In the 60,s we used to sit around in a group, partaking of a little weed or a mushroom, and discuss that...Maybe our planet is an electron revolving around a nucleus in an atom and that it might even be an atom in the little finger of an entity on a far away planet...well you get the picture.
With the information available today..I am not so sure we were not fairly close to an accurate observation....Here is an interesting video inspired by the teachings of Ekhart Tolle....it caused me to revisit those conversations of my youth....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9UmPA4eR6c
LOVE AND LIGHT TO ALL......
Hi, Bill.
I have to admit that there were discussions that were similar to the one you described - sitting out under the stars and passing a joint or two, and discussing the nature of our universe, and the tininess of it... along with the fact that there could be entire universes lodged under our own fingernails, so to speak. (How is it that pot is so often involved in these discussions? LOL)
Thank you for the post!
Lots of love,
Kathy
Billy,
I do remember those days, I have not as yet viewed the video, however I felt I should pass on my very recent meditations on just this thought line with a twist.
Increase your sphere of light and joy to encompass all that is, see the Earth as a little ball moving in the vast sphere of light and joy, enlarge the sphere ever greater, see the planetary and stellar system, the Milky Way, and the island galaxies, like little bubbles, are all floating in the sphere
Expand the sphere of light and joy within you, in which all things are moving, glimmering like the lights of a city. Your Self is one with this vast sphere of light that is your Father. You are the sphere of light and joy. You have no boundaries -- eternity above, below, everywhere. In this eternal sphere of light and joy all things are moving. In me worlds are floating like bubbles. I and my Father are one.
The above is an excerpt from Self-Realization Fellowship a Visualisation for meditation.
It reminded me of those days in my youth, except now I was that Alien creature and the world around me was also within me. Confirming for me again as it has with many of you here, and as indeed the transformation course explained in many beautiful ways. The pains and torments within me reflect in my world, so in bringing these into the Light and Joy that I am and healing them with understanding, acceptance and love, the world around me is also healed
This was a huge realization for me in my teens, kind of shaped the way I saw the universe for many years. I had an "hallucination" that is very hard to discribe, of like an infinite spectrum that went from the very small to the very large, and a feeling of this paradox that everything is infinitely wrapped up inside itself. Later in life I had an accidental kundalini experience that popped me out of my body for a moment, and in that moment I saw that this idea I had all these years was somehow very true, but at the same time so far from a complete understanding of the infinite nature of our existence. That made me laugh very hard for some reason, at how childishly brilliant yet neive it all was, all this theorizing I had done about how the universe works. That said I would point out a few things I noticed, it seems as if the proportions of the solar system are similar to atoms in regards to the amount of "empty space" they contain. It also occured to me that spiral galaxies look a little bit like depictions of blood cells. One of the "big pictures" of the universe I have seen shows galaxies clustered in a way that almost looks like neural or vascular patterns. Love the video, particularly the very last part, that really depicts this paradox that I was feeling, like how could I be here and yet inside the atoms of my own self at the same time? Thanks for bringing this up!
Thanks Sis for your comment and Eyejay...that was BEAUTIFUL!! .......Jamie we must have been posting at the same time so thanks to you.
Lately I've been listening to Nassim Haramein - he has a theory of everything that the universe is entirely fractal. I never did have the patience to sift through all 45 of these YouTube videos of his talk but it started out interesting. Here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPgII_4ciFU&feature=PlayList&p=88EDD1895A2F5587&index=0&playnext=1
Wendy
I couldn't help but be reminded within this conversation that there was a wonderful book written a few years back about this subject. It was in really easy language too. Anybody remember the book (and now a movie) "Horton Hears a Who" by Dr. Seuss? lol
It is mind-boggling to tap into all that space.... that is out there in our universe... and also inside each of us. I tend to get lost every time I try, though.
Great video Billy. (it's nice to see some of your words with your post, too!)
With Love,
Mary
thought this fits in here.......
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Jez
it DOES fit! it is exactly the thing this brought to mind for me also. i almost posted about 'horton' last night i was just too tired. i guess watching my grandson so much helped!
it also brings me back to the song i posted about 'everything is holy now' because that is exactly the way i find myself viewing EVERYTHING. the baby as i hold him, the nasty clerk in the checkout, the frail old gentleman wanting to hold the door for me when what i really want to do is help him to his chair! the spider web, the trees as they turn, the cat curled up almost ON my keyboard...
i believe there is a universe within us, without us, and way beyond everything we know...how beautiful and holy is that! Love is all there is. Be love. kristyne
Some people say the reason hallucinogenic drugs are illegal is that the "oppressors" know that these trips help us to experience our Divine Source. That's also, I've heard, the reason they're pushing fluoride, which calcifies the third eye and makes us docile.
Don't ask me, I plead the fifth.
Noa
psychedalics can definitely be used to expand consciousness....mushrooms, ayahuasca etc
You can find amazing talks on this subject from Terrence McKenna in pod casts at the pshycedalic salon...I would highly recomend them to anyone interested in the topic....
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Jez
Well I remember those hallucinogenic days in college in '71 and '72 when my friends and I sat around the pot circle speculating about how the microcosm could be a macrocosm and vice versa and either listening to Pink Floyd or (in our better moments) trying to remember verses from Blake's Auguries of Innocence through the purple smoke haze:
Auguries of Innocence
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
I'm glad to be here now, older and wiser and able to reach such states and think such thoughts without weed! But those were wondrous days of youth that I love to remember, when such thoughts were brand new to us. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, UK et al!
Chuck
Hey Lightcommodore,
Weed is neither a halliucinogen or a pshcedalic, totally different thing...weed can help with waking dreams, is good for creativity but won't take you to the spirit world....best for that is undoubtedly Ayahuasca but as Terrence once said...going there through drugs is great, you get to see it but you don't know what your looking at...it is like taking someone from 2 hundred years ago and dropping them in the middle of new york today...a trip for sure but they would have no idea of what anything is or how it works....
L
Jez
Hi Jez,
I didn't say weed was the only drug present in those "hallucinogenic days"
. Though I won't claim extensive experience with drugs other than weed in the old days, I appreciate what you said about using drugs to achieve spiritual states. A friend recently said he might try drugs to speed up his spiritual progress, and I advised against it. Genuine spiritual progress (in my experience) requires that you engage in the discipline of meditation (or whatever practice you follow) to "leave a path of bread crumbs" along the way so you are oriented as to where you are and where you have been. With drugs, it is exactly as you have pointed out--you drop in and drop out again, and then wonder where the hell you have been. In our modern world we love shortcuts, but there is no shortcut to real personal/psychological/spiritual growth. Others' experience may vary, but that is my experience and my suggestion.
Chuck
My herb book catagorizes cannibus as a hallucinogenic, though I agree, it's not much of one.
What ever happened to that "religion" whose primary doctrine was smoking pot?
Speaking of shortcuts, some folks advocate spinning to the point of dizziness to aid meditation. Unfortunately, my vertigo prohibits me from trying it. Do let me know.
Peace,
Noa
It's true....
Ram Dass experiences psychedelics with his Harvard colleague, Timothy Leary:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE6LS1pVE1s&feature=related
Ram Dass shares his LSD with Maharaj-ji:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpRr3fcd72A&feature=related