Neo

I read your poem and took a deep breath, and it felt good. It felt like I had chosen to take that breath and then I realised, I just breathed because... well your poem told me to, and all the breathing I've been doing lately. I didn't choose to do any of it...

Speaking as a male who had children very late in life but had a strong paternal instinct through out my life including "anxiety" that time was running out (to do so with my partner), I can honestly say that trying to figure out "why" is a bit like asking why someone loves someone or why one believes in god or why someone is gay as an example. You're not going to find someone comes up with a cost / benefit analysis of an answer, or any pure logic.

Everything looks like a cartoon? Here's a picture of my pet rabbit Fred. Anything at all unusual?

Because spirituality requires being open minded and some men don't like throwing their entire life in the dustbin , even for a minute while they consider questioning everything they are founded on. Oh this is called ego isn't it?

This is how I read the initial post. As I read, "Reality is a VR experience..." I am already seeing the whole room with a wide field of view rather than looking at any "thing". You know, I'm grounded in the experience of looking rather than seeing anything in particular. (that doesn't sound possible while reading, but it clearly is somehow) When I get to the point, "recalling these moments that have already happened outside of time and space, and they materialize as reality for you", flashed into my mind was a seemingly unimportant frame or two of a memory, and I realise that the poster is correct, that the memories seem to be inserted in a different order to chronological time, then WOOOSH.... I got hit by a huge wave and I have to let it go unfortunately.

justfortoday, something half way through your main post on page 1 washed over me like a wave. I don't know what it is but the written word definitely is alive! I am here writing this post because my brain wants to avoid reading the rest.

But isn't this world view simply saying the brain has a mirror like device in it which reflects the outer reality and supplies the raw data from the senses in a coherent manner? By the way I love the picture of the universe with spiral galaxies curving round into an eye looking at itself. Does anyone have that picture and can post it? Something seems inherently true about it.

I don't get having your chain yanked by a troll.

When you go to watch a magic show and the magician says, "you must absolutely believe everything I tell you 100%", there's an unsaid caveat around that , that you expect to enjoy the show and get good value for money. Leo hasn't told us what the caveat is, but I expect it's something like, it should improve your life, and not end up dead.

Nobody has wired their brain exactly like you have - so that makes you a FREAK. As for labelling, the universe is infinite. Thirdly, if this guy committed suicide the police would be all over his laptop and this forum asking Leo questions, so the fact Leo hasn't closed this thread just about proves this guy is a Troll IMO.

@Nahm Something struck a chord when he was saying about only he could create the now, the colours and sounds. I was able to "take a step back" from that if you know what I mean.

God I just had another OH FUCK moment...

I blew some dust off an old book in my library, and it was Gill Edwards - Stepping into the Magic - never finished reading it. https://www.livingmagically.co.uk/gill-edwards/ How do you find Gill's approach of mentally imagining / day dreaming of meeting what she calls your Basic self and Higher Self? Much like what you would find in a hypnosis session, you take steps down into a forest to meet your basic Self, or to meet your higher self, up to a glass temple / tower (where nobody is home) and optimistically states you may find who is in the glass temple on the first attempt! How do these different approaches fair?

But he's Pluto, not Mercury!

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

Yes faith is different to knowledge for sure. There must be something that keeps beginners like me on this path, keeps them coming back for more. We know we have to drop all the words and knowledge, like at the last minute I guess. And yet we "keep the faith"? You are believers in a sense. But what if what you believe in is slightly misguided, over ambitious, or just plain wrong, maybe we need to drop that too. You would think that the death of an ego does indeed mean loosing every last ounce of belief too, or not. I really don't know. On the other hand, belief to me is everything.

I'm beginning to formulate my rules and regulations. We rule by strong discipline. If people mis-behave we take action by giving them a jolly good spanking with this:

It's going to be a special form a rulership never seen before whereby I am KING. Now... all bow down to Neo!

Nahm, where does faith come into this creating?

Aren't some people confusing the question whether yesterday exists at the ultimate layer of reality with just plain old does yesterday exist to you? Alan Watts describes the past as seen from the "present" as if you were a boat, stationary, with the waves of water left behind in your wake rippling, and heading off out from you.

As far as I understand it, yesterday doesn't exist outside in reality, but when you come to realise this fully, you'll no longer be fascinated by it because you'll just be frozen in time, and this is what they mean by "BEING".

Have you ever heard someone say they have a tune "stuck in their head". I was interested by this as it's something I experience. When you try to analyse, "what is the source of the music?" the music stops. Which either means concentration makes the music stop, or, the music can't be analysed without it stopping. Either way, it's an interesting phenomena. Secondly around the time the music stops, I have an inkling that it is the breath. Either the breath or the portion of brain controlling the rhythm of breath controls the imagined music or part thereof, so concentrating on breath also makes the music stop momentarily.

Are you sure this post isn't real knowledge?

My point is that there are other external forces or factors that sway you from a purely Hedonistic and uncaring way of life, least of which (appropriately for the film Highlander) is sudden death.

@vanish But what you describe is this man (warning violently explicit)