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Experiencing Sleep Paralysis - Out of body experience

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:15:23 -0600

When I was a teenager I was able to learn to use sleep paralysis as a gateway to lucid dreams and out of body experiences. When I was a kid sleep paralysis was absolutely terrifying because I didn't understand what it was. I thought I was some sort of freak and was afraid to approach adults about my experiences. But as I grew older I started going to the library to research the topic and realized that it was related to other strange, spontaneous phenomena, namely out of body experience and lucid dreaming, that I was experiencing. I soon learned to embrace these skills as gifts rather than disorders and have even learned to have OBEs and lucid dreams at will. As I grew into an adult, other concerns took over and I'd experienced fewer and fewer episodes of SP, OBE, and LD. Now I kinda miss them since I spend a third of my life sleeping, and I feel that a lot of that is going to waste if I cannot harness these abilities.

Religion is the Root of all Evil - TJ

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:22:10 -0600

Great post Andrew. I agree with 100%. It's unfortunate that we can't gather everyone together and discuss the obvious logic, common sense and blatant scientific proof of your post. Religion thrives via human emotions, not from truth or fact. Miracles, personal enlightenments and other emotional experiences are attributed to 'God' by people as proof he exists. Of course these people are oblivious to the fact that other people all over the world have the same experiences and attribute it to their God or something else entirely.

What Happens When You Die - Joey

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:11:39 -0600

"Death does not exist. Death is an illusion. Death is birth to a greater awareness."
Well put, I love this ending.

Religion is the Root of all Evil - Tina

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:41:13 -0600

I am amazed that I am only the 2nd comment here...That article was fabulous! It couldn't be more accurate. Religion, Nationalism,Competition are the three evils from which our suffering comes. How did you get so smart?...no, really..how?

What Happens When You Die - Ryan

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:13:21 -0600

This theory makes a lot of sense to me, especially when I look at all the people's experiences of the after life and how identical they are to each other.

What's the Difference Between Lucid Dreaming and Astral Projection - Greg

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:14:30 -0600

Having experienced both I completely agree with you on this subject. I have had some amazing lucid dreams but experiencing astral projection is unlike any other.

21 Tips on How to be More Creative - Yash Aswani

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:19:33 -0500

Great list. :-) Although many of us knew all these things, still you contributed your best by creating a handy list. AsI am also a writer and photographer(also noob musician :-P)
I kne many of these. But two of them struck my eyes one is "Never Consume and Produce Simultaneously" which i wold say is a great idea. would surely try it and the other one is "Dreaming" whichi would ike you to abstract moe on.

-Yash-

Why Does Evil Exist - Yash Aswani

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:21:10 -0500

Well accordingg to me the theory of balance is true. Based on books of philosphy I have read , major point of ssion is the balance theory only.
Well, as far has i have observed, the amount of evil and good is variable. It changes according to the environment we face and according to the people we meet.

In this case negative joins negetive to increase!!

Good post by the way!! ;-)

Why I'm Not a Christian - Jeff

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:44:46 -0500

I'm going to create man and woman
with original sin. Then im going to
impregnate a woman withmyself as
her child, so that I can be born. Once
alive, I will kill myself as a sacrifice
to myself. To save you from sin
I originally condemned you to.
Jesus

Why I'm Not a Christian - Jeff

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:33:52 -0500

Chistianity:
The belief that a cosmic
Jewish Zombie can make you
live forever if you symbolically
eat his flesh and telepathically
tell him that you accept him
as your master, so he can
remove an evil force from your soul
that is present in humanity becuase
a rib-woman was convinced by a
talking snake to eat from a magical tree.

Makes perfect sense...

21 Tips on How to be More Creative - Austin

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:22:26 -0500

This is probably one of the most comprehensive lists on creativity that I have found. Thank you and keep up the great work

YOU are the Change This World Needs - Jeff

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:14:05 -0500

WOW!!! I was wondering when you would post somthing like this! You took the words right out of my mouth and made it A hundred times better! I just hope were not the only ones who feel this way. Slowley but surely we change, lets just hope its for the greater good of mankind.... This has to be one of the best threads I have read yet! Keep on it bro, Im with you 110%!!!

Why I'm Not a Christian - Andrew Manley

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:57:47 -0500

I find it very ironic that we can have the exact same thoughts and
views on life and those thoughts are what makes me view christianity
as very wrong and makes you view it as right. I totally and completley
agree with you on a lot of the points that you said but it is those
points that deter me away from any religion.

I totally agree with you that the main purpose of life is love, love
and growth. But I view christianity, and most other religions as being
based off of fear, which is the exact opposite of love.

If we look at the first part of the bible, the old testiment, it shows
god as a jealous and angry God. It teaches us that if we don't follow
the laws of moses then God will get very angry and punish us. In the
old testiment God kills direclty over 300,000 people and indirectly
over a million people. It teaches us to be fearful of the lord and
follow his orders or you will suffer his wrath.

If we disregard the evil in the old testiment, as most christians do
because jesus came down and sacraficed himself for us so we are now
under the blood if we accept him and not under the law, then we can
look at just the new testiment. Although jesus did preach about love,
he preached on the subject of hell more than any other subject. A
religion telling us that if we don't believe what they believe then we
will be tortured forever is based off of fear and not love.

The concept of time and reality is also another thing that deters me
from religion. You were describing how the two dimensional objects
could not percieve a three dimensional object due to their limited
perseption and limited awareness. Just as those two dimentional
objects cannot percieve things out of their own awareness, we can not
percieve anything out of our own limited awareness. This is why I
think the question of whether or not we were created or evolved is
completley irrevelant. We are trying to ask and understand that
concept from the confines of our perception of time and reality, which
are illusuions due to our limited perseption and awareness.

But I do not believe that we are physical beings stuck in this
physical plane. We are multi-dimensional spiritual beings inside of a
physical vessel, our bodies, which is nothing more than dust. So as
spiritual beings, we are able to evolve and grow and expand our
limited perseption and awareness. This why buddhists and other people
meditate and practice living a life of compasion and growth. They are
trying to expand their awareness, their consciousness. When you raise
your level of awareness you are no longer imprisioned by the confines
of your lower limited perseption. This allows you to understand your
true nature more, it allows you to understand God more.

I also find some of your views of christianity interesting because its
different than most of the traditional views. I also believe in
different levels of hell depending on what we have done in this life
but also different levels of heaven. The traditional christian belief
is that there is one heaven and one hell and we are sent there not by
our works and what we have done but by the blood of jesus. But the
bible is vague so there are many ways you can interpret it.

All in all I don't think that it really matters about what you believe
in this life but more about how you live your life that's more
important. The reason why I'm against most religions is because
religion mainly teaches people that they are the only ones that are
right and that every other view of life is wrong. This is what creates
war and suffering and people always clashing with each other thinking
their belief is the right one.

Is what I really like is the fact that you don't try to push and argue
with me your view like most people do cuz like you said that will get
us nowhere but us arguing. I like that you try to show a different
perspective and way of thinking and that is all I'm doing also. Just
a different view.

Why I'm Not a Christian - Dane

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:50:03 -0500

I was just going to leave you some feedback on what I've read so far. Its obvious you put a lot of thought and time into this. I really think with your interest in the field of religion you can find the real answers to your questions. Whats mostly true in a case like this would be you or me kind of attacking each others views a defending our own. And really not getting anywhere because lets face it, nothing we say to each other is going to impact the others beleifs. So for your mind to except a change in your current belief structure it would take some major discoveries such as the last confusions you've had. With that said I'll proceed with my view on "why you are not a Christian."

Since you know the Bible fair enough I'm not going to reference unless you'd like. There are many Christians that have a "blind faith" the uneducated kind = bad representation for someone looking for answers to your type of questions. How ever blind faith I consider to be a quality (cause face it, if the bibles true and someone was just lucky enough to know its true and never question it they would be set for eternity right?)

So, since you say what is the purpose of life in Christianity, I would say love is the purpose of our whole existance. Remeber when I was asking you if you beleive in evolution or Creation? I beleive evolution has been disproved so creation is the only way in my mind. If you think about human creation (between humans) why do you think people (that actually do plan on having a baby) want to bring a child into this world? Boredom? Carry on the family name? For the most case women lose their names and have to deal with pregnancy and birth so why would they do it. Yet many do it multiple times. If a child is conceived on purpose its an act of love. One thing i'm sure we can both agree on is that people are not perfect, no one. You know the bible calls our imperfection "Sin" before the fall of man, Adam was created in God's image. We weren't, we were created in Adams image post fall, I think its a key that Angels/Adam are considered sons of god, and everyone else is considered sons of man. However when god made Adam he was perfect, in which could not have been for any other reason than love because he gave him free will. I beleive its hard to love someone or something if they have no choice in the matter. So since we had this freewill and we blew it there's the curse in which we all owe a debt to. We "shall surely die" right? So thats what our lives are about, man was created from love. We blew it, a curse on man and his seed. Out of love God sought mans redemption, free will gets in the way of our redemption. I think you probably have questions in the realm of why would god do this or that, I can help Answer any of those questions but the real way to find out is to read the old testament thouroughly. Alot of people that have trouble in the areas of why god allows certain thing to happen or why doesn't he do this or that. The truth is God may not be what people want him to be, or do what people think he should do. He is who is (which is great in my thoughts because we've seen what people think should be done and whatnot) But how do you really know someone? By them being called your friend or your brother? Your girlfriend, your mom or your dad? You know them from things you've learned about them, some things you know so well about them you can anticipate their reaction or action at certain times or most of the time. So if you know about how god operates alot of those questions clear up because you can see whats been done and anticipate on what will be done. All that really goes hand in hand with be "fruitful and multiply" and "love each other, as I have loved you." Anyway thats my view on what our lives are all about.

The God is Omniscient trouble.
This is a really good question in which I have spent alot of time on and hope I can give you some insight. We spoke a bit breifly about extra demensions of time and space. Einsteins theory of relativity says that time and space are relative. Before this discovery it was always thought to be a 3 demensional world this added time as a demension. Years and throughout more discoveries, it is known by science and mathmaticians that there are 10 demensions discovered. I've learned in this study that people that can deal with this are mathmiticians with special training and small childeren. But the one way i've learned to deal with it is by going down a demension rather than up. If you were to take two demensional (space demensions) characters, just like stick figures on a peice of paper and try to show them something 3 demensional they would have no idea what you are talking about. you show them a cube and they'd see a square. One way would you could try is to unravel the cube until it turned two demensional, just unfold it, they still couldn't see what to do with it (they've acually done that with a 4 demensional cube its called a tesseract if you wanna look it up) Anyway the point is because you enjoy this 3rd space demension you can be more intimate with these characters than they could be with each other.
You could touch inside this stick mans head when they would have alot more barriers in their perception of serface area. So if the math and science are correct, I'm sure that God is not limited by the space and time demensions
we are. And its not coincidence the bible says his time is not our time. Also there's no way to tell if its always been like this for man. Its unknown if Adam and Eve were confined in these demensions pre curse
because the curse stated for those reasons the serpent would lye on its belly and man would bruise his heal and serpents head. Before this there was no pain, no bruising...that we know anyway. So i'de say the only evil
that came out of this was our own. How many times have we deliberately done something you were asked not to do? Also a good book to read on the subject is called Beyond The Comsmos

The Free Will one (this is my last one this letter, but I'll write again)
This also has to do with the space time and love, Being outside of space time, knowing the beggining from end doesn't mean you are pre destined. Sure god knows what choices you are going to make. Yet he still leaves you
the choice to make. Going back to creation out of love, God wants your companionship, we split ourselves from God, he redeems us we deny the gift and choose to be parted from God then he's gonna twist your arm.
Its a decision everyone gets to make. Aot of people have trouble with this too because the question comes up of how God being all loving can put people to hell. We did that ourselves by seperating from god on our own
behalf. Also the bible says there are different places in hell, (Judas gets his own place) Judgement day goes off the works of everyone not written in the book of life, since some people are more evil than others they must be judged
differently or God wouldn't judge everyone. Because of your free will, you can say you freely choose to be for god or against god, which is what you are doing now. I just want you to know what I think about your questions.

How to Find Truth - Jeff

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:18:29 -0500

I didnt know where to put this clip, but here seems as good as any...

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What is God? - Jeff

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:53:29 -0500

Correct me if I'm wrong, but what you're describing is very similar to what Ralph Waldo Emerson called the Over-soul. "We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul." -The Over-soul

God is a metaphor for the unknown. It is a lazy term.

Why I'm Not a Christian - Jeff Gober

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:44:47 -0500

Thats some deep thinking there. I'll have to totaly agree with you on everything. I was also raised in a christian church until I was 18... I can relate to your experiences as well. I even looked into Budism, scientology, and mormonism. All seemed to have the same basic concept as the other, that in itself should prove your accusations above. Im under an impression that the Christian God is playing a chess game with the devil, and our lives are at stake. Thats just not the motivation we need, why would anyone believe in a God who clearly, positivley,truley, with out a doubt, is an unjust one?

How to Find Truth - Jeff Gober

Sat, 30 May 2009 19:59:24 -0500

Resolution

Let then our first act every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:
I shall not fear anyone on earth.
I shall fear only God.
I shall not bear ill with tward anyone.
I shall not submit ti injustice from anyone.
I shall conquer untruth by truth.
And in resisting untruth,
I shall put up with all suffering...
Mahatma Gandhi

How to Find Truth - Jeff

Fri, 29 May 2009 13:10:04 -0500

If you think about life, and all our needs/wants, they dont amount up to what we alrerady have. Friends, family, education, relationships, feelings, memories, dreams, and hopes... We live in one of the most prosperous and economical contries on the planet. But politics< government, and religion keep us from reaching the best we could be. theres so much confusion and unknowingness. Material posetions come and go as fast as monday starts and sunday ends a new beggining... Emotions such as love, hate, or fear are cuased by people and their influence in and on our lives. Most people need other people to accomplish self satisfacation. But there are many different people in this world with many different opinions. To unfold each own personal opinion, their aspect will teach them how to live life...The little thoughts in the back of our minds, such as questions, or unsolved problems in areas in our life are already answered. There should be NO what if? why? maybe? or i dont know? Those four thoughts only cloud and distrupt our true knowingness inside... There is a hevan and ther is a hell, but thats all we know. There is so much more than life after death.Ther are multiple lives, outcomes, realities, gateways, or dimentions. But theres a lock that keeps us from getting there, and only realizing truth can give us the key...Truth isnt right or wrong, or black and white. There are many aspects and veriations of colors that are unreachable in our minds..." True it is, without falsehood, certain and most true. That which is above is like that which is bellow, and that which is bellow is like that which is above. To accomplish the miricales of the one thing, and as all things were by the cotemplation of the one, so all things arose from this one thing by a single act of adaptation..." Nostradamus... To me life is like a box of crayons. It dosnt matter if were given the 12pack, 16pack, or 24. It depends on the person and what they do with those colors to live life. Who says we have to color inside the lines? Or use certain spacific colors for certain spacific things? I say color outside the lines, hell, color off the whole page! Life is too short to do what people expect of us, or want us to do. We have to live life day by dat becuase tommorow is never guarnteed.... Throughout histery many people have sought out some way, some how to contact the inner spiritual universe. Often through dreams or visions, which protect the contents of the unconsious mind into consious world. But the material world in which we dwell is only one manifstation of an infinte number of possible realities. Our modern world is the product of our collective vision. A mechanical, destuctive one. By changing our internal vision(our dreams) we can sow the seeds of change that will bring into being a better reality. I heard once, "The dream not only drives the action, it also guides the action... I think we can all agree on one thing, the world is as uyou dream it!

Religion is the Root of all Evil - Darani Poonpoolpoke

Thu, 21 May 2009 08:13:35 -0500

I'm sure glad I'm not the only one who feels the same way. I'm raised a Bhuddist, and taught to be accepting, sharring, caring, not to discrimminate, etc..so idk.. But I'm still not religious. The way I see it. I'm not following it cuz I believe in the religion itself, but the reason of it. I'm not too sure how to explain and really wish to be able to...lol sorry, I'm short of vocabulary.