A temporary extension of Her will. It's the same thing as physical death, sooner or later 'your' going to go, and more and more of 'you' is going to keep going and going until 'your' all gone.
nah I don't think you cease to exist, you just go from tasting the sugar to being a part of the sugar (a metaphor used by tibetan monks and others)
neodude, It is scary. For sure. If you haven't noticed, I'm in no hurry to get back there unless need be.... Its called being afraid to die I think, but from the unique perspective of _actually_ knowing what it's like to die. I do think that I would actually welcome the "event" when it became inevitable. But that is also part of the problem. When is it inevitable? I don't know, and I either have everything to do with it, or nothing to do with it. I would say that it might be easier to jump out of an airplane without a parachute. It's that kind of innate fear. Another fear is that I will one day spontaneously enter into a certain line of thought and not be able to escape it, and have it run away on me till the big "????" and have it happen when I'm in a place in my life when I'm not ready for it. At the end of it, the "what am I" is answered. Amongst other things, this comes after your realize that your earthly life is an illusion, that it doesn't actually *exist*. You might even say that your earthly life is a *game* that your true self enjoys playing. Your true self LOVES your earthly self, and everything that it does. This is just my take on the "One" experience I had.
well I must exist. Even if Im not who I think I am, I have to exist in some way, shape, or form. Im sentient.
shit gave me chills at the end. I haven't had the light experience yet with lucy but I'm open minded and waiting with my eyes closed
I won't speak for others. But I would say that, when we die, we continue to be the same 'I', but lose our identity. I will no longer be the Michael that I designed throughout life through self-determination. I will go back into the original 'I' of 'me'. When we die, we just go back into the consciousness of God, and that your sense of self or separateness is merely an illusion. The only thing that goes non-existant is your ego. Ultimately, we are all just one thing playing a game with itself. We are alone, yet comforted by the illusions that we create for ourselves. Creating seperations so that love can be exchanged - When you hurt others, it's like hurting yourself, and that's not healthy. Rather than hate yourself and the situation of reality, you embrace it and choose love and compassion. There may be separate 'souls' that live within each own 'bubble' of comsciousness, and that each of us is an expression of multiple concepts. Each life we express the overall concept that is us but through ego and through self-determination. Just like how it is part of human nature to create stories, so does God. We just have a lesser version of story making then God does. (I recommend reading Robert McKee's book: Story, and anything by Joseph Campbell). God has the ability to create. We have the ability to create... but again, in less than perfect forms of his own abilities. (Look at the Bible as the STORY of mankind. The protagonist is mankind. The catalyst in the story is our disconnect from God (brought on by desiring Satans desires), and the end of the story is our inevitable reconnection to God. In between Genesis to revelation, we can see multiple mini-plots that showcases human nature in it's complete form. The CONTROLLING idea of the Bible is how can we become reconnected with God, and the theme is to let go to false and unhealthy desires and to reembrace love and forgiveness, because only that can help us to reconnect - I don't think the story of the Bible is an accident. Whoever put it together must have been a genius. Where do I get these ideas from? Other than personal experiences that don't seem to be explanable, I look to the past and I see that people thousands of years ago were exactly the same as they are now. The only clear distinction is technology, but the same questions have been asked and the same 'answers' have been arrived at (Kaballah: Multiple universes. Science: multiple universes - There are many ways to arrive at the same conclusion. I see this as FACT). God realized beings like le ching are no accident, and they do not arrive at their conclusions by taking these things out of thin air. It comes from self-knowledge and observing not only the outside world, but the inside world as well. There MUST be evidence for your claims, but what is considered evidence can be very broad indeed. It need not always be empirical, because I believe that certain parts of realities don't work under empiricism.
that's sort of what I think too. John seemed to be saying that we would cease to exist entirely, and be sucked back up into momma. kinda like being eaten.
I don't think he is right. Being sucked back into the mama... what exactly is the mama? It's God, it's you, me. That whole oneness feeling isn't just a 'screwup' in your brain. That feeling exists for a reason. Check out this music video to see what I mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v4iT-MoVVs EDIT: even better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVnRzEjpUmE
Ha that's funny! There is something peculiarly sexual about it isn't there? BTW, are you sure ur having a 3some?