​It is interesting how much we take for granted in this life yet we really don't know how much we take for granted exactly.

Take love for instance. We love in a multiplicity of different ways, but of course the most physical showing of love is just that, physical touch.

When we love one another we kiss them, we hug them, and if we are especially infatuated we have sexual relationships.

Now, many mystics have drawn attention to the point I will now make. The scientists, if they have not “proven” this, have at least rationalized this in theory as well.

Do you know that it is impossible to touch someone? You, first of all, are not feeling them but rather the “feeling” is yours; your sensations from your nerve impulses in response to the other person's stimulus. Moreover, in the realm of physics, it is said that an atom, made up of the sub-atomic particles protons neutrons and electrons, themselves weigh such an infinitesimal amount in the already super small size of an atom, but even in this ever so small atom most of its size is empty space.

In that all of your being is made up of these atoms, and that all of your atoms is mostly empty space when you touch someone it is only one empty space encountering another empty space.

Of course, this is all “mysticism”, whether by spiritual guru or scientist, it doesn't really matter for the definition of mysticism is simply a journeying through that which mystifies us. An understanding or a conclusion to something that we don't know.

There is nothing mystical about mysticism or being a mystic. The most common form of a mystic is actually a magician. Magicians don't perform real magic since there is no such thing as magic, what they do instead is present you with a different perspective. They show you a different way of looking at things.  

A “paradigm shift”, if we want to over-glorify it.

Now, a scientist is actually different from a mystic, since a scientist tries to show you reality. a mystic presents you with an illusion.  The Mystic doesn't purposefully delude you with this illusion, but shows you how you made the illusion yourself.

You are a part of the act, you are the one who bought your ticket to the show. Not suspending your disbelief like at the movies, wanting entertainment to be brought to you. At the magic show you can’t help but try your hardest to one-up the magician; trying to “catch the Illusion”.

Of course you can’t “catch” the illusion; in order for you to know the trick, you’d have to be in on the game.

You’d have to be a magician yourself.

You’d have to know the tricks.

Spirituality, the feeling of “oneness”, non-duality, god-nature, buddha-nature…

...enlightenment…

...are all “tricks”.

They are nothing but prestige and illusion to make you feel good.

Now you might ask where is the reality?

Well just remember…

There’s no such thing as magic.

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​So you're going on a capital-S "Spiritual Journey", eh?

Well send me a postcard when you get there.

Thing is...

..."I" know where you're goin'

...but you don't.

How is it that you are going on a Spiritual Journey and you don't even know where you're going?

or that "I" have that knowledge and you don't even?

If no one has told you by now, or you haven't figured it out for yourself, let me give it to you here:

You can have any experience that you want.

You can enter into any state that you want.

(I think somebody on this site said just that.)

[I'll try my best to find the link and put it here, but as a bit of free pub. I'll just tell you to look around this site for it. You might even find something cool you weren't expecting.]

But back to the point,

How is it that you haven't even done just a little bit of introspection to find out what you want?

Isn't that like the first thing the guys with the robes and the hair tell you?

I don't mean to go on you,

It's just that this whole scene is dangerous.

You might think why that is?

Well...

You have the potential to drop a bombshell that will destroy everything around you.

It can even destroy "you" if you're not careful.

But if you are "careful" you won't be destroyed.

Though you will be destroyed if you are careless.

Obviously same goes for anything else. If you are careless to the point where you stick a pair of scissors into an electrical outlet, you can fill in the blanks.

The Spiritual Journey will wind up killing everything you know and love...

...even yourself

So why do you feel so compelled to go on it?

Something bigger than yourself is working.

Which is interesting since that thing that is bigger than you "is" you.

That thing...

"is"

You will reach your destination when you reconcile the differences between yourself and everything else.

Of course things will never be the same...

...but they will be "always".



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The end.

The final sleep.

It’s hard not to get carried away in the magnitude of it all.

But you don’t know death. You’re not getting carried away by anything you know, but by your imagination. Don’t allow yourself to become confused about what death is in your ignorance. Let’s look at it a bit, and perhaps we will learn a few things about its true nature.

Here is something that may surprise you: you already know what it’s like to die. You already know what it’s like to be dead. To be dead is to not be alive. Or, more accurately, to not perceive yourself as alive. You are always alive, and always will be, in one sense. The matter that makes you has always been here, and will remain until the end of all things, should that time ever come. Yet you only started living once you became aware of it, once you realized that a certain packet of matter was you, and was alive. So to be dead is not to disappear, or to vanish. It is simply to cease to recognize that you are here.

Before you were born you did not recognize you were here. Done. Easy. You have been dead for so long before you came alive and it was no issue to you. Every night you go to sleep you are dead to yourself. You cease to be aware of your life. This is death.

That part of your brain which creates life has been turned off, and returns in the morning. While other parts of your brain may continue to run and function, so long as you do not know it, you are experiencing death. Another person may look at you and say you are alive, but to yourself you are truly dead.

This means that our concept of life is different than the experience of being alive. We say a plant is alive, but a plant does not experience it’s own life. A plant is dead already to itself.

Organisms are not alive or dead, because this thing we call life is merely consciousness, or sensation. The extent to which we are conscious is the extent to which we are alive, and death as we know it is just the end of consciousness.

Death is not a gaping, terrifying, demon. It is a very small and quiet fellow, who will not take you, but let you release yourself when you are ready.

​As peaceful as an afternoon nap.

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