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Originally posted by redled
We're never going to know whether or not there is a 'next place' type thing until we die, or not as the case may be. In the meantime, I'm all for modelling this place.
Originally posted by DarkSide
Originally posted by fiftyfifty
The idea of consciousness being the reality and all that makes some sort of sense and how we as the observers are creating or building the universe by observing it.
And how did consciousness come about?
And how come Earth existed before any conscious being lived on it?
Originally posted by fiftyfifty
Originally posted by discomfit
There is no period "before" when time began (the big bang). In the same way that there is no "beyond" the edge of existence. And so on.
I don't understand what you mean by that discomfit. Beyond the edge of existence?
Originally posted by Focused_Life
God is eternal he always was and always is, we are humans we always need something rational to understand, but simply put our brains could not handle the answer of where God came from. He just is, the great "I AM" He is the creator, or else, how could there be nothing when there IS something.
Originally posted by shrunkensimon
We already know. Its called the Near Death Experience, and can also be linked to the brain hormone, '___', also found in the brews of Amazonian natives, and others around the world. There is ample evidence that there is more to life than meets the eye, it just depends on whether your willing to change your own paradigm and think outside the box.. Those who have experienced the realms '___' know that there is more to life than meets the eye. I suggest you look up Shamanism and Healing through thought/intention.
The scientific approach is flawed, because our cosmological paradigm is wrong, and can be proven to be wrong.. but the mainstream won't listen, because science is nothing more than a business now. Its not about the "whys and hows" of our existence like it was once upon a time... now its about whether i will get funding for my research or not.. and if you don't fit the paradigm, good luck trying to get funding..
We are still working off the assumption that gravity is the driving force in the universe..
Truth is, there really is no need for a big bang, and that the Big Bang still does not explain where we come from, or how things are the way they are. Its a poor attempt at trying to convince people there is nothing more to life than meets the eye.. its standard NASA conditioning.
I suggest you read up a bit more on shamanism, in particular their 'trip' reports, I also suggest that you read up on the reports from Dr Rick Strassman in ''___' the spirit molecule'. Another good source of information is the middle part of 'Supernatural' by Graham Hancock (just at that part myself - very informative). Also most stuff by Terence McKenna is quite interesting.
Originally posted by Thousand
Before such grand claims are made, it should also be mentioned that Dimethyltryptamine is believed to be one of the active agents that drive dreaming, and taking it as a drug produces the extremely powerful hallucinations one would expect from having a "super dream" while fully awake. We view the world through a very imperfect and totally biased filter, and to assume that you can pluck absolute truth from that view when it has been purposefully and completely hijacked is a bit of a stretch. We will see the things what we want to see, even if we didn't consciously want to.
Our brains are driven by chemical interaction - using drugs is to force a deliberate imbalance into that system. Saying it causes you to see "the Truth" is akin to saying the Blaster virus finally made your computer work the way it was always intended. While there are links between drug use and personal insight (we have centuries of music and art to show us this), I'd say it has more to do with being granted the ability to think in a completely foreign manner over being given access to the collective wisdom of an advanced race of hyperdimensional cyber elves.
Originally posted by shihulud
I suggest you read up a bit more on shamanism, in particular their 'trip' reports, I also suggest that you read up on the reports from Dr Rick Strassman in ''___' the spirit molecule'. Another good source of information is the middle part of 'Supernatural' by Graham Hancock (just at that part myself - very informative). Also most stuff by Terence McKenna is quite interesting.
Yet people base their whole life and lifestyle on the 'hallucinations' of their so called prophets that were probably tripping out of their nut i.e Ezekiel et al
But where did it come from?
Originally posted by shihulud
Another good source of information is the middle part of 'Supernatural' by Graham Hancock