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 No.116296

>sitting on a plane yesterday

>start imagining myself above the plane watching it

>do this for a while because I'm bored

>while I imagine myself above me, I feel something

>I don't know what I felt but it felt holy

>it was like I touched something and then let go

>come out of it for a sec

>go back in and start thinking about a void

>think of it as a big endless hole underground, and when I stopped, I had a miniature existential crisis

>questioned the point of everything I'd ever done

>for a few minutes didn't give a shit about anything material

>spend a good 10 minutes staring down sweating

>listen to some music and calm down

I've never done anything like that before and I don't come here very often, but I would like some help understanding what I did.

 No.116297

>>116296

It's called micro-enlightenment.

Meditate more if you want more.

A warning though that it will indeed shatter your mundane notions and aspirations, which you will see for what they are - petty and fundamentally irrelevant.


 No.116414

>>116297

My mundane notions and aspirations helped bring me out of the existential crisis. For a bit there I did see them as petty and irrelevant, but then I stopped because I didn't think it was a good idea to go down that path. How do I know if it's a good idea to go further?


 No.116415

>>116414

That's okay. That's your psychic censor at work, it serves some critical purposes even if to people on here it can be a pain in the ass. An existential crisis is the exact same thing as a moment of personal revelation and understanding, as seen from a different angle. The difference is interpretation, not content. The trick is to recreate your mental conditions but to invert your interpretation of it. Consider yourself lucky, some people go their entire lives without ever stopping to reflect critically like that, and they're beyond miserable.

In any case, this is good news, it means that for you, this is possible. You only stopped yourself from going further out of self-preservation, but with some practice, you'll be able to have holy moments more often.


 No.116416

>>116415

So I just have to think of it not as a problem but as a way to knowledge? I can do that. Is there anywhere you would recommend me going to read more on the topic? I want to learn a bit more before I do it again. And I am glad that I can do it, it's just I never really tried before so it's new to me.


 No.116418

>>116416

That's a bit of a broad question. Pretty much any resource on psychonautics will do. There was never a definitive text on the subject that I worked off of, this is something I had my personal guides/gurus for. However, I can tell you that what helped me the most was to meditate on the nature of duality. My path on this was Taoist in nature but the premise ought to be the same: Whether something is one way or another depends upon how you interpret it. The stimuli is the same.

Being exposed to something extremely cold feels the same to your body as something extremely hot. Terror and ecstasy are the same sensation interpreted through a different lens. You can switch that lens. Take moments of terror, discomfort, any negative emotion as opportunities for you to practice. One practice which I find immensely useful–to the extent that I would 'identify' with this practice very strongly–is to actually write out a scenario in which you (in the third person, that part is important for various reasons!) undergo the exact same experience, but then write out that this character version of yourself interprets it differently, ideally, however works best for you. It could also work to write out the worst-case scenario or what actually happened if it was particularly bad, and to then rewrite it and compare the two, just so you get a good feeling for it. No joke, this is a powerful practice if you're honing a mystical/magical attitude, this will take you very far and was taught to me by multiple firsthand sources.

Let's say that the experience of being around clowns terrifies me. First, I can write out

"Anon just about shit himself from fear. He had never seen so many clowns in one place before, and he promised to himself that if he got out of this situation alive, he would burn the county fair and everyone in it until nothing remained but ash."

Then, I can write out

"Anon just about pissed himself from laughter. The experience of seeing someone at the nadir of their life experience made him feel immensely better about his own life. He thought back to when he had watched IT as a child, but come to think of it, wasn't Tim Curry also in the Wild Thornberrys? Now all he could think of was Pennywise saying 'Marianne, get the camera!' and with that, he choked on spittle, gasping for air between laughs."

I put some spin on it, it can be way simpler than that, but that's a simple, no-nonsense exercise to help you navigate your reinterpretation of the world.


 No.116455

>>116297

The biggest lie the devil ever told was that anyone can achieve enlightenment


 No.116477

>>116455

fuck off shill




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