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I feel like the purpose of life as a human, is just to continue raising our awareness more, and spreading love and compassion, all to just do more awesome things on the other side. Raising our awareness and spreading compassion strengthens our spirit, so then we can do more awesome things on the other side in the spirit world when we die. So our real life is not here, our REAL life is actually on the other side in the spirit world. Here is more of a training ground, like a giant gym dojo with training bags, jump ropes, heavy weights, sparring rings (all metaphorically), where we just train to strengthen our spirit. So then when we die, we have the strength to do some pretty kick ass awesome things on the other side (in our real life)!

Yes I believe it is true. There are countless NDE'ers that all say many of the same exact things even though they never met each other, and have never done any research into NDE's. Also I almost died once myself. And what I saw was something incredible, something really beautiful. I was bench pressing heavy weights (all by myself in my garage without a spotter my fault), my peck tendon ripped and my left arm mostly gave out. The bar fell to my chest and it starting to roll up to my neck, it was 280 pounds, it was about an inch above my throat it would have instantly crushed my neck if it did roll up to it. So I gave it absolutely all the strength I had to keep the bar from rolling up to my neck, even though my left arm was mostly out. I know I could've wiggled from side to side to have the weights fall off, but i was slightly panicking in that moment, so my brain was kind of just was telling me to push it off, which of course was impossible. They say that moments before you're about to die, your consciousness/soul leaves the body right before impact to avoid the suffering. I think thats what kind of what happened to me for a second, also because all the blood was rushing to my head from all the pressure, it started to make me go slightly unconscious. What I saw, was everything around me looked like it had a slightly tinted blue color, then I saw like stardust particles rising up, and they were twinkling a bit, it almost looked it had a purple hue to it with the rest of the bluish tinted color around me, and I started to rise up with it. And it was sooooooooooo beautiful, not only in how it looked but how it felt, something beyond beautiful, I cant even put it into words how much love I felt in that moment as I was starting to rise up with it, the human language doesn't nearly give it justice. I snapped out of it though as I was still fighting for my life, I think because part of me refused to die even though part of me knew I was about to die, there was just still some things I wanted to do in this life. I started praying hard, real hard for Jesus to lend me a hand, I told him theres still things I need to do. Then one of the weights to the side fell off, then the bar wiggled more from the imbalance and the other weight from the other side fell off, then some more weights fell, then finally i managed to get it off. I know it was pretty dumb of me I could've just wiggled the bar from the beginning and got the weights off then, but i panicking and that just didnt come to my head at the time, and i wasnt trained on doing that if something like that happened. Then I fell off the bench and nearly fainted from all the blood in my head, and I think other adrenaline hormones. So yea im pretty sure what I saw and felt was real, and i'm convinced we definitely go somewhere after we die. Also I have books that talk about the spirit world, from researchers that take their work very seriously. I can share if interested.

Spirit world. Where we go to once we die. Then after spending some time there, eventually we reincarnate again

Im not saying this is the only way of how to live life, we can live life in other ways due to our free will, but I would say this is a way and a pretty good way. It does make me wonder though, why is it that when we reincarnate as a human, we very often almost have nothing of what we want or not nearly enough of it, then when we pass on to the other side (spirit world), it switches to the inverse to where we can have basically EVERYTHING we want and have always wanted. I'm thinking it was intentionally designed this way for a reason, to first have almost nothing (as a human), and then to have almost everything (in the spirit world). Also this is only referring to spirits that reincarnate or incarnates, which would also be us humans. Okay, I always wonder, in this life as reincarnating as a human, it’s hard as hell. As a guy, I can’t seem to attract a girlfriend at all and I’m suffering from intense touch starvation. I haven’t had a girlfriend in so many years, and a female hasn’t touched me in so long. Physically this does hurt. I might live the rest of my life like this. But this does get me wondering, maybe life as reincarnating as a human is supposed to be this ridiculously hard and unfair, then when we die physically, we can go off into the spirit world, and it’s in the spirit world is where we can be able to have and experience all the things that we couldn’t have here as a human. And it can if we want to be just as realistic and physical as it is here in the physical world, so then we can really experience in spirit world what we couldn’t experience in the physical world. Then this also got me thinking, maybe the proper way on how to live life as reincarnating as a human and then out in the spirit world, is both of the selfless and of the selfish. Which is that when you reincarnate as a human, God wants us to have selflessness, with a small amount of selfishness, that’s why it’s so hard to get things we want as a human. To get women, to get intimacy, to have money, to have shelter, to have food, to be cared for, heck even a decent functioning body can be hard to get, etc. it’s almost as if God intentionally designed the reincarnation world this way to be so hard, mean, and cruel, to make it really hard to get the things we want, so then we can enter more into a state of selflessness rather than selfishness. Which is that when you're intensely suffering over a period of time of not receiving the thing you want, this invokes a sense of compassion in you and gratitude and joy for the little amount of things you have. You feel compassion for others who are also suffering in the mud, you want to help them because deep down you don’t want them to feel the same pain you experienced. Then after we die and go into the spirit world, God then wants us to have selfishness, with a small amount of selflessness. And so then the world that we go into, it’s really eeeeeasy to get everything we want, to easily manifest it all. I can go into other worlds, have armies of harems of the most beautiful women all for me and fulfill all my desires, all the food I want to experience, the biggest mansion I want to live in, the most incredible vast adventures to explore and go on with the most awesome group of friends, and of course if we want it can be just as physically real as if we were human on Earth to make the experience more exciting and interesting. This is where God wants us to also enter more into a state of selfishness, with a small amount of selflessness. Yes God wants his children to help and be there for others, but it would be foolish to ONLY help others and completely disregard yourself, God also wants his children to enjoy themselves as well. This I believe is the great balance between both worlds, the world of the selfless which is Hell (to create great pain and suffering amongst ourselves to help evolve reality to be more in an state of giving). And the world of the selfish which is Heaven (to create great rest and enjoyment amongst ourselves to help evolve reality to be more in a state of receiving). When these two worlds are happening simultaneously, it allows reality to work in harmony of both giving and receiving, this I think would then be a perfect balance that God wants his children to be in. Of course there are variations, there are humans on earth that are mostly selfish, and there are human spirits in the spirt world that are mostly selfless, this is okay as we can choose this from our free will, but if we follow this basic framework of selflessness and selfishness, this allows both sides to be balanced and is great for our spiritual evolution. Its like the yin and yang, both sides are the inverse, but each side has a little bit of the other side. One side is light, but it has a little bit of dark, and other side is dark but has a little bit of light. Thus I’m thinking this actually would be one excellent framework of how to live life, in both reincarnating as a human, and then living life in the spirit world. Also I say, "with a little bit of selfishness" or "with a little bit of selflessness", because in each world you should still have a little bit of other. If your reincarnating on earth, yes you mostly spending your time helping others, but you should still spend sometime for self too, maybe theres an amazing movie you like to watch or a game you like to play. And vice in the spirit world, yes your spending your time getting everything you want, but spend some time to help others along the way as well. Also I wanna add, which pretty much includes all of us here, the ones that are spending their time learning, expanding their awareness, understanding, and wisdom, whether that be from meditation, books, videos, talking to others, etc, this counts as an act of selflessness. Because by expanding our own wisdom, even if we're doing this alone, this feeds into the human collective consciousness, and thereby helps to raise the overall wisdom of all other humans (we're all connected to the human collective consciousness). What do you guys think? Also if im wrong about something or wrong about all of it, pls let me know lol. Im open to hearing all responses.

Yea, I spent alot of my life trying to chase the things I really want. But after years of trying to attain these things and realizing how incredibly and often ridiculously hard it is, it dawned on me, maybe it was designed to be this hard to attain the things we want for a reason. It could also be aspects of myself that I need to heal thats acting as blockages from me attaining the things I want, but then there we go again, healing myself (what I also found), is also incredibly hard and tricky. And then yea I came to this conclusion. Which is that, we're not supposed to have a lot in life as a human (in general), its not designed for that, thats why its so hard to get these things. This creates pain and suffering, and from that creates, compassion, understanding, humility, forgiveness, higher awareness, etc etc. Then when we get to the other side, all of a sudden its the inverse, all of a sudden we have everything. But I would say that being able to have everything on the other side is more amplified if we lived a strong sense of selflessness here on earth. I believe someone on reddit referred to this as spiritual currency. Which is essentially: the higher awareness, compassion, understanding, and wisdom you build here on physical earth, the more freedom you can have in the spirit world. Another way to put it is: the more selfless you are here on physical earth, the more selfish you can be in the spirit world. Also I do have books that are about the sprit world, super interesting subject. I can share if you want.

I'm planning on running an experiment (explained in the second paragraph), I really would love to know what you guys think. Also I do have a curious mind, I love to experiment with things, even if the experiment sounds ridiculous, funny, stupid, or silly, or heck even dangerous, I love to know "if I do this thing, what would be the result", I find it incredibly fun. I do have a very active sacral chakra (chakra also for sexual pleasure) for all my life, so these types of things come naturally to me. Also i'm very interested in meditation and spirituality, so combining these two in an experiment such as this I find very interesting, i'd love to know what you guys think. Horrible idea, waste of time, very interesting, incredible, amazing, i'm okay with all feedback but I would like to know before I start putting some serious effort and time into this experiment, as this would basically be over the course of my life as an everyday practice. The experiment: To stay in alignment with the guidelines, I wont give any details of the porn involved in this experiment. I love reading porn comics, I think they're an incredible beautiful art. I would meditate everyday for I would say one hour sitting down cross legged. This would be a very intense visualization meditation of me visualizing myself being in a particular porn comic that I read, or imagining myself being in another made up porn world. I would imagine this happening to me in the here and now, the same way you would manifest anything else, where you imagine it intensely that its happening now, and through 'law of attraction' over time it just manifests. Now as i'm practicing this for years and decades for one hour everyday, this may manifest itself physically in my life and thats fine, but what i'm really interested in is how this would manifest itself in the spirit world, where I go to when I physically die. Especially since most of the porn I watch is fantasy, so it mostly wouldn't be possible to experience it here in physical life. Before I thought when planning this experiment, that I had to imagine it happening once i'm there in the spirit world to manifest it there. But actually i'm realizing that it would be much better if I visualize it here and now, visualize it here and now, since all there is is 'now', and then once my physical body eventually dies, the now that I would be in which would be the spirit world, then becomes what I manifested through my meditations. So this experiment is basically to see, how this visualization porn meditation would effect my experience in the spirit world. And like I said i'm particularly interested on the effects in spirit world and not as much the physical world, because alot of it is fantasy (limitations). Now it can be argued that the same thing is done in masturbation, which I think is true, but I think this would be different. This goes on a much more deeper level in terms of manifesting a world, its much more disciplined, alot more energy goes into it in terms of your attention, the meditation would last for a whole hour of constant intense visualization (i know this would take time to have my mind stay focused in this way for that long), masturbation is just not nearly as intense and very inconsistent. Also masturbating too frequently can damper your creativity, drive to create things, and cause other problems. I know theres alot more to manifestation then just the visualization aspect, such as healing yourself from traumas and insecurities, fixing your thoughts to be positive, doing meditation to clear your mind to further help heal it emotionally and spiritually, having a healthy life with yourself and with others, always working on improving your financial situation, etc etc. All these things i'm taking very seriously as part of the experiment. Let me know what you guys think! I'm very curious.

I'm a bit conflicted, where i'm practicing spirituality, alot through meditation, working on emotions/thought management, but I also love lust, and I think certain forms of porn can be incredible art. Part of me feels lust is okay to have, and you dont have to get rid of it if you dont want to. But would this get in the way as I go deeper and deeper into states of consciousness through meditation? I know Buddhists would probably say lust is horrible and its just one of the many desires that we should drop (i'm not a buddhist btw). But part of me wants to question that, does dropping desires especially with things like lust really matter? it feels like you can go incredibly deep with spiritual development even with having desires like lust (as long as its not super negative like rape obviously), and still probably be able to get out of any reincarnation cycle.

He probably means there's only consciousness, not a soul. Which I don't think it matters they're both the same thing.

This happened in a dream. Also by being shown my purpose in this dream, I guess you can say I was shown some of my future. Also just a quick history, I have had premonitions before in my dreams, and yes they were extremely vivid and have come true. But even though they came true, those were just small little premonitions on small things, I’ve never had something on this size before. Or sometimes I would have it when I'm awake, like a feeling something is gonna happen, and then it does actually happen exactly how I felt it. Also the reason why I’ve had those premonitions was I’m pretty sure because of my meditation, when I’m doing a lot of meditation, I often start to have very vivid dreams, and then they turn into premonitions sometimes, or these certain feelings. And yes I’m not kidding a number of them have really happened, and extremely accurately to the T. I have been meditating more recently. This part of the dream where I was told this was very short, the other parts of the dream before this was just random stuff kind of like a movie story line. But then what was interesting was as it was just a normal random dream, the dream suddenly changed into this part where I was told this message (my true purpose here), like someone was quickly relaying a message to me, then it ended. Also it was a female voice that was telling me this in the dream (Idk who she is). Basically in the dream, I was told the reason why I reincarnated into this life, my mission, was to be able to see the size of the universe, and yes I’m using the exact words she used, she said “for you to know the size of the universe”. When she said that, I instantly knew that she meant, which was through my meditation that I’ve been practicing, basically for me to go deeper and deeper into my meditation and into the meditative state, expanding my consciousness and a deeper understanding reality, and eventually I would go so deep, that as she said, I would be able to know the true size of the universe, or see it for what it really is. Then she continues to tell me, after once I see this, I’m gonna want more, I’m gonna wanna see more and experience more in terms of going deeper into the meditative state. So then I will give up everything, give up my life here in society, give up my job or any idea of making money, and fully devote myself to meditation to be able to see more and know more. This is basically the exit point I planned for myself (this is what she told me, and she said ‘exit point’). By exit point I mean how I planned to leave out of this life before I reincarnated here (physical death). And by planning, I mean how I planned to live this life and leave during my time in the spirit world before I reincarnated. So by going on this meditation path after my experience of “knowing the size of the universe”, it would lead to my death because I wouldn’t be making any money, just meditating, so naturally I would starve to death. Then after I was shown a woman crying, it kind of felt like it was either my future wife or girlfriend (I’m single right now). She was crying that I was deciding to leave out of this life, and going down this meditation path and giving up everything. I knew that I was going to die on this path, but I knew that it was worth it and it would be beautiful, she knew I was going to die too. Then in the dream while she was crying she said, “it’s because of them, it’s because they converted you into being Muslim isn’t it” (I have no connection to being Muslim), then I said “no no no it’s not because of that, this is something I have to do”, then she said something along the lines of, “I want to come with you, but you don’t let me because you think I’m too weak (while she’s still crying)”, then I’m not sure what I said after this but I do remember then saying, I love you so much, and I hugged her and kissed her. During this time between me, and I’m thinking either my gf or wife in the dream, I can feel the emotions being really strong, from her being intense sadness and loss, and from me the same but also knowing that I have to do this. It’s making want to cry right now as I’m writing this. And at that point the dream ended. So essentially, the reason why I reincarnated into this life was for one thing, for me to know the size of the universe. I know this sounds funny, which it is honestly, and when I herd her say this in the dream, I didn't say it but I do remember having feelings of like, "Whaaaaaaaaaaat? That's why I came here??? Just for that?" But now that I'm thinking about it, there really is deep meaning to it, extremely deep I would say. If you think about it, that could mean everything. To know.... I'm trying to wrap my mind around it thats way too deep for me right now haha. I'm really interested to see what you guys think. Some interesting points I noticed, 1. The female voice that was telling me this had no emotion, she was more just simply relaying information to me, also after this I instantly woke up, almost like she told me this just in time. This female voice I never heard of in my life, it sounded like she was in her 30’s. 2. It’s interesting that she said, “to know the size of the universe”. And how that’s perceived as going deeper into the meditative state and have a deeper understanding of reality, when she said that I instantly knew that’s what she meant. Also I wanna add, in terms of knowing, I think it’s meant differently here. I know the size of the universe is infinite, and goes on for infinity in all dimensions. But I only know this from what I’ve read and what people have talked about. For me I don’t understand it, on an intuitive level I don’t know this, I’ve never seen it or felt it. It’s just a different type of knowing, it’s hard to describe. It’s like God. Yes, we know that God is infinite in nature, we know that God is everything and one. We know that God is love. But to truly 'know' God, for what it truly is in its nature, on a much deeper level of understanding, that’s a whole other level of knowing. You could ask, do you truly know the size of the universe? Then you can say, yes the size is infinite. Then the question becomes, do you truly know infinity? That's a BIG question. One I intend to find out. 3. The dream itself was very vivid. And it changed just from being like any other random dream, to being straight into that. Those are some of the interesting points I got, I but if you notice anymore please let me know. What do you guys think of this? It just happened right now and I started writing this before I forget.

Hello everyone. What were the deepest states of consciousness that you entered into? This can be from any type of meditation, mantras, any other form of spiritual practice, and psychedelics. In these states, what was it like being in these deep states? Did you see anything that looked otherworldly? Or feel something that is beyond incredible? Maybe you saw another being or a vision? Was it peaceful, terrifying, or beautiful? Different insights you learned from these deep states? Please share your stories.

I just recently started doing mindfulness meditation or concentration meditation over a week ago, however, I have been meditating a lot, about 3 - 3.5 hours a day. I have been getting incredible results, but I've also been running into some problems. Things like eye strain and also a lot of pressure between my eyes. And today I felt a lot of pressure in my forehead area, so much so that I felt like I was going to injure myself (pop something) if I kept going, it feels the same way with the eye strain. The moment I pay attention or be aware of the point I'm meditating on, the pressure comes back, even while keeping my body completely relaxed. Is this normal in the beginning? Or maybe I'm doing some part of it wrong? Maybe I'm meditating too much?

What do you guys think of water fasting for losing weight? I personally like it because you can lose weight so much faster. Is it worth it?

Which one do you think is better in terms of spiritual development, which one would take you deeper and farther? This is only for mindfulness meditation in formal sitting meditation. 12/hrs of meditation per day for 10 years, or 4/hrs of meditation per day for 30 years?

I have GAD (general anxiety disorder), and I've been suffering from it for well over a decade, I also have depression symptoms, however, I think the anxiety originated from the depression when I was younger. I'm already getting suicidal thoughts as it's worn me down so much over time, after so long of having anxiety you just get so tired. Do you think mindfulness meditation is enough to fully heal anxiety? Out of all the forms of healing I've done, I feel that mindfulness meditation heals me the deepest. It's been a week since I practiced mindfulness meditation and of course, my anxiety spiked badly because of that affecting me at work (especially social anxiety) and such, but I do this in formal sitting meditation where I become aware of the present (mindful of the present), and then my thoughts begin to clear. Other forms of healing that I've done like practicing positive emotions, positive thinking, going back and letting go of the past (forgiveness), and exposure therapy, I don't feel like it is nearly enough, it definitely lowers the anxiety, but doesn't heal it completely, the anxiety is still always there. Do you think mindfulness meditation can heal it completely?

Does reaching enlightenment prevent you from taking things personal? Like if someone were to insult you or try to verbally put you down/attack you and your enlightened, does it have any effect on you? This is something I've been struggling with in different jobs where I work with toxic people often, and I'm hoping spiritual development/enlightenment can help.

Okay, i'm gonna do it thanks. It has to do with my emotions, any negative emotion increases it. Although with my condition I think I need more like 2-4 hours per day of meditation for it to work enough, and then also some walking meditation on top of that. Its pretty bad, my body is already aging faster than normal, I feel like I'm dying I'll probably develop cancer soon if I don't do something to fix it. If I stop for a period of time of healing, the anxiety bounces back stronger than ever even after all that healing work like it was all for nothing, and if I stop for even a month, the anxiety becomes too overwhelming, I can't function properly let alone hold a job, suicide starts to become pretty attractive at that point. So i'm really gonna have to go all the way with this meditation work, even make some sacrifices of responsibilities so I can have more time to put into meditation.

What would happen to you in the spirit world if you reached full enlightenment, but then soon after you committed physical suicide? Not out of hatred or depression for this world, your love for this physical world is very deep, but you just felt like playing a different game, to just go to the other side sooner because you simply wanted to. It could thought of as, you love your country, but you feel like living in another country because you just want to. How would this affect your reincarnation cycle? I understand if you reach enlightenment, your reincarnation cycle ends, but if you commit suicide after enlightenment would you be somehow forced to go back into the reincarnation cycle? Also, would you be left in some lower dimension or even hell if you did this even after enlightenment? Or maybe somehow cause yourself some other negative consequence. Or would it all be the same as just dying of natural causes, where you would end up going into some very high dimension and be free of the reincarnation cycle?

I personally wouldn't go as far as to dump her. If your doing computer work, I would tell her you gotta go do some work outside of the home, maybe you gotta go to the workplace to check up on some stuff. Then when you are out just go to a coffee shop and do some work there on your laptop. Make this an everyday routine and I'm sure she'll get used to it.

Wow, that also cleared up other confusion I had. Thanks this will be really helpful.

Interesting story on this one. NASA sent out a voyager to space in 1977, and in the voyager, they put in a golden record of this song by Willie Johnson. They did this in hopes to communicate with any alien species who may find this voyager out in the universe, and for them to listen to this song. That's why on the record notice it says, "The Sounds of Earth". NASA knew that the alien race who may find this won't speak our language, so they made sure the song doesn't have any verbal lyrics but instead conveys a certain emotion so that the ones listening can get an idea of what we were trying to say. Communicate not through words, but emotions. When I listen to this, a get a feeling of loneliness out in the middle of nowhere, and a fear that there's no one but just me. Maybe they were trying to communicate to them, "please come visit us, we are so lonely out here"?