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Originally posted by FlyersFan
Rain on your parade .... If you really ascended then I doubt that you would bother posting at ATS. I"m thinking you've just psyched yourself out. Considering the world situation, I'm sure your new found 'ascension' will be put to the test very soon. Good luck to you.
Originally posted by tgidkp
you are very brave to open yourself up to the lions den.
what I like about your post is that it reads more like a simple anecdote, rather than some "truth" manifesto from the great one (which is what most people will come to the thraed expecting).
while I can accept the legitimacy of your personal experience, I am left wondering how much of it is simply "filling in the blanks" with stuff that sounds cool. for example, did you actually witness these invisible beings? what evidence were you able to establish for their actual existence? or rather, did you have some indescribable experience and invent "invisible being" as a placeholder for it?
Originally posted by TheomExperience
I have to dumb myself down and play along to avoid this but it gets tiring thinking for multiple people.
Originally posted by woodwytch
reply to post by TheomExperience
What you describe sounds more like 'Ego' than 'Ascension' but hey ... enjoy your journey there are many hard lessons to be learned on that path too.
Woody
Originally posted by Kangaruex4Ewe
Originally posted by TheomExperience
I have to dumb myself down and play along to avoid this but it gets tiring thinking for multiple people.
You must be a *real* joy now that you are better then, I mean now that you have ascended.
Originally posted by NorEaster
I don't know. Subjectivity is just so subjective. I literally hallucinate every night as soon as the light is turned off, and when I say I hallucinate, I mean that I see movement, shadows, silhouetted shapes (like the ceiling fan) morphing into completely different configurations and sizes; nothing vague at all. Yet, I know better than to accept any of this as being real. I just hallucinate in darkness, and that's just what my visual cortex does.
The human mind perceives, and there's no real limitation to what the human mind can perceive. As long as it can imagine (conceptualize) something, it can perceive it as being real and actual. That said, reality itself isn't as free in its capacity to objectively present what the human mind can conceive of as being possible. And reality isn't the illusion that human perception of reality can be. There's a real disconnect between what's real and what the human mind can perceive as being real, and this is the most important fact of human existence that anyone can ever learn.
When someone says that reality is an illusion, they're trying to impose their own incapacity for accurate translation-free perception upon the rest of reality as a whole. It's self-indulgence and simply not true.
Originally posted by BellaSabre
Numbing your emotions is just another way of escaping reality, and your own human-ness. You'll have plenty of time for that when you are dead. Don't try to be dead while you are still alive.
People with severe PTSD, and other issues sometimes use "numbing" as a coping strategy. If reality is too much for you to face, then cope the best way you can. I guess.edit on 6/25/2013 by BellaSabre because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by TheomExperience
Originally posted by woodwytch
reply to post by TheomExperience
What you describe sounds more like 'Ego' than 'Ascension' but hey ... enjoy your journey there are many hard lessons to be learned on that path too.
Woody
The ego plays a big part in defending against influence and manipulation.
Just like all tools there are two ways of using it though. It can also be used offensively.