Ziran

Based on what's written here, I doubt it. Best wishes,

Tell me about it? Please be specific? Which one is the latest "new one"? What happened before, during, and after?

.... If you want something done right, do it yourself, including your mistakes.

... no doubt about that. To this reader, it's assuming that "any/all" can be reached which is far-fetched to tbe extreme. Please be specific? How often do you invoke new ones? Which one was most recent? Please share what happened? How did it start? What happened during? And immediately after? Please? Do they need to be English or Norwegian speaking Gods/souls? Are there any other conditions I need to adhere to for choosing?

There are different types of stubborn. Stubborn about details, and stubborn about purpose.

right. your knowledge is limited to what you already know. So, why do you think you can connect to any being/deva? In any accessible realm?

When I post a youtube clip from chinese news media, what will happen from your POV?

" ... any accessible realm." So, if I can find a being that speaks chinese, and you cannot communicate with them... then what?

https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Afternoon-Tea/

Yes. Absolutely. Mutual understanding is the foundation for each and every successful peace treaty.

wearing yoga pants, everywhere

This is how I make sense of time: 1) The fundamental unit of time, the smallest unit, is called a moment. A moment possesses attributes: A collection of observers, participants, a specific location, a specific set of significant circumstances which trigger the event, and a specific set of significant outcomes. 2) From the finite perspective, moments occur one after another in a nearly endless sequence of events. Each moment from this POV is distinguished from the others by other moments based on the corresponding significance. Each moment is lined up, one after another, like a deck of cards set out in order in a line. 3) From the infinite perspective, lacking any beginnings and lacking any endings, each moment is eternal. Time stops flowing. Each moment is stacked on top of each other, co-existing, omni-present, and concurrent like a deck of cards gathered up into a cube. 4) When the mind's eye pivots from the finite towards the infinite perspective, the significance of each moment becomes hyperbolic. They're both extremely significant and simultaneously void of significance. This is how I make sense of choice/causation: 1) All of reality is composed of seven types of events: Events that happened Events that are happening Events that will happen Events that didn't happen Events that aren't happening Events that won't happen Events that may happen 2) Each event possesses attributes which include sequencing and organizes the events into time-lines. 3) From the finite perspective, only one time-line is in focus. From the infinite perspective, there are no time-lines. 4) All events excluding could-be events are locked. Causation occurs only within these could-be events. 5) From the finite perspective, the causation can be described as branches sprouting from the events. 6) From the infinite perspective, all events co-exist in an endless sea. When a choice is made from the finite perspective, all that's happening from the infinite perspective is a pivot of focus towards the corresponding events ( which possess observers, participants, relative location, relative sequence, relative significance ). 7) Both the finite and infinite perspectives are true. Reality is a sort of funnel. It's cone shaped. Triangular. Considering it from the finite perspective is like looking up at the pointy end of an infinitely large cone. Considering it from the infinite perspective is like looking at the same infinitely large cone from the top open end. 8) In like manner, there is both 1 time-line which includes each individual soul, and nearly infinite time-lines with nearly infinite replicas of each individual soul, and all of it is happening at the same time. Reality includes both, a realm with causation and a realm without. The mind's eye can easily focus on one, and is able to approach the other but can never apprehend it.

If eternity is real, yes. Eternal means: lacking any beginnings and lacking any endings. In this state, time isn't flowing.

The material construct is stable. Departing from it isn't. I'll comment more once I've finished reading the replies.

The earliest examples I'm aware of used the human body as a microcosm of reality, and the constellations as a macrocosm of reality. Then, the individual would become inspired, intellectually awestruck and full of wonder. When this awe-and-wonder are assigned an external locus of control, it naturally produces religious cognition. Faith, hope, etc... bound to the... beyond. Assuming that the individual is successful, consistently, then they have discovered a religious practice. It's the success which determines whether or not the method attempted ( past tense ) was successful. Because of this the successful method becomes a "religion practice" retroactively. It all depends on whether or not the method actually worked. If so, it's a religion. You're very welcome to bring your own definition.

If so, how is awareness distinguished from oblivion?

The religion, at that moment of inception, has only one member.

In the same manner that the religion is invented today. Religious people re-invent their religion every time it's sincerely practiced.

The semantics here need to be precise. I'm not trying to be difficult, but, I'm choosing words carefully to prevent re-explaining. At that hypothetical moment, if there was only one person involved, the "person" is not directly experiencing it. It's still being abstracted through the microcosm of the physical realm. There aren't extant records of this, the very first religious experience. However, the earliest that I'm aware of used either the human body as the microcosm, or the constellations as a macrocosm. ETA: Primitive people directly experiencing reality falls in the category of Shamanism, not religion, imo.

I'm sorry. I'm not understanding the objection. The first person, assuming there was only one, would necessarily utilize the same technique(s) to investigate some "thing" beyond the material realm.

I like to distinguish between awareness ( which is declaring ) and curiosity ( which is inquiring ). YMMV

The totality of experience includes "Let-Down". If the intention was "peaking", seeking a "peak experience", then there will naturally be a let-down when that peak experience ends without an opportunity to ascend higher to a new peak.

Agnostic-Atheism

A religion is necessary if the target of investigation is 100% different from any "thing" in the material realm, assuming there's more than material, of course. Lacking any similar "thing", one would need a linkage, a conduit, a medium, a vessel. It's like making tea. Fire and Water can't tolerate each other without a kettle between them. Religion is the "kettle".