Author Topic: Welcome to the wasteland  (Read 650 times)

anthroputer

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Re: Welcome to the wasteland
« Reply #30 on: December 21, 2014, 07:06:03 am »
How? I understand that consciousness is it. I understand it from a philosophical standpoint, from a neuroscientific perspective, and even from an occult point of view. So I know it, but can not experience it! I have had those moments of being one with everything, but then bam! Right back to everyday way-of-being. I personally do not hold anything to be true until I can experience it. Since these moments of oneness have been fleeting and not permanent, then I not sure if that is a real state of being. Hell, I can easily recreate those states by taking mushrooms or some other chemical, but I don't consider those experience to be real either.

If removing these importances are what is blocking me, then what technique would you advise? I have done the neti-neti, and realise that all mental constructs are just signs and symbols, and sense perceptions and just 2nd hand information being reconstructed by the brain and has no relation to what could be the real truth. Everything is made up! Everything is a illusion. I know that. But I still live within the illusion. It's like I know it is an illusion, but don't feel that it is an illusion. I'm wanting that visceral, feeling it to the depth of by being experience that will finally make it real.

Maybe Richard Rose was correct, and that after a certain age people are not able to reach true realisation. Now, that's a depressing thought. Being stuck in a prison, and releasing that it is a life sentence. If that is the case, then death would be welcomed. I will not live my life shackled and chained.

Now, I'm just getting pissed off. Just the thought of being stuck in this is not tolerable.
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Re: Welcome to the wasteland
« Reply #31 on: December 21, 2014, 07:20:19 am »
Mr. Rose had many things right, but the age limit on T/R... I ain't buying it. If fact, I think the opposite is more likely. The younger you are the less chance.

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« Reply #32 on: December 21, 2014, 07:41:45 am »
Thanks Jed for that. So maybe there is hope.
But the central question remains. HOW? !!!!

Should I induce a trauma?  My life right now is already a train-wreck. Maybe I should literally jump off a cliff. Hoping that the few monuments before impact I will reach what I'm wanting. I think that it would be worth it. Is that what it will take?

See, this is the kind of talking that worries people who know me. This is what scares them. They are afraid that I will do something drastic. But if doing something drastic is what it takes, then that is what it takes. The price of not doing anything, and staying within illusion is the slow death. Hell, it not even death, because there is not life. Only the illusion of life.

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« Reply #33 on: December 21, 2014, 07:55:47 am »
What scares the S h i t out of you?

Love ya, Jed.

P.S. becoming a leaper doesn't guarantee T/R.

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« Reply #34 on: December 21, 2014, 08:08:09 am »
What really scares the S H I T out me is the life that I am living right now. That's the best answer I can give. Every fear that I have is coming into existence, and has for the last few years. And, I am trying my best to face the fears, and move through them.

It's exhausting, I have no sense of security. I fluctuate between anger and depression most of the time. When I have a slight break, then it seems to come on harder. I feel like I have no control, and when I try to take control, then everything just gets worse.

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« Reply #35 on: December 21, 2014, 08:21:32 am »
I have an extensive section in the Nav Series, but it comes down to this. Look at your computer and touch it. The only reason you can feel it is by resisting it. The harder you press on it, the harder it presses back and the more real it appears.

It's identical with you emotions. What you resists persists. I know of no one who has been killed by an emotion. They might have died in an attempt to avoid one, but that's different. No emotion has the ability to kill you. They are just stories you  run habitually.

Now, you tell me what to do.

Love ya, Jed.

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« Reply #36 on: December 21, 2014, 08:33:01 am »
Yes, there is resistance. I'm on the verge of an anxiety attack right now. I want to have the anxiety attack, but when I say that then the urge goes away. Why?

I don't know that you can do. I don't think that there is anything that you can do.

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« Reply #37 on: December 21, 2014, 08:39:30 am »
I don't identify with my thoughts, but I do identify with my emotions. And, I don't see my emotions as thoughts. I sense then as body responses. But that is not the case. Emotions are just my mind labeling what I feel. I guess. Ah, once my mind label the feeling then....something. Don't know that that something is. Could this be the Hickup? The wench in the gears?

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« Reply #38 on: December 21, 2014, 08:43:20 am »
A feeling comes up, my mind tells me it's an anxiety attack, then it says "this is what we are going to do about that." My mind says we can control these emotions. And that's a bunch of B U L L S H I T.

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Re: Welcome to the wasteland
« Reply #39 on: December 21, 2014, 08:46:57 am »
I'm going to work on just letting my emotions be today. I'm going to use your idea of everyone is my guru. I need to be out in the world today, so as I interact, I will focus only on the sensation and not on the mental interpretation of the sensation.

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« Reply #40 on: December 21, 2014, 08:51:32 am »
Dear Ant:

You are just confirmed that what I suggested reduces the negative emotions and yet, I don't think you realize the importance of it.

I think you are a drama queen and just enjoy the B.S. you are wallowing in. I know your not stupid, about some things, but you are an idiot about this.

Take a week off the forum and welcome everything that comes to you, all feelings be they good or bad. Then come back if you want. If you explode, who cares? If you die, who cares? If you s h i t yourself or puke, who cares? If you don't like what I say, who cares? If I have hit a nerve, who cares?

I'm not joking. I will delete any posts you make prior to one week from right now. Don't even bother to get back to me with and 'o.k.' just get your head out of your ass and do it.


Love ya, Jed.

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« Reply #41 on: January 07, 2015, 12:51:41 am »
It is what it is. This point of existence, when you can feel your breath,when you can hear your heart, and when you can sense your body. This is what it is.
This is the moment when you know that you are alive. This is the moment when you know what life is.

But there is nothing to do about it, because just thinking about it makes that moment a memory.

It's done. It's gone. It is the past.

Thinking about what life could be is just a projection. A wish, and unfulfilled desire that can never be.

This is it. The only existence you have. The existence that last from the moment you sensed who you are to the moment when you don't.

How long do you want to exist?

Don't we all want to feel what its like to exist?

We want people to build monuments to enshrine our existence, but we are not there to enjoy it.

We want people to talk about us, to write about us, to celebrate our existence. But we are not there.

We want to experience our existence. And we are asking other people to do what only we can do. And it is something that they can not.

Our experience is a precious mysterious gift that only we can have.

Stop hoping, and start having. It is what it is.

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Re: Welcome to the wasteland
« Reply #42 on: January 07, 2015, 02:37:45 am »
All ego wants it attention, nothing less.

Love ya, Jed.