldn't be 'manufactured', I couldn't make it happen. It had to happen of its own accord i.e I had to experience it as a genuine option. I came to strongly know through these experiences that 'something' does not dies. I don't mean this in a non-dual way, it's more a new age thing (but I understand the non-dual sense too). While I can say I 'know' this, I can't say I know what happens, I 'believe' that there are many different paths. Some might 'dissolve' fully into pure awareness. For others there might be a retaining of 'consciousness' in some way i.e other dimensions of experience. I don't know, but I think lots of potentials. I read a book last year called, ''The Afterlife of Billy Fingers''. I'd known about it for many years, and had read quotes from it, but on reading, discovered it was quite a different book to what I had expected. If you are bored one day, I'd recommend it. I didn't just find it interesting, it actually 'stretched' me. Having experienced the same mental distress you describe for the better part of my life, the zendo cured me of it. I think it was the discipline, mental and physical, the kiusaku, the rigidity, formality and structure overwhelmed the self-destructive thought patterns, something bigger than the depressing thoughts came into to play and I began to see the raggedy, disjointed mental landscape as not me. I began to associate me with the structure, energy and peace of the zendo and my practice. My life changed dramatically. There was a feeling of freedom and energy, strength. I can honestly say that I never felt depressed again. Now the anger component of my depression is still in play. Though I can't really call it depression anymore. I have to walk away from what I consider foolishness or nonsense. I have to make great effort to avoid those situations. I do avoid them. I used to look for them. I avoid them now. There's no thinking involved just rage that is beyond the norm. I don't think that'll ever be resolved but rather managed. My wife helps me tremendously with that. She is a saint. I really think rigorous meditation would benefit you, but it's really hard work. The hardest thing I've ever done. You have to give up so much of yourself, become nothing. I'd tell my son, before the zendo I used to think I was special. After the zendo, I realized what a burden that was. There is nothing more special than carrying wood and fetching water. The mundane little things are what is special. Not the noise in your head and around you in the world. You can't save the world, but you can take a step toward that by saving yourself. I've been hard on you at times, but I see you as a friend. I hope you stick around. I enjoy your warmth and compassion. When I was a teenager my mother attempted suicide twice. She had quite a rough life. I think it's harder on those who love you.
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Post by andrew on Apr 1, 2021 11:47:57 GMT -5
In the days in which I suffered great mental distress, I would contemplate suicide. I would find that the moment that I decided that it was a genuine option for me, that there was a letting go, a peace would rush in, and there was no longer a movement to contemplate it. This decision and letting go couldn't be 'manufactured', I couldn't make it happen. It had to happen of its own accord i.e I had to experience it as a genuine option. I came to strongly know through these experiences that 'something' does not dies. I don't mean this in a non-dual way, it's more a new age thing (but I understand the non-dual sense too). While I can say I 'know' this, I can't say I know what happens, I 'believe' that there are many different paths. Some might 'dissolve' fully into pure awareness. For others there might be a retaining of 'consciousness' in some way i.e other dimensions of experience. I don't know, but I think lots of potentials. I read a book last year called, ''The Afterlife of Billy Fingers''. I'd known about it for many years, and had read quotes from it, but on reading, discovered it was quite a different book to what I had expected. If you are bored one day, I'd recommend it. I didn't just find it interesting, it actually 'stretched' me. Having experienced the same mental distress you describe for the better part of my life, the zendo cured me of it. I think it was the discipline, mental and physical, the kiusaku, the rigidity, formality and structure overwhelmed the self-destructive thought patterns, something bigger than the depressing thoughts came into to play and I began to see the raggedy, disjointed mental landscape as not me. I began to associate me with the structure, energy and peace of the zendo and my practice. My life changed dramatically. There was a feeling of freedom and energy, strength. I can honestly say that I never felt depressed again. Now the anger component of my depression is still in play. Though I can't really call it depression anymore. I have to walk away from what I consider foolishness or nonsense. I have to make great effort to avoid those situations. I do avoid them. I used to look for them. I avoid them now. There's no thinking involved just rage that is beyond the norm. I don't think that'll ever be resolved but rather managed. My wife helps me tremendously with that. She is a saint. I really think rigorous meditation would benefit you, but it's really hard work. The hardest thing I've ever done. You have to give up so much of yourself, become nothing. I'd tell my son, before the zendo I used to think I was special. After the zendo, I realized what a burden that was. There is nothing more special than carrying wood and fetching water. The mundane little things are what is special. Not the noise in your head and around you in the world. You can't save the world, but you can take a step toward that by saving yourself. I've been hard on you at times, but I see you as a friend. I hope you stick around. I enjoy your warmth and compassion. When I was a teenager my mother attempted suicide twice. She had quite a rough life. I think it's harder on those who love you. Cheers Zaz, that's very kind words there, and great advice. Thank you. I should have been clearer that the days of extreme mental distress seem to be behind me, I still experience 'intensities' of different states at times, but I think there came a point when the need to judge the intensity subsided or dissolved. In a sense, I guess came to terms over a long period, with the fact that life experience CAN be intense at times. Like you, I found meditation to be very useful, and I still meditate for quite long periods at times. I am guilty of engaging with too much nonsense at times though (and by 'nonsense', I really mean 'politics' and 'political opinion'!) About 7 days ago I pulled myself away from twitter, having been on there for at least a couple of hours a day, for the last few weeks. I noticed that I was being regularly 'triggered', mainly irritation combined with a touch of anxiety. It was time to step away, and I actually do feel much better for the step away.
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Post by inavalan on Apr 1, 2021 11:52:06 GMT -5
Hi SDP, I'm curious, what makes you think the underlined part? Do you feel you know for sure, or is it more a hunch of what you think might be true? I'm of course curious what happens after death, what happens to "me" (the "me" that feels like an individual being, but may not exist, if I believe the previews of 'truth' from non-dual teachers). But I'm skeptical that I'll ever be able to know any of this with certainty. So when someone says they know, I'm curious how they know, and their level of certainty. In the days in which I suffered great mental distress, I would contemplate suicide. I would find that the moment that I decided that it was a genuine option for me, that there was a letting go, a peace would rush in, and there was no longer a movement to contemplate it. This decision and letting go couldn't be 'manufactured', I couldn't make it happen. It had to happen of its own accord i.e I had to experience it as a genuine option. I came to strongly know through these experiences that 'something' does not dies. I don't mean this in a non-dual way, it's more a new age thing (but I understand the non-dual sense too). While I can say I 'know' this, I can't say I know what happens, I 'believe' that there are many different paths. Some might 'dissolve' fully into pure awareness. For others there might be a retaining of 'consciousness' in some way i.e other dimensions of experience. I don't know, but I think lots of potentials. I read a book last year called, ''The Afterlife of Billy Fingers''. I'd known about it for many years, and had read quotes from it, but on reading, discovered it was quite a different book to what I had expected. If you are bored one day, I'd recommend it. I didn't just find it interesting, it actually 'stretched' me. When I do regressions and go through the death of a regressed life, I feel like waking up to a different me. It is exactly the feeling I have when I wake up from a dream. The dead-me becomes to the afterlife-me what the dreamed-me becomes to the awake-from-sleep-me. It doesn't disappear. It gets "shelved". This can be paralleled with how I look from where I am now to the kid-me, the schoolboy-me, the college-me, every me I experienced until now. They didn't die, but I'm not them. There is an seemingly infinite number of life-clips. As the nature of time is: ultimately slides.
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Post by inavalan on Apr 1, 2021 11:54:56 GMT -5
Dialogue is superfluous if one doesn't understand the other's position. That might be a sad truth. There is no objective reality, just subjective realities.
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Post by andrew on Apr 1, 2021 11:56:39 GMT -5
In the days in which I suffered great mental distress, I would contemplate suicide. I would find that the moment that I decided that it was a genuine option for me, that there was a letting go, a peace would rush in, and there was no longer a movement to contemplate it. This decision and letting go couldn't be 'manufactured', I couldn't make it happen. It had to happen of its own accord i.e I had to experience it as a genuine option. I came to strongly know through these experiences that 'something' does not dies. I don't mean this in a non-dual way, it's more a new age thing (but I understand the non-dual sense too). While I can say I 'know' this, I can't say I know what happens, I 'believe' that there are many different paths. Some might 'dissolve' fully into pure awareness. For others there might be a retaining of 'consciousness' in some way i.e other dimensions of experience. I don't know, but I think lots of potentials. I read a book last year called, ''The Afterlife of Billy Fingers''. I'd known about it for many years, and had read quotes from it, but on reading, discovered it was quite a different book to what I had expected. If you are bored one day, I'd recommend it. I didn't just find it interesting, it actually 'stretched' me. When I do regressions and go through the death of a regressed life, I feel like waking up to a different me. It is exactly the feeling I have when I wake up from a dream. The dead-me becomes to the afterlife-me what the dreamed-me becomes to the awake-from-sleep-me. It doesn't disappear. It gets "shelved". This can be paralleled with how I look from where I am now to the kid-me, the schoolboy-me, the college-me, every me I experienced until now. They didn't die, but I'm not them. There is an seemingly infinite number of life-clips. As the nature of time is: ultimately slides. That's very interesting, yes, I can relate to that.
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