Anita
Not knowing what will happen, not having the guarantee of life after death – this makes me more inclined to stay in the present and to focus on living my life and trying to do the things I want to accomplish.
I wanted to believe in things like ghosts, mediumship, out of body experiences, near-death experiences, the law of attraction and what have you because I wanted to escape my mundane life. I thought it would make for a nice diversion away from reality. Adding some excitement and interest into my uneventful life, wanting so desperately to live in a fantasy world. A convenient excuse for avoiding life – “Oh it doesn’t matter if I don’t do this, I have all the time in the world, I have the rest of eternity to fall back on, things will work out for me because I have the law of attraction…” Reading about things or hearing about things which contradicted or debunked what I was filling my head with caused a lot of cognitive dissonance and creating a lot of stress and anxiety. Back then I wasn’t open-minded at all – I was just blindly accepting whatever concept or belief system I happened to be reading about at the time without taking the time to ponder both sides of the argument.
That’s not to say I’ve instantly debunked and let go of certain beliefs I once had – I guess I’ve just lessened my hold on them over the past few years. I think I can read about things like that now from an objective point of view. It would be great if those things were real but I’m not going to hold my breath. I’ve got more important things to think about in the land of the living.
There are some things I do believe are possible – lucid dreaming for instance (waking up in your dreams) – I experienced this a few years ago when I wore a nicotine patch when I was asleep (nicotine patches make you have vivid dreams but I don’t do nicotine anymore).
Joe
Has anyone on this forum ever used hallucinogenics and psychedelic drugs to induce altered states of consciousness and spiritual experiences? I don’t partake in that kind of thing and I have no intention of going down that path but I would be very interested to read about your experiences with this.
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