Just my Thoughts

[Oneironaut]

It can't be possible in that I am thinking this, but sometimes I feel like I am the only one. Like I am A God or something. I feel that my reality is completely designed by me. Like I am every person and asking questions to others is just like me asking myself a question, and waiting for a response from myself. The answer always seems right, and it would be; in the sense that I made the answer. Does anyone feel this way too? What if you are all justan extension of my creative sub-conscious? I don't know if you are real, only you do, and you don't know if I'm real. The only person I know is not an illusion is myself, and thats scary, but liberating at the sametime. I'll tell you I am not a figment of your imagination, but is that just a lie?

[Blake]

I feel that my reality is completely designed by me. Like I am every person and asking questions to others is just like me asking myself a question, and waiting for a response from myself. The answer always seems right, and it would be; in the sense that I made the answer. Does anyone feel this way too?

Hi Josh,

I guess I missed this posting for a bit, but I do think I understand where you are coming from with this sense of things that you have. I pretty much share this personal perpective. I don't tend to talk to others about this, because most won't quite understand what you mean when you say, "I am God."

I was just rereading Robert Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land", and in this novel the main character who is a human who was raised by Martians (kind of an interesting slant on the Tarzan story) realizes an English translation of Martian philosophy in the words "Thou art God." After thinking about this a bit, I find that this has a better ring to it than, "I am God," in that it is probably even more shocking to the one hearing it for the first time, and if they begin to get what you are saying with that, they will then infer, that you also "art God". There are some interesting phrases in the bible that hint at this: "I AM WHO AM." "I AM THAT I AM."

I guess you could find a perspective in which you would call this all a "lie", but I don't choose to look at it that way. I think of lies as deliberate statements or actions intending to mislead another. What we have is a profound state of misidentification. We have identified ourselves with tools meant to enable perception on this specific plane of being. It is kind of like we fell to sleep while we were all hooked up to one of those virtual reality machines, completely forgot who we were and then accepted identification with what we were seeing and forgot that we were all wired up, goggled and gauntleted into this system.

It is kind of like The Matrix when you stop and think about it. I really enjoyed that movie and felt that while it was on one level a very cool sci-fi flick, it also gives us some real hints into the possible nature of our true selves.

[Oneironaut]

Sorry I didn't notice anyone responded to this,

WOW finally someone on my level of thought (Idea's). I don't know if you remember this, but the first time I ever contacted you VIA Youtube. I said I felt a connection between you and I (like I knew you), and I got this feeling instantly when I started up one of your video's. You are the first person that ever agreed with me on this topic, or at least admitted your thoughts. I know what you mean by not saying anything to anyone about this. I've hardly made mention of it before this post, but I felt it to be safe here (like someone understood). I have alot of idea's about my conscience I am willing to share, but I don't know how to trust responses I get (you'll understand what I mean on my next post...It's not a question of anyone's character but my own). Thanks for the response,

Josh

[dharmachatra]

Oneironaut,

First, great name. Second, I understand what you and Blake are talking about--but only intellectually. I first "got it" when I read Alan Watts way back in the early 1970s. But I don't usually feel the truth of it. The truth of being God has been vivid a couple times in meditation. I think anyone who has an inkling of their identity with the godhead is on the right track, assuming their understanding is a nonegoic one.

[Blake]

I think anyone who has an inkling of their identity with the godhead is on the right track, assuming their understanding is a nonegoic one.

I am definitely talking about this in terms of non-ego. Someday we all will eventually come to the realization of ourselves as that Great I AM.

Welcome to the forum!

[lostsoul]

I personally have just said something like this to my mother... I believe in God to much to call myself a God, but I have this theory that basically we choose our lives each cycle, like a God.. WE choose to be poor, or murdered, or extremely rich.. and on and on and because we have lived so many lives we have a deeper understanding and knowledge and once we realize what we are truely capable. Which is anything and everything ...We have empathy on a deeper level.

Also, I believe our "energy bodies" can intermingle with others in a way to actually feel what people are feeling.. I have had that before.Almost as if I was that person simply by focusing. Anyways, I believe We are here the whole thing to be given a choice... Kind of like what the Christians are saying...But way more deep and they are misunderstanding.... Actually .. I have to say many religions are misinterpreted just because of our own understanding level.....

We are making our own life to reach a point of understanding of everything as a whole basically...... We are a breed of species that learn mainly by seeing and doing.... So we make mistakes on purpose sometimes, but the point is that we learn more about ourselves and by learning this, we learn more about others..... Once we have lived everyway imaginable..(For many not 100%) Than and only than can we truely understand and appreciate why we are here and choose to live our purpose.

Everything we do is like a water filter... It has many layers inorder to reached a purified ending... Bad and good all are working towards the same result.