mike

“So when we offer people our thoughts and prayers, is that a form of lucid dreaming?”

Maybe???

My rabbit is named “Harvey” so I can answer this…yes really…I have three rabbits: Pixie, Chichi and Harvey. Harvey is the old one who kept waking me up.

Prayers=mediation=yoga=hallucinogenic experience=NDE=Tapping=Cybernetic Transpo…[Read more]

Well now that you mention it…I haven’t given up on the idea…

…Had a burning bush appeared and started talking, had some entity given me some knowledge I could not possibly have learned in this life-time, had I awoken with the power to bring back the dead…I certainly would have posited this as evidence. Unfortunately, the banality of my e…[Read more]

Funny you mention a rabbit because that may have had a lot to do with the experience at least this time.

My sleep was disturbed. It was 4 am and one of my rabbits, who is real old and partially paralyzed in the hind-quarters, was in distress. So, I was sleeping in his room for the hour and a half before my alarm went off. Each of the six times I…[Read more]

Yes, good old Deepak…not on my list because he is a person who reasons with clever but fallacious arguments using the language of Physics to baffle with bullshit: the ultimate sophist. You can accuse me of that and I would accept the criticism as a “maybe”…because sophistry is sort of like day-dreaming out-loud…isn’t daydreaming allow…[Read more]

First everything I propose here is based on years of digesting a vast array of podcasts, lectures, debates, studies and books. Nothing I am about to say comes from personal experience. I try to meditate, but never get anywhere…I try hallucinogens, but never enough to achieve a disconnect. I have never had a near-death experience(NDE). However, I…[Read more]

Somehow the main idea I was trying to convey was lost in the abyss of subjective experience. “Cognition and “religious”, “spiritual”, or “hallucinogenic” visions are to people like “air and breathing”. The history of theism is integral to Homo sapiens. The reason we evolved parallel to belief in a higher power is because of this weird ability of…[Read more]

Ok…very interesting…you have had more experiences of the disconnect sort than anyone I have talked to personally… so when I ask the following questions please be aware I seek only education and in no way am I refuting your experience. The point is then that they are not always reported as subjective…

1: Have you heard about the…[Read more]

Its easy to prove the existence of something in the cosmos that is referred to as God by the religious. Just take some DMT. Just do a high-dose acid-trip, (Dr. Christopher Bache) or over five grams of magic-mushrooms or peyote. Talk to a Shaman or a Guru: a practitioner of meditation who has achieved nirvana. Just ask the 100,000 people-per-year…[Read more]

Thx… Its my new/original theory; but placing it within a fictional tale (even though I believe it to be more plausible than any other alien theory I’ve heard)…I like this technique. It allows you to say just about anything without having to fact check and has just enough reality and truth to make you wonder…

Mike

PopeBeanie wrote:

“When does consciousness start is a big question”

…apparently it starts with a quark… but becomes real obvious in a nervous system…

Check out…

http://www.deanradin.org/

Dr. Dean Radin is the man to go to for any final word on the subject of consciousness…He is at the forefront of consciousness research…remember the dou…[Read more]

“– you still haven’t said what it is that is changing: what property or aspect of consciousness goes up or down a continuum. Do you mean, more or less consciously aware, seen, known, identified, thought about.”

In the above example, I have just listed half a dozen states of (changing) awareness = consciousness.
Yes, I mean, more or less con…[Read more]

“- I feel this idea is confused, because you haven’t said what defines one level as being different from another. “Lower” or “higher” in what way?”

Ok, good point; please allow me to clarify.

Think of a pond in your backyard. As you step in the level will go up, but will change to a lower level when you remove your wet foot. As well, the level…[Read more]

“As for bacterial consciousness, that’s a bit too far back for me to connect with.”

Its not that really far back…yes my model suggest countless levels that go back to the original quantum particles that we are evolved from but…

Perhaps connect this way…let me ask you the same question I asked Simon Paynton…

At what stage does a sperm a…[Read more]