Soul Flight

Attend AA meetings. Listen to people. Be careful about self destruction. Go to 12 step meetings for codependency or narcotics or children of alcoholics etc.

Hi there. You are in danger. How old are you? Get help. We have all been there. You are not alone. You need to reset to baseline and get sober. Take a break. Hit pause. All this philosophy is way too heavy. So take a little break from the philosophy and get grounded. Take a break from this forum. We have our whole life to tackle these issues and think them through. You can always circle back to the big questions in a few months or a few years. So talk to friends and family. Talk to girls. Be social. Eat healthy, drink water, sleep, unplug, cutback on the phone and online activity, take a multivitamin, take a break from all drugs, get clean, cut out sugar, caffeine, and salt. Go vegetarian. Exercise. Get therapy or counseling. Get a job or go to school. Pray. Show gratitude. Meditate. Find balance. Have fun. Get distracted. Watch funny silly movies. Go hiking. See nature. See water and hear water. Get sunshine. Get a physical. Volunteer. Get your head straight. Get your life together. Drugs can mess you up. Get sober. Call hotlines. Check out fireside project. Do yoga. Run, walk, do cardio. Have sex if possible. Read self help books or positivity materials. Go to church. Good luck. You an do it.

Maybe the error is in the assumption of your post. You assume you are an entity inside the universe. Maybe you are the universe. You are the multiverse. You are the whole thing. You cannot be alone or maybe you are alone as the universe or alone outside or above the universe.

The universe seems to be a machine with the purpose of waking us up on a certain schedule. We really cannot interfere or alter the process even if we try. The best lessons come from a broken heart, empty wallet, and hungry stomach. The dominos must fall in sequence. The dominos of thoughts and epiphanies in a brain must fall in order. There is blowback and unforeseen repercussions when we try to interfere. Imagine Macbeth when he was warned he would kill his father and sleep with his mother. He ran away from home and in a "strange loop" he killed his father and slept with his mother. It is the "allegory of the cave." When you leave the cave and go back in to try to wake people up, you sound insane and they either ignore you or kill you. After shrooms or an awakening we get so excited and enthusiastic. We want to share the experience with everyone and our loved ones. But the universe seems to have it rigged where we just look crazy. So be patient. Focus on yourself. Because really we are all one anyway. Very strange stuff Lol!

Maybe the word autism has been co-opted by introverts. Maybe it is hyperbole. On first dates some people claim to be autistic or on the spectrum or introverted. They are trying to broadcast their future expectations of a relationship in some weird way. The word autism is shorthand for damaged or needy. Maybe autism is a code word for OCD. I notice a lot of mental health issues on this forum more akin to schizophrenia or psychosis. But their presence here makes perfect sense and I suspect may be very similar to the awakened state. A lot of artists suffer these ailments. There might be a ven diagram of mental illness and spirituality. Those of us with mystical psychedelic experiences are more willing to listen to mentally ill people. Their stories sound like "trip reports." The question is if mentally ill people are on the spiritual path or simply psychotic. Leo claims he never had friends or girlfriends in high school. It is a little weird. Could be a defense mechanism to intimacy. Leo's whole life could be a defense mechanism to intimacy. Solipsism could be a defense mechanism to intimacy. The quest for awakening could be a defense mechanism to intimacy. In the same way Trump created an empire and a Presidency driven by massive insecurity, maybe Leo created all this to avoid intimacy. Personally, I have been jokingly accused of being autistic. I do feel I am on the spectrum or a little socially awkward. I am the oldest child but a black sheep for sure. Maybe incels are autistic? Proud boys? etc?

@vibv Very wise of you to state all that. I concur. I am very careful. What is your route of admin for Ketamine? It lasts about 1 hour? Thanks Ketamine "IS" funny. It shows me I am one with the cosmos and I am every single person. But I am catatonic about it. There is no anxiety or fear or catharsis or bliss or euphoria. It's just like meh. Which is funny about 6 hours later.

Keep watching Leo's videos. It will click for you eventually. It's like when you die, all your questions will be answered. But what really happens is when you die, you suddenly realize all your questions are ridiculous. The universe/god is a funny paradox. You can control your reality. But the cosmos set up this system where "god mode" only comes to you when you realize everything is perfect just the way it is. There are dominos of thoughts in our heads. Each domino must fall in sequence. Hang in there. Check out the videos on spiral dynamics. We are each stuck in our stage and the other stages look crazy to us. Be patient. Keep learning.

I never tried 2C-B. Shrooms work great on me. I see crazy complex visuals and fractals. Shrooms really work great on me on all levels Lol! LSD works on me. Weed works on me. Ketamine is ok. It makes me too dizzy and sick afterwards. It doesn't feel worth it.

As above, so below. The macrocosm and the microcosm. God does not want to be alone and therefore you do not want to be alone. It’s ok. Enjoy life. Be at peace.

@vibv Hi there. I do not take SSRIs or any meds. I’m pretty educated and sane and I have googled MDMA non responders. But I am open to advice. I am just unlucky with MDMA.

MDMA never works on me. I have bombed it up to 250mg. I think if people lay in bed and drink water or Gatorade it is pretty safe. If people eat healthy, hydrate, sleep, get sunshine, exercise, avoid caffeine, sugar, and salt, they will be better off. People should space out their usage maybe once every 3 months. But if people drink alcohol or do other combinations of drugs or dance all night, they might have a problem with MDMA. When I take MDMA I get jaw clenching, darting eyes, shaky hands, but never skin sensations or euphoria. Sometimes a few days later I get panic or scary visualizations when trying to sleep. A few days later I might get hot flashes or restlessness or muscle cramps. For a few weeks after I get pleasurable tingles inside my body or empathy.

I would guess 10k is about right over the last 300,000 years. Maybe early man was enlightened and we have lost our way despite all our "progress." Jesus and the Buddha seem like they are on the highest level. Or maybe they were more like bodhisattvas and most enlightened people are incognito on the down low. Wikipedia has lists of Buddhas. Each sect of Buddhism has its own lists of Buddhas and bodhisattvas. There are many claimants of Buddhahood. There are celestial buddhas. There are many sages like Rumi or Allan Watts. They seem to know the non dual truth but would you consider them to be enlightened? Eckhart Thoelle?

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@mrPixel I'm just curious how you use substances. The mystical part comes from being alone in silent darkness with your eyes closed for 6 to 12 hours. Using substances with a group, at a party, going out dancing, in combination with alcohol or other drugs, watching movies, etc is not going to bring mystical experiences. Taking heroic doses with eyes closed, in the dark, alone, with earbuds in, and an eye mask on will likely bring mystical experiences. It helps to set your intention, control "set and setting," and then integrate the experience. It helps to be on a journey of self help books, reading, therapy, fasting, healthy living, exercising, vegetarianism, drinking water, sleeping well, etc to get the mystical experiences with substances. Does any of this apply to you?

The quote about gentleness is just if Arnold Schwarzenegger is gentle with you he is in control of his strength and power and is truly tender. If a feeble old man is gentle it is his baseline. The feeble guy has no strength. Or an old woman nursing you and being moral shows more strength than an insecure dictator like Putin or Trump trying to boast or show strength.

God is infinitely alone and he is infinitely nothing but also infinitely not alone and something. if there were multiple gods, they would be unstable or the universe would be unstable or their relationships would be unstable. So there is one god for our realm and everything is stable.... but also infinitely unstable. ;/

It is the Pythagorean monad. God is the substance and matter of the universe. In Hinduism Brahma blew himself up in the Big Bang and created the universe. So if you did have multiple gods running around, they are made out of the monad or highest god who is alone. It is like Zeus being the patriarchal most powerful god. Or maybe Khaos.

My hunch is god is alone. Hinduism says Krishna creating Radha to love himself. As above, so below. The microscom and the macrocosm. So, our search for love or alien life reflects god’s search for an equal.

I gotta give my two cents Lol! I feel Allan Watts answers this conundrum. If you accept that God is infinite and there are infinite multiverses and infinite versions of you, then this universe and this version of you is required to exist. You just happen to be this version of you. You did not win the utopian Garden of Eden lottery.

Nothing is as strong as true gentleness. Nothing is as gentle as true strength. Power corrupts. And absolute power corrupts absolutely. If you chase butterflies, they run. If you build a garden, they come to you. All of life is a “strange loop.” It is a paradox. Wisdom may only come to aesthetics, sahdus, and mendicants. In the same way, power only comes to those without it.

For marital strain, both partners would talk and cry together. For PTSD and sex abuse, people can really explore the event and fear is surpressed. The traumatic event loses its power. For inner child stuff maybe look at your childhood photos or explore past memories.

It is duality. The yin Yang symbol. The black and white fish going around. We must have ugliness to have beauty. We need the negative to illuminate the positive. You are focusing on suffering. It is all perspective. Choose to focus on joy. Or choose to see the bittersweet play between suffering and joy. All things are balanced in the duality. Hang in there. You are not alone. Create joy. Ease other’s suffering.

I will paraphrase and expand but Albert Camus proposed in a world of absurdity, nihilism, existential dread, immorality, lack of ethics, depression, etc. the most revolutionary act is to live with morals and ethics and use your individuality to rebel against the system. He felt killing yourself is a surrender or a participation in the machine or you neutralize yourself. Everyone must walk their path. It really depends on what is in your heart. If you kill yourself to spite your ex-girlfriend or as an act of the ego or revenge, that is likely wrong. If you kill yourself as self-immolation to bring attention to injustice that might be noble. If you attain Buddhahood, you may have the option to kill yourself. It is a taboo. Is the taboo justified? Is there some deep wisdom in living? Suicide is likely an act of the ego.

Hello all, What do you think would happen if AI or very advanced aliens or mankind discovers an experiment which proves there is no free will? Would the AI reach Buddhahood and go totally Zen and meditate? Or would one of theses advanced species begin a quest to escape the universe and obtain free will? I suppose obtaining free will would be the highest form of God realization. Or would one of these advanced species get depressed or go insane knowing their thoughts and actions are pre-determined? Even their quest to escape the universe and obtain free will would be pre-determined. Maybe AI or aliens could disprove free will if they could consistently predict all your actions and thoughts in the next 5 minutes even if you were challenged to do the most random things and think the most random thoughts. Maybe this is why there is no AI or Aliens out there in the universe. They all realize there is no free will so they go quiet or meditate. Maybe they escape the universe and get free will or get into another dimension. Maybe they can't enter back into our dimension to communicate because they would be prisoners to predetermination in our dimension. They would lose 'agency' in our dimension. I suppose this is the eschaton. But I suppose I am imagining all this and dragging you and myself into this dream and illusion by asking this question. Thanks

I suspect there is no free will. We are here to observe the unfolding. Allan Watts said the big bang is still banging. We are part of the explosion. We are only a few seconds into a grenade exploding. I suspect this is why there are no aliens in the universe or AI. Once you get super smart you realize there is no free will. You can prove it with advanced science. You can either get really depressed about it, go insane, or stop doing anything and enjoy the bliss and euphoria. Maybe god has no free will either. Maybe aliens or AI or god can figure out a way to escape the universe and get real true free will.