Lacewing wrote: ↑Thu Dec 07, 2023 7:23 pm> I've had repeated experience of being in a larger flow that seems to know how to work perfectly when I don't create my little human obstructions.
Any experience that is known to you personally, never leaves the confines of you're own mind. What if there's nothing higher or beyond that of you're own finite mind. ?
I suppose being painfully eaten alive from the inside out until dead by an aggressive cancer, is a sure sign that there does seem to be the appearance of a phenomena that knows how to work perfectly. If for example, the experience of pain until dead, is the most workable perfect flow that life has to offer.
Lacewing wrote: ↑Thu Dec 07, 2023 7:23 pm> I've been in a wakened state while seemingly getting a glimpse behind the physically worldly veil to know and feel with every fiber of my being that 'all is fine'.
Yes, that feeling is very similar to like remembering the time before you existed and how it felt like nothing at all.
Lacewing wrote: ↑Thu Dec 07, 2023 7:23 pm> I've received direction when I've asked for it and really wanted to hear it.
Being directed to NOWHERE is a rather pointless pointing.
Lacewing wrote: ↑Thu Dec 07, 2023 7:23 pm> I've repeatedly felt love and joy to such a degree that seemed capable of evaporating my physical body.
Sounds like a rather destructive thing to do. But since it's not literal, only a subjective feeling, that's fine, the feeling is quite normal, and not anything super extraordinary. I often feel the same love and joy whenever I think about being dead.
Lacewing wrote: ↑Thu Dec 07, 2023 7:23 pm> During a spiritual practice, I saw my face briefly transposing with another's (gazing into my own eyes) several times in a demonstration that seemed to show me that all is one.
Eye gazing, now there's a fancy trick, where two faces are facing off, until they both melt into one being, even though they don't really.
Lacewing wrote: ↑Thu Dec 07, 2023 7:23 pm> I once had a shared conversation with someone without speaking many audible words.
Gosh, that's another fancy trick, imagine that, I'm sure cats and dogs and most other conscious animal creatures on this planet do the exact same thing all the time with each other, especially our hairy primate cousins.
Lacewing wrote: ↑Thu Dec 07, 2023 7:23 pm> As a teenager, I experienced an unseen being touching me (my Mother experienced it too), and later I had a sudden awareness that it was presently in a certain room in the house, and when I slowly pushed the door open to encounter/face it, I heard a very loud sound like some kind of energy had just sucked out of the room, and I could feel that it had been there.
I've had brain hallucinations too, it's all very common, and nothing super metaphysical or extraordinary.
Lacewing wrote: ↑Thu Dec 07, 2023 7:23 pm> On a hike in the desert, as I took a step I suddenly and very unexpectedly saw a shimmering doorway all around me as if I had just stepped through a portal.
Funny, how deserts do that to people, imagine that, tiny little grains of rock invoking mirages before you're very eyes.
Lacewing wrote: ↑Thu Dec 07, 2023 7:23 pm> I had a near-death experience in which I was hanging in a space-like place without stars, feeling nothing but awareness... without any human fears, needs, or judgments -- just waiting to see if the human beings saved the body I was using, and it didn't matter one way or another.
It wouldn't have mattered to a dead body, you are right.
Lacewing wrote: ↑Thu Dec 07, 2023 7:23 pmFor my entire life, I've had vivid and involved dreams of other-worldly and end-of-world situations, and encounters with aliens and wise beings. I've even woken up out of breath after flying around ancient ruins or Saturn's rings. My dreams feel like whole other lives. And they've often felt to me like I'm 'remembering the future'.
Funny how we remember the future in a dream, a phenomena which is simple brain activity occurring in the present, and not the future at all, or the past.
Lacewing wrote: ↑Thu Dec 07, 2023 7:23 pmI have no fear of death. I have no supposed hole in me that needs to be filled with God. I have always felt that I am part of this world and the divine -- it did not make sense to me that the adult Christians in my life were working so hard at it, and they seemed to think everything is separate from all else.
No one ever feared being dead. Since dead people cannot tell themself they are dead, let alone fear being dead.
Lacewing wrote: ↑Thu Dec 07, 2023 7:23 pmSo all of this is why I say the things I do.
My experience has been very vibrant and full, with the sense of being naturally connected to more beyond my physical human self, so it seems reasonable to me to challenge spiritual claims (on this forum) that are based on rigidity, separation, and limits. Those 'qualities' may be all that is seen and true for some people -- it's hard for me to think that way. Those 'qualities' are not all that is seen and true for me.
You have a vivid imagination that's all. Brains are all unique and never to be repeated in another, they reflect what thoughts are being focused on the most by the attention given to them, that's all brains have to work with.