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Worshipping the Self/ yourself.
#26755601 - 06/18/20 08:44 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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It's been said that the worship of God is just worshipping yourself extensionally, clothed in certain nobility, in what you consider to be holy, but really it's just yourself you worship,,,I do worship God in sentimental and emotional ways (like music for example), and even if I were to cut or burn myself in a form of asceticism (which I don't), or when I cry or laugh for God, it involves me somehow, even if I place myself at the periphery, I seem to become the center of it,,,being a self-proclaimed Panentheist Christian this shouldn't be difficult or hard to piece together,,, but how do you worship God as someone or something different than yourself? In what way is this possible? Sacrificing yourself/martyrdom the truest way?
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Re: Worshipping the Self/ yourself. [Re: saintdextro] 1
#26755725 - 06/18/20 09:34 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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The question is..: do you worship yourself based on merit.. or is it unconditional worship? Ego inflation?
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Re: Worshipping the Self/ yourself. [Re: BrendanFlock]
#26758378 - 06/19/20 07:39 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Ime the worship of god in the Christian sense comes with a humbling effect which wouldn’t indicate that one is worshipping themself. That may be more like demanding ones name be put on everything or to erect a statue of oneself etc.
At any rate maybe to perform little rituals adhering to the bigger picture similar to how typical religious institutions go through collective practices but personal in this way. I don’t have much experience here other than concocting a meaningful symbol, lighting some candles, and chanting a mystically relevant mantra. It does produce an effect and if met with dedication I bet would be something at least.
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Re: Worshipping the Self/ yourself. [Re: Yellow Pants]
#26762082 - 06/21/20 02:02 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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There is no Self. It's a high thing. Cannabis makes you think there's a Self.
There's a Godhead, that has nothing to do with personalness.
If you're going through life thinking we're all the same person and that you've answered something through that, you're really, really missing out.
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Because egos have failed against another in competition they have subdued their loss with the idea that the ego is bad.. that the self doesn't exist..
In truth the bigger ego always wins the game.. wins the girl.. or gets that cozy executive job..(smoking crack and doing business for example)
So the self should only be worshipped by merit..
You can love yourself and worship yourself perfectly putting yourself at the top of the pyramid..
But when it comes to competing with others..
You have to be honest with regard to how much you are winning vs how much you are losing..
So with self love and worship.. you can reunderstand how to approach competition with the right attitude.. so that there by.. you increase your chances at winning.. and up the win loss percentage ratio that you have..
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Re: Worshipping the Self/ yourself. [Re: BrendanFlock]
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It's difficult. Where does your joy end and your vocation or interests begin? You can rest in the Godhead and feel immense joy for as long as you can stand it.
While you're there, it's eternity. When you come back, you're refreshed, alive, awake, ready for life.
But unless you can work out a balance, you can get kind of stuck.
Life is not simple.
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OP, you're a Pantheist Christian?
Interesting. Can you tell me more?
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Re: Worshipping the Self/ yourself. [Re: Vahn421]
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Vahn421 said: OP, you're a Pantheist Christian?
Interesting. Can you tell me more?
It's Pan'en'theist Christian, I Suppose a pantheist believes God is everything or could mean they accept all Gods, in any case, not me.
this thread I made a little ways back...: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/26526206
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Re: Worshipping the Self/ yourself. [Re: saintdextro]
#26818007 - 07/11/20 06:42 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I really think Christian people are developing a craziness within themselves and the only thing I like about it is the architecture.
I got my inspirations from Eastern spirituality, namely Ramana Maharshi, for some reason. My dad (Royal Anglo) was born in India, so perhaps the spirit of India has been with me for a while.
Essentially reality is levels. If you realise what the East calls the Self (though I lament this, so do they - it is not personal) then you kind of get enveloped by a stay of bliss and joy, wonder, all sorts of wanted things from the previous, merely modern, level.
Really, drugs are pretty useless. I had a great time on mushrooms, but that's not a doorway, it's just a kind of glimpse of what happens if you develop yourself spiritually. I used to sort of think, come on, I'm sure those monks get happy and positive but there's no way they're having orgasms with the Earth like shrooms. But you do! I mean, there is a universal tune, Om, that permeates everything, and if you hit that, you start doing and saying shit that is universal and it's like the peak of a trip only you can tell finally that this is the real thing, the real experience of that.
If you want to develop spiritually I would discard all drugs. LSD is interesting in that it may be intellectually useful in that it puts a circuit in the brain or activates one it didn't know it had, it's a kind of astonishment that seeks itself out.
Personally I think being high and then coping with the fall out is one of the hardest things you'll do in a spiritual life.
You said tell me more!
Seek the universal music. Om.
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Whoops you didn't mean me. Oh well hope I contributed.
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Re: Worshiping the Self/ yourself. [Re: BrendanFlock]
#26878543 - 08/13/20 01:21 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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I'm on some uppers and some "love" drug combo trip, I was trying to figure out what you mean by unconditional love/worship and merit based love/worship, God gives me Grace and Unconditional Love and Forgiveness, I Return the love I experience from him, indulge in it, bliss out in a inebriated meditation, accept God though he gives the Curse of the Thorns of Life (I Return the Unconditional Love/forgiveness).
But what do you mean by Merit based Love/Worship? how is that Ego indulging? Do I base my love for God on the Pleasure or Pain he gives me? On the Merit of what I am? The Good and Bad I do to myself and others (Including Nature), if I think I'm a good person and that God is a good God it's Ego worship or is it OK (not selfish)?
This high is coming down, it was and is a sensational experience, Mind Expanding, Love flowing, loosed thoughts so loosed speaking,,,it's been said sensation leads to further sensation, while Experiencing is above and beyond the Senses, Experiencing begins when Sensation ends, than you come to the What Is directly, face it without Escaping, without Fear or aversion, Truly Experiencing the What Is is discovering Truth, God, the Nameless and so on called by many names.
Peace, where gonna Love Heaven, Right on Man! I Like words with capital letters, such as "Being" or "Presence", ,,or also, I am Peace, Love and Understaind. anyways, here's an essay by Krishnamurti, you probably could have guessed I was reading and inspired by this man this trip!:
37 Idea And Fact - Commentaries on Living Series I Chapter 37 'Idea and Fact' 38 Continuity - Commentaries on Living Series I Chapter 38 'Continuity':
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Commentaries on Living Series 1 Commentaries on Living Series I Chapter 37 'Idea and Fact' SHE HAD BEEN married for a number of years, but had had no children; she was unable to have them, and was gravely disturbed by this fact. Her sisters had children, and why was she cursed? She had been married quite young, as was the custom, and had seen a lot of suffering; but she had known quiet joy too. Her husband was some kind of bureaucrat in a big corporation or Government department. He too was concerned about their not having children, but it appeared that he was becoming reconciled to this fact; and besides, she added, he was a very busy man. One could see that she dominated him, though not too heavily. She leaned on him, and so she could not help dominating him. Since she had no children, she was trying to fulfill herself in him; but in this she was disappointed, for he was weak and she had to take charge of things. In the office, she said smilingly, he was considered a stickler, a tyrant who threw his weight around; but at home he was mild and easy going. She wanted him to fit into a certain pattern, and she was forcing him, of course very gently, into her mould; but he was not coming up to scratch. She had nobody to lean on and give her love to.
The idea is more important to us than the fact; the concept of what one should be has more significance than what one is. The future is always more alluring than the present. The image, the symbol, is of greater worth than the actual; and on the actual we try to superimpose the idea, the pattern. So we create a contradiction between what is and what should be. What should be is the idea, the fiction, and so there is a conflict between the actual and the illusion - not in themselves, but in us. We like the illusion better than the actual; the idea is more appealing, more satisfying, and so we cling to it. Thus the illusion becomes the real and the actual becomes the false, and in this conflict between the so-called real and the so-called false we are caught.
Why do we cling to the idea, deliberately or unconsciously, and put aside the actual? The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying. The idea gives power to dominate, to be assertive, to guide, to shape; and in the idea, which is self-projected, there is never the denial of the self, the disintegration of the self. So the pattern or idea enriches the self; and this is also considered to be love. I love my son or my husband and I want him to be this or that, I want him to be something other than he is.
If we are to understand what is, the pattern or idea must be put aside. To set aside the idea becomes difficult only when there is no urgency in the understanding of what is. Conflict exists in us between the idea and what is because the self-projected idea offers greater satisfaction than what is. It is only when what is, the actual, has to be faced that the pattern is broken; so it is not a matter of how to be free from the idea, but of how to face the actual. It is possible to face the actual only when there is an understanding of the process of gratification, the way of the self.
We all seek self-fulfilment, though in many different ways: through money or power, through children or husband, through country or idea, through service or sacrifice, through domination or submission. But is there self-fulfilment? The object of fulfilment is ever self-projected, self-chosen, so this craving to fulfil is a form of self-perpetuation. Whether consciously or unconsciously, the way of self-fulfilment is self-chosen, it is based on the desire for gratification, which must be permanent; so the search for self-fulfilment is the search for the permanency of desire. Desire is ever transient, it has no fixed abode; it may perpetuate for a time the object to which it clings, but desire in itself has no permanency. We are instinctively aware of this, and so we try to make permanent the idea, the belief, the thing, the relationship; but as this also is impossible, there is the creation of the experiencer as a permanent essence, the "I" separate and different from desire, the thinker separate and different from his thoughts. This separation is obviously false, leading to illusion.
The search for permanency is the everlasting cry of self-fulfilment; but the self can never fulfil, the self is impermanent, and that in which it fulfils must also he impermanent. Self-continuity is decay; in it there is no transforming element nor the breath of the new. The self must end for the new to be. The self is the idea, the pattern, the bundle of memories; and each fulfilment is the further continuity of idea, of experience. Experience is always conditioning; the experiencer is ever separating and differentiating himself from experience. So there must be freedom from experience, from the desire to experience. Fulfilment is the way of covering up inward poverty, emptiness, and in fulfilment there is sorrow and pain.
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Commentaries on Living Series 1 Commentaries on Living Series I Chapter 38 'Continuity' THE MAN IN the opposite seat began by introducing himself, as he wanted to ask several questions. He said that he had read practically every serious book on death and the hereafter, books from ancient times as well as the modern ones. He had been a member of the Psychical Research Society, had attended many seances with excellent and reputable mediums, and had seen many manifestations which were in no way faked. Because he had gone into this question so seriously, on several occasions he himself had seen things of a super-physical nature; but of course, he added, they might have been born of his imagination, though he considers that they were not. However, in spite of the fact that he had read extensively, had talked to many people who were well informed, and had seen undeniable manifestations of those who were dead, he was still not satisfied that he had understood the truth of the matter. He had seriously debated the problem of belief and not-belief; he had friends among those who firmly believed in one's continuity after death, and also among those who denied the whole thing and held that life ended with the death of the physical body. Though he had acquired considerable knowledge and experience in physic matters, there remained in his mind an element of doubt; and as he was getting on in year she wanted to know the truth. He was not afraid of death, but the truth about it must be known.
The train had come to a stop, and just then a two-wheeled carriage was passing, drawn by a horse. On the carriage was a human corpse, wrapped in an unbleached cloth and tied to two long green bamboo poles, freshly cut. From some village it was being taken to the river to be burnt. As the carriage moved over the rough road, the body was being brutally shaken, and under its clothes the head was obviously getting the worst of it. There was only one passenger in the carriage besides the river; he must have been a near relative, for his eyes were red with much crying. The sky was the delicate blue of early spring, and children were playing and shouting in the dirt if the road. Death must have been a common sight, for everyone went of with what they were doing. Even the inquirer into death did not see the carriage and its burden.
Belief conditions experience, and experience then strengthens belief. What you belief, you experience. The mind dictates and interprets experience, invites or rejects it. The mind itself is the result of experience, and it can recognize or experience only that with witch it is familiar, which it knows, at whatever level. The mind cannot experience what is not already known. The mind and its response are of greater significance then the experience; and to rely on experience as a means of understanding truth is to be caught in ignorance and illusion. To desire to experience truth is to deny truth; for desire conditions, and belief is another cloak of desire. Knowledge, belief, conviction, conclusion and experience are hindrances to truth; they are the very structure of the self. The self cannot be if there is no cumulative effect of experience; and the fear of death is the fear of not being, of not experiencing. If there were the assurance, the certainty of experiencing, there would be no fear. Fear exists only in the relationship between the known and the unknown. The known is ever trying to capture the unknown; but it can capture only that which is already known. The unknown can never be experienced by the known; the known, the experienced must cease for the unknown to be.
The desire to experience truth must be searched out and understood; but if there is motive in the search, then truth does not come into being. Can there be search without a motive, conscious or unconscious? With a motive, is there search? If you already know what you want, if you have formulated an end, then search is a means to achieve that end, which is self-projected. Then search is for gratification, not for truth; and the means will be chosen according to the gratification. The understanding of what is needs no motive; the motive and the means prevent understanding. Search, which is choiceless awareness, is not for something; it is to be aware of the craving for an end and of the means to it. This choiceless awareness brings an understanding of what is.
It is odd how we crave for permanency, for continuity. This desire takes many forms, from the crudest to the most subtle. With the obvious forms we are well acquainted: name, shape, character, and so on. But the subtler craving is much more difficult to uncover and understand. Identity as idea, as being, as knowledge, as becoming, at whatever level, is difficult to perceive and bring to light. We only know continuity, and never non-continuity. We know the continuity of experience, of memory, of incidents, but we do not know that state in which this continuity is not. We call it death, the unknown, the mysterious, and so on, and through naming it we hope somehow to capture it - which again is the desire for continuity.
Self-consciousness is experience, the naming of experience, and so the recording of it; and this process is going on at various depths of the mind. We cling to this process of self-consciousness in spite of its passing joys, its unending conflict, confusion and misery. This is what we know; this is our existence, the continuity of our very being, the idea, the memory, the word. The idea continues, all or part of it, the idea that makes up the "me; but does this continuity bring about freedom, in which alone there is discovery and renewal?
What has continuity can never be other than that which it is, with certain modifications; but these modifications do not give it a newness. It may take on a different cloak, a different colour; but it is still the idea, the memory, the word. This centre of continuity is not a spiritual essence, for it is still within the field of thought, of memory, and so of time. It can experience only its own projection, and through its self-projected experience it gives itself further continuity. Thus, as long as it exists, it can never experience beyond itself. It must die; it must cease to give itself continuity through idea, through memory, through word. Continuity is decay, and there is life only in death. There is renewal only with the cessation of the centre; then rebirth is not continuity; then death is as life, a renewal from moment to moment. This renewal is creation.
I'm gonna inebriating meditate to some worship songs as I come down from this cloud, my question is why Unconditional Love/Worship compared to Merit Love/Worship?
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Re: Worshiping the Self/ yourself. [Re: saintdextro]
#26878876 - 08/13/20 04:24 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Because God is unconditional love.
Saints and sinners, at different times, are but sinners and saints. Time doesn't exist, so all is one. Love is all there is, the rest is illusion, mistakes.
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Re: Worshiping the Self/ yourself. [Re: Forrester]
#26878917 - 08/13/20 04:52 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Forrester said: Because God is unconditional love.
Saints and sinners, at different times, are but sinners and saints. Time doesn't exist, so all is one. Love is all there is, the rest is illusion, mistakes.
I heard the other day Sadhguru say time and space are one, I think he meant if time stopped, space would stop too, space would become omnipresent, and time would become beginning-less/endless and no time at all, there is no center of focus, with no borders, boundless, I think you understand this profoundly in the deep state of Samadhi, I've never been, though I'd like too!
This Illusion you refer to, the mistakes, things of life that are not love, why is there a drive to do wrong? even if there is no gain in the act, people still choose evil over Good, there's a force at work it seems, I've discussed this with a friend, we both ended the conversation with basically "you and me are doomed to make mistake's",,,for example we get angry, mad or irritated at a friends or neighbors so easily, we just slept into it, tractor beam? your own weakness? dare I say the Devil or in Buddhist teachings, Mara the Evil One?
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Re: Worshiping the Self/ yourself. [Re: saintdextro]
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Why mistakes?
It all stems from the original thought of separation from God. We were all one, one with God, but there was a thought, a thought of separation, of having a will other than His. The separation has metaphors all throughout different mystical traditions. Anyway, God didn't judge or punish for the thought, he just let us play it out, and that's what we're doing here in this dream we're having. It's simply to find out what happens when wills collide. We wanted our own, separate, and it leads only to suffering. In reality, God has one son (all of us are one), yet in the dream, we are all shattered apart, appearing to be different people with different wills. Material desires are never sated, there is no lasting happiness here. Until we realize our will is God's will, and return to God (enlightenment). That's the short version 
It's not if time stopped, time is an illusion, it has already stopped because it never existed to begin with, it's created by our faulty perception in this dream. You know how you dream for hours and have only been asleep 5 minutes? We exist eternally in no time, yet seem to experience it in this dream of life.
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Re: Worshiping the Self/ yourself. [Re: Forrester]
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Which brings up my next Question, why are people of authority and power always such assholes? it seems the separation from God is abundant in people of Politics and Government, the word Candidate comes from (a Greek? Latin?) word meaning "white", the colour of the clothes they would clothes themselves with, a symbol of Purity, the Candidate's where elected based on there good done in the past,,, Not on the Promises they make for the future, things are of course for some sad reason different.
Anti-Flag - Christian Nationalist:
Anyways, lets change and transform ourselves for the better and than the collective, which is society, will be re-made by the roots up, starting with us and are own individual powers.
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Re: Worshiping the Self/ yourself. [Re: saintdextro]
#26879500 - 08/14/20 03:00 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Those in power seek their own suffering, which they get. Just another road that leads to failure, forgive them and be glad it's not you that has to face his own guilt
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Re: Worshiping the Self/ yourself. [Re: Forrester]
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You will become One with your God Choose your God wisely
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Re: Worshiping the Self/ yourself. [Re: Asante]
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Your field of experience is in a sense timeless, and so "omnipresent". You can get a good sense of this. It's a wonder.
Life is massive. That's one thing we can count on. Life is massive, and to think you'll ever be scarce is a mistake, even now.
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Faith in the self as religion..
Kind of reminds me of Satanism..
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Re: Worshiping the Self/ yourself. [Re: BrendanFlock]
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BrendanFlock said: Faith in the self as religion..
Kind of reminds me of Satanism..
According to the Buddha this would fail as leading to the holy life by far, on different levels, for example, Buddha taught that kalianamitra's, spiritual friends, is 100% that leads to the holy life lived, Ananda, the Buddha's attendent thought it would be 50%, the Buddha don't exagerate though, hence in Buddhism atleast it's not faith in self but rather a matter of making good friend and dropping bad friends, at times like post like yours it makes me wonder why eastern philosophy is frowned upon in church's, certainly it's not satanic just because it wasn't written by a Jew 2000 years ago.
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Re: Worshiping the Self/ yourself. [Re: saintdextro]
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Oh, I wasn't putting down faith of the self..
The comment about Satanism isn't necessarily bad..
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Re: Worshiping the Self/ yourself. [Re: BrendanFlock]
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Explain more of your brand of satanism, I hear some people are interested in it because it believes that carnal sins like lust, greed, pride, and so on are natural to humans and should not be resisted, not my thing, and then my friend tells me about luciferian in pop culture, they wanna destroy culture, destroy all religion, destroy the family structure, shows like teen mom or songs like "my milkshake brings all the boys..." Crap are forms of luciferianism, also I'm not into.
I had a dream I was at this big Halloween concert/party, and it felt a little evil, than my attention was directed to a small group in the crowd, they were Satanist, but the dream implied at them "there nothing to worry about, just some bad ass punks,,and there's only a couple of them.", Kind of sad kind of funny but the dream seemed to urge to just enjoy Halloween like everyone else.
-------------------- "He who finds peace and joy And radiance within himself That man becomes one with God And vanishes into God's bliss." -Bhagavad Gita, 5.24 One 21 - Building Better Bombs One 21 - Pacified One 21 - Two Sides Is Fine "Respectability is a cloak for the hypocrite" - Jiddu Krishnamurti
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lostintimenspc
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Re: Worshiping the Self/ yourself. [Re: saintdextro]
#26893947 - 08/22/20 05:28 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Divinity is a real thing. Life is massive enough that you can find your own path without resorting to labels.
-------------------- LSD, mushrooms and DMT are different structural levels within the same magically simulated mystery sometimes blandly called 'life' Your life, your call.
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