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Comments on: If you’re going through Heck, don’t stop http://blog.paradigm-sys.com/archives/244 Sat, 28 Aug 2010 20:47:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: anonymous http://blog.paradigm-sys.com/archives/244/comment-page-1#comment-17507 anonymous Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:03:07 +0000 http://blog.paradigm-sys.com/?p=244#comment-17507 <i>"I woke up. “Woke up” as compared with my ordinary state of consciousness at the time, It was like, “Wow, this is the real stuff. I exist!”"</i><i> Do you think this was a glimpse of a higher reality and not an illusion? Once I was doing yoga, if you can call sitting on the floor reaching for my toes to stretch out my hamstrings yoga, and something happened where I felt like I had access to all the information in the universe. Since then I've heard other people describe this feeling as happening during NDE's, but oddly enough they never actually reveal anything very impressive. I had that same feeling of "cosmic consciousness" but I didn't actually know anything new, it was really only a feeling. I've also experienced, during a long session of meditation, the non-duality of subject and object where I couldn't sense my body and I seemed to identify my self as the object I was gazing at. This is supposed to prove that "we are all one". To me it just seemed like part of my brain shut down, (I later learned this was a correct assumption: <a href="http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro01/web3/Farrenkopf.html">http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro01/web3/Farrenkopf.html</a>) like it was just an illusion. It proved that the sense of self is subjective but I didn't think I was perceiving things as they really are - it was just a different subjective interpretation. Both of these phenomena are supposed to be evidence of a higher reality, for example that the universe is a hologram, and maybe I'm too skeptical, too indoctrinated by my scientific education to accept that interpretation, but to me it just seems like once in a while the brain does weird and useless things. What was it about your experience that made you think it was something other than an illusion? Thanks</i> “I woke up. “Woke up” as compared with my ordinary state of consciousness at the time, It was like, “Wow, this is the real stuff. I exist!””

Do you think this was a glimpse of a higher reality and not an illusion?

Once I was doing yoga, if you can call sitting on the floor reaching for my toes to stretch out my hamstrings yoga, and something happened where I felt like I had access to all the information in the universe. Since then I’ve heard other people describe this feeling as happening during NDE’s, but oddly enough they never actually reveal anything very impressive. I had that same feeling of “cosmic consciousness” but I didn’t actually know anything new, it was really only a feeling.

I’ve also experienced, during a long session of meditation, the non-duality of subject and object where I couldn’t sense my body and I seemed to identify my self as the object I was gazing at. This is supposed to prove that “we are all one”. To me it just seemed like part of my brain shut down, (I later learned this was a correct assumption: http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/b.....nkopf.html) like it was just an illusion. It proved that the sense of self is subjective but I didn’t think I was perceiving things as they really are – it was just a different subjective interpretation.

Both of these phenomena are supposed to be evidence of a higher reality, for example that the universe is a hologram, and maybe I’m too skeptical, too indoctrinated by my scientific education to accept that interpretation, but to me it just seems like once in a while the brain does weird and useless things.

What was it about your experience that made you think it was something other than an illusion?

Thanks

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