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How old are you?!

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I'm 29, 30 in Jan. Interesting, most of the people here are in the mid 20's to mid 40's.
 
Melodic Catastrophe said:
Old enough to know better than to answer a question like that!!! :P
or young enough to feel too paranoid to open yourself up to the truth ;)
(the government is reading this thread waiting to arrest you, but first they need you to confirm your age)
 
interesting to see how many people here deals with his age.
im 23 years in this bodie, but feel so much older in some stuff, and so much younger in some other...
i can say i lived many lifes inside this life, even more since i started with psychedelic exploration 7 years ago.
and i kinda emphatize with peoples age, or maybe its just me adapting to them...
 
FreeTo said:
... but feel so much older in some stuff, and so much younger in some other...
i can say i lived many lifes inside this life, even more since i started with psychedelic exploration 7 years ago.

Yeah, I hear you about the vast amount of time spent, experientially, in altered states of mind. It ages and matures an internal organism, call it the gradual fullness of an internal witness or soul presence (despite effecting the physical body that much, if at all). Yet, within our awareness there grows a depth and seasoning which adds wisdom and character to the psychonaut in flight. Well, a least in the best of circumstances.

So yes, perhaps you are correct that it is more the blossoming of insight and awareness, that ultimately matters, when considering how old a soul is. Experience deepens our understanding. Some experiences seem to lapse into lifetimes of evolutionary growth.

"What a long strange trip it's been." 8)

More so, perhaps this is of greater significant than the linear progression of material paradigms... as with keeping track of the measured steps of time and the footprints of transient mortality? Such is the paradoxical nature of our cognitive maturity. Even so, outside the realm of the time-space-continuum... given that we are spiritual entities prior to our material emergence, when are we actually born? For we are assuredly more than our physical bodies, and so, when do we ever die? What then is TIME but our logical observations about sequential events?

William James said:
There are no differences but differences of degree, between different degrees of difference... and no difference.
 
Rising Spirit said:
So yes, perhaps you are correct that it is more the blossoming of insight and awareness, that ultimately matters, when considering how old a soul is. Experience deepens our understanding. Some experiences seem to lapse into lifetimes of evolutionary growth.

"What a long strange trip it's been." 8)

More so, perhaps this is of greater significant than the linear progression of material paradigms... as with keeping track of the measured steps of time and the footprints of transient mortality? Such is the paradoxical nature of our cognitive maturity. Even so, outside the realm of the time-space-continuum... given that we are spiritual entities prior to our material emergence, when are we actually born? For we are assuredly more than our physical bodies, and so, when do we ever die? What then is TIME but our logical observations about sequential events?

William James said:
There are no differences but differences of degree, between different degrees of difference... and no difference.

yeah it seems to me that all rhe difrent states i've experienced, "condensed time" somehow, following your tought that time is nothing more than our logical observations about sequential events.

and if the ultimate purpose of the soul and life itself is evolution, your second sentence(1st one in my quote), cant be more right, experiencing states of awareness like the one offered by spice, that in an "awareness scale" are so much more forward then our usual daily trip(awareness), can be a giant leap in the maturation of the soul.
maybe a soul "dies" when it reaches unity and merges with all there is. how many days can that by at the level of the soul? (counting that at the level of our understanding of time it probably is millions of lifetimes experiencing stuff)
 
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