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@purerogue Well he claims it is, since the topic is about enlightenment

@Hellspeed so why does Eckhart Tolle age like a normal person? It's not because 99.99% believes the same. In that way you can argument anything to be true. "I'm superman, but I know you won't believe me because 99.99% doesn't anyways 'but trust me ;)'" There's many enlightened folks you can follow and I have yet to see anyone that doesnt age

@Hellspeed Ehm. What do you mean one will live at most 100 years, implying immortal for enligtenment. It's not as if you're enlightened your body doesn't age

@Joseph Maynor Love the metaphor!!

Yesterday, I went on a magical trip, using Atlantis truffles. Here is my trip report. Setting: One trip sitter. One of my best friends and me took the truffles together. We were in a house when we started. The lights were dimmed, we were sitting on the couch in the living room. The trip: Start Right when I felt it kicking in, I asked my friend to cuddle together. When we were cuddling, I could feel that the effects were starting to come. I just made my mind blank, and let it all come to me. It started with my hand. I looked at my hand, and I couldn't believe my eyes. It looked like my hand was actually living, breathing almost. My veins looked huge, I could see my blood stream. It was almost as if my hands became transparent. I could see everything. Then, a big bulge started to form on my hand, and my friend could see exactly the same. Suddenly, my hand started deforming, and it was as if my thumb was being separated from my hand. Again, my friend witnessed the same thing as I was seeing, which I found strange, and made me a bit scared. To stop my fear from building up, I went to the trip sitter and asked her what was the difference between my two hands. She said she didn't see anything really. I looked back at my hands, and they were indeed back to normal. I went back to the couch, and now watched my friends hands. It was totally different from mine, and there was a green light coming from beneath her skin. She was seeing the same things I was. It was a kind of warm green neon-ish light. When I kept staring, suddenly numbers appeared. But there were not static. The numbers were just 'running' on her hand, from right to left. Then human faces started to appear, beneath the numbers. Like a portrait of different people next to each other, but only the faces. Like a school picture, but each picture of each person separated from each other. Kind of like a post card full of faces. My friend didn't see that though, she only saw the green light. Then, I started looking up to the ceiling, and it was amazing. It was as if the ceiling was living. All kinds of forms were created in a beautiful harmonious way. I just looked at it in silence for what seemed hours. Enjoying the show. I didn't want to really talk about what I was seeing yet, because I wanted to keep the show going like it was without it being interrupted. Then, stupid of me, but I grabbed my phone, to share the experience with other people. But then I realized it was kind of stupid so after a few mins of contemplating I just went back to the couch. Walk outside My friend wanted to take a walk outside, and first I advised against it, only if we would bring the trip sitter. Which eventually happened. We went outside to walk, and it was a walk that seemed to take forever. I lost all sense of orientation and it was as if we were walking for hours. The trees looked enormous, and all I could feel was sincere love and compassion. I told my friend I was sorry multiple times, for being stupid sometimes, not really referring to anything in specific. Just a general "sorry", for whenever I ever made her feel bad in the lifetime of our friendship. Then I started kind of meeting my shadow. Things I kind of suppressed for a few years. Things that have held me back and things that stopped me from achieving my full potential. I could see everything that kind of "traumatized" me, face on, and I felt like I could finally say goodbye to it. I talked with my friend about it and it was a good talk. My thoughts were rushing everywhere though. I was then thinking about the people in my life, the people I love and howmuch I appreciate them, even though I forget sometimes. But I never felt sad during this time. Even when meeting my inner "demons". It was more like a "goodbye" to them, more so than reminiscing about the past. It was like I was meeting an old friend. Back inside Back inside, I grabbed my friends' hands, and it was so weird, the touch, the feeling. It was as if we were intertwined. Like we were kind of in a knot with each other. After enjoying this little moment, we went back to the couch, and my friend was laughing hysterically. She said as if she lost sense of gravity, like she was a spaghetti. And I could also hear it in her voice. She said it was like she was getting things out of herself, by laughing hysterically. With her hands swinging in the air. Then she stood up and started crying. She told me about things she has been having difficulties with (she had a troubled childhood). And it was all coming out at once. After that, she was good again, and she felt relieved. My thoughts kept jumping everywhere. We would try to start singing together, some christmas songs, but we always stopped after the first sentence and seemed like we went our own way again. Pretty weird, and I couldn't sing in tune, how hard I tried. (Even though I know how to sing) Then our trip sitter asked us to draw something. But all I could do was draw circles. The paper was so weird, I saw colors and figures everywhere, and I couldn't distinguish between the circle I drew and the hallucinations on the paper. It was as if there was nothing coming out of the pen anyways. My friend suddenly got a bit depressed, saying she could feel the effects wear off, and she felt sad that she wouldn't feel the amazing feeling she had. It took her 10 minutes to get over it, and to accept that it was a temporary trip. I let her get over herself, while I was still tripping, and still enjoying. After the trip After the trip, we talked for a good hour about everything we had seen and felt, and to try to make sense out of it. We were talking about mutual friends, and it was funny to see the ego coming back. But it was as if we were catching the ego off-guard. The ego trying to get you back in its grip, and it was actually scary to see how sneaky the ego actually is. Then, I suddenly got 2 texts from two old friends. Very weird coincidence. But one of the friends I met 3 years ago, and she was very much into spirituality. And she messaged me right after my trip ended (last time I heard from hear was like 2 years ago). Another friend also texted me who had a very bad time, went to psychiatry, almost took her own life. I stumbled upon her once with big knifes in her room, drunk in bed and cuts in her arm while crying hysterically. She asked me if I was out, to which I responded no and where I asked her about how she was now. And she told me she is doing much much better and doing a lot of sports and back on the good track. I don't know, but I thought this was really strange, that these two people would text me right in this trip, when I didn't hear from both of them for ages. That's about it, not sure if you guys are interested in it, but there you go.

@TheAvatarState im happy you enjoyed reading it!

Anyone able to access them? Really want to get into this.

@ajasatya That's why I was asking Hellspeed to provide some evidence

@ajasatya Akashic Records, as far as I understand what it is, is not subjective nor individual

@Hellspeed Change your appearance

@ajasatya Knowledge is not useless though.

@Hellspeed What's inside a black hole?

@ajasatya Why useless?

@Hellspeed I understand that. But there are examples of people writing books about their knowledge they found in the Akashic Records. Doesn't require people to die necessarily, unless you'd want to access them yourselves ofcourse.

@Hellspeed But thing is, you can't just "say" those things without explaining or giving examples. Otherwise you just throw some seeds without doing anything really

@Hellspeed Ok. Still interested in what you gather of info from the Akashic Records though.. Haha

@Hellspeed From some reason I don't like watching Leo's video's. Nothing personal against Leo, but I don't find him charismatic and I am not drawn to his content. Probably I am not prepared like you say either, but these days I am experimenting with some psychedelics, and am committed to doing daily meditation routines as well as reading more books about it and watching documentaries / reading papers. But there's not much information I can find. A lot are self-proclaimed spiritual gurus. If you search for akashic records on YouTube you can't really find anything apart from video's with robotic voices, people offering 'services', or some vague description of something. The quality I am looking for isn't really there yet, or maybe I should grab onto older literature.

@Hellspeed Worth a shot, haha.

@Hellspeed So you would be able to read me and my life? Could we put that to a test where you say something about my past or so on Skype

@Hellspeed how would you describe it? What have you seen?

It seems as if the path to enlightenment first and foremost is to get rid of the ego. Becoming ego-death. But if the ego is such a blockage, why is it there in the first place? Isn't the ego necessary for 'survival'? It's all linked to identity. How I would see the ego, it is used as a sort of defence - and survival mechanism. eg.: feeling threatened, so you become more defensive, protective. Why is it there if it is considered such a thing that blocks you from improving yourself? Is it a flaw?

@TheAvatarState So you're saying, the ego was necessary to come to this point. And the way we developed til now (thanks to the ego), we've passed the survival point for which the ego is not necessary anymore? @SoonHei I am not sure if I agree with that. If you "label" the ego or not, it is still there and will still cause an effect on you. I didn't know lots of my mental struggles were due to my Ego. I didn't know what an Ego was until 3 years ago. And until I realized that, I got better at handling it. My point is, if you don't know what an Ego is, that doesn't mean that the Ego doesn't have you in its grip.

@non_nothing Haha... You understand me wrong. You're not really reading what I was saying. I say it MIMICS how the brain functions. No that it synthesizes proteins. I studied Artificial Intelligence. Just do some research on Neural Networks.

@non_nothing Never say "never" though. Right now AI is already mimicing the way a brain functions (Neural Networks). This is still very basic, and training on one specific task yields good results. But technology advances very very quickly, so yeah. Although I must agree that the chances of it developping its own consciousness are slim to none

What I wonder about these things is, why do you want to be with a girl so badly in those periods of depression? Why do you want to be a guy that is accepted by girls? Is your life incomplete without some girl giving you some attention and appreciation? It sounds you need some self-love first to be honest. Having a gil in your lief will just give you that extra fun, but your happiness shouldn't depend on it? That said, glad to hear you're better!