What does it mean to feel one with the universe?

Oh, I didn't it couldn't be done. It's just real hard to ignore what you've seen and felt. It's nice to know you're not afraid of a little hard work.

 

Why is it that feelings are reduced to 'nothing but' feelings, while our ability to reason is not reduced to 'nothing but' reason. Feeling isn't inferior to our ability to reason. It's just another way of knowing.

It's better to have a chariot being pulled by two horses than being pulled with just the one.

 

we are always one with the universe, it's subtle, it's more piece of mind then some intense feeling.

 

Beautiful

 

^^^agreed

 

Having been diagnosed with OCD, I can confidently state the emotions can often times be flat out wrong. Reason at least has some built in ways of checking itself, namely logic.

 

It means to feel connected to everything and everyone, and feeling that you have no obligations. To feel free.

 

You obviously haven’t tried to reason with some of the people that visit these forums.

 

Like OWB is saying, reason can sometimes be flat out wrong. Things make the most sense when both intuition and logic are applied.

It's definitely a balancing act.

We usually have to fine tune our logic whenever something strange is discovered about reality.

Also, why assume that all feelings are wrong?

BTW I used to suffer from OCD, so I know where you are coming from.

 

Yea, I know reason has its limits and logic cannot be used to prove itself. I still think that it is more reliable than "feelings" and when they conflict, I usually go with reason.

 

Sounds "reasonable" but myself, if they conflict, I go with the one that will get me where I want to go.

 

everything is connected. we all come from the same fundamental source, and we are all still apart of that fundamental source, when we realize this, we understand we are all one, we are never actually separate, separateness is an illusion.

 

It's like the blanket of the universe that is described in I <3 Huckabee's

 

Logic and emotions and whatever else you use to make sense of life aren't either right or wrong. They're more like t.v. channels. You watch one, and it has absolutely nothing to do with the other, but that doesn't mean one is right and the other isn't. You don't like what you're watching, just change the channel until you do. The summation of all the channels is "what's on". Know what's on, and choose what you want to watch, but don't bitch about ranking one channel over another.

What it means to feel one with the universe... to me, it was a love wave. It was joining in on a party that had been going on without me, that was infinitely big, infinitely perfect, and infinitely loving. I'd though I was already there, or on my way there, but suddenly, I WAS there, and I realized that what had kept me from being there before was my ego. We try to fight everything. When something like a pyschedelic overpowers us, we have to surrender. When we surrender, we realize we never had to fight. Oneness is awareness of your connectedness. It's being one cell in a body, and simultaneously being the entire body. One leaf, and the entire tree, and the wind that blows through it, the sun that shines on it, the dirt it grows out of, and inward and outward from there. It's experiencing the dichotomy of indivituality and unity, and understanding why it has to be that way for it to be anything at all.

 

"We're not in infinity. We're in the suburbs."
"Infinity is everywhere! That's what makes it infinity!"

That's my favorite movie.

 

the only way to truly know what it means is to experience it

it's a wonderful feeling

 

I had this feeling before ever hearing other reports of people feeling the same way. It was honestly one of the most mind blowing experiences of my life. I can't explain it, but it was definately an out-of-body thing.

 

I used to think this too, now I understand the inherent absurdity in siding with logic because it's logical

 

"what does it mean to feel one with the universe"

...dosent mean a damn thing.

(lol, i love the one liner from time to time)

*entertaining myself at least*