Michael Sternbach

Great! I would totally support using this song in the next Matrix movie! 😃 Were the lyrics for this one composed by ChatGPT as well?

I always maintained that at the core of all genuine religions, the same metaphysical truths can be found -- although sometimes with a different emphasis, and complementing each other when we look at different systems. You can distill these principles out of the Bible and perhaps also out of the Koran, but it is true overall that certain apocryphal and Gnostic texts talk about them more openly. And in more or less close affiliation with the latter, we have Hermetism, (Neo-)Platonism, and Ancient Greek philosophy/metaphysics in general. The three Abrahamic religions as commonly practised are exoteric systems "for the masses", with Sufism, the Kabbalah, and esoteric and mystical Christianity as their spiritual core. In contrast, the foundational texts of Hinduism, Daoism, and Buddhism are works that are openly metaphysical and esoteric in nature. It goes without saying that, in the Eastern religions, things have been simplified for the general follower as well, but there is definitely less of a gap between their esoteric and their exoteric side. I suppose that this is the reason why many spiritually inclined people are more attracted to Eastern than to Western traditions today -- at least in the earlier stages of their quest. Later, some of them may develop a more comprehensive view, though.

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Nice job! 😃 I started looking into music generating AIs just recently. Could you tell us which one was used for creating these songs please?

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This is some digital art I created to illustrate this thread. These images all revolve around the "US Navy encounters UFO" theme. Hope you enjoy! 🙂👽🛸

Taking an innocent happy child and indoctrinating them with a belief that something is fundamentally wrong with them and that they're in need of redemption is the actual 'sin'. More of a crime, in fact... 🤮

Well, that's no longer true now, plus I got three 'likes' for it up to now. I will try my best to do worse next time. 😜

Oh well... It's all a matter of perspective.

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Could you summarize that please?

It is indeed liberty which is at stake here -- your nation's and that of others. And this ties in with the extraterrestrial/UFO question in weird ways.

Teachers will only take you so far. Each teacher has their personal view of the system they represent. Make sure you develop your own, and be free to mix and match. Your ultimate teacher resides inside of you.

A few remarks with regard to the Congressional hearing... I too would have liked to see actual alien spacecrafts and/or bodies presented, but this would have been too much to expect. In all likelihood, more specific information will be coming forth piecemeal over the coming years. The new legislation requiring all UAP knowledge to be made available to the public is at least a step in the right direction. What sets David Grusch's testimony apart from many others is that his sources weren't some imaginative folks on YouTube but high-ranking intelligence officials who entrusted him their first-hand information in closed settings. Why would they have lied to him? Congress takes Grusch so seriously for a reason! Besides, let's not forget that the US is by no means the only nation that gathers intelligence on UFOs/UAPs. It seems likely that others with a significant observational record (e.g., Brazil) will gradually follow in its wake and start releasing previously withheld information -- a process that already began years ago BTW. The 'Tic Tac UFO' was previously observed in 1987 over Czechoslovakia. An interview with one of the helicopter pilots who encountered this object is presented in episode 5 ("Soviet Secrets") of the very recommendable documentary mini series Top Secret UFO Projects on Netflix. In my view, we are being visited both by benevolent extraterrestrials (supposedly the majority of them) and some that follow agendas which are not in the best interest of humanity. Members of both groups have been involved with our planet for many millennia.

Even though no grey alien showed up to testify, I did find the Congressional hearing rather interesting. While the principal whistleblower, Air Force officer and former intelligence official David Grusch, (perhaps understandably) did not provide further detail regarding the retrieved alien spacecrafts and alien bodies that he had talked about in various interviews, he at least concurred to share his knowledge with members of Congress in a closed setting. Let's hope that the latter will live up to its promise to make all such information available to the public in due course! The reports of the other two witnesses -- high-ranking jet pilots who had close encounters with what appears to be extraterrestrial spacecrafts -- were thought provoking too (to say the least). It seems highly unlikely that they were making any of this stuff up. Hopefully more information (radar recordings etc) about the respective incidents will be coming forth eventually. Overall, while the hearing as such may not have provided so much new information for those who have been following recent developments in the field, it is nevertheless a milestone on the way to unbiased scientific exploration of the topic of UFOs and Earth-visiting extraterrestrial intelligences.

For those of you who would like some background information about tomorrow's/today's (depending on where on our planet you are) Congressional UFO hearing, here's a relevant link. It's scheduled for July 26 2023, 10:00 a.m. ET and can be followed live (just check out the link!). This is potentially gonna be big!

Was just connecting some dots. 🙂

In other words, different strokes for different folks. 🙂

Hi Manitou, The human form reflects the 'All Encompassing One' on a microcosmic level. There are indeed individual souls, but the thing to appreciate here is that the soul is not a closed system. One metaphor that might help understand this better (and I will underline that it's just a metaphor) is to imagine your soul emanating like a light cone from your crown chakra--as does the soul of all others around you. Now the higher up you go, the more all these individual souls will intersect with one another. At Infinity, there will be nothing but Unity. But then, the outermost is mirrored by the innermost. So it is correct to say that the One is at once at the very centre of your being.

This blurs the line between what, in the most common view, is considered alive and what is not.

Correction: Archangel Michael hurls the dragon to the Earth, but does not kill him in the Revelation of John.

I have been following Bob Lazar's presentations for quite a while. I agree with others here that he is among the more credible UFO whistleblowers. In this interesting episode of the Joe Rogan Experience Lazar claims having seen nine alien spaceships in Area-51, even though he only had a chance to examine one of them. His 'outlandish' claim now got an at least partial confirmation by the recent revelation that the OP refers to. As it happens, I am currently working on a heavily illustrated sci-fi novel that narrates the first--rather dramatic--encounter between humanity and certain extraterrestrial civilizations. More on this to follow.

Hi masta, And welcome to the forums. 🙂 What kind of help do you need?

Hi dino, Most of all, relax your shoulders and tuck your tailbone in - not forcefully, more as in just letting the pelvis naturally roll forward. This will align the vertebrae in your spine and give the back a 'C' shape as opposed to its usual 'S' shape. At the same time, you want to tuck your chin in and keep your head up, as to keep your posture upright overall.