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Are we all on the same path?

CosmicRiver

CosmicRiver

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I guess most of you had friends growing up you shared psychedelic journeys with and we were kinda walking on the same path.
Then growing up everyone starts having new experiences, meeting new people etc and so we all make different choices. Someone keeps using psychedelics, someone starts other practices, some do both, and someone leaves everything behind and lives a "normal" life since then.
Sometimes we find someone who seems to be in our same spot, but looking back we were brought there by completely different roads.
What do you think? Are we in the end all on the same path? Why does it feel like a lonely journey sometimes?
 
We come into the world alone, and we die alone. No one is going to help when the time comes.
So, we are all going the same way. What's after death? No one has the answer.
I have faith in a higher order of things in this world. Call it God, Cosmos, or any other name.
We are all opening up to our true potential and knowledge about who we really are.
All paths lead to the same destination — Reality. This reality can be known only through direct experience.
That's what I believe.
🙏
 
CosmicRiver said:
I guess most of you had friends growing up you shared psychedelic journeys with and we were kinda walking on the same path.
Then growing up everyone starts having new experiences, meeting new people etc and so we all make different choices. Someone keeps using psychedelics, someone starts other practices, some do both, and someone leaves everything behind and lives a "normal" life since then.
Sometimes we find someone who seems to be in our same spot, but looking back we were brought there by completely different roads.
What do you think? Are we in the end all on the same path? Why does it feel like a lonely journey sometimes?
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The short anwer is no. As you mention, some dabble with psychedelics then end up with other responsibilities and life directions as they get older and often view their earlier experiences as experimenting in their youth. Some go the meditation route and view that as sufficient.
For myself, as soon as I had done them more than two decades ago I recognized their value and importance and knew they would be part of a lifetime practice. I have met others of a similar mindset over time but they are more within the psychedelic community not people I was doing them with when I started. Ultimately different paths have their rewards, I am being given the benefits now of my commitment over time to this path and so it has deepened, the same is true of any other path in life you choose to take if you perisist with consistency and do the work.
 
CosmicRiver said:
Why does it feel like a lonely journey sometimes?
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Problably because it is.
I mean, at the end of the day its what you choose to focus on, in my opinion, but on a dark night the moonlight might always seem to fall short of the kind of light that we know its possible.

I find that its easier and simpler to choose to line up with other peoples paths, help them move along it, for that duration you will be sharing paths, but at some point you kinda have to let go.
I speak from the feeling that noone has really taken the time to align with my path, so I was sorta forced to go on my own, the above seems to do the trick, somewhat.

At some point you can start to ignore the diffence betwen "me" and "you" and it willl become clear that we are never trully alone and that even that highly personal path we are walking is nothing but a side quest.
 
I think the paths seems to look the same from 30,000 feet up. It's like a braided rope to me. The closer you look, the more you see the individual strands making the whole. Ultimately we end up in the same place, but how we use our animus to reach that final destination is always different. One size doesn't fit all. Life seems to enjoy breaking it's molds.
 
thanks for the replies 😄
i don't have much to say since i just wanted to know your point of view
we seem to all agree that the destination is the same for everyone
but since the road is also important personally i love when our ways meet each other
 
No. Those shared experiences can feel so deep, but as we grow, it’s easy to feel disconnected when everyone’s choosing their own paths. It’s like we’re all trying to find our way back to that sense of community, but it can be tough, because everyone's experience is different. People are different.
In the end, I think we’re all just trying to figure it out in our own way. It’s a trip for sure!
 
My first thought is that it is not about the destination but rather about the journey itself. We all travel together in this pathless land. There is no where to be but here and now. It is lonely when we separate ourselves from this here and now. When we are here and now, everything is happening all at once. I am connected to all that has ever existed and ever will exist in this way. I am part of nature, the universe and all of space and time. Everything that has ever existed or will ever exist, exists in the here and now. That energy is still going, it never disappeared, vanished or even diminished in any way.

We co-create this reality, we do it together, the infinite is our nature and we create the so-called finite by collapsing the infinite by observation. When we step outside of the finite creations of the mind, we again become infinite. We are never alone but connected as one and that one has never left the spot it has been sitting. It sits and dreams about us. We are the dreams of the infinite.

In seeking the others, we seek to remember. We remember when we look into the eyes of someone we love. I have been attempting to stretch this love out into the world. I look at my daughter and love just completely fills me. Can we look into the world and feel this same way about every persona and creature we meet in this world? Choosing to see and feel the connection to everything around us. On a road to nowhere, together as one.

Maybe I am a bit of a romantic when I say all this stuff. This is kind of where I am right now though. This world seemed so brutal and hellish to me for a very long time. However, when I look at the world in this connected and loving way, the world is no longer a hell. It becomes something beautiful. This kind of thinking is new for me so I am simply trying it on for size. So far it feels like it fits.
 
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