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As the OP tries to mystify the subject in the end those who do not except will laugh and joke about it.
They are the ones who obstruct every non conceivable aspect of human life itself
originally posted by: liveandlearn
a reply to: eisegesis
I have looked at this twice and after Mandy's post I took a second look. Stopped at "Hot Dog" that Eris partook of after throwing the apple.
Have to say Fnord had to be researched and seems to have multiple meaning depending on the context, I think.
So was this the purpose of the graphic and am I right or wrong? Need to keep looking?
edit for one definition of fnord
A fnord is disinformation or irrelevant information intending to misdirect, with the implication of a conspiracy.
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originally posted by: 0bserver1
a reply to: Mandy555
Airl?
originally posted by: kennyb72
a reply to: Ruiner1978
If there is just bliss beyond these layers then what was it that I experienced?
The veil of duality definitely lifted, and I was in an altered state of being/plane of reality, but it wasn't bliss. It was #ing horrible.
What you experienced was what is loosely termed as the astral planes which consists of the first few levels of Maya, it is also know as the world of illusions.
These murky regions are the homes of those who reject our eternal path and will remain in those realms until they feel the need to move on.
It is dark and malevolent and exerts enormous influence on this physical reality and is why we experience evil. The esoteric truth is that it is allowed and considered valuable. It is through our conflict with duality that our human experience is unique.
There is no hell! Just negative experiences and these dense worlds are the only place we can experience it.
Without it, we are incomplete, so in a loving sense, we should be grateful for their service.
I'm not sure that that's it.
Looking back it was as if the illusion of separation and duality of THIS realm was stripped away and I experienced this reality as it is without the filter of the veil.
There was no unity or peace. Just overwhelming Chaos.
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
One of the heifers had made friends with Tereza. The heifer would stop and stare at her with her big brown eyes. Tereza knew her. She called her Marketa. She would have been happy to give all her heifers names, but she was unable to. There were too many of them. Not so long before, forty years or so, all the cows in the village had names. (And if having a name is a sign of having a soul, I can say that they had souls despite Descartes.) But then the villages were turned into a large collective factory, and the cows began spending all their lives in the five square feet set aside for them in their cow sheds. From that time on, they have had no names and become mere machinae animatae. The world has proved Descartes correct.
Tereza keeps appearing before my eyes. I see her sitting on the stump petting Karenin's head and ruminating on mankind's debacles. Another image also comes to mind: Nietzsche leaving his hotel in Turin. Seeing a horse and a coachman beating it with a whip, Nietzsche went up to the horse and, before the coachman's very eyes, put his arms around the horse's neck and burst into tears.
That took place in 1889, when Nietzsche, too, had removed himself from the world of people. In other words, it was at the time when his mental illness had just erupted. But for that very reason I feel his gesture has broad implications:
Nietzsche was trying to apologize to the horse for Descartes. His lunacy (that is, his final break with mankind) began at the very moment he burst into tears over the horse.
And that is the Nietzsche I love, just as I love Tereza with the mortally ill dog resting his head in her lap. I see them one next to the other: both stepping down from the road along which mankind, the master and proprietor of nature, marches onward.
originally posted by: Ruiner1978
originally posted by: kennyb72
originally posted by: Ruiner1978
Is the veil not there for a reason?
We need the filter of duality to function don't we?
Witnessing raw reality and becoming the singularity is not a good thing.
Being both sides of everything (and nothing) all at once is an awfullly maddening, hellish confusion.
Duality only exists in this physical dimension and the first three sub layers of Maya. Beyond this there is just bliss.
When our awareness expands, we start to attain objective understanding of other planes of reality.
If there is just bliss beyond these layers then what was it that I experienced?
The veil of duality definitely lifted, and I was in an altered state of being/plane of reality, but it wasn't bliss. It was #ing horrible.
I'm still not convinced that we're supposed to be peeking through this filter. It's there for a reason, and a damn good reason.
"What you experienced was what is loosely termed as the astral planes which consists of the first few levels of Maya, it is also know as the world of illusions.
These murky regions are the homes of those who reject our eternal path and will remain in those realms until they feel the need to move on."
originally posted by: eisegesis
Here's a little gift for everyone that made this thread a success. It was the "prize" for participating in my Beyond the Realm... thread.
originally posted by: iTruthSeeker
originally posted by: Ruiner1978
originally posted by: kennyb72
originally posted by: Ruiner1978
Is the veil not there for a reason?
We need the filter of duality to function don't we?
Witnessing raw reality and becoming the singularity is not a good thing.
Being both sides of everything (and nothing) all at once is an awfullly maddening, hellish confusion.
Duality only exists in this physical dimension and the first three sub layers of Maya. Beyond this there is just bliss.
When our awareness expands, we start to attain objective understanding of other planes of reality.
If there is just bliss beyond these layers then what was it that I experienced?
The veil of duality definitely lifted, and I was in an altered state of being/plane of reality, but it wasn't bliss. It was #ing horrible.
I'm still not convinced that we're supposed to be peeking through this filter. It's there for a reason, and a damn good reason.
I made a thread similar to what you are saying. I took an entheogen and I saw (more like sensed) something very dark and terrifying. I thought it was "it/him/creator" or something, but the more I dwell on it, the more I feel it was just something negative.