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Why I believe spiritual experiences hold very little value * 1
    #26867854 - 08/07/20 08:21 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

At the end of the day holding shit down is a perennial problem. Oft times if we put too much value in the dreams we receive from experiences had through psychedelics, or meditation, or chanting or whatever then it just pulls us out of the moment and then we forget our number one obligation. Which I think is just to follow your instincts and keep it together, let life take you where it will and do your best to be a good companion to it, the universe is always trying to get the message to you in some form I reckon. Whether you're in the gutter or reaching for the heights.


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Re: Why I believe spiritual experiences hold very little value [Re: Grapefruit] * 1
    #26867883 - 08/07/20 08:36 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

Nah, sometimes religious experiences are necessary to help a prisoner realize that he is free to go, else he might get comfortable "keeping it together and relying on instincts" in his jail cell and fail to do the real task at hand, which is feed, clothe, shelter and visit the lost sheep of the house of Israel. If instincts guided, that may not be high on the priority list, and that would be a crying shame because ministering to the lost sheep is the quintessential task.


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Re: Why I believe spiritual experiences hold very little value [Re: Hartford] * 1
    #26867888 - 08/07/20 08:40 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

The path of least resistance is a bit different for everyone and changes with time.


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Re: Why I believe spiritual experiences hold very little value [Re: Grapefruit] * 1
    #26867920 - 08/07/20 08:56 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

That's fine as your opinion for yourself. But just because your life works that way doesn't mean a spiritual experience isn't positive and helpful for someone else.

For some people, "holding it down" (by which I assume you mean making sure you have the basics like food, health and access to healthcare, a place to live, income to support yourself) is something they've already figured out. I don't want to minimize the effort it takes to get to a steady state with these things, but some people are at a place in their lives where they have the basics covered, and are left wondering "what now?".

A spiritual experience, or perhaps an experience of enlightenment where something becomes clear that was missing or muddy before, can be very helpful for people in that state. Especially if they struggle with self esteem or depression. Such an experience can give a person the reason and the inner drive to keep going in life, or to pursue a path that will lead them to greater fulfillment and happiness.

I think you're looking through a very narrow lens saying that a spiritual experience necessarily distracts from what's important; that may be the case from your perspective, but by no means applies to everyone.


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Re: Why I believe spiritual experiences hold very little value [Re: Rahz]
    #26867922 - 08/07/20 08:58 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

well there is 3 germs of truth.

as long as you  keep seeing shit that makes sense, you are holy, while clinging to past visions is a crock.


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Re: Why I believe spiritual experiences hold very little value [Re: redgreenvines]
    #26867941 - 08/07/20 09:06 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

Everyone has to let go eventually if not by choice but clinging holds purpose like everything else done.


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Re: Why I believe spiritual experiences hold very little value [Re: Rahz]
    #26868002 - 08/07/20 09:48 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

Doesn't that seem a bit circular? Perhaps circular is the best answer we have on this merry go round.


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Re: Why I believe spiritual experiences hold very little value [Re: Hartford]
    #26868031 - 08/07/20 10:02 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

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Nah, sometimes religious experiences are necessary to help a prisoner realize that he is free to go, else he might get comfortable "keeping it together and relying on instincts" in his jail cell and fail to do the real task at hand, which is feed, clothe, shelter and visit the lost sheep of the house of Israel. If instincts guided, that may not be high on the priority list, and that would be a crying shame because ministering to the lost sheep is the quintessential task.




Who said that is the real task? I'll echo what someone has said above and say that it's fine as your own answer but it might not be everyones or rather it might not be right for everyone at every moment, which I see as sort of an absurd truth of things.

“Oh, a sleeping drunkard
Up in Central Park,
And a lion-hunter
In the jungle dark,
And a Chinese dentist,
And a British queen--
All fit together
In the same machine.
Nice, nice, very nice;
Nice, nice, very nice;
Nice, nice, very nice--
So many different people
In the same device.”

- K. Vonnegut


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Re: Why I believe spiritual experiences hold very little value [Re: Grapefruit] * 1
    #26868089 - 08/07/20 10:34 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

inspiration is very fucking important especially during lock downs.
something similar between inspiration and transcendence, and one might say, the purpose of life is to transcend oneself.

given time, this is rather easy.


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Re: Why I believe spiritual experiences hold very little value [Re: redgreenvines] * 1
    #26868172 - 08/07/20 11:23 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

Unfortunately hell and the grave give me itchy feet but everyone is always telling me to be patient. It's pretty hard to believe anything will come of anything any more given my present circumstances. Faith doesn't seem easy to someone so far in the grip of fear as myself. A blast of truth by a medicine man only sends me into a panic attack. And that's without even a mention of the ever present chronic pain issues beginning in my (non-spiritual) heart that are depleting energy and always a distraction.


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Edited by Grapefruit (08/07/20 11:29 AM)


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Re: Why I believe spiritual experiences hold very little value [Re: Grapefruit]
    #26868192 - 08/07/20 11:35 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

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Grapefruit said:
Unfortunately hell and the grave give me itchy feet but everyone is always telling me to be patient. It's pretty hard to believe anything will come of anything any more given my present circumstances. Faith doesn't seem easy to someone so far in the grip of fear as myself. A blast of truth by a medicine man only sends me into a panic attack. And that's without even a mention of the ever present chronic pain issues beginning in my (non-spiritual) heart that are depleting energy and always a distraction.


Chronic pain is a big question in all of this.

Sometimes I'm appreciative of the chronic pains that I have (which aren't too terrible or debilitating these days, but do put me in a negative frame of mind much of the time and drain my willpower), because they oblige me to tend to my body and mind more than I might otherwise.

More often, I just lament them and spend lots of time thinking about how they could get worse, ruin my prospects of having a happy life and happy relationships, and then think about how much worse pain so many other people are in, which becomes a very negative loop.

I'm attracted, for obvious reasons, to spiritual teachers who have healed themselves / been healed through mindfulness or whose years of chronic pain were actually part of a kundalini or otherwise spiritual awakening process.

I can't tell if CBD oil exacerbates my chronic pains (especially maxillofacial pain, intense sleeping jaw grinding, and headaches) or just makes it more apparent what's going on beneath the hood...


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My body I will give to pleasures,
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to the most daring erotic desires,
to the lustful impulses of my blood, without
any fear at all, for whenever I will—
and I will have the will, strengthened
as I’ll be with contemplation and study—
at the crucial moments I’ll recover
my spirit as was before: ascetic.”


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Re: Why I believe spiritual experiences hold very little value [Re: Lion]
    #26868200 - 08/07/20 11:42 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

I find some comfort knowing someone else struggles from a similar issue. CBD doesn't seem to do anything for me, Clonezapam helps but it makes me go soft in the head. Thanks for sharing Lion. :bow:


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Re: Why I believe spiritual experiences hold very little value [Re: Grapefruit] * 3
    #26868381 - 08/07/20 01:31 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

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Doesn't that seem a bit circular? Perhaps circular is the best answer we have on this merry go round.




I tend to think all experience is spiritual. Some experiences lend themselves more to the idea than others, especially if they're enjoyable or meaningful in a way that is encouraging. Ideally we get some of both, and in a more natural setting frequently.

I've been thinking lately about the effect of social media, 24 hour news, all this connectivity. It's something I had considered before but with covid and all the social unrest it seems particularly relevant. It strikes me to be like throwing a hundred crying babies in a movie theater. Where once there was a movie to watch that had it's ups and downs, now it's an incessant wailing of the fears of babies, which in another sense reminds me of visions of hell where the multitudes wail as they burn in a lake of fire.

Of course, there's nothing keeping a person from putting the internet down. I tend to think it's a choice to sit in that fire and burn along with everyone else. There must be some purpose to it, so I suppose one would do well to consider what that purpose is and adjust if they don't like the experience they are having. Or perhaps some people would rather suffer. Some say sitting quietly in an empty room is the most difficult thing to do. So the idea of the path of least resistance makes sense to me. Run and hide, bruised and in pain, soaking up the drama of it all. Regain some energy and that solace no longer holds drama so back we go into the lake of fire to drink some more.

It feels good to break a cycle, to let go, to live more simply. So why don't people do it more often?


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Re: Why I believe spiritual experiences hold very little value [Re: Rahz] * 1
    #26868459 - 08/07/20 02:01 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

why doesn't the thumbsup indicator (+), at top of post, show who is upping the count, Bluelight works a bit better in that way.

what I mean is i agree


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Re: Why I believe spiritual experiences hold very little value [Re: redgreenvines]
    #26868750 - 08/07/20 04:47 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

I never could manage to get a meaningful experience from anything till I finally got off the benzos and started facing what life was trying to teach me with all the pain.

But that was just me.

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Re: Why I believe spiritual experiences hold very little value [Re: Forrester]
    #26868772 - 08/07/20 05:09 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

why do they give out benzos when people need to face stuff?


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Re: Why I believe spiritual experiences hold very little value [Re: redgreenvines]
    #26868789 - 08/07/20 05:19 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

Liquid courage in a pill


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Re: Why I believe spiritual experiences hold very little value [Re: The Blind Ass]
    #26868919 - 08/07/20 07:00 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

Yeah I've gone off benzos for that but I still take them moderately on weekends for some much needed pain relief, be that mental or physical. But mostly it is physical pain I take it for. Don't take anything else any more except smokes sometimes which I'm still trying to quit. I think it's possible to have a healthy relationship with benzos and I do genuinely need it for pain management so I'm fine with that as long as it's all I'm taking.


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Re: Why I believe spiritual experiences hold very little value [Re: Grapefruit] * 1
    #26869057 - 08/07/20 08:15 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

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At the end of the day holding shit down is a perennial problem. Oft times if we put too much value in the dreams we receive from experiences had through psychedelics, or meditation, or chanting or whatever then it just pulls us out of the moment and then we forget our number one obligation. Which I think is just to follow your instincts and keep it together, let life take you where it will and do your best to be a good companion to it, the universe is always trying to get the message to you in some form I reckon. Whether you're in the gutter or reaching for the heights.




"Why I believe spiritual experiences hold very little value"

well value is always a matter of comparison is it not?
So the Zen view which includes paradox, is of course
that things are valued for their own sake
or to experience directly and not compare with the mind
or if no self, no need to collect values
all that sort of 'thing'
so indeed, no need to worry over what isn't necessary.

Insights, are cute, and sell books, and impress beginners.
but after enlightenment
its back to chopping water:lol:


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Re: Why I believe spiritual experiences hold very little value [Re: laughingdog]
    #26869443 - 08/08/20 03:24 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

Yeah I agree, of course you could have easily have replaced spiritual experiences with music or books in the context of the header. There's a lot more noise and fuss over those than need be too. that said i love music and books.


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