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I think a lot of the misunderstanding around God and consciousness comes from trying to fit them into a strictly material or logical framework. For me personally, seeing these strange or paranormal experiences taken seriously in places like CIA documents, scientific research, and other credible sources really helped connect the mystical with something more familiar. Leo's blog was a big inspiration for this, so I figured I'd start this thread! https://www.actualized.org/insights/the-boy-who-could-read-with-his-ears Feel free to share anything that looks at the paranormal in a thoughtful or scientific way. Whether it's research, reliable sources, or even personal stories, anything that helps bridge the abstract with the rational is welcome! P.S. My bad if a thread like this already exists. Feel free to close this one and point me to the original – I’ll gladly continue the discussion there!

@Keryo Koffa @All 🤍 What a beautiful tag! 😊 @One @God @Everyone

Ultimately, everything is equally important! Importance over something else is a duality of the fragmented self. What matters is what helps it survive or expand, LOve!

The title says it all! This thread is meant as a companion piece to the recent discussion on corruption, selfishness, and underdevelopment. Here, we’ll focus on the other side of the coin - highlighting humanity’s potential, progress, and the systems that are actively helping to uplift, stabilize, and evolve society!

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https://www.actualized.org/insights/afghan-underdevelopment

@Puer Aeternus All sounds very interesting! Maybe it could even become a full thread if it aligns with the forum's guidelines?

@Puer Aeternus Thank you! Mind sharing more? Very interesting.

Time will pass anyway, now is the perfect time!

Hey! Just a small suggestion for the blog - sometimes the videos aren't playable in my country (and maybe others too). Since the video is embedded, I can't see the actual YouTube link to try accessing it directly. If possible, could you include the video link as plain text or a clickable hyperlink alongside the embed? That way, people who run into country blocks can still copy the URL and watch it with a VPN. Loving the blog a lot - thanks!

I appreciate that in Islam, there are no images of God – it helps avoid worshipping a figure or reducing God to a limited, anthropomorphized form. But at the same time, during some of my trips, I’ve encountered imagery that deeply resonated with the feeling or presence of “God.” Sometimes I’d see something and immediately think, that’s God! So I thought it would be interesting to start a thread and share those kinds of images, and also see how others’ experiences compare. Note: I'm not saying this is what God looks like or what God is. I'm just pointing out that some images seem to serve as powerful pointers or symbolic representations – they can evoke something deep or even help trigger or confirm an awakening!

This imbalance is referred to as baryon asymmetry. The word “baryon” refers to heavy subatomic particles like protons and neutrons, the building blocks of atomic nuclei. Experiments and observations suggest that for every billion particle-antiparticle pairs created in the early universe, there was one extra matter particle. That one-in-a-billion surplus survived the mass annihilation event and became the matter of our cosmos. But how did this happen? The process that might have caused it is known as baryogenesis. The Russian physicist Andrei Sakharov outlined three necessary conditions for baryogenesis: violation of baryon number (meaning some reactions need to produce more baryons than antibaryons), violation of charge and parity symmetries (C and CP violation), and conditions that prevent the system from returning to equilibrium. Without all three, the symmetrical conditions of the early universe would have persisted. Now, the key suspect in this mystery is the weak force - one of the four fundamental forces of nature. Unlike gravity, electromagnetism, or the strong force, the weak force behaves differently when it comes to matter and antimatter. It shows CP violation. This has been directly observed in certain decays of subatomic particles like kaons and B mesons. The weak force also exhibits what’s called parity violation, meaning it doesn’t treat left and right the same. For example, neutrinos - ghostly particles that only interact via the weak force - are always left-handed, while antineutrinos are always right-handed. This strange handedness, or chirality, breaks mirror symmetry and hints at a deeper imbalance in nature that could explain why matter won out. Neutrinos are especially interesting here. They might hold the secret to understanding how the universe tipped the scales in favor of matter. Experiments like T2K in Japan and NOvA in the US are examining how neutrinos oscillate - that is, change type - as they travel. These oscillations seem to happen differently for neutrinos and antineutrinos, which is a form of CP violation. If confirmed, it could be the mechanism responsible for the matter-antimatter asymmetry. Neutrinos are also unique in that they might be their own antiparticles (a concept known as Majorana particles), which would allow certain rare processes to occur that violate the conservation of lepton number, another potential pathway to baryon asymmetry through a process called leptogenesis. In parallel, other experiments like LHCb at CERN have found CP violation in particles containing bottom quarks, while experiments like ALPHA and BASE at CERN trap and study antimatter directly to see how it compares to regular matter under different forces, especially gravity. These tests have so far not shown any obvious differences beyond the weak interaction, which seems to be uniquely asymmetric. Theoretically, physicists have proposed various extensions to the Standard Model to explain these observations. Some of them invoke supersymmetry, extra dimensions, or new particles that might have existed briefly in the early universe. One such idea is the Affleck-Dine mechanism, which suggests that scalar fields tied to supersymmetric particles could have caused matter to dominate over antimatter. Others look at how quantum fluctuations during the inflationary phase of the universe might have set up slightly different conditions in different regions, leading to small imbalances that had big consequences. Despite these advances, the full explanation is still out of reach. We have experimental evidence of CP violation, but the amount observed so far in the known particle interactions is not enough to account for the enormous asymmetry in the universe. This suggests that there must be other, yet undiscovered, sources of asymmetry. That’s why research in particle physics and cosmology is so active in this area. Scientists are hoping that more precise measurements of neutrino behavior, the discovery of new particles, or anomalies in antimatter experiments will eventually reveal where the universe broke the perfect symmetry it should have had - and why.

Promise I’m not! But I guess the only way to prove that is with time. Either way, hope you enjoy my threads!

Pure transparency, this was one of my deepest awakenings. It felt like a clear, transparent overlay had settled over everything, or everything else had been completely cleared out, like a vacuum emptying the room. My consciousness and awareness felt incredibly real, and I kept screaming, “Awakening! Awakening! Awake! I’m awake, I’m so awake, so awake!” Not white, no color, and not a void either. It’s the same room, the same visual field you’re seeing now, but everything feels so much “realer,” “purer,” with heightened awareness. The best way to describe it is to compare how you feel when you’re painfully sleepy and drowsy versus after a perfect nap when you’re fully awake. Even though your surroundings haven’t changed, your experience is way more alert and clear.

@Someone here I’m not Keryo! It seems like Keryo has been away from the forum for a while, but I do think they’re very cool! Hopefully they’ll come back soon. I’m just a new little mouse here

@Mellowmarsh I don’t know for sure! I’m just sharing what my experience was like. On one trip, I couldn’t stop drawing triangles with eyes in the middle, or single-eye creatures like the ones I mentioned earlier. That was when I was going through my awakening to no-self. I’m sharing this here so others can compare with their own experiences. That’s all. It’d be interesting to see if there are any commonalities or patterns, even though these experiences are supposed to be very personal and subjective.

@Someone here Thanks! And just to be clear, I’m not saying this is what God looks like or what God is. Like you said, God is everything and has no image or form – that’s why Islam doesn’t promote imagery, especially idol worship or anthropomorphic depictions. As said above, I’m just pointing out that some images act as powerful symbols or pointers. They can evoke something deep or even help trigger or confirm an awakening. So if you ever decide to trip and see anything that visually points you to God, definitely share it here, yay!

The mask from Majora’s Mask in The Legend of Zelda!

These goofy, mind-fuck old school cartoony 2D styles with bright saturated colors also feel like God - they encapsulate the playful, yet insane nature, pretty well! There’s also a remembrance of childhood before our ego was fully formed, so probably it triggers some memory of a less filtered conscious experience.

@Mellowmarsh No worries! I don't think it's too similar – your topic seems much broader in scope. This thread is more focused specifically on the visual imagery and representations that often come up during psychedelic trips or moments of insight that people associate with God. Yours feels more philosophical and wide-ranging, so I don't see any conflict at all!

Another one that comes to mind is the triangle-headed creature with a single eye in the center – kind of like an Illuminati symbol, but much goofier. Bill Cipher from Gravity Falls is a great example, and it also reminds me of the characters from the game Patapon. This kind of imagery probably captures the “observer” aspect of God for me. It can be a powerful symbol for ego death or stepping outside the self to witness reality from a more expanded, non-personal perspective.

The first one is a classic - the ever-escalating spiral. I’ve seen quite a few variations of it, and each time I do, it seems to unlock a new layer of understanding. I remember one specific moment where a spiral helped me zoom out of my immediate surroundings. In that moment, I grasped God as an infinite “object,” containing not only my present experience, but all possible realities spiraling outward from a single point of origin. It was a single, continuous spiral, not multiple expanding ones like in some images above. I could see through it, almost like it had a 3D or even 4D quality. It wasn’t just in front of me, it was moving through me, pulling my present moment into itself. The whole thing felt incredibly trippy, with stripe-like patterns in black, blue, and purple.