>Spiritual phenomena can be wholly explained materialistically
Discuss. True or false?
>wholly explained materialistically
Wholly explained according to law.
nothing can be wholly explained materialistically
>>18858126
What laws?
Have any of you ever been outside and saw an object in a strange enough place to make you wonder "how the hell did this get here?"
A few hours ago I was going on a late evening walk, part of my route was going across a small bridge overlooking train tracks. And then I saw pic related. Who the hell would leave a cane just hanging there like that?
How is this paranormal at all? I get you want to chat with people about this, but there's boards for that.
There actually use to be an old game show like this, only it was people in random, weird places.
>>18857673
A ghost put it there
Humans had technology to live eternal life since thousands of years earlier than now.
Paranormal, religious testaments, mythologies, and parapsychology are records/influenced of humans, with technology of eternal life, interacting with humans who were not possessing technology of eternal life. Another text to say this: humans who didn't have technology of eternal life have explained their experiences, with humans who have technology of eternal life, as religion, mythology, parapsychology, paranormal, and psi.
A realistic evaluation of the humans who believe/work of god, gods, religion, mythology, parapsychology, and psi is SOMETHING HAPPENED TO CAUSE THESE BELIEFS. Humans saw, heard, felt, smelt, and/or tasted SOMETHING; humans were not imagining...daydreaming...or fantasizing.
Generally, humans seem to do technology...so a simple realistic evaluation of believers of god, gods, religion, mythology, parapsychology, and psi?..they are living in a universe where humans have technologies to cause what an other human would experience as god, gods, religion, mythology, parapsychology, and psi.
Where is the proof humans have/had technology to live eternal life? Too many humans are dying to believe that any other group of humans, who have technology to live eternal life, are just making eternal life happen for all humans, else making eternal life happen for all humans is more difficult than can be done or is being done. So if there is a group forcing eternal life for all, or if there are groups, then they aren't benevolent sharers or aren't getting to share...thus we don't have evidence as if humans who have/had the technology are/were trying to help us prove humans have/had technology to live eternal life.
Here it is:
Consciousness is an element, an inherent form of existence we have yet to understand. What we do know is consciousness originates from the same place as all known matter and energy. That means that consciousness inherently shares a root with all existence.
We can influence matter by physical means. We can alter energy by non physical means. We can alter consciousness by physical, non physical, and conscious means. When we master consciousness, we master ourselves and our environment.
The key to immortality is realizing you never truly die because you're never truly alive. Our experience is a marker of distinction, no different than a single second amid hours and days of existence.
>>18857039
I think you are thinking too much as if eternal life has to be physical. We are soul based beings, when you find love or connect with the wisdom of your higher self, you know that in some sense we are connected with something that transcends the physical. Eternal beings are beings that have evolved consciously. Our bodies are just a step along the way for our souls. Multidimensional beings are using spiritual power not technological means. Evolution happens when we align with our soul, its like there are layers of an onion. The physical realm is just one of those layers. We can meditate to became receptive and permeable to sensing the other layers. When the circuit is complete, the equation balanced, its like there is a continuous stream of energy between the physical and nonphysical. This sort of starts the cycle of evolution, which does not happen over millions of years. What happens is the spiritual energy uses love and sort of revolves all the physical elements in a perfect balance and you sort of raise in vibration like a spiral of light and energy reaching from earth into the spirit.
Beings descend into the physical world so that they can individuate from the eternal source. This is a way to experience and grow ones personal spiritual being. Then you reach a level of love, wisdom, understanding. We reconnect with our souls, what we have always been. Then we integrate the gifts of our soul with the physical experience of life. In so doing, we can start effect ourselves and the environment. When we have learned and experienced what our soul and higher self wishes for us, we continue the cycle and return to the higher dimensions. Our planet is in the process of evolving through the third dimension. There are no limits. Kundalini is the power of mind over matter. Love is the power of being both the subject and the object, both mind and body. In sync with each other the body can begin to transcend the limits of physical existence.
>>18857039
>>18857065
Whats the general consensus? Real or fake? Best episode?
>>18856833
A few are real. My uncle did a show with them. Some of the stuff is added. Idr it was a goat or deer falling from the barn and the map theyfound were staged. But I love that that nigga in ops pic
>>18857215
SMD
>>18857227
Grow one
I know they're tons of astral projection threads on here. But alot of them seem bogus and role-play-esque. Even tho i feel like that, i do want to enlighten my perception and understanding of the world around me and beyond. Even if its a slim chance its real. i would be a fool to disbelieve it. So basically this is a thread for me and any anons that have legitimate questions and fascination about astral projection. Please only answer the questions given if you are an expert in projection and very confident about your answers. i'm concerned and i need help. i'll be monitoring this thread for days if it stays up. so ill reply when i have the time.
>When you do perform projection and leave your physical body and into your spiritual body. Are you leaving your body up to possession from other demons?
>Is anyone capable of projection? and if so why can't we naturally do it on command. like how an animal is born with specific instincts and if not what restricts you from going to the next plane? i have more questions but ill wait until these questions have been discussed and plus this OP post is way too long.
>>18856777
>>When you do perform projection and leave your physical body and into your spiritual body. Are you leaving your body up to possession from other demons?
It depends what altered state of consciousness you're talking about. But I'm going to assume you're talking about "Astral projection". Personally I get it every time I experience sleep paralysis, which then goes onto the experience people call "astral projection".
>>Is anyone capable of projection?
I believe everyone is capable.
> and if so why can't we naturally do it on command.
In my opinion
There are subconscious mind blocks in place among other things so you're only focused on this reality. Diet could possibly play a part. And I believe anyone who does things like Dmt, then dreams lucid precog and astral travel come frequently after that.
>i have more questions but ill wait until these questions have been discussed and plus this OP post is way too long.
I'm well experienced in altered states of consciousness.
Dream states, normal lucid and precog.
Sleep paralysis and what people call Astral projection.
Dmt induced states of consciousness.
Will do my best to help you
>>18856801
ive tried to astral project a few times but the most I got was certain parts of my body getting SUPER tingly like my legs and parts of my arm? Was that anything?
>>18856801
>>>When you do perform projection and leave your physical body and into your spiritual body. Are you leaving your body up to possession from other demons?
Misread your question.
The notion that something can go into your body is utter nonsense. The body is a thought, when you move away from that thought through shifting your conscious awareness , the body isn't there to be inhabited.
Hey /x/
I posted this on /out/ asking for help identifying what animal this came from
A student of mine found it in a field and brought it in to school to show me.
The bone later went missing in the room. We cannot find it. This happened yesterday. Today the tables in the room were all scratched up, with random markings but also a coupls X's and circular scratches.
What the fuck? Have any of you seen a bone like this used in magic or something? It is apparently a mammal mandible, possibly raccoon. It looks like it has been cut clean on one end, so I know humans had it before my kid found it.
Sounds like your classroom got vandalized by a student who saw and snatched a cool-looking bone on his way out.
I'd say it belonged to a lynx or a cougar, but you'd really need a biologist who specialized in predators to tell you for sure.
>>18856715
Don't think theres too many lynxes in urban south florida.
Could be right on the bone snatching, but that isn't too likely
looks like part of a baby peccary javelina jaw bone
If you look closely, it will get scary.
>OP is a _______
>>18856628
>OP is a scary.
>>18856628
FAGGOT
Hello from /co/
>>18856555
Hi, how are you.
What brings you here?
Hey /co/ want to hear a super secret?
Aliens are demons in disguise. God is real He sent His son Jesus Christ to die for our sins. He loves us and we are lucky to have Him
>>18856565
Aesthetic.
I want to start studying demons. Anything strictly about demons, the nature of demons, stuff like that. I don't want to summon anything, I just want knowledge. Where do I start?
>>18856526
Kill yourself
>>18856526
A comrade here !
>>18856526
The first book of Enoch
Discuss
>>18856252
>Discuss
OK. -- OP is the kind of lazy ass that posts an image and one word, then expects the world to populate a thread for him with insights and images.
>>18856272
Let's discuss the benefits of psychedelics and what it can do for the spiritual quester
>>18856316
>quester
See: >>18856272
My girl took a selfie snap to respond someone when staying over, and screamed when she saw the picture she had just taken. She showed it to me and it just seemed so real. I checked out the room in the back, nothing was there to resemble anything like it. There is a mirror on the opposite wall of the 'thing' in the room, and red light coming from my living room.
Ideas?
>>18856121
What the fuck thats scary af
>Ideas?
Yeah. Holy fuck, your writing is off the scale retarded.
>My girl took a selfie snap to respond someone when staying over, and screamed when she saw the picture she had just taken.
>There is a mirror on the opposite wall of the 'thing' in the room, and red light coming from my living room.
>>18856142
yeah im sorry pretty blazed at the moment and english is not my native language, now please tell me what demons I have in my house
Hey /x/
My girlfriend throughout her life has been plagued by some sort of "shadow being" as far as she can remember and we were curious if there was any way we could get rid of it.
Its more so of a mischievous nuisance than a malevolent entity, however we have a child on the way and would rather not have it involved in our affairs any longer.
This thing has been an emotional leech of sorts and will at times give her unprovoked bouts of anxiety and depression whenever she"s alone. It periodically knocks shit off shelves and walls and will at times wreaks havoc on electronics and at one point she even heard it make a very guttural growl.
Neither of us have seen the thing head on but will at times catch glimpses in the corner of our eyes, however she has had two friends claim to have seen it behind her while video chatting.
They described it as tall and dark with long tendril like arms and a slender man-esque shape but had no definitive "form" exactly as it was more of a shadow. Both people have claimed that the being has harassed them as well after seeing it.
So yeah I'm just trying to see if anyone on here has had experience with these types of beings before and whats the best way to get rid of or deal with them.
>>18856035
that was the original plan but now we have a baby on the way
>>18856041
Hey man I'm sorry
>>18856059
So you're the one that knocked her up?!?!
Hi /X
I could imagine there are quite a few of you that are fans of The X-Files.
So what is your favorite episode/episodes?
>Lets try to leave out the new ones.
Also:
Do you believe any of the conspiracies or stories on the show could be real?
I find a lot of them very interesting and some plausable.
>>18855986
I really liked:
Beyond the Sea
Darkness Falls
One Breath
Irresistible
The last fifteen minutes of Dod Kalm were also pretty great.
Agree.
Dod Kalm really stuck with me.
I also really like the ones with several parts. That goes deeper into the stories with aliens and the Cigraette man.
That cigarette dude is such a great character.
Besides that
>2shy
>War of the coprophages (kinda funny)
Ok so,
I'm coming here first as maybe I'm not going crazy but am just semi enlightened or perhaps in touch with a higher plane of existence.
Everything seems connected. Numbers are popping up everywhere and people are turning into weird creatures.
Am I insane or waking up to the simulation ?
>>18855932
Classic
Schizophrenia
>>18855932
Likely you were already ill and didn't know it. What do you mean by people turning into weird creatures?
>>18855932
You're connected.
>>18855852
Narrative technician here, what seems to be the problem?
>>18855865
Not OP, but basically my entire mechanism for decision making seems to be incompatible with the epistemological underpinnings of my current subjective position. I'm having trouble figuring out how to be a knight of faith in a Discordian or psuedo-Discordian context. While I'm not exactly rational, I use complicated heuristics to make decisions, but now I'm being told to navigate infinite ambiguity by the principle of love, which is itself something that could have infinitely many different meanings. Yet the very real threat of punishment seems to lurk over me. So there are infinitely many correct and infinitely many incorrect decisions, and there's no way to know which is what, and so I've just kind of shut down or otherwise fallen into a holding pattern.
>>18855902
Think about the decision making process in abstract. You have a problem, and queries about that problem relating to whether it is actually a problem, rather you can do anything about it (and so able to make a decision) and what potential solutions there could be. Then comes decision, the selection of what solution to implement and act on.
Your problem seems to be the generation of solutions, which you seek endlessly because of the infinite query-branches of such a query, as questions lead to tentative solutions leading to more questions. To prevent such a recursion, attach the query "Does continuing this query help the problem, or make it worse?) before querying for additional solutions. And so a stopping point is eventually decided upon before things get out of hand. Adding the axiom of choice into your epistemology can also help.
>I'm being told to navigate infinite ambiguity by the principle of love, which is itself something that could have infinitely many different meanings.
When you are dealing with infinitely many pieces of something, merely perform calculus integration to derive the function that describes the volume.