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?‍♂️ I feel what you are saying but I've decided that I won't claim to know. I like using THIS because it still has an inquisitive tone to it, whereas calling it awareness /Consciousness seems too definitive. Same with calling it a dream, or illusion, or a simulation. Whatever... Those words can be used to describe THIS, but even the word THIS is a misnomer, as there is no-thing to be this or that.

I don't know what THIS is ?

@Farnaby this is exactly my experience too. Love surrendering practice it gives you. Also opens my heart wide. The trick is to practice the things it teaches you when sober.

Actually they appear to have beginnings with Tibetan monks... but in the 20's they were discovered by the west. Something like that. I'm sure the occult picked it up real fast. I have a feeling that what people call spirit guides are in fact tulpas. (correction : tibetan mystics, not monks) That's interesting about egregores. You can already say that this forum has a collective ego, so it wouldn't be too far off to make something sentient haha. jk

This one's really out there.... But that's OK because so am I! Anyone here heard of tulpamancy? This article explains it great... https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/exmqzz/tulpamancy-internet-subculture-892 In a way we are kind of like tulpas. To think that an imaginary being can create their own imaginary beings.... I predict in x number of years we will be having civil rights movement for our imaginary sentient beings...

1 day bump... If there's no interest I'll let it die...

This works for sure. Works much better when not in depression mindset. Does work for anxiety.

Hi, sorry I didn't write this. I will update the post to make that clearer. But here's my answers: 1. Not really sure about this one 2. Awareness and consciousness is a concept because these are just labels by thought to try and understand THIS.

@Serotoninluv haha I guess I'll take my chances... It already has unknown at the bottom but I'll do what you said... Surely someone who has had such a realization wouldn't care about being cited right lol

How about a tulpa

@Nahm @Serotoninluv @SoonHei Sorry guys.... this was a beautiful message, but I after I posted it I was asked not to share it because the person that I got it from can't remember the source..... please remove. Hope ya'll still got something out of it though

@ivankiss would you ever be interested in adding binaural beats or isochronic tones to your music? these tones change the frequency of the brain. Isochronic tones would be better possibly, because binaural beats require headphones to be effective. Isochronic tones work through any normal speakers.

The word God can be seen in the turtle shell. The point is that how can I know if it happened completely by random chaos, or if a divine intelligence is having a good laugh? And are the two mutually exclusive?

Haha this is a can of worms.... (At first I thought you wrote 'any name on it' and I wanted to say something witty like 'it's his screen name' ?)

Count from one to one hundred while visualizing the numbers going backwards. Start over if you lose count

haha our planet is one of the specks of dirt on the turtle's ass

Where's my cute animal eating popcorn gif when I need it?

sorry was just having a laugh. So what is your answer to the mind bender?

oh ok, well I stick my hand out of the bubble and it ends up popping in from the other side and scratches my back. very useful thank you!

@1liamo78 There would be no bubble. You can imagine a bubble if you'd like, but even if you stick your hand outside of it, you haven't reached the end of anything. Just the end of an imaginary bubble. I'm not 100% sure of everyone's use of the word "nothing", but I see it as no-thing. Endless form. There is no inside or outside, there's not even an object. And yet we also say that "everything" is contained within it. But if we say that there's no-thing, then there can't be an "every-thing" so the everything is imaginary. Does that help?

@Leo Gura @ivankiss@ivankiss. Oops sorry Leo, just taking to Ivan here... Chew a few peppercorns before pot use. There are chemicals in pepper that bind to your endocannaboids and somehow greatly lessen or prevent that paranoia and anxiety. You can even chew them after you are high and feeling the paranoia. https://www.leafly.com/news/cannabis-101/this-everyday-household-item-could-counteract-your-cannabis-induc

@Mulky @Myegolikestacos haha I work with dogs and I envy them too. Interesting though because they can have some severe psychological disorders sometimes that ruins their natural happy go lucky state. It appears they have evolved enough to start overthinking.

Ah OK I gotcha!

@Preetom maybe it's not for you. If it does become religion it could still be preached hundred of years from now and by then we have evolved a little bit more to transcend the (false) need for religion and find true effortless spirituality. The religion becomes a necessary evil, just as Christianity has.