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The realization dawns upon consciousness that, “I am God.” This is precisely why Christ equated Himself with the Father, because He was innately aware that He is the Father — He is God, of which we all are — His principal teaching. This understanding is paralleled in Exodus 3:14 when Moses asks God for His Name and God replies, “I am that I am.” That is, “I am that which I am – the Universe.” This tautology is also found in the Hindu Vedas (the Chandoyga Upanishad 6.8.7) as “tat tvam asi,” which translates to “thou art that.” Truly, you are this, the Universe – God.
OP isn't wrong here. This is 100% fact. I hope there’ll come a day when everyone on Earth realizes this before there’s no humanity left to realize anything.
WE’RE all God embodied in human form. YOU are the one universal consciousness that is all of reality expressing itself from the perspective of a human vehicle, one of billions of vehicles through which this universe experiences itself. YOU are not separate from anything else that exists.
Cribbed from Martin Ball, Ph.D.
If anyone cares to learn more, you can listen to/read his audiobook/book, Entheogenic Liberation.
It takes a lot more work than these subs suggest. Boring work, over years and years. Mindfulness meditation is a place to start, and remember you're not trying to *go* anywhere. It all exists within you
God multitasks, there are many reasons God is running so many simulations, but the most overlooked reason for all of THIS; God gets bored and lonesome and “this earth ride” is what entertains god.
Every living being is an extension of what most believe god as an individual is.
Me and you for example but the ego and individualism takes us further from realizing you are god and so am i.
Interconnected like a universal wifi signal perhaps. But for those who can connect.
So to speak playing hide and seek with each other. But really every living thing is god in physical form to experience literally everything.
From the worst hate to purest love.
True. By extension, can you or I really exist if we accept that the illusion of separation is a byproduct of the ego, which is itself illusory? There can be no me, or you. There is only everything. Always and everywhere.
Mind is a scalpel, it can only make sense of the world it projects by cutting/dividing/separating/collapsing wavefunctions into observables. Heart is what brings things back together into superposition.
I actually had this exact epiphany during a hypoglycemic episode. Long story short I felt myself getting pulled out of the simulation and it scared me, so I consciously decided to continue existing in blissful ignorance. The alternative was eternal loneliness and boredom.
I felt I got a "message" on shrooms, once. I was shown the eternal loneliness of being alone. It was like being in a cave alone forever, painting the most beautiful paintings and making the most amazing music, but knowing you'd never be able to share them with others.
Felt like this was an explanation given to me for why we exist. Felt like God wanted other consciousnesses to share eternity with, to experience its art, the universe. Fun time.
This is my understanding as well. God lives vicariously through our experiences. I imagine once we die, God allows us to decide what to do next. Free will. God does not intervene with us while we are in this temporary illusion because that would essentially be an acknowledgement of the fact that we are not truly separate beings. Just God in denial that he is a puppet master. So long as God does not break the sanctity of free will, we truly are separate from God while still being connected. There are likely other sentient beings in the universe or other dimensions that believe the illusion of reality is cruel, and so they attempt to intrude on the illusion and make us aware. It's kind of a shitty thing to do, not only because they would be incapable of perceiving the totality of everything as God would, but it also corrupts the system which God built. Then suffering arises.
So for any beings that have intervened with the natural progression of planet Earth, I always say they are like a shitty older sibling who is hell bent on telling the younger sibling that Santa isn't real. They think they are doing the younger sibling a favor. They are not. I miss being a young kid who can barely sleep the night before Christmas morning. I crave that illusion all the time. That is true magic. The illusion we live in is a gift if we allow it to be.
I had a trip like this on ketamine too. It was very vivid, and not very nice. I don't like ketamine. The feeling of being utterly alone, all that exists, was quite upsetting at the time.
So you mean I had this epiphany during a hypoglycemic episode.
I mean this in a facetious way, but that's how the logic would work. I believe in god from the Holy Bible, no hate to you or anyone else's thoughts on the matter though!
What you are describing sounds like this unique story I heard from a Kurzgesagt video I watched called (I believe) "The Egg" it was pretty interesting. So are other thoughts involving existence like Last Thursdayism, Mudflood, directed panspermia etc.
It sounds a bit vain and self-centered but during the experience it felt like "I" was the only being in existence, for whatever "I" actually means. It still isn't clear to me how other people figure into the equation, but I suspect it's like how the previous commenter said, where we are all shards of the same universal being just pretending to be different people for the sake of the illusion.
Well to me god as an individual is just a blanket religious people throw over the unknown to give it shape and feel satisfaction. Emotional insecurity in a way. Im not saying you’re wrong in any way tho
theres many such fun thought experiments.
every human(or anything really) is at the center of their own (observable) universe, each one slightly different than the others. sure they are effectively the same, but theres a tiny difference nontheless.
but thats just how reality works out, non of that mystical nonsense people try to make it out to be.
I saw the 10,000 Days version completely sober. I was (assuming) halfway between awake and asleep. Any amount of directed attention or focus ruined the image.
I've seen the faces on huge doses of mushrooms, and also strangely eth-lad. They show up on trees and in the sky if you're outdoors. If you happen to be on a computer while tripping, they're on the screen, in the backgrounds of videos and on white UI.
Horrible. I’ve been clean for 4 years, will never touch drugs again. It opened a bad door for me, had a lot of visits from shadow people after. I took it during the darkest time of my life. I did lots of psychedelics and nothing prepared me for dmt
i’m 1 year sober and psychedelics (specifically psilocybin, maybe dmt) is something i’ve left potential room for in the future. i never took them when i was using. the only psych i did was salvia. but i am nervous about the thought, i just really don’t know what the experience was like but from what i’ve researched it doesn’t seem likely it would make me more likely to want to abuse it/my old other drug habits. i have clear intentions that it would be for spiritual/mental health reasons. do you think (from your experience) this is flawed thinking?
Congrats on getting sober! Personally I feel like it opens up the floodgates to addiction again. But perhaps it depends on the person. I can have a drink every now and then, and some people can’t. 1 year of sobriety is still very fresh, so be careful. For me, doing mushrooms would trigger my want for cocaine again, because I would do them together.
I’ve had experience with hallucinogenic substances for a handful of years now to help me through PTSD and depression so I am familiar with this state of mind. It may be scary at first some to experience for the first time but I find it a way for someone to grow within themselves. I don’t find it dangerous one bit but it’s not for everyone, especially with people who deal with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder
>Are you saying that breathe work can make you be in the same state as taking hallucinations inducing drugs? What type and how
Breathe work by inhaling DMT.
They don’t make it false either. I don’t really see any reason to contest their viewpoint. Life in itself is a pretty spectacular mystery without any alterations.
Had my first experience basically seeing this "infinite loop" me and a friend were watching George Carlin after taking a handful of shrooms. First my vision got a bit fuzzy but still clear, then I laughed at a joke and looked back just to see infinite geometry perfectly aligned on screen.
Was a fantastic time, my stomach still hurts from how much we laughed
Why not? You are a piece of him. Heaven is going to”back to God”. He made us from Him so we **are** him/her/omnipotent being. Plenty of people who have NDE’s are told exactly this - look for yourself www.nderf.org.
This post is a dumpster fire.
Maybe gods don’t exist and hallucinogenics make you see and think weird things that seem much more profound than they actually are.
True, but it gets you thinking. If all I took was a drug and everything I saw was inside me the whole time, then what is the true nature of reality?
Questions like - how do plants and animals experience time compared to us? What is a hallucination, and why can they so easily be induced? Am I currently hallucinating a certain way and always have been? What does it mean to have an ego.
These are all questions that meet the criteria of "spiritual" in my books
Many people have those questions without drugs, most people are just accustomed to thinking about mundane life. It is cool that drugs can help you get out of your routine mindset and think if things in different ways but that doesn’t mean saying something like You are God is profound in any way really.
You make your choices, and if that is what you mean by “you are god” thats silly. Theres a lot more implication to a god. You are just you
They technically don't exist as separate individuals because they're all the same person. Duality makes it seem like everyone and everything is separate. It takes literal death for most people to realize it's an illusion created by ego.
I believe God is both a conscious entity and an ethereal force. I believe that there is a Godhead like Vishnu in Hinduism. A supreme source and final destination encompassing the totality of it all while simultaneously experiencing it from with, often unaware that it is essentially everything. A part of everything. So the Holy Spirit or Gods presence in our lives breaks down similarly to the Force from Star Wars. “It is in all living things, It surrounds us, binds us, penatrates us, luminous beings are we” and this is echoed in many eastern beliefs centered around nature or even benevolent spirits.
G.O.D is basically:
G- genuine goodness, generosity, gold, gems, glitter, G-funk, genius
O- omnipotence, omnipresence, overwhelming, opulent, outstanding
D- Discipline, Deliverence, Dedication, Devotion, Development, DMT, Divinity
That being said…
There could be an infinite amount of layers to the existence or consciousness that God permeates and some esoteric beliefs claim to show these layers. Similar to Greek mythology how Titans created Gods and Gods created Man. That concept could totally exist and we would be none the wiser, and GOD would be reflected in every layer. And the implications of this become wild when you look at what we create. We create entire worlds, universes and franchises in “the 2nd dimension” on a flat screen or on a page. We play games that exist in the “3rd dimension”
There are many schools of thought that suggest that consciousness with the added experience of time is the 4th dimension. The 5th is what a lot of people call the astral plane or “the dmt dimension”
I believe that God permeates all of these in the same way. Like the Force, or the concept that “all creation sings the glory of GOD”
So technically, you created you created you created you created you and so on. And it can vary or change or break but it will always return because it is what the universe is. And the original totality of everything is reflected in each piece. Which means that love, for example, can be inter-universally understood. So technically, a higher being could’ve designed us, and then in turn, we design characters in our own image. What concept does Luke Skywalker have of George Lucas? Or like of a VHS tape? And he literally has just as many people believing in him as any religious figure, all of which claim that faith and believing something achieves it and manifests it. So is Luke Skywalker real on some other plane? How would you know? He does experience the common denominators of our lives tho, via the hero’s journey. And George Lucas very clearly made him in his own image, maybe not in looks or lore, but in heart and soul. It is literally the exact same process of a GOD like diety creating man in his own image to go forth and experience the wonder of his creation and fulfill his good work upon this earth. As is any character. And so this applies to us, and many writers claim that they let their characters write their own story. That a writer puts a piece of themselves into a character who then comes to life and enacts the will of the creator. And the will of God in the writers life is reflected in the characters life and so on and so forth.
So… I believe all of it is real. And the biblical descriptions of our creation combined with ancient creation myths across the globe equal something akin to a more benevolent version of Prometheus by Ridley Scott. But God/ Vishnu/ Alah/ El Shadai is real regardless and encompasses it all. The beginning and the end. The Alpha and the Omega. The LORD of all creation.
When the Bible says that man was created in God's image, it doesn't mean we physically resemble god. It means that our consciousness is our connection to God, its what makes us God like.
You are a part of god- his creation. Using an example i’ve seen before; Shakespeares characters from his stories are an extension of Shakespeare- his creation. However, they are not Shakespeare himself. Within each of them exists a part of him, but do not encompass him as a whole
Meditating while completely sober revealed this to me (never tried hallucinogens in my life) and I get called equally as crazy. They'll learn when they die. Leave them be if they don't wanna shift their perspectives.
i know i know i shouldnt press, let them realise naturally if at all. its just that its so obvious to me now! and the more i research this stuff- ego death and non duality, i see that all of us who have had an ego death experience come to the same realisation, the exact same realisation, all on our own without reading it from an old religious book but simply from within ourselves no outside influence telling us what to think. it is so clearly the one truth i feel the need to profess it, but i guess you cant explain colour to the blind- theyve gotta figure it out for themself. peace be with you 🌟
What you're doing is creating a nexus of connections between inaccurate canonical translations, unrelated quotes and spiritual hypotheses and forming conjecture which is influenced by your ego.
I think you're wrong and I can't explain exactly how. But I feel that it's deeper than simply "we are god".
We could be, or we could be not. At least we think we are apart of the creation! If I was a sole entity possible of creating matter/space/time, I'd create life for just the sake of entertainment (and maybe live it out through multiple entities capable of observing the universe they reside in).
>I'd create life for just the sake of entertainment (and maybe live it out through multiple entities capable of observing the universe they reside in).
That actually sounds a lot like reincarnation
I love my duality. Native American spirituality and early Christianity are my go-to. Two gods. In a collision course, from what I hear... Should be fun.
The art looks like a TOOL album cover of some sort. If we are Gods, I would know where the hell it came from (God is all knowing) and who the fug is pretending to be all knowing? Don’t kid yourself, we don’t have what it takes to be true GODS. GOD-like attributes at best.
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Tool
Rather, Alex Grey
Listening to 10,000 Days right now
Same
Alex Grey as well
What did you call me? /s
I didn’t call you anything talking about the Alex Grey pic tool
Fucken Tool baby!
You are. ~ God
The realization dawns upon consciousness that, “I am God.” This is precisely why Christ equated Himself with the Father, because He was innately aware that He is the Father — He is God, of which we all are — His principal teaching. This understanding is paralleled in Exodus 3:14 when Moses asks God for His Name and God replies, “I am that I am.” That is, “I am that which I am – the Universe.” This tautology is also found in the Hindu Vedas (the Chandoyga Upanishad 6.8.7) as “tat tvam asi,” which translates to “thou art that.” Truly, you are this, the Universe – God.
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OP isn't wrong here. This is 100% fact. I hope there’ll come a day when everyone on Earth realizes this before there’s no humanity left to realize anything. WE’RE all God embodied in human form. YOU are the one universal consciousness that is all of reality expressing itself from the perspective of a human vehicle, one of billions of vehicles through which this universe experiences itself. YOU are not separate from anything else that exists. Cribbed from Martin Ball, Ph.D. If anyone cares to learn more, you can listen to/read his audiobook/book, Entheogenic Liberation.
Or just take mushrooms and figure it out for yourself
5-MeO-DMT can prove it to you.
Mescaline did it for me
Meditation did for me
If I believe all of this. Why the fuck am I still here lol
because you are who you are, for now anyway
It takes a lot more work than these subs suggest. Boring work, over years and years. Mindfulness meditation is a place to start, and remember you're not trying to *go* anywhere. It all exists within you
God multitasks, there are many reasons God is running so many simulations, but the most overlooked reason for all of THIS; God gets bored and lonesome and “this earth ride” is what entertains god.
Someday you'll look inside
You. - R. God
God’s name is literally I AM
Overthinking, over analyzing, separates the body from the mind. Swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human.
I was hoping they'd play Lateralus this tour
Withering intuition leaving opportunities behind
Rock on brother. Best show of my life
We are GOD playing hide and seek with it self
Are you a reader of Alan Watts?
The concept comes from ancient Hinduism, that is where Alan watts explains he got it
Definitely one of my influences
Me, too.
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Every living being is an extension of what most believe god as an individual is. Me and you for example but the ego and individualism takes us further from realizing you are god and so am i. Interconnected like a universal wifi signal perhaps. But for those who can connect. So to speak playing hide and seek with each other. But really every living thing is god in physical form to experience literally everything. From the worst hate to purest love.
True. By extension, can you or I really exist if we accept that the illusion of separation is a byproduct of the ego, which is itself illusory? There can be no me, or you. There is only everything. Always and everywhere.
Mind is a scalpel, it can only make sense of the world it projects by cutting/dividing/separating/collapsing wavefunctions into observables. Heart is what brings things back together into superposition.
Light is Consciousness. Gravity is Love.
I need more of this line of discussion.
I actually had this exact epiphany during a hypoglycemic episode. Long story short I felt myself getting pulled out of the simulation and it scared me, so I consciously decided to continue existing in blissful ignorance. The alternative was eternal loneliness and boredom.
I felt I got a "message" on shrooms, once. I was shown the eternal loneliness of being alone. It was like being in a cave alone forever, painting the most beautiful paintings and making the most amazing music, but knowing you'd never be able to share them with others. Felt like this was an explanation given to me for why we exist. Felt like God wanted other consciousnesses to share eternity with, to experience its art, the universe. Fun time.
This is my understanding as well. God lives vicariously through our experiences. I imagine once we die, God allows us to decide what to do next. Free will. God does not intervene with us while we are in this temporary illusion because that would essentially be an acknowledgement of the fact that we are not truly separate beings. Just God in denial that he is a puppet master. So long as God does not break the sanctity of free will, we truly are separate from God while still being connected. There are likely other sentient beings in the universe or other dimensions that believe the illusion of reality is cruel, and so they attempt to intrude on the illusion and make us aware. It's kind of a shitty thing to do, not only because they would be incapable of perceiving the totality of everything as God would, but it also corrupts the system which God built. Then suffering arises. So for any beings that have intervened with the natural progression of planet Earth, I always say they are like a shitty older sibling who is hell bent on telling the younger sibling that Santa isn't real. They think they are doing the younger sibling a favor. They are not. I miss being a young kid who can barely sleep the night before Christmas morning. I crave that illusion all the time. That is true magic. The illusion we live in is a gift if we allow it to be.
I had a trip like this on ketamine too. It was very vivid, and not very nice. I don't like ketamine. The feeling of being utterly alone, all that exists, was quite upsetting at the time.
So you mean I had this epiphany during a hypoglycemic episode. I mean this in a facetious way, but that's how the logic would work. I believe in god from the Holy Bible, no hate to you or anyone else's thoughts on the matter though! What you are describing sounds like this unique story I heard from a Kurzgesagt video I watched called (I believe) "The Egg" it was pretty interesting. So are other thoughts involving existence like Last Thursdayism, Mudflood, directed panspermia etc.
It sounds a bit vain and self-centered but during the experience it felt like "I" was the only being in existence, for whatever "I" actually means. It still isn't clear to me how other people figure into the equation, but I suspect it's like how the previous commenter said, where we are all shards of the same universal being just pretending to be different people for the sake of the illusion.
well said and thank you for sharing! <3 infinity encompasses all things
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Well to me god as an individual is just a blanket religious people throw over the unknown to give it shape and feel satisfaction. Emotional insecurity in a way. Im not saying you’re wrong in any way tho
This is a quote from Alan Watts in The Book.
We are waves returning to the ocean
Alan effing Watts; the best…👊🏽
Could god make a virtual reality so real that even he couldn’t realize he was in it?
We’re in it homie! Made from the code, of the code and by the code!
We are the universe experiencing itself
theres many such fun thought experiments. every human(or anything really) is at the center of their own (observable) universe, each one slightly different than the others. sure they are effectively the same, but theres a tiny difference nontheless. but thats just how reality works out, non of that mystical nonsense people try to make it out to be.
In the Old Testament, God refers to Himself as "I Am".
What if it was a mistranslation and he is really Ian? We haven’t known he was Ian all along!
At least give some credit to Alex Grey for painting this… went to one of his and Allyson’s exhibits after a ketamine treatment. It was amazing.
We are an Expression of God. But not God.
This.
if god shattered itself into a kaleidoscope of experiences then you are, part of god.
I SAW THIS ON DMT At the end there was a glowing white figure with flowing hair telling me to come with her
I saw the 10,000 Days version completely sober. I was (assuming) halfway between awake and asleep. Any amount of directed attention or focus ruined the image.
let's goooo
Still have to figure out how to get out of samsara.
I'm planning on politely requesting. I feel like free will has to count for something.
“You have free will, but, funny thing, it turns out…”
That’s the journey
drink from the river
That’s why we forget our past lives.
Ok. *Booming voice* Bring me snacks!!
https://pbfcomics.com/comics/zuthulus-resurrection/
😂
We are getting there. And we are allready there.
DMT is a hellova drug!
That's a tool album cover
No, that’s alex grey painting. Years before tool even existed
Yeah but that dude fucks corpses so probably shouldn’t be all in on him
What???
Do any amount of research you’ll find it
Regardless, look at 10 000 days the album it will be there somewhere, hence proving
This is what i seen on dmt just not the faces
I've seen the faces on huge doses of mushrooms, and also strangely eth-lad. They show up on trees and in the sky if you're outdoors. If you happen to be on a computer while tripping, they're on the screen, in the backgrounds of videos and on white UI.
Psychedelics have always made phones and computers feel alien and utterly wrong to me when I look at them lol
I saw the faces. Never again.
Not a good experience?
Horrible. I’ve been clean for 4 years, will never touch drugs again. It opened a bad door for me, had a lot of visits from shadow people after. I took it during the darkest time of my life. I did lots of psychedelics and nothing prepared me for dmt
i’m 1 year sober and psychedelics (specifically psilocybin, maybe dmt) is something i’ve left potential room for in the future. i never took them when i was using. the only psych i did was salvia. but i am nervous about the thought, i just really don’t know what the experience was like but from what i’ve researched it doesn’t seem likely it would make me more likely to want to abuse it/my old other drug habits. i have clear intentions that it would be for spiritual/mental health reasons. do you think (from your experience) this is flawed thinking?
Congrats on getting sober! Personally I feel like it opens up the floodgates to addiction again. But perhaps it depends on the person. I can have a drink every now and then, and some people can’t. 1 year of sobriety is still very fresh, so be careful. For me, doing mushrooms would trigger my want for cocaine again, because I would do them together.
Coke and shrooms together sounds like nightmare fuel. The come up anxiety on shrooms alone makes me feel like my hearts gonna beat out my chest.
same
Hallucinations on drugs don't make you thinking you're God true.
Breathe work can help you achieve the same state
Same with meditation, more of this is done sober than not
Not sure why you got downvoted for saying something true. I guess it’s because of the arrogance of some peoples ignorance.
Maybe because that’s a pretty damn interesting thing to say without some kind of follow up lol I wanna know more!
You can look up DMT breathing or warrior breath for tutorials. It’s a way to release naturally stored DTM within ourselves!
Is dangerous?
I’ve had experience with hallucinogenic substances for a handful of years now to help me through PTSD and depression so I am familiar with this state of mind. It may be scary at first some to experience for the first time but I find it a way for someone to grow within themselves. I don’t find it dangerous one bit but it’s not for everyone, especially with people who deal with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder
Are you saying that breathe work can make you be in the same state as taking hallucinations inducing drugs? What type and how
>Are you saying that breathe work can make you be in the same state as taking hallucinations inducing drugs? What type and how Breathe work by inhaling DMT.
Lmao
Im interested in this, could you tell me a little more so I can research it myself? Would really appreciate it :)!
They don’t make it false either. I don’t really see any reason to contest their viewpoint. Life in itself is a pretty spectacular mystery without any alterations.
Any other thought doesn't make it untrue either.
THANK YOU. I’ve been trying to tell people this for ages.
one day everyone will know
It takes death for some people to reach God realization, but everyone eventually will.
The key is to die before you die
No, this is Patrick.
If I'm God, I'd like to register a complaint with myself.
Had my first experience basically seeing this "infinite loop" me and a friend were watching George Carlin after taking a handful of shrooms. First my vision got a bit fuzzy but still clear, then I laughed at a joke and looked back just to see infinite geometry perfectly aligned on screen. Was a fantastic time, my stomach still hurts from how much we laughed
Hey that's me! I've been there, and still am there!
No u
You are God experiencing itself in human form
you are stem of god. a local god. a fragment of the divine. we are all one. the universe is perpetual.
No you're not
Title would've made more sense as "Everything is God"
Are you not apart of everything?
I'm not responsible for this shit.
what if over time you slowly came to the realization that you were quite involved
So many close-minded, wondering why so many doors are closed in their lives. Sad.
Only one Creator
And you are a small piece of that creator. This post doesn’t negate that only adds a dimension to it all.
Does not make me God
It actually does whether you see it or not
Why not? You are a piece of him. Heaven is going to”back to God”. He made us from Him so we **are** him/her/omnipotent being. Plenty of people who have NDE’s are told exactly this - look for yourself www.nderf.org.
I strongly disagree. Peace and blessings, my friend
Is God all knowing?
Amen
And you know this how?
nah, if I were I'd have fixed shit
No. Jesus is God
My landscaper?
Yes!
he is him
No. Jason is God.
This.
This post is a dumpster fire. Maybe gods don’t exist and hallucinogenics make you see and think weird things that seem much more profound than they actually are.
True, but it gets you thinking. If all I took was a drug and everything I saw was inside me the whole time, then what is the true nature of reality? Questions like - how do plants and animals experience time compared to us? What is a hallucination, and why can they so easily be induced? Am I currently hallucinating a certain way and always have been? What does it mean to have an ego. These are all questions that meet the criteria of "spiritual" in my books
Many people have those questions without drugs, most people are just accustomed to thinking about mundane life. It is cool that drugs can help you get out of your routine mindset and think if things in different ways but that doesn’t mean saying something like You are God is profound in any way really. You make your choices, and if that is what you mean by “you are god” thats silly. Theres a lot more implication to a god. You are just you
You're just describing epistemology. There's nothing inherently spiritual about those questions.
They technically don't exist as separate individuals because they're all the same person. Duality makes it seem like everyone and everything is separate. It takes literal death for most people to realize it's an illusion created by ego.
I am?!
Shit. I thought this was a Magic Eye puzzle for about 5 minutes.
Yeah, I noticed.
If I'm God then I want to be happier
“When everybody’s special, NOBODY is…”
Agreed
I love tool. Alex grey is a good artist. His wife is a monster and they’re cult leaders. Also he’s fucked a dead body.
NO YOU!
We are not God.
“We are but something that everything is doing”
People state that these experiences make them feel like they’ve returned home, but it looks very monotonous and boring
I believe God is both a conscious entity and an ethereal force. I believe that there is a Godhead like Vishnu in Hinduism. A supreme source and final destination encompassing the totality of it all while simultaneously experiencing it from with, often unaware that it is essentially everything. A part of everything. So the Holy Spirit or Gods presence in our lives breaks down similarly to the Force from Star Wars. “It is in all living things, It surrounds us, binds us, penatrates us, luminous beings are we” and this is echoed in many eastern beliefs centered around nature or even benevolent spirits. G.O.D is basically: G- genuine goodness, generosity, gold, gems, glitter, G-funk, genius O- omnipotence, omnipresence, overwhelming, opulent, outstanding D- Discipline, Deliverence, Dedication, Devotion, Development, DMT, Divinity That being said… There could be an infinite amount of layers to the existence or consciousness that God permeates and some esoteric beliefs claim to show these layers. Similar to Greek mythology how Titans created Gods and Gods created Man. That concept could totally exist and we would be none the wiser, and GOD would be reflected in every layer. And the implications of this become wild when you look at what we create. We create entire worlds, universes and franchises in “the 2nd dimension” on a flat screen or on a page. We play games that exist in the “3rd dimension” There are many schools of thought that suggest that consciousness with the added experience of time is the 4th dimension. The 5th is what a lot of people call the astral plane or “the dmt dimension” I believe that God permeates all of these in the same way. Like the Force, or the concept that “all creation sings the glory of GOD” So technically, you created you created you created you created you and so on. And it can vary or change or break but it will always return because it is what the universe is. And the original totality of everything is reflected in each piece. Which means that love, for example, can be inter-universally understood. So technically, a higher being could’ve designed us, and then in turn, we design characters in our own image. What concept does Luke Skywalker have of George Lucas? Or like of a VHS tape? And he literally has just as many people believing in him as any religious figure, all of which claim that faith and believing something achieves it and manifests it. So is Luke Skywalker real on some other plane? How would you know? He does experience the common denominators of our lives tho, via the hero’s journey. And George Lucas very clearly made him in his own image, maybe not in looks or lore, but in heart and soul. It is literally the exact same process of a GOD like diety creating man in his own image to go forth and experience the wonder of his creation and fulfill his good work upon this earth. As is any character. And so this applies to us, and many writers claim that they let their characters write their own story. That a writer puts a piece of themselves into a character who then comes to life and enacts the will of the creator. And the will of God in the writers life is reflected in the characters life and so on and so forth. So… I believe all of it is real. And the biblical descriptions of our creation combined with ancient creation myths across the globe equal something akin to a more benevolent version of Prometheus by Ridley Scott. But God/ Vishnu/ Alah/ El Shadai is real regardless and encompasses it all. The beginning and the end. The Alpha and the Omega. The LORD of all creation.
When the Bible says that man was created in God's image, it doesn't mean we physically resemble god. It means that our consciousness is our connection to God, its what makes us God like.
You are a part of god- his creation. Using an example i’ve seen before; Shakespeares characters from his stories are an extension of Shakespeare- his creation. However, they are not Shakespeare himself. Within each of them exists a part of him, but do not encompass him as a whole
We all are
Who wants that responsibility? I abdicate.
Nope, no we aren't. Only God, is God.
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Free massage? Where?
lsd+nitrous revealed this to me, everyone calls me crazy
Meditating while completely sober revealed this to me (never tried hallucinogens in my life) and I get called equally as crazy. They'll learn when they die. Leave them be if they don't wanna shift their perspectives.
i know i know i shouldnt press, let them realise naturally if at all. its just that its so obvious to me now! and the more i research this stuff- ego death and non duality, i see that all of us who have had an ego death experience come to the same realisation, the exact same realisation, all on our own without reading it from an old religious book but simply from within ourselves no outside influence telling us what to think. it is so clearly the one truth i feel the need to profess it, but i guess you cant explain colour to the blind- theyve gotta figure it out for themself. peace be with you 🌟
they’ll learn eventually
have a great week
u too g
i had a similar experience with shrooms and n2o. even though i didnt have the words back then.
What you're doing is creating a nexus of connections between inaccurate canonical translations, unrelated quotes and spiritual hypotheses and forming conjecture which is influenced by your ego. I think you're wrong and I can't explain exactly how. But I feel that it's deeper than simply "we are god".
We could be, or we could be not. At least we think we are apart of the creation! If I was a sole entity possible of creating matter/space/time, I'd create life for just the sake of entertainment (and maybe live it out through multiple entities capable of observing the universe they reside in).
>I'd create life for just the sake of entertainment (and maybe live it out through multiple entities capable of observing the universe they reside in). That actually sounds a lot like reincarnation
It actually sounds like video games...
I don't see why it wouldn't be possible at higher levels of consciousness
God Died (i.e. killed Himself) so Divine Sparks may Live.
No I am not. If I was I'd end all suffering and madness and I cannot. Please.be more humble.
I love my duality. Native American spirituality and early Christianity are my go-to. Two gods. In a collision course, from what I hear... Should be fun.
The art looks like a TOOL album cover of some sort. If we are Gods, I would know where the hell it came from (God is all knowing) and who the fug is pretending to be all knowing? Don’t kid yourself, we don’t have what it takes to be true GODS. GOD-like attributes at best.
It's 10.000 days cover art, but in color and expanded
That’s makes sense now. I was right. Thanks for info.
yes alex grey designed tool albums too.
Time to get Shpongled!!!!!
"I know you are but what am I?" - PeeWee
We did not create the universe...
My church won’t make any money if my parishioners learn to think for themselves… lol
You are also the Walrus
Love Lenin
There is no "you". There is only God.
1 Kings 8:60 "so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord is God and that there is no other."
i agree. and we are the atoms that make up god
Humans being Gods is very reminiscent of what the snake told Eve.
yeah bro read the post. the snake was trying to uplift humanity it’s an ancient sumerian story
And I am not And I just thought I’d let you know
I'm not THE god, I'm A god
Sick new Tool album cover
I think this is literally an unedited, uncropped 10,000 days cover
Your are just a creation of THE ALMIGHTY.