Ah Doug, you light me up. I read this while coming to terms with an illness I recently found will affect me for the rest of my life, after finding out my brother in law passed today and it gave me light and hope. You affected me my mate, and I hope this affects you, beautiful soul.
Nice. Thanks for trashing the transhumanist "live forever" and "reverse aging" agenda. Trouble is when this becomes a public meme, many will actually believe it and go with the program and most likely Big Pharma/Tech will reap the benefits. Even Fox news is in the act --- reporting on their evening news show yesterday about reversing aging.
Your experience sounds almost exactly like the time I died. From an illness. Leaving this consciousness feels much like that. I have no frame of reference to put words to it, but this sounds close. Words just get in the way.
Once upon a time many years ago, I got a copy of Cyberia at a huge publishers' outlet store. In the parking lot took a look at the first chapter and... then I noticed the sun had gone down so I stuck in a bookmark and drove home.
Near as I can tell you are a version of me with way better access to resources and information, determined to spread them around. Your work has not changed the direction my world view points in - just added a LOT of depth and detail, and opened new paths for exploration.
Your latest post makes it clear that you are a natural born Gnostic. I should have guessed, though it came as no surprise. I had my first "great revelation" experience at age 23, following some years of obsessive study and even more obsessive meditation and self observation.
Pray do continue: The world as we know it only has single digit decades left, so there's a lot of work to be done and you are handing out essential tools. Thank you for that.
I deeply appreciate what you have written. You articulate some of the experience I've had during my 79 years. To die and come back reinvigorated for this brief, but incandescent and beautiful moment in time. Today my wife and I were out walking in the woods and any number of trees caused me to stop and examine their bark and form. It was all new and just so.
Complete side note, not intended as a criticism, I don't know where yours came from. But, the toad is endangered, 5-MAO-DMT can be synthesized from internationally unregulated chemicals, Hamilton Morris has a video and writing about it. We can let the toads live their lives without harassing them until they spray.
Ah Doug, you light me up. I read this while coming to terms with an illness I recently found will affect me for the rest of my life, after finding out my brother in law passed today and it gave me light and hope. You affected me my mate, and I hope this affects you, beautiful soul.
What a truly awe- and wonder-full report. Thank you for trusting yourself and us enough to share it here, it was a privilege to read.
Nice. Thanks for trashing the transhumanist "live forever" and "reverse aging" agenda. Trouble is when this becomes a public meme, many will actually believe it and go with the program and most likely Big Pharma/Tech will reap the benefits. Even Fox news is in the act --- reporting on their evening news show yesterday about reversing aging.
Your experience sounds almost exactly like the time I died. From an illness. Leaving this consciousness feels much like that. I have no frame of reference to put words to it, but this sounds close. Words just get in the way.
Reading this was quite the ride. Uncomfortable and very familiar at once. Thanks so much for sharing this experience.🌀
Hey Douglas,
Once upon a time many years ago, I got a copy of Cyberia at a huge publishers' outlet store. In the parking lot took a look at the first chapter and... then I noticed the sun had gone down so I stuck in a bookmark and drove home.
Near as I can tell you are a version of me with way better access to resources and information, determined to spread them around. Your work has not changed the direction my world view points in - just added a LOT of depth and detail, and opened new paths for exploration.
Your latest post makes it clear that you are a natural born Gnostic. I should have guessed, though it came as no surprise. I had my first "great revelation" experience at age 23, following some years of obsessive study and even more obsessive meditation and self observation.
Pray do continue: The world as we know it only has single digit decades left, so there's a lot of work to be done and you are handing out essential tools. Thank you for that.
One of the most profound and beautiful things I've ever read, Douglas. Thank you.
I deeply appreciate what you have written. You articulate some of the experience I've had during my 79 years. To die and come back reinvigorated for this brief, but incandescent and beautiful moment in time. Today my wife and I were out walking in the woods and any number of trees caused me to stop and examine their bark and form. It was all new and just so.
I’m grateful to read this today. Thank you.
Maybe *answering* has become the addiction, and thinking is not required?
If I were a student of Michael Levin, I’d keep swearing I was born stupid and bipolar.
The conventional wisdom searches for balance, yet the heart is not in the middle by design.
Imagine if surgery put the heart in the middle, as does machine learning.
We put the word balance as guru to individualism, or *genius*
Yes we need to die, to again see what is unbalanced in freakonomics and endless addictive staged lies.
Evangelism can not go analogue and never has, children are just too unpredictable.
Complete side note, not intended as a criticism, I don't know where yours came from. But, the toad is endangered, 5-MAO-DMT can be synthesized from internationally unregulated chemicals, Hamilton Morris has a video and writing about it. We can let the toads live their lives without harassing them until they spray.
Namaste. And so on.
I love the end of this story. I love
that you are in a new “somatic”
phase of your journey. And I’m glad you took the DMT so I don’t have to!