(06-26-2023, 03:36 PM)Schmoe Wrote: I think I see what you're saying. If it weren't for some unseen repellant force, we could walk through walls, as the atoms colliding with each other would pass through each other? Makes sense to me.
Exactly. There is so much space in an atom as opposed to particles that if it were not for the forces present in the "empty" space, the particles would just harmlessly pass one another, and you could walk through walls, rocks, etc.
Quote:I agree with everything you said. All these entities people meet in that DMT realm are the same, mostly. People have also reported absolute nightmare hell trips on DMT, along with an entity that felt evil, made them feel hopeless, etc. There's a strong correlation there to religion, good and evil. I'll be diving in deeper with DMT in the near future.
"Entity" is a good way to describe them. It doesn't present any value judgements as to their nature. That "other" realm can be a scary place. Just like here, there are all kinds there. Oddly, the alkaloids in datura (Jimson-weed) tend to propel one towards those scarier beings, and tend to produce "bad trips" Thankfully, perhaps, they also tend to wipe the memory of the event, and all folks know is what other, sober, folks around them tell them they experienced. Otherwise, those trips would likely produce permanent psychoses.
Quote:I feel pretty strongly there's something to it that gives us a small glimpse into the true reality. Or maybe this is a true reality, and we just come from a different dimension which is also a true reality. I feel like a complete stereotypical stoner saying that about traveling dimensions, but it truly feels like that. Difficult to describe without experiencing it yourself. I'd been looking into simulation theory before I took DMT, and having gone to a different dimension, I believe it more and more. I don't knock anybody whatsoever for their beliefs, but simulation theory, to me, makes just as much sense as a giant bearded man who got bored and made everything over the course of seven days. It could be all the same too. A simulation is a creation. Like you said, they all seem connected. Only they've been bastardized over the course of history by people with ulterior motives. In my opinion.
I don't know that one or the other, or another, of these realities is the "one true" reality. I think they are all "true", but it's a matter of some being limited subsets of another. They are still "true", but just limited. Some substances seem to propel folks into the larger, unlimited, reality. One that a mind limited to experience of this reality is usually utterly unprepared for - the limitlessness of it.
The notion of a "giant bearded man" or a "bearded sky fairy" bothers me. I know why folks do it - they are just playing off of concepts and limitations that Christians and Jews have placed upon "God", and using that to express their disdain for anything they can't see or bite - but in doing so they miss it altogether. God is a spirit-being so, no body. No body, no beard. No body, no sex. And limiting God to the realm of "the sky" is a pretty severe limitation indeed!. As I mentioned before, atoms and molecules are everywhere, not just in atmospheres, so if God is spirit, and spirit occupies the "empty" spaces between subatomic particles where forces lie, then it's a logical and reasonable assumption that God is everywhere - not limited to "sky".
In your own experience, you described "... towering above it was a being. I couldn't quite make out the being, but I felt it there and could sort of see it." Was that Being a man, or a woman? Of course it was neither, or else you would have referred to it as "He" or "She", rather than "It". The fact that It presented itself in one place does not mean it was necessarily limited to that space you could comprehend - it just means It was adjusting Itself to accommodate your limited understanding, since you were already pretty overwhelmed by the limitlessness you were experiencing.
That may also have some bearing on why "primitive" societies conceive of a spirit in everything - and why more "enlightened" folks make fun of them for worshiping rocks and trees. iI's not that they are worshiping a rock or a tree, it's that they are giving recognition to the Spirit That Moves Through All. I mean, "primitives" have been psychonaut-ing the cosmos via herbs and barks for millennia - they may know something we don't , because of those experiences.
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Another thing to consider, on top of all the above - "spooky action at a distance" - the notion that two particles can somehow be "linked" across even light years, such that instantaneous communication between the two is possible, without having to resort to those slow, light-speed limited, radio waves. That notion can factor into this world-view as well.
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Random stuff - Israeli scientists have found cannabis residue in the dark stained remnants of incense burning on an altar of Yahweh in southern Israel at Tel Arad. So, early on, "God's House" was often filled with reefer smoke. Put that in yer pipe and smoke it!
Link to God's Own Cannabis
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