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That 8-bit movie audio was taken from the "Summoner Geeks" video (http://www.rpgamer.com/games/other/ps2/summoner/summonermov.html). Wow, I must've watched that 100 times with friends in the newsroom computer lab back in high school. Even the people who never heard of d&d thought it was good.

"The Antichrist: George W. Bush" is the most popular section so far. If you want to attract people who think like you and your friends, that's fine. But if you want it to be a place for the "lost souls of cyberspace," you may want to nix the more didactic sections and instead focus on creativity and knowledge sharing.

Why do anything?

What she said.

Yes, Nagual, you are mentally ill, and there's a pill we have that can fix it for you. We're  not exactly sure what it is yet, but we can have you keep trying what's available until we find one that's right for you.

In the mean time we'll be perfecting more medication for your condition, so that you will finally adopt the goods and services the market provices and be just like everybody else.

Why is it horrifying? I tend to agree, first of all, but let's explore this.

It seems to me that it's horrifying because you realize that good and evil are just opposite spheres that dance on the rim of consciousness, orbiting an abyss of neutral nothingness. Dreams exist on the peripheral of an empty black hole, not within it. Or maybe it's because I've never held it long enough to go to the other side?

Or am I mistaken in believing that infinity also includes nothing? Doesn't infinity begin from infinite nothingness?[|)]

Wow, they use the Mac OS X graphical effects and style but don't make a Mac version. Posers.

What's your success with that program been like, BB?

Draft? That's great! Those of you who dodge it can come back and run for office

If there's a draft, it'll be to fight bad guys, independent of whether or not they own oil. I say if that day comes, fight the worser bad guys and not the social contract we all agreed to. You should be living in another country already if the thought of a draft bothers you. And that's fine. I don't know why Canada doesn't have more and more immigrants from America. It's a beautiful nation with plenty of open space and socialist programs. And it's very welcoming. I promise you won't get eaten by a bear, and it's not that cold.

[8D]

Oh yeah, I saw explora post this over at Sorex, and I'm a red magnetic serpent - which is total BS.

Survivor? I have absolutely no will to survive, whatsoever. I have half the mind to let the suffering die, for surely they'll go to a better place. Magnetic tone of purpose? I have no purpose, and I've never felt any, and not for lack of being aware.

It's funny because these things are so vague and likely to intrigue some, but I've never found one so dead wrong. Maybe I have my birthday wrong? [?]

[Edit: Aren't you supposed to put the year you were born?]

Well, that's just the day I won't be able to live beyond, I could die a few days before then. [|)]

That's great that we have the same birthday, BB. It's coming up real soon! Too bad it's a Sunday this year. I forgot we had one of these ([8]) in the forum, kiauma! I should throw it around more often...

[dunnhh]

About 6 or 7 years ago, long before I had ever heard of the 2012 mayan calendar stuff, I used my friends magic 8-ball to narrow down the year of my death. "Will I live past 20? Will I make it past 30?" and so forth were the questions, and it ended with the prediction that I would not make it past my 29th birthday. Which is... dunh dunh dunnhh

June 27, 2012

"This summer, signs will point to yes"

[Edit: I always left open the possibility I would off myself before then. I mean, you can't trust oracles with that breed of fatalism.]

After the first time I experienced the vibrations before an OBE, they never really seemed to go away while I was awake. Probably because I preoccupied myself with the experience and could barely think about anything else. But even now, browsing these forums, I feel closer and closer to the relaxed/vibrational state with my eyes open. I keep myself from going deeper, though, for fear I might pass out and hurt my head on something :\

With the spousal issue, military, etc., you make a great deal of sense lola. One can always divorce or quit their job and then off themselves.

People tend to think of suicide as a decision made on a whim - that if only the person waited a few more years they would've changed their mind. There are people who, from very young ages, recognized the limits of this existence and have kept suicide as an option onwards towards their adult life. This is not emotional in the conventional sense, nor strictly developmental. It's personally derived preference.

Why this concept escapes so many, I don't know. To prefer what is not to what is is the essential driving force behind human growth.

I for one am of the pro-choice side that runlola describes, however, with one stipulation. Anyone in a position of high responsibility (a parent, spouse, military officer) should not be allowed to kill themselves, however rational and calm their mind may be. These types of positions are life-binding commitments, so your decision to accept life or reject it should be made before entering them.

So, deciding whether or not to have a child or a spouse should be given the same weight as the decisioin of suicide. [|)]

I used to do this when I was really young (5 or 6) and I started to think that if I kept doing it I would dematerialize (like on star trek). You're right, it is one of the most difficult things to do.

Something I'd always daydream about, while trying to comprehend infinity, would be imagining a ladder that went both up and down towards forever in both directions. I imagined myself on the ladder, looking downwards and seeing through the vanishing point and then upwards. But I cannot, for the life of me, keep the ladder from bending inwards or curving, eventually collapsing itself into a circle. I've tried and tried, but there's nothing for the bottom of the ladder to ground on and there's nothing for the top of the ladder to rest upon. Whenever I do this, I become troubled that my imagination has this annoying "limit."

I don't think the prevailing notion is that development comes from the shedding of the physical form. Rather, it's shedding your limited attachment to the physical form.

I like your idea that God is in all that is, and when one recognizes this they are content with any situation. Well, then is God in the atomic bomb? Is God in the fumes that pollute the environment? Is such an awakened entity just as satisfied watching bloodshed as watershed? These are important questions.

Even better, though, is your suggestion that we came here, that there are things to experience "in this place." Everywhere is the same place. When you leave to get up and go somewhere, whether it's to the kitchen or the astral, the only thing that has changed is your consciousness. "Location" is really best defined as "localized awareness." You are not localized, you are nonlocal. The force that localizes vision is you.

God help me (that's just an expression), but do whatever you want. See great things, serve people, blow people up, destroy cities, experience love, hate, fear, redemption, sickness, health, more hatred, more love, small limits, large limits, no limits - you're God. You can do anything you want. And it's exactly what you're doing right now.

Beserk, you seem to be substituting sensational vividness for reality. There is no such attachment - you can have one and not the other, both, or neither.

For instance, I've had dreams so solid I could feel my pulse. But then I had another so vague, the only things I could really notice where 5 shiny pennies on a carpet. The following day I found exactly 5 pennies in the main entrance of my high school, and they were dirty.

Oddly, you don't even seem to need convincing of this concept. This is a good concept to bring into the light anyways. People feel they need drugs and alcohol to experience reality with different levels of vividness, but this whole forum suggests otherwise.

My dad says he always "had this premonition that Reagan and the Pope would go around the same time," probably because they were both shot around the same time during the 80's.

But he also thinks it's more than a coincidence that Reagan's funeral is coinciding with Clinton's new book, as God's attempt to dumb down the hype and show who's boss.

We'll see, I guess.

Journaling in general, no matter what it is you're journaling, helps to build a larger picture of events, revealing connections, wholeness etc. Certain things happen that seem unrelated but through the process of journaling you notice how they may be only 2 or 3 times removed. It's really like a detective story.

Don't stop journaling dreams, Manix, if they still feel mysterious. I don't know what else to tell you except to keep your attention on the mystery, what deeply intrigues you, and what you notice will orchestrate around it.

I suppose I can clarify on why I referred to that articles thread. T.L. just seemed to have a very natural experience of navigating the continuum on consciousness, closest to the learning process I felt, so that's why I noted it.

Chopra believes coincidences emerge from the nonlocal self. Since dreaming, obe, etc are closer to nonlocal awareness, I pay attention to coincidences during the night. To nurture this I keep a record of coincidences that happen during the day. Many of them don't mean anything on their own and can seem quite trivial, but they build an experience of the soul.

So I should've mentioned that I used to keep a dream journal quite vigilantly, but now instead keep a daily coincidence journal - it's easier to write, as dream experiences can be increasingly difficult to put into words and become quite long. It's enough that I can just write them on notecard sized text documents at the end of the day. Eventually, you notice all sorts of connections through the continuum of consciousness, such that you can navigate it more and more naturally.

(Manix, I know how hard it is to think of easier ways to record dreams during the night. The more successful you are at remembering things, the more of a pain in the butt it can be. I hope this helped.)

Aaron C Donahue did not show individual predictions for lottery numbers on his site, like he claims to have. Instead, he listed a battery of possible combinations for the smallest one (pick 3 1-digit balls), at least 24 for each reading, but as many as 96. But that's not the real joke - this will make you laugh: He insists that he makes his entire living from winning the lottery, but has made a vow of poverty.

Isn't that rich?

To help make everyone happy. [|)]

I mean an experience that is the same for everyone, such that it can be communicated directly to everyone and help all humanity out of the suffering of limited existence, etc. To expose that grand connection between dreams and reality for others, so that people can realize their dreams.

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quote:Originally posted by BlackBox

22:33:55 is your post time Phong.

For master-number junkies like myself, I have a question: "Are you jesus?"

j/k

That's really funny, considering that was the post when I said, "I know what I'm talking about, really. I just don't know how to talk about it." I could imagine Jesus kind of shrugging his shoulders after the ascension thinking "well, I tried."

I've been trying to think of "methods" to offer, like you asked, something that will work for others, but the more particular the method the less it will work. Experience is subjective and personal. My father is a flight instructor. He says teachers don't really teach, they're really there to help you teach yourself. I tend to agree. But the first post of this thread (http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12471) is good.

Edit: Thanks Nay. Good post thelou. Cube, I actually am trying to find objective experience, to destroy the illusion that surrounds others. I wish I could just drop a bomb on it. But I haven't found how to yet.

Well, what are you gonna do when you get there? More exploring. Use this time to get good at it. Who knows what you'll find?