This pic ;)

[r0ckyreed]

42 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

The human experience is equally absolute.

Absolute is not the black void, it is the whole picture.

The butterfly is absolute. That's the key.

I think I am started to get it. The human experience is absolute and it is relative. The Absolute is wearing the mask of a human and the butterfly. 

My hang up has always been on idealism because it seems to suggest that when I am not observing something, it doesn’t exist. But in this dream, there are things I do not observe that still exist. For example, germs, Paris, and my ex-girlfriends.

The Universe is putting on the human mask to experience one aspect of itself. The experience that the Universe is experiencing seems like it is both absolute and relative. It is relative in the sense that the human experience is one out of infinite experiences, and it is absolute in the sense that it is truth/consciousness.

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[theleelajoker]

@koops Few days after posting it, this pic is still making my day : )

 My interpretation:  The mask = ego, yes.  At the same time it is a filter, or a process, an ingredient, or a catalyst (looking for the right word here)  which creates something.  Whatever the mask it, it's not only looking. It's part of a greater creation process. It's not necessarily limited - it's just different.

When you grind wheat to flour, it's not better or worse. It's not limited.  It's just different. When you use an oven to bake dough to bread, the bread is no better or worse. It's simply that it changed ihn the process.

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[Breakingthewall]

48 minutes ago, r0ckyreed said:

But in this dream, there are things I do not observe that still exist. For example, germs, Paris, and my ex-girlfriends.

well....they exist as potential, which is the same as saying that they really exist, but within the dimension of existence that is rockyreed, they are, let's say, imaginary 😅, since if the rockyreed dimension were an amoeba, they not would exist. All this mental mess is just a mental mess, since infinity is infinite. So the answer is: it doesn't matter. Within the infinite possibilities, they are two possibilities, who cares? It depends of the angle from you see it. The only thing that matters is perceiving the absolute in them, the same as in you, in the end only the absolute is real, and the forms are appearances in terms of their form and absolute in terms of their essence. In short: infinity

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[Leo Gura]

48 minutes ago, r0ckyreed said:

But in this dream, there are things I do not observe that still exist. For example, germs, Paris, and my ex-girlfriends

What it means for those things to exist is that you are making a claim that they will reliably arise in your experience under certain conditions.

Under certain conditions Paris will enter your experience. Under no conditions will a flat earth enter your experience unless maybe you enter a totally new dream.

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[r0ckyreed]

39 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

What it means for those things to exist is that you are making a claim that they will reliably arise in your experience under certain conditions.

Under certain conditions Paris will enter your experience. Under no conditions will a flat earth enter your experience unless maybe you enter a totally new dream.

I have so many contradictions in my worldview.

For instance, on the one hand, what it seems to mean for something to exist is that I can observe it. If I cannot see it, feel it, think it, then it does not exist. But on the other hand, it seems like there are things happening behind my senses. 

 

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[Leo Gura]

In a sense everything exists, but then it's just a matter of whether it materializes in your particular dream and under what conditions.

Every finite object is filtered down from Infinity/Everythingness.

Imagine Cat Infinity, which is a soup of every possible cat. And then the cat you see on the street is just one pulled from that soup.

That's how it works.

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[What Am I]

4 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

In a sense everything exists, but then it's just a matter of whether it materializes in your particular dream and under what conditions.

Wild stuff. A few times after I've come back from an extreme DMT trip, I've had the distinct impression that a bunch of factors of reality have been shuffled. Even little things like my room isn't how it was before.

[Leo Gura]

@What Am I Beware of spiritual fantasies.

[What Am I]

20 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

@What Am I Beware of spiritual fantasies.

Sure, I didn't necessarily mean I believed it to be the case, but it did feel that way. And after the profundity of what I'd just experienced, my reality rearranging would be the least incredible thing lol.

If it were to be possible, it'd be something along the lines of my individuality experiencing something akin to a parallel universe, and the DMT facilitating it. Considering everything else that we know exists, it wouldn't be the most far-fetched thing imaginable.

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[Leo Gura]

High doses of psychedelics can screw with your memory in surreal ways. So it's easy to misremember stuff you did in the material world.

[Rafael Thundercat]

5 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Your body is God. Don't look elsewhere

What else. 

[Rafael Thundercat]

56 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Imagine Cat Infinity, which is a soup of every possible cat. And then the cat you see on the street is just one pulled from that soup.

 

[Rafael Thundercat]

59 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Imagine Cat Infinity, which is a soup of every possible cat. And then the cat you see on the street is just one pulled from that soup.

That's how it works.

[ryandesreu]

22 hours ago, koops said:

 

 

I downloaded this image and added it to my collection of art. The image itself and style reminds me of this picture from my collection. 

 

[Yimpa]

@ryandesreu nice!

 

[What Am I]

https://www.rozziroomian.com/gallery

This is the artist's site. Lots of great pics, though that one in the OP is probably the best. I'm sure it speaks to practically everyone on the forum who has some experience.

[Yimpa]

1 hour ago, What Am I said:

https://www.rozziroomian.com/gallery

This is the artist's site. Lots of great pics, though that one in the OP is probably the best. I'm sure it speaks to practically everyone on the forum who has some experience.

Wow, thank you for sharing! Even the artist reminds me of my ex… 

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[Davino]

4 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Every finite object is filtered down from Infinity/Everythingness.

Imagine Cat Infinity, which is a soup of every possible cat. And then the cat you see on the street is just one pulled from that soup.

That's how it works.

Awake Plato 

[LambdaDelta]

One of my favorites since a long time. I also like this meme version 

[LambdaDelta]

1 hour ago, Davino said:

Awake Plato