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       #Post#: 3707--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Jed rant on your spiritual experiences
   DIR By: Fear
       Date: October 30, 2014, 7:51 am
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       I find myself chasing HA, chasing first step just because it was
       described in your books, I have a hard time letting that go. I
       fantasize of either having gone thought it and not realising it
       or doing stuff and basing decisions on what the imagined first
       step would be like.
       I also chase yesterdays coffe and chocolate constantly,
       yesterdays beer, yesterdays love, yesterdays childhood,
       yesterdays suns warmth and shape of the moon. WHat is not a
       repeated experience? Do I even want new and fresh and energy and
       invigorating? Sometimes I really doubt it. Im just a liar. I
       just want the candy, I dont want the broccoli.
       #Post#: 3709--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Jed rant on your spiritual experiences
   DIR By: Gwen
       Date: October 30, 2014, 7:59 am
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       Maybe the first step is realising that you're
       not a liar but THE LIE.
       Love
       Gwen
       #Post#: 3716--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Jed rant on your spiritual experiences
   DIR By: Fear
       Date: October 30, 2014, 9:48 am
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       I dont really get what you are trying to say, sorry. I dont know
       what a first step is. I know nothing about it and probably would
       be better off if i knew even less.
       TO continue the rant, Ive been extorting, blackmailing, trying
       to make experiences appear, experiences based on memory or
       memory mixed with expectation, but how could I know in advance
       what a new experience would be like? What a new state would be
       like? SO I have been doing what ive always been doing trying to
       get something new, not even new, ive been trying to get
       something old, hoping it would by some voodoo be new.
       Now that is stupidity. I have just been trying my ass off to
       repeat what has been had. And lost.
       
       #Post#: 3720--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Jed rant on your spiritual experiences
   DIR By: Jed McKenna
       Date: October 30, 2014, 10:02 am
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       ;)
       #Post#: 3730--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Jed rant on your spiritual experiences
   DIR By: know1
       Date: October 30, 2014, 1:32 pm
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       So, I'm going to explain (to the best of my ability) my
       experience of the difference of between "Spiritual Experience”
       or S/E and Unity Consciousness U/C. (ha, that's not coincidence,
       U do C)
       S/E is called for by a “you” mostly through the tool of prayer,
       personally I don’t like that word so let’s call it a “petition"
       since that’s what most prayers in the dream state are, children
       begging or petitioning for help out of their little
       quick-sandbox.
       “Knock and it shall be opened unto you.” This old standard from
       the Christian B/S actually works, it’s just that most in the
       dream state only use it as a “red flare” to get them out of
       trouble, otherwise it sits ignored in the trunk of their mind.
       When utilized there can be a peacefulness that comes over the
       petitioner, a sense that things are ok and the troubled mind
       abates it’s disruption. for someone moving in an H/A state this
       prayer is not a petition or supplication but an “affirmation” a
       “Thy will be done” expression instead of a “Fix this up the way
       my ego'd like to see it please”. In H/A prayer is simply an
       expression of gratitude versus in H/C which is just a begging to
       get what you want.
       U/C is not called for and cannot be called for, this is the
       first big difference between the two, like how in Damnedest
       Arjuna “Didn’t get out of bed asking to be enlightened, the
       Universe just flashed him”
       I have had two U/C experiences, both were benchmarks in my
       sojourn here, the first jump started me from H/C to beginning
       H/A at the age of 30, the second opened the door toward T/R from
       H/A and happened at 49. The main factor that was present in both
       and facilitated both was that I was completely in the grips of
       Ego and anger prior to the event, Ego had come up hard against
       something that it could not control. This event I call “The
       Maelstrom”
       Maelstrom |ˈmālˌsträm, -strəm| noun a
       powerful whirlpool in the sea or a river.• a situation or state
       of confused movement or violent turmoil.
       There seemed no escape from the whirlpool of pain and confusion
       and violent turmoil that was completely overwhelming me, suicide
       was an extremely  viable exit strategy.
       At some point during this Maelstrom, my “I Am" recognized the
       Ego creating all of it, all the pain and anger and in the light
       of this understanding the ego broke, it seemed to implode and
       was sucked into a nothingness. The only way I can explain what
       took place next is to say when the ego disappeared there was a
       vast, calm, emptiness inside me, the ego had filled it and it’s
       disappearance had created a vacuum and what quickly filled the
       vacuum was the Absolute.
       All I could do was cry in ecstasy, in bliss (sorry Jed) for days
       the first time, weeks the second. The only way I have found to
       describe this is that nothing mattered, there was no matter and
       the most sacred Light, Love enveloped every part of whatever I
       wasn’t anymore. All was forgiven and never needed to be
       forgiven. Gah, on and on I could go, and on and on I went, for 2
       1/2 years trying to re-create it, until I read Damnedest six
       months ago and then understood I was chasing the wrong thing,
       Without Damnedest I’d still be chasing it.
       Thanks Jed.
       #Post#: 3741--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Jed rant on your spiritual experiences
   DIR By: Jed McKenna
       Date: October 30, 2014, 8:16 pm
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       Thanks for sharing your experiences Know1. I once said f u c k
       bliss in a moment of indelicacy, oh well, I'm still very human.
       What is should have said is f
       everything-that-sticks-you-in-any-way. This was the point of
       further. It doesn't matter what occurs, what realization, what
       state, further is the best mantra I know.
       So.... f - it, could mean 'further it'.
       Love ya, Jed.
       #Post#: 3963--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Jed rant on your spiritual experiences
   DIR By: guest89
       Date: November 2, 2014, 4:17 pm
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       I've had such experience. The first time was when I was about
       11, during meditation, and I did get hung up on re-experiencing
       it, for the longest time. The second was about two years ago,
       out of the blue, and it mercifully came with the follow-up
       epiphany that experience and thoughts about experience
       (especially including the memory of it) are entirely different
       things. I generally credit the epiphany part of that as the bomb
       that cleared a lot of the deadwood from everyday interference
       with working memory…or at least colouring it an appropriate
       sepia when it features therein.
       #Post#: 3989--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Jed rant on your spiritual experiences
   DIR By: Jed McKenna
       Date: November 2, 2014, 9:42 pm
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       ;D
       #Post#: 6459--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Jed rant on your spiritual experiences
   DIR By: A/S/L
       Date: December 15, 2014, 9:34 am
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       I had a couple, drug induced. I did spend a micro amount of time
       searching for it again through other means than just popping a
       pill again. Got over it. Fear and Loathing in las vegas + diary
       of don juan + putting my jedcap on helped me to quickly move
       past this sticking point.
       #Post#: 6502--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Jed rant on your spiritual experiences
   DIR By: JulianG
       Date: December 15, 2014, 3:50 pm
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       Had a couple. I Don`t know how to describe or explain them but
       here's my best try....
       The first time was one I tried chi-gong meditation and suddenly
       "I" "felt" something in my arms and according to what I red it
       is "the energy called chi". That was a pretty huge deal for me
       as that experience forced me to open my mind to "non material
       things" as I couldn't deny what I was feeling. Since that
       experience, such "energy" (or whatever it is) feeling have never
       left. Sometimes after practicing for 30 minutes I feel some
       peace and relaxation (this lasts for 30 minutes or so). My best
       guess is that this is because I have to concentrate on
       movements, breathing, visualization and etc.. which makes all
       other thoughts disappear for a moment.
       Later I had 3 or 4 other similar experiences but they just
       happened without doing anything in particular. The "energy" just
       invaded my hole body and I felt a strong sense of peace for some
       moments (I never felt this good before). I think that feeling
       left because I started to analyze and make sense (mind) of what
       was happening.
       So right know I'm feeling like a good seller of this "energy"
       stuff and know for sure that I suffer every time I want to make
       that "I never felt this good before" experience something
       permanent...
       I'm also aware that I could learn some "tricks" using this
       "energy" thing but again, don't want to get attached to them,
       like "look! I know chi-gong"... just want to be free from this
       dream character(s) and world. No more acting, just NO SELF.
       According to what "I" know, T/R is not something that can be
       thought, mind just creates more mind,,,, that T/R is just
       nothing....
       To sum up, I just know that "I" DON'T know a sh#?....... so HOW?
       
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