There is far more to this world than taught in our schools, shown in the media, or proclaimed by the church and state. Most of mankind lives in a hypnotic trance, taking to be reality what is instead a twisted simulacrum of reality, a collective dream in which values are inverted, lies are taken as truth, and tyranny is accepted as security. They enjoy their ignorance and cling tightly to the misery that gives them identity.

Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins their journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of following the crowd and by choosing knowledge over ignorance.

Knowledge is the key to unlocking our potential. It gives us the self-​determination, responsibility, and power necessary to cast off the chains of covert oppression. Knowledge is therefore the greatest protector, for it also gives us foresight to impeccably handle the challenges of life and, most importantly, to sidestep the traps on the path to awakening. The more you know of higher truths and apply what you know, the more you begin operating under higher laws that transcend the limitations of the lower. -Montalk

Redefine your perceived notion of common sense.

Subjects covered: history, science, evolution, psychology, mysticism, archeology, spirituality, the cosmos, philosophy, occultism, secret societies, UFOs, and ETs.

The Next Great Revolution in Reality by Rourke

According to Freud, there have been three great scientific revolutions that completely re-drew the boundaries which border human reality:

Copernican: Where our geocentric perspective of the cosmos was revolutionized by the concept of the human world, the Earth, as being one mere weave within the infinite cosmic tapestry of creation.

Darwinian: Where our view of man as the pinnacle of God’s reality was overthrown by the idea that life evolved from nothing. The revolution in which our egocentric universe was crushed under the image of mankind as ‘mere’ hairless, ape descendants.

Freudian/Psychological: Where the self which governs all action within our minds was displaced by the notion of the unconscious. The control we perceive as consciousness is nothing but waves lapping on the shores of the innumerable archipelagos of reality the brain rules over.

Each of these revolutions was to displace mankind as center of our world and thus humiliate our egocentric position. Yet, paradoxical as it may seem, these scientific upheavals have increased our intimacy with reality, adding meaning to our existence without invoking religion.

We are but one species amongst millions of mutation-governed organisms, ruled over by the nature of brains we have little understanding of and cast on our single planet afloat an infinite cosmological sea. Each shift exposing a deeper purpose, without God; each individual note when composed together dictates the flowing melody that is our existence.

I believe it is only a matter of time before the next great revolution in science; in reality arrives on our doorsteps. A shift in perspective that attains equal scientific, social and theological significance as the ones outlined above. Once again, this revolution will alter the nature of reality, as perceived by us, at the most fundamental level. So I ask you…

What will it be? Has it already begun? And finally, will religion still be able to find a foothold on the human psyche once it has happened?

Let your Earth-bound, ape-evolved, unconscious imaginations go wild on this one…

DMT - The Spirit Molecule

Study by Rick Strassman

This is where science meets spirit.

What It Means to Be Alive

You will have a million people tell you The Bible is supposedly the word of God and that you should follow it word for word.  Then you will have another million people tell you The Bible is a form of mind control and not to believe any of it.  Everybody will tell you to be aware of this, or watch out for that; this is good information, this is bad information.  And I just have to wonder:  What makes anyone an authority figure enough to say that something is true or false?  And why are you denying or accepting anything based on the suggestion of another person? 

Why aren’t you making that decision for yourself?

Information is information.  There is no such thing as good or bad information – it’s all what you do with it.

I say let everything be your Bible.  Give every piece of information, every person, every event, or scenario, or situation, an honest and open mind.  Because then, it is your responsibility to respond to it in a way that you choose - not following the herd, not following convention - it’s your responsibility!

And that’s the point - when no matter how many people tell you you’re wrong, or right, you are not dependent upon their approval.  If we at least question our own actions, question our own thought process, and make a conscious decision to what we feel is right ever single day, that is what I believe to be divinity, and that to me is what it really feels like to be alive…

When it’s a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
Albert Einstein
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
Joseph Campbell
The sciences must recognize that their truths are not the only truths. No single area of knowledge has a monopoly on knowledge. As Karl Popper, an eminent defender of science wrote, ‘It is imperative that we give up the idea of ultimate sources of knowledge, and admit that all knowledge is human; that it is mixed with our errors, our prejudices, our dreams, and our hopes; that all we can do is to grope for truth even though it is beyond our reach.’ If we want to get an answer to our deepest questions—the questions of who we are and what everything is—we will need to draw from both science and art, so that each completes the other.
Jonah Lehrer via Dharma/Arte (see also part 2) (via sharanam)
People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present, over Ideologies and Religions which, stated as propositions, appear neither true nor false to modern logicians - meaningless propositions that look meaningful to the linguistically naive.
Robert Anton Wilson
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe

A quick thought about religion.

I will never follow any religion. The Divine cannot be captured in any scripture. Someone’s interpretation of a god may be captured in words, but I know Divinity is within me. My connection with the divine can never be thru following another person’s words. Neither can yours. ‘God’ is bigger than words and closer to you than anyone else.

True Divinity can never be ritualized.

It’s in the Heart.

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It is one of our perennial problems, whether there is actually a God. From the Hindu point of view each soul is divine. All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn’t matter what you call Him just as long as you call. Just as cinematic images appear to be real but are only combinations of light and shade, so is the universal variety a delusion. The planetary spheres, with their countless forms of life, are naught but figures in a cosmic motion picture. One’s values are profoundly changed when he is finally convinced that creation is only a vast motion picture and that not in, but beyond, lies his own ultimate reality.
George Harrison