haha, thanks for the compliment, may the light shine upon you.

Well, I don't know if you all are able to accept this, but I am willing to put this out here for you to digest in the hope that you will ponder this and attempt to master your essences as well.

Have any of you wondered why sometimes information just seems to flow into your mind? It feels true, and you for some reason know it to be, but it just appears randomly and is about things that you just really can't say that you knew prior to its appearance? Well I figured out what that is. The collective unconsciousness. Yes, not only is it the blending of minds and how all beings respond to symbolism in a similar fashion, but it is an infinite reservoir of information, real and unreal.

Every last bit of information that exists in every dimension and reality is there somewhere. Personalities, beings of great knowledge and power, information, memories, possibly even entire civilizations (past, present, and future), are present and from time to time, even everyday people accidentally access it for a moment and acquire a bit of that infinite information. How does one access it purposefully might you ask? Simply put, you clear your mind as you focus your mental energies to expand your consciousness and ask for access.

I first stumbled upon this as I would naturally get that random insight from time to time, and then I tried seeing if there actually was a Digital Web and I actively tried to uplink to it. Mind you my love of science fiction is quite apparent and I never did find that, but the deeper my connection grew the more information about life, the universe, and existence seemed to just pop into my mind.

Now, accessing something like the collective unconsciousness is a great responsibility, and it took me a long time to understand what the deeper implications of it are. There are a few basic ground rules to really getting the best out of such a resource. First, when asking for information, it is best to ask rather than demand. No one has to share, but the information (anything literally) is free to those who ask in a polite, respectful way.

Second, always ask in terms of what you NEED and what is BEST. For many years I had always tried to figure why in D&D or in TV and movies when people received wishes, something always went horribly wrong. Well it boils down to is that people when given an option to ask for something, they ask for what they want and what people want can always be left up to interpretation.

For instance, when asking a genie "I want this person to love me", he says "PRESTO!" and this amazing (or so you thought) woman or man falls permanently in love with you, and soon afterwards you find you can't even go to the bathroom without this person trying to smother you. Bad deal. But if one were to ask El Crapo the Genie "I am very much lonely and I want you to grant me exactly what I need to best alleviate my loneliness". You never know what you might receive, but it will always be better than just demanding someone to fall in love with you. Maybe a poodle appears, or he gives you the address to a dating website where you meet a wonderful person whom you really care about and become steadfast friends for life.

This is the only way one can use such a wealth of information safely and effectively without suffering horrific consequences. Just ask for what you need to know in the best possible way and you will get what you need. Asking for the perfect thing will rarely net you the results you want or need, as what is perfect? The perfect dessert to you may be a slice of cherry pie with vanilla ice cream, to me it may be tapioca pudding with a smile from my server, and to a Klingon it could very well be moving!

Perfect is a concept that means something different to everyone, ask for the perfect anything from El Crapo, and I guarantee it will be horrific (perfection to him is watching you suffer horribly, perhaps). Best is what best is, the best dessert for you is what it is, or the best way to comfort your friend..

...is the best way to comfort your friend. Look, honestly I want anyone who believes me and wishes to attempt to directly make contact to seriously think this through. It can be a life changing experience, but remember your perceptions of reality can be seriously hampered by what you choose to learn. Ever hear of secrets that man was never meant to know? Well they exist. Who knows what they are, I would rather not know. But if you ask, especially in the worst way, then you could very well end up in a padded room talking to Homer Simpson, and Wonder Woman.

Think of it like this, there are infinite alternate realities and every thing you have ever imagined or have seen on TV, Movies, read in books, or played on video games exists somewhere in some fashion in some dimension. Don't believe me if you don't want to. However, these realities can be accessed mentally through the collective unconsciousness, and the problem is that if you try contacting individual personalities through it, you will most likely get a response, but you never know if it is really that person, or is just your mind creating a replica of what you believe that personality to be like.

Everyone knows how Superman would behave if you contacted him mentally, or Homer Simpson for that matter. Why would you contact them otherwise? Therein lies the danger. What if it is Homer Simpson? Oh joy, you just contacted one of the biggest idiots in existence. What if it is something else? It is difficult to tell. Other beings tend to avoid using names and tend to just grant abilities and knowledge. That is a better bet. Doesn't make them your friends, doesn't make them your enemies.

EBEs are another possibility to contact if you try. No guarantees either. Even if you do contact these people, and they know how, but why would they want to visit you if they know that you can't come to them?

All I am saying is be careful. there is so much to learn and accessing the collective unconsciousness is a way to propel your evolution, but everything has a cost, and if you are childish, immature or just plain foolish, you stand to lose your sanity and everything with it. With knowledge comes power and the responsibilities associated with them. But seeking the best way to understand this gift I am offering you is really the best and safest way to utilize it. Please, either disregard all that I have said, or take it very seriously, please for your own sake.

I know that one day I will be intact with my spirtual self. But for now I can't meditate as much as I want to. I live in the middle of Chicago. I sometimes go to the park, then relax outside. At home, my family bothers me. I'm not old enough to move out yet either. I feel like im very important sometimes, spiritually important. Soon I'll be able to contact my spirtual bonds.

I have been reading on this site for about a year now, and although many of the topics are interesting, I have never been complelled to comment until now. A few months ago I had this really strange dream, in my dream I was being led to a pyramid like structure and what I believe to be Mayan people were taking me there. A large and heavily painted man placed a small bird in my left hand, and balled my fist around it. I somehow knew to hold it firmly, and take the knife he was giving me into my right hand and sacrifice the bird. The bird closed it's eyes and I felt that it knew and accepted the fate it was dealt. When I awoke after this dream, I have never felt the same again. It left me with an aching for the rest of the world, feeling sorry for them that no one gets it. I knew even before I looked up a dream interpretation that this dream meant I was awakened spiritually. Not awaked to start going to church or anything like that, but I am so aware of the world and it's path now. Almost everything in my life feels petty and small now, except the things that count, love of people and animals, I am no longer eating any meat, I listen deeply to everyone and what they say is usually meaningless, but they need someone to listen. I feel strongly like the world is either speeding up or slowing down, something is happening and I wonder if anyone else can feel it. To me I can see that people are really dead inside their meaningless lives, but if I try to talk to them about coming to terms with the whole 'we are the trees and the air' thing they just think I am nuts. But they are the ones who don't get it. Yes something is about to happen, men and women are waking up to the feeling of it, recently my extremely skeptical husband told me he keeps having this feeling of impending doom, or like something is going to happen that is catastrophic, but he shakes it off and thinks my thoughts about becoming more in tune with earth are off. He thinks there is an explaination for his feelings like depression or something like that. I don't know if any of you are experiencing anything like what I am, but my very soul tells me the rug is about to be jerked out from under us, yet somehow earth itself will save us and provide again, but only on it's terms.

You know, I have found it extremely hard to embrace the concept of mediation. Once in a great while I will achieve a purely meditative state and they are beautiful, but for the most part I have had to accept that meditation is just usually not my cup of tea. Really, if meditation costs you more energy than it grants to you, or if you consider it a chore to even find the time to do so, then find other ways to embrace your spirituality.

I find giving a dollar to a homeless person far more uplifting than meditation in general. Or just try philosophizing through out your day. Trying to understand your self and your life doesn't require meditation. That is just one way to do it, and it really works for some, but for hyper spaz-matics like myself, the peacefulness of intellectual thought has served me far better.

Even playing a stress free video game can bring you into a higher state of consciousness (note I said stress FREE, throwing your gaming system out the window or hitting your cat with the controller is not enlightening!). Much of life is how you look at it, and forcing meditation on yourself when you have infinite options is probably not the best solution. If you honestly have to force meditation on your self, getting peace of mind from it will be more difficult at best, but if you get a lot out of it then do it anyways (I would probably pass out, but that can be constructive as well).

What many new-agers fail to realize is that enlightenment and mysticism is never one size fits all, and that is exactly how a lot of those over the counter magic and spiritualism books seem to come off as. Yes, they certainly can and do work, but not for everyone. I once bought a book entitled "More Simplified Magic" and it turned out to be this hyper complex Kabbalah magic book that I had to struggle with just to get a few pages into at any one time. Mind you it had all sorts of very valuable information in it, but it was like digesting tanned yak leather and I did not make much use of it.

My point is, if meditation is a chore, or is hard to do with your lifestyle, then find something enlightening that you can do within your life. Meditation works, but not for every person and lifestyle. Follow your heart, feelings, and plain old common sense, and you will find something that does meet your requirements in the way you need it to. Whatever that is.

It has been observed, newer generations of Humans are easily more expanded than the last in regards to processing information and skills, a higher consciousness to a degree. The youth of today have great spiritual potential and are very likely to lean toward such a lifestyle if there was no exposure to heavy materialistic influence. Then there are youths who are more expanded than others, broken off from the materialistic cycle of society to contemplate on the betterment of Humanity.

I can see that obvious quality in you Darcon

By the way I'm only 2 1/2 weeks younger than you

Great thread.

I just want to thank every soul that has come here to offer guidance and opinions. Especially the people who have come here to just unload and tell us their story. It is very comforting to see how many people out there are feeling this, keep it up.

Thanks man, i like your take on it. Very influential. Like you said it could probably be proven in the scientific community, but they have to have a open mind to do that I will find balance, i have come far, and i am not about to stop.

I think you will find that a lot of members on this site feel the same way. I certainly do. At first I suspected that I was being contacted by extraterrestrials, but I now look at the phenomenon as a kind of increase of energy of a certain kind hitting us as a planet, and many of us are very sensitive to it. In the last three years, and the last few months in particular, I feel like my personality has been reset, and I have lost a lot of the negativity and hang-ups that lingered around me for a long time. My dreams are full of strange visions, my inner-voice is constantly talking to me about the importance of love and the commitment to making love an actuality, about the importance of loyalty and humility and hope. I am noticing weird synchronicities in my life, I have begun to be able to see auras, and I swear that I can sometimes--although it is not within my control--read peoples' minds, or they are reading mine—hard to tell. Meanwhile, I feel far more loving towards mankind and the planet. I have come to understand the universe in ways that I never thought possible. I would say that--if this is happening to a lot of people, which I think it is--we are truly at the start of a new period of human history. I think that we are coming of age as citizens of the universe. The main message seems to be: let go of your fear and embrace love, and you will find yourself actualized.


[edit on 18-2-2008 by Silenceisall]

Hmm, past lives.

I don't believe I should talk to much about this, but they unlock themselves quite naturally if you let them. Well there are ways, but ATS moderators would not approve of me endorsing some of the methods to do so, they aren't necessary, and can be dangerous if abused, not to mention the past lives flow randomly. Although I have embarked on spirit quests (gaining my spirit name), trials of self betterment, and even how idiotic and irresponsible I can be, but I changed my life irrevocably in amazing ways that shot my development forward so quickly I could feel it.

It didn't solve my problems and created more than a few, but I learned a lot.
I believe I have lived 6800 lives before my expansion. Now, it doesn't matter in the way I thought it did. Enough said, I better not go in to the specifics of my past lives, maybe in a few years.