Carl-Richard

Maybe you should ask someone who remembers this process in detail (*cough* Sadhguru *cough*).

In NDEs where people are declared clinically dead and then revived, many people report experiences similar to God awakenings a la 5-MeO. Awakening to God happens in the domain of ego death, and ego death is what the experience of death is like. It's simply the process of distancing oneself from one's individuated physicality. Similarly in void experiences, you literally lose contact with all sense perceptions and mind activity.

I feel there is something Sci-Fi-y about going to a party with a DMT vape pen.

Get to a place where you're able to feel the immediate raw effects of healthy behaviors, learn to prefer that feeling over anything else and do whatever you can to maximize it.

I've thought about this while having a glass of water outside, and it just feels right.

Meth cooking is an art! ?

Materialism deals well with spacial locality and temporal linearity, but it's limiting for other things. You can figure out how things work without materialism, because you can establish patterns for non-local and non-linear things. For instance, for all the dreams I mentioned in that thread, it seems that the significance of the event is important. For the tornado event, Joe Biden approved a federal emergency disaster declaration for the state of Kentucky. For the death of my dad's boss, he was basically a national celebrity, and his death became headline news and impacted many people's lives. For PsychedSubstance's family problems, it forced him on a new trajectory in life, and his channel reaches millions.

Never said it wasn't.

I've had one such dream, but it also had a Sci-Fi (Psy-Fi) twist to it. God damn my writing was shit 2 years ago, I had to fix a lot of mistakes

No, but I can tell my friends about it after I wake up in the morning.

Because we can.

Can you not be so god damn abstract just for one second? ? I can't understand a word you're saying.

@Ineedanswers Intentions are validated relative to one's survival agenda. Nazis cared about the survival of themselves but not others. Same with rapists.

What about DMT aliens?

It also happened on the other side of the world (I live in Norway while Kentucky is in the US), which means that the only truly probable factor you mentioned (granting your framework) is online news articles about the tornado season, but that still doesn't sufficiently explain the timing aspect. Something you should notice about this materialistic explanation is that it is very non-specific and post-hoc. It doesn't explain exactly by which mechanism the exact representations within my mind arise (the Hard problem in a nutshell). It only deals with correlations and probabilities. Also, the strength of your argument seems to mainly depend on how many factors you want to bring up. It's like "you experienced x amount of factors, therefore it seems to make sense that x representations may arise." The exact items you choose is largely arbitrary and non-specific, and the exact quantity of items is even more arbitrary, and it's all done after the fact (hence it's post-hoc). On the other hand, the ontological idealism standpoint (of mind being non-local) is much more simple and direct (and it can also account for the timing aspect): sometimes the personal mind picks up information from events happening in the larger mind. It's extremely simple. Now, you will probably dismiss it for being too simple, because that is just the marriage between materialism and overly complicated explanations. Why is it that materialism is so complicated? Maybe that is something you should question.

@AtheisticNonduality Ok, so you got a general mechanism. Now, how do you explain the fact that I was dreaming about it temporally parallel to one of the biggest tornado events in history? (dreaming about it as it was happening). I'm also curious what type of material conditions I would need to subconsciously pick up on in order to have a symbolic representation in a dream (being chased by ghost) occurring temporally parallel to when my dad's boss would die from a drowning accident while trying to save his dog who had fallen through the ice on a lake.

Try upping it to 1 hour. For me, most of the magic happens past the 45 minute mark.

I challenge you to explain my tornado dream without breaking the assumptions of materialism.

@Epikur Grande's lazy rationalist style is like an extra dry Michael Shermer.

Game B summed up by Terrence McKenna (7:06):

It's mostly experiences of precognition like @Raptorsin7 is talking about. It's kinda inaccurate to call it paranormal. It's pretty normal. It just goes against the materialist paradigm.

Even I claim to have some level of paranormal abilities, and I'm not even stabilized in non-duality. I can only imagine what Sadhguru is pulling off on a daily basis.

Homophobia is real. When will Rubin realize why he has always been a liberal?

Yeah I saw that one. It's pretty sad.

The forum is casual enough as it is. It would start to venture too far outside self-actualization (growth needs) and over to fulfilling entertainment and social needs (deficiency needs), and that's where cults are born.