Tyler Durden

Scientific explanation would be that their chemical compounds affect our brain and cause certain effects. But that would be materialistic view. From spiritual perspective, everything is made out of conciousness, so psychedelics are no exception but somehow they manage to give us the God realisation and shatter the illusion in which we live. How is that possible? What makes them so different from other stuff that is made from the same substance?

@Sempiternity Thanks for the links. I wasn't watching Leo's videos on psychedelics so I was hoping to get some answers here.

Maybe I created my Mom because I needed a backstory for my existence.

Most people will say it's 2022. because in our civilisation years count from the birth of Jesus. Other civilisations will have a different year depending on their starting point. Scientists will say that the real year is somewhere around 13.8 billion because time started with the Big Bang. But if time is an illusion, does any of that have any sense? Can eternal NOW have any year attributed to it at all? What are your opinions on this?

Does that impy previous and future forms?

Yes, I guess we need well defined beggining, without that we feel groundless.

@happyhappy Yes, I know but I got used to giving it a certain time so it's hard to accept it to be that way. @Tim R Nice picture. It's always today. Forever.

That you existed forever.

It's basically just God asking questions and answering them without realising it ?

But aren't you just a figment of my imagination appearing as text on my screen and not a person typing this on a keyboard somewhere?

You as God are doing exactly that right now.

After awakening, you realise that everyone is you and that you're basically talking with yourself the entire time, similiar like in your dreams. But I don't have that feeling. I have no idea what the other people will say next and often get surprised with their insights and thinking. Why is that the case?

@BipolarGrowth Thanks for the video! I'll check it out

@Tim R Can you please explain this a little bit more? I feel like I have a control over what I'll say/write next. I firstly formulate sentence inside my mind and then say it or write it.

@Nahm Thanks for your kind words. I'm still trying to understand reality better. This is a good place to get the answers I need.

@Tim R But if I as God create the entire conversation, shouldn't I be able to somehow see the "script"? Just like the screenwriter knows what lines will the actors say next in a movie because he's the one who wrote it in the first place.

Is that to make the experience more interesting? I guess it would be boring if I knew everything in advance.

The closest that mainstream science has come to the Theory of everything are string theory and loop quantum gravity. Both of them are trying to combine general relativity and quantum mechanics. But you have to be aware that all of it is happening inside a God's dream so it will never be a complete Truth.

We often hear the phrase "don't care what others think" and see that as something to boost our self-esteem and to be who we really are. But if you're the only conciouss Being in the existence, then there is no one else who thinks except you. Others just behave as if they are thinking, there is nothing going on inside their heads that you're not aware of. The phrase gets a completely new meaning once you look at it this way. You really don't have to care what others think of you because there is no thinking at all.

Rumi was a very deep thinker, had many powerful insights.

Subjective Reality (SR), as he describes it, is the perspective that your true identity is the dreamer having the dream, so you are the conscious container in which the entire dream world takes place. Your body-mind is your avatar in the dream world, the character that gives you a first-person perspective as you interact with the contents of your own consciousness. But that avatar is no more you than any other character in the dream world. I find this Steve Pavlina's concept to be very interesting, much in line what is being discussed here on this forum. Are you familiar with his work?

It seems like moving your body from one place to another. But I guess that explanation is far away from what is really happening in that case.

@Nos7algiK Excellent explanation. It makes perfect sense. Unfortunately, seeing movement as an illusion can be hard because it seems so real.

Aboriginal Australians could be the oldest population of humans living outside of Africa. They migrated from there 70,000 years ago and inhabited Australia. For the most part of their history, they were completely isolated from the rest of the world. I was reading about their spirituality and found some very interesting aspects of their religious beliefs. Within this Aboriginal religion, no distinction is drawn between things spiritual/ideal/mental and things material; nor is any distinction drawn between things sacred and things profane: rather all life is 'sacred', all conduct has 'moral' implication, and all life's meaning arises out of this eternal, everpresent Dreaming. It's really fascinating that they came to the same conclusions as other mystical traditions of world religions, without any input from the outside. I guess non-dual teachings are universal all around the world, only the different terminology is being used.

@Yarco I understand some of your objections. People in the West tend to look down on Aborigines because they didn't build a civilisation and were very primitive for their standards. But maybe living in the present moment and being connected with the nature, keeps them closer to the Truth than our highly developed society and culture. We forgot who we truly are because of our obsession with aquiring material possesions and living in the past/future. Maybe we should learn more about them to deepen our understanding of how spiritual practices developed around the world.