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Sounds to me like you are directing your awareness towards the crown chakra, a bit like a psychedelic trip. You say the images' bizarreness awaken you. Is it maybe that there are associations, especially fears, that cause that? Are you afraid of 'going there' or 'understanding the message of what is being shown'? And after you are 'back', you feel fine? After my ayahuasca experiences, sometimes at night in bed when I focused on third eye and/or crown chakra, I would feel that way. Then I focused on the lower dan tien and felt comfortable again.

Pretending your are not God is false modesty.

Someone came up with the term "multiverse" to express that there might be many universes coexisting besides the known one. This first sentence already contains so many inaccuracies due to language inadequacies and misconcentions, so let me explain my thoughts on this: "Universe" is by definition all that exists. Society seems to have no problem changing the meaning of words in an illogical way, but logically this seems to be a problem. So the scientific community doesn't actually honor the original meaning of the word. They define it as the totality of existence according to their belief, or something like that. When new things are discovered, they'd have to be incorporated into what is referred to by the term "universe". By offloading that new content to another term (multiverse), the mind is performing an analytical act where a synthetic act would be required or logical or wise. I guess this leads to (or is a symptom of) so many confusions in the mind, like creating a definition and then arguing about whether it is true or false. What's the point of using a term "universe" if you betray it so easily? What's the point of a term "multiverse" when it logically negates the term "universe"? You cannot have one with the other, and you cannot have one without the other. Then again, maybe it's just a pragmatic process of gradual, slow incorporation of an expanded view into a rigid structure. It might be a very natural and understandable process, so I'm simply advocating awareness about the implications. Realize the irony that a multiverse is smaller than a universe.

Okay, how about this: If you travel to the past in order to change unpleasant events, you will change the future, and that future so that you have no reason to travel to the past, so you don't, so unpleasant things happen. Loop. So the idea is self-defeating, and that's why physical time travel is not possible. Whatever happens is the only thing that can happen and is supposed to happen. Physical time travel is an idea based on a misconception about the nature of time. Say you travel to the future in order to see what happens there, for your own benefit maybe (e.g. lottery results). But that future will not be helpful to you, because it is a future where you will have disappeared (due to you leaving for the future). So if you return to your own time with the information gathered, that future will be different, because you life in it now. And even if your presence doesn't have that much influence on events, there's still chaos theory. Imagine now you do another time travel the next day, with the same destination in the future. It will already be a different future, a future based on one day of your presence with knowledge of the future. And if you try to resolve this paradox by proposing the existence of several parallel timelines, then surely you don't suggest that any time travel creates a brand new timeline from the beginning of the universe till its end. So it must have been there in the first place. That would imply that there is an infinite number of timelines, containing all possibilities, and that would kinda result in the spiritual view that physical time travel is a misconception. Our minds came up with the idea of physical time travel because the mind thinks that time is 'there', when instead time is merely a function of the mind, a part of how our perception works. I imagine the mind being like a reading tool, accessing the pool of information about all of existence and in normal operation scanning forward along the intended timeline only. Outside of normal operation, it can skip back and forward as well as change the reading speed. Maybe the profound experience of utter nothingness is when the reading speed is reduced to zero. Your whole life flashing before your eyes is another good example: Jump back to birth and then very fast forward. And you will be able to not merely see flashes, pictures, but your actual life, all of it, because the idea that the mind cannot process so much information in such a short time is another illusion. Because this would not be a matter of the mind, but of the observer.

http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/ That's not what I meant though.

This could be taken out of a Discworld novel. "Known" by who? And what it knowing? Only things known for certain? What degree of certainty? 4% of everything? How is that measured? How can you dare quantify what you think you know in comparison with what you suspect exists? Sounds easy to do at first, but at closer look can seem like madness. Actually, what they're saying is that the 96% is not unknown, but what they believe they know. Calling it dark matter already removes it from the realm of the unknown. You cannot quantify the unknown. It's funny how literally materialism can become a part of science. (Personally, about dark matter, I think it's a misconception based on too much confidence in the powers of measuring equipment, combined with a clinging to outdated models of how the universe works.) P.S.: I'm merely giving help in looking at thought processes. Not claiming anything. I am wondering whether science can do research based on the idea that we will never know everything. They seem to be driven a lot by the idea that if they figure out everything they imagined currently, then we'd know everything. Try to imagine there might be things that we haven't figured out that we aren't even wondering about today. Whole questions that haven't come up yet, because we haven't encountered the phenomena that could spawn those questions. From my personal spiritual standpoint, the universe is probably potentially unlimited. Meaning that it is always the size that reflects the collective consciousness. The more we want to know, the bigger we make the universe, because we will collectively make up (manifest in reality) the answers to the questions that arise. P.P.S.: Wow, just had a déjà vu when writing the last paragraph.

If you'd like to see one of the most accurate and awesome depictions of a psychedelic trip (peyote), watch the movie Blueberry The movie itself is kinda slow and not awesome, but seen as a whole, it's very interesting. I thought: Those animations in 3D, maybe even with a VFX helmet, would blow you away.

Only visit this website if you have strong willpower, little curiosity, a busy life or too much time. It's gotten to the point where it reminds me of my ayahuasca trip, making my mind explore endlessly until I give up. www.tvtropes.org The following picture gives you an impression. Let's just say that I had several out-of-memory-errors and various browser crashes and occasionally using Internet Explorer windows in-between. I had to decrease the size of Opera 11 in order to free up RAM, because it stopped displaying content in the full page size.

"minimize environmental impact, and save energy" What a negative approach to life and problem solving. Belief systems enforce themselves. Saving energy implies that there is too little. Minimizing environmental impact implies that all impact is harmful or undesirable.

All movies carry characteristics of enlightenment. By making an arbitrary distinction, half of it is overlooked. Are you looking for movies that don't chop wood or carry water?

Now is it just different writing systems, or is it incorrect to call it the Tai Chi symbol as done in that link? I thought the system is called Tai Chi and the symbol is called Taiji. But sometimes I also see people call the system Taiji.

A Chinese dragon is long.

Timing is everything? Timing is timing and everything is everything. Everything is nothing and nothing is everything. Timing is nothing and everything. This has been true in the past and will be true in the future. Truth is everything and nothing, and timing is truth. Past and future are truth and they are nothing and everything and timing is in the past and the future. Repeat this until you have lost your mind, then you understand.

Nice balance. In case my jokes are not funny enough, seeing people not getting them respond seriously is entertaining enough. (To be fair, I'd like to mention that the OP example requires basic knowledge of the Chinese language.)

Feathers.

No, any time distortion was a feeling lasting for real time. Like for example believing that time had stopped, and that feeling lasting for a minute. It seems, though, as if during one of the trips parts of a future trip bled into that one.

Well, I'm pretty good at swallowing disgusting liquids, but it WILL return to the external world later. (I managed to keep it in for more than four hours, and then it probably only climaxed because I got up and walked around.)

I recently induced a mild nicotine poisoning for detox. Horrible experience. A lot of emotional stuff triggered. Imagine drinking an extra-strong tobacco brew mixed with cold coffee. (Some added sugar though.) I'd prefer ayahuasca over mapacho any day.

No matter how much of a survivalist an animal is, if it's not considered "cute" by humankind, it can still be threatened with extinction. And then there are cockroaches. ... Humans still exist because cockroaches consider them cute.

@WWROA When did the world ever not look like going to hell? Also, don't 'nice-up' military service. For some it is spiritually helpful because it brings them to the breaking point of ethics and inner conflict. If you want to use your values for raising the average mood in a group, law enforcement is probably much easier for that. I could imagine that as a policeman, you have a lot of freedom in how to deal with situations and positively influence colleagues. But... you need a positive attitude for that, and you seem very vulnerable in those regards. The world isn't going straight to hell. Everything that is always happening is still happening. That's all. You decide what frequencies you want to tune in, and that shapes your reality. The reality that you perceive and then manifest.

Let me somewhat re-use this thread for a more specific question, since I wondered about the relation of time travel and spirituality, too. Time might be a so-called illusion, but space is, too, and we can travel through space. Can anyone clarify whether it should still be possible to physically travel in time based on the spiritual knowledge/understanding of time? side note: According to well-informed me, something like that is a common symptom at the beginning of a DMT trip. It is not unlikely that many alien abduction experiences were unintentional psychedelic experiences triggered by the human brain.

I suspect I did for a while, but if so, then naturally I can't remember. (Basically what you just posted.)

Can't handle the awkward 0?

Don't distract from the insight. The red pill is not for being looked at. (It is blue, by the way.) This is not about "under the heaven", although ultimately it is.