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Universe being aware of itself

stonerfromohio

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A free write that I wrote... let me know what you think

The universe has been in its creating of novelty since the instant that it was birthed out of the infinite void inching towards awareness of itself. Everything that exists does so because it willed itself into existence, my quote during one of my more intense mushroom trips, “There’s only something if you want there to be something if not your in hell.” I think psychedelic drugs are our sacred tool to unearthing the great primordial secrets of the universe. I think that we are on the verge of a spiritual awakening, it is evident everywhere. Religion is prominent anywhere in the world, all seven billion of us are mystified at how we truly got here, one day we existed, and our consciousness evolved from there. Nobody who has ever lived, or who is alive now knows the definitive answer of what happens after death. And instead of everyone on earth joining together in unity, peace, love and serenity we live within our materialistic, individualistic ego driven subjective experience and we don’t tap into the infinite radiant luminosity of divine light or consciousness. Many will not take drugs because of what they are told, many won’t commit a certain act whatever it may be solely because they are told, fear is looming and preventing so many people. We are brainwashed from birth to do what we are told, not to question and to live a “godly” life. I believe this “godly” life has been distorted instead of seeking truth through logic or personal experience the masses acknowledge a truth because someone told them. I believe that every single person on earth has the ability to live an enlightened, aware, happy life. Though I think happiness is fleeting, moment to moment there are different emotions and circumstances that will cause different states there is no permanence, within everything there is polarity constantly fluxuating. As we evolve culturally, physically, intellectually, spiritually, technologically the awareness of ourselves and the tapping into this infinite consciousness will increase, as this awakening happens there will be a great culmination of novelty, beauty will manifest out of the currently untapped streaming consciousness we will transcend physical life and acknowledge our spiritual being.

Do you think the universe is slowly becoming aware of itself?
Are drugs a tool put here by some sort of divinity?
Is humanity spiritually awakening?
 
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well this aint the word forum so i wont go there..

eh, what do you want to talk about ? anything in particular ?
im not sure how this will bring ground for a discussion ?
there is nothing in particular that stood out for me to comment on
 
I understand the concept of a self-aware sentient universe, I've felt it at peak psychedelic/meditative experiences. It's a nonverbal language, perhaps not even a real language at all.

You might want to narrow down your queries to generate some discussion here, which I hope you do because I always felt the concept of sentient universe (IE: everything perceivable) fascinating and spiritually inspiring.
 
2c-buoyant said:
You might want to narrow down your queries

sentient universe
well you just did :)

yeah i see the universe as being aware of itself
but i see myself as the universe, so im aware of myself
 
Yea I've actually had discussions about this before with people, and I too have felt it on psychedelics.

We are the universe = infinity! and we're slowly becoming aware of our own immensely complicated existence, aha.

I'd elaborate more but I'm about to have to go to work.

Peace.
 
Time to turn to Hegel...
...obviously, the universe is coming to some kind of self-awareness...unless we're somehow not part of the universe.
 
ebola? said:
Time to turn to Hegel...
...obviously, the universe is coming to some kind of self-awareness...unless we're somehow not part of the universe.

that's pretty cool that he said that. what a strange concept the universe, is, though. I mean, everything? everything that exists now? i wonder how to define the universe. My knee jerk reaction (socially conditioned) is to think of it physically, extending beyond earth to stars and galaxies at the outer reaches of space... But what about inner worlds, of humans and animals, should we add those up, too? An inner world that is initially unaware of itself can become self-aware, too.
 
stonerfromohio said:
Do you think the universe is slowly becoming aware of itself?
i believe the universe is already self-aware. i am the universe. i am self-aware.
stonerfromohio said:
Are drugs a tool put here by some sort of divinity?
maybe they weren't put here. maybe they're just here.
stonerfromohio said:
Is humanity spiritually awakening?
no more or no less than it was 5000 years ago or will be 5000 years hence.

alasdair
 
alasdairm said:
i believe the universe is already self-aware. i am the universe. i am self-aware.


maybe they weren't put here. maybe they're just here.

alasdair
well if you believe yourself as a self aware universe, maybe your are the "some sort of divinity" who put them there..
 
i believe the universe is already self-aware. i am the universe. i am self-aware.

I feel similarly. I doubt the sentient nature of the universe would be separated into all of the multitudes of factions of life within (IE: humans, other organisms of I'd imagine every sort) into one singular consciousness that's connected always, and with the right perceptive cultivation one can feel it throughout one's being (this is of course my personal experience, nothing more than one mans journey/interpretation).

Either way, one my favorite far out topics
 
maybe it is energy efficient or genetically advantageous for an organism to experience qualia

aka WHY would the universe become aware of itself? and at what level of the universe is this awareness being realized?

it cant be the classical neuron picture. thats just computation, if that could produce consciousness than so could a large mechanical machine with gears and levers

new physics must be involved in the production of qualia do people agree?
 
so this is a good questions of which came first, the chicken or the egg.

personally, i can't decide. damn being born a libra, those scales make me the eternal fence sitter.

on one hand i do think that our world, and certain magic such as the entheogens we discover, are so magnificent it has to be from intelligent design...much more intriguing than any evolutional trait of a hominid has been, IMO

but on the other hand...well i have little show in this one. my rational mind wants to discard irrational nonsense, but really, how can evolution be so perfect it creates something so incredible? there would have to be a sort of intelligence there to begin with to go that direction, evolution ain't the answer.
 
I believe that bits of the universe are self aware.

I.e. people like you and me.

I won't say that 'i am the universe' as that seems a bit egocentric when there are so many other people out there, and i wont say that the whole universe is self aware, because i have my doubts about my coffee cup (amongst other pieces).
 
Do you think the universe is slowly becoming aware of itself?
a big YES

(from me and many other people here who won't reply because they won't see the thread)

Are drugs a tool put here by some sort of divinity?
they are a tool for sure

how they came to be, i don't know
but it's not a divinity that put them here for us to get insights with

if a divinity with that capacity had wanted us to know something, it would just have told us directly, or would have written it the sky, etc. (or at least would have made sure that religious people wouldn't try to prevent everyone from taking drugs

Is humanity spiritually awakening?
a big YES
no more or no less than it was 5000 years ago or will be 5000 years hence.
5000 years is nothing compared to the span of life on earth

it's like saying no more or no less than last week

add a zero, and it's pretty obvious that humanity is spiritually awakening, although for many in a stray direction

and even compared to 5000 years ago, spirituality is evolving much faster
just see how many people on BL testify having felt being the universe becoming aware of itself, through the use of psychedelics

would this have happened just 100 years ago without access to the information that we read on the internet before deciding to try psychedelic drugs (as i suppose is the case for many of us) ?
 
I won't say that 'i am the universe' as that seems a bit egocentric when there are so many other people out there
once you realize that we all share the same universal consciousness, "i am the universe" and "we are the universe" become interchangeable

it's not egocentric anymore as "i" is the same consciousness as "we" (although experiencing a different life)
 
5000 years is nothing compared to the span of life on earth

Civilized Human Culture: 10,000 years ago was the starting point, and I believe the occurence held little merit other than being the start of the degradation and systematic breakdown of everything right and true in our natural environment. Just my 2c
 
ูู^^ not the beginning of civilized human culture. but the beginning of sedentism

still doesn't change that saying that "no more or no less than it was 5000 years ago or will be 5000 years hence" is neither true nor (if it were true) particularly relevant as 5000 years is nothing compared to the span of life on earth
 
good posts vegan
so you are saying that the universe is awakening ?

but if the universe is awakening where does it end
wouldnt the universe become some kind of "god" (omniscient, omnipresent, omni benevolent) eventually

if we, as the universe, are awakening, will it eventually end with us being "gods" traveling through space and time as we please
 
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