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Where does the universe come from?

Why does the universe exist?

What is the purpose of my existence?

Is there life after death?

Are we alone in the universe?

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“I am preparing for the next world; I am beginning to let go of this one and not grieve or suffer — I know it is all lost, and what I still love, such as music, points me toward the other world. Music, religion and philosophy — for me now they are not experienced as merely the best products of this world but (as in the singing I heard in my dreams) the link with the next. They carry me along and are more beautiful all the time, each and every time more and more part of the next world — I feel it.”

— Philip K. Dick, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

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LMAO! I’ve gotta try this.

A tip to ground yourself in a lucid dream that works everytime...

Is hugging the nearest dream character, I'm talking about don't let go until you feel grounded, being lucid is being inside your subconscious don't be afraid to literally squeeze tf out of them. Oh also tell them to help you stay lucid, thank me later😭.

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If the radical perception of seeing two versions of your body isn’t enough to set your head spinning, let me introduce the concept of simultaneous dreaming shared by lucid dreamer Lucy Gillis. She first encountered the phenomenon in 1988.50 “I had been in two dreams at the same time but not only that, I was lucidly aware of being in the two dreams while they were happening.” She explained that the dreams had equal prominence and her sense of self did not feel split in half, even though she was experiencing herself in two concurrent dreams.

Nover, Lex Lonehood. Nightmareland: Travels at the Borders of Sleep, Dreams, and Wakefulness (p. 249). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

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@suzilight, what an odd coincidence. Just three days ago, I was thinking about the circle and point and how it can serve as an object of meditation to induce enstasy (samadhi), similar in function to a yantra in Tantrayana. It also occurred to me that the circle and point perfectly illustrates the enstatic process, mainly in terms of showing the relation between open/peripheral awareness and single-pointed concentration (dharana).

I lastly considered how it imparts certain cosmological principles—e.g., expansion, contraction, and cyclicity—and their relation to our subjective experience of reality. One thing that I find interesting is that if you stare at the center point long enough, the outer ring disappears.

Shoichi Ida.

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Joscelyn Godwin, Robert Fludd, Hermetic Philosopher and Surveyor of Two Worlds

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"Village Church with Flying Saucer" - Art by Mark Bryan

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One way, then, of regarding luminous apparitions is as images of the soul projected by the soul itself. Jung also remarked on the frequency with which many such apparitions appeared, representing a disintegration and fragmentation of the psyche. These can be seen as "partial souls" which may appear in quite ordinary circumstances. One of his patients dreamt that many shining spheres were hanging in the curtains of her room. Jung interpreted these as split-off fragments of the psyche which were seeking to be reintegrated into the personality in order to attain or restore psychic wholeness. Furthermore, he knew that as long as these fragments remain in a state of projection or "exteriorized," they can produce all kinds of parapsychological phenomena.

Patrick Harpur, Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld

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Many years ago, before the Second World War, I was offered a very lucrative assignment in the Orient, and I prayed for guidance and the right decision as follows: “Infinite intelligence within me knows all things, and the right decision is revealed to me in divine order. I will recognize the answer when it comes.” I repeated this simple prayer over and over again as a lullaby prior to sleep, and in a dream came the vivid realization of things to come three years hence. An old friend appeared in the dream and said, “Read these headlines—do not go!” The headlines of the newspaper, which appeared in the dream, related to war and the attack on Pearl Harbor. Occasionally, the writer dreams literally. The aforementioned dream was undoubtedly a dramatization of the subconscious mind which projected a person whom I trusted and respected.

MURPHY, Dr Joseph, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind. Electronic edition by AsAManThinketh.net. 2005, p. 144.

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Full article at https://www.space.com/the-universe/dark-energy-is-even-stranger-than-we-thought-new-3d-map-of-the-universe-suggests-what-a-time-to-be-alive-video

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The Source [of creativity] is out there. A wisdom surrounding us, an inexhaustible offering that is always available. We either sense it, remember it, or tune in to it. Not only through our experiences. It may also be dreams, intuitions, subliminal fragments, or other ways still unknown by which the outside finds its way inside.

RUBIN, R., The Creative Act. A Way of Being. NY. Penguin Press. 2023, p.16

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Another woman related a self-explanatory dream with symbolic colors that recurred through her adolescence. She said the dream felt both playful and stressful: It was just all these little white dots, and this one black dot. And they would just form all of these various configurations, and the black dot was trying to figure out how to fit into the configurations that the white dots were making.

Shafton, Anthony. Dream Singers: The African American Way with Dreams . Turner Publishing Company. Kindle Edition. Loc. 3472.

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By envisioning a “dream gate,” a sleeper can proceed through this into a shared space, Belanger says, and like in the movie Inception gain access to the dreams of others, particularly those with whom a strong emotional bond is shared.

Nover, Lex Lonehood. Nightmareland (p. 185). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

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Digital artwork by @eliseohz, Eliseo H. Zubiri. [Ref.]

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Katz, D., Grgić, I., Tressoldi, P., & Fendley, T. (2021). Associative Remote Viewing Projects: Assessing Rater Reliability and Factors Affecting Successful Predictions. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. 85(2). 65-90.

Abstract: Associative Remote Viewing (ARV) is a psi-based methodology used by individuals and for-profit organizations to predict such things as sporting-event outcomes, stock market moves, and for research purposes. Documented studies have shown the successful application of psi using ARV to predict future events, leading to profits, and unsuccessful applications, leading to losses. To better understand the contributing factors, 86 completed ARV trials, which included 220 remote viewing transcripts for individual sporting or financial events, were collected. Three teams of judges operating under blind conditions—some working independently, some working as teams—repeated the process of judging, scoring, and predicting, while keeping all other variables stable. To gauge inter-rater reliability, the new scores and predictions were compared to the original scores and predictions, as well as to each other. Rating variance was clearly demonstrated. Judges were in 100% agreement in only six (6.9%) of 86 trials. In seventeen trials (19.7%), eight of nine judges agreed with each other. Original judges did better than all new judges, and judges with more experience obtained statistically significant higher hit rates than less experienced judges. The results were virtually the same for the two ranking scales used. This project points to a variety of factors in need of further testing, both in future ARV projects and in parapsychology projects that involve independent judging of tasks and photosets.