Ego Death

[woodman]

Religion is more than just a concept, it is practiced as a vice.

Any one religion will dictate repetitive prescribed motions to be tasked to achieve a determined end. Failure to do so, isn't following properly.

Just like rolling a joint and lighting it, if you don't hold deeply the smoke for any number of seconds all is lost.

Users gravitate towards the repetitive motions (in times of need) just as much (if not more than) the perceived end.

Yes, ritual seems to be a reoccurring characteristic of religion. It is very comfortable and people take much solace in their rituals. It adds a security to their life, a refuge of sorts. Conversely, this very ritual can keep them from spiritual growth. It seems to me anyway. Isn't it from departing from our old familiar ways and reality that we arrive at the most genuine understandings? It is good to come back to an old and comfortable home after journeying in the wilderness, but without the wilderness, can we ever really appreciate the comforts of home?

[Horn]

Getting towards the gist of it now, me thinks.

Whenever the cycle ritual or turning away is responded to in an ego fashion is where dogmas bark.

Those places most often aren't know until you tread them.



No more than a religious disco boy.

[Horn]

Any news on Hitch's experiments into psilocybin?

[singular_me]

in my view genuine spiritual beliefs do not call for the enslavement of the species, the killing those having different views nor conquests for domination of any kinds.

maybe that is the real meaning of judgement day: collective the death of the ego.

[Jewboo]

Never tried DMT or Aya, but I bought a Salvia Divinorum seedling and grew it to about 3ft. Smoked the entire plant and it never let me enter. Nothing. Even in my garden at night under a full moon. Nothing. It just wouldn't let me in.

I gave my nephew a few leaves. He took two hits at his home, stood up, fell onto the coffee table and underwent the most intense crazy tripped out experience he'd ever had. It scared the crap out of him.

http://i.imgur.com/iUDM4vP.png
Don't tell yur parents Timmy!

[woodman]

Sometimes I get the feeling that I am no one at all. Any of you ever feel a loss of identity? At face, you would think that it is a bad thing or that somebody who feels this is on the way to the nut house. Well, this whole society is a nut house so I don't feel too alarmed at being socially deviant in such a manner. I will say this: When I do feel this lack of self, I feel more grounded and centered and at peace than ever before. I wish I could attain a deeper and lasting emergence into whatever this experience is leading to. This seems to be a very slow process with lots of backsliding into old grooves. My ticker is pretty bad and I don't know how much time I have left but I sure would love to come to a deeper, more connected level of experience.

I think society and all our institutions are set up to blind us to some essential truths and keep us disconnected from each other and our true selves. We truly are in the matrix. The matrix has us!

[singular_me]

yes, thats the trick... letting go the ego and emotional rewards are amazing... hold on to the ego/materialism and lose everything .. this is really how dualism works at a spiritual level

we have no other choice than thriving for utopia, even though perfection doesnt exist. Because the other choice is thriving for oblivion caused by the lesser evil dichotomy

Good to read that you have such realizations. Life is a training to reunite with the One.
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here is another example as why the ego will always end up taking down anything , posted by bbilgin (41) · 5 hours ago
https://steemit.com/memories/@flysky...imatechallenge

Even though I wouldn't do it myself, I don't blame the people who abuse the reward pool.

If you distribute $65M in a year for posting, commenting, and upvoting on a website like Steemit, what do you expect?

Do you think everybody's going to come here and upvote only content that's worth it? There'll be people who are going to take advantage of it.

Good luck trying to flag all of these abuse posts. It's a pathetic whack-a-mole game. As soon as you flag one, ten others will pop-up. No way around this in the current system.

This system is designed to fail. I really have a difficult time what people investing in Steem are thinking. Do they think that investing in a platform that blows off 6.5% of their investment on a content like this in a year is ever going to make money?

[JDRock]

Hathas posts are most welcome here.

[monty]

Hatha was an excellent poster. One day he just quit posting.

[Jewboo]

Sometimes I get the feeling that I am no one at all. Any of you ever feel a loss of identity? At face, you would think that it is a bad thing or that somebody who feels this is on the way to the nut house. Well, this whole society is a nut house so I don't feel too alarmed at being socially deviant in such a manner. I will say this: When I do feel this lack of self, I feel more grounded and centered and at peace than ever before. I wish I could attain a deeper and lasting emergence into whatever this experience is leading to. This seems to be a very slow process with lots of backsliding into old grooves. My ticker is pretty bad and I don't know how much time I have left but I sure would love to come to a deeper, more connected level of experience.

I think society and all our institutions are set up to blind us to some essential truths and keep us disconnected from each other and our true selves. We truly are in the matrix. The matrix has us!

https://i.4pcdn.org/pol/1474183175640.jpg

Imagine being this guy and seeing what (((Time Magazine))) says about you Woodman.