attofishpi wrote: ↑Sun Dec 17, 2023 9:48 am
seeds wrote: ↑Sun Dec 17, 2023 12:38 am
However, hopefully (if nothing else), people can at least now understand why I not only adamantly insist that there truly does exist a living (incorporeal) Creator of this universe,...
...but also why I use that
"eye of the mind" icon ("eye-con") in all of my illustrations,...
...for it is a metaphorical representation of what I experienced in my alleged ("Burning Bush-like") encounter with God, 53 years ago.
http://www.theultimateseeds.com/
https://youtu.be/bVbpHy4nncA
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Seeds, I know you have a well appropriated angst with me over the more recent years, but thanks and well explained of your epiphanies.
As you know I have always loved your art and am glad you have expressed yourself all these years with such a talent.
Thank you, atto.
I look forward to seeing more of
your highly creative art. Anything new in the works?
attofishpi wrote: ↑Sun Dec 17, 2023 9:48 am
Psychedelics are being looked into from more than just an internal - "brain fart" of experience. I've never experienced God on LSD or mushrooms (indeed never 'hallucinated' on them) but partook in testing my conscious awareness with such in the early nineties.
Seems, your main epiphany though was AFTER you were enlightened by these 'drugs', it seems God becomes apparent to those that have eaten from the Tree of Know_Ledge. (the fruit IMO being psychedelics)
I came across this site recently re such a concept:
https://www.drjamescooke.com/read/bible
Nice article, thanks for sharing that.
I can't remember the exact details, but in a recent quarrel I had with VA, in his own inimitable fashion, he tried to make the argument that because some humans have spiritual experiences after ingesting psychoactive drugs, that it is the drugs themselves that are creating the "delusion" that God, and a higher spiritual realm, exist (of which he of course thinks is "impossible"
).
While I, on the other hand, tried to argue that the normal human brain is designed to literally
hide the higher dimension of reality from us so that we can not only stay focused on the task-at-hand of birthing and raising children in a context of reality (planet earth) that feels natural and logical to us,...
...but also, so that we are not compelled to long for the higher realm and try to seek it out prematurely.
In other words, instead of creating delusions, psychoactive substances simply (as Aldous Huxley suggested) open
"the doors of perception" by providing us with (hazy) peepholes through the
"veil" that separates this temporary material illusion from the
"Real Thing," so to speak.
Anyway, thanks again for your kind words.
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