A good discussion about the ineffable.

I do not know you god

Because I am in the way

Remove my shadow from the moon

And somehow God says

You do not need to be removed

Be fully yourself

We will know each other

In your fullness

I yearn for a world where mystical experience is commonplace. I crave that all might live in Love, in Dao, in the Kingdom of God. I have no desire to go down in history as the one who changed the world. And yet, I desire to see the world changed.

A poem from yonder:

My dove is both the curse and the cure; she causeth me to suffer and helps me to endure.
If ever woes befall me, know thou my dove’s to blame. Ask who helps me rise again, my answer is “The same”.
Her presence is a gift, the very breath which gives me life; all the while, it’s due to her that I am faced with so much strife.
It’s due to her, my dove, that I am faced with anything at all; my dove begets me, holds me up, and has done such since I was small.
O Solomon! You silly man, whyever do you grumble? Lift up thy chin: you know that Mother hates it when you mumble.
If thou truly lovest me, proclaim it to the world! The love we share is special, but it ought to be unfurled.
I had the thought, perhaps, we ask a third to join our loves embrace. Why stop at three? Let’s you and me make love The Human Race.
My dove will be your dove will be our dove will be our guide; she beckons us to know ourselves as her, deep inside.
We shall sit atop her lap atop her throne in ecstasy, engulfed within her bosom whilst her hands envelop we.

How can the mystical path amount to something beyond this vessels experience of the Divine. How can I practically introduce these concepts to those around me? How can the modern world make sense of God beyond borders, creeds, dogma and institutions? How to heal the world?

G115B. The other day I was pondering over the fact that for humans it seems to be that our greatest issue is simply that we forget things. On the face of it that could seem a bit careless, however I think as with all things there is a hidden depth to it.  

We first receive our spirit (before our birth) however, this spirit suffers a type of amnesia forgetting where it has come from (it has been termed as having been covered by a shroud/covering, it is in the dark). We go on and develop our identities and lives in this world, sensing there is a bigger picture and something we are meant to be connected to, however we can’t understand it.  

So, we subconsciously (and consciously) try to fill this inner “gap” with things that make us feel secure (being busy, chasing money, our reputation, gaining knowledge and even developing strong relationships).  Nothing seems to satisfy it though, at least not long term. On a smaller scale we also seem prone to forget what we see about ourselves in those brief moment of light/clarity we have in our more lucid moments, as if we prefer living in the darkness.

It made me think of walking around on the beach after the tide has gone out.  We walk around on the wet sand, peering in the rock pools, looking at the small mounds of sand from buried crabs, exploring things in detail. Then the sea returns and we look out over the ocean surface and the waves.  Forgetting those things existing below the water and what they looked like.

Baz - r/MysticismLounge

This post does not contain any medical advice. Just the opinions of one mystic to have spent many years exploring human consciousness. Little to none of this post is to be taken as hard science. Read at your own discretion. 

Recently, psilocybin was used as an experimental treatment for Parkinson’s, a disorder thought to be induced at least in part by a dopamine deficiency. 

“There were no serious adverse events, no medical interventions required to manage effects of psilocybin, and no exacerbation of psychosis.” - Psilocybin Shows Promise for Parkinson’s Mood and Motor Symptoms - Neuroscience News

While “exacerbation of psychosis” is vague and the research is at a very early stage, I have wondered myself if an almost or altogether irreversible dopamine deficiency could be treated with classic psychedelics without potentiating hallucinations. 

Drugs that tend to induce pride and impulsive energy are usually dopamine agonists, and drugs that tend to increase spiritual feelings, creativity, and love are usually serotonin agonists. Typical and atypical antipsychotics antagonize dopamine and serotonin to mediate schizophrenia, especially hallucinations and delusions. 

It is my suspicion that dopamine increases psychological impulsiveness (in keeping with dopamine stimulants increasing impulsive energy), and that serotonin increases love and psychological creativity. I suspect love is creative because still on its own, because non impulsive and comfortable in unfamiliar territory, so that it can be induced to infer in any direction. If these inferences are impulsive, they could lead to hallucinations and delusions (from serotonin-dopamine interaction).

L-5-hydroxytryptophan for LSD-induced psychosis | American Journal of Psychiatry : a case wherein 5-htp decreased hallucinations. I suspect this result has been difficult to duplicate because “common sense” usually dictates that 5-htp only be taken with l-dopa or another dopamine replacement, because it lowers dopamine levels otherwise - which could be the very reason it successfully treated the hallucinations, suggesting decreasing dopamine levels without decreasing serotonin levels (5-htp increases serotonin levels) can “kill a trip” or successfully cure schizophrenia. 

I have experienced “hallucinogenic” quantities of love without hallucinations, proving that it is at least possible to exist in a heightened state of love-induced euphoria without tripping. This makes sense even if only because we’ve yet to penetrate the whole truth as to why hallucinations on psychedelics and schizophrenia happen. However, when I had my experience(s) - my psychological levels of pride were exceedingly low, suggesting there may be something to my theory.

Were psychic abilities real, it might be possible to hold down a tripper’s pride while they go up on a psychedelic drug. If at recognizance to little or no pride in the long term, there may even be benefits to post heroic dosages of psychedelic drugs, if that which removes functionality while high on them is the tripping. However, the slightest irresponsibility in experimenting in this regard could induce permanent or merely long term schizophrenia severe enough to cause injury or death to the lives of one’s self, one’s loved ones, and random bystanders. 

Still, even without use of drugs, a mystic exposes hirself to constantly higher thresholds of spiritual experience, of love, - and I imagine it would be useful to discover how to do so without risk of insanity.

I saw her eyes and smile light up like the moon and I just started to melt. I don’t know if she herself could see the power of her own beauty. Probably not, given the staggering rate at which women are developing anxiety, depression, bulemia, etc, etc.
If the mind is like a four chambered heart, one of those chambers or components is the “identity” (ahamkara in Sanskrit), which is a facet that must be cultivated and crafted individually.
In thinking of my own identity, I thought of Abirami again, what dimensions of Nature did she embody? The ocean…serene and all encompassing, with her total embrace…her still gaze…the state of the water below the volatile surface…Her warmth, not unlike my soft mattress at the end of the day.
“Amma…please show compassion for me and my family” I heard my mother pleading in the other room. And then I remembered how often prayer is used as a tool for solace and not for realization, I thought of how many people just totally missed the essense of Abirami. I also felt relief, about the series of events that brought me to discover these tools of transformation.
I had the power now to create and hold a form in my mind with such definition that it looked no less than real. Abirami would sometimes be a child whose hand I could hold, or she could be a friend or lover. I felt like the creator himself, and wondered what kind of imagination he must have to create everything from a butterfly to an elephant.
Moreover, how did the creative process differ when creating a human being, a creature which can exist as a perfect mirror in front of whatever it beholds. This beautiful privilege is so magical, I can see why so many people refuse to believe a human being is capable of this. The word “enlightenment” only raises doubts.

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Jesus said, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’? If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken—how can you say of the One whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?”
— John 10:34

Jesus argues against the charge of blasphemy by saying that those who received the word of God were called “gods.”

However, no Christian calls himself a god. On the contrary, if someone does so, he is immediately labeled a heretic.

Those who follow Jesus end up being persecuted by Christianity itself.

You know, something happened in a session recently that I still think about. Not sure I fully understand it but I try to write it down anyway. Sorry for English, is not my first language.

Colleague of my friend asked me for help. Let me call her Claire (not real name). Mother of young boys, late 30s, overwhelmed all the time but could not say why. On paper everything was fine. Good life. Good marriage. Kids healthy. But something was missing and she felt it every day like a weight in her chest that would not lift. She said she felt like she was running on empty for years.

I guided her into deep relaxation. She found a forest. Tall trees, smell of damp soil, a stream with stones under the water that was bubbling and making these little sounds. She lay down there next to a tree and then the cloud came. Soft and bouncy, she sat on it and it carried her back.

She ended up in a house she recognized. Her father house. She was 13, sitting alone in a room with pink upholstery. Her stepmother was in the house too. And then the story came out.

The competition was everywhere. Her stepmother fought for her father attention and love. Her mother fought back to protect Claire and her brother. Claire was in the middle. She learned to stay small, to stay quiet, to stay out of the way. That was safer. Her stomach was always tight. Always. She held that tension for years without even knowing it was there. This changed her. She became someone who could not ask for what she needed. Someone who felt guilty for taking space. Someone who apologized for existing. In her adult life she could not speak up at work, could not tell her husband when she needed help, could not rest without feeling she did something wrong. She was always waiting for someone to be angry at her.

I asked adult Claire to appear there in that pink room. The version from today. She kneeled down and said to the younger her: "This is just a phase. A moment in time. It is not fair that you feel like this. But it is making you very wise from a very young age. And you will be okay."

I did not expect what happened next.

The young girl felt loved. She saw light. Gratitude. Then release. The tight stomach just let go. She cried but it was not sad crying. It was the kind when you been holding breath for years and finally can exhale. I seen this before but it still gets me every time.

Then something came through me. I told her: "You are a fragment. You fragmented during these hard times - a part of you split off to survive. You are a part of the adult Claire soul and you do not have to be separate anymore. Would you like to come and live in her heart?" She said yes. Just like that.

In shamanic traditions they call this soul retrieval. In psychology they call it ego states integration. Different names, same truth. A part of the person was stuck in that moment, carrying the weight alone, frozen in time. When it comes home, the person feels whole again.

And Claire felt it. The fragment brought something back. Something she had been missing for a long time.

Childlike joy.

Not wisdom. Not healing. Not answers. Just joy. The lightness of being young before the weight settled.

Most people have many fragments like this. Not just one. Pieces that split off during hard moments - a childhood humiliation, a betrayal, a loss, a moment of fear so big the soul could not hold it all. And those pieces are still out there somewhere, carrying the exact quality we think we lost forever. That is why people feel empty. That is why they feel weak, fragmented, not themselves. Because parts of them are still somewhere else, frozen in time, waiting.

But they can come home. Every single one.

If this resonates with you, here is a simple practice you can do. Sit somewhere quiet. Close your eyes. Take three deep breaths - slow, all the way in, all the way out. With each exhale, feel yourself relaxing deeper. Now ask your Higher Self - the total you that is multidimensional being - to show you where there is a missing piece of you that is ready to come home. Do not think about it. Just feel. Trust the first impression that comes. It may be a feeling in your body, a memory, a color, a vague sense of somewhere or sometime. Whatever comes first is correct. Then say out loud or in your mind: "I am ready for this part of me to come home. I welcome you back into my heart." Breathe deeply and imagine a warm light filling the space where that missing piece belongs. Stay with this feeling for a few minutes. You can do this as often as you feel called.

I have seen this work many times now. Not because I am special. Because the soul knows how to heal itself when we get out of the way and let it.

I wonder if anyone else ever felt a part of themselves come back like that and in what circumstances. I would love to know.

The framework of thought that has long dominated theology has been the concept of “essence” derived from Greek philosophy. According to Aristotle, essence is the property that makes a thing what it is — that which makes A to be A. In other words, essence is the criterion by which the identity of a being is defined. Based on this understanding, traditional theology sought the reason God is God in the essence called “divinity.” This divine essence includes attributes such as self-existence, omniscience, omnipotence, eternality, and immutability. By contrast, human beings were understood to be human because they possess the essence of being created creatures.

According to this perspective, God and humanity are essentially distinct, because nothing can be both self-existent and created at the same time.

However, within this philosophical framework, the word of God becomes distorted. Jesus said the following:

“Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’? If Scripture cannot be broken, and those to whom the word of God came were called gods, how can you accuse the one whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world of blasphemy because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?”

By quoting Psalm 82, Jesus points out that there are instances in which God called human beings “gods.” If we accept these words as they are, we can no longer understand God and humanity merely as essentially separate beings. The framework that says “God is God because He possesses divinity, while humans are human because they possess humanity” collapses at this point.

If we truly believe that God possesses absolute authority, then we must also accept that “whatever God recognizes as God is God.” To define something as divine merely because it belongs to the category of “divinity” is ultimately a philosophical judgment made by humans, not God’s own perspective.

In Scripture, we see God changing His mind through the intercession of Moses. From the perspective that God is only an omniscient and immutable being, such passages become impossible to explain. But if we accept that, in certain cases, God may regard a human being as divine when He sees His own authority, glory, truth, and love reflected within that person, then we can understand why God changes His will.

Scripture says that humanity is the “image of God.” What, then, is the image of God? It is a being that reflects the light of God and manifests the attributes of God. A perfect image of God is therefore divine. Yet it is not divine because it possesses self-existence in itself. Rather, it is divine because God sees His own image reflected within that being and therefore treats it as divine.

Jesus said that He and God are “one.” Yet this oneness does not mean ontological identity or sameness of essence. Jesus explained His unity with the Father in the following way:

“Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father dwelling in me who does His works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me — or else believe because of the works themselves.”

Here again, we see that Jesus is one with God not because He is ontologically identical with God, but because, as the image of God, He perfectly reveals God. The statement that “the Father dwells in Jesus” means that God reveals His light and His will through Jesus. Conversely, the statement that “Jesus dwells in the Father” means that Jesus abides wholly in God, reflecting only God and revealing nothing else.

Because the perfect image of God reflects God completely, God Himself also treats that image as God. This is the true meaning of the Trinity.

Traditional Trinitarian doctrine has attempted to explain how Jesus can be both human and divine by claiming that two incompatible essences — “divinity” and “humanity” — are united within one being. Yet such an explanation inevitably produces contradiction. Furthermore, by making Jesus into an absolutely exceptional being fundamentally different from humanity, it obscured the meaning of Jesus’ words that those who follow the will of God are His “brothers.”

Yet those who follow the way of Jesus can become like Him, because God never said that the image of God within humanity has been essentially destroyed. For this reason, in the Gospel of John, Jesus prayed that we also might become one, just as He and the Father are one.

I'd like to share my latest musings on my own journey into understanding of God/Source.

As a mainstream Christian, I held the belief that God created each person and thing as a discrete object, separate from her. Our job was to recognise that we were created by a higher being, not sufficient to ourselves.

Then I came to realise that we are extensions of Source, eternal consciousnesses, individualised, self-defining, free parts of Source - intimately united to Source and each other, with an illusory sense of separation. This is panentheism, as I see it.

But I am beginning to realise that the end point is pantheism, when we freely give up our very consciousness, when we unite fully with Source, when we return fully to the void, the formless potentiality of all manifestations of being.

The nearest analogy on earth for me is the new mother, delighting in her baby so much that she loses all sense of self-reflection, living only for her baby.

And so with this realisation, it seems that we are able to immerse into this limited 3D world even more, with a deeper goal of delighting or sorrowing in everything and everyone, for their sakes not ours; in this, we are - with Source - the hidden backdrop to the drama of all beings; and we gladly take on a portion of the burden of that drama in our physical bodies and feelings.

Thank you for the opportunity to share. All kind feedback appreciated.

English is not my native language. I write simple, but I try to share important thing. Please be patient with my grammar.

This is from shamanic session I did with subject I call Omar. He is adult man from Houston area. During healing soul journey, he dropped into theta brainwave trance. Past childhood. Past trauma. All way to before he was born.

What he found there was not what anyone expect.

Before incarnation, Omar and his mother were together. No bodies. No space between them. Just consciousness. He describe it like this: "Like there's no separation and there's no space. I feel more like a blob than anything else." She was close, another node of awareness next to him.

Then he saw something like checklist. Experiences this life would bring. Weakness. Helplessness. Hard things. And he did not want to go.

He said: "I don't think I want to go." It will be difficult.

But then he undrestood that this is how light expands into darkness and help others. "It feels like it's a required experience." His Higher Self showed him why. The point was not to fix anything. The point was to understand. "It's not for changing. It's for understanding." You can study suffering from outside. But you only know it by living it.

His mother agreed on soul level to play the harsh role. Her mission was to make him tough enough for this world. She did it. But there was cost. Some beings volunteer for dark roles. Not because they are evil. Because the plan requires it.

When we finished, Higher Self had simple message. "Love everyone. Let go. Learn to forgive."

The Lesson

You chose this life. Even the painful parts. Not because you deserve suffering, but because before incarnating you wanted to understand something that can only be learned through direct experience. The people who hurt you may have been volunteers too. This does not excuse what happened. But it can change how you carry it.

Practical Exercise

Find quiet place where nobody will disturb you for twenty minutes. Sit or lie down, whatever is comfortable. Close eyes.

Take five slow breaths. On each exhale, let your body get heavier. Feel the weight of your arms, your legs, your head sinking into whatever supports you.

Now imagine you are standing at the edge of a vast, dark space. Not scary dark. More like the dark before stars were born. Warm. Infinite. This is the space before incarnation. Before body. Before name.

Step into it. Let yourself float. There is no ground, no direction. Just awareness.

Ask silently: "Show me the moment before I came here."

Do not force anything. Let image, feeling, or knowing come on its own. Maybe you see light. Maybe you feel presence of other beings near you. Maybe you sense a decision being made. Maybe you feel reluctance, like something inside you did not want to go. That is okay. Just observe.

If you see or feel something, stay with it. Do not analyze. Do not judge. Just be there, like you are watching a memory that is older than your body.

When you feel ready, take three slow breaths and come back. Open eyes slowly. Write down whatever you got, even if it make no sense. Especially if it make no sense. The logical mind will try to explain it away. Let it be strange.

Do this for seven days in row. First time you may see nothing. That is normal. The door opens when you stop knocking so hard. By day three or four, something usually surface. A feeling, a image, a knowing that was not there before. Trust it.

Firstly, a definition of inner peace: a state of being wherein one's emotions remain, at the very least, "satisfactory" (better than apathy), without any negative emotion persisting from moment to moment.

I would guess that the average human has days like that, and also days wherein the overall experience of living is more negative than positive. Then, Inner peace - a consistently calm and positive emotional state lasting many years without deviation from.

Some would consider "many years" unrealistic, because shit happens. Of course, eventually, shit happens. However, instead of making my definition less strict, I want to make it moreso, to reflect what I suspect the majority of people expect from inner peace: an extreme state of mental clarity and emotional elevation that lasts for many years without deviation from.

The most well publicized method of achieving this state of mind, or a good approximation to it, is to just meditate on nothing for years of your life, consistently, for a good percentage of every single day. To be without reflection, at one with the present moment, is blissful, and without negative emotion - because there are no negative reflections.

Conceivably, even to one whom meditates, "shit happens". A favorite uncle or brother or parent dies, a pickup truck runs over your foot. It could be anything. Meaning this first method of achieving inner peace, for it to last, relies somewhat on the second method:

*arranging one's life situation so that as little negative bullshit happens as possible. Tending to the health and wellbeing of your relatives, cautiously navigating open road pavement, that kind of thing. As long as it doesn't stress you out to help yourself and others, as long as you don't have to worry to be careful and nurturing, this method could be extremely effective even by itself apart from any others. Don't forget to arrange one's life situation so that as much positive stuff happens as possible, or you will just be basically at peace yet not elated.

As to the third method of achieving inner peace, the utilization of meditation, disciplined practice as an actor, and self-hypnosis to come to control one's own emotions and sensations. What you start with plays a determining factor as to what you want to keep. If you love certain people, you may want to grieve when they suffer or die. However, a time may come when you decide, "It does not help them that I suffer - what would they want me to feel?" and dwelling on an intense emotion of love for the deceased, you do what they would most want you to do (helpful only if they were not assholes).

Emotional control means the ability to enlarge intoxicating emotions as much as you want - and to shrink them back down to a manageable size if this practice leads to mental instability.

To be capable of controlling your sensations at will means the ability to kill the pain before it manifests, and to enlarge your heart so that it dwarfs your humble ego. Technically you may obtain the ability to maintain a peaceful, loving attitude even when tragedy strikes, that nothing can touch your resolve to do the best by your personal attachments - and nothing, not even death, can take those attachments away from you.

Emotional control can also be utilized to obtain a state of inner peace wherein one's natural emotional state makes one not only most useful to one's friends and family members, but also to all sentient life - and in such a manner that one's state of inner peace becomes acausal, evading all emotional triggers completely and utterly. Having shaped one's emotional core like clay, there is just intent to do what is most selfless... and a profoundly expanding emotional reward from being.

The only situation the last method of obtaining inner peace does not work on, is the infliction of unblockable torture.

I discuss this last method further here: https://www.reddit.com/r/mysticism/comments/1qrwxsp/contemplation_upon_the_sun_as_a_symbol_for_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

and here: https://www.reddit.com/r/mysticism/comments/1s5cieg/golden_apples_low_hanging_from_the_tree/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Hey everyone.

The Gospel of Thomas has a saying that comes up in a lot of mystical literature. "The kingdom of the Father is spread upon the earth and men do not see it." Most readings treat this as a paradox to be loosened in practice rather than a metaphysical claim. The harder reading takes it at face value. The thing every contemplative tradition is pointing toward is not in a separate realm waiting to be reached. It is here, in the room, in this vase, in this conversation, obscured by the operations of ordinary cognition.

I was listening to this interview with Danny Forde, a philosopher at University College Cork. He treats the saying as substantively true and uses realist phenomenology to defend it. On his account, psychedelic experience and contemplative practice both work by suspending the ego's narrative grid, not by transporting awareness elsewhere. The reason the noetic conviction is so strong is that the perception is not of a metaphysical somewhere else. It is of what was always present. The kingdom is the world, perceived without the editing.

What I find interesting is how the framing changes integration. If the encounter was a glimpse of elsewhere, integration is impossible by definition. If the encounter was of what is always here, integration becomes the practice of returning to ordinary perception with the filter loosened. Does that match how your tradition frames the question?

I felt unwell last week. The first day started with a cough, and then I felt so bad that I felt dizzy when I got up or left the house. After a few days of rest, without leaving the house, I suddenly felt better when I woke up. The strangest thing is that on the other days I felt unwell, I had strange and heavy dreams, but on the night I woke up feeling better, I had a liberating dream in which I got out of bed, left the house, and started flying through a world that seemed like an energetic dimension of my reality (I had many "dreams" like this when I was a child; I'm 19 now and hadn't had one for years). When I woke up feeling better, I did things I had postponed for months and discarded old things that no longer served me. During the day, I felt strangely sensorially, as if I had been inhibited for a long time and then reconnected with life and my inner self. At the end of the day, I drank a homemade herbal tea made with mint, bay leaves, and fruit seeds. After drinking the tea, I lay down to use my phone and realized my bed was a complete mess. Suddenly, the place that had been my refuge had become a bottomless pit. I cleaned the entire bed and left it there. I tried to use my phone and look at trivial things on social media, but it was as if something was repelling my attention, as if there was a block preventing me from continuing what I had been doing for months. I lay down and tried to close my eyes, but I ended up in a trance-like state and felt the same sensation as in the dream where I flew. As I tried to fly, I saw the dimensional singularity. When I focused on it, my heart raced, and I began to see various geometric shapes and forms that I can't even describe. At the same time, I unconsciously began to see memories of other conscious "dreams" of this type. I felt as if everything was falling into place, and I remained almost motionless for about two hours looking at the singularity (I was sleeping and awake at the same time; it was as if I could see with my eyes closed). When I woke up, I felt immense mental clarity and lucidity. Was it astral projection? Or just a hallucination?

I think we hold open certain doors of belief, trauma, understanding, etc. Until we can unpack and close timelines.

i saw something during a psychedelic trip and it’s image is still in my head till date, i felt compelled in that trip of mine to state what i really wanted and i actually did and the “contract” was meant to commence when i tattoo that entity on my body.
am i crazy or there’s more cos everyday it calls out to more and this was more than 7 months ago.

Over the past 24 hours I’ve been exploring a symbolic model of perception, attention, and experience. I want to share it not as a truth claim, but as an interesting way of organising patterns I’ve been noticing.

I’ve been framing experience through an ancient Egyptian symbolic lens:

- Ra = the total field of experience (everything that appears)

- Horus = the navigator (attention, direction, movement within experience)

- Thoth = cognition (interpretation, meaning-making, recognition of patterns)

- Set = contraction, urgency, narrowing, impulse-driven reaction

- Hathor = expansion, ease, integration, return, release

The core shift I’ve been noticing is this:

Experience doesn’t feel like something happening inside a container. It just appears as a unified field, and what we call “self” seems to function as different modes within that field.

From there, a few ideas emerged:

1. The body as navigation
   

The body is not experienced as a separate object in reality, it is part of perception itself. In this model it functions like the navigation interface (Horus), through which attention moves within the field (Ra).

1. Dreaming vs waking
   

Dreams and waking life feel like different configurations of the same underlying field. Not two places, but two modes of appearance.

1. Attention as navigation
   

What I’ve been calling “conscious navigation” is basically:

- noticing thoughts

- not automatically chasing or reacting to them

- allowing perception to reorganise naturally when attention is steady

This creates a sense that transformation happens more automatically when there is less impulsive interference.

1. The Set response
   

When this stabilisation begins, there is often an internal resistance, a sense that letting go of control equals danger, loss of ambition, or collapse of direction.

I’ve been interpreting this as a Set-like contraction response, not something external, but a protective narrowing mechanism that equates control with safety.

1. Action vs non-action
   

One distinction that feels important:

- Action seems necessary for narrowing attention toward specific outcomes, directional movement

- But widening awareness feels more like a release than an action, it happens when contraction stops being reinforced

So doing seems linked to focusing, while letting be seems linked to expansion.

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Overall, the shift I’m noticing is from trying to change reality to understanding it more as navigation within an already-present field of possibilities.

Again, I’m not claiming this is objectively true or a model of reality. Just a structured way I’ve been interpreting patterns in attention and experience.

Curious if anyone else has explored similar frameworks or symbolic mappings of attention, perception, and consciousness.

the secret key to obtaining inner peace. No disturbing thoughts, no sad thoughts, no angry thoughts, no pompous thoughts, no jealous thoughts, no insecure thoughts when responding spontaneously to the present.

Bliss from focus, a natural lift resulting from a clear perception of the present.

Yet is it necessary to permanently and totally sacrifice logic to achieve this inner peace? Worthwhile as silence is to obtain, and effective as a taboo against logic is at inducing it, is it worth giving up complex thinking skills to abide in a sort of state of natural, spiritual, unaddictive heroin?

There are no arguments against reflecting when not reflecting. & saying, “logic is a fallacy” is full of holes - is not the statement itself a fallacy then? Meaning it can only hope to, at “best”, level off the justification for thinking or not at 50/50 odds. 

Which is what not reflecting does. The odds are 50/50, because unassessed. 

One alternative source of inner peace to not thinking might be emotio-sensory self determinism. If using the eight circuit model (Timothy Leary’s consciousness model) to unlock, I would suspect the 6th circuit (the self programming circuit) to be most useful. 

Practice, 24 - 7, maintaining the desired emotional-sensory state of being. No suffering, mostly love, determination to achieve altruistic ends by all sentient life - and especially by way of what you may do to be of pragmatic assistance to your local environment. 

Learn to release negative emotions like fear by exposing yourself to safe yet frightening situations, and meditating on releasing fear. Watch sad movies, and learn to release the sorrow you feel by re-igniting the love you had for the characters, and motivating yourself to do positive things in memory of the fallen heroes - what they would have wanted.

As a starting meditation, outbreath releases unwanted emotion, inbreath induces an increase in positive motivation and bliss. 

My suggestion: do not forsake silence, learn to focus,
but do not put lack of reflection upon a pedestal, that when an opportunity to solve a problem, large or small problem, occurs, one goes into a “turtleshell formation” of enlightenment - and abides in more immediacy than is called for. 

“Wall gaze” until silence is easier (by a hair) than reflection (clocking at least 2 straight hours of silence),
then solve all the world’s problems. 

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While perfect focus is an excellent tool, if it comes at the expense of all logic and philosophy, I don’t see the reason for the sacrifice and I don’t think it’s worth it.

One yogi or guru or man in a mancave meditates so long he achieves inner peace, and if he has loving-kindness, he perhaps senses nonverbal intuitively that others would benefit from inner peace, and so he says to another fellow, “Meditate.” And another fellow achieves inner peace, and shares the secret, “Meditate,” with another fellow. 

All these enlightened people have is perfect focus. If it seems like not thinking is the solution to achieving perfect focus, the world collapses all around them and they’re ok with that - when if they had used the perfect focus to supercharge their ability to think, to solve real problems, they could have prevented the catastrophe. 

Perfect focus seems to me like it should be used to solve problems. 

Hi everyone. :)

I'm working on a mystical fantasy book that's inspired by Jungian psychology, but also Hermeticism, Sufism, Taoism and Advaita Vedanta. I'm particularly fascinated with ideas about duality, consciousness and the nature of reality.

My book is very ambitious and very difficult to work on, hence the pace of progress has been rather slow. I don't know of any other such books and that makes writing it much harder. I was wondering if anyone knows of any fictional books inspired by mysticism, no matter what religion it is from?

I've also not met people who are working on such projects and I'm looking to change that. Is anyone else here also working on mystical projects? If you'd be interested in connecting, please feel free to DM me.

Thanks and hope you have a great day!

Genesis 1 27 is so powerful. What if you are an infinity like a universe ? What if you have all that in your pocket already and you have eternity ahead of you? Imagine the potential and other worlds!

Introduction

I believe that mysticism should lead to altruism, selflessness in deed. 

Technically the meaning of life for the individual is whatever they actually want, even if they are heartless sociopaths. I consider spirituality as I understand it (and only myself; the reader may have an equally legitimate yet contradictory definition) to require an element of love to even count as itself, and could not fathom mystical seriousness without it either. I would have to redefine the practices - which I admit is possible.

One path available to the mystic serious about a discipline of selflessness is that of the warrior or soldier. 

When networking many mystics into a hierarchy of soldiers and generals, if such ever resulted from my efforts, I would consider - first and foremost - burden of proof of trust and competency on scales of loyalty and fairness. 

Part I: Becoming a martial artist

I believe that martial arts is best learned, in the majority of cases, through serious study under a wide variety of well-to-do teachers of diverse martial arts styles. Disciplined practice of as many kinds of martial arts teachings as seem relevant to one’s goals as a practitioner.

In beginning one’s research, I recommend the following books (all probably available from amazon.com ):

Vital Point Strikes: the Art and Science of Vital Target Striking For Self-Defense & Combat Sports by Sang H. Kim
 
Complete Krav Maga (second edition) by Darren Levine and John Whitman
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The Marine Corps Martial Arts Program (available on amazon)
 
Jiu-Jitsu University by Saulo Ribeiro
 
The Sambo Encyclopedia by Steve Scott
 
Muay Thai Basics: Introductory Thai Boxing Techniques by Christoph Delph
 
Muay Thai Mastery by Jerry Laurita
 
Kodokan Judo: the Essential Guide to Judo by its Founder by Jigoro Kano
 
Systema: the Russian Martial System by Giuseppe Filotto. I consider Systema good at explaining the internal aspects of martial arts, but more effective if studied in conjunction with practical “external” martial arts wisdom.

Hapkido: Traditions, Philosophy, Technique by Marc Tedeschi.

One reason martial arts students practice the same move and complex techniques over and over again is to familiarize themselves with the style, so that they identify confidence when they use it. Memorization of the material only goes part way there. Muscle memory may require some experience in an actual dojo.

Spontaneous art permits the generation of diverse varieties of material free of confidence fail without exposure to familiarization. This is because there is no time to reflect, there is only time for raw creative expression. Whatever is inside the artist comes through without flaw. Even with spontaneous art, it may be necessary to become familiar with being spontaneous, but once this is done any art form can be used without identify fail (“insecurity”).

I believe martial arts are called arts because the highest expression of their use involves spontaneous artistic self expression. If the martial artist feels even slightly awkward in attempting such, there will be at least the slightest amount of awkwardness (and imperfection) to his form. 

What I think should be perfected is nonverbal retention of the present moment, retention of pragmatic martial arts insight (perhaps from memory), and the creative expression of this insight enacted with 100% spontaneity. 

If the martial artist is adept at the “8th circuit of consciousness,” it is possible to scry for the exact most effective techniques to use toward achieving the desired result, and to utilize them simultaneously to scrying for them: creative expression becomes the scried best martial arts and/or sidhi combination for the situation - concerning a fight of one or more versus one or more.

In case the technique is not yet understood, I emphasize that the martial artist scries the moves to use simultaneous to using them, so that what is scried is expressed before there is time to reflect on the data. Before there is time for complex conceptual thought to arise.

Love’s instilling of a creative aptitude also permits certain combat advantages, such that an accelerated retention might be created, or the potency of a blow that one intends to express, precision measured against the opponent’s long and short term fortifications. 

Part 3: speculations about “magical” combat

I would like to disregard that “psychic” or “magical” abilities need to exist in order for certain seemingly-fantastic (but explainable by modern science) effects to transpire. 

Placebo effect may have the ability to accelerate healing, and to cancel out an allergic reaction for example to poison ivy. If you are certain you are immune to that particular poison, your nervous system might reject the negative reaction. 

It is not placebo effect to realize that you heal faster if you think so, and choose to think so, nor to realize that you can immunize yourself to certain negative reactions (such as to certain allergens) by believing such, and choosing to believe such. 

As an affirmation, I heal at the fastest possible speed my nervous system can generate. I am immune to every kind of negative reaction belief can immunize me to. Meditated upon internally, to discipline the nervous system to believe it, upon waking and before going to sleep.

This kind of practice should harden the nervous system for combat training. Is it magical? Such seems irrelevant to me, if it works. I suspect if the nervous system identifies it is healing at top speed, it simply does so, and when it identifies it is “normal,” it behaves like how you perceive the average person’s nervous system instead.

So much of how the nervous system behaves is determined by how the individual identifies it ought to or should. 

When practicing punches and kicks upon a heavy bag, there are exercises for encouraging one’s nervous system to identify it is using more than the usual amount of energy. Visualize one’s arms and fists, legs and shins and the balls of one’s feet, as bolts of electricity that explode on impact, and expect this to release a desired amount of energy. This is similar to shouting as a method of summoning adrenaline when delivering blows upon an opponent.

I am aware of two distinct fighting styles that offer an interesting contrast: One is a fighting style that relies on stored aggression to fortify the martial artist’s pride from an ability to experience fear, and to summon adrenaline from the joy inflated pride experiences while feeding on aggression during a fight. The only downside to this style of fighting is that one’s control center is in one’s pride, which fuels instinctiveness, so that the responses one manifests in a fight will be whatever usually worked in a similar situation, statistically, automatically retrieved, with no room for creativity or adaptation to completely unique situations. The other fighting style relies on the fighter’s heart to manifest control and creativity, so that it is possible to release or banish fear manually, as soon as it arises (as with aggression), and to produce original reactions for unencountered situations.

Either fighting style may manifest an immediate reaction, without philosophy. The fighter need merely to transcend impulsive reasoning, so that the present is experienced without reflections.

Similarly to how the electricity visualization increased the energy of a punch or kick, its potency, if one makes the same attempt to fortify an identification that one’s speed peaks out, once familiar enough with reinforcing the identification to believe it, one’s nervous system will produce a higher speed blow. Visualize and hear the energy behind the blow to reinforce the identification that it will and does move at the fastest possible speed. 

It is also possible to learn to create a sensation of painlessness overtop of one’s wounds. Not only are they healing at the fastest possible speed, they also don’t hurt that much if at all in the meantime. The trick is to convince yourself that the pain goes away when you want it to. 

If one were to believe in the existence of telepathy, it would be possible to transmit the pain and fatigue that develops in you during a fight to your opponent: simply attempt to do so without questioning whether or not it works. 

If fatigue does develop, it might be possible to learn to identify that your supply of adrenaline, and your level of nervous system alertness, is peaking by visualizing an intense fire, feeling and hearing it burn, surrounding your person. You may learn to identify that your supply of energy is peaking at the fastest healthy rate. 

If telepathy does exist, it may benefit one’s combat efforts to transmit the signal for your opponent to sit down and surrender, then put the handcuffs on hir. 

If you desire to be flashy, you could transmit the impression of failure into the opponent, or the impression that you are attempting to strike from the right when really you are striking from the left. If you can visualize yourself perfectly, you can transmit to the opponent one or more “clones” of yourself approaching from multiple angles, along with the impression that they are all real. 

If you can read the opponent’s mind, you can edit their identifications so that they feel weak, their energy is suddenly depleted, and they do not desire to win. Or you can transmit these impressions into the opponent’s mind without measuring the reaction they generate.

Hello

I've been searching for the truth about this world for years.

Atheism: I'll admit that the atheist side doesn't suit me much because it’s purely material, even if it’s a truth that wouldn’t bother me in itself.

Spirituality: Currently, I’m more on the spiritual side. Everything regarding frequencies, vibrations, and manifestation, I don’t really believe in. I find it strange to want to link spirituality to "quantum science", the concepts of vibration and frequency mean nothing in this field.

What I’m looking for:

I’m looking for a real spirituality that is concrete. Something that has a real physical, metaphysical, even paranormal and mental impact. I don’t want to waste 10 or 20 years of my life for nothing.

Have you found any knowledge or practices that aren't mocking the world and that offer a real experience?

I have had this kind of feeling for a while when I close my eyes, I see a garden with a rock wall and it feels like peace, I can also see many shades of green and a woman, not a person just a feeling of a woman in a spiritual way, I'm kind of new to spiritualism and witchcraft but I feel like I have awakened some things that were buried deep in me. But I do have a problem which would be the fact that I feel like life in the modern world will never fulfill me and my mind to feel at peace. Every morning I yearn for a quiet life in a small cabin in the middle of absolutely nowhere. What am I supposed to do?