My anecdotal claims

[Tricky]

One of my favorite questions too. Everybody was always Cleopatra or an Indian princeling, never the janitor.

"How come in former lifetimes, everybody was somebody famous? How come no one was Joe Schmoe?"

Crash Davis in Bull Durham.
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[Limbo]

You really are just a troll, aren't you? How long did it take you to make that up?

You really are just a pseudo-skeptic, aren't you? How long did it take you to jump to the conclusion that I made all that up?

One of my favorite questions too. Everybody was always Cleopatra or an Indian princeling, never the janitor.

I know people who have recovered memories of past lives as 'the janitor'. So, not "everybody" was always Cleopatra.

Don't you guys ever get tired of being wrong?

 

[Elizabeth I]

You really are just a pseudo-skeptic, aren't you? How long did it take you to jump to the conclusion that I made all that up?

I was pretty sure by the time I had finished the first sentence.

I know people who have recovered memories of past lives as 'the janitor'.

But not you, right? Of course not. You're one of the two hero brothers.

 

[dafydd]

You really are just a pseudo-skeptic, aren't you? How long did it take you to jump to the conclusion that I made all that up?

Almost immediately. How are things on the dark side of the Moon?

 

[Tricky]

You really are just a pseudo-skeptic, aren't you? How long did it take you to jump to the conclusion that I made all that up?

I don't think you made it up. I think you actually thought or dreamed it. I just think that you belive that everything you think or dream is true. You don't seem to require any sort of evidence for this belief.

I know people who have recovered memories of past lives as 'the janitor'. So, not "everybody" was always Cleopatra.

Yes. One. But many more do imagine they were famous figures. If it ware logical, the vast majority, by many orders of magnitude, of people would be minor characters, yet we see this is not the case.

Don't you guys ever get tired of being wrong?

Do you ever get tired of deciding without evidence what is right?

 

[Resume]

You really are just a pseudo-skeptic, aren't you? How long did it take you to jump to the conclusion that I made all that up?

There is no other conclusion for your fantasy.

I know people who have recovered memories of past lives as 'the janitor'. So, not "everybody" was always Cleopatra.

Don't you guys ever get tired of being wrong?

Anyone who has "recovered" a past life as a janitor is lacking in imagination because, after all, this stuff is all imagination. Which is just fine in children, or writers or poets but as adults, anyone who actually believes they've astrally projected to the dark side of the moon, or has recovered their past life as Ghengis Khan, well, they need a heap of introspection as to why they need such confabulation in their lives.

Don't you guys get tired of having no evidence?

 

[Craig4]

You really are just a pseudo-skeptic, aren't you? How long did it take you to jump to the conclusion that I made all that up?




I know people who have recovered memories of past lives as 'the janitor'. So, not "everybody" was always Cleopatra.

Don't you guys ever get tired of being wrong?

Why should we believe it just because you say it?

 

[Limbo]

I don't think you made it up. I think you actually thought or dreamed it. I just think that you believe that everything you think or dream is true. You don't seem to require any sort of evidence for this belief.

I must take issue with your use of the phrase 'any sort'. In fact I do require a sort of evidence. Just not the sort of cause-and-effect evidence that people mistakenly think is appropriate to expect given the nature of the claims.

Yes. One. But many more do imagine they were famous figures. If it ware logical, the vast majority, by many orders of magnitude, of people would be minor characters, yet we see this is not the case.

There is a big difference between imagining oneself as a famous figure and recovering memories of past lives. The former is the stuff of daydreams. The latter is the stuff of Kundalini awakening. Just FYI.

Do you ever get tired of deciding without evidence what is right?

I have plenty of evidence. If you want to examine it, you'll have to become a mystic! You'll have to learn to think like a gnostic!

"The origins of the discipline of religious studies in nineteenth-century Europe are not primary mystical or even religious. A highly developed secular sense is a sine qua non of the discipline and its social sustainability anywhere on the planet (hence its virtual absense outside the Western academy). I would like, though, to make a restricted and heterodox case that regarding the discipline as a modern mystical tradition could be useful in approaching the constructive tasks being explored in these reflections. In this, I am not suggesting that the discipline must or even should be read in this way.

Rather, I wish only to make the much more restricted, but no less unorthodox, case that some of the discipline's practices and practitioners (that is, those capable of forging a tensive mystical-critical practice out of the discipline's dual Romantic/Enlightenment heritage) can be read in such a way, and that, moreover, such a mystical-critical rereading of the discipline might be useful for the constructive tasks under discussion here, namely, the cross-cultural influence of religious systems toward a safer, more humane, and more religiously satisfying world.

Scholars of religion, it turns out, often have profound religious experiences reading and interpreting the texts they critically study, and these events have consequences for the methods and models they develop, the conclusions they come to, and even for the traditions they study.

Poetically speaking, gnostic thought recognizes that religious expressions function as symbols and, as such, are simultaneously true and false, that they both reveal and conceal. Reductionism and revelation lie down together here in a (post)modern form of what the Sufi tradition understood as the paradox of the veil (hijab), that is, the psychological and linguistic necessity of cultural forms that reveal the divine light (which is in itself beyond all representation) precisely by concealing it behind veiled symbols and signs."-Jeffrey J. Kripal

 

[Resume]

There is a big difference between imagining oneself as a famous figure and recovering memories of past lives. The former is the stuff of daydreams. The latter is the stuff of Kundalini awakening. Just FYI.

There is no such thing as a Kundalini awakening. Just so you know.

I have plenty of evidence. If you want to examine it, you'll have to become a mystic!

You have no evidence. Whether you're a mystic or a dipstick.

 

[ExMinister]

I figure I might as well add my 2012 Winter Solstice adventure to this thread. It was very exciting! It started in the early morning hours of the 21st. I was put into a telepathic trance with my spiritual guides and allies and my mystical family. It was sort of like a collective consciousness conference call.

Then my twin brother took me out of my body and we sort of met up with the galactic center and recieved 'mana'. Then we headed off toward the underworld.

Down we fell through the surface of the earth. We arrived in the underworld and found the demon. It was snake-like. It tried to escape but it couldn't. I slew it.

I then turned to escaping from the underworld. I tried to go back up the way I came but She said I couldn't go up that way. I looked up and through the ground and saw She was right...there were too many buffalo stampeding on the ground over our head. So I looked elsewhere. I guess it was the wrong time period I was looking at.

I sort of 'curved' around in the underworld for a bit and found a tunnel that led up and out of the underworld to this time period, this body.

As we were leaving I had to peel a living tongue off my own and take it home to its own kind... it was a kind of spiritual symbiont.. which was put there by spirits of deceased mystics some weeks ago as I was freeing my sister, mystics that I think were Sufi.

So, it turns out that I'm "Palöngawhoya". Surprise! I'm the younger brother. My elder brother and I are the Hopi 'twin heroes' of prophesy. We set the underworld right again. That's why the spirits of Native American shamans brought me all the way across the country to initiate me into their mysteries back in 2011.

It was an interesting solstice. It's too bad that so very few people are able to realize the truth of it. Most people are under the false impression that "nothing happened". Something did indeed happen but not something that average folk can experience.

Must say I'm feeling a bit more fortunate today that my kundalini did not awaken. *




* I know, I know

 

[Craig4]

I just want add that about a year ago I devised an experiment where Limbo would use his claimed powers for remote viewing to identify an unusual architectural feature in the bedrooms of my home in Germany. When informed that my skepticism would block his remote viewing abilities I offered that I would be out for the weekend in France and that the upstairs bedrooms being vacant he could look free of my skeptical interference. He then put me on ignore.

 

[dafydd]

I just want add that about a year ago I devised an experiment where Limbo would use his claimed powers for remote viewing to identify an unusual architectural feature in the bedrooms of my home in Germany. When informed that my skepticism would block his remote viewing abilities I offered that I would be out for the weekend in France and that the upstairs bedrooms being vacant he could look free of my skeptical interference. He then put me on ignore.

Limbo would never put his mysterious mystical powers to an actual test. He's not that stupid. He confines himself to storytelling.

 

[tsig]

I must take issue with your use of the phrase 'any sort'. In fact I do require a sort of evidence. Just not the sort of cause-and-effect evidence that people mistakenly think is appropriate to expect given the nature of the claims.




There is a big difference between imagining oneself as a famous figure and recovering memories of past lives. The former is the stuff of daydreams. The latter is the stuff of Kundalini awakening. Just FYI.






I have plenty of evidence. If you want to examine it, you'll have to become a mystic! You'll have to learn to think like a gnostic!

"The origins of the discipline of religious studies in nineteenth-century Europe are not primary mystical or even religious. A highly developed secular sense is a sine qua non of the discipline and its social sustainability anywhere on the planet (hence its virtual absense outside the Western academy). I would like, though, to make a restricted and heterodox case that regarding the discipline as a modern mystical tradition could be useful in approaching the constructive tasks being explored in these reflections. In this, I am not suggesting that the discipline must or even should be read in this way.

Rather, I wish only to make the much more restricted, but no less unorthodox, case that some of the discipline's practices and practitioners (that is, those capable of forging a tensive mystical-critical practice out of the discipline's dual Romantic/Enlightenment heritage) can be read in such a way, and that, moreover, such a mystical-critical rereading of the discipline might be useful for the constructive tasks under discussion here, namely, the cross-cultural influence of religious systems toward a safer, more humane, and more religiously satisfying world.

Scholars of religion, it turns out, often have profound religious experiences reading and interpreting the texts they critically study, and these events have consequences for the methods and models they develop, the conclusions they come to, and even for the traditions they study.

Poetically speaking, gnostic thought recognizes that religious expressions function as symbols and, as such, are simultaneously true and false, that they both reveal and conceal. Reductionism and revelation lie down together here in a (post)modern form of what the Sufi tradition understood as the paradox of the veil (hijab), that is, the psychological and linguistic necessity of cultural forms that reveal the divine light (which is in itself beyond all representation) precisely by concealing it behind veiled symbols and signs."-Jeffrey J. Kripal

I can't drink that much anymore.

 

[tsig]

Limbo would never put his mysterious mystical powers to an actual test. He's not that stupid. He confines himself to storytelling.

The first rule of mystical posers is that you don't test mystical powers.

 

[TjW]

The second rule of mystical posers is that YOU DON'T TEST MYSTICAL POWERS!

Unlike fight club, though, you do talk about it. And talk about it. And talk about it.

 

[Limbo]

Must say I'm feeling a bit more fortunate today that my kundalini did not awaken. *




* I know, I know

lol yeah it's not an easy thing to deal with... people have no idea! Physically, mentally, socially, financially challenging.

But I believe its something everyone will have to go through... if not in this life then in another life to come...

...and there are perks. Ultimately its worth every ounce of pain doubt and fear.

 

[Mashuna]

lol yeah it's not an easy thing to deal with... people have no idea! Physically, mentally, socially, financially challenging.

But I believe its something everyone will have to go through... if not in this life then in another life to come...

...and there are perks. Ultimately its worth every ounce of pain doubt and fear.

It's nice to have a hobby.

 

[ExMinister]

lol yeah it's not an easy thing to deal with... people have no idea! Physically, mentally, socially, financially challenging.

But I believe its something everyone will have to go through... if not in this life then in another life to come...

...and there are perks. Ultimately its worth every ounce of pain doubt and fear.

Actually, I'm not one to talk. On second thought, I am the poster child of odd and unusual experiences, kundalini or no kundalini. Mine are mostly darkness and evil spirits though, what can I say. Maybe that's even worse. In fact, if I could avoid sleep just to avoid them, I would.

Come to think of it, for a time I half-believed that my kundalini had awakened to the level of the 2nd chakra, causing all of this, attributable to a psychic medium who once told me that leaving the body through the 2nd chakra would bring about dark low level astral plane experiences. Speaking of kundalini, I guess. That all came about while doing yoga for back pain around age 19 or so, when I felt a surge of energy from my tail bone to my mid back. Back then I believed in kundalini and chakras so I assumed that's what it was. And then I was fine for 15 years. The weird stuff really didn't start until 15 years later, and the kundalini thing did cross my mind.

Which just speaks to how sinister and real they do seem.

But seizure medications control this for the most part, reducing them to a more manageable every 6-8 weeks.

 

[Craig4]

lol yeah it's not an easy thing to deal with... people have no idea! Physically, mentally, socially, financially challenging.
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Well, if the whole world is out to get you... it's probably onto something.

 

[tsig]

The second rule of mystical posers is that YOU DON'T TEST MYSTICAL POWERS!

Unlike fight club, though, you do talk about it. And talk about it. And talk about it.

Yes, you can explain why those dry, limited materialists can never enjoy art, love and music while having mystical mojo gives you life to the fullest.