InfinitasMon, Jan 11, 2010 I really think that these mystical experiences are what so many people have referred to as a connection with god. Basically, it's what spawned religion and many philosophies. I came to this penultimate conclusion after some, and still continuous, intense focus on the nature of existence through personal experience and the gathering of knowledge from far and wide.
What I want to know is how these parallel universes and alternate realities, brought on by drugs and/or naturally-causes, play a part in modern physics, ie dimensions, the multiverse, etc, that is if they do (I think they do). I think that if we can find the keystone for the mind/body spiritual connection, we can then leave our "physical responsibilities". DMT just might be it, though it is only provides a temporary feeling. Besides dying (assuming there is some sort of life after death, ie. heaven/hell, reincarnation, eternal buddhahood postmortem: being free from samsara, etc), how can we reach this world's apparent boundless liberation?
Technology? If mind-uploading and full-time virtual reality becomes real, can the same earnings of buddhahood be recreated for millions, even billions of people in the world? What are the differences between these technological and mystical states? Will we become the infamous, soulless "grey aliens" time traveling to abduct us in search of a real soul? :D
Also, it appears to me that many of us here are working in the first two noble realms found in Mahayana Buddhist cosmology.
I really think that these mystical experiences are what so many people have referred to as a connection with god. Basically, it's what spawned religion and many philosophies. I came to this penultimate conclusion after some, and still continuous, intense focus on the nature of existence through personal experience and the gathering of knowledge from far and wide.
What I want to know is how these parallel universes and alternate realities, brought on by drugs and/or naturally-causes, play a part in modern physics, ie dimensions, the multiverse, etc, that is if they do (I think they do). I think that if we can find the keystone for the mind/body spiritual connection, we can then leave our "physical responsibilities". DMT just might be it, though it is only provides a temporary feeling. Besides dying (assuming there is some sort of life after death, ie. heaven/hell, reincarnation, eternal buddhahood postmortem: being free from samsara, etc), how can we reach this world's apparent boundless liberation?
Technology? If mind-uploading and full-time virtual reality becomes real, can the same earnings of buddhahood be recreated for millions, even billions of people in the world? What are the differences between these technological and mystical states? Will we become the infamous, soulless "grey aliens" time traveling to abduct us in search of a real soul? :D
Also, it appears to me that many of us here are working in the first two noble realms found in Mahayana Buddhist cosmology.