Principium Nexus

@Joseph Maynor I were to ask, what then is truth, but then my mind became silent. Truth seems to be the most prominent when completely silent, because only then the mind is still and fully present. Thanks for your reply.

@zazed Well said, I fully agree with your statement. One thing I do not fully understand is how we can give identities to other things if we are all one. If we are all one, for example the oceaan, why do the waves still act or think they are seperate from the whole? What gives rise to this illusion of seperation? Is it because we fail to comprehend that we are reality itself? If someone can answer the question, why do we feel seperation, one would have answered why whole totality exists. Is there any enlightened person why can answer me?

I think you title already contains all you need. You don't have to understand it, you are already the living truth.

@Voyager But if nothing exists how do you explain the experience you are now having? Even joy or anxiety, why would you be able to percieve those feelings if it is all nothing? I know your mind is grinding on some very tough existantial questions, but you have to find some peace of mind to evaluate these things in a calm and objective manner. Don't draw conclusions too fast. Life is a paradox, I think most people can agree on that, but how much does that matter? I feel we are all here because the universe is in balance. I enjoy the act of being alife even while it feels like the most crazy irrational thing ever. What you have had is an ego death, a very prominent one. To asure you things will become more normal again, I have stood in your shoes 5 years ago. You probably feel like reborn at the moment and that you have been thrown back into this world after millions of years. You will familiarize yourself again with the ordinary things you do in life but it does cost effort. You have had one of the fullest ego deaths one can experience, which is the most enlightening but also the most unsetteling. Try to take some rest for all the theories you are having, go chill, experience your senses with awareness, let the sense of you slowly grow, but this time differently! You have to chance to fully rediscover all the mechanisms behind action, which no normal man ever will learn. It will only help you to come close to the truth, to seek it and to find it and live closed to your heart. Try to cover all the basic understanding which human society has generated so far and question its validity? What characteristics of reality can you identify, what forces do you feel, how would your perfect story of how things would work look like? Those are some questions you have to answer. You feel like a long way from home but you will get there

@Voyager You went through the eye and came back, I know what that feel like and it can be both amazing and confusing. As long as you are human, you cannot escape from this conceptual world that is hold by all ego's. We all together keep this matrix of thought alive, it's so hidden because we don't recognize it is this "way" of thinking that imprison us, which doesn't have to be bad by the way! Psychedelics dissolve boundaries, the ideas of absolute concepts, that things are separated. We are not, you are not. We are all one. Now, the logic part kicks in, OH MY GOD, but I still have a life to live. This is where you learn to integrate and transform this god experience by doing mediation, it's the vesicle you will use your entire life, to find balance in between. The greatest artist/visionaries are made by learning to bridge these two worlds, in the form of paintings, music, writings, etc. The only thing you can do is learn to live with this, try to find balance between knowing the divine and living an ordinary human life where most haven't even had a glimpse of the knowledge you had to experience. Psychedelics are no joke people, only for the toughest of minds! Namaste

If you have watched some videos about Walter Russel's work you have no doubt he was a great thinker. The following website (which I discovered today) contains a lot of his work, which can be viewed as pseudo-science, but resonates deeply with our spiritual teachings about non-duality. How the many arise from the one, in a more understandable rational language. Check it out! You will definitely get some new insights, I'll promise The website doesn't cover all that is written in his books but gives a great summary of important highlights. https://wikischool.org/

@AleksM Hey you should really look up Walter Russel! I think you will enjoy his study and books a lot! He was a genius and also talks that space-time/energy radiates/pulsates by contracting and expanding in some sort of quanta. His book the "Secret of Light" is probably his best along the "Universal One". There is website I just found and it seems to have all this interesting reads: https://wikischool.org/universal_one

@oysterman I want to add that this are just the first few days you experience this, so the detached feeling is more profound now. In the future you might be able to conciously shift between being "fully" in your body and being an observer. If you learn to conciously enter your bodily sensations you will perceive them in an heightened state. You could see it as calibrating a sensor to a black background or void of stimuli. It's a very good exercise to get full control of you minds focus. Basically you opened a hidden box and should learn to live with the insight you got

@Prabhaker But what has this to do with atheism? Or religion? I mean some savants like the rainman also have superhuman abilities, maybe this man has a very unique eye for reading patterns so he can predict faith. It certainly is a very mystical experience!

You doing good, your are on unfamiliar ground thus learning a lot about the nature of reality. That fact that it stuns you means you had a deep realization. This insight will be there your whole life, so you better try to understand and work with it. Events like these can be key to initiate the path to further enlightenment

Being able to count on each other in any relationship is not bad. Sexual relationships with a partner are so much more than an egoic act, if you meet the right person then the ego literally melts away. The whole idea of being in a relationship is about sharing, not only taking! If this is out of balance you might speak of egoistic intentions, but then you idea of a relationship is completely wrong or you just have met the wrong person. Love is anything but ego.. Fear to love is the ego, what could you possibly get out of it, right?

The ancient civilization were so much better at contemplating, sadly we have kind of lost this or it's only done in academic setting. @Loreena Very true! I think this story kind of applies to what you say. So basically five years ago a friend of mine had a pretty rough experience on psychedelics. He had a pretty rough youth, his mother left in his teens and he didn't really have the support he needed. Because of this he was easily turned to drinking, smoking and doing unhealthy things to hide away the problems he was running from. That day where he had a very bad experience or basically was shown everything he has been doing wrong was a clear turning point in his life. I compare this experience to early PD because the earlier you begin to see you own behavior the better you will be able to adapt long-term. Nasty addictions or destructive behaviour can be very hard to get rid off, so early self-awareness and setting clear goals is golden.

We cannot escape from physics, everything obeys its rules. But you can escape social conditioning, start to learn how things affect you. How you can optimize your response or do things differently, in that manner there is free will in some degree. Human life is exactly in the sweet spot, you neither have absolute control nor no control at all. This makes life worth living, it enables suprises, wonder and makes the story much more epic! Don't worry too much, it doesn't help you any further. Question how you can empower yourself by learning how these systems work. Then you can become a little bit better in writing your own story

Have a nice day everyone!

@Anna1 You are the dancer that is guided by the whole. You are both the dancer as the whole. The moment you see that you are dancing with yourself is where you self-realize and will be living the truth

You are whatever you think you are, but it are only the acts that we do now that really define us. The self-image is a story we tell ourselves, to justify what we do. Since all is relative, experience is subjective, the character that you think you are is only your own perception and doesn't have to be the same as other people see you. I think that when the body and mind are more separated the feeling of being a fictional character is heightened, but when your words become your deeds and you stop telling but start doing, then the fictional character you tell yourself will start to become non-fictional. People will then really start to see you as you think you are.

I think it all depends on perspective like already mentioned. The real truth is silent, no words, no concepts, just presence. It's completely empty/void, yet the mind can attribute an infinite amount of identities from nothingness. As long as we are wandering in this realm of words, then yes there is seperation, phases in thoughts, the feeling of communication, a distinct own identity. If you stop doing that you will become more whole, you will stop walking circles to find the truth. You will be the truth. Samsara is the endless loop, the searching of something that is already there and therefor it seems unpossible to find. Nirvana is breaking the loop, becoming fully present and be the living truth. I think this is what enlightenment is really about, the glow around someone who holds this knowledge cannot be unseen. I think enlightenment goes further than a person having some saint personality. If someone is really manifesting the truth, then all space around the person will be affected, as if all there is has become aware.

The quote below is from the book A Beginner's guide to Constructing the Universe - The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art and Science, A voyage from 1 to 10 by Michael S. Schneider. Even though it's for the book, it's interesting to read and might make you more interested into Geometry or the book. "Sooner or later there comes a time in life when you start thinking about Reality and where to find it. Some people tell you there is no such thing, that the world has nothing permanent in it, and, as far as you are concerned, consists merely of your fleeting experiences. Its framework, they say, is the random product of a natural process, meaningless and undirected. Other believe that the world was made by a divine Creator, who continues to guide its development. This sounds a more interesting idea, but, as skeptics point out, every religion and church that upholds it does so by faith alone. If you are naturally faithful and can accept without question the orthodoxy of your particular religion or system of believes, you will feel no need to inquire further and this book will appear superfluous. It was written for those of us who lack or have lost the gift of simple faith, who need evidence for our beliefs. We cannot help being attracted by religious view, that the world is a harmonious, divinely ordered creation in which, as Plato promised the uninitiated, "things are taken care of far better than you could possibly believe." Yet superficially it is a place of confusion and chaos, where suffering is constant and the ungodly flourish. This is where we begin the quest for Reality. Looking closely at nature, the first insight we obtain is that, behind the apparently endless proliferation of natural object, there is a far lesser number of apparent fixed types. We see, for example, that through every generation cats are cats and are programmed for catlike behavior. In the same way, every rose has the unique characteristics of a rose and every oak leaf is definitely an oak leaf. No two specimens of these are ever exactly the same, but each one is clearly a product of its own formative type. If it were not so, if animals and plants simply inherited their progenitors' characteristics, the order of nature would soon dissolve into an infinite variety of creatures, undifferentiated by species and kinship's. This observation, of one type with innumerable products, give rise to the old philosophical problem of the One and the Many. The problem is that, whereas the Many are visible and tangible and can be examined at leisure, the One is never seen or sensed, and its very existence is only inferred through the evident effect it has upon its products, the Many. Yet, paradoxically, the One is more truly real than the Many. In the visible world of nature all is flux. Every thing is being born or dying or moving between the two processes. Nothing ever achieves the goal of perfection or the sate of equilibrium that would allow it to be described in essence. The phenomena of nature, said Plato, are always "becoming", never actually "are". Our five senses tell us that they are real, but the intellect judges differently, reasoning that the One, which is constant, creative, and ever the same, is more entitled to be called real than its ever-fluctuating products. The search for Reality leads us inevitably towards the type, the enigmatic One that lies behind the obvious world of the Many. Immediately we encounter difficulties. Being imperceptible and existing only as abstractions, types cannot be apprehended by the methods of physical science. A number of modern scientists, perceiving the influence of type in nature, have attempted to bring them within the range of empirical study. Rupert Sheldrake, author of A New Science of Life and other works, has take a bold step in that direction. In an earlier age, the Pythagorean's worked on systematizing the types by means of numerical formulae. Yet Plato, who wrote at length on the subject of constant types (referred to as "forms"), was carefully ambigious in defining them and never made clear the means by which they influence the world of appearances. Plato did, however, give instructions on the procedure towards understanding the nature and function of the types. In the Republic he described the ascent of the mind through four different stages. It begins in Ignorance, when it does not even know that there is anything worth knowing. The next stage is Opinion, the stage in which TV chat-shows particularly are forever stuck. This is divided into two subcategories, Right Opinions and Wrong Opinion. Above that is the level of Reason. By education and study, particularly, in certain mind-sharpening subjects, the candidate is prepared for entry into the fourth stage, which is called Intelligence (nous). One can be prepared for it but with no guarantee of success, for it is a level that one can only achieve on one's own, the level of heightened or true understanding, which is mental level of an initiate. The studies that Plato specified as most effective in preparing the mind for understanding are the so-called mathematical subjects, consisting of number itself, music, geometry, and astrononmy. These were the main studies of Pythagoras and his followers, who anticipated the realization of modern physics in proclaiming that all scales and departments of nature were linked by the same code of number. Geometry is the purest visible expression of number. In Platonic terms, the effect of its study lead the mind upward from Opinion onto the level of Reason, where its premises are rooted. It then provides the bridge or ladder by which the mind can achieve its highest level in the real of pure Intelligence. Geometry is also the bridge between the One and the Many. When you draw one of its basic figures - a circle, say, or a triangle or regular polygon- you do not copy someone else's drawing; your model is the abstract ideal of a circle or triangle. It is the perfect form, the unchanging, the unmanifest One. Below it are the Many - the expressions of that figure in design, art, and architecture. In nature also the One circle gives rise to the Many, in the shapes and orbits of the planets, in the roundness of berries, nests, eyeballs, and the cycles of time. On every scale, every natural pattern of growth or movement conforms inevitably to one or more of the simple geometric types. The pentagon, for example, lies behind each specimen of the five-petaled rose, the five fingered starfish, and many other living forms, whereas the sixfold, hexagonal type, as seen in the structure of snowflakes and crystal generally, pertains typically to inanimate nature. As soon as you enter upon the world of the sacred, symbolic, or philosophical geometry - from your first, thoughtful construction of a circle with a circumference divided into natural six parts - your mind is opened to new influences that stimulate and refine it. You begin to see, as never, before, the wonderfully patterned beauty of Creation. You see true artistry, fare above any human contrivance. This indeed is the very source of art. By contact with your aesthetic senses are heightened and set upon the firm basis of truth. Beyond the obvious pleasure of contemplating the works of nature - the Many - is the delight that comes through the philosophical study of geometry, of moving towards the presence of the One. Michael Schneider is an experienced teacher and, as you are entitled to expect, a master of his geometric craft. No one less qualified could set out its basic principles so clearly and simply. His much rarer asset is appreciation of the symbolic and cosmological symbolism inherent in geometry. That is the best reason for being interested in the subject, and it is the reason why the philosophers of ancient Greece, Egypt, and other civilizations made geometry and number the most important of their studies. The traditional science taught in their mystery schools is hardly known today. It is not available for study in any modern place of education, and there is very little writing on the subject. In this book you will find something that cannot be obtained elsewhere, a complete introduction to the geometric code of nature, written and illustrated by the most perceptive of its modern investigators." I want to open this topic to discuss/post literature or media regarding to geometry found in nature or in general. Anything regarding geometry is welcome!

Does it matter? Concepts will be concepts. Only being is true. As long as you believe something is true then it will be true for you. So does it help you, does it feel right? If not, why bother, it's just an idea.

Actually a psychopath is only a label. You could say they lack emotional intelligence but what if they pray to some higher purpose than the small events happening here on earth. Some people are driven by some sense of cosmic faith like I saw in the movie Deja Vu. Psychopaths dont have to be emotionally unintelligent, but their actions can be preceived as cold or emotionless, because we cannot understand their worldview. I'm not defending any psychopathic behaviour. Still be don't know much why we are, what this place is, if there is really any purpose, how the game should be played. Whether their behaviour is correct or not is subjective and if we don't try to understand their actions by placing us in their shoes emotional wise, then that wouldn't make us any better. But to be clear I'm trying to link enlightenment/spiritual actions and psychopatic behaviour (how most people would view this). What about the Aztecs who mass murdered many people as offerings? Or many other cultural religions? These things would be considered normal even though we view them as insane, emotionally detached actions. Where is the correct balance between pursueing this spiritual connection that is thought to be preceived and "correct" acceptable human behaviour? Clearly this has been quite difficult in our past and still is. Would you really follow some devine voice or sign that tells you to do stuff or would you reject is as a reality? Nobody knows what to believe, we only feel what is good.

I think that to be enlightened and freed from most cultural chains you have to be preceived as somewhat crazy or insane for a regular person. Their understanding of how things should be done, what goals they have and how they preceive others and themselves will most of the time be very different from an enlightened spiritual person. But I don't think being enlightened and acting by reason and heart (so no cray cray) has something to do with psychopathy. Could you maybe give me an example?

Study from new scientist shows they have below average intelligence. However a intelligent psychopath with bad intentions can be quite risky. Maybe it's not really the question whether we need them, but how we should deal with them? https://www.newscientist.com/article/2118547-real-life-psychopaths-actually-have-below-average-intelligence/

No I dont experience any withdrawls, its not like caffeine at all. Caffeine can be viewed as sharp whereas this is more rounded feeling I put some in my tea but you could also put it in food as a spice. Dose is like third/half a tea spoon

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