Nature Boy said:

Wow.  I love it.  I may re-read this right before my ayahuasca initiation this week-end.

Thanks.

N.B.

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Very cool.

If you haven't already checked out my site, please do, I think you'll really enjoy the parts on enlightenment and eternity.

The link is in my sig.

BrainFood said:

I have had numerous NDE's on DMT; this is what I've concluded.

After merging with the ineffable Godhead, you are greeted by those who were closest to you during your life so as to calm you during the transition.

Next you experience your entire life all over again as one fully interactive moment complete with teachings based upon each experience. Highly emotional moments are given the most attention, while relationships and subsequent morality are "judged" by your Self which may manifest as another being; Jesus, Buddha, etc. depending upon your cultural programming.

"You" realize that your entire life was merely an illusion that you created for yourself.

We are all God; the One eternal moment which is the universe, which recurs eternally as eternity.

This experience of death is "felt" to be the longest and most important moment of your life, because it occupies the same temporal position as the entire universe and subsequently, your life. (There is no such thing as time; a flowing time and progressive present moment are the products of our subjective perceptions and underlying neurobiology)

The feeling of eternity is felt as an overwhelming warmth which lasts seemingly "forever".

Once the painful beauty of all this is "understood", the will to forget is reached; in order to experience it all over again, anew.

Once this occurs, the bright white light again greets you and you come out the womb, again. You forget everything, but you CHOOSE to. And since we are all God which is eternity, we actually have no choice.

We live the same life all over again in complete ignorance.

That is the beauty of Life.

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dwpineal said:

BrainFood said:

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BrainFood, thank you so much for this, it is beautiful. I just lost one of my close friends Friday morning, we'd been close friends since around 1991. Over the past days I have been pondering the last moments of life quite a bit. What did he feel, how long did it appear to be in his sense of time?

I had a very clear picture/vision/emotion that was almost exactly what you write above. Thanks again, I think I really needed to read this.
ALL LOVE,
DW

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Your friend merged with eternity, in which pain/suffering/existence is realized as an illusion and Love is really all that there is. Love being complete and utter dissolution of Selfness.

He no longer experiences time, although to even say that is paradoxical, because he really isn't even "dead". He's still alive in your mind, in your memories and to go out on a limb; he is already "living" his life over again.

He's waiting for you, inside of your mind. You'll have a good laugh about this with him trust me; when you die you "realize" that we are all the same "person", moment, universe, and there is really nowhere to go from there other than to start all over again.

When you go, he'll definitely be one of the first people you see.

I saw all my friends and family and they aren't biologically "dead" yet, but they are.

That is the paradox of eternity.

Thank you for your post, it made me sad for your loss, yet very happy for your understanding.

BrainFood said:

I have had numerous NDE's on DMT; this is what I've concluded.

After merging with the ineffable Godhead, you are greeted by those who were closest to you during your life so as to calm you during the transition.

Next you experience your entire life all over again as one fully interactive moment complete with teachings based upon each experience. Highly emotional moments are given the most attention, while relationships and subsequent morality are "judged" by your Self which may manifest as another being; Jesus, Buddha, etc. depending upon your cultural programming.

"You" realize that your entire life was merely an illusion that you created for yourself.

We are all God; the One eternal moment which is the universe, which recurs eternally as eternity.

This experience of death is "felt" to be the longest and most important moment of your life, because it occupies the same temporal position as the entire universe and subsequently, your life. (There is no such thing as time; a flowing time and progressive present moment are the products of our subjective perceptions and underlying neurobiology)

The feeling of eternity is felt as an overwhelming warmth which lasts seemingly "forever".

Once the painful beauty of all this is "understood", the will to forget is reached; in order to experience it all over again, anew.

Once this occurs, the bright white light again greets you and you come out the womb, again. You forget everything, but you CHOOSE to. And since we are all God which is eternity, we actually have no choice.

We live the same life all over again in complete ignorance.

That is the beauty of Life.

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desiretoheal said:

I have a feeling you read up on Huxley's "Perrenial Philosophy". I read about 25% of it and had to return it to the library(shame on my part). It raised many questions for myself and I will probably be picking it up to finish it indeed.

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From the Perennial Philosophy:

"Non-rational creatures do not look before or after, but live in the animal eternity of a perpetual present; instinct is their animal grace and constant inspiration; and they are never tempted to live otherwise than in accord with their own animal dharma, or immanent law. Thanks to his reasoning powers and to the instrument of reason, language, man (in his merely human condition) lives nostalgically, apprehensively, and hopefully in the past and future as well as in the present; has no instincts to tell him what to do; must rely on personal cleverness, rather than on inspiration from the divine Nature of Things; finds himself in a condition of chronic civil war between passion and prudence and, on a higher level of awareness and ethical sensibility, between egotism and dawning spirituality. But this "wearisome condition of humanity" is the indispensable prerequisite of enlightenment and deliverance. Man must live in time in order to be able to advance into eternity, no longer on the animal, but on the spiritual level; he must be conscious of himself as a separate ego in order to be able consciously to transcend separate self-hood; he must do battle with the lower self in order that he may become identified with that high Self within him, which is akin to the divine Not-Self; and finally he must make use of his cleverness in order to pass beyond cleverness to the intellectual vision of Truth, the immediate, unitive knowledge of the divine Ground. Reason and its works "are not and cannot be a proximate means of union with God." The proximate means is "intellect," in the scholastic sense of the word, or spirit. In the last analysis the use and purpose of reason is to create the internal and external conditions favourable to its own transfiguration by and into spirit. It is the lamp by which it finds the way to go beyond itself." -Aldous Huxley

Bruce6000 said:

BrainFood said:

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Amazing read. Thanks for this and the link to your site, I enjoyed it very much.

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BrainFood said: However conscious or unconscious we are of the world at large, we are all destined to die

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deCypher said:

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BrainFood said: However conscious or unconscious we are of the world at large, we are all destined to die

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Not if advances in medical technology have anything to say about it!  Ray Kurzweil, a prominent futurist, believes that in 15 years life expectancy will increase more than one year for each year that passes. In other words, by 2022 we will at least have the potential for biological immortality.  Problems of over-population and disparate resources still need to be solved, but at least humanity now has hope to solve the oldest problem of them all... Death.

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