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It speeds things up, intensify it. Smoked weed for 2 years while meditating, had a spiritual breakthrough after that. Would never happen without weed. All I can say now is that reality as we know it exist but doesn't at the same time, there are other realities out there (and entities), just as real as normal consciousness, or physical reality. Weed can upon that world up, but you have to smoke a lot and have the intention of self-inquiry, meditation.

Indeed in truth everything that is is one, and it it is all connected, ordered, and made of the same substances. At the same time, we are just a tiny part of it, although a very complex part. Creation can also be refereed to as everything, there is nothing outside of it or anything which isn't it. It's the mind which cannot understand this, because it likes to separate everything, make a mess out of it.

Common sense tells me that the universe was not created out of nothing. Other than that, it's a nice theory. '' Awareness is only aware when it is born so basically we just jumped from life to life or reincarnated without ever knowing the in between. Basically we cannot experience real nothingness, only somethingness, thats why we will never die in my opinion, because we will be resurrected like flipping a switch.'' I agree with that, nothingness doesn't really exist, there has always only been something, and so it will be after death as well.

From my experiences, eternal life follows after death, the soul goes on to meet it's maker (God).

Death means liberation, true life is what follows death. There is an afterlife, experience and deep intuitive knowledge tells me so, I have nothing to be afraid about. If there is one thing I await, it is death - this body and life is meaningless without death, wouldn't mean anything at all, wouldn't be any reason to breathe if nothingness is all there is after death, or any reason to even exist in the first place.

The Self is really just another name for the Soul, which is the absolute real. I disagree with the Anatta teaching that there is no self, it goes against other Buddhist teachings and is fallacious. If there's no self, what's the purpose of a spiritual life? What about people who have experienced a self/soul? What about the after life, if there is no soul/self, what lives on? This interpretation contradicts teachings on reincarnation and goes against the Buddha’s admonitions against materialism.

Thank you, please we need you as much as you wake up. This world shall perish, true life is after death if mankind just knew. There is nothing to do, but at the same time a human being cannot just sit at home and do nothing, he has to do something, no matter what it is. That's just human nature. Make the best out of it.

Not all Hindus believe God is within, there is advaita and then there is dvaita, which belives God is a real eternal entity that governs and controls the universe. For me saying that I am God is just giving a very bad definition of God, having experienced a power which my whole soul knew could only be from God, there is no question that God is not me. I would say what most advaita people experience the self/soul, which they then call God. I'm not invalidating anyone's experience, but ultimately it boils down to what you belive God IS and CAN be.

You do have a body, and if it is in pain it is in pain, there is no way to escape it. You have to accept the pain and live with it, hopefully not for too long. The body can be a pain, but fortunately we all have to drop it, then go on living as spirit, soul. Focus on the Self, the body will perish anyways. The self/soul is eternal, it will never die.

Yes, I think so. But my journey took me more to the astral plane, lucid dreaming, playing with energy etc. You are right about hospices, I have been hospitalized myself after being in higher consciousness for over a year while smoking weed which only intensified everything. Eventually I hit rock bottom, it was too powerful, too intense. And yeah, I have experienced that God exists, very directly too. There is nothing I'm more sure about.

That's true, and believe me I did and I have experienced a lot, gone all the way to the fifth dimension (what we call it in the astral plane language), and slowly back again. That's why I don't believe or follow anyone any longer. What's left of ''me'' is only faith in God, which I bend my knee and pray to everyday, because I'm still afraid what might happen after my death. No ego speaking, please.

Seeing what we call ''Spirits'', seeing what we call ''Satan'' (that was my full blown psychosis breakdown, or rather my spiritual breakthrough). Not only was it a mind fuck, it was another world altogether. I can't even put this together into a story, it's too difficult to explain.

None, but I used to follow Mojji and Sadhguru. I don't believe so much in Advaita teachings, God being inseparable from you etc. I'm more in line with Dvaita teachings.

The very first one was Leo, but Mojii made me really begin my journey. Very bad childhood and a longing to find meaning in life made me smoke weed and self-inquire for 2 years. My experiences/journey turned me from agnostic to religion/Dvaita, ''I'' had no choice on that matter.

How do you verify it by yourself? By logic or rationalism? This is about direct experience, it's about directly knowing, you either get it or not. And in order to get it you need to first be open-minded, not questioning it but actually doing it yourself and see where it get's you, which is what spirituality is about. Absolute skepticism may suit well with beliefs, conceptual ideas, stuff like that - but not in true sincere spirituality, you will need open-mindedness and faith in order to progress.

What does being skeptic about everything leave you with? Not much. It has a good repetition in the western world, but it doesn't make a low-minded person open-minded, what a person really needs in his path is true faith. Absolute Skepticism is destruction.

The spiritual journey is long and rich, keep on it's a lot to discover, not just the Self/Soul.

By recognizing that materialism is a joke, it's assumptions have been destroyed several times by both spirituality and science. It's getting old, and it's really just a matter of time before it collapses, that's it's destiny. The only thing I could agree with is that there is something beyond consciousness, although we have no evidence of it. As I believe in God as separate from His creation, I would say it does exist something beyond consciousness, namely God. Common sense may also suit good here, and I wouldn't say all there is is consciousness, that's a very bold claim.

This life is just a dream, soon we will die and wake up to the absolute real. The universe will perish one day, so biological immortality is impossible (or rather living for eternity, I would say it's impossible either way). But theoretically speaking, you are right.

There is no question that dark forces exists, this forces are within at least 95% of all humans, it's like a devil inside ourselves. If it is the ego or not is not easy to say, but it is the ego which experiences the outside world and reacts. At some point in you spiritual journey if you are sincere, you will have to break the pact your ego has made with you.

Both paths are useful, but the path of jnana is much more powerful and difficult. In order to achieve liberation from suffering and the ego the path of jnana is necessary while bakhti yoga is definitely not.

There is no ego that can ever become enlightened, there are states of transcendence, experiences that exists only in extremely high consciousness, a reality that no normal human being knows exists and which no ego can survive from. Dive deep my friend.

Nice, spirituality is basically moving towards states like samadhi, higher consciousness. The unseen becomes a reality, a fact. In normal consciousness, nothing is possible to know, the unseen is just that, unseen. But none of us are God, God in my experience is the Creator of all that IS, but that's my experience. But I agree that we are eternal, or the soul is. The mind doesn't know any better, but any true high spiritual journey will tell you that what we consider unseen is a reality and death an illusion, not just by doing drugs but also without it given enough time.

You have to know and experience truth and reality, then the mind with it's concepts will slow down. Some part of reality requires concepts, but most of it doesn't. There are higher intelligence's to know the world with, far more superior as well. ''Is it then "my voice" "i" have to quiet down and ultimately eliminate?'' You can quiet it down, but it can never be eliminated, the voice is part of the mind, it produces thoughts etc, which no one can absolutely eliminate. Use it where it fits, that's why it's there, for survival and navigating one's life.

What sees this ''outside'' world? The eyes supported by the brain? Or is it consciousness? From what authority can someone say that there is an outside world, clearly only from direct experience, but isn't experience within, aka when you sleep the outside world perishes etc. There is no way to say that an outside world exists, all there is is ultimately direct experience, without it nothing exists. With experience comes an apparent outside world, no question about it, but experience clearly comes before it.