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Why expanding our consciousness is so poorly seen by society?
    #22416046 - 10/21/15 10:39 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Hi folks,

Sorry, I need to ramble a little.

Probably this has been discussed before, but I need to bring it up. Why it is so poorly seen by society our desire to expand our consciousness? I got bummed yesterday big time by my very own wife, who I thought that she was okay, open minded and happy about these expansions of consciousness (she even tripped once with me on a low dose and it was an amazing trip, she liked it.)

I trip with shrooms 3-5 times a year (usually once every 3 months or so) and apparently, my wife was fine with it. I was going to trip yesterday but I could pick up that my wife was not happy at all, having negative energy, so I asked what was going on. She claimed she did not understood why I did want to trip again, that it was worthless to do it. I shared with her that I just wanted to expand my consciousness for a few hours. She is the first one who is looking forward to my trip reports, and even asks me if I found stuff to share with her during my travels, where I had many realizations that helped me a lot in life, to learn from my mistakes, be in a state of pure bliss and be in sync with everything, she knows that well and yet she pretty much claimed that is not needed to reach that state.

I asked her how come in the past it was fine with her and now it isn´t. She claimed that in the past (before I started to smoke weed) that since I was miserable in chronic pain every day, she was fine with me tripping, but since I am no longer in pain, there is no reason to trip. For her, more than two trips a year it is abusing. She is fine with alcohol consumption a few times a week, (not getting drunk though, just normal social drinking), and she approves the weed because it has stopped a 10 year chronic issue.

Do you guys get this?

I have learned (from the shrooms, my own meditation times, my own pondering, etc) to respect others as much as I can. But now I feel my own space being bashed... It makes me feel sad, because I would love my wife to expand her consciousness, it would do much more for her than watching worthless reality TV crap. But I have been respecting her choice, even though I did not like it, why is it so hard to respect mine? It is a big PITA that is so poorly seen by society that going beyond your TV, your cigarettes, your alcohol, etc is a bad thing to do. It even closes the eyes of those who are opening them...

I have tried to talk to her and we will chat about it again for sure... but man... I can understand (at some degree) multi-dimensionality, universal consciousness, the matrix we live in, the potential of our hearts and minds... but I do not get how consuming something grown from the very soil of this planet, completely harmless to our system, non addictive and that empowers your life is such a huge problem. Especially from someone that at some degree also understands how twisted and fucked up this society is, someone who is fighting for weed legalization (she approves medical use due my miraculous improvement, but she wouldn´t approve a recreational use.)

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Re: Why expanding our consciousness is so poorly seen by society? [Re: AkashicExplorer]
    #22416074 - 10/21/15 10:51 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

And what is the gain from this? Bad vibes, bad mood and being completely out of sync instead of having a blissful experience and a mind blowing chat with my wife about the teachings from the mushroom. Oh well, I guess is the norm in the world we live in... will just put it behind and move on from it.

I am tired of unnecessary struggles. If you get out of "accepted by society" is a problem... and unless you are fucking dying in pain or another condition, you are not okay to go beyond your TV, your alcohol, etc. I just want to live a fucking peaceful and blissful life until I get my ass out of this planet whenever my clock runs out of time.


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Re: Why expanding our consciousness is so poorly seen by society? [Re: AkashicExplorer]
    #22416123 - 10/21/15 11:09 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)



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Re: Why expanding our consciousness is so poorly seen by society? [Re: Lee]
    #22416673 - 10/22/15 04:12 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Hi, I absolutly share everything you said. But it seems weird how she changed her minde about you tripping... are you sure this is the issue? wasn't she mad at you for some other reason that day? Or maybe she had a bad day :confused:

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Re: Why expanding our consciousness is so poorly seen by society? [Re: bigpeat]
    #22416772 - 10/22/15 05:06 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

That's very interesting OP.

It's hard to believe that people frown upon drug use when many may, and probably are, using every day. Considering how even coffee or nicotine or aspirin are drugs and used by many people world wide, it blows my mind that many mind altering substances remain illegal while things like alcohol and even sugar is legally abused by millions, causing countless deaths that could easily be avoided through proper education.

I'm happy to read that you are able to use marijuana to manage your pain.

My girlfriend is Buddhist and really frowns upon any drug use. When the topic of mushrooms or even weed comes up, it's difficult for me to share my own experiences. Though I have recently become Buddhist myself, I still believe that proper and responsible use of drugs is ok. It's only when there is an addiction and social disruption that such drug use should be viewed as a problem. And even then, it's not the drug to blame, in many cases we should look at the individual and not the drug.

We are all in this together while traveling through time and space yet each of us is alone. It's nice to have a significant other to share this experience, to comfort and acknowledge the other, yet when we move on, we all are alone.

I guess the best thing we can do is try to communicate, whatever way in which ever language to try for a better understanding of each other.


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Re: Why expanding our consciousness is so poorly seen by society? [Re: bigpeat]
    #22416813 - 10/22/15 05:34 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Nope, actually we had a good day, she both knows the mushies are safe, but at the same time she fears them. I have picked up that energy in my previous solo trips (and she said so as well), especially since we moved to her homeland, but then next day she is pumped to get a report hahaha, and she gets kind "meh" when is one of those trips level 5 (or even "6" because is like you temporary cease to exist) that you are in full bliss, but you do  "nothing" just staying in a blissful time-less void until slowly you come back to earth and (in my case) fall asleep to wake with a long lasting afterglow, and complete cleared soul... so go figure. She wants me to connect to the internet and download stuff without a router or any other network device.

I am sure I keep tripping, but I want to fix stuff first because this is the kind of energy that you should not trip. Oh well... I felt that last night was going to be one of "loads of insight" (and I am normally accurate of what I am feeling the trip will be) and it ended up in canceling the trip and loads of unnecessary drama.

Plus, I already have a mindfuck trying to figure out why she has issues with the shrooms being as aware as she is (including experiencing them with a positive result for the trip, her seeing spirits, past lifes, akashic records, etc -for me too, but I do it every day as my profession haha- the shrooms intensified my clairvoyance, but starting from an activated base.) so it is pretty much un-explainable lol. Probably deep in her core, there is a deep fear to open her consciousness and people who she cares as well or even more (and trust me, she does care a lot about me, probably the core of this whole mess...) or she has been bombarded how bad a mushroom is and how awesome a beer is. Because she is supportive with weed hence she hates weed (no pun intended) because she took a couple big hits on a Indica join and she panicked... and yet due the miraculous healing weed is doing on me, she loves weed, for me, lol. The mushroom was good and kind to her, we had a beautiful trip and while her come down was like most, a bit disturbing and anxious, she would trip again with her ideal settling (which is very important of course), but overall she was happy with the trip and she it. Isn´t our 3rd Dimensional reality kind of wicked and twisted... oh well...

re: HamHead

Exactly... and my wife is awake enough to know there is infinite knowledge (she mind fucks every time she watches a documentary about the universe and how tiny we are) For me watching TV, going to the movies, playing videogames is the same as a psychedelic trip, they all alter your consciousness in a good or a bad way, but being zombified in front of the TV or playing a videogames nonstop like a maniac (we all have been there, haven´t we?) That is one pill she can´t swallow for some self defense mechanism on her base knowledge probably, how was she raised, etc. I love video games, i like watching (some) TV, I love futbol (soccer) and enjoy tons going out with her to whatever place to do whatever... the same way I enjoy tripping on shrooms (and 3-5 trips a year is not a lot... I believe, some trip a ton more, some for sure less... but 3-5 I am sure is below average... especially if you visit daily these boards haha. Is that part she won´t get. She feels I could use even less the mushies now that I am not in pain every day since my life is much better. But I do not tap the shrooms for escapism purposes, sure taking a break from this troubled dimension is awesome, but I do not find the need to run away from here as much as I used to when I was in pain. I am actually enjoying my life very much, with some bad days like every single person in this world... so is pretty strange hehe.

Too bad about your girl. I had no idea Buddhist would be against a mushroom or weed lol? This is why I do not connect with any religion. I get what resonates with me and follow the laws of karma and thats it. Try to do my best without stepping over others (probably this is why we have this issue, some jerk would say, fuck it, I trip, screw you, and stepping over others, but that is not how things are done.)


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Re: Why expanding our consciousness is so poorly seen by society? [Re: AkashicExplorer]
    #22416839 - 10/22/15 05:46 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Well, looks like you have this stuff to fix before as you said. You both will just come out of it stonger. Communication is key :heart:

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Re: Why expanding our consciousness is so poorly seen by society? [Re: AkashicExplorer] * 1
    #22416864 - 10/22/15 05:53 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

I'm surrounded every day by chain smoking alcoholics who frown upon "drugs".

Social programming, its a bitch.


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Re: Why expanding our consciousness is so poorly seen by society? [Re: Nemodeus]
    #22416888 - 10/22/15 06:04 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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Social programming, its a bitch.




This is the heart of the matter in my opinion.

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Re: Why expanding our consciousness is so poorly seen by society? [Re: AkashicExplorer]
    #22418047 - 10/22/15 12:21 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Women are practical. They want to be sure, first of all, that the bacon is going to be brought home. If they sense that something their partner is doing may get in the way of his earning a livelihood, they are going to come down against it. Can't blame them.


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Re: Why expanding our consciousness is so poorly seen by society? [Re: champinhom]
    #22418356 - 10/22/15 01:36 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

So let me get this straight.
You didn't do any drugs before you guys got together, except Rx medications for the pain you keep talking about?
But you found weed to help better and now you're smoking or ingesting a stigmatized drug like weed instead of (usually) socially excepted Rx medications.
She seems happy about that but deep down I bet she thinks about it with the stigma attached.
Now, the mushrooms, again, they help you, and she knows and understands it all yes?
Well.she cares about you and mushrooms are also stigmatized because they're illegal, so I bet again, she deep down doesn't like it because of the stigma attached to another illegal drug.

Basically what I am saying is, I think she's afraid you're going to keep "chasing the dragon" now that you've been experimenting with illegal drugs instead of doctor prescribed Rx medication, a result of the stigma attached to illicit drug use no matter how benign, in some people.
I think she's afraid of losing you to drugs and that's why she's trying to limit you.
And maybe its for you're own good, or maybe not. But in a relationship communication is key so I hope this post has given you a few new perspectives that maybe you can communicate to her and better understand where she's coming from and move on from there.

This is exactly how my gf is, but she's not understanding and I keep all my drug use secret from her except my weed and mushrooms, which she enjoys. But I use rx medications recreationally that she knew I did when we got together and she made me quit, because she cared, but I have relapsed about 4 years ago on benzos and well...im rambling.

Hope I helped a little man, good luck.


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Re: Why expanding our consciousness is so poorly seen by society? [Re: impaired420]
    #22421516 - 10/23/15 05:44 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Thanks for the support. We have chatted a lot and things are all good again. I still want to talk a bit more with my wife, as "stigma" is triggered by recreational but not by medicinal. Trust me, she swears by the weed now and she means it (I am an empath, I sense her feelings even if I do not want too, this is how I knew something was off with her and the mushrooms) She even wants to be a weed activist for the sole reason that it has removed my curse, she is extremely caring. For recreational use "just to be stoned" she does not approve it (she would at some extent if that person is being responsible, but not if that person is not responsible, taking care of the family, trying to do an honest and positive living, etc, and I do agree 100% on this as well.)

There is a long story behind this, but my wife thought that I did shrooms just with escapism purposes in addition of my spiritual purposes, and now, without chronic pain I have no escapism feelings, so she feels that shrooming once or twice a year is enough (versus the 3-5 times a year I do it) I really do not date a mushroom trips, but when I feel I need to go down the rabbit hole again I like to. I had times from 9 months to 1 month wait in between, but average of 3 months.

Is when I told her I never had a shroom for escapism reasons. but that it was true it healed my soul homesickness (long story) for a few months. My soul homesickness is in the very minimum level, the average I could have had my entire lifetime (even before knowing it was a homesick feeling) so she felt there was no need for shrooming (or that I was too homesick with no apparent reason) She understands at a deep degree my spiritual reasons, but not to her core, as each person spirituality is different and develops in a different way and pace.

She also panics a little because she wonders that if something will happen to her or her dad I could not drive due the shrooms. After telling her that "1st there are plenty of ambulance available" (the ER is like 5 minutes drive from home in a traffic less road since we live in a village) and "2nd I smoke weed before bed every night, I could drive but wouldn´t be a good idea" she is kind of like "well, thats true" (and no, she puts my pain removal in front of all, she never worried about my weed vaporizing)

She knows I am strong minded and that deep down in my core, if I had a bad trip, I could grasp it was the shroom, and well, if not... nothing will happen anyway to me, other than a mental big scare (and to be honest, I do not trip unless the settling is flawless -hence this whole issue- so I doubt I will ever have a terrifying bad trip, and if I do, I will accept it as a teaching/lesson/karma, etc) She actually preferred me to trip in the afternoon (a worse settling for my personal choice) so, she could trip-sit me, not in the same room but checking up every now and then if I was OK. She is an old-soul nurse who had to nurse people through her life from childhood... so she feels the worse will happen and she wants to prevent it at all costs. But her mental awareness and spiritual awakening clashes with the "close minded" side of teachings she got through her life and her protective instincts triggering. We´ve been together for 11 years, so I know that she has uber strong protective instincts and if someone she cares deeply gets attacked/threaded she will blow the stack like "The Iron Giant" when he thought the boy was harmed. 

I just thrive for more knowledge and expanding my mind more, and the shrooms are my stargates to go to the libraries and get new books, work through them on a few month "shroom-sober" state and then go back another night. This is what I believe that is harder for her to understand, or better said, her own self-defense mechanism is giving her the fears that "something will happen to me while I go to/from the library" but then, when I am back completely fine, she "takes the books of my hands" (aka, "explain, share all" in excitement) so it is down "ufff why you have to go again to the library" and a fainter thought "go, enjoy and make sure you bring me a lot of material, I wanna enjoy too"

I want the energy to clear, maybe talk some more with her, and well, I "close my shop" the day before, the day I trip and the day after and I have been closed for a week (I stacked the trip to do it before/after a three day hotel escape, where the hotel ended up to be a major bust, so this also stacked for sure with the shroom drama and/or maybe fired it up) So pretty much a whole week wasted -mostly thanks for the busted hotel- but other than having a break from work. So maybe in a couple weeks or so, or if the truffles go bad, once my shrooms grow (fruited already, pins should come soon, first flush.)


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Re: Why expanding our consciousness is so poorly seen by society? [Re: AkashicExplorer]
    #22421526 - 10/23/15 05:49 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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Hi folks,

Sorry, I need to ramble a little.

Probably this has been discussed before, but I need to bring it up. Why it is so poorly seen by society our desire to expand our consciousness? I got bummed yesterday big time by my very own wife, who I thought that she was okay, open minded and happy about these expansions of consciousness (she even tripped once with me on a low dose and it was an amazing trip, she liked it.)




You have to ask?  People are threatened by changes to the status quo...

If they don't have the experience themselves but did have it once they tend to lose it, they rationalize to keep where they are - in their comfort zone.

And there's the other thing - some people won't want to see you making progress while they stand still.  Just the way it is IME. :shrug:

I don't have any advice to offer, this is a tough row to hoe, and you'll have to feel your way through it.  I did, mostly by just sticking to my desire and repeatedly explaining WHY it was a good thing.


Hamhead - technically, Buddhism frowns on intoxicants, and for good reason.  I've never found my use of mushrooms to interfere with practicing Buddhism, FWIW. :thumbup:


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Re: Why expanding our consciousness is so poorly seen by society? [Re: PrimalSoup]
    #22421542 - 10/23/15 05:54 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Glad you guys had a chat and things are leveling out.
Keep the doors of communication and keep trying to sway her from the negative stigma attached to the entheogens you're using with good purpose.

I hope it all works out well for you friend.


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Re: Why expanding our consciousness is so poorly seen by society? [Re: impaired420]
    #22421959 - 10/23/15 08:53 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

People don't like drugs in general and don't understand the difference between a drug and and a medicine. I frown upon drug use myself but it different if the "drugs" are legenamently helping you. Society doesn't understand that just because something is illegal its not always bad for you. It makes sense to them because they really have no interest in drugs in general drugs are something they don't care about and the only thing they have heard about them is what school said and what their friends say. If I dont do drugs and I don't care about them it would be hard to think anything illegal could be helping anybody I would probably assume it was illegal for a reason (after all the only thing they have been told was stuff by d.a.r.e and their friends)

Plus the label drug has a bad reputation attached to it. I mean some drugs are bad but society doesn't care enough to look into which ones are good and which ones are bad to a lot of people mushrooms and crystal meth are similar. Plus nixon's crew has been spitting off bullshit that's spiraled out of control by this time.





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Re: Why expanding our consciousness is so poorly seen by society? [Re: thewanderer25]
    #22423290 - 10/23/15 02:31 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

In my experience, alot of conservative close minded people are afraid about expanding their mind through the use of drugs...


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    #22439106 - 10/27/15 06:51 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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AkashicExplorer said:
Hi folks,

Sorry, I need to ramble a little.

Probably this has been discussed before, but I need to bring it up. Why it is so poorly seen by society our desire to expand our consciousness? I got bummed yesterday big time by my very own wife, who I thought that she was okay, open minded and happy about these expansions of consciousness (she even tripped once with me on a low dose and it was an amazing trip, she liked it.)




You have to ask?  People are threatened by changes to the status quo...

If they don't have the experience themselves but did have it once they tend to lose it, they rationalize to keep where they are - in their comfort zone.

And there's the other thing - some people won't want to see you making progress while they stand still.  Just the way it is IME. :shrug:

I don't have any advice to offer, this is a tough row to hoe, and you'll have to feel your way through it.  I did, mostly by just sticking to my desire and repeatedly explaining WHY it was a good thing.


Hamhead - technically, Buddhism frowns on intoxicants, and for good reason.  I've never found my use of mushrooms to interfere with practicing Buddhism, FWIW. :thumbup:





Thanks! Trust me, my wife has been progressing a lot since square 1 where she was totally against the shrooms. Even when she ate them she felt bad right after ("I just ate a drug") but then we had a beautiful trip. She little by little knew my reasons and why it was good for me. She was missing the point that my reason of consuming is expanding my consciousness, she thought it was more of an occasional escapism gateway (and what a bad trip I would have each time I consumed them for that reason... reason by I never had a bad trip, ever hehe.)

She is fine now, but now I have a huge load of work, and responsibility comes first, so I need to find another 3 day straight off work, probably soon.

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Glad you guys had a chat and things are leveling out.
Keep the doors of communication and keep trying to sway her from the negative stigma attached to the entheogens you're using with good purpose.

I hope it all works out well for you friend.




Thanks :smile: Normally, after a big blow we heal and grow, so it is okay!


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People don't like drugs in general and don't understand the difference between a drug and and a medicine. I frown upon drug use myself but it different if the "drugs" are legenamently helping you. Society doesn't understand that just because something is illegal its not always bad for you. It makes sense to them because they really have no interest in drugs in general drugs are something they don't care about and the only thing they have heard about them is what school said and what their friends say. If I dont do drugs and I don't care about them it would be hard to think anything illegal could be helping anybody I would probably assume it was illegal for a reason (after all the only thing they have been told was stuff by d.a.r.e and their friends)

Plus the label drug has a bad reputation attached to it. I mean some drugs are bad but society doesn't care enough to look into which ones are good and which ones are bad to a lot of people mushrooms and crystal meth are similar. Plus nixon's crew has been spitting off bullshit that's spiraled out of control by this time.





Exactly. At some extent, we all have that rooted, but we have step beyond that fake schema while others are slowly moving past it and most, still buying the same old story.


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In my experience, alot of conservative close minded people are afraid about expanding their mind through the use of drugs...




Yup, my wife is not closeminded, but she has very deep roots of "conservative thinking" and while right know, conservatives would hate my wife to the bone due her mind expansion, she takes one step at a time and sometimes, we step on each other accidentally, as usually I am the one who opens Pandora´s box first (this applies in many facts of our life, the psychedelic related stuff is just one of them.) The good thing is that we always progress and grow, which it is what matters. The problem (or good thing) is that neither of us steps on each other and does not want to, so we don´t do something if the other side is not happy, and sometimes we end up doing what neither of us want hahaha... but normally, if its me or her who steps on something we have a strong connection with, is when there is a blow up hahaha but then we do our best to accept that reality and/or trying to apply it to oneself if we believe it is productive.


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Re: Why expanding our consciousness is so poorly seen by society? [Re: AkashicExplorer]
    #22439273 - 10/27/15 08:41 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Because shrooms, mescaline, amanita, etc have a long history of a bit of everything. There is serenity, tranquility, peace... There is disorder and chaos.

Once you stop recreationally beating the bush and learn to accept sacrifice to the greater knowledge, you learn and grow.

People have misconceptions that psychedelic users are all acid heads, melted minds, wastes of society. It is good every now and then to dance and become one with energy, but it is more smart to submit yourself entirely if that is the path you choose. There is no half assing it, go big or go home.


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Re: Why expanding our consciousness is so poorly seen by society? [Re: AkashicExplorer] * 1
    #22439675 - 10/27/15 10:47 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

While I do think the system is rigged, I do believe it is partially due to abuse. Most of the people I know that actually do drugs are doing them to "get fucked up".. which I think is fine and that is their decision to make.. But usually the abusers are the ones who don't make it very far in life.. They see the drug becomes their top priority. It sucks that those people ruin it for the rest of us that truly get the  medicinal benefit from using psychedelics.
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Re: Why expanding our consciousness is so poorly seen by society? [Re: big_scrappy97]
    #22441910 - 10/27/15 08:18 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)



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In an entheogen influenced moment of clarity I came to understand that reality manifests as a dream from the collective subconscious minds of all conscious entities. Nothingness made something because we collectively believe it into being, and physical laws given power by the reinforcement of conscious observation. Creation, destruction, and even time itself are but an aspect of ourselves and we of them. Life and death, simply illusions we face from a limited grasp of our own existence. We are one, all is eternal.


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