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Heard a word today that I wasn't really too familiar with- "Nosis" So I researched it and it's similar to Samadhi or union with the devine. And from the union comes spiritual intuition/insight/knowlage. Here's a site I found - Gnosis. I Thought it was an interesting read. Anybody here familiar with this? What do you think? Newagey? Too much belief system? But something about it rings with truth. I've wondered myself about DNA before. If during a spiritual experience information is decoded that would be otherwise dorment. Or just working behing the sceens ordinarally. A soul? what do you guys think about a soul? How can anyone be so sure there is no soul? Or even that there is? Honestly times it sure feels as if there is something of a soul. Like just an essance or something. When you open the heart isn't that connecting with the soul? All souls? @Solace Here's an excerpt that reminded me of your experiance of the heart. It is this path of inner reflection and personal purification that helps us discover the hidden knowledge encoded into our very DNA; with the ultimate goal of our gnosis to lead us down the path of enlightenment. Once we truly begin to know thyself, the world and our mission, we then begin to connect our souls with our Gnosis kardias; “knowledge of the heart” which then connects our soul with our heart, body and mind. https://gnosticwarrior.com/gnosis.html

@Jack River And it never knows it is. Only the "I" as the 10,000 things knows it is most excellent.

@Jack River Consciousness is awakening unto itself. It has nothing to do with "Me" at all.

@Jack River It's a remembering beyond all memories within time and space. This rememberance trancends that.

@Solace Not a "becoming" but a a remembering of what you've always been. And you've found it.

@Solace I feel ya!

@FredFred As in the case of your father you could say to him "I'm not satisfied with just being intelligent. I want to know the source of intelligence" It's a play on words from Einstein's quote "I want to know the thoughts of God" http://web.iitd.ac.in/~prbijwe/Book_Abstracts/The Power of Now.pdf

@Outer Nice!

@Taavi It's a "state" of being this or that. All states come and go. I'm reading this and yes I remember when I went through a similar state. And there will be others to come. And they too will come and go.

@PsiloPutty No I'm quite serious. The voice tells me jokes. For instance "The Silence of the Clams". "And what did you you hear in the night Clarice? Was it the slaughter of the spring clams?" Yes! I I tried to save just a few. So I grabbed a bushel of clams and ran away with them as fast and far as I could. But the bushel became to heavy. So I spilled them out and said "Run little clams! Be Free! But they just stayed there and wouldn't run".

@Edogowa Conan Truth comes in excepting all there is. Than truth is plentiful.

@PsiloPutty @SgtPepper I'm not sure either. How can you tell the difference? Or is there one?

Sometimes I tell myself a joke and lmao. The thing is, I never heard it before. It's like I have an invisible twin.

@Jack River Shot an image to go with that.

And so does hanging out on the forum. Catch you later surf rat. I'm outta here for now.

@The Blind Sage Silence has no location but permeates everything. Be like silence. Practice no location.

@John Lula The label flying may have been used just as a metaphor or a "finger pointing at the moon". For instance if some one were raised in a society where the the bolstering of a "self" was absent. Believe it or not your flying right now. Something of you is. Just b-c there is a desk here and a floor there and a door over there doesn't give them a location other than being relitive to each other. It's all just floating in the nothingness. And so are you!

@NoSelfSelf You don't necessarily want full enlightenment. When your fully enlightened there won't be a you to enjoy it. So you just want to be very close. You want to be able to taste sugar not be sugar because sugar can't taste itself.

@Jack River Every thought/action has an infinite ripple effect. At the time the thought/action may have been totally rational from that limited POV. But the long lasting effects reach so far outside of even the most rational thought eventually it becomes irrational. So what's left? The natural flow with the Earth/existance. Than can there be harmony/wholeness and the Earth would be plentiful. That's a rational sounding thought right? Sounds good? The Earth and it's inhabitance existing in perfect harmony. But than what? The population explodes like crazy? Just something I was pondering while enjoying cookies.

@Jack River Wholeness vs. fragmentation. Good stuff by Bohm.

Wholeness is an attitude or an approach to the whole of life. If we can have a coherent approach to reality than reality will respond coherently to us. But nature has been tremendously effected by our way of thinking on the Earth. Nature is now being destroyed and there is very little left on Earth that is not effected by how we are thinking. -David Bohm

The bullshit is the fuel that makes the world-go-round and there seems to be an endless supply of it.

@Preetom Found this video this morning.

@Andrea Marchetti If treated with total respect the smoke can be a great ally. Sit silently in nature like in the deep woods for instance and the smoke will show you truth.