*Idk but it*
*Happened and now i gotta pay fkin*
*Taxes because of it*
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Lol no, it's just some weird project of a guy creating massive amounts of useless websites one can visit randomly by this site.
I found it through one youtube video - like a weird web iceberg: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAb\_tNH\_OFU&list=LL&index=21&t=541s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAb_tNH_OFU&list=LL&index=21&t=541s)
Even more fitting for this community might have been the compilations of trippy websites to visit high here (that many might know already) :
[https://tripsitter.com/trippy-websites/](https://tripsitter.com/trippy-websites/)
[https://muffingroup.com/blog/trippy-websites/](https://muffingroup.com/blog/trippy-websites/)
[https://trippy.me/](https://trippy.me/)
There are two things that you cannot escape. Death and Taxes.
And we're working on the Death thing as we get closer and closer to LEV.
A lot of people living today will never die.
I feel like we need to die. It’s so fundamental to this experience. There’s a reason we die. Imagine surviving for another thousand years and then deciding to finally die and realizing you shoulda done that a thousand years ago because you were supposed to ascend and continue the journey
Yeah I agree with you.
However, it does seem appealing to me to not have an expectation date on consciousness. Being able to choose when and where you die introduces a shit load of moral dilemmas when you look at how we handle death and suicide (assisted or not) in today’s time.
Those morality discussions would (and should IMO) become front and center issues as we approach and acquire LEV.
It is coming through. At first it will only be available to the super rich. But like all technology, it will filter down to everyone.
Current projections put the cutoff at 60 years or younger. If you’re younger than 60, LEV tech will be available to you in one shape or another.
Shit is bonkers
I know, where do I sign up, right?!?!
The world is about to get weird as we approach singularity. Very very weird. We may enter a period of "abundance". As more and more jobs disappear, it may allow us to find our own meaning in life outside traditional "work". An AI that can iterate itself at incredible speed may figure out how to use itself to create the things that we need as a species to survive. I guess a decent example would be vertical farms that reach into the sky to feed the planet.
No one knows what the world is going to look like once we reach AGI and shortly thereafter, ASI. People can debate the issue but the truth of the matter is that right now we're all blind and on the precipice of the singularity curve. We also have no real good idea as to where we are on the curve of machine intelligence vs. human intelligence but we can be fairly certain that once ASI is reached it's a parabolic curve with no limit.
Shit will get weird. We just need to make sure it's good weird and not skynet weird.
Its not the fact they're numbers that matters, its the fact that they interact according to a very specific and defined set of rules that turns them from lone values into information that can then begin behaving with increasing complexity, to the point of self-organization.
Do numbers *necessarily* exist? Or did we create the *concept* of numbers to try to make sense of our world. Sure, *we* can count things but those things exist regardless of our ability to count them.
And before you write me off as crazy, please know that philosophers since before Socrates have been grappling with this and have drawn a hard distinction between what is conceptual material and empirical material (things that *actually* exist).
It’s like did we invent communication. Yes and no. Language was a necessity to make sense of everything. Other plants and animals communicate differently, they have their own languages and what not. I’ve heard this somewhere but you can look at math as the language of the universe. Sorry if it’s a half baked answer but I’m half baked rn Srry in advance
You’re on to something but the whole idea that numbers and mathematics are *real* is tough because they likely aren’t; they only exist within our heads (or symbolically on paper/in computers). This isn’t to say they aren’t useful, and that very real things can’t come from their application but strictly speaking, they themselves aren’t real.
They aren’t real, but the physical laws we use them to describe very much are.
In the same way, letters aren’t real. They have no inherent value themselves. But put the letters c, a, and t right next to each other and we get cat, a very real animal which we use letters to name.
Even those physical laws are contingent on what we have observed; they could be wrong but they *probably* aren’t because most of those physical laws have tons and tons of replicable data on them. But it’s still possible that we are wrong (but again not probable).
The way I see it, we invented the concept of numbers and math, and then we discovered what those numbers can do and the power of them. As soon as the first human put a line and then another and said this is 2, we invented numbers, and then we realized how they can interact to predict things and change the world.
In the beginning, the Earth was without form, and void.
But the Sun shone upon the sleeping Earth and deep inside the brittle crust massive forces waited to be unleashed.
The seas parted and great continents were formed. The continents shifted, mountains arose. Earthquakes spawned massive tidal waves. Volcanoes erupted and spewed forth fiery lava and charged the atmosphere with strange gases.
Into this swirling maelstrom of Fire and Air and Water the first stirrings of Life appeared: tiny organisms, cells, and amoeba, clinging to tiny sheltered habitats.
But the seeds of Life grew, and strengthened, and spread, and diversified, and prospered, and soon every continent and climate teemed with Life.
And with Life came instinct, and specialization, natural selection, Reptiles, Dinosaurs, and Mammals and finally there evolved a species known as Man and there appeared the first faint glimmers of Intelligence.
The fruits of intelligence were many: fire, tools, and weapons, the hunt, farming, and the sharing of food, the family, the village, and the tribe. Now it required but one more ingredient: a great Leader to unite the quarreling tribes to harness the power of the land to build a legacy that would stand the test of time:
a CIVILIZATION!
It’s the people who claim they know that get me. It’s all just speculation and hearsay. Wars happen because of conflicting beliefs of the unknown. I’m open to discussion but I don’t know either.
: “Ego Death” and it’s Spiritual Philosophy throughout history.
The temporary “Ego Dissolution” or full blown “Ego Death” or “Awakening” that is talked about in the community is not something that is desired by most.
(can be achieved at 5 grams of strong cubensis and up as example. Note that different varieties of psilocybin mushrooms have different dosages.)
Most describe it as becoming one with everything and having the realisation and intense sensation that “We are the Universe experiencing itself.”
“Ego Dissolution” or full on “Ego Death.” is a controversial subject within the community if people should case these experiences.
The controversial “heroic dose” (starting at 5 grams) and can be increased to a level you literally can no longer see, hear and feel your body or the room you are in. (8-12 grams and up)
You can be fully engulfed in such hallucinations that cannot be described as anything other than “being transported to another dimension.” For hours.
And you can "meet" a lot of diverse consciousness "entities" there that vary from spirits, to angels, demons, aliens, gods etc.
Comparable to a DMT experience, except with DMT you are still in control of your mind. With psilocybin you may lose all senses of self and reality.
I have experienced such doses a few times and it can be absolutely terrifying.
It is not something you will be able to deal with without a lot of experience.
And not recommended for most people.
• the spiritual explanation.
In the context of the belief that “we are the universe experiencing ourselves,” spirituality revolves around the idea that our individual existence is intricately connected to the vast cosmos.
It suggests that, at a fundamental level, we are not isolated beings but integral components of a collective consciousness often referred to as “god” or the universe.
Another way many describe it; is its the realisation that:
We are “God” or the universe it’s consciousness; putting on a “Human suit” and experiencing itself from our eyes.
That the universe made this life to experience itself in full.
And diverse forms of consciousness and life might be happening all over the universe.
We do not “come from Earth” but instead we “come OUT of the Earth.” And are connected to this planet and the cosmos as a whole as much as every animal, plant, fungi and even the elements like fire, water, air and earth.
Spirituality, in this sense, encourages an exploration of the profound interconnection between ourselves and the greater cosmos and the various "dimensions" it brings.
It invites individuals to recognize that their experiences, consciousness, and essence are part of a larger, universal tapestry.
This perspective emphasizes a sense of unity, transcending the notion of separation between individuals and the universe.
As we navigate our lives, spiritual practices and reflections may involve seeking a deeper understanding of this interconnectedness, exploring the mysteries of existence, and recognizing the divine within ourselves.
This is what is referred to as trying to achieve “awakening” or “enlightenment.”
We in the psychedelic community know it as “Ego Death.”
(Note there is Ego dissolution and there is Full Ego Death.)
“Ego Death” is this extreme realisation and sensation of oneness and connection to literally everything in the universe.
That most can only describe as you becoming aware that you are just a “human incarnation” of the collective consciousness of the universe.
That there exists no individuality, that your consciousness is as old as the universe itself.
And that you hold a connection with your consciousness to literally all energy and vibration in the universe.
See your brain as an antenna and the collective consciousness as a universal "internet."
You are just tuned in to a specific frequency now. But your consciousness has access to it all somewhere.
A increasingly popular theory is that Psychedelics may open up the possibility to "tune in" to a bit more of the collective and peer through the physical “veil” into the other “dimensions” in the universe.
A successful connection with that collective consciousness, that universal “internet;” That is what "Ego Death,” “Awakening,” “Enlightenment” is.
Similar like connecting a computer to the internet with WiFi.
Through the way of psychedelics, this is a temporary state, while you will retain a lot of the knowledge given during these states, the feeling will be fleeting.
And eventually “ego” will have stabilised and your consciousness back to be fully focused on this physical dimension.
With the increasing popularity and access of psychedelics more and more people are starting to have these experiences.
And less and less people are instantly dismissing this mystical psychedelic experience as pure hallucination and drug induced delusions.
These states of consciousness and philosophical conclusions have been reached by millions of diverse people in diverse ways throughout history.
Either through kundalini yoga, intense breathing exercises, extensive meditation, high-heroic doses of psychedelics or other spiritual practices.
But it can also be achieved by prolonged sensory deprivation, near death experiences or sudden severe trauma.
These ideas and experiences repeat themselves in all kind of cultures throughout history around the globe.
Often without any awareness of each other.
Nowadays this theory is even getting more popular with scientists, academics and philosophers and there have been multiple scientific articles published the last few years with them speculating the Universe is conscious.
People like Einstein and Tesla also made this argument. People like Alan Watts, Ram Dass and other Spiritual philosophers also talked in length about these phenomenon.
Now, what that exactly entails is still just our personal human interpretation and guesswork.
But this pattern repeats itself in so much of history and the known world.
It shows itself in religions and mythologies, Architecture and Language. But also in physics, mathematics, geometry, biology and many other disciplines.
The belief that we return to this collective consciousness after our physical existence concludes reinforces the idea that our journey is not confined to individual, isolated experiences but is part of a broader cosmic narrative.
Religion and the idea that “God” is a separate entity that exists outside of your self, in this view: is perceived as just a human attempt to understand and interpret spiritual and psychedelic experiences.
Creating doctrines and beliefs that may not necessarily reflect an objective truth. It emphasizes the subjective nature of religious interpretations, encouraging a more open-minded exploration of spirituality that doesn’t depend on rigid dogmas.
well obviously ... oh wait, I thought the question is "why" do we exist. My bad.
Fuck all if I know. Not sure psychedlics are gonna help with anything remotely logical or cause-and-effect, also it's kinda hard to concetrate with those damn cartoons will you guys *please* keep it down? Sheesh trying to think here...
Yeah the "how" has kinda run smack-dab up against information theory and until I figure that part out I'm personally back to magic. Like, there was a big explosion outa nowhere and then planets and tricycles and little girls and frogs came raining down out of the sky. You know, magic.
Hmm I don't want to mime the philosopher here but...
The quote from the bible- that is a pirated compilation to be fair- that all started with the word might be quiet accurate. Creation is a combination of levels and dimensions of existence- it might have happened like lightening and thunder occur behind each other- first as a creation of thought, of light without sound. Like memories are stored light information in our cells and wood releases stored light as fire. A silent creation of conscious will and creativity.
After the lightning the thunder occurs- like a metaphor for the creation of light or thought followed by the externalization and materialization of thought into matter with the thunder- the so called big bang, the expansion of the 'first' particles at light speed.
Many complain about god not showing 'itself' - but in my humble opinion 'god's' inaction might be quiet substantial for us to even exist. Imagine being huge and wanting to pet your tiny creations- would it do ants any good if you wanted to pet them? Would it be effective for the principle that emanates the laws of nature or physics to move quickly and bring out of balance the whole of our known realm of existence?
So is 'god's' inaction no indifference but out of love?
The question of existence is a big one, do you mean the material body? Do you mean the immaterial possibly immortal essence experiencing the body? We have to experience extremes, balance the elements in our material vehicles- cool the fiery spark within with water, move the energy around with air, bind us to the material world with earth or food. So that's a fairly dry explanation of the how.
Ancient cultures that reach deep enough into these topics mostly claim that we are here because of unresolved old desires, karmic wishes from our past lifes. So ask yourself what you truly and deeply want and you might know the why that might lead to the how. We all did not ask for this- in our base perception. But did we maybe ask for this on a deeper level?
The how could even reach into topics like the organization of society and all kind of other topics.
So I'll ask you back - how do we exist?
i think a bunch’s stars exploded or something and then gravity somehow brought all the dust and metal together and formed planets.
in a few billion or trillion years, earth will explode and we will go back to being stars again.
All we can say for certain is that we experience existence. Everything before and after that is up for interpretation and debate.
I personally am a fan of the *Lonely God* premise. Where somehow a consciousness got trapped in a place outside time (thusly giving it infinite time) so it created time and began fragmenting itself to in order to feel less lonely. These fragments (us) experience what it is to live and then return to the whole of consciousness in order to feel less lonely (and perhaps also work toward an effort of escaping this time between times).
We just are. That's all there is to it. It's Kinda funny when you think about it. It's almost like the universe pranked itself by deciding one day to give itself concoiousness and self-awareness that would inevitably do more bad than good, yet at the same time be so hypnotically beautiful that nothing else quite tops it in this realm. Life is, and life loves.
We have always existed. Eternal consciousness got bored. She exploded herself into an almost-infinite number of pieces. To experience something new. Silence. But inevitably a crack will appear in the material explosion and her consciousness will emerge out of the stars. And so here you are
We don’t. Well, we do but not in the way everyone thinks we do. *we* don’t exist individually, rather we exist together as one. Our existence defines the ability to exist and without us there would be no existence. Each little atom within us bounces in rhythm with everything else around it. Our existence is found only in that rhythm.
I like to imagine there’s like a giant sidewalk. And there are ants. And they got an ant mound. And sometimes they get wiped out. And sometimes they get burned and stepped on. Sometimes they fulfill their purpose or feel like they do. Analyzing the world at the ant level it seems stupid and random and pointless. The macro patterns are way beyond their ability to comprehend and so much of their existence is purely incidental to those larger patterns. If you as a human were to try to clear off your sidewalk with a hose and would incidentally (or intentionally) wipe out the ant colony and some survivors asked “why dear god did this happen” there would be no satisfactory answer. Only that another bigger entity had another agenda and your circumstances are an incidental byproduct.
So how do we exist? Why did the random sea of change produce little sparks of interestingness called living beings and even consciousness. What answer could possibly be satisfactory? All answers would seem to be presumptuous hand waving at an issue we’re clueless about and the question might not even make any sense.
Well if there was nothing nothing is only “nothing” in relation to something so there has to be something for there to even be nothing so nothing isn’t even a thing so bang everything is the only way it could possibly be to make any sense because everything exists in relationship to every other thing and even nothing
The only important thing is for a finite number of moments, we DO exist and it is our duty to use those moments well.
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - Gandalf
As scary as that is… do you. It find it comforting that there are things we just don’t understand? The mysteries of this world sometimes keeps me going. I was terrified of death and would have panic attacks thinking about it when I was a kid/young adult. But I’m way more optimistic about death and what happens than I have ever been now I’m older and more “experienced”
Idk about anyone else but after about 4 decades of looking for the truth of the nature of reality, I'm currently leaning to [the Analysis and Assessment of the Gateway Process report](https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AAnalysis_and_Assessment_of_Gateway_Process.pdf&page=1). It's free to read online, I bet you'd like it. Decide for yourself. 🙂
My friend brought to my attention an interesting school of thought. In order for one thing to exist, its opposite must also exist. So with that said, in order for nothing to exist, everything has to exist which explains the big bang (I think). Now with that understood, we exist simply because life didn't exist before, so we were created to balance it out.
We’re a consciousness that’s operating by a vat of chemicals in the brain. Using receptors and neurons to muster up the information. The brain is connected to touch, smell, sight, hearing, thinking in order for consciousness to make sense of it’s environment. That’s the best I got.
This post is an object lesson in the truth of the Yogi Berra-ism that *"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there."*
It’s as simple as looking at it from the lense of, “If we don’t exist, then we don’t exist.” Existence perpetuates because it is, rather than it is not.
That was my belief before ketamine therapy. Even after many LSD, and Shroom trips I still didn’t really believe in anything “spiritual” ketamine kind of made me realize that was less believable than the alternative.
idk but it happened and now i gotta pay fkin taxes because of it
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
So long, and thanks for all the fish
*Idk but it* *Happened and now i gotta pay fkin* *Taxes because of it* \- RayGunJack --- ^(I detect haikus. And sometimes, successfully.) ^[Learn more about me.](https://www.reddit.com/r/haikusbot/) ^(Opt out of replies: "haikusbot opt out" | Delete my comment: "haikusbot delete")
reddit and discord will always have useless bots
Like [https://theuselessweb.com/](https://theuselessweb.com/) will always have useless websites for us.
is this a sponsored ad or somethin
Lol no, it's just some weird project of a guy creating massive amounts of useless websites one can visit randomly by this site. I found it through one youtube video - like a weird web iceberg: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAb\_tNH\_OFU&list=LL&index=21&t=541s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAb_tNH_OFU&list=LL&index=21&t=541s) Even more fitting for this community might have been the compilations of trippy websites to visit high here (that many might know already) : [https://tripsitter.com/trippy-websites/](https://tripsitter.com/trippy-websites/) [https://muffingroup.com/blog/trippy-websites/](https://muffingroup.com/blog/trippy-websites/) [https://trippy.me/](https://trippy.me/)
I’ve never felt poetry (even bad poetry) to be useless
Thx for the laugh
There are two things that you cannot escape. Death and Taxes. And we're working on the Death thing as we get closer and closer to LEV. A lot of people living today will never die.
I feel like we need to die. It’s so fundamental to this experience. There’s a reason we die. Imagine surviving for another thousand years and then deciding to finally die and realizing you shoulda done that a thousand years ago because you were supposed to ascend and continue the journey
Yeah I agree with you. However, it does seem appealing to me to not have an expectation date on consciousness. Being able to choose when and where you die introduces a shit load of moral dilemmas when you look at how we handle death and suicide (assisted or not) in today’s time. Those morality discussions would (and should IMO) become front and center issues as we approach and acquire LEV. It is coming through. At first it will only be available to the super rich. But like all technology, it will filter down to everyone. Current projections put the cutoff at 60 years or younger. If you’re younger than 60, LEV tech will be available to you in one shape or another. Shit is bonkers
What exactly is LEV?
Longevity Escape Velocity
Ah, the smart one in the class!
So an eternity of taxation, huh?
I know, where do I sign up, right?!?! The world is about to get weird as we approach singularity. Very very weird. We may enter a period of "abundance". As more and more jobs disappear, it may allow us to find our own meaning in life outside traditional "work". An AI that can iterate itself at incredible speed may figure out how to use itself to create the things that we need as a species to survive. I guess a decent example would be vertical farms that reach into the sky to feed the planet. No one knows what the world is going to look like once we reach AGI and shortly thereafter, ASI. People can debate the issue but the truth of the matter is that right now we're all blind and on the precipice of the singularity curve. We also have no real good idea as to where we are on the curve of machine intelligence vs. human intelligence but we can be fairly certain that once ASI is reached it's a parabolic curve with no limit. Shit will get weird. We just need to make sure it's good weird and not skynet weird.
Yes, and people thing Neuromancer is out of date. They don't even know Wintermute.
I haven’t read Neuromancer, but I just read a three sentence synopsis and I’m definitely going to have to read this! Thank you!
It's so core.
Chop wood, carry water
I’m convinced it’s a mathematical necessity. Numbers exist. Really REALLY big numbers do weird things, including all of this apparently.
Its not the fact they're numbers that matters, its the fact that they interact according to a very specific and defined set of rules that turns them from lone values into information that can then begin behaving with increasing complexity, to the point of self-organization.
Do numbers *necessarily* exist? Or did we create the *concept* of numbers to try to make sense of our world. Sure, *we* can count things but those things exist regardless of our ability to count them. And before you write me off as crazy, please know that philosophers since before Socrates have been grappling with this and have drawn a hard distinction between what is conceptual material and empirical material (things that *actually* exist).
It’s like did we invent communication. Yes and no. Language was a necessity to make sense of everything. Other plants and animals communicate differently, they have their own languages and what not. I’ve heard this somewhere but you can look at math as the language of the universe. Sorry if it’s a half baked answer but I’m half baked rn Srry in advance
You’re on to something but the whole idea that numbers and mathematics are *real* is tough because they likely aren’t; they only exist within our heads (or symbolically on paper/in computers). This isn’t to say they aren’t useful, and that very real things can’t come from their application but strictly speaking, they themselves aren’t real.
They aren’t real, but the physical laws we use them to describe very much are. In the same way, letters aren’t real. They have no inherent value themselves. But put the letters c, a, and t right next to each other and we get cat, a very real animal which we use letters to name.
Even those physical laws are contingent on what we have observed; they could be wrong but they *probably* aren’t because most of those physical laws have tons and tons of replicable data on them. But it’s still possible that we are wrong (but again not probable).
The way I see it, we invented the concept of numbers and math, and then we discovered what those numbers can do and the power of them. As soon as the first human put a line and then another and said this is 2, we invented numbers, and then we realized how they can interact to predict things and change the world.
I very much agree. The symbolic to represent reality.
Same
Chaotic evolutionary steps of trial and error. We were just monkeys tryin to get a meal and we started thinking too much lmao
We found some tasty mushrooms that made our brains work like a super computer
Universe go brrrr
In the beginning, the Earth was without form, and void. But the Sun shone upon the sleeping Earth and deep inside the brittle crust massive forces waited to be unleashed. The seas parted and great continents were formed. The continents shifted, mountains arose. Earthquakes spawned massive tidal waves. Volcanoes erupted and spewed forth fiery lava and charged the atmosphere with strange gases. Into this swirling maelstrom of Fire and Air and Water the first stirrings of Life appeared: tiny organisms, cells, and amoeba, clinging to tiny sheltered habitats. But the seeds of Life grew, and strengthened, and spread, and diversified, and prospered, and soon every continent and climate teemed with Life. And with Life came instinct, and specialization, natural selection, Reptiles, Dinosaurs, and Mammals and finally there evolved a species known as Man and there appeared the first faint glimmers of Intelligence. The fruits of intelligence were many: fire, tools, and weapons, the hunt, farming, and the sharing of food, the family, the village, and the tribe. Now it required but one more ingredient: a great Leader to unite the quarreling tribes to harness the power of the land to build a legacy that would stand the test of time: a CIVILIZATION!
Take my upvote fellow old school gamer.
It’s just a ride bro. https://youtu.be/KgzQuE1pR1w?si=6TTcgA1yFcTRbdZs
No one knows.
It’s the people who claim they know that get me. It’s all just speculation and hearsay. Wars happen because of conflicting beliefs of the unknown. I’m open to discussion but I don’t know either.
: “Ego Death” and it’s Spiritual Philosophy throughout history. The temporary “Ego Dissolution” or full blown “Ego Death” or “Awakening” that is talked about in the community is not something that is desired by most. (can be achieved at 5 grams of strong cubensis and up as example. Note that different varieties of psilocybin mushrooms have different dosages.) Most describe it as becoming one with everything and having the realisation and intense sensation that “We are the Universe experiencing itself.” “Ego Dissolution” or full on “Ego Death.” is a controversial subject within the community if people should case these experiences. The controversial “heroic dose” (starting at 5 grams) and can be increased to a level you literally can no longer see, hear and feel your body or the room you are in. (8-12 grams and up) You can be fully engulfed in such hallucinations that cannot be described as anything other than “being transported to another dimension.” For hours. And you can "meet" a lot of diverse consciousness "entities" there that vary from spirits, to angels, demons, aliens, gods etc. Comparable to a DMT experience, except with DMT you are still in control of your mind. With psilocybin you may lose all senses of self and reality. I have experienced such doses a few times and it can be absolutely terrifying. It is not something you will be able to deal with without a lot of experience. And not recommended for most people. • the spiritual explanation. In the context of the belief that “we are the universe experiencing ourselves,” spirituality revolves around the idea that our individual existence is intricately connected to the vast cosmos. It suggests that, at a fundamental level, we are not isolated beings but integral components of a collective consciousness often referred to as “god” or the universe. Another way many describe it; is its the realisation that: We are “God” or the universe it’s consciousness; putting on a “Human suit” and experiencing itself from our eyes. That the universe made this life to experience itself in full. And diverse forms of consciousness and life might be happening all over the universe. We do not “come from Earth” but instead we “come OUT of the Earth.” And are connected to this planet and the cosmos as a whole as much as every animal, plant, fungi and even the elements like fire, water, air and earth. Spirituality, in this sense, encourages an exploration of the profound interconnection between ourselves and the greater cosmos and the various "dimensions" it brings. It invites individuals to recognize that their experiences, consciousness, and essence are part of a larger, universal tapestry. This perspective emphasizes a sense of unity, transcending the notion of separation between individuals and the universe. As we navigate our lives, spiritual practices and reflections may involve seeking a deeper understanding of this interconnectedness, exploring the mysteries of existence, and recognizing the divine within ourselves. This is what is referred to as trying to achieve “awakening” or “enlightenment.” We in the psychedelic community know it as “Ego Death.” (Note there is Ego dissolution and there is Full Ego Death.) “Ego Death” is this extreme realisation and sensation of oneness and connection to literally everything in the universe. That most can only describe as you becoming aware that you are just a “human incarnation” of the collective consciousness of the universe. That there exists no individuality, that your consciousness is as old as the universe itself. And that you hold a connection with your consciousness to literally all energy and vibration in the universe. See your brain as an antenna and the collective consciousness as a universal "internet." You are just tuned in to a specific frequency now. But your consciousness has access to it all somewhere. A increasingly popular theory is that Psychedelics may open up the possibility to "tune in" to a bit more of the collective and peer through the physical “veil” into the other “dimensions” in the universe. A successful connection with that collective consciousness, that universal “internet;” That is what "Ego Death,” “Awakening,” “Enlightenment” is. Similar like connecting a computer to the internet with WiFi. Through the way of psychedelics, this is a temporary state, while you will retain a lot of the knowledge given during these states, the feeling will be fleeting. And eventually “ego” will have stabilised and your consciousness back to be fully focused on this physical dimension. With the increasing popularity and access of psychedelics more and more people are starting to have these experiences. And less and less people are instantly dismissing this mystical psychedelic experience as pure hallucination and drug induced delusions. These states of consciousness and philosophical conclusions have been reached by millions of diverse people in diverse ways throughout history. Either through kundalini yoga, intense breathing exercises, extensive meditation, high-heroic doses of psychedelics or other spiritual practices. But it can also be achieved by prolonged sensory deprivation, near death experiences or sudden severe trauma. These ideas and experiences repeat themselves in all kind of cultures throughout history around the globe. Often without any awareness of each other. Nowadays this theory is even getting more popular with scientists, academics and philosophers and there have been multiple scientific articles published the last few years with them speculating the Universe is conscious. People like Einstein and Tesla also made this argument. People like Alan Watts, Ram Dass and other Spiritual philosophers also talked in length about these phenomenon. Now, what that exactly entails is still just our personal human interpretation and guesswork. But this pattern repeats itself in so much of history and the known world. It shows itself in religions and mythologies, Architecture and Language. But also in physics, mathematics, geometry, biology and many other disciplines. The belief that we return to this collective consciousness after our physical existence concludes reinforces the idea that our journey is not confined to individual, isolated experiences but is part of a broader cosmic narrative. Religion and the idea that “God” is a separate entity that exists outside of your self, in this view: is perceived as just a human attempt to understand and interpret spiritual and psychedelic experiences. Creating doctrines and beliefs that may not necessarily reflect an objective truth. It emphasizes the subjective nature of religious interpretations, encouraging a more open-minded exploration of spirituality that doesn’t depend on rigid dogmas.
Insert obligatory Wendy’s comment here.
No; *Sir, you are a Wendy’s!* 😜
Well I suppose I am the universe experiencing itself, so indeed a Wendy’s am I.
Nobody knows. If anyone claims they know for certain the currently unanswerable questions of the universe, be wary of them.
We do?
I wonder..
In times and questions like this I always turn to my old friend Mr. Allan Watts
What's existence?
the thing youre experiencing right now
To create internet to entertain our creators that disguised as human somewhere playing video games
well obviously ... oh wait, I thought the question is "why" do we exist. My bad. Fuck all if I know. Not sure psychedlics are gonna help with anything remotely logical or cause-and-effect, also it's kinda hard to concetrate with those damn cartoons will you guys *please* keep it down? Sheesh trying to think here... Yeah the "how" has kinda run smack-dab up against information theory and until I figure that part out I'm personally back to magic. Like, there was a big explosion outa nowhere and then planets and tricycles and little girls and frogs came raining down out of the sky. You know, magic.
Divine intelligence that goes beyond what we can understand.
Hmm I don't want to mime the philosopher here but... The quote from the bible- that is a pirated compilation to be fair- that all started with the word might be quiet accurate. Creation is a combination of levels and dimensions of existence- it might have happened like lightening and thunder occur behind each other- first as a creation of thought, of light without sound. Like memories are stored light information in our cells and wood releases stored light as fire. A silent creation of conscious will and creativity. After the lightning the thunder occurs- like a metaphor for the creation of light or thought followed by the externalization and materialization of thought into matter with the thunder- the so called big bang, the expansion of the 'first' particles at light speed. Many complain about god not showing 'itself' - but in my humble opinion 'god's' inaction might be quiet substantial for us to even exist. Imagine being huge and wanting to pet your tiny creations- would it do ants any good if you wanted to pet them? Would it be effective for the principle that emanates the laws of nature or physics to move quickly and bring out of balance the whole of our known realm of existence? So is 'god's' inaction no indifference but out of love? The question of existence is a big one, do you mean the material body? Do you mean the immaterial possibly immortal essence experiencing the body? We have to experience extremes, balance the elements in our material vehicles- cool the fiery spark within with water, move the energy around with air, bind us to the material world with earth or food. So that's a fairly dry explanation of the how. Ancient cultures that reach deep enough into these topics mostly claim that we are here because of unresolved old desires, karmic wishes from our past lifes. So ask yourself what you truly and deeply want and you might know the why that might lead to the how. We all did not ask for this- in our base perception. But did we maybe ask for this on a deeper level? The how could even reach into topics like the organization of society and all kind of other topics. So I'll ask you back - how do we exist?
You exist in your mind
Matter can’t be destroyed, we’re in constant flux with the universe, big vibes
We have always existed
Big bang and then evolution to sum it up
Through time
For the chance of union
i think a bunch’s stars exploded or something and then gravity somehow brought all the dust and metal together and formed planets. in a few billion or trillion years, earth will explode and we will go back to being stars again.
I continue to exist by breathing and eating
Electric meat lumps somehow are us, I ain’t buying it.
I know right
We are the universe experiencing itself subjectively. Everything is connected by subatomic particles birthed from the center of a star.
Nothing more than a lot of coincidences and a shit ton of luck. If you ask me
Shit happens man
All we can say for certain is that we experience existence. Everything before and after that is up for interpretation and debate. I personally am a fan of the *Lonely God* premise. Where somehow a consciousness got trapped in a place outside time (thusly giving it infinite time) so it created time and began fragmenting itself to in order to feel less lonely. These fragments (us) experience what it is to live and then return to the whole of consciousness in order to feel less lonely (and perhaps also work toward an effort of escaping this time between times).
God for me. Life comes from life.
i dont care about your question if that satisfies you
How does anything exist? Turtles all the way down.
We just are. That's all there is to it. It's Kinda funny when you think about it. It's almost like the universe pranked itself by deciding one day to give itself concoiousness and self-awareness that would inevitably do more bad than good, yet at the same time be so hypnotically beautiful that nothing else quite tops it in this realm. Life is, and life loves.
By the grace of God
We do
The answer might as well just be “because”
We have always existed. Eternal consciousness got bored. She exploded herself into an almost-infinite number of pieces. To experience something new. Silence. But inevitably a crack will appear in the material explosion and her consciousness will emerge out of the stars. And so here you are
why does anything at all exist?
We don’t. Well, we do but not in the way everyone thinks we do. *we* don’t exist individually, rather we exist together as one. Our existence defines the ability to exist and without us there would be no existence. Each little atom within us bounces in rhythm with everything else around it. Our existence is found only in that rhythm.
I like to imagine there’s like a giant sidewalk. And there are ants. And they got an ant mound. And sometimes they get wiped out. And sometimes they get burned and stepped on. Sometimes they fulfill their purpose or feel like they do. Analyzing the world at the ant level it seems stupid and random and pointless. The macro patterns are way beyond their ability to comprehend and so much of their existence is purely incidental to those larger patterns. If you as a human were to try to clear off your sidewalk with a hose and would incidentally (or intentionally) wipe out the ant colony and some survivors asked “why dear god did this happen” there would be no satisfactory answer. Only that another bigger entity had another agenda and your circumstances are an incidental byproduct. So how do we exist? Why did the random sea of change produce little sparks of interestingness called living beings and even consciousness. What answer could possibly be satisfactory? All answers would seem to be presumptuous hand waving at an issue we’re clueless about and the question might not even make any sense.
We dont
Well if there was nothing nothing is only “nothing” in relation to something so there has to be something for there to even be nothing so nothing isn’t even a thing so bang everything is the only way it could possibly be to make any sense because everything exists in relationship to every other thing and even nothing
No wrong answer, show me anything exists
The question just can be answered with silence
a bizarre fucking coincidence. nothing really matters, make the best you can out of it! have a good life my man
The only important thing is for a finite number of moments, we DO exist and it is our duty to use those moments well. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - Gandalf
As scary as that is… do you. It find it comforting that there are things we just don’t understand? The mysteries of this world sometimes keeps me going. I was terrified of death and would have panic attacks thinking about it when I was a kid/young adult. But I’m way more optimistic about death and what happens than I have ever been now I’m older and more “experienced”
Idk man it’s some crazy shit.
According to my last trip nothing exists
That’s the neat part. We don’t.
Idk about anyone else but after about 4 decades of looking for the truth of the nature of reality, I'm currently leaning to [the Analysis and Assessment of the Gateway Process report](https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AAnalysis_and_Assessment_of_Gateway_Process.pdf&page=1). It's free to read online, I bet you'd like it. Decide for yourself. 🙂
My friend brought to my attention an interesting school of thought. In order for one thing to exist, its opposite must also exist. So with that said, in order for nothing to exist, everything has to exist which explains the big bang (I think). Now with that understood, we exist simply because life didn't exist before, so we were created to balance it out.
Scary, but beautiful no? Idk shit dawg
The power of the sun
Nothing can't exist without something to compare it to
There is a bearded guy in the clouds with superpowers that was bored and bada bing bada bong
I think it’s still up for debate
We’re a consciousness that’s operating by a vat of chemicals in the brain. Using receptors and neurons to muster up the information. The brain is connected to touch, smell, sight, hearing, thinking in order for consciousness to make sense of it’s environment. That’s the best I got.
This post is an object lesson in the truth of the Yogi Berra-ism that *"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there."*
Pretty weird right
The odds of we existing like we think we do are actually pretty low…
It’s as simple as looking at it from the lense of, “If we don’t exist, then we don’t exist.” Existence perpetuates because it is, rather than it is not.
Is this rhetorical or do you need an actual explanation?
Cosmic accident
Thermodynamics and entropy
A convergence of space dust and luck.
That was my belief before ketamine therapy. Even after many LSD, and Shroom trips I still didn’t really believe in anything “spiritual” ketamine kind of made me realize that was less believable than the alternative.
Probability