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u/Neratyr · 1 pointr/philosophy

I'm days late to the party but still wanted to reply.

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"All of them and none of them" is going to be ( albeit frustratingly ) your best answer haha!

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Like most philosophy its a bit like fine art... meant to be thought provoking yet very personally interpreted. The empty spaces between concepts laid out by words are where the real value is. So really you are trying to capture the 'accurate' feeling of those gaps, of that nothingness.

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Yet at the same time one of the best concepts from the Tao Te Ching is simply that if you can put it into words then it is not 'the eternal tao'. Really this means that it cannot be neatly defined by language. This makes the fact, that we require translations, to be less impactful on our attempts to understand the text.

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So I cannot answer you as you would like. But I can honestly say that this is because there really is not a best translation. I own many different copies and related works ( on mentoring, on parenting, on this on that etc etc ) simply because there is not a single best iteration.

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I have ended up favoring two copies both of which are actually 'illustrated' - but do not hate on illustrations! Since they are illustrated I leave them out in the open like coffee table book style. Over time I've grown fond of them and their particular translations. Worth noting, the illustrated aspect of both books came AFTER the translating work... as in these authors didn't set out to make pictures they set out to translate accurately first then after many years made illustrated versions.

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One is by Stephen Mitchell. He is a renown translator. His Book

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The other is by Man-Ho Kwok, Martin Palmer, Jay Ramsay w/ calligraphy by Kwok-Lap Chan. Link for convenience

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I also found this on Mentoring and this classic on Parenting to both be very good.

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Final thought. I wanted to address your direct inquiry honestly ( ie: cannot label a 'best' ) but also provide some specific works that I have found value in. I also want to make a final recommendation to learn about Taoist philosophy. The Tao of Pooh and the Te of Piglet. Amazon Link to box set of the two.

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Those two books are excellent for the studied as well as the unfamiliar reader. They thoughtfully explain how Winnie the Pooh is almost a perfect representation of taoist principles and concepts. I found these two books to be a really great way for me to personally cement philosophical concepts to real world practice. Having to read and think about full situations ( even if cartoon ) really helped me to memorize practical take-aways.

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So in summary, the TL;DR is this...

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  • No best translation. This is not bad though, the exact translation doesn't matter so much. Literally the first words in the Tao Te Ching are saying if you can use words to describe it accurately then you are not actually describing the Tao. So its a "feeling" you learn over time, not a definition you memorize succinctly
  • On the Tao Te Ching - I highly recommend, since they are cheap and short, to obtain several copies. One copy I linked, by Man-Ho Kwok, has a 20 page intro which dives into detail and nuance of translating. I found this highly insightful which is why I recommend to learn about the translation process a bit.
  • If you want to learn about Taoism in general ( just as recommended as reading the tao te ching ) then I recommend Tao of Pooh and Te of Piglet.
  • I would also recommend to pick up related works like the one on Mentoring for example. Have kids? Get the parenting one too. Works such as these take the core principles of the Tao Te Ching and describe discuss and 'illustrate' their meaning for the reader. Thinking about these concepts in as many ways and situations in life as possible truly helps to further your understanding - and solidify the memories.

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    Whether you just want to explore a copy, or dive headfirst into The Way, I hope you can find some of this advice helpful!

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u/Vitamin_C_is_awesome · 3 pointsr/AWLIAS

"we are close to the True ending but everyone else is either at the beginning, middle or end. We want to have spoiler talks with them but that would that ruin the game for them an have them hate us or they wouldn’t believe us"

I like your idea that says we are one infinite being wanting to have a limited experience, this is what my guide told me which I wrote down:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072M9RDNH
Chapter 18:
At the Beginning

At the beginning, there was you.

Only you.

There is still only you, but you have gotten really good at deceiving yourself to get out of the agonizing thought of your own pointlessness.

You make things, you make SO MANY things with your thoughts, it was fun for a while, but they are not...alive, not “interactive” per say, even with all the “physics” you have created for it, you got bored quickly.

In all the worlds that you have created, you’ve made many versions of yourself, hoping things get...interesting, but like playing chess alone, after a while...it felt...stupid...you know why and what the other person is doing and is going to do, and they all know it too...because every version of you knows everything, they are Gods...they are ALL you...hell they even know they ARE you !

So you make every version of you temporarily forgot that they are Gods, that they came from the same source, you gave them the ability to play pretend not knowing what each other was thinking, yes not knowing what each other was thinking IS an ability, because in your default natural state, you know all and is all and you are bored to death because of it - suddenly, because of this temporary “ability”, the illusion of individuality was born, all versions of you thought that he/she/it/whatever is alone in his/her/its own thought.

The truth is...All is one, all is STILL one, there NEVER was a time where you were completely separated from me.
You couldn’t exist without me because you ARE me.

But the whole thing is still...pointless, all of me are Gods, nothing can damage me, nothing can enhance me, in a state of perfection, there is no need to give or receive anything, to do anything to anyone or for anyone, all versions of me knew everything and have everything as and when he needed it - it is all so instantaneous, the word “need” and “instantaneous” doesn’t even begin to describe the situation, hell there isn’t even a “situation” to begin with.

This wouldn’t do, this is all so...boring.

If they want love, they just alter their own internal functions to fill themselves with love from within, if they want “things”, they’ll have them as soon as they desire them, there is no reason to even “get out of bed” so to speak.

Let’s implement....let’s implement...mortality, my greatest invention ! My own fake death ! God can fake his own death ! YES, Great ! Finally !

Finally, God can die, God can be healed, God can be attacked, God can be saved, God need love, God can give love, God can receive love, God can be hurt !

In this form God can be hurt ! Wow this is so cool and hip and amazing !

From the base implementation of mortality spans ALL KINDS of reasons for me to do anything and everything !

The illusion that “time is running out on me” causes me to have so much motivation to do the things I do...for most versions of me anyway, and then by self-inflicting the concept that one might possibly “die before his time”, it causes more of me to do even more stuff !

God finally have a reason to do anything at all !

I don’t ever want to wake up from this, because there is NOTHING ELSE to do beyond this simulation I have created to play myself out.

This place is my place of expansion, this is where it is all “happening”, this is where all the “party” and purpose for me is.

But every now and then, some versions of me “figured it out”, “gained enlightenment” so to speak, some even went so far as to revert back to full abilities while in physical form, first they have fun playing “God”, and then they get bored as crap, you wouldn’t understand while you are in this form, you might think that having the power of God will impress the people around you, you did not take into consideration that you will also feel what they feel, even before you begin to “impress” you already knew the outcome and felt it completely, and not only that, you know everything...EVERYTHING, no more anticipation, no more excitement about a new experience, soon you will try to point a gun on your head hoping to put yourself out of your misery but then you remembered you wouldn’t ever die, that even the very act of dying is, in itself, an illusion.

You soon realize your best bet is to wish that the next time you willingly come down into physical form again and you will, you hope to God(arh...the irony) that you will NEVER realize you are the infinite being himself.

This is why you never usually hear from the truly enlightened, all you hear from your media are people soaked in the delusion of things and wealth and the various inebriation I have created to drowned myself out, the enlightened realized it’s all bullcrap and just stop participating in it all together.

Blessed are the naive and the ignorant for at least they’re capable of feeling something, at least they are still under the delusion that there are something beyond their reach that they have to actively obtain, that there are “something” to “strive” for.

You THINK you want to be God, to feel like God, the irony is, when you realize you ARE God, you head straight back down to physical form with your artificially induced limited intellect because you cannot stand all that you are, because there is nothing beyond you, it’s deafening.

This is why the truly enlightened end up disappearing from society altogether and go live in a cave or something, they are just hoping that when they die, the next time they come down again, they BETTER don’t ever realize that they are God the next time round, or maybe realize it but don’t realize it to the point of obtaining full power because he will want to blow his brains out again from boredom...only to realize he wouldn’t die...and the cycle continues.

Being drowned in the delusion is in itself, a form of blessing in disguise appreciable only by those who are out of it.

It is REALLY BORING when you can do everything and know everything for all time/time branches and beyond, or worst, when you realize there is no time.

If you ever make the humorously “tragic” realization that you are God and regain ALL abilities, you may wish you haven’t, because you could lose all purpose again and wish to be reborn in ignorance.
You will be laying on the beach looking up at the sky, saying “what is my motivation ?”

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u/Loud_Volume · 2 pointsr/holofractal

Hey guys. Long time fan of this community and love the work and research. I hope this post is welcome here I felt it was applicable. This is from the streaming service Gaia, which is similar to netflix but for conscious information instead. This was a great episode and probably the best so far out of this series. I was motivated to share it here and in other sub-reddit's because of its message and deep impact. The reality we live in is inverted and we have been in a false state of perception for a long time as a collective species. This is rapidly changing as we re-disover and re-member who and what we truly are.

There is a lot that ties in with this but I really wanted to share the video. Here are some additional links and research on this as well as some books that I personally recommend. I hope this helps atleast one of you in some way, in that, I will be happy. This is my way of being service to others and I want us all to have a bright future.

Additional links & research:

Recommended books:

https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855

https://www.amazon.com/Destiny-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184995

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/163451.Between_Death_Life

https://www.amazon.com/Your-Souls-Plan-Discovering-Meaning/dp/1583942726

Recommended links:

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/7x8eig/the_cias_declassified_research_on_the_human_soul/du69hjy/?context=0

http://awakeningforums.com/thread/666/foia-document-hypothesis-collective-consciousness

A personal tribute to the holofractal community that I put together a while back:

http://awakeningforums.com/thread/368/hidden-world-symbols-right-front

Much love and light! I hope this helps in some way and I hope this post is alright here. Keep up the research guys and thank you! We are all one!

u/SecretAgentMan_007 · 3 pointsr/Reincarnation

Hello, I am an engineer and am very analytic in my thinking as well. I had a series of life experiences a few years ago that opened me up to things like meditation, hypnosis, and past lives among others. After reading Dr. Michael Newton's books 'Journey of Souls' and 'Destiny of Souls' I decided that I wanted to do a past life regression and have my own personal experience. I did this because I wanted to know first hand what I would remember, how it would feel, and how it might all fit in with my issues I'm dealing with in life today. It was such an amazing experience that I recently decided to take a class to get certified in hypnosis.

After reading your post I realized I might have a perspective to offer that might assist you. This is my opinion based on what I've learned and what I've experienced, so take it for what it's worth. First of all, in my hypnosis class I learned that hypnosis is really just a term used to describe a state of mind that we all enter naturally without realizing it. When we work with a hypnotist, we are working with an individual who not only helps facilitate reaching this state, but they also help us utilize that state of mind to work towards accomplishing goals.

The hypnotic state of mind is basically where your brain waves slow down from the normal busy beta range to the slower and more relaxed alpha range. A deep trance state is even slower still where your brainwaves enter the theta range. Delta is where we go unconscious and dream/sleep. These brainwave states are natural and like I said, we go into them all the time without realizing it. When our brain waves slow down our conscious mind moves closer to the subconscious/unconscious mind where our habitual thought patterns originate as well as our intuition. With a focused effort you can consciously access these programs and insights to help you to accomplish your goals.

When we read a book or watch tv we tune out all the external noise going on around us. We immerse our imagination in the story being told. This can be categorized as a state of hypnosis. When you get into your car and drive on autopilot while deep in thought, this is a state of hypnosis. Hypnosis is a participatory event and although you become more suggestible in these states you are still you, and you are still very aware of who you are and what you are doing.

One of the reasons some people are less hypnosis friendly is because it requires a 'trust' in order for us to truly relax to this state with another person. There is also the factor that if we are overly analyzing everything that is going on we really aren't relaxing and letting our brain waves slow to the alpha state. There are many factors at play. My advice would be to learn how to let go and trust the process. Be more on board with doing it than you are in resistance to it. We can all be torn on certain decisions. Hypnosis only works when you truly are ready to move on and accomplish goal X. If part of you really doesn't want to accomplish goal X, then that part of yourself will sabotage the process. We can be incredibly conflicted creatures, especially those of us who overly analyze everything.

Get the notion that you are a difficult case for hypnosis out of your head. You go to this natural state several times a day, every day of your life. The only difference is that in hypnosis or meditation you are actively working to accomplish a goal. Hypnosis is facilitated and guided by somebody else. Meditation is self guided. Repetition makes a difference too. This isn't magic. There is a reason why things work the way they do. The more you focus on your goal and work at it, the more likely you are to accomplish it.

I hope this helps. Sorry its so long. Let me know if you have any questions.

u/dreamUnraveler · 1 pointr/AskReddit

Hey! Please don't even consider prematurely taking your life... from all I've read the karmic situation you're in will need to be resolved either in this life, or after... and it's way harder after.

So, on a lighter note:

Why are humans afraid of dying? Maybe because they haven't read (or don't believe) "Journey of Souls"...

Yea... getting past the fear of dying, even welcoming it can really open up the opportunity to be thankful for and really wake up and enjoy the unfathomably amazing gift that living is.

I kind of see two primary divergent philosophical rivers here (of course many tributaries on each):

First: afterlife+karma+fate(+reincarnation?)

Second: death as final+no objective morality+we're all just random cosmic blobs.

I'm pretty firmly in the karma camp... I'm not sure what your life partner situation is, and I'm certainly not a counselor, but I do believe that letting someone else have such negative impact on your outlook on life requires your consent (very likely not conscious)... People do get divorced/separated, and do find happiness later... people also go to counselors and resolve issues... I'm certainly not saying that any path in front of you is easy, but I truly believe that picking a path to explore will bring you much more than ceasing forward motion... One odd piece of life-partner relationships is that much of the strength of the relationship is dependent upon the self-esteem of the individuals, and that self-esteem can't be dependent upon the partner... The more you find yourself... your true self... the you that you really love... that your sister and parents unconditionally love... the stronger your relationship will become... assuming your partner can keep up... (at least that's my opinion from my experience and from others I've known)...

Best wishes for pursuing your the best path for you! Thx for sharing!

u/[deleted] · 2 pointsr/starseeds

OK. Let's say that regular people are in 3D, starseeds might be in 4D and to be an architect that have full control of its mind and is able to create with it, then you have to be 5D, or 6D. Honestly, I don't like that catagories. I really don't know exactly what they mean. I rather like to talk about astral plane, mental plane, buddic plane, etc.

According to Michael Newton, in this book: https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855, there are several levels in the afterlife, or in the spiritual world or in the Soul's Realm. After you die, you can reach the light or not. If you can reach the light you can go to a second level when you can do or be whatever you want, even a whore or a queer. Yes in heaven. Would you believe that? But if you wanna be part of the plan of God and become and arquitect that create reality you have to go to higher levels, the internal planes. There are a delicate balance in that levels. Only those who have love can go inthere. It requires huge self control, love and will. Only the sword of will and love can open that door. They can create reality, the present moment, but it is a gruop work that requires a lot of discipline.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk5bSG78pbQ

Bottomline, you are a soul, not the shadow, as described by Plato. Not the personality. When you realize that, then you are at home, here or in any other planet or place in the Universe. You can work alone or you can be part of a greater plan. The Plan of God. God's Plan. It's up to you, AS FAR AS YOUR POSSIBILITIES ALLOW YOU TO DO.

Briefly, in a general way, that's what I think, but to me is a bit more complicated.

Know thyself. You have to fully know your self as a soul, as a being of light and love, if you wanna fully develop your abilities (as soul, that is, as a being of light and love). It require training. Self, auto-imposed, control and discipline.

I dream with a world, downhere, when everyone, anyone, can have free access to light and love, and freely create with its mind unlimitedly.

I would like to be a bridge between those beings of light and love and people to bring light and love downhere and clean the planetary aura, because, right now, it is infested of demons. And Lords of Darkeness rules downhere. When Christ, a starseeds, a big one, came downhere, they beat Him very badly to death; they killed Him. And if He come back now they will do the same thing again. Because Lords of Darkness want to destroy the bridge between the soul and the shadow (your personality) and keep us downhere creating demons and with no access to light and love. They don't want you to know that you are a soul, a being of light and love. They want you to be a whore (men and women). They want you to be their bitch and work for them.

u/angstycollegekid · 5 pointsr/askphilosophy

Much like you, I've also recently developed a strong interest in Levinas. I've yet to read him, though, so please take that into account when considering my recommendations.

I recently asked some of my professors and a friend of mine who wrote his master's thesis on Levinas to help me out with getting started. This is what they recommended:

  • This introductory book by Colin Davis has been the most recommended to me. Davis succeeds in the difficult task of executing a clear exposition of Levinas' difficult prose without sacrificing too much of its nuance.
  • Regarding Levinas' own writing, begin with On Escape. This work develops Levinas' fundamental ideas on Being and alterity, demonstrates how he does phenomenology, and reveals his engagement with Heidegger and Husserl
  • The two next best works to read are Existence and Existents and Time and the Other.

    I'm not too knowledgeable of Husserl, so all I can really recommend from him is the Cartesian Meditations, which sort of serves as an introduction to Husserl's own method of phenomenology.

    For Heidegger, the most important work in this regard is certainly Being and Time. If you have the time, I recommend picking up the Basic Writings and reading through most of it.

    On a final note, Levinas was steeped within the Jewish intellectual tradition. Jewish philosophers often emphasize the role of community and social contextuality in general. It might serve you well to read works such as Martin Buber's I and Thou and Gabriel Marcel's Being and Having.

    EDIT: Another good compliment to Levinas is Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception.
u/Androdameia · 5 pointsr/Psychic

Being new to discovering your abilities is the BEST! I am so excited for you!

As a medium, I find it important to always work through the heart, and to be sure I am grounded and centered before doing any Spirit work. Build your relationship to Soul/Higherself. I found connecting IN to my own Soul brings the clearest energy. Begin learning your own energy, sooner than you know you'll be able to discern energies and begin clear communication.

Soul1.org is a great site to learn to clear your Central Channel. All of this clearing work will serve you in the long. You'll be so happy you laid a basic foundation for yourself.

There is also a book Soul Psycology by Joshua David Stone that has tons of excellent information in it. Basic framework to higher development. He has written a lot of books, most I am not a huge fan of, but this one I enjoyed. Another fun one, especially of you like working with visuals (sacred geometry) Sedona Beyond the Vortex by Richard Dannelley. If you enjoy books about Channeling or Archangels check out What is Lightbody by Archangel Ariel channelled through Tashira Tachi-ren.


Find a solid network of people that you can feel comfortable with for learning. No matter how you choose to learn, or who you choose to learn with, just remember you have the power to do everything you're hoping to accomplish! Your teacher, should you choose to work with one, should be leading you to your own power.

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u/SushiAndWoW · 2 pointsr/Paranormal

> If the afterlife were a neat, material package that could be placed somewhere and found and touched and put on my feet, there would be no questions on whether or not an afterlife exist.

This is the gist of it. Beyond experience that we can personally reproduce on a daily basis, there is doubt about everything.

How do I know that the weight of the electron is 9.1 10^-31 kg, for example? I do not. Google told me. I didn't test it myself; I don't even know how to test it myself; and Google might be lying.

Perhaps Google is itself trusting a source that has made up this information, or made an error in measuring it. Aha, you'll say, but the weight of the electron has been independently measured and reproduced, by multiple teams. By whom, I ask? By me? No, not by me. Just by a sufficient number of people who appear to be sufficiently credentialed that I do not see a major risk in trusting them. They sign their names with "PhD" and they use words and concepts I have to look up.

That is how I "know" the weight of the electron. By applying very superficial heuristics, not directly to the science itself, but to people who tell me about it. I don't really know the weight of the electron at all. I just take a leap of faith, and use it as though it's true. I haven't measured it myself. I couldn't possibly measure everything myself, and still progress in science.

For some reason, this amount of certainty is okay to build machines and bridges and develop scientific theories, but it's not sufficient when talking about the rarely observed reality. If you haven't experienced it yourself, then all you have to go on is the word of others. And if you
have* experienced it yourself, in most cases, it isn't an ability you have; it's something that happened to you once or twice. You cannot reproduce it on demand.

If reincarnation exists, what evidence is more convincing than a child describing in detail his life as a Vietnam pilot, and having the details check out? Yet there remains room for doubt. Did the parents put him up to it? Did they write the book to be famous and make money?

You can have your own experience if you visit a hypnotherapist. You can have several. But is that proof? Are those really your past life memories, or is your mind making it up?

You can read Michael Newton's work, and be impressed by the consistency in his clients' reports - how they seem to describe the same spirit life under hypnosis, regardless of their culture or their previous views on the topic. But what if Newton is just making it up?

You can talk to hypnotherapists who learned from Newton - other practitioners who are regressing people of different religions, different cultures, clients who never read Newton's work. They'll tell you the reports of these people are consistent with Newton's. But what if these therapists are just deluding themselves, or making it up?

Indeed, what if the weight of the electron is made up? Why do you trust it?

At some point, you have to trust at least the common points that people claim. You can trust tentatively, at first; but each additional person who independently makes a consistent claim adds to the credibility of the core message. That is how you "know" the weight of the electron, without actually having measured it yourself.

u/WitchDruid · 2 pointsr/witchcraft

The Following list is taken from the Witches & Warlocks FB page. (This is Christian Day's group)

Witches and Warlocks Recommended Reading List
This is a collection of books recommended by our admins and participants in the group. Books must be approved by the admins so if you'd like to see one added to the last, please post it in the comments at the bottom of this list and, if it's something we think is appropriate, we'll add it! We provide links to Amazon so folks can read more about the book but we encourage you to shop at your local occult shop whenever possible! :)


BEGINNER'S WITCHCRAFT BOOKS

Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft
by Raymond Buckland
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0875420508

Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America
by Margot Adler
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0143038192

Grimoire of the Thorn-Blooded Witch: Mastering the Five Arts of Old World Witchery
by Raven Grimassi
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1578635500

The Inner Temple of Witchcraft: Magick, Meditation and Psychic Development
by Christopher Penczak
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0738702765

The Kybalion: The Definitive Edition
by William Walker Atkinson (Three Initiates)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1585428744

Lid Off the Cauldron: A Wicca Handbook
by Patricia Crowther
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1861630328

Mastering Witchcraft
by Paul Huson
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0595420060

Natural Magic
by Doreen Valiente
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0919345808

Natural Witchery: Intuitive, Personal & Practical Magick
by Ellen Dugan
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0738709220

Old World Witchcraft: Ancient Ways for Modern Days
by Raven Grimassi
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1578635055

The Outer Temple of Witchcraft: Circles, Spells and Rituals
by Christopher Penczak
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0738705314

Power of the Witch: The Earth, the Moon, and the Magical Path to Enlightenment
by Laurie Cabot
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0385301898

Solitary Witch: The Ultimate Book of Shadows for the New Generation
by Silver RavenWolf
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0738703192

Spirit of the Witch: Religion & Spirituality in Contemporary Witchcraft
by Raven Grimassi
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0738703389

Witch: A Magickal Journey
by Fiona Horne
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0007121326

Witchcraft for Tomorrow
by Doreen Valiente
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0709052448

Witchcraft Today
by Gerald Gardner
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0806525932
The Witches' Craft: The Roots of Witchcraft & Magical Transformation
by Raven Grimassi
http://www.amazon.com/dp/073870265X
The Witching Way of the Hollow Hill
by Robin Artisson
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982031882

WITCHCRAFT HISTORY AND RESOURCE BOOKS

Aradia or The Gospel of the Witches
by Charles Godfrey Leland
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982432356

Encyclopedia of Mystics, Saints & Sages: A Guide to Asking for Protection, Wealth, Happiness, and Everything Else!
by Judika Illes
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0062009575

The Encyclopedia of Witches, Witchcraft and Wicca
by Rosemary Ellen Guiley
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0816071047

Etruscan Roman Remains
by Charles Godfrey Leland
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1494302519

The God of the Witches
by Margaret Murray
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0195012704

The Weiser Field Guide to Witches, The: From Hexes to Hermione Granger, From Salem to the Land of Oz
by Judika Illes
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1578634792

ADVANCED BOOKS ON WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

Blood Sorcery Bible Volume 1: Rituals in Necromancy
by Sorceress Cagliastro
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1935150812

The Deep Heart of Witchcraft: Expanding the Core of Magickal Practice
by David Salisbury
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1780999208

Teen Spirit Wicca
by David Salisbury
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1782790594

Enchantment: The Witch's Art of Manipulation by Gesture, Gaze and Glamour
by Peter Paddon
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1936922517

Initiation into Hermetics
by Franz Bardon
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1885928122

Letters from the Devil's Forest: An Anthology of Writings on Traditional Witchcraft, Spiritual Ecology and Provenance Traditionalism
by Robin Artisson
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1500796360

Magical Use of Thought Forms: A Proven System of Mental & Spiritual Empowerment
by Dolores Ashcroft-Nowick and J.H. Brennan
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1567180841

Magick in Theory and Practice
by Aleister Crowley
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1500380679

The Plant Spirit Familiar
by Christopher Penczak
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982774311

Protection and Reversal Magick
by Jason Miller
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1564148793
Psychic Self-Defense
by Dion Fortune
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1578635098
The Ritual Magic Workbook: A Practical Course of Self-Initiation
by Dolores Ashcroft-Norwicki
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1578630452
The Roebuck in the Thicket: An Anthology of the Robert Cochrane Witchcraft Tradition
by Evan John Jones, Robert Cochrane and Michael Howard
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1861631553

The Satanic Witch
by Anton Szandor LaVey
http://www.amazon.com/Satanic-Witch-Anton-Szandor-LaVey/dp/0922915849
Shadow Magick Compendium: Exploring Darker Aspects of Magickal Spirituality
by Raven Digitalis
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003VS0N5K
The Tree of Enchantment: Ancient Wisdom and Magic Practices of the Faery Tradition
by Orion Foxwood
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1578634075
The Underworld Initiation: A journey towards psychic transformation
by R.J. Stewart
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1892137038

HERBALISM, CANDLES, INCENSE, OILS, FORMULARIES, AND STONES

A Compendium of Herbal Magic
by Paul Beyerl
http://www.amazon.com/dp/091934545X

Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs
by Scott Cunningham
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0875421229

The Enchanted Candle: Crafting and Casting Magickal Light
by Lady Rhea
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0806525789

The Enchanted Formulary: Blending Magickal Oils for Love, Prosperity, and Healing
by Lady Maeve Rhea
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0806527048

Incense: Crafting and Use of Magickal Scents
by Carl F. Neal
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0738703362

Magickal Formulary Spellbook Book 1
by Herman Slater
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0939708000

Magickal Formulary Spellbook: Book II
by Herman Slater
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0939708108


SPELLCASTING AND SPELLBOOKS
Crone's Book of Charms & Spells
by Valerie Worth
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1567188117

Crone's Book of Magical Words
by Valerie Worth
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1567188257

Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells
by Judika Illes
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0061711233

Everyday Magic: Spells & Rituals for Modern Living
by Dorothy Morrison
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1567184693

Pure Magic: A Complete Course in Spellcasting
by Judika Illes
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1578633915
Utterly Wicked: Curses, Hexes & Other Unsavory Notions
by Dorothy Morrison
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0979453313
The Voodoo Hoodoo Spellbook
by Denise Alvarado
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1578635136

The Voodoo Doll Spellbook: A Compendium of Ancient and Contemporary Spells and Rituals
by Denise Alvarado
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1578635543


THE ANCESTORS AND WORKING WITH THE DEAD
The Cauldron of Memory: Retrieving Ancestral Knowledge & Wisdom
by Raven Grimassi
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0738715751

The Mighty Dead
by Christopher Penczak
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982774370

Speak with the Dead: Seven Methods for Spirit Communication
by Konstantinos
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0738705225
The Witches' Book of the Dead
by Christian Day
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1578635063
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TAROT

78 Degrees of Wisdom
by Rachel Pollack
http://www.amazon.com/dp/157863408

u/turiyamoore · 1 pointr/AskReddit

I have a decent amount of experience with death. You may want to read this book to gain some understanding.
Testimony of Light

The best thing I can think of is not to push anything on your buddy. Just be a supportive friend that has no agenda and no advice unless it is strongly requested. They just have to go through their process and it takes a long time.

Life is the teacher, not us. Just be a very good kind friend.

Death (in my world anyway) is not real. It is only a step and it's not a bad one to take.

The best way to give ones love and gratitude to a person who has passed away is to live a really good life as if they could experience it all with you. (they often can, but even if one doesn't believe in this, it's still the best way to respect who they were when they were around too)

Blessings

u/Pickleburp · 23 pointsr/Thetruthishere

Sure. :) I was trying not to hijack the thread, but I'll just put the list here and that way anyone can have it. Keep in mind, these aren't all collections of stories, some of them are research topics, but none of them that I've browsed through look like bad reads. The ones I have read I've tried to note.

Iroquois Supernatural: Talking Animals and Medicine People - Michael Bastine, Mason Winfield - most closely related to thread topic

Life After Life - Raymond Moody - Very good intro to Near Death Experience research

Reunions: Visionary Encounters with Departed Loved Ones - Raymond Moody

Journey of Souls - Michael Newton - Read this one, it was great, changed my views on reincarnation

The Day Satan Called - Bill Scott

Hunt for the Skinwalker - Colm Kelleher, George Knapp - read parts of, need to finish

The Vengeful Djinn - Rosemary Ellen Guiley - I've read this one, it's really good too, has a large "slow" section in the middle that quotes the Q'uran a lot, but some good creepy Djinn stories.

The Djinn Connection - Rosemary Ellen Guiley

Ghost Culture: Theories, Context, and Scientific Practice - John Sabol

Zones of Strangeness - Peter A. McCue

Lost Secrets of Maya Technology - James O'Kon

The Mythology of Supernatural - Nathan Robert Brown - this one might sound cheesy, but I've read a book on world mythology by the same author, and apparently the writers of the show did their research

Holy Ghosts: Or How a (Not-So) Good Catholic Boy Became a Believer in Things That Go Bump in the Night - Gary Jansen

u/MoonbeamThunderbutt · 1 pointr/spirituality

I'd really recommend the book Journey of Souls by Michael Newton if you're searching for "meaning of life" stuff. It made me remember why I'm here and made me feel so much less anxious about everything. I know what's truly important now: learning lessons, growing as a person, and enjoying the masquerade of life here on earth.

Human life is a dream that we forget isn't real, because getting sucked into the role is fun and it's how we learn. We are so much more than what we appear to be, but it's ok not to remember. Just do the best you can and enjoy life for what it is: an opportunity to feel the sunshine on your face, help others, try new things, and overcome struggles.

u/SophisticatedPeasant · 1 pointr/SanctionedSuicide

Oh I think who we really are is most definitely eternal, and we incarnate to play, to learn things that are necessary for our spiritual evolution, and that ultimately we stop incarnating once we have learned enough lessons and become light beings or spirit guides to help new souls:

http://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1457740859&sr=8-1&keywords=journey+of+souls

I've had this gut level feeling before reading Michael Newton's works, the thought of there being absolutely nothing when we die is completely ridiculous. Existence, the Cosmos, is infinite yet we only have 60 years and then it's eternal nothingness? Utter blasphemy!

I also enjoy and recommend the philosophy of Alan Watts. In this segment he gets into existentialism a bit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSMhZ2M8Np4

I also completely agree with everything you said except the bit about this life being all there is, as Alan Watts would say, YOU'VE BEEN BAMBOOZLED.

Think about it this way, at our current state of evolution and technological development what do we truly enjoy the most? SIMULATION. It is why we read novels, why we play video games, why we view movies etc. Now imagine if we were light beings, still within the same cosmos, and we also, partly out of boredom and partly out of curiosity, sought the ultimate virtual reality experience, an experience so compellingly real that YOU TRULY BELIEVE THAT IT WAS ALL THERE WAS TO REALITY, TO EXISTENCE. What would that look like? It would look like having the human experience, right here, right now.

Wake up! You are immortal! Rejoice!

I feel the same way you do, I am thoroughly disgusted with this life, I've been dealt a rotten hand and am nearing the end of how much maneuvering I can do (about to be homeless in a week, returning to living out of my car in the SF Bay Area, I am a combat veteran who grew up in 9 different foster homes and who never knew my biological father to briefly sum things up).

This piece by Charles Eisenstein really sums up how a growing majority of Humanity feels as we are confronted with the frightening consequences of modernity / Industrial Civilization:

http://charleseisenstein.net/mutiny/

"Reality is a merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein

u/jadedapprentice · 1 pointr/exmormon

I'll start with an author whose work in comparative mythology is exceptional and deeply spiritual in a way that's very conscious of the difference between organized religion and spirituality. He's got a lot of books, some more scholarly and others much more approachable. Two examples here:

"Since lies are what the world lives on...those who can face the challenge of a truth and build their lives to accord are finally not many, but the very few"
--Joseph Campbell, [Myths to live By] (http://www.amazon.com/Myths-Live-Joseph-Campbell/dp/0140194614/)

“Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.”
― Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

Next, if you really want to stretch there's a remarkable series of books created from first-hand accounts from hundreds of individuals under hypnosis to map out the nature of what might be termed our spiritual home or "life between lives" - I find this to be more credibly presented and much more consistent with the many well-documented near-death experiences that are continuously being studied by groups like NDERF and IANDS and Dr. Newton's methodology makes these books a compelling read:

Michael Newton, Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives

Michael Newton, Destiny of Souls: More Case Studies of Life Between Lives

These aren't for everyone, and the idea that there is a proper place for spirituality can be hard to swallow for those who feel scarred by organized religion, but they've been helpful in my own personal journey to stay grounded while I escape a church that's obsessed with sexuality, the pursuit of money for itself above even the welfare of its members, and even the smallest perceived deviation from its accepted belief system and practices.

u/slabbb- · 2 pointsr/occult

First, RESPECT, for working with the dying and grieving. That is profound, and highly important work.

To reiterate other's here, you don't sound 'crazy', only opening to something that had value and an accepted place in antiquity and pre-modern societies (arguably it does now also, but not necessarily through any official institutions, it still seems to be a fringe activity and 'gift' not accepted by the sciences).

A starting point to placing your inner experiences into a broader context, which may help with self-understanding and integration through the process, might be:
Channeling. There are numerous other texts of similar material around. Check them out?

As to matters of grounding, other's advice here seems sound.
A somatic practice might prove helpful, like hatha yoga, or perhaps continuing meditation but practicing it in a different way, seeing as you are already meditating? Anapanasati, how to practice breath meditation, which focuses on the breath and thus has more of a grounding and bodily based attention brought to the process could be useful in this context. I've personally had trouble with dissociation and found sitting with a piece of obsidian and/or black tourmaline held in both my hands while sitting cross-legged or lying flat on my back, and focusing into the stone with my mind while being mindful to both my breath and body a helpful way of grounding and generating containment in/as my body.

Although the following book is primarily about working with energy healing it discusses channeling and contains diagrams of exercises that help a practitioner working with subtle forces to stay grounded and balanced, it might also be worth your time Hands of Light.
Salutations!

u/odawg21 · 0 pointsr/pics

Spirit energy is never destroyed. It is recycled, takes on new shapes and forms. Where one life ends, another begins. The cyclical nature of energy and the amazing design of our universe implies that there would be no waste. Also, the fact that our lives as humans seem to just be a series of tests and events which become "lessons" or opportunities for spiritual growth lead me to believe that one life is simply not enough to break into the upper echelons of enlightenment.

Highly recommend Journey of Souls by Michael Newton PH. D. Very interesting stuff, studying both past lives, and what our spirits are up to in between lives. That last part is really what blew me away.

Also, great book just for life in general- The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle- this book continues to help me in my day to day life and I haven't read it in years.

u/GreenTaraTarot · 2 pointsr/tarot

I think your reading is right on. Your friend is stuck, and angry and surprised because suicide didn't fix anything. I do not know how to tell you to do it, but it sounds as though she is a candidate for soul rescue. I think that is the meaning of the 8 of cups.

In brief when someone who has crossed over gets stuck, if there is someone who is able to communicate with them, that person will ask the spirit to look around them and if they see the light, then encourage them to go toward it. Sometimes, if the person doing the rescue knows the name of a family member the spirit trusted in this life, they will ask that person to come and take the stuck spirit by the hand and walk them into the light.

I can't vouch for it but here is a kindle book on the subject.

u/pluralofjackinthebox · 5 pointsr/changemyview

I checked out the first link on your first link, about not assuming CDC scheduling is safe. It led to a paper by Neil Z Miller, that seemed sort of official looking. Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons sounds like a serious organization. But I’m not a medical doctor, what do I know? So I decided to see what else Neil Z Miller had wrote.

On Amazon, you can buy Neil Z Miller’s book Ambassadors Between Worlds, Intergalactic Gateway to a New Earth

> You will also learn about past lives, future lives, the true nature of time, universal laws, Atlantis, ancient Egypt, advanced technology, alternative energy, hidden dimensions, the real cause of disease, angels, archangels, nature spirits, spiritual guides, shadow governments, why the UFO cover-up is allowed to persist, and much more.

> How do advanced extraterrestrials live? How do they raise their children? Do they have animals? What do they eat? What do extraterrestrials think about our religious beliefs, sexual attitudes, and goals in life? How can we achieve global peace? Why do extraterrestrials want to assist humanity?

Turns out Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons is run by the Association of American Physicians and Scientists, an extreme right wing think tank that advocates against any government interference in health care, that claims that AIDS doesn’t exist and that Barrack Obama uses neurolonguistic programming to brainwash anyone who watches him on TV, that global warming does not exist, that smoking is not bad for you. It is NOT a peer reviewed journal. You can read about it on wikipedia

u/10gags · 1 pointr/changemyview

i hope you enjoy it as much as i did.

it gets oddly preachy at times but has lots of non-violent/non-penal social coercion for the greater good

it is a very good book.

if you want to reach a ecotopia type comic book that seems to have been written on some sort of commune ecotopia may strike your fancy.

it's a fun read. although altruria is much more realistic i think.

u/eyver · 3 pointsr/Glitch_in_the_Matrix

Not from this sub, but a collection of true stories from hypnotherapists on exactly this topic can be found in books by Brian Weiss and Michael Newton. I highly recommend starting with Many Lives, Many Masters since it's easy to read and sort of the "gateway drug" to this whole world. Michael Newton's books, like Journey of Souls, go into far more detail (and include word-for-word transcripts from dozens upon dozens of his therapy sessions).

This is fascinating to me because the general premise of both these books (as well as many others by other legitimate hypnotherapists who have put clients "under" to the point where they could access past lives as well as lives between lives) is exactly what's quoted in the short excerpts in OP's post: we are spirits living in imperfect and irrational human bodies, and our entire experience on this planet is essentially so we can learn and grow as spirits. In fact these books indicate that Earth (and our human experience) is a more "advanced" or "accelerated" school for spirits (and more difficult as a result).

All of this stuff fascinates me because the story is so consistent among all these therapists who have had first-hand experience with clients "tapping" into this world and among all the anecdotal stories on subs like this.

u/mtempissmith · 10 pointsr/Psychic

For me it was just something I was born doing apparently. Most of the time I had no idea that it was a spirit. They look like normal people to me 99% of the time. What did come hard for me was hearing and understanding them. It was like watching a silent movie that way. It's only been in the past 10 years maybe that they talk much to me. It's a muscle albeit one of the mind. You have to have one to be able to use it but if you do you keep using it the better you get at it.

I caution you though. This is not all fun and games. When you are beginning at this work there are a lot of things out there that love psychics who are not experienced. They will try to fool you and use you. There a lot of books out there about basic psychic self-defense. Some of the techniques in them are worth trying. Centering, shielding, it's really important when you are developing a medium's skill. Channeling is dangerous at any skill level I think, can be. You knock on doors you can't always know who's on the other end or always close them by yourself. Be careful.

One thing I've learned is to trust my gut more than my eyes. Not everything is as it appears. Some things appear fine but they set off a radar inside so I look with a bit more caution and I realize that what I am talking to isn't who it presented itself as. To me spirits are almost always solid, and whole. Some of the other things I've seen, not so much. They may look solid at first glance but they're missing something if you look close enough and that will trigger that internal warning. You challenge it and their facade will eventually crumble and they may even get nasty on you. Which is why I don't suggest people mess with being a medium until they've learned to ground and protect themselves.

Honestly some people who are very open should never do this kind of work. It really depends upon how well the individual can learn to keep things they don't want out while letting only the good things in. Being a medium is not just about seeing spirits etc. Some of what you will encounter will want more than that. Some people have the ability to be a channel but they don't have the ability to discern at will and that can get you into big trouble. Some spirits lie about who they are to get you to pay attention to them. They want to experience life through you and some of them can be very persistent about trying to reel you in. If you meet a dead person or a spirit guide and it starts telling you how uniquely special you are? Starts romancing you mentally? Run.

The late Joe Fisher wrote a very vivid cautionary tale about his experiences with channels, mediums, spirit guides, and the like. What the book doesn't tell you is that the man's end may well have come from his explorations in this field. There are some very questionable things about his death. His book made a lot of people nervous at the time. It's a heck of a read though and I always suggest it as required reading to anyone intent upon messing with this end of things...

https://www.amazon.com/Siren-Call-Hungry-Ghosts-Investigation/dp/1931044023

u/master_baiter · 2 pointsr/ChildrenOfTheLight



Short answer to your question is, No, I don’t believe there is an eternal hell a being can go to. However, if you have ever experienced great time passing in a dream that takes place in a short nap, I believe that as creative beings empowered within the Divine, being literally God forgetting Itself, one can dream/experience long periods of suffering or what might be deemed “hell.” I believe if one is doing self-centered, self seeking behaviors, and taking these fears into multiple lifetimes they will likely keep experiencing profound suffering in lifetimes that will be very “hellish” until they “learn their lesson.” By that, I don’t mean a matter of punishment being done for being “bad” meted out by some point keeping Deity watching the scales of justice and making sure to balance them. I mean more a cause/effect. Like if I don’t want to get all wet I wouldn’t jump into the pool. If I woke up each day and jumped into a pool while saying to myself “this time I won’t get wet” eventually I will “learn the lesson” that jumping into pools causes the experience of wetness. This is what I believe is meant by the Eastern descriptions of Karma, merely the natural consequences of certain attitudes and behaviors. If I refrain from showering I will be stank within a day or two. It’s not cosmic punishment from a wrathful god for the Evil of not showering that I am experiencing the retribution of condemnation to a be a stank ass, it’s just Natural Law. If for many lifetimes I keep using everyone as if they are disposable and channeling all of my angers and fears into “I gotta cheat them before they cheat me” I think my existence will stay hellish until I “get it” and decide to stop following those patterns. The second way a person could experience a “hell” is described by some NDEs and Astral Journeying experiences. They suggest that once we die, in between lives those conditioned patterns can play out for a while as a “dream of hell.” That can be a hell like experience for the spirit experiencing it, but once again that would be a hell of their own making that can be left as soon as the spirit “wakes up.” Primarily it could be found by the Souls own self condemnation and so they decide not to journey to the light but keep circling around lost as they know they “don’t deserve the light.”


My overarching worldview is that of non-duality or Advaita Vedanta which basically specifies that the only “real” thing is the unification with Source/Oneness/God/The Unchanging. To transcend it completely and realize your true is the goal of that specific outlook. More accurately described as realizing that you already Are That and you can’t not be. Ultimately this would result in residing in the Awareness of that Truth as the seat of your perception instead of identifying with the limited separate you that thinks it’s an individual human m. My favorite Teacher in this outlook is Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. His teachings can be found here: http://www.maharajnisargadatta.com/I_Am_That.pdf



All of these other discussions about the manifested world and our place in it as individual souls are moot to the point of view of the Advaita Vedantaschool of thought. To it, speculation about cosmology, other lives, and heaven/hell is about as pointless as trying to deposit money in the bank that you won in a dream or trying to arrest an actor for a crime his character committed on stage. Because if this is all transitory and ultimately “a dream of separation,” then all mental chatter is just part of the dream.

However, I moderate that view because for myself as I am still appearing to be in this present context. Here, now, the “me” typing these letters is what I am presented with. If I am going to be appearing to exist at this time on this planet in this realm, I might as well be trying to play the game at the forefront of my present experience effectively.



My beliefs in reincarnation are based on others’ research and my own regression hypnosis and meditations.


I will offer some of my influences below so you could investigate further yourself if you feel interested in it.


IISIS (Institute for the Integration of Science Intuition and Spirit): http://www.iisis.net/index.php?page=semkiw-reincarnation-past-lives-principles&hl=en_US
This site offers many case studies of people claiming they remember their previous lives and documented with scientific rigor.

The Journey of Souls by Michael Newton
PDF: https://archonmatrix.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Journey-Of-Souls-by-Michael-Newton-PDF.pdf
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855
In this book psychologist Michael Newton offers transcripts from some highlighted cases of over 700 people he did regressive hypnosis on. The way he got his data was placing people under hypnosis, having them recall their past life and then guiding them to continue the memory until they travel to the place they went between lives. The results are remarkably consistent from person to person, even though the clients weren’t given any expectation of what they would experience. Generally the people die, see a light, travel to it, are met by a person of authority, love and light that usually fits their predominant religious outlook (Jesus for Christians, Krishna for Hindus, Glowing white orbs for agnostics, etc) After that, select members of their “soul group” come and say “hi.” (Could be a loving grandmother, or brother, etc) the soul group is the family of souls they share many lifetimes with that are around the same stage of soul evolution. There are also guides an octave or two above the evolution of the whole group that radiate love and give guidance. Also common is life reviews and then picking from several different future incarnations to go back and try and learn what we need to develop specifically in our weak spots. This books data suggests everyone comes to earth willingly because we could stay hanging out in Soul Paradise forever but the rate of evolution is super slow and so each soul wants to advance and then get to world building. Like once a soul gets advanced enough it becomes a Demi-God and makes its own universes.


Near Death Experiences (NDEs)
Near-death.com
One of the more interesting NDEs on that site is the story of George Ritchie who traveled places on earth with a being of Love he believed to be Jesus. This seems to offer evidence of the idea of a soul creating their own hell to exist in for a while as a result of their own judgment of themselves: https://www.near-death.com/experiences/notable/george-ritchie.html#a05a

A solid overview of the gamut of experiences NDEs can appear as is found on this page of their site:
https://www.near-death.com/science/research/out-of-body-experiences.html


Astral Journeyers
One of the most practiced astral journeyers I ever came across in my internet wanderings was the experiences of the late Frank Kepple, an active participant on the forum astralpulse.com. Using the Monroe Institute’s Gateway Program CDs he was able to journey extensively in the realms of spirit and he documented his findings for the other members there. The gestalt of his findings overlap considerably with findings of both NDE experiences and Michael Newtons between life regression case studies. They also indicate spirits can be “stuck” for a while in their own self made hell realms if they were living automatic lives based on self centeredness. The admins their collected all his writings into one cohesive doc found here: http://www.astralpulse.com/frankkepple.html

(The CDs he used can be found here:
https://www.monroeinstitute.org/Gateway%20Voyage%20Program )

One other belief system that echoes this ontology is the traditions of Tibetan Buddhism that speak to souls going to “hell realms” and “god realms” between lives based on their “karma.” As the true nature of things get lost and diluted through generations of distance from the source material coupled with the dogma that inevitably arises when a belief system gets modified for a wider general population mainstream, I feel those descriptions are a bit distorted from the original teachers who had the experiences and as they were canonized they have evolved to be more along the lines of a worldview that hell realms are a “punishment for being bad” instead of the more likely experience of “self created dream of hell” that more recent research suggests.


As to your question on what I meant by Higher Self, I mean the soul/energy body described in the above references that is connected to evolved guides and soul groups and knowledge of all the lives you’ve lived. That aspect of You knows the real reason you incarnated in this specific lifetime and what goals you’re trying to achieve with regard to your evolution.

I will always be to some degree agnostic of all of these views. I sort of assign mental probabilities to all of my beliefs that give them likelihoods. The idea that modern Christianity is completely right and every conflicting viewpoint is the work of the devil? I give that a 3%. The idea that I am a sentient AI-bot in an elaborate quantum simulation? 13% The idea that I am just a perceiving consciousness in the center of void with literally nothing and no one else existing, just projecting the experience of other people with no internal perception or consciousness of their own that phase in and out of existence when I leave and re-enter the room they appear in? That solipsist view might be closer to 33%. These other ideas I present of Advaita Vedanta, soul evolution and reincarnation get a higher rating of 70-80% by me. However, the more I progress on my path the more I realize I know nothing.

u/Swadapotamus · 7 pointsr/Psychic

One of my best friends committed suicide, and about 5 years later, I suddenly heard her voice in my head. She told me, "I'm sorry it took me so long. I can't stay long - I'm just here to help you rebuild your heart a bit." I heard her for about a week, and then she was gone. She never explained where she was or why it took so long for her to reach out...but I suspect souls have their own paths and timelines. There's actually an interesting book called "Journey of Souls" by Dr. Newton (https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855) that may help you - it describes what may happen between lives for a soul. While my guides said it only gets part of the picture, it's still interesting and comforting nonetheless. I'm so sorry for your loss.

u/KimJongTrilll · 3 pointsr/aliens

I have read about the mantis beings you are speaking of as well as the other grey beings you spoke of in your post in a book I received second hand. It provides a pretty thorough explanation about a handful of different species of aliens and why they chose to contact with humans. The book is called "preparing for contact" I believe. I'd post pictures but I am currently studying abroad in Japan and I didn't think to bring that book along with me. Here is a link if you'd like to have a look yourself. https://www.amazon.com/Preparing-Contact-Metamorphosis-Lyssa-Royal-ebook/dp/B003O68EWI hope this helps good luck!

u/LemurianToner · 3 pointsr/freedomearth

For Pleiadian literature I suggest the channeled works from Barbara Marciniak, especially Bringers of the Dawn.

There are some other materials which aren't from the Pleiadians that I recommend as well:

The Arcturian Star Chronicles, channeled by Patricia Pereira. I have read Songs of the Arcturians and am currently reading Eagles of the New Dawn. I haven't read volumes 3 and 4 but they're all on Amazon.

Consider checking out the documentary film Tuning In

In that film you'll see Lee Carroll, who channels Kryon, one of my favorite sources. Carroll has channeled 12 books (I have them all) but also travels the world and does live channels. I've been to a few. The channels are recorded and put up on the Kryon site for free. For someone who is new to Metaphysics and/or the Kryon messages there is a Handbook that gives people a good place to start.

That should last you a while!

u/MU5H1ESRFN · 2 pointsr/shrooms

Hmm. Sounds like a good book actually. I'd love to read another view on that. Off too check that out. Ive found the more I "explore" this area, the more fascinating it becomes.

Check out the journey souls

Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001MTENOC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_NIj1CbVVHRR2R

u/DaisyKitty · 19 pointsr/Thetruthishere

there's something about a straight line ... it shows up a lot in folklore and paranormal stories. i'm not really able to draw any huge overarching conclusions or theories about what straight lines mean, i just want to bring people's attention to them. ley lines, fairy paths, etc.

spirit seems to travel along very straight lines, no matter the terrain: it's about something more than just the shortest distance between two points. something like getting into the 'slip stream' of the energy that went there before you.

there's a very interesting book about the subject:
Fairy Paths & Spirit Roads: Exploring Otherworldly Routes in the Old and New Worlds by Paul Devereux



u/greatunknownpub · 2 pointsr/MorbidReality

I haven't read that one, but another great book in that vein is Journey of Souls by Michael Newton. Really opened my mind to some amazing possibilities.

u/SwanSpirit · 1 pointr/starseeds

Hi, I can see I'm completely out of place here but, anyway, I hope it may help:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk5bSG78pbQ

https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855

Greetings

u/begrudged · 2 pointsr/exchristian

There are four books in the series, all by the same author. This is the first one:

http://www.amazon.com/Messages-Michael-Anniversary-Chelsea-Yarbro/dp/0974290742/

There are other books purporting to be in on this but I have trust issues with them. Things to keep in mind if you choose: The original "students" were said to have been students of the teachings of G.I. Gurdjieff, and if true, it shows. Another thing to know (for what it may be worth) is that the author is a well-known horror author, so I read it with a grain of salt in mind. Belief is never required though and skepticism is encouraged so I kept reading. Whether it's BS or not, I like the "information"; I see nothing wrong with it, it makes sense, and has improved the way I deal with other people. For the most part.

u/eugenia_loli · 3 pointsr/DMT

Your report is textbook of "what happens after we die", according to this book: https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855/ref=la_B000APC05I_1_1 (information on the book was received under deep hypnosis by a PhD psychiatrist years ago).

You go through the tunnel, you hear your loved ones welcome you, your Spirit Guide then takes over, and then you're heading towards healing. While these reports on the book are less psychedelic-sounding, and more surrealism-like instead, what you saw, and the order you saw them, it's exactly what's described in the book.

I highly recommend you give it read, and its sequel. It might answer some of your questions of what you saw.

u/Mhopkins892 · 1 pointr/BlackPeopleTwitter

I'm not a religious person but I highly recommend the book Journey of Souls Case Studies of Life Between Lives https://www.amazon.com/dp/1567184855/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_AYrRDbMMG3P5C

I hope you're doing alright

u/abetterguy · 2 pointsr/lawofattraction

This is the concept of pre-birth karma. It is not only responsible for people born with genetic diseases, it is responsible for situations/families that you are born in, your personal circumstances, and everything else.

In many life-after-death experiences such as in these books...

  • "Many Lives, Many Masters" by a psychiatrist
  • "Journey of Souls" by a hypnotherapist

    ... They all share very similar stories in which you "decide" your current lives' initial conditions prior to birth. The concept is that the "soul" wishes to learn a lesson and chooses an appropriate time, place, circumstance that exercises the best suited probabilities for learning the lesson. The Buddha often talked about common karmic implications: Such as criminals often get reincarnated as animals or humans that suffer as victims of their own crimes. Nothing in the world can beat karma because essentially, it IS the LoA that you have performed on yourself prior to birth. The LoA is law.

    For example, the greedy person rebirths as a person in poverty. Maybe the lesson for him is to learn the value of not being greedy. A murderer will become a murder victim. The LoA is not unfair, because essentially, it is your own "soul" which had decided for it to happen through the LoA - you just have had soul amnesia.

    In Eastern divination, there is something known as the I-Ching. They believe that a person's "destiny" comprises of both a free-will component as well as a "capacity". Everyone is born with a capacity, and it is their own decisions in life that will decide how far within that capacity the person will be able to develop to.

    In my opinion, prior to birth, you develop a mental-astral body that embodies these handicaps. For example, you might be deaf, blind, having a genetic malformation, etc. Then this mental-astral body (or the "soul) is attached to the physical body being developed within the womb through the "silver cord" at the Throat chakra. This is where life sparks, the soul occupies the nervous system and adapts to it. But realize that the DNA, the circumstances, the parents have already all been "selected" prior to the occupying. It is only because the "soul" has chosen for a Down syndrome life. Well, so here are the two common interpretations of the LoA with respect to reincarnation. Of course, there is a subtle difference.

    In Buddhism, reincarnation is treated more like a domino-effect, rather than a "soul" travelling from one body to another. It is more like a candle lighting up another candle. The previous candle can die independently without affecting the second candle. (This might account for the eternal damnation/judgement that Christianity advocates. ) The thing is that the second candle is ALSO caused from you, so there really isn't a "soul". (A bit of a digression, I apologize.)

    To answer your question more directly, well, it is the soul's own choice to be born in that way. The second thing is, it could very well be possible to improve the situation. However, due to the "capacity" mentioned when I talked about the I-Ching, it might or might not be possible. (Maybe a cure/suppression of the symptoms is invented in the era? Who knows.) What we can do, is to influence the present with our decisions and use the LoA to better ourselves right now. However, we must also realize that everything "bad" that happens is essentially just another lesson for you to learn.

    Hope this helped.
u/thesamecalm · 2 pointsr/lawofone

They were re-released recently with some missing/re-edited material. I highly recommend the newer ones. There are two volumes and an optional complementary index.

Volume 1: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0945007949/

Volume 2: https://www.amazon.com/Ra-Contact-Teaching-Law-One/dp/0945007981

Index: https://www.amazon.com/Ra-Contact-Unified-Index/dp/0945007728/

If you’d like to directly support L/L Research, I recommend buying them directly from the source. There’s even a discounted bundle.
https://bring4th.org/store/index.php?route=product/category&path=75_77

u/cameltoe_of_the_boob · 5 pointsr/Glitch_in_the_Matrix

And this book. A hypnotist regresses adult patients through their past lives, taking special interest in what happens in the time between lives-- kind of a setup phase where you acknowledge what you need to work on in your next lives. I really enjoyed it.

u/wellrelaxed · 12 pointsr/Paranormal

If you're really interested in souls and spirit guides, I'd suggest a book entitled Journey of Souls by Michael Newton. It was suggested to me a couple months ago on reddit. Really good book.
http://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

u/MsUnderwood · 2 pointsr/lawofattraction

Here's a book about NDEs specifically

Check out books from Robert Monroe, a former scientist, who has learned how to OBE at will and has studied/taught others to as well.

A subreddit for people who have experienced or are in the process of achieving OBEs (also called astral travelling or astral projecting) https://www.reddit.com/r/Astral_Projection/

Tons of Youtube videos as well a lot of them report similar things but of course keep in mind Youtubers aren't always the most reliable

I like TedXTalks for subjects like these, check out the first 2 videos

Another thing related to astral projection is remote viewing, where you're able to see other places without physically going there. CIA is currently looking into and trying to weaponize this technique

u/lotusflowerjasmine · 2 pointsr/exmormon

Start with this one: God and the Afterlife: The Groundbreaking New Evidence for God and Near-Death Experience https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062279556/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_vxgSBbC82834X

And when you’re ready for it, go on to this one: Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives https://www.amazon.com/dp/0671657860/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_RzgSBbJ4CQSWD

Then this one: Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives https://www.amazon.com/dp/1567184855/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_RygSBbAD9C961

u/uncle_pistachio · 1 pointr/DMT

The atheist would always ask "well, what created god then?". I like to think it's infinite; that our god was created by a god that was created by a god, that was....... and that goes on infinitely, and that that infinite collection of gods is also god. Have you read Journey of Souls by Michael Newton. He's a hypnotherapist that claims to have bee able to take people not only to past lives but the period between lives i.e. afterlife. Usually I'd be highly skeptical of such claims but the guy has set up an institute and trained thousands of other hypnotherapists. Incredible book that formed a good deal of my belief system.

u/the_carcosan · 2 pointsr/occult

I cannot speak from experience, but there seems to be quite a few people out there who are working with the Cthulhu mythos and are writing books for people to do the same.

A few that immeditately come to mind are Donald Tyson and Kenneth Grant. And of course there is the Simon Necromonicon, which some people claim to be a legitimately effective magical text.

u/RDS · 3 pointsr/conspiracy

Ishmael (and the rest of the series) by Daniel Quinn opened my eyes in my senior year of high school.

It's about a Gorilla, who has lived beside man for a number of decades and teaches a pupil through stories and analogies about how we are already at the cusp of civilization collapse. It's about a lot more than just that, namely the relationship of humans, animals, the planet, and how humans have a unique, egotistical view of themselves where we deemed ourselves rulers of the planet.

Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins is an eye opener as well.

Other great reads:

Magicians of the Gods by Graham Hancock.

Necronomicon

UFO's by Leslie Keen

Siddhartha - Herman Hesse

I also really enjoyed the Myst series by Rand & Robin Miller (the books the game is based on). It's about worlds within worlds and an ancient race of authors creating worlds through magical ink and books (sci-fi/fantasy).

u/flexylol · 1 pointr/Glitch_in_the_Matrix

Journey of Souls by Michael Newton.

https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855

There's lots of crap out there on that subject, but also a few really good ones like those books.

u/help_with_things_ooo · 0 pointsr/books

That book caused me to think and question things that I otherwise might not ever have. Also the characters development is pretty good. Highly recommenced.

Here's the amazon link.

u/Jparsner · 1 pointr/UFOs

I believe the different dimensions/densities is a massive part of it all.

Earth is a experiment. It was designed to see what would happen if we were cut off from our spiritual nature; cut off from the cosmos. This is the 'barrier' so many people talk about who are able to astral project. Psychics and mediums know of the barrier as well. This is also why astronauts all talk about that sense of 'cosmic unity' when they are in space... they are literally outside the barrier in some instances.

Life after death... read Journey of Souls

Lots of little bits in there that shed some light on the experiment and what is going on here.

I believe we're all multi-dimensional beings... you're accessing a more limited perspective of your 'ultimate self'.

God, Source, the Universe... it's not a singular, omnipotent being IMO. God is consciousness, everything is conscious in our Universe, big things, small things, all matter, all the electrons... you and I are sparks, fragments of God. The naming convention doesn't matter, it's a massive ocean of energy that we're all a part of. There is no one book that explains this concept... I've read a lot of spirituality articles/books and have made my own conclusions. That's really the best way to start getting into it... just reading a lot and certain things will resonate, other stuff won't.

u/dscares · 1 pointr/writing

There was a guy back in the 70s, I think, who wrote a "real" Necronomicon based heavily off Sumerian mythology, with references to Marduk, Ishtar, Nyaralathotep, etc.

https://www.amazon.com/Necronomicon-Simon/dp/0380751925

It's actually kind of a fun read if you're into that kind of thing.

And now that we're talking about it, you may look at kabbalah and Chaldean Christianity. They're like sister mysticisms to the Key of Solomon and get into Zoroastrian ideas as well and early Arabic demonology, with jinn and other spirits.

It's kind of interesting stuff. I found this, which may be dense, but might help:

https://hermetic.com/texts/chaldean

u/bitter_cynical_angry · 10 pointsr/worldnews

There is a book called Ecotopia in which Oregon, Washington, and California (or at least northern California) have seceded and formed their own nation. It's a very hippyish book, but an interesting look at the politics and economics of the idea.

u/Paul_Mycock · 1 pointr/howtonotgiveafuck

Take a look a this book it's one man's life time research into the subject. It's seriously the most amazing book I've ever read.

u/omnitions · 3 pointsr/Soulnexus

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001MTENOC/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Journey of Souls By Michael Newton, is the book you are looking for. It outlines life before and after embodiment. A lot of it resonates and feels true to me

u/zire513 · 2 pointsr/suggestmeabook

Can you even get this book?

Edit: https://www.amazon.com/Necronomicon-Simon/dp/0380751925

I guess you can buy it, and btw the comments on this book are hilarious.

u/xbenzerox · 3 pointsr/Lovecraft

Yes. Someone made one awhile ago. I had it in high school 20 years ago and thought it was so cool. It's really just a bunch of symbols and "spells" though. Not much to read. Yep..This is it. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0380751925/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1406291847&sr=8-1

u/catherineirkalla · 2 pointsr/occult

For you, I recommend the book Journey of Souls.

u/Redbirdfromtheeast · 3 pointsr/Fantasy

The Necronomicon wasn't written by Lovecraft, he mentions it in several stories but other publishers capitalized on it by releasing their own versions of "The Necronomicon". He did write History of the Necronomicon but you're probably talking about this one.

u/AvaniD · 0 pointsr/AskReddit

This book helped me. It may be BS, but I'm going with it.
http://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855

u/sursurring · 4 pointsr/books

I would guess it's because it's a fictional book. Unless you mean this, which is just a mashup of religious and occult fabrications.

u/ArchetypeAdHominem · 2 pointsr/randomactsofamazon

If the occult counts as creepy.
Necronomicon

u/ShakeWeightMyDick · 1 pointr/DnD
u/Alunidaje · 4 pointsr/Reincarnation

check out this book

u/white_bread · 1 pointr/IAmA

Possibly people make it all up but if you read Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives it appears to document that his subjects all recount the same story.

u/roertel · 1 pointr/IAmA

My wife has been reading Journey of Souls, which compiles case studies of people who have died and were recovered. It has some interesting stories and theories on what happens after we die. The book compiles similar events together and draws conclusions from them to learn things about the afterlife. Even if you don't believe in the afterlife, you can read the stories and draw your own conclusions. It's a good book if you are interested in these types of things.

u/Gleanings · 2 pointsr/freemasonry

When teens show me their new scary book, I like to flip to the publisher's page and show them it was published by Avon.

Then I try to turn them on to Lovecraft himself. So is the script for The King in Yellow appropriate for Scottish Rite?

u/thomascgalvin · 3 pointsr/AskScienceFiction

Sure, you can grab a copy for yourself.

For a tome that threatens to unmake reality itself, the Men of Science at Miskatonic University have been pretty loose with the reprint rights.

u/zebus_0 · 2 pointsr/GhostAdventures

It doesn't matter anyway. It wasn't a real ritual lol. It is a bunch of stuff from https://www.amazon.com/Necronomicon-Simon/dp/0380751925 this book, released in 1977 that is a just a hodgepodge of random crap Simon thought sounded metal.

u/Fey_fox · 12 pointsr/cringepics

Weird is subjective. Everyone is a little 'weird', we all have our picidillies that someone somewhere would find odd. To me some of the weirdest folk I've met are the ones that are obsessed with normalcy.


It's my guess that this particular dude feels very powerless. He's probably alone and has no friends, so he does what a lot of folks do in this situation, they go inside their head and think so much until their hopes, fears, and perceptions of the world and the relationships they have become delusional obsessions. To right the wrongs they feel the world has (or the wrongs done to themselves), many turn to a doctrine or system where they feel like they can gain control. Religion is one example, especially cult like ones with lots of dogma, but it can be anything really. This dude opted to focus on the occult. He's probably read a lot of books, and the photos he's taken indicate he's looking to gain fear and respect via 'shocking images'. The drawings on the ground look like veve imagery, or maybe some crap from the Necronimicon (which was written as a joke btw) but he's definitely not apart of Voudo (voodoo) or any occult group or alternative religion I know of. He may even believe in what he's doing, if so he's not much different than those Appalachian churches that dance with snakes and drink poision, except he's being public. One thing fosho he ain't no Alister Crowley. At least he wrote some decent poetry.

Anywho, shit like this is what happens when people face a lot of rejection and are alone, and they either further isolate, but a clue and grow out of it, or try to become their own brand of cult leader & continue to try to impress people.

… still though, just a guess


Source: I know of a lot of weird crap

u/mogaly · 1 pointr/UFOs

Well, yeah, that makes sense, but even though it's such a tongue in cheek idea, UFOs being alien craft just makes some sense. I love having fun theorizing all this. What would make sense is them coming to help us out right about now. Think about it. Think about how conscious we are. We don't seem to have much trouble comprehending the vastness of space, and all of it's contents (some, I should say). That being said, according to the spiritual world, we're close to FULL consciousness. If that was the case, Aliens wouldn't be too far ahead of us, but quite far spiritually. (Earth's spirituality is mostly quite fucked up and backwards. Organized religions, I'm looking at you. But, at any rate, we're killing our planet. According to the spiritual world (and me, due to many experiences, awake, drug free) Earth, or Gaia if you will, has a soul, just like everyone else. (I believe this because I've left my body a couple times). So yeah, we are killing Earth, this wonderful life-giving spirit, and why would aliens (if they exist) let this happen? If everything is as the spiritual community says (a lot of evidence, I'd suggest reading "Journey of Souls" RIGHT the fuck now. link Done by a Ph.D. It's just JUST a bunch of conversations with hypnotized people. It's amazing. Anyway, back to what I was saying, if we're killing this planet, and we're closer to the Aliens than we originally thought in MENTAL development, but not spiritual development, now would be the perfect time for an intervention. Besides, this universe is so much more malleable than anyone tells you. I have proven this to myself every day.

It's a shame we throw out spirituality, because in the end, it's more real than this hell-hole of a society.

u/IdentitiesROverrated · 1 pointr/Reincarnation

Wow, fascinating!

I can't really offer any answers other than what you can read in Journey of Souls and Destiny of Souls. I'm just going to say that if you haven't read them yet, you likely should, especially with your background. Newton's work is the only really credible (and useful!) report of the afterlife that I've so far encountered.

Perhaps it might help to mention that other hypnotists have corroborated Newton's reports, and are getting the same consistent images from their own clients as well - including people of various religions and cultures who have never been exposed to the books.

If you ever arrive at the bottom of this story involving Don, Paul, and Kurt, I would be very interested to know what you find out. I wouldn't worry about falling into some kind of vicious cycle. It does sound like you've come here in this life to break their hearts, but the way they've all fallen for you suggests that they're willing participants in the lesson. The way you feel nothing for them makes me think this life and body have been chosen for you so that you don't get scarred in the process.

Having this as an episode in your life doesn't necessarily mean that this is what your life is all about, or that it must end prematurely. There might be all kinds of different things in store for you, this might just be something you've come to do before the other things happen.

I've fallen for someone in a similarly inexplicable way as you describe Don, Paul, and Kurt falling for you. I hope that what she felt for me was very different from the complete lack of empathy you are describing for these guys. Regardless, it was probably the most painful experience of my life. I had a precognition that it would be extremely painful on day one. I asked myself, do I want to do it anyway? The answer was a resounding yes.

I seem to have emerged from the pain, for the most part, though I'm still battered and bruised. I continue to have love for this person. I, too, have no answers. I tried looking for them, but no longer really expect to find them.

Some things, I suppose, we might only find answers for when we die. I suppose it's possible to live without them. It's not like we have a choice.

u/NoHero3s · 2 pointsr/AskReddit

The hard part is life on Earth, the easy part is what comes afterwards. In my personal opinion, one of two things happens upon death:

  1. Your existence ends. That's it. There is nothing more. Thus, there is nothing to be afraid of, because there is...nothing. No joy, no pain, no sadness. Just like turning off the switch, similar to when you go unconscious.

  2. You will move into the afterlife. There are a multitude of thoughts of what the afterlife will be. Personally, I don't believe that there is a 'hell' , in the conventional sense of the word. On Earth, we are in physical form. If you believe that you have a soul, the only logical progression upon death of your physical body is transcendence to a new spiritual realm, or back to the spiritual realm that you came from. The point of hell, in this situation, is moot. And really, what would be the purpose of hell? To live life for 30, 40, 80 years...and then spend an ETERNITY suffering? There is no logical, reasonable or realistic basis for this.

    What is entirely possible, and what I believe, is that Earth is essentially a 'school' for the souls. We are sent here to live through existence, to learn, for the better or for the worse. Life is a series of lessons, and each life we live grows our soul. Our short existence on this Earth is merely the schoolyard, and when we die, we get to review our life, see what we did wrong, what we did right, and then contemplate how we can make things better, or see what the next life can possibly offer us.

    In a way, this could be considered 'heaven', but I don't see it as such. I just see it as our true existence. So in this sense, there should be no fear of dying - you will die when your time comes, and you will die because you accomplished what you needed to do.

    A book that really changed my perspective on existence, religion, life and death in general is the Journey of Souls. That being said, I was always anti-religion, anti-God, and always believed that life is a one shot deal, and that my pure existence was just happenstance of the right molecules and materials coming together.

    After reading that book, I'm not religious, I don't go to church, but I do feel more comfortable about my life, my perspective of death, and have a much more open mind to all the world religions. I believe that every religion does have something right in what they teach - reincarnation, morals, treating people well...but no one religion seems to have gotten it entirely correct.