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Originally posted by Briles1207
Also, I feel I am as qualified to comment as you, as there is no "fact" here as you say.
So I am not wrong, and cannot be proved as such.
However your pedanticism intrigues me?
Originally posted by playernumber13
Awaken Your Psychic Ability
Hi,
Okay if I'm psychic will I know the powerball numbers next week? Why aren't all of these psychic people living in Vegas or AC? Come on....I'm not buying it.
Originally posted by vivid1975
Oh and one other thing. Oobe's (out of body experience)/astral projection is nothing special.. we all do it every single night, though most of the time we don't remember.
They say keeping a dream diary helps.
The multiverse..other dimensions. .astral projection. ..its just the tip of the iceberg.
Buckle up Dorothy..cause Kansas is about to go bye bye.
Originally posted by TheToastmanCometh
hey sled, would you or anyone know why after one meditates, they get hit with a crushing depression feeling?
for some reason it's happening to me and I'm quite conçerned about it
Originally posted by MrConspiracy
I tried to mediate out of... boredom? some months back. It all got a bit strange and after opening my eyes etc i felt like i was floating for a good 10 minutes. I was TRIPPING out. I still get this sensation every now and again ever since. Have no idea what happened and would rather it never happened again in a way.. hahaha.
Originally posted by sled735
reply to post by PlanetXisHERE
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you, for that reply!
I think you are exactly right about TPB trying to discredit him... because he knows the truth, and he isn't afraid to put it out there! Yea, for David!
Personally, I love this guy, and all he shares with us.
I think you may be talking about the same thing I made a thread on previously...
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Originally posted by Sump3
Mind you all, you are dancing with the snake and yet you forget.
Clean your inner cup and you will be given the outer cup!
In other words: Don't be so forgetful that you only try to better yourself through the world and what the world has to offer you. Better yourself by knowing yourself and tidy up your true self to make you a better you. And maybe, you will get all this without the effort of striving and bringing all your focus upon something that may or may not make you a better you.
Even though you were a "superhuman" with superpowers, how would you handle those powers?
Grow up inside and walk above your mind, emotions and all other senses and acknowledge them as something that is only provided for you to know thyself better.
We are all children of God, some just don't accept it and turn away from him. Some say they are, yet they seek something else. Some recognize him and follow him.
Know the Son of God (your perfect fulfilled self) and you will know him.
Take heed!
Originally posted by U4ea82
reply to post by RaikiEnki
I think the troublesome part is when we start to lump all NDEs into the same category. There have been cases of people who were never religious, seeing religious imagery during their experience. Could it be enviromental conditioning? Certainly that is a possibility, I admit. But if we're using this logic, how do we explain the group NDE cases? It seems unlikely that groups of individuals would experience identical hallucinations, wouldn't you agree? I've never been a religious person, so I have to wonder, if it happened to me....what would I see? Though I'm in no hurry to find out .
But, as I stated before, I'm on the fence regarding the phenomenon as a whole. I could easily argue both sides but that seems counterproductive
Originally posted by iwilliam
Originally posted by Briles1207
Also, I feel I am as qualified to comment as you, as there is no "fact" here as you say.
So I am not wrong, and cannot be proved as such.
However your pedanticism intrigues me?
Response-- Part TWO
There is, however, fact here. Your stating that there is "no fact here" is just a weak and underhanded attempt at claiming you were right all along. The fact is that none of this has been proven, and you made statements claiming unproven hypothesis as fact. Therefore you were, in fact, wrong. Those are, indeed, facts. But instead of graciously accepting that, you seem to want to engage in i-was-right-all-along one-upmanship. It's not a very attractive quality.
Regarding your being "qualified" to comment.... I don't recall saying that you weren't qualified to comment. Did I? (That's a legitimate question-- I scanned my response, but didn't notice it.)
You certainly have a right to comment, regardless of whether your comments are factual. However, if I may treat what you wrote as questioning my opinon about your "qualifications" to comment versus mine:
It seems as though you got your information from some (severely misinformed) internet source. The internet isn't all bad. I have been studying this very topic using the internet as a resource for about a decade now. But aside from spending the last ten years reading about this stuff online, I have also read Dr. Strassman's book which you clearly have not done.
Furthermore, I have.... let's say an "intimate" knowledge of this molecule that goes well beyond what a book can tell you. Of course, that particular fact doesn't really make me any more qualified to comment on anything beyond its subjective effects (which sort of does actually tie in with the topic at hand.) It doesn't, of course, make me more qualified to comment on the science, or the facts. Reading strassman's book, as well as other scholarly and well-written works on the subject over many years of casual study, are what qualify me to speak intelligently and authoritatively in that regard.
I recommend, if this is something that interests you, that you actually do what most of the know-it-alls on the internet haven't-- pick up Dr. Strassman's book and get the info straight from the horse's mouth. Read a few papers / articles that were written by someone more qualified than "some guy" on the internet. Then you can speak with authority and few will be able to correct you.
And last, to briefly return to this point-- I have no problem with unsubstantiated speculation. In fact, I LOVE it! I would just prefer that when people engage in unsubstantiated speculation, they make clear that this is what they're doing. To be fair, you were not aware that's what you were doing. You weren't aware, because you took the word of "some guy" on the internet as truth. So I guess that one's a lesson in better checking your sources. Not the biggest deal in the world-- I've made mistakes in that regard as well. I'm sure we all have.
I just think there's enough speculation out there masquerading as fact, and I think we should all do our part to correct that. Especially when it comes to sensitive topics like this. You really want some kid out there saying "... but I tried it 'cause Briles told me it was the best way to access my pineal gland, open my third eye, and become psychic?"
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Originally posted by Scribe611
Originally posted by TheToastmanCometh
hey sled, would you or anyone know why after one meditates, they get hit with a crushing depression feeling?
for some reason it's happening to me and I'm quite conçerned about it
My personal take on it is having to return to this reality after having a wonderful experience meditating. I've often said that everyday awareness is a poor cousin to the awareness we experience during meditation. Instead of "I am my body, I am aware of my surroundings," during meditation we shift to "I am more than my body, I am unaware of my surroundings," and we lose the "and then... and then" processes of our distracted minds.
I keep a meditation journal too (I keep a dream journal, providing I can wake up that much)
Some of the places I've been to on these mental journeys are beautiful beyond compare. Colors seem so vivid they're almost alive. And before you ask, no I don't use any chemicals to get there. Just soft, relaxing music (native american flutes work best for me), a dark room and adjusting my breathing down a bit.
Not to detract from the comments about having a somewhat negative view on life... I actually fit that description as well, but I'm getting better all the time. Or maybe I'm just getting older and don't give a rat's patootie any more!