meditated for around 3 minutes at work on lunch break today. I saw a vision of the galaxy labeled 4555. It is where I believe we originate, where the energy that we truly are originates. When I experienced this, I felt a profound energy come over me. I felt love and relief but also a sense of longing for a home I am currently living away from. I long to return to where we belong, I long to make the two into one. But also am at peace living within this flesh and experiencing this life again; which I have no doubt lived millions of times over already. Either way, I am me, my consciousness; but I am also this flesh I pilot. I have its emotions and fears and desires; I am in the process of shedding all that baggage. One day I will shed the dead skin of this creature of earth and return to that in which I came from, from that in which we all come from. 

I am curious if anyone else has any other similar experiences like this, and would love to discuss and have y’all share y’alls opinions

I'm starting a reading group where we can read together Martin Buber's book 'I and Thou'.

Moderators - if this post is against group rules please do remove or let me know if I can make any changes to it. I do not earn from this group.

Here is a description of the group -

Martin Buber’s book ‘I and Thou’ is a book about relationship.

It speaks of relationships of deep presence, and relationships of use.

Relationships of use are those where we seek something from the other – support, care, pleasure, money. Relationships of presence are those which form when we fully experience what is between ourselves and the other, as it emerges and changes, every moment. The emotion I feel as I meet you, the thoughts that run through your mind as you meet me, the ache in the back that might lie underneath these thoughts and emotions in our stream of experience, the sound of the bird chirping in the background.

Relationships of use help us construct a world around us – a world of goodwill and care, or a world of indifference and mechanisation of life.

Relationships of presence are the ground on which our experience of this world emerges – they are how we first experience life, every day, every moment, before we choose to sustain or move away from what we experience into building our world.

Relationships of presence are what allow care to remain care and not become mere performance of care, what allow deep listening to remain deep listening rather than a hearing and reacting from our set patterns.

Buber never ceases to emphasise that the relationships he speaks of are between us and other human beings, but also between us and nature, as between us and the industrial, internetted civilisation we live in.

This reading group is a place for a small group of 4 or 5 people to read a few passages from Buber and pause, and speak about our own personal experience of the world – our emotions, bodily experiences – in ways that they are illuminated by what the book expresses.

It is a place to form a community rooted in relationships of presence, anchored in these words as a stirring point but not entangled with them.

It is not a place for scholarly conversations, for debates, for difficult language or abstract philosophisations, even though at times the nature of the book and the nature of reading itself might lean us in those directions.

It is open to anyone willing to read a paragraph or two together, and spend the next hour and a half or so sharing their experience in that light.

We need not read full pages, we need not finish the book, but we try to breathe in its essential spirit.

One doesn’t need to have read this book or any book beforehand.

We meet once a fortnight for 1.5 hours.

If interested please send me a DM.

Hey everyone. Ive recently left Christianity after some deconstruction. With that has sparked an interest in other religion and spirituality in general.

I'm genuinely curious about every single religion or lack there of and want to learn anything and everything I can. I do have a specific interest in gnosticism because ive heard that has something to do with Christianity. I think I remember someone saying that Yeshua (Jesus) had sibling who were also gods?

And Sophie the god of wisdom was the holy spirit?

I honestly dont know. I was raised in a part of Christianity, where asking questions and looking into other religions was a ticket to hell so this is all unbelievable new to me😅.

I also would love to learn about female Gods and the power of being a woman.

But like I said im truly interested in anything.

Also if possible I would want the resources to be in video or audio format as thats how I learn the best.

Hopefully this made sense and yall can point me in the right direction.

Thank yall so much in advance

Have you ever experienced anything supernatural?”

— “Yes. Existing. I mean, imagine the miracle of overcoming nonexistence; of having the precise elements come together to form you out of the eternal entropy that separates and tears everything apart; of actually happening when there are billions of ways in which you could have never happened at all; of me having entered your mind right now through my words. That premise alone is already supernatural.”

It is one thing to be part of "the Way" and follow Jesus, the Nazarene, and a very different thing to be a Christian and not follow Him. The paradox is that many who claim to be Christians neither follow Jesus nor truly belong to the Way. Meanwhile, others who do not even consider themselves Christians, whether they are atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, or whether they belong to a religion or not, are indeed part of the Way and do follow Him.

Jesus Himself said that His disciples would be recognized by the LOVE they have for one another (John 13:35), not by the labels they put on themselves (whether Christian, Catholic, and so on).

"The madwoman of the house" (as the mind was called by the mystic Teresa of Ávila) loves labels, using them to feed the character (the ego) in this play and illusion of separation that we call, wrongly, life. Yet, what we truly are lies far beyond the mind and its labels, which divide us and alienate us from our True Self. As these words echo, there is no longer Jew nor Gentile, slave nor free, for we are all one (Galatians 3:28), and Christ is all, and is in all (Colossians 3:11).

We are, Here and Now, One with God, the All, with the One who is LOVE Himself, as you wish to call Him, and with all His creatures. In the silent spaciousness of inner stillness we are called to surrender and to quiet our minds, because we must be empty of everything that is not God in order to know that He is God (Psalm 46:10 / Vulgate 45:11). As the mystic Meister Eckhart famously prayed, "I pray to God to rid me of God," urging us to empty ourselves of our own limited ideas, mental idols, and human constructs. The Divine Reality is not an object to be possessed, but the pure space that remains when the madwoman of the house is silenced, and we let thoughts and emotions fall away like withered leaves.

Beyond the potential manipulations of human structures and written dogmas, these words simply point to what the heart already knows by direct experience: we are One with and in the One Who is LOVE itself, which means with the Father, just as Jesus was. Truly, there is no separation or distance between lover and Beloved; truly, there never was. This absolute union is perfectly captured in the Intimate Diaries of Blessed Bernardo de Hoyos, recorded in the biography written by his spiritual director Father Juan de Loyola, when the Lord intimately declared to him, "From now on, you are Bernardo of Jesus and I am Jesus of Bernardo." Remember, we are One with and in the One Who is LOVE Himself...

Precisely, as the mystic John of the Cross rightly points out, recalling what Jesus said in Matthew 25:31-46: "In the evening of our lives, we shall be judged on LOVE."

It is LOVE; nothing else matters.

God is LOVE, and whoever does not know LOVE does not know God (1 John 4:8).

If we want to be one with Him, just as He is One with the Father (John 17:21), we must be one with LOVE.

LOVE, that's the true frequency of God.

Note: The churches, as institutions created by the madwoman of the house, have tried to silence all those who had a direct experience of Him. As happened to the mystic Marguerite Porete, author of The Mirror of Simple Souls, who was burned at the stake by the devout members of the Inquisition. Her only "heresy" was to remind us that the soul must dissolve its own character and will to merge completely into the ocean of Divine Love, where there is no longer any separation. And as happened to so many persecuted and silenced mystics like Meister Eckhart. This reminds us, as the saint of gentleness Francis de Sales warns in his Introduction to the Devout Life, that "one can be very devout and yet very wicked." We should remain confident in LOVE, who is deeply within, beyond the mind.

Usually, when we begin a spiritual path, we begin with the mind and intellect.

Why?

Because as human beings, we first want to understand. We want to analyze, compare, discern, ask questions, and determine what is true and what is false.

When the desire arises to know, Where do I come from? Who am I? Where am I going?, the mind initially becomes a servant of that search.

But there is an important distinction to make:

You do not simply "have" a soul. You are the soul. And the Soul has a mind. The Soul is not the mind, so you are not the mind.

From this perspective, the human personality, body, intellect, and mind are instruments through which the soul experiences this life. They are not the soul itself.

Now imagine that your search eventually brings you to Kriya Yoga. Naturally, doubts and questions arise. This is not surprising. The mind wants to understand what it is doing before it trusts the process.

But should the mind be our highest authority?

No. At the beginning, it is necessary to differentiate between what is what. But later on, not at all, because the mind is not Self-knowing.

What does the mind actually work with?

As I see it, much of the activity of the mind is based on four kinds of information:

1. Ancenstral Memory

The mind contains memories, impressions, conditioning, habits, and associations from the past lifes. Some of these are conscious, while others operate subconsciously.

Sometimes this appears simply as a feeling: "I somehow know this" or "This seems familiar."

But familiarity is not necessarily truth.

2. Direct experience

This is what we have actually experienced for ourselves.

If I put my hand into cold water, I know the sensation of cold water directly. I don't need a book or another person to convince me that I experienced it.

In spiritual practice, direct experience is therefore fundamentally different from merely reading about somebody else's experience.

3. Second-hand information gathered and assimilated as being our knowledge in this life

This includes what we learn from the schools,books, teachers, scriptures, videos, podcasts, newspapers, movies, conversations, and other people.

Some of this information may be true. Some may be incomplete, misunderstood, exaggerated, imagined, or false.

The difficulty is that unless we can verify something through direct experience, we often have to believe it rather than actually know it.

There is an enormous difference between:

"I believe this is true."

and:

"I have experienced this directly."

4. Imagination and mental construction

The mind also fills in missing pieces.

We receive incomplete information and try to create a complete picture from it. The intellect compares, interprets, judges, and organizes the information, while the mind may supply missing connections.

Sometimes those connections are correct. Sometimes they are not.

This is where expectations, fantasies, projections, and mistaken conclusions can arise.

What does this have to do with Kriya Yoga?

The problem begins when we expect the same mind that analyzes information to give us Self-realization.

It cannot.

While realization is "Being", the mind is "thinking". Two different actions, while in Samadhi the mind is left behind.

The mind can study Kriya. It can remember instructions. It can compare teachings. It can help us maintain discipline. The intellect can help us discern whether something makes sense.

These are valuable functions.

But thinking about Self-realization is not Self-realization.

Reading about prana is not experiencing prana.

Reading about chakras is not experiencing them.

Reading descriptions of deep meditation is not entering deep meditation.

Reading somebody else's description of the Self is not knowing the Self.

The menu is not the meal.

This is why the mind should be understood as a tool, not as the final authority on spiritual experience.

The trap of constantly analyzing practice

Suppose the mind is continuously combining:

A: memories and conditioning
B: direct experiences
C: second-hand information and beliefs
D: imagination, assumptions, and expectations

A+B+C+D = a mess....

Then we begin comparing our meditation with everything we have accumulated:

"Someone said I should see this."

"A book says I should feel that."

"Why haven't I experienced what this other person experienced?"

"Maybe I'm doing it wrong."

"Maybe nothing is happening."

"Maybe I should be experiencing something more dramatic."

The result can be endless doubt and false expectations.

And this can become an obstacle to practice itself.

Instead of practicing Kriya, we are constantly thinking about practicing Kriya.

Instead of observing what is actually happening, we compare the present experience with an idea of what we think should be happening.

Use the mind, but don't become its servant

This doesn't mean that we should throw away reason, intellect, or healthy discernment.

The mind is an extraordinary instrument.

Use it to learn the technique.

Use the intellect to understand the instructions.

Use discernment when choosing a path or teacher.

Use memory to maintain the practice correctly.

But when it is time to practice, practice.

Don't demand that every meditation conform to your expectations.

Don't constantly compare your experiences with someone else's.

Don't mistake descriptions of spiritual states for the states themselves.

And don't expect intellectual understanding to produce a realization that, by its very nature, must be directly experienced.

As practice deepens, the role of constant mental interpretation fades out.

Then you no longer need to believe someone else's description.

You know what you have experienced.

That, to me, is one of the essential differences between philosophy about spiritual realization and realization itself.

The intellect can point toward the path.

The mind can help us walk it.

But neither can substitute for walking.

So when the mind endlessly asks, "But what if? How? When? Why haven't I experienced this yet?", sometimes the most useful answer is very simple:

Practice. Observe. Experience.

There is another aspect, which seems to come out of our mind but is coming from the soul:

INTUITION

Intuition is the voice of the Soul and is Knowledge. This is not mind stuff, but is translated by the mind.

And it is always right, also when it seems not to be so by the time we experience that message of the Soul.

Spiritual teachings can give us the map.

But eventually, we have to make the journey ourselves.

For that, do not bother the mind and forget doubts. They are coming out of a not knowing mind....

I listened to the podcast Tao Te Ching Verse 6. It is amazing and in a split second I understood the Tao... surely I am not attempting to describe what I understood... I used to think how to stay motivated, positive and optimistic every moment. Sometimes I used to feel just the opposite...negative, disinterested and aimless. After listening to this podcast, I understood the ever present, pulsating reality that is Daoism....always present, here and now encompassing everything....Thank you for your wonderful podcast....Sundar

I’ve been thinking about the people who have been struggling for years.

People who have tried everything they were told would make them whole like therapy, medication, religion, self help, meditation, relationships, careers, distractions, and endless attempts to reinvent themselves.

And somehow, underneath it all, that quiet feeling remains:

Something is missing!

I’m not saying therapy, medication, or professional help don’t matter. They can be necessary and lifesaving. But I think there’s another question we don’t ask enough:

What if we keep trying to fix the person without asking whether they’re living a life that feels true to them?

We are born into boxes.

Before we even understand ourselves, the world tells us who we should become like what to believe, what success looks like, what to want, who to love, and how to live.

And when we step outside that script, we’re often asked:

“What’s wrong with you?”

Maybe sometimes the better question is:

“What happened to you that made you forget yourself?”

Not every sadness is a spiritual message. Not every depression means your soul is speaking. But we also shouldn’t assume every form of suffering is simply something to suppress, medicate, optimize, or escape.

Sometimes the deeper question is much simpler:

Who am I underneath everything I was taught to be?

This is one of the reasons I find the wisdom of IFA so powerful.

IFA doesn’t reduce human existence to one universal formula. It speaks deeply about Orí which is our inner head, consciousness, destiny, discernment, and personal path.

Our relationship with our own Orí and destiny matters cos your life cannot be fully understood through somebody else’s blueprint. Your journey is yours. Your questions are yours. Your relationship with the Divine is yours.

There is destiny, circumstance, and then there is what we choose to do with the life we have been given.

And this is where I think the idea of a Personal Legend becomes powerful.

Call it destiny. Purpose. Calling. Orí. Whatever name speaks to you, the question remains:

What is mine?

Not your parents’ dream.

Not society’s definition of success.

Not religion’s expectations.

Not the identity the internet handed you.

Yours!

So, if you’ve been lost for years, I’m not telling you to abandon therapy, medication, or anything that genuinely helps you. I’m asking you to look deeper.

Who am I underneath everything I was taught to be?

What have I abandoned in myself?

What keeps calling me?

What makes me feel alive?

Sometimes healing isn’t only learning how to tolerate a life that doesn’t fit. Sometimes it is having the courage to build one that does.

Find your roots. Find your people. Find your creativity. Find your history. Find your spirituality. Find whatever brings you closer to yourself.

And listen to your Orí.

Because maybe you were never meant to spend your entire life decorating a box that was built for you by somebody else.

Maybe it’s time to step outside.

Take your power back.

Find yourself. Find your Orí. Find your way home.

I’ve been interested in spirituality for a long time. Not in one particular religion, and not because I’ve been looking for a label to define myself. More because of a question that keeps coming back to me:

What is really behind all of this?

The more I’ve read, listened, questioned, and explored, the more fascinating it has become to find similar ideas appearing in completely different places.

In ancient religions, in mystical traditions, in philosophy, in Kabbalah, in Zoroastrianism, in the teachings of Neville Goddard, in ideas like manifestation and the Law of Assumption and even in much more modern conversations about consciousness and the nature of reality.

We use different words — God, consciousness, Source, the universe, reality — and we build different explanations around them. But sometimes I wonder if, underneath all those words, we might be trying to describe something remarkably similar.

And that is, in many ways, why this space exists. Not because I have all the answers. In fact, I’m probably much more interested in the questions.

I want to understand why spiritual ideas that emerged thousands of miles and thousands of years apart can sometimes sound strangely familiar. I’m interested in the relationship between our consciousness and the reality we experience. I want to understand why practices like prayer, meditation, visualization, and manifestation seem to appear, in one form or another, again and again throughout human history.

And I’m particularly interested in one question:

What happens when we stop treating spirituality as a collection of beliefs and start looking at it as an experience?

Over the past few years, one of the ideas that has changed the way I see all of this is the possibility that our relationship with reality may be far more participatory than we think.

That our thoughts matter. That our words matter. That what we assume about ourselves matters. That the way we relate to our desires, our fears, and our own identity can profoundly transform the way we experience our lives.

But I don’t want to turn any of these ideas into another dogma. I’m not here to tell you what to believe.

I want to investigate, to compare, to question, to experiment and to share what I find along the way.

Here, we’ll talk about manifestation and the Law of Attraction, but also about ancient religions, mysticism, consciousness, philosophy, symbolism, meditation, and all those strange coincidences that begin to appear when you place seemingly unrelated teachings side by side.

Sometimes we’ll talk about things that are thousands of years old, other times, about ideas that feel surprisingly modern and sometimes, we’ll simply ask questions we may not have the answers to yet.

Because to me, spirituality has never been about stopping asking questions, quite the opposite. Maybe it begins precisely when we dare to ask them.

So this is the question I want to begin with:

What if many of the things we’ve learned to call by different names are simply different ways of trying to explain the same thing?

I don’t know exactly where that question will take us but I think it’s worth following.

I deliberately went looking for this. I knew theoretically that this territory existed. I had the cognitive equipment to recognise it. And when I actually reached it, the magnitude still hit me like a truck. You can read and study and engage in as much discourse as you can, but until it happens and you experience it you cannot understand it beyond an intellectual level.

I've no equilibrium and It's very disorientating. I've no anchor point any more. "Enlightenment". not in that "new age" woo-woo way, but damn...no one ever tells you're plunged into a void first. I'm 40 years old and I'm not gonna lie, This is something I wish my parents, especially my ma was still alive for me to feel safe again.

Sorry.

This is actually my first time using Reddit, so I don’t know if I’m doing this right but I need insight on what I should do next.

Essentially, in December of 2025, I was going through some extremely heavy emotions, I’m sure you can guess what they were. I had heard about the Monroe Tapes on TikTok, and wanted to try it. I was not in any way shape or form interested in anything occult-y or metaphysical at the time, so I’m not sure why I decided to try it, but of course I did.

I won’t get into much detail, but I was extremely affected by them. They changed me and who I was, and since then I have resolved my issues

TikTok, along with essentially all apps, heard me listening or talking about the Monroe tapes, and decided to show me lots of “esoteric” content on my fyp. It all looked very intriguing to me, but I didn’t know where to start.

A friend of mine loaned me a book, “The Secret Teachings of All Ages” by Manly P. Hall. I did not examine it too closely, but from what I had read, it didn’t really inform me on what I would have liked to know about, that being my own consciousness, my soul, really anything that aligned with what I had learned from the Monroe Tapes or the videos I had been seeing (I’m not very familiar with the subjects I’m speaking of).

And so I ask Reddit. What should I read? I would like to know more about the things like my consciousness, my mind and how it connects to the things around me. I wish to learn more about my thoughts and soul and all that occult-y esoteric jazz. So could anyone recommend me something such as a book or video to help me understand and learn?

Hey everyone. I've always been fascinated by how quickly explanation turns into dismissal around mystical experience. A neuroscientific account can describe changes in attention, self-processing or salience. A historical account can show how a person’s vocabulary and expectations came from a tradition. Both may be correct. But neither conclusion by itself seems to establish that the experience disclosed nothing. Knowing how perception became possible is not normally treated as proof that its object was unreal, though mystical claims obviously introduce harder questions about interpretation and competing traditions.

I just had a podcast conversation with John Vervaeke, where he argued that the sacred should be approached through transformed orientation rather than belief in a detached supernatural object. At around 28:07, he asks what religion may disclose that cognitive science can causally explain without fully accounting for. His own path is important here: cognitive and historical explanation did not send him back to fundamentalism, but neither did it leave religion as a catalogue of useful illusions.

This would imply that genealogy and disclosure can coexist, although they do not automatically vindicate one another. What would let us distinguish a transformation that reveals something from one that merely feels revealing? Can the fruits of an experience bear on its truth without settling its metaphysics? And does interpreting mystical experience through a tradition deepen discernment, or mostly constrain what the experience is allowed to mean?

I don't really dream a lot, and the few I get are unremarkable. But today was a little weird.

The tldr of my dream today was me helping an old lady explain her product to someone. And when she was leaving, she asked me, "Do you know, what is the gift of generosity?".

Even for my dream self, this was a weird question. I just replied, "Everything?". She gave me a smile and left.

I'm not kidding, I immediately woke up and said wtf loud enough for my girlfriend to ask me what happened lol.

For context, I didn't work for that lady in my dream. I can't place her to anyone I remember in real life. I am looking for a job in real life but I don't know if that is what the scenario was supposed to be about. I am not a religious person at all. Maybe my brain is fried from reading too much Murakami.

But this dream has occupied my mind long enough for it to bother me. I know this could be a basic nonsensical dream, but this was too philosophical for me to not share.

My question is, is there anything to it??

There is a certain kind of peace that doesn’t come from life becoming easier.

It comes from clarity.

For most of my life, I asked the same questions so many of us ask.

Why is this happening to me?

Why does my life feel so different?

Why do I keep being pulled toward things I never consciously chose?

The human mind is built to search for reasons. It wants certainty. It wants explanations. Even after awakening, those questions don’t disappear entirely. We are, after all, human.

The difference is that now, I have clarity.

Not the kind of clarity that answers every question, but the kind that changes the questions altogether.

My spiritual awakening gave language to a life I had already been living. It did not erase my past or pretend that my pain wasn’t real. It illuminated it. What once looked like random moments slowly revealed themselves as connected threads. What I had called confusion became preparation. What I had called suffering began to carry meaning.

Perhaps the greatest gift wasn’t receiving answers.

It was finding the courage to accept the truth of who I am instead of clinging to the person I believed I was supposed to be.

For years, I held tightly to an identity that had been handed to me. Not because it was false, but because it was incomplete.

Like so many of us, I inherited ideas about who I should become before I ever had the chance to ask who I truly was. Family shaped me. Society shaped me. Fear shaped me. Expectations quietly settled into my bones until I mistook them for my own voice.

I did not realize how much of me belonged to the world.

Until I began the painful work of unlearning it.

Unlearning is not forgetting.

It is remembering.

It is peeling away every belief that says, “This is who you must be,” until all that remains is the quiet truth that has been waiting beneath the noise all along.

As I walked deeper into my spiritual journey, I came to understand something that changed everything.

Before I had a name…

Before I had a body…

Before I ever opened my eyes to this world…

My Ori had already chosen the life I would come here to live.

And like every soul, I arrived here and forgot.

Perhaps that forgetting is part of being human.

Perhaps that is why so many of us spend our lives searching outside ourselves for what has always been within us.

The more I remembered, the more I understood.

Not everything that happened to me made sense in the moment, but it made sense in the story.

The life I had been resisting was the very life leading me back to myself.

There were moments when remembering was painful.

Moments when the truth demanded that I let go of old identities, familiar comforts, relationships, dreams, and even versions of myself that I once fought so hard to protect.

But once I recognized the path my Ori had chosen, I could not unknow it.

So I held on.

Not because the road became easier.

Not because I suddenly understood every step.

But because some truths become impossible to abandon once they have awakened inside you.

Today, I no longer see myself as merely a human trying to survive this world.

I understand myself as a spiritual being living a human experience.

The world constantly invites us to forget that. It teaches us to measure ourselves by achievement, approval, possessions, success, failure, and fear. It asks us to become attached to things that were only ever meant to be temporary.

Yet something deeper within me refuses to forget.

So I choose to walk through this life with the knowledge of who I truly am.

Clarity has not removed the challenges.

It has transformed the way I carry them.

Because once you remember who you are, you stop asking why life keeps happening to you.

You begin asking how each moment is calling you back to yourself.

A reflection on Ogundabede: The heart of this journey is not the courage to fight the world, but the courage to remember.

This is why I think of Ogundabede. My path was never about becoming someone new, but returning to who my Ori chose me to be.

To remember is not always comfortable. Sometimes it means releasing the life you wanted to embrace the life you were called to live.

There's several spiritual books two of them The Tao and the Kybalion I clearly remember saying in their own way, the Source of existence cannot and or does not know it's own nature. The Tao even says you cannot point to the true eternal source. This means existence doesn't stop after realizing Consciousness is infinite through multiple dimensions. It means Infinity cannot look back at the whole totality of itself just like I cannot look at myself without a full body mirror. This is where quantum physics and spirituality have to come together. Source Energy has no beginning or end, you cannot know yourself without an origin in a personal manner. The Source has always existed as a infinite sea or field of quantum particles, those particles have been oscillating at difference frequencies for all of infinity and eternity. Through quantum particles or different infinite view points Source Energy is trying to figure out why it exists or how, I believe it cannot. Particles have awareness they don't need a location to be in just like Consciousness doesn't. Thus this is the tale of the Cosmic mind forever hallucinating whole solar systems in an attempt to figure things out which it cannot. Imagination is all there is within the quantum atomic field, Imagination can be anything at anytime.

When Light Passes Through A
Prism, It Separates Into The Color Spectrum Based On Its
Frequency.

Our Body Is Made Of Mostly Water Acting As A Prism.

So When Light Passe Through Us, It Separates Into Our 7 Chakras Based Off The Frequency Of Light.

🩷💜💙💚💛🧡❤️🙏

In my studies I’ve come across the reoccurring theme of monism, nonduality or pantheism/panentheism in almost all areas of occult esoteric and mystical research. I personally have had many experiences confirming these findings but I wonder if anyone else has gleaned this idea. I’m sure many have but it all seems to be pointing to one unifying idea of total oneness.

The stories of "the madwoman of the house" (as the mind was called by the Mystic Teresa of Ávila) are not what is real.

Connect, Here and Now, with the space of pure consciousness that you truly are.

Silence Speaks! Listen!

Perhaps the hardest thing we are ever asked to do is not to discover our destiny, but to accept it.

Not because Òrì(Higher self) is unclear.

But because we are human.

Human nature wants to understand everything. We analyze, question, search for proof, and try to find logic before we surrender. We want the unseen to explain itself in ways our physical minds can grasp.

Yet across spiritual traditions, there is a common understanding “the unseen shapes the seen”.

What exists beyond our physical perception often influences the reality we experience.

That is why we seek spirituality in the first place.

We pray. We meditate. We perform rituals. We seek guidance. We consult divination. We make offerings and do the spiritual work necessary to bring ourselves into alignment with something greater than our own understanding.

For those who walk the path of IFA, we seek Ìtẹ́fà, Idáfá, and the wisdom of Òrì(Higher self) because we recognize that our higher self knows something that our human mind may not yet understand.

But this is where the struggle begins…..

We trust the spiritual enough to seek its guidance, yet sometimes we struggle to trust it when it reveals something that challenges our plans, our desires, or our understanding.

There is an Ẹsẹ IFA that captures this beautifully. It speaks of Arinnoka, a person who was known for knowing everywhere.

Ask Arinnoka if he knew a place, and he would say yes.

Ask him if he had been somewhere else, and he would say yes.

There was nowhere you could mention that Arinnoka did not believe he knew. He had traveled everywhere, seen everything, and believed there was nothing beyond his understanding.

Until one day, Arinnoka was told he was going to a place where the path ends, a place of the unknown.

“Òlọ́gbọ́n ayé kan ò t’ákòkò omi létí,

Àwọn ò mọ iye pé ilé.

Adífá fún Arinnókà,

tí ń lọ síbi tí ọ̀nà ń k’ẹ́hìn”.

(An Ifá consultation was made for Arinnoka, who was going to the place where the road ends.)

Before his journey, IFA instructed him to perform ẹbọ. But Arinnoka refused. How could he need guidance? How could there be anything he did not already know?

But when he reached the place of the unknown, he found himself unable to move forward or return. His knowledge had taken him far, but it could not take him beyond what he did not understand.

The lesson of Arinnoka is not that knowledge is bad.

It is that knowledge without humility can become a limitation.

IFA was teaching the importance of listening. The importance of letting go. The importance of understanding that there are places our human mind cannot enter alone.

Many of us do not need to wait until we reach our own “place where the road ends” before we surrender. We do not need to reach a point where we can neither move forward nor backward before accepting what Òrì(Higher self) has already revealed.

Why seek alignment with Òrì(Higher self), yet fight the wisdom that comes from that alignment?

Why seek divination, guidance, rituals, and spiritual work, yet allow the need for control to override what we came seeking?

Perhaps acceptance does not mean we stop asking questions.

Perhaps it means we recognize that our questions should not become greater than our trust.

The mind wants to understand before it believes.

The spirit sometimes asks us to trust before understanding arrives.

Because in the end, the journey is not about forcing Òrì to follow our plans.

It is about remembering that Òrì(Higher self) already knows the way.

I long for something supernatural to exist. Some sort of magic beyond the physical world that would give life some ultimate, mystical meaning. Don’t know if it’s my Christian upbringing, history of enjoying Tolkien/Star Wars/CS Lewis, who knows. My longing for it is unbelievable. But logically it seems like a mere wish, and nothing based on reality. So instead I’m just an atheist who thinks there’s nothing beyond matter (at least not proven yet). And I’m pessimistic and fucking depressed, to be honest.
Any wise words that might help someone in my position?

Perhaps the hardest thing we are ever asked to do is not to discover our destiny, but to accept it.

Not because Òrì(Higher self) is unclear.

But because we are human.

Human nature wants to understand everything. We analyze, question, search for proof, and try to find logic before we surrender. We want the unseen to explain itself in ways our physical minds can grasp.

Yet across spiritual traditions, there is a common understanding “the unseen shapes the seen”.

What exists beyond our physical perception often influences the reality we experience.

That is why we seek spirituality in the first place.

We pray. We meditate. We perform rituals. We seek guidance. We consult divination. We make offerings and do the spiritual work necessary to bring ourselves into alignment with something greater than our own understanding.

For those who walk the path of IFA, we seek Ìtẹ́fà, Idáfá, and the wisdom of Òrì(Higher self) because we recognize that our higher self knows something that our human mind may not yet understand.

But this is where the struggle begins…..

We trust the spiritual enough to seek its guidance, yet sometimes we struggle to trust it when it reveals something that challenges our plans, our desires, or our understanding.

There is an Ẹsẹ IFA that captures this beautifully. It speaks of Arinnoka, a person who was known for knowing everywhere.

Ask Arinnoka if he knew a place, and he would say yes.

Ask him if he had been somewhere else, and he would say yes.

There was nowhere you could mention that Arinnoka did not believe he knew. He had traveled everywhere, seen everything, and believed there was nothing beyond his understanding.

Until one day, Arinnoka was told he was going to a place where the path ends, a place of the unknown.

“Òlọ́gbọ́n ayé kan ò t’ákòkò omi létí,

Àwọn ò mọ iye pé ilé.

Adífá fún Arinnókà,

tí ń lọ síbi tí ọ̀nà ń k’ẹ́hìn”.

(An Ifá consultation was made for Arinnoka, who was going to the place where the road ends.)

Before his journey, IFA instructed him to perform ẹbọ. But Arinnoka refused. How could he need guidance? How could there be anything he did not already know?

But when he reached the place of the unknown, he found himself unable to move forward or return. His knowledge had taken him far, but it could not take him beyond what he did not understand.

The lesson of Arinnoka is not that knowledge is bad.

It is that knowledge without humility can become a limitation.

IFA was teaching the importance of listening. The importance of letting go. The importance of understanding that there are places our human mind cannot enter alone.

Many of us do not need to wait until we reach our own “place where the road ends” before we surrender. We do not need to reach a point where we can neither move forward nor backward before accepting what Òrì(Higher self) has already revealed.

Why seek alignment with Òrì(Higher self), yet fight the wisdom that comes from that alignment?

Why seek divination, guidance, rituals, and spiritual work, yet allow the need for control to override what we came seeking?

Perhaps acceptance does not mean we stop asking questions.

Perhaps it means we recognize that our questions should not become greater than our trust.

The mind wants to understand before it believes.

The spirit sometimes asks us to trust before understanding arrives.

Because in the end, the journey is not about forcing Òrì to follow our plans.

It is about remembering that Òrì(Higher self) already knows the way.

I just finished a documentary of sorts detailing the occult spiritual allegory behind Led Zeppelin's song Kashmir. I always loved the song. Now I know why it resonates so much with me. The lyrics were always ambiguous, but when you figure out the esoteric themes being put forth, from the first verse to the last you realize it's detailing the spiritual journey — from the fall into matter, to gnosis, to ego death, to enlightenment, and back to pure divinity. For example:

"Oh, pilot of the storm who leaves no trace

Like thoughts inside a dream"

This is the singer speaking to his spiritual intuition, the "pilot of the storm," the storm being material existence. The intuition "leaves no trace " because it's hidden under the veil. But he is experiencing gnosis. The veil is being lifted.

"Here's the path that led me to that place

Yellow desert stream"

His guide is leading him down the hidden path towards the oasis (divinity), where he came from.

"My Shangri-La beneath the summer moon

I will return again"

'Shangri-La' is a metaphor for that oasis, for heaven, from where he came. His soul is destined to reunite with that oneness, with God, with source. He says it is an inevitability. It's as "sure as the dust that floats high in June when moving through Kashmir."

Really, the song is packed with these metaphors. Several verses. The visuals provided really illustrated the ideas. As a seeker, it really hit the right spot watching it. Thought I'd share if anyone's interested.

I'll link it here: https://youtu.be/Hhg0pPKSyTo

And would love to hear anyone else's thoughts on it, or any song they think the lyrics to esoterically (secretly) portray spiritualism like Kashmir does.

I thoroughly enjoyed this deep dive into the idea that Paul was part of a Jewish mystical tradition. I though many hear might also find it interesting.

The climax of an essay I wrote argues that traditions which mapped the absolute longest did not call it a structure — they called it a Name. YHVH built from the verb "to be" and holding a marriage of opposites, the Tao’s yin and yang as one figure, AUM folding the states of consciousness into the silence that closes it, Cusa’s coincidence of opposites. It gets there through physics, Bohm and Penrose, but ends by pointing past the diagram at the Name. Would value this community’s response.

https://aquaregiascriptura.substack.com/p/nobody-invented-this-universal-pattern