Where did you get that image of the plasma? I'm fascinated.
Great post. So many options as to how to view this wild reality we live in, all which can be transformed by shifting our neurology.
Love the part about being tasty fear morsels or tasty love dessert. What fun! For me, I'd rather live in love than fear, it's much more delicious to be in my body. Fear brings on pain and suffering.
I have to be honest, the plasma image is AI generated. I’m usually better about labeling that explicitly. It just slipped my mind this time around.
Thanks for the encouragement to keep posting. I’m with you. Just based on the experience, living in love seems like a better route than living in fear. Whether we know the ultimate outcome of that lifestyle or not, maybe it’s enough to live in the moment and actually enjoy being Here.
Just a two comments. The more you get into "feel", the more certain realities become simply-obvious. Where you come from matters. The idea that Selig's channelings or the Tibetans' might be tricking us — stuff of the mind. There is no use speaking further of it, because if mind stuff comes first, then there is no other reference point to check against. But the more you connect with the Presence (as I will call it today), the more obvious it is that it is what it is. It does not divide itself into idea spaces; it is the unity into which all things flow; knowing things at these levels is not something one needs to argue with oneself (or anyone else) about.
As far as beings that feed on fear, Robert Monroe talks about that — in Ultimate Journey, I think. The trilogy is amazing. He is the one who coined the term OBE (out of body experience), I think. And yes, he said there were beings cultivating fear in us, and feeding off of it. They called it "loosh".
This comment is still ringing in my mind. Thanks for introducing me to the term loosh.
I think you make a good point about the Presence too.
I just get so distracted by my own mental turnings. I’m perpetually skeptical, even of things that I am ostensibly the ultimate authority on like self-evaluation of my meditation abilities or my gut check on wisdom arrived at via intuition and connection to source.
“Is this gnosis? How would I know this is gnosis?”
Yeah. I think a modern pathway in the right direction is the idea of "embodiment", which is popping up everywhere nowadays (and a good thing, too). Our minds are so wonderful and seductive, but they are simulation apparatus. They always *represent* something with something else — and so it is easy to be lulled into the sense that we are experiencing, when we are actually living inside the simulations of our different mental states. The more time you spend in non-mind-centered states (non-mind-dominant?), it shifts the mix so that it no longer looks like the mind is everything. I.e., go for a walk, pet a cat, ... ;-)
Where did you get that image of the plasma? I'm fascinated.
Great post. So many options as to how to view this wild reality we live in, all which can be transformed by shifting our neurology.
Love the part about being tasty fear morsels or tasty love dessert. What fun! For me, I'd rather live in love than fear, it's much more delicious to be in my body. Fear brings on pain and suffering.
Keep posting...
I have to be honest, the plasma image is AI generated. I’m usually better about labeling that explicitly. It just slipped my mind this time around.
Thanks for the encouragement to keep posting. I’m with you. Just based on the experience, living in love seems like a better route than living in fear. Whether we know the ultimate outcome of that lifestyle or not, maybe it’s enough to live in the moment and actually enjoy being Here.
Wonderfully liminal trick-stery writing, Geoff.
Just a two comments. The more you get into "feel", the more certain realities become simply-obvious. Where you come from matters. The idea that Selig's channelings or the Tibetans' might be tricking us — stuff of the mind. There is no use speaking further of it, because if mind stuff comes first, then there is no other reference point to check against. But the more you connect with the Presence (as I will call it today), the more obvious it is that it is what it is. It does not divide itself into idea spaces; it is the unity into which all things flow; knowing things at these levels is not something one needs to argue with oneself (or anyone else) about.
As far as beings that feed on fear, Robert Monroe talks about that — in Ultimate Journey, I think. The trilogy is amazing. He is the one who coined the term OBE (out of body experience), I think. And yes, he said there were beings cultivating fear in us, and feeding off of it. They called it "loosh".
This comment is still ringing in my mind. Thanks for introducing me to the term loosh.
I think you make a good point about the Presence too.
I just get so distracted by my own mental turnings. I’m perpetually skeptical, even of things that I am ostensibly the ultimate authority on like self-evaluation of my meditation abilities or my gut check on wisdom arrived at via intuition and connection to source.
“Is this gnosis? How would I know this is gnosis?”
Yeah. I think a modern pathway in the right direction is the idea of "embodiment", which is popping up everywhere nowadays (and a good thing, too). Our minds are so wonderful and seductive, but they are simulation apparatus. They always *represent* something with something else — and so it is easy to be lulled into the sense that we are experiencing, when we are actually living inside the simulations of our different mental states. The more time you spend in non-mind-centered states (non-mind-dominant?), it shifts the mix so that it no longer looks like the mind is everything. I.e., go for a walk, pet a cat, ... ;-)
Good advice!