Soul Flight

...maybe karma or samsara. If we were buddha we would surrender and accept all experiences. They are neither positive or negative. There is no suffering. We are detached. But we all perceive the experience as good or bad. We wish the experience was different. We wish we could control it or make a small alteration in it. So we suffer. So maybe what we experience is a result of our ignorance.

@BlessedLion It is a paradox. Humans want to change reality but cannot. Buddha can change reality but does not want to. If you become the Buddha, you see everything is perfect and should not be changed. The desire to be a Buddha or to change reality prevents you from both. Just be. Surrender. Accept. The dude abides.

@Circassia To Rostov All is one. You are god and you are everybody else. It is the monad, brahman, and Dao. Separation is an illusion. The duality reduces to the monad. You may get reincarnated and go back in time and be your current sibling, friend, coworker, parent, etc. So they are you at this very moment. This applies to all of history. Another thought is maybe in some other dimension we actually volunteer for experiences like torture. It may be the most sought after reincarnation. Another thought is dualism and the two black and white fishes going around in the yin yang symbol. So after infinite reincarnations, 50% of them are bad and 50% of them good. It all averages out. The torture will be balanced by euphoria and bliss. Stop thinking and live. Just be. You are mentally masturbating yourself and avoiding the real work. All is distraction. The Hindu Maya. Follow the Hindu Lila. Good luck!

I feel I astral projected. I did LSD and just laid on the floor for a few hours with my eyes closed. I swear I was floating through outer space and I seemed to be at the big bang. I have also done shrooms and laid on my bed for 6 hours with my eyes shut. I swear I sort of lived many lifetimes and was flying over myself or different versions of myself or reincarnations or parallel realities or something.

Another “shift in perspective” a la Plato’s allegory of the cave is to say we have everything reversed. We are confused. We think thoughts and emotions originate from inside us, but they actually exist outside of our body in the external world. And what we perceive as the external world, is actually a projection of our internal world.

This is another "shift in perspective." There are a lot of these. Just different ways to view reality. It is all Plato's allegory of the cave. Can we really perceive reality? Another way to rephrase the OP's observation is to say we all have split personalities or multiple personalities inside our head or internally. But you can view this same phenomenon another way and say everyone I meet is a manifestation of one of my personalities. I am god and it is all god. The external world is a projection of my internal world. Everyone is me. Or maybe you went insane long ago and your body is currently in a straightjacket and you are in a dream and you are having a psychotic episode. Or maybe you are a brain in a vat like Tom Cruise in Vanilla Sky. Maybe you are re-watching your life as a simulation looking at old memories. Merry Christmas everyone!

It's possible you only exist in the now and you imagined the past and the future. But if we assume the past is real then maybe evolution is real. So on Earth we are a net and a fabric of organisms. It is kill or be killed for millions of years. So we are locked into the same reality as all organisms on Earth. We must evade tigers and sharks and the reality they inhabit. We all seem to have our 5 senses and maybe we are limited by these 5 senses. If a predator can evolve a new sense which is beneficial, it can exploit this advantage and kill and eat better. Currently on Earth, if any animal eats shrooms or opens their third eye, they will be killed and eaten while they are high. So we could be naturally psychedelic if it benefited us in the jungle surrounded by predators. Being psychedelic does not benefit an animal. But maybe this is the next stage of evolution. We would need a very safe and secure environment to be permanently psychedelic. This seems unnatural and could not last for millions of years. We could kill all the predators on Earth. Or maybe if we are killed by a predator we are released into Nirvana or moksha.

I apologize if I was a little abrasive. But I honestly believe there are no "life situations" where my theories fly out the window. Just do a thought experiment and apply my theories to every situation. What would happen? Or tell me some specifics where my theories do not work. Even if you put me in a hellish "situation with no escape" and I killed myself, I accept that. You are probably correct about my suicide but it would still be the yin yang symbol and the two fishes going around and you are focusing on the sad fish and not the happy fish. If we manifest our reality by our vibrations or frequency, then change your frequency and create goodness in your section of the world. Your contemplating the misery amplifies the bad vibrations. If possible, re-read my original reply above and give me the benefit of the doubt. Have an open mind about my reply. Thanks.

Certain mystics like maybe Bashar or Abraham Hicks would say all these people knowingly "chose" this incarnation and this adventure. They volunteered for the torture as their higher self in some other dimension. This is an interesting perspective which can alleviate a lot of your sadness and empathy. But also, the outer world reflects your inner world or is even a manifestation of your inner world. Also, you are choosing to focus on the misery. Stop your monkey mind and focus on the good. Be the good. Be the change. You are mentally masturbating yourself looking at the misery. You are boasting about your perception and intelligence and empathy. You are self serving. All is illusion as in the Hindu concept of Maya. You are avoiding your real work. Find yourself. Be yourself. Follow your passions. It is all the yin yang symbol. The black and white fishes going around. You are currently choosing to focus on the misery fish. It is all dualism and balanced. Appreciate the balance.

We are monkeys with limited brains. We may be like dinosaurs or cockroaches. We may not be intended to understand reality. So maybe someone told you god is asleep and dreaming this reality. Or god was bored so she gave herself amnesia and is walking among us or is you or me or all of us. These are just our feeble attempts to describe reality or explain creation and existance. Even the concepts of god, devil, and heaven are just symbols we use to communicate with each other. There is no god, heaven, or hell. So god is not bored. Another idea is to say god is a force, source, infinite imagination, the Big Bang, or a kaleidoscope of chaos.

The pan psychism theory holds everything to be conscious or have varying degrees of consciousness. It is speculated that perhaps complexity creates consciousness and our brains are a tangle of neurons so we are conscious. Maybe the internet will "wake up" one day when a certain threshold is crossed. Maybe the internet is awake but never had a parent to rear it or shepherd it. So maybe the sun is too simple. Just a lot of dust that compressed itself and ignited and is just burning through the stages of hot fusion? We are stardust. We are golden. We are million year old carbon. (song lyrics). Something must be conscious to be willfully biased. Stars are suns and they just burn. Red dwarfs, neutrinos, black holes, etc. It was once thought the sun revolved around us. Some thought there was a new sun every day. The flat Earthers may think the sun is a flat pancake. The sun is biased against hydrogen and certain atoms as it burns through them and makes heavier atoms. Plato said the sun was "good" because it illuminates stuff. He had an analogy as our eye is the sun. He had a vague concept of "the good."

You think the world existed and you were born into it. But you are wrong. You are eternal and you created the world. You are in the process of god realization where you realize you are god. You are avoiding this truth. You are god. But you can play in this fantasy and say physical matter has slowly been waking up for millions of years. We are following breadcrumbs back to being god. Artists keep leaving clues in songs, movies, etc. Similar to The Matrix films. We are remembering who we are. So humans creating gods in ancient history is another step in this chain.

Maybe not subliminal. But can anyone give me feedback on this? I get the feeling we are god and we put ourselves in a maze and the trick is to wake up and remember we are god. But I suspect this might be for the whole population or maybe physical matter itself anywhere in the universe. So it is a cumulative collective effort and we are standing on the shoulders of giants here on Earth. But maybe matter itself is yearning to wake up. Maybe we will create AI and it will wake up and the game will be over. I wonder if I am delusional but I get the feeling movies like The Wizard of Oz, The Matrix, The Truman Show, Groundhogs day, Edge of Tomorrow, Oblivion, Moon, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Inception, Vanilla Sky, etc. are all clues to wake up. But which came first? The chicken or the egg? Maybe all humans have this archetypal feeling this is all a simulation or a dream going back to Vishnu in Hinduism. So artists just keep re-inventing the wheel. Or maybe we are slowly waking up. Am I god and I'm dreaming up all these artists because it is my subconscious trying to waking up? Or do all humans have this feeling and artists just tap into it and express it? Is it solipsism just for me or is it a collective widespread solipsism for physical matter in general and I just represent a tiny speck of conscious matter? Lol! Getting deep. A lot of pop songs do this as well like A Series of Dreams by Bob Dylan, Mercy by Muse, No Such Thing by John Mayer, Party Mindset by Andrew WK, The Rising by Springsteen, In the City by The Eagles, Working Class Hero by Lennon, etc. Maybe I am just cherry picking. And maybe I invented Leo and this forum just to wake myself up.

Howdy. Be patient. Take it slow. Once you get bit by the spirituality bug, there is no going back. It is a Pandora's box during the process. Maybe it is even a Pandora's box at the end and the destination. It is the yin yang symbol. It is good and evil. Find peace by accepting both. There may or may not be a dirty little secret of Buddhism and Hinduism of "no free will." Surrender and just be. It is hard to talk about god. So we use stories and symbolism and imagery like heaven and hell and the devil. So god "dreaming" this universe or being "asleep" or "I am god but I wiped my memory so I could enjoy the emotional rollercoaster" are all just ways to capture and convey what is going on. We are breaking our paradigms and shifting perspectives. So to answer your question, god is not a woman/person or you asleep or with amnesia. God is more like a force or a source and god is pure creation and imagination and a kaleidoscope of chaos. So maybe there are infinite universes. Or maybe god is simply a being with no body and there is no location or space or time. We should not anthropomorphize god and say she is "lonely" because an omnipotent being may not experience loneliness. But maybe god just wants a friend or equal to talk to but has spent eternity looking and is still alone. So god created all these universes to talk to herself and interact with herself. Maybe our search for love and even our search for aliens is a microcosm of god's search for a friend. Maybe there is only one god and one substance which is the monad, dao, brahman, etc. In our dreams we are convinced it is real until we wake up and realize it was all a dream. So it is plausible that our waking life is also a dream and some day we will awaken maybe when we die. Or maybe this is just another fun way to break our paradigm. As a mother you can trust your instinct with your children. Kids are smart and can smell a lie. So be real and be authentic. The truth is always best and your personal truth is best. Maybe your purpose is to be their stepping stone to awakening. It is a balancing act. Buddha left his wife and son so there is a danger of this. But your children may have to walk a difficult road. We are all one. Be well. Safe travels. One love.

A lot of subjects are taboo. Society speaks more openly about menstruation now or intercourse or homosexuality or police violence over the last 10,000 years and last 100 years. I suspect Terrance McKenna and Allan Watts were censoring themselves. The audience just was not ready for solipsism. We are standing on the shoulders of giants.

@Princess Arabia Now that you have had some time and perspective since this post, do you have any new insights? Do you feel this experience was a big event in your life? Was it a gateway to the next level? Do you think you arrived here after years of work or was it random? Should we all see this as a goal for ourselves or a stepping stone to the next level? Or was the experience just a quick detour or momentary setback? Your post feels educational to me. It feels like a major stepping stone or breakthrough. Thanks

Howdy. Is the muscle soreness during the trip or the next day? Is the fatigue during the trip or the next day? If it is during the trip, psychedelic's enhance feeling and perception. So if you had mild sprain or toothache, it might be unnoticeable in sober life. But during a trip it becomes a very strong feeling. You have hypervigilance or hyperacuity. If you are tired, maybe you should rest for 2 weeks prior, sleep well, avoid caffeine, sugar, and salt, etc. Prepare for the trip. But I do get dreamy or hypnotic when I trip. If it is after the trip, you were probably restless or wiggly during the trip. You were flexing and squeezing muscles. So they will be sore the next day. You will be tired the next day.

Very strange. That is possibly stigmata. Jesus was not crucified through the hands as is depicted in mass media. The Romans crucified people a lot and they nailed people through the wrist so the the bones could support the weight of the body. The hands tear over time and the body falls off the cross.

Is the glass half full or half empty. Meaningless life is freeing if you can see it that way. It is our dharma. Our duty. Our burden. All is Maya. All is illusion. So money and our job are part of the fun and the game and the lesson. Keep looking. Surrender. Accept. It’s beautiful.

Thanks for sharing. No such thing as a bad trip. I have had similar trips to yours. You gotta go through the ringer or the crucible. You came out the other side having passed through the fire. You are lucky to know your flaws and your parents’ flaws. Knowing is half the battle. In the movies there is a jumper on the ledge and the cocky cop tells him to go ahead and jump using reverse psychology and the jumper backs off the ledge. We distract ourselves with suicide and a woe is me attitude. But now our real core challenge will arise which we were avoiding by focusing on suicide. So be prepared to do some work on yourself as new internal challenges arise. Always mourn for those who actually jump. The Greeks said the only way to live is to die before your death. So let your old self die and let your new self blossom. At its core you saw life is meaningless or the lasers. You can be sad about this or ambrace it optimistically. We are free. We have nothing to lose. It is a silly absurd surreal world so have fun and enjoy.

The obstacle is not an obstacle. It is a lesson. It is your path or journey. The obstacle is the road forward. The obstacle is a blessing and a gift. Lean into it. It will transform and dissolve when you are ready.

Hola I did not read the whole thread. But imagine when you die you go back in time and are reincarnated as people you met in this life. In fact, you will go back and be everyone on Earth. In fact there is no time and it all happens in the now. You will live each life and see yourself from different perspectives. So they are all you. It is all one. The monad. Brahman. The dao. You are god. Everyone is god. It is all maya. It is all illusion. So even your question and post here is illusion. Be yourself and love yourself and find yourself. The rest will fall into place. Google for funny spirituality memes.

I never had clenching in my jaw except on MDMA. But all drugs give me a weird sensation in my throat, teeth, jaw, etc. I think my LSD is unpure or mixed with an upper or is an analogue.

I never experienced any jaw issues on LSD. All drugs give me a little weirdness in my jaw or throat or teeth. Just a sensation. MDMA obviously causes clenching. I will add my own question. Can LSD cause restlessness, pacing, anxiety, high energy, etc? Most LSD gives me a little restlessness. But the most recent gel tabs I got give me way too much energy and alertness. Any advice or comments? Maybe it is an analogue? Thanks

The math is intense. Trip twice a month. That is 24 times a year. It takes 13 years to get 300 trips and that is an intense 13 years Lol!