spacexplorer
Rising Star
Be Here Now.
You've probably heard that statement before, whether from a spiritual guru or plastered on the license plate of the person in front of you that just cut you off. Regardless of where you've seen it, what does it mean?
There is no moment but the now. The past and the future cannot be said to exist anymore once they have passed and when they occur. The now is the moment where all potential is held, where everything exists and manifests and where all of "it" is experienced.
There is no place but the here. Over there cannot be said to exist because all of "it" is experienced from the "here". You climb a mountain, where are you? On top of a mountain? You're here, on top of a mountain now, the scenery has changed the temperature has changed the visuals have changed the sensory inputs have all changed but still, here you are.
I believe being here now greatly ties into what the psychedelic experience is all about. Regardless of all your problems, if you focus on the here and now, the best "self" that you can be will emerge. Psychedelics can help you destroy all illusions and delusions that take you away from the here and now. Here is why I think this...
When I first started my journey psychedelics gave me the experiences and the answers I was looking for. What are we here for? Who am I? What am I supposed to be doing? As I continued through these experiences it seemed like there were less answers in language form and more of a being still. Being still and knowing. For all knowledge is present in the here and now already. It just takes awareness to understand.
At first I was fascinated with the visions and the insights. Of course, I thought. Now I REALLY know everything, I had gained so much knowledge, amazing experiences and insights. But these too shall pass. For what did I really have of these things but a memory? What could I use of these things besides what my frail mind could access and barely interpret? What does a pale memory compare to the reality that was always right before my eyes?
Now the psychedelics give me something different, they give me an energy, for all is energy. And it has made me think, perhaps these visions and insights were the own tangled knots in my brain. When you infuse a knot with energy it expands and projects outwards where you can see it clearly. Like how a cinematic projector blasts light through the reel of a movie and projects it out onto the screen. Mushrooms were the light, my own brain was the movie reel, until the movie was ended and the only thing left was the light.
The "light" is the here and now. Where my being was all along. Where we all are all along. And where we never have left. Free of delusions, free of suffering, ultimately free.
Now I'm "becoming" more and more while learning nothing at all, only unveiling what's already there. I'm writing while hardly thinking at all. I'm thinking without trying at all. I'm being with less and less effort. What more do I have to learn from these experiences? What do we have to learn? Where will this road go? "I" do not know. If I knew all of my own road, how could I walk it?
Peace be unto you all.
Love,
Spacexplorer
You've probably heard that statement before, whether from a spiritual guru or plastered on the license plate of the person in front of you that just cut you off. Regardless of where you've seen it, what does it mean?
There is no moment but the now. The past and the future cannot be said to exist anymore once they have passed and when they occur. The now is the moment where all potential is held, where everything exists and manifests and where all of "it" is experienced.
There is no place but the here. Over there cannot be said to exist because all of "it" is experienced from the "here". You climb a mountain, where are you? On top of a mountain? You're here, on top of a mountain now, the scenery has changed the temperature has changed the visuals have changed the sensory inputs have all changed but still, here you are.
I believe being here now greatly ties into what the psychedelic experience is all about. Regardless of all your problems, if you focus on the here and now, the best "self" that you can be will emerge. Psychedelics can help you destroy all illusions and delusions that take you away from the here and now. Here is why I think this...
When I first started my journey psychedelics gave me the experiences and the answers I was looking for. What are we here for? Who am I? What am I supposed to be doing? As I continued through these experiences it seemed like there were less answers in language form and more of a being still. Being still and knowing. For all knowledge is present in the here and now already. It just takes awareness to understand.
At first I was fascinated with the visions and the insights. Of course, I thought. Now I REALLY know everything, I had gained so much knowledge, amazing experiences and insights. But these too shall pass. For what did I really have of these things but a memory? What could I use of these things besides what my frail mind could access and barely interpret? What does a pale memory compare to the reality that was always right before my eyes?
Now the psychedelics give me something different, they give me an energy, for all is energy. And it has made me think, perhaps these visions and insights were the own tangled knots in my brain. When you infuse a knot with energy it expands and projects outwards where you can see it clearly. Like how a cinematic projector blasts light through the reel of a movie and projects it out onto the screen. Mushrooms were the light, my own brain was the movie reel, until the movie was ended and the only thing left was the light.
The "light" is the here and now. Where my being was all along. Where we all are all along. And where we never have left. Free of delusions, free of suffering, ultimately free.
Now I'm "becoming" more and more while learning nothing at all, only unveiling what's already there. I'm writing while hardly thinking at all. I'm thinking without trying at all. I'm being with less and less effort. What more do I have to learn from these experiences? What do we have to learn? Where will this road go? "I" do not know. If I knew all of my own road, how could I walk it?
Peace be unto you all.
Love,
Spacexplorer
