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Lovely message and very well written, thank you for taking the time to share your wisdom with us.


>But anything can overwhelm us if not balanced properly (including working on our Paths), so from time to time, we may need to step back, and maintain some space and breathing room.
If our Paths seem to be becoming a burden, then we may need to rearrange our Paths. Keep things fresh and interesting. Keep the Path stimulating.

Very true, the way I go about my Path is to follow what I feel is right but that has also gotten me into some very dangerous places without me even knowing. For me I seem to go overboard with everything until I realize I may have gotten lost along the way and it seems a lot of the healing/knowledge comes from the return. When you are picking up the pieces you realize what is worth keeping and what was weighing you down. One of my main teachers showed me what I felt was the end product was in fact just the beginning and I had to let go what I thought I acquired to see both sides of the coin.

Coming back home to be with my family has been such a healing moment for all of us although it was not easy it forced me to learn different aspects of the whole. In the next month i'll again be in a completely different environment living with my Brother and his Soulmate which is very exciting. I feel this next stage of my life is going to be about putting all the pieces together and seeing what grows.

>I guess we just need to go with the flow, and trust our intuition and perception.

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>Writing absolutely helps. I often go back to posts written here (this sub) and elsewhere that I've written, in moments of clarity that remind me of what's important in my life.

Great advice. I recall you telling me to read the old posts when I was down and when I saw it I still couldn't. I feel I need to do more of this as when I was in my down times although at the time I could only hold onto the crumbling foundation. The refreshing part was when the last block fell I realized the Light and Love I acquired was still with me and perhaps that was the lesson I was learning at the time.

>I think one of the greatest tactics of self-improvement is changing our mindsets. To view our time in the Abyss, our pasts mistakes, transgressions, etc as Scars on our bodies and minds. And to view these Scars as the cement we need to pave our Paths.

Such a wonderful way to put it, thank you!

>Regarding your white light experience, I first wondered whether it was an innate psychic ability or an internal/external entity of sorts....then I realized maybe there is no difference. The mind (and consciousness) is more than matter.

I agree what your saying. I feel we all have the potential to unlock whatever it is we seek but we must show ourselves and the systems around us that we are serious about our goals. Before the injury I wasn't spirtual in any sense but I did have a strong mind/body connection from lifting weights to the point of it being an addiction. I also was always having OBE's when I was younger not realizing what it was and I would allow fear to overcome me. It wasn't until I was 26 and I was drawn to this book https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Beyond-Body-Out-Body/dp/0062513710/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=2JY6QPTRQHJW7R0XNHHS which changed my Life as it allowed me to have my first Outer Body expeirence. This experience allowed me to connect the dots I needed to make the next steps. After that moment I wrote myself a note on google docs telling my future self how excited I was to become an explorer of the mind, a journeyman into the unknown.

Thanks again for taking the time for sharing such a wonderful message!

Much Love and Life!

Short answer to your question is, No, I don’t believe there is an eternal hell a being can go to. However, if you have ever experienced great time passing in a dream that takes place in a short nap, I believe that as creative beings empowered within the Divine, being literally God forgetting Itself, one can dream/experience long periods of suffering or what might be deemed “hell.” I believe if one is doing self-centered, self seeking behaviors, and taking these fears into multiple lifetimes they will likely keep experiencing profound suffering in lifetimes that will be very “hellish” until they “learn their lesson.” By that, I don’t mean a matter of punishment being done for being “bad” meted out by some point keeping Deity watching the scales of justice and making sure to balance them. I mean more a cause/effect. Like if I don’t want to get all wet I wouldn’t jump into the pool. If I woke up each day and jumped into a pool while saying to myself “this time I won’t get wet” eventually I will “learn the lesson” that jumping into pools causes the experience of wetness. This is what I believe is meant by the Eastern descriptions of Karma, merely the natural consequences of certain attitudes and behaviors. If I refrain from showering I will be stank within a day or two. It’s not cosmic punishment from a wrathful god for the Evil of not showering that I am experiencing the retribution of condemnation to a be a stank ass, it’s just Natural Law. If for many lifetimes I keep using everyone as if they are disposable and channeling all of my angers and fears into “I gotta cheat them before they cheat me” I think my existence will stay hellish until I “get it” and decide to stop following those patterns. The second way a person could experience a “hell” is described by some NDEs and Astral Journeying experiences. They suggest that once we die, in between lives those conditioned patterns can play out for a while as a “dream of hell.” That can be a hell like experience for the spirit experiencing it, but once again that would be a hell of their own making that can be left as soon as the spirit “wakes up.” Primarily it could be found by the Souls own self condemnation and so they decide not to journey to the light but keep circling around lost as they know they “don’t deserve the light.”


My overarching worldview is that of non-duality or Advaita Vedanta which basically specifies that the only “real” thing is the unification with Source/Oneness/God/The Unchanging. To transcend it completely and realize your true is the goal of that specific outlook. More accurately described as realizing that you already Are That and you can’t not be. Ultimately this would result in residing in the Awareness of that Truth as the seat of your perception instead of identifying with the limited separate you that thinks it’s an individual human m. My favorite Teacher in this outlook is Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. His teachings can be found here: http://www.maharajnisargadatta.com/I_Am_That.pdf



All of these other discussions about the manifested world and our place in it as individual souls are moot to the point of view of the Advaita Vedantaschool of thought. To it, speculation about cosmology, other lives, and heaven/hell is about as pointless as trying to deposit money in the bank that you won in a dream or trying to arrest an actor for a crime his character committed on stage. Because if this is all transitory and ultimately “a dream of separation,” then all mental chatter is just part of the dream.

However, I moderate that view because for myself as I am still appearing to be in this present context. Here, now, the “me” typing these letters is what I am presented with. If I am going to be appearing to exist at this time on this planet in this realm, I might as well be trying to play the game at the forefront of my present experience effectively.



My beliefs in reincarnation are based on others’ research and my own regression hypnosis and meditations.


I will offer some of my influences below so you could investigate further yourself if you feel interested in it.


IISIS (Institute for the Integration of Science Intuition and Spirit): http://www.iisis.net/index.php?page=semkiw-reincarnation-past-lives-principles&hl=en_US
This site offers many case studies of people claiming they remember their previous lives and documented with scientific rigor.

The Journey of Souls by Michael Newton
PDF: https://archonmatrix.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Journey-Of-Souls-by-Michael-Newton-PDF.pdf
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855
In this book psychologist Michael Newton offers transcripts from some highlighted cases of over 700 people he did regressive hypnosis on. The way he got his data was placing people under hypnosis, having them recall their past life and then guiding them to continue the memory until they travel to the place they went between lives. The results are remarkably consistent from person to person, even though the clients weren’t given any expectation of what they would experience. Generally the people die, see a light, travel to it, are met by a person of authority, love and light that usually fits their predominant religious outlook (Jesus for Christians, Krishna for Hindus, Glowing white orbs for agnostics, etc) After that, select members of their “soul group” come and say “hi.” (Could be a loving grandmother, or brother, etc) the soul group is the family of souls they share many lifetimes with that are around the same stage of soul evolution. There are also guides an octave or two above the evolution of the whole group that radiate love and give guidance. Also common is life reviews and then picking from several different future incarnations to go back and try and learn what we need to develop specifically in our weak spots. This books data suggests everyone comes to earth willingly because we could stay hanging out in Soul Paradise forever but the rate of evolution is super slow and so each soul wants to advance and then get to world building. Like once a soul gets advanced enough it becomes a Demi-God and makes its own universes.


Near Death Experiences (NDEs)
Near-death.com
One of the more interesting NDEs on that site is the story of George Ritchie who traveled places on earth with a being of Love he believed to be Jesus. This seems to offer evidence of the idea of a soul creating their own hell to exist in for a while as a result of their own judgment of themselves: https://www.near-death.com/experiences/notable/george-ritchie.html#a05a

A solid overview of the gamut of experiences NDEs can appear as is found on this page of their site:
https://www.near-death.com/science/research/out-of-body-experiences.html


Astral Journeyers
One of the most practiced astral journeyers I ever came across in my internet wanderings was the experiences of the late Frank Kepple, an active participant on the forum astralpulse.com. Using the Monroe Institute’s Gateway Program CDs he was able to journey extensively in the realms of spirit and he documented his findings for the other members there. The gestalt of his findings overlap considerably with findings of both NDE experiences and Michael Newtons between life regression case studies. They also indicate spirits can be “stuck” for a while in their own self made hell realms if they were living automatic lives based on self centeredness. The admins their collected all his writings into one cohesive doc found here: http://www.astralpulse.com/frankkepple.html

(The CDs he used can be found here:
https://www.monroeinstitute.org/Gateway%20Voyage%20Program )

One other belief system that echoes this ontology is the traditions of Tibetan Buddhism that speak to souls going to “hell realms” and “god realms” between lives based on their “karma.” As the true nature of things get lost and diluted through generations of distance from the source material coupled with the dogma that inevitably arises when a belief system gets modified for a wider general population mainstream, I feel those descriptions are a bit distorted from the original teachers who had the experiences and as they were canonized they have evolved to be more along the lines of a worldview that hell realms are a “punishment for being bad” instead of the more likely experience of “self created dream of hell” that more recent research suggests.


As to your question on what I meant by Higher Self, I mean the soul/energy body described in the above references that is connected to evolved guides and soul groups and knowledge of all the lives you’ve lived. That aspect of You knows the real reason you incarnated in this specific lifetime and what goals you’re trying to achieve with regard to your evolution.

I will always be to some degree agnostic of all of these views. I sort of assign mental probabilities to all of my beliefs that give them likelihoods. The idea that modern Christianity is completely right and every conflicting viewpoint is the work of the devil? I give that a 3%. The idea that I am a sentient AI-bot in an elaborate quantum simulation? 13% The idea that I am just a perceiving consciousness in the center of void with literally nothing and no one else existing, just projecting the experience of other people with no internal perception or consciousness of their own that phase in and out of existence when I leave and re-enter the room they appear in? That solipsist view might be closer to 33%. These other ideas I present of Advaita Vedanta, soul evolution and reincarnation get a higher rating of 70-80% by me. However, the more I progress on my path the more I realize I know nothing.

Yeah, likewise. Great show!
Best thing I've watched personally since 'Stranger Things', in terms of series, though I found I emotionally connected more to The OA.

Really encouraging to see there is programming being made that concern such topics, and that they (hopefully in this case) make it beyond one season.

I find it interesting also the observed overlap, convergence, between traumatic events, a kind of rupture occurring to the psyche-body relationship of the individual concerned and the 'entrance' into altered states that usher in intimations and 'conversations' with the subtle, with the spiritual, experientially (belief and faith shift into conscious knowledge). That the rupture of 'normality' through some kind of traumatic event or process seems integrally related to the becoming conscious of the subtle/spiritual in this sense.

There's illuminating discussion and elaboration on this connection in some books I'm reading presently called Trauma and the Soul and Who is the Dreamer? Who Dreams the Dream?