death/ near death experiences opening new realms of thought?

if youre willing to let your mind expand to that realm. theres a saying i have learnt in the army: "perception is reality." people only look at the physical aspects of life. so they put limits on the spiritual world, often from outside influence on others such as churches, society, friends,ect... it often applies to peoples minds too. they think that their mind is only so smart so it wont be any more than just what they think. people also spend too much time on fixing the negative emotions in their mind while that mind power could be used towards learning.

 

precisely.

 

atleast someone agrees.. we live in a conformist society.

 

yuck

 

get in or get out! ha only the weak cling together =) very negative but its true from my perspective.

 

Stalk, thanks for the trippy pic. It's almost good enough to trigger a flashback.

 

I imagine the army would be a good place to learn about freedom.

 

individual freedom. maybe a freedom beyond what we recieve in this country...

 

im sorry for insulting you.

 

It was instructional for me.

Like in the Zen story - I think it goes something like this:

The student told the master, "There is no 'me,' there is no love, no anger."

The master slapped the student's face, and the student became outraged.

The master said, "If there is no anger, then what is this?"

 

i see your point ^_^ one with humility will never stop learning.

 

espfeelit ... did you have a death experience of some kind?

 

yes ^-^ i was dead for 2 and a half days

 

Two and a half days!!
With me it seemed like about 5 minutes, but i'm not sure if my body ceased to function or not for that time, ... my body was in a bad way but perhaps not quite on deaths door. It was definitely an ego death though. I found myself 'in spirit'... the multi dimensional subtle realms beyond the physical ...although i could still see my room and all the physical things in it, yet my conciousness seemed able to travel through and into things. I merged with the light, saw auras and all sorts of stuff ... quite the revelation!

So do you recall what you were doing in those two and a half days?

 

I've been dead for over 55 years.

I could tell you lots of things that have happened to me while I've been dead. In fact, I'm trying to write a book about some of them.

 

that's really cool liquid. i dont recall anything and it makes mesad. wish i could. whats do you mean zengizmo?

 

hahahahaha...you're too funny Zen.....

 

oops took it too serious ha cant really tell on a computer ^-^

 

Windy!!! You're still hanging here!

LOL Yeah, I'm too stinkin' irreverent for my own good, as always.

So nice to "see" you again.

 

You had an experience that I can only wish for.

I wonder if maybe some memories of your death experience are still available to you somewhere, somehow...