musings on solipsism...

[Jonathan Barlow Gee]

I'm starting to think the world was destroyed already, and that it was recreated as a dream from memories in the mind of the last person alive in the moment in which they die. All of us are only ideas in that person's mind.

"everything is the same, but now we have telepathy..." If "god" is a "big booming voice from the sky" maybe this "big booming voice" is coming from a place beyond and larger than our own cosmos, and perhaps this place that is above and beyond our present reality is only the cosmos of the past, where we exist in a "baby universe" inside a "parent universe," and where this "parent universe" is parallel to our own, including a "past self" version of each of us, and of which we are each a "future self" version ourselves.

it is said, "when the praises go up, the blessings come down." Perhaps this effect could occur due to the idea that the cosmos is a super-massive structure identical in form and function to a highly evolved form of cerebral neurons. If the cosmos is a "super-brain," and it is identical to the brain of a single person, and this person is alive on an "earth" in our own Milky Way, or in a parallel "other earth" in any other galaxy along the universal neural-net, then what that person thinks would become reality, and whatever they did to their own brain would shower down upon their entire reality from the cosmos outside of it.

how can one know they have not already died, and that they are not already, even now, dead? Is it possible that all we are experiencing is truly only a dream we are having in a single instant as we, in some "higher self" form, are actually experiencing death?

if the majority of people are merely attempting to psychologically manipulate one another, and advocate belief in various "gods" whose behavior they claim to emulate for justification, perhaps not only society, but the individual's experience of existence itself may be misguided and merely a lie, an illusion.

[Claire M Pruitt]

I watched another interview last night of a man talking about near death experiences and those who most often come back with a more positive view about their lives, purpose etc...having had a revelatory "aha, I get it now" on the other side.  They all seem in agreement too, the importance of "not knowing" the answer (for the most part) while on this side of the veil.  This sort of theme comes up time and again in these various interviews I've seen...and (unless these experiences are ALL part and parcel of some vast conspiracy network)... makes sense too, perhaps similar to the importance of not cheating on test exams.  This may connect with the idea of the age of Kali Yuga in a way too, where the most information, knowledge and understanding is reached (as well as a corresponding "corruption") just before the destruction and "reset button" is hit.       

[Jonathan Barlow Gee]

it is not like "cheating on a test" to prepare for death by meditation upon mortality. The "test" at the moment of death to which you refer is an ancient image, predating the belief in an "end of days," from Egypt in the form of the "weighing of the soul" - where Anubis (jackal-headed god of death), Ammit (the Egyptian equivalent of Greece's Cerberus, the "hell hound" or "demon dog"), Maat (the bird whose feather is symbolic of the "breath" on the scales of judgment) and Thoth (ibis-headed scribe) preside over the weighing of the heart of the deceased against a feather (as mentioned, of Maat) on a scale counterbalancing two pans. If the deceased's heart is heavier than the feather, it is dragged down into the waiting jaws of the ravenous canines of the infernal pit. If the heart is lighter than the feather, the soul "comes forth into day," according to the literal translation of the title of the Egyptian "book of the dead" describing this all. Contemplating the nature of one's own life and the inevitability of one's own death is virtually a requisite process for the preservation of the soul as a vessel of electromagnetic energy for the patterns of the mind, should one wish such, after the death of the biological body. As the thoughts inside the mind approach relativistic light-speed, the "ego" or sense of "self-awareness" fades into the all-oneness of the invisible, all-permeating zero-point energy, the tachyon light of hyperspace. The more one practices for their final viewing of this "tunnel of light" using such models for meditation techniques as Jose Silva's method for self mind-control, the more prepared one will be for the transition when they finally "meet their maker," and the easier and more painlessly this transition will be - not only for them, but for their survivors as well. One does not "practice for death" by inviting "near death experiences," but if one encounters a "near death experience," doing so will irrevocably prepare them for their final and actual demise. I, personally, have had several near-death experiences, including being electrocuted in the womb, being in several car accidents - one in particular occurring on New Year's eve between 2000 and 2001, as well as repeated overdoses on alcohol, not to mention natural illness inducing fever. I have, personally, become all too familiar with the realms of delusion that surround the mind's eye of the dying body, and the fear one may feel that these invisible delusions are conspiring against one by unseen manipulations of real people around them, but I am also familiar with the calm comforting feeling that accompanies the final spasm at the end of a very long sickness, or old age, as well as the peculiar tingling sensation that accompanies a particularly potent "out of body experience." All these things I have known already in my life and I am only just now 38 years old.

[Claire M Pruitt]

would the idea of "purgatory" be same as this description of where the deceased is cast to hell hounds, and the devouring done equivalent to the act of removing everything (eckhardt) deemed too heavy in the body when weighed against the feather?   

[Jonathan Barlow Gee]

think of the wheel of reincarnation, the wheel of suffering, as spinning in one direction, and a person's soul being more or less constrained due to the mass of their own personal gravitas to adhere to the momentum and inertia of this wheel for its axial stability. However, to transcend the wheel of the 6 lokas altogether is the goal of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, and to do this one must find a "window of opportunity" and a sufficient method of propulsion to escape this wheel's centripetal attractive force, and then eject off from this wheel at a rate and in a direction determined by one's location in the wheel and the wheel's velocity as it rotates. Because this is the goal of the sages and not the asuras, it is the loka on the wheel associated with the sages and with the Buddha that provides, accordingly, the best "window of opportunity" for one to transcend the wheel by manifesting their own karmic aura along a vector determined by asymptotic freedom, or that is, in short, increasingly random. Thus, according to this model, "purgatory," the "weighing of the feather" and "judgment day" are all terms for the experience of every individual, in passing through death, to recount their lifetime of memories and weigh up its value to themselves, "how much was life worth?," etc. When one is in this moment of death facing their scales of judgment, they have a "window of opportunity" to transcend and escape reincarnation. For a soul to transcend suffering and escape from reincarnation requires them to incarnate simultaneously "clockwise" AND "counterclockwise" around the wheel of lifetimes, and to thus break their personal bond to the wheel of lives. However if one is distracted from focusing on this in that moment, by one's memories of life, and by regrets about these memories, perhaps for their incompleteness, then the "gravitas" of one's own karma will "drag them back down" into the wheel of lifetimes and the suffering of reincarnation.

[Claire M Pruitt]

yes.. this makes sense, too.  and do you think that we may be given the opportunity before each incarnation to decide in advance some of the more important or necessary experiences and challenges that we will be given during each lifetime that if done accordingly would help facilitate the ability to (more easily?) transcend the wheel at some point?    

[Jonathan Barlow Gee]

it does not matter what I think, only what is the true case in factual reality. In this context, what I would say I "know" is that a weak electromagnetic field with a unique pattern of currents over time does exist inside a living biological body, and that this aura, called religiously the "soul," MIGHT be able to find a way (possible methods for which appear numerous unto infinite) to preserve its existence as a unique pattern of energy even after the death of the biological body which serves as the vessel accumulating it as such while alive; what I "think" is that the existence of such a "soul" - which CAN (but usually probably does NOT) continue to exist after biological death - does not imply the existence of "god" as a form of "meta-soul" or "most high" evolved form of universal energy-pattern, because there would be no need for such a "universal mind" to have an "ego" in the sense as we experience such; and what I "believe" is that a "heaven" beyond light-speed in the form of hyperspace - a meta-verse of zero-point (sub-quantum) energy - is attainable by the mind, but that the "ego" would be the part of the mind that would be "burned off" at light-speed. These are, however, my own wordings of ancient beliefs, and not exactly accurate to these ancient beliefs in themselves, of which my knowledge of these beliefs, as summarized comparatively above, should indicate. My wordings use the terminology of the modern religion of "science," but the ancients, with their metaphors and parables, described the same psychologically perceived revelations of truths about the nature of reality.