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psychotic doesn't mean you're wrong about everything. I don't understand your hostility.

I've heard that paranoid schizophrenia is a western world disease, people in the east sometimes have something similar to what we would call schizophrenia but it can actually be much more pleasant, sometimes involving seeing deities . Learned this from the r/schizophrenia subreddit.

What does it feel like to connect with such beings . Once Ramana Maharshi came to me in a dream and I woke up feeling like it was real .

Maybe some of them realize the absolute but generally speaking I think they're just paranoid people are like spying on them and maybe they have voices say to harm themselves . But traditional cultures knew how to handle such people and they became shamans , which made it into a gift rather than a curse .

"The schizophrenic drowns in the same waters the mystic swims in."

It's a mental illness, and anything is a mental illness, only insofar as it causes harm to the individual or to others . I've heard, from Reddit schizophrenics, that some of their hallucinations are pleasant. But then again, some are terrifying.

God can worship itself by forgetting itself. you might know you're God but unless you're infinitely conscious there are parts of yourself you aren't conscious of.

U could say the same about Buddhism , but with Buddhism you'll at least have a practice that could lead to some enlightenment experiences. I attend in person Buddhist things, Leo was right that most of them don't understand God, but it's okay bc I go for emotional regulation and community. Zen is a little better than Theravada , many theravadans are materialists, zen at least has an idea of God called the one mind but they say it can't be understood, maybe with meditation it can't .

For about a month after quitting weed I felt like I couldn't make art, most of my writing and music I was creating from a space of drug induced insanity , this was great for the art but not great for me mentally, it takes some effort but I'm learning how to reach that state sober.

What I think about is how I don't remember my past lives so it's almost like they didn't exist, only if you can awaken in this life you see you're immortal but you still forget .

Thank you. Small psychical effects on random number generators and the remote viewing have had significant effects . But no major siddhi has been proven this is correct. Although if you put aside bias for a second and evaluate some of the evidence for Christ's resurrection objectively it's pretty interesting. Out of all religious miracles it might have the best evidence.

It's a hallucination people commonly report while in stimulant psychosis / on deliriants such datura.

@Joshe sounds like you're just not the addict type. Plenty of addicts know they're being irresponsible , but they need it, like they need water or air. Altho maybe it takes a few times for it to set in. Did you see the shadow people?

That he floated above his body and the car wreck from above saw them then looked up and saw the center of the universe .

I know some addict who had nde and got sober after .

I've thought about this. It sounds great to have one person im in love with plus a few groupies . But unless I also let my girl have groupies I'm a hypocrite , and I dunno if I could do that, so I'll prolly stick to monogamy.

That's why I said NDE is the bardo . According to the Tibetans the bardo is a hallucination. Not a hallucination happening in a brain ofc. But a hallucination before whatever comes next. What comes next can't be imagined or conceptualized, when you lose the reference point of being an individual it's beyond description.

NDE experiences map really well to the Bardo as described in the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Bardo is a transitory realm, not the true "afterlife."

Leo gura

Fuck no dude. In fact if you have a craving all the more reason to stay away. Maybe if you didn't have a craving (still would be a terrible idea) it could be fine. even something as benign as weed can ruin your life if you're a real addict. And the only way you know if you're a real addict is by doing drugs. And then if you are you're fucked.

even if they have zero chance of happening, the fact that those positions are stated hurts their candidates (even tho the candidates don't care for them), unfortunately.

Good. For sure I think several of DSA's positions are stupid, but overall I like them a lot better than the status quo.

26 and I've been around since I was 16. I feel younger now than I did a few years ago bc I've dealt w much of my trauma.

@Meeksauce doesn't sound like you asked her out. Maybe she doesn't even know you're into her? Is this someone you've known for awhile? Chances are she has no clue you're interested or maybe she sort of suspected it but now it's been so long she assumes not anymore. I make the same mistakes tho. I have this mental block where I don't ask women out, altho part of it is the women I'm attracted to are part of my spiritual community, and if I go to bars I usually get too shitty so I avoid them at least for now . I'm a bit too passive I think , I want them to come to me. I think if I just had a sober wingman it would be so much easier

@Jirhl didn't say you're psychotic what I meant is that what I experienced when I was psychotic was an elevated version of what you're experiencing . The pattern matching , the overblown signicance. It's a very similar mechanism , the difference is the extremity.