Anybody that does any self-examination comes to this conclusion, or something similar to it. Here is a quote from Huxley's
Doors:
I came across this quote while coming down from a trip report, which you can read here if you're interested:
http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showthread.php?t=473844&highlight=substancecode_mescaline
I've posted it before, but it seems to be so universal in its content that people often can relate to what I experienced.
I completely agree with what was said there. I think i may have some additional insights on those truths.
It said that we are all at every second, the larger mind, but due to being overwhelmed by experience, we extract only a tidbit of information from this tremendous super mind, which contains in it everything everywhere and all times. That not only do we subconsciously protect ourselves from such an experience, but that it is also not our main interest as a species because it has nothing to do with preserving itself and keeping us alive. I agree with this. I believe, although it may be the ultimate objective for each individual, our species at large is not interested in it, because genes main objective is preservation of species. So, this is true by our material nature.
It then goes on saying that the experience of this tidbit of information which we extracted, is what we use to form languages and philosophies and is the base experience for "this world" because it limits us in such a way that one can never surpass the language, its as if we were put into a cage of linguistics and ignorance, never to escape and face the truth of reality.
I believe the extractor, the thing which extracts information from the super mind and carries it into language, is none other than the ego. The ego sees what it wants to see out of an unlimited manifestation, and carries it back for it owns concern.
This is stated here: "the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things. That which, in the language of religion, is called "this world" is the universe of reduced awareness, expressed, and, as it were, petrified by language."
After making this point that we are all limited to experience by our own language amongst one another, as it causes us to depend on each other and thus restricts us, It then goes on saying that the "other worlds"(those being different than "this world"- the one we created through language), have many different elements and are just a minute expression of the mind at large. Which basically means, that there is only one total awareness, which has several different aspects.
This is stated here: "The various "other worlds," with which human beings erratically make contact are so many elements in the totality of the awareness belonging to Mind at Large."
It then carries on, by saying that some people, whether through birth capability, or through mystical practices, or psychedelic drugs, are able to bypass this special extracting process of the larger mind into the smaller mind, and thus experience the larger mind. Without such means, one may never know this larger mind because the only real way of knowing anything is through local language(direct experience,not word play). This is so, because in order to experience the larger mind and stop its extraction into the smaller mind, one cannot simply think his way there, not through any logic, unless that logic partakes in experience. The extraction process can never cease merely through thought, for thoughts are the result of the extraction process! how can the end result ever remove its cause?
This is stated here: Certain persons, however, seem to be born with a kind of by-pass that circumvents the reducing valve. In others temporary by-passes may be acquired either spontaneously, or as the result of deliberate "spiritual exercises," or through hypnosis, or by means of drugs. Through these permanent or temporary by-passes there flows, not indeed the perception "of everything that is happening everywhere in the universe" (for the by-pass does not abolish the reducing valve, which still excludes the total content of Mind at Large), but something more than, and above all something different from, the carefully selected utilitarian material which our narrowed, individual minds regard as a complete, or at least sufficient, picture of reality
after carefully analyzing this wonderful quote, i come to this conclusion:There is a larger mind, or super conscious, or god. This larger mind, super consciousness and god is everything to everyone. It knows everything across time. This supreme something, is a form of energy to be experienced. The problem though, is that we do not go about or lives experiencing. We go about our lives through language and thought, but not experience. Constantly we are chasing after some false hope or dream, when everything we need is here now. We do this because its in our language and our language is created by the ego, which keeps us running after nothing, never to experience the here and now. SO, we are just ego's walking around, not experiencing anything and feeding false linguistic data into one another. Our mindlessness has us on the level of animals or robots and is very self limiting. How can we be stuck in our minds, and yet, be so mindless? its sad, really. So then, how may we get out of this cage of linguistics and jump into the domain of experience? I say through the answer lies in ego-loss, through any means. Whether it be meditation, mantras, selfless devotional service, psychedelics, etc. Any means of which you can use to help dissolve your ego, is probably your new best friend. Why? because you will soon find out that your ego is suffering. Your ego is your own hell, which you created! for many many lifetimes, this ego of yours has wanted something; lust, love, greed, power, money, who knows? and because it wants so many things, it is constantly looking for each and every one of them. BUt this searching for something specific draws us back from the entire experience of reality. Its as if we are staring at a huge apple tree, with all of its glory and beauty, sitting in a hillside with sun glowing behind it. The wind blows by and you can see in the tree, the beauty of the wind, as it blows through each leaf. How tremendous a sight eh? Well, lets say you were to get attached to just one leaf on that tree. What you start seeing will quickly change. You may no longer see the beauty of the entire tree and hillside and sun and the wind, no no no, all you can see now is that one leaf, that one attachment. This is why the buddha said do not be attached to things. It was a means to drop your ego! drop your suffering!
Another example: I hold in my hands an amazing picture of a thousand details. If i hold it up to a room of 10 or 100 people, each different person would see in that one picture something different. Why is this so? it is because we are looking for something different. We are all looking for somehting different because we all want something different. we all want something different because it is our ego's desire. If we may drop our attachment to the ego, drop our desire and not want to see anything specific, we may then and only then, see the one picture in all of its thousand details.
So you see, this ego of ours is our main problem and is the reason why we cannot handle the supermind, because we are stuck and attached to the world. We want the truth, but we cant handle the truth. How can we handle something as ultimately liberating as the truth, if we arent ready to let go?
Once we drop our ego and our attachments to desires, then we may exit the linguistic world of chasing after nothing, and enter into the now; into experience. Through persistent effort and constant inner practice, or possibly even immediately, one may experience this Larger mind. It all depends on the intensity of your being and non attachment.
-peace and love.
which i feel did me more harm then good because of the idea of going to hell scared me as a child. Also when I see all the images the Hubble telescope has shown us I have a hard time believe somewhere out there is a supernatural man that secretly controls everything. Like the OP if there is a god or something after life why would they punish me since I am so insignificant that my sins/mistakes wouldn't matter to them.
