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Hello. I don't really use this account anymore, but I like the vibe of this thread so I'm unghosting a little bit for it. I can't promise all aliens are cool and chill, but I believe the ones I've met are. We wish you good luck and good journeys ahead, and don't let the hater aliens get you down.
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Barry Foster posted:How could you post ITT, with THAT avatar, and not say you're "uncloaking"??  Thank you for the welcome though~I started working on a post about the beings I've met, but realized it would take me a while to finish (hoping to be able to this weekend), so I wanted to say hello first. I'm looking forward to the UAPs and chats here in the meantime.
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(One of them; they can have many forms)
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This one with the doggos barking at the jelly is such a good combination of  and 
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thunderspanks posted:Why would shadow monsters or space jellyfish reveal themselves in highly public areas only to do.. nothing? Just kinda show up for a bit then wander away? Just like the alien equivalent of lovely teenagers who hop into the animal enclosure for a laugh and every decade or two one gets owned by the local population. Maybe humanity is the harambe of the stars endocriminologist posted:*flies around in my gay little ufo in a way that makes u irritated*
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Victor Vermis posted:Also the sentient jelly produces a probe/shiv when confronted by a doggo so just keep that in mind before you burn your draft cards for aitee. 100 HOGS AGREE posted:It's at least a 3D object. Could have many more Ds.
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Jan 11, 2024 03:41
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smh at everyone who calls the mummies fake. They just look weird because they were early aitee attempts at making bodies. The 5D aliens picked up a 3D crayon and started practicing with some stick figures just so they could interact with us, and folks mock them for it? Shameful.
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Jan 13, 2024 08:26
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I for one welcome our new beautiful tiny mummy overlords.
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Jan 14, 2024 02:17
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I managed to finish the post I had previously mentioned about the beings who have visited me. (Content warning- no details, but there are mentions of childhood abuse). It might be a little rough to read and think about, but don't worry about me! I'm getting the help I need with it. I want to share for the benefit of not only myself, but also anyone else who might resonate. -- I grew up in the suburbs, but they weren't quiet, peaceful ones, at least not for me. The background of abuse that was plaguing me made making friends hard, but I did manage to connect with a couple temporary ones, including a neighbor kid about my age (I think 8 or so when this occurred). On one of those 'endless' summer nights between grade school years, we were playing tag in his back yard. As we were resting between rounds, he suddenly looked very scared of something nearby, but I didn't see anything. He started asking me to go into the garage with him, a hulking old wooden thing that was used as a storage shed. He said he heard something (I didn't) and either wanted to hide or go investigate, but I only would if he came right behind me. It was late at night, and I was already a pretty fearful child. We eventually summoned up a little courage and peeked within, staring into the pitch dark, stacked like a comedy sketch right on the edge of the doorway. My friend tapped me on the shoulder, startling me, then pointed to a corner of the garage. There was a small red light coming from the corner, like a laser pointer shining at us. As my eyes squinted at then blinked away from it, my refocusing sight picked up something else from a corner adjacent to the one with the light. Or multiple things. There were at least two figures who looked exactly like the "Grays"- thin, clammy-skinned bodies with tiny mouths and enormous eyes, staring directly into mine. I remember little detail about their forms except those depths, which as I think of them now bring to mind black holes. My friend immediately ran away, while I stood there, completely silent and frozen in terror. Almost everything else after that was repressed, which I am already prone to, due to the other childhood trauma. My brain decided that nothing was ever there. I vaguely remembered the laser pointer thing for a while, but I dismissed it as either a trick of the light, or a trick that my friend played on me. He and I never talked about what we saw, and it actually took years of therapy for me to remember and process even this much. Another thing I can say for sure is how I acted in the aftermath. Throughout my child and teenage years, I remember being deeply disturbed any time fictional aliens that looked like my visitors appeared in a movie or something. Hell, while I am much better at emotional regulation today, I still get slightly creeped out and nervous when I look at one. Even if they were obviously fake, back then anything that looked remotely like a stereotypical Gray would have younger-me quickly changing the channel or covering my eyes. I felt too indescribably uncomfortable to tolerate it long. TV aliens that didn't look like Grays were perfectly fine, and I often enjoyed them as a sci fi nerd. I've grown a lot since then, had many life experiences, learned a wide array of exploration and coping skills, and have access to a good support network. I decided to get to the bottom of the core questions about my past, delving into my memory using all this support alongside powerful entheogenic aids like psilocybin mushrooms, LSD, and Salvia Divinorum. Over the years working with them and coming to accept how differently I've always perceived the world from most people around me, I've met other beings who I call spirits. I sometimes conceive of them as energy beings, patterns of intention and memory contained in the cosmos and its chemicals interacting. But whatever they are, they are thinking things who I can talk to and spend time with. I believe there are many more spirits than just these, ranging in scale from like atoms to galaxies, but they're the ones relevant here because they're some of the most experienced ones at communicating with modern humanity. They've talked to me about what might have happened with the Grays. The spirits seemed to have met them before, or knew them by reputation. I'll give an example of what they've told me. A couple weeks ago I took a journey with Lady Salvia. What happens when you do so can vary wildly depending on method, dosage, and the whims of the spirits. This time, I took what was intended to be a light dose by chewing on a quid of rehydrated leaves. It was nice and chill at first, with gentle feelings grounded in our reality, rather than the raw, dark, uncompromising Truth from other dimensions that that plant can often reveal. (At least, not at first.) I decided to burn some incense and meditate for a while to thank the earth for everything. As I centered and focused on my breathing, I saw something in a nearby LED light that was flaring oddly. It was like an optical illusion of a distant face was contained in the light, similar to a tiny portal. It was a face I recognized- my guide on these journeys, Lady Salvia's spirit, with the aura around her head flowing and twisting like a moving fractal pattern. To my surprise, she actually wanted to talk to me about the Grays, since I had just been reading about them earlier, and since they were possibly related to the traumatic childhood events we had been exploring on other trips. (Maybe the background fear my friend and I were already feeling is what drew the aitees to us to begin with.) She spoke to me, but not exactly with words during this trip. It came as a sort of intuition or revelation, or uncovering a buried memory about a past conversation. Maybe implanting a new memory of a conversation that didn't exist before. The divine complexity of it reminds me a bit of this post about dreams, and how ancient people described the difference between dreams that were just subconscious babble, and dreams that were sent by higher powers. In other words, this was a trip that was the former, then became the latter. She sent me to go find this post, because it also talks a little bit about how they communicate: post quote:You can't understand their language. It just sounds like "hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm". I'm positive that we'll never be able to communicate with them in their language. I should mention that these are the "grays" that you hear about, except they aren't gray. They are sort of beige, and it's clothes anyway. They aren't naked. I don't know if there are others. People say there are, but I've only ever met these. Anyway, you cannot understand them but they can understand you. And they can put thoughts into your head but they can't hear your thoughts. You have to speak to them. They cannot hear very well, or else they are not good understanding English so you have to speak loudly and slowly. I don't know if they understand other langauges, but I'm pretty sure they would. They are interested in all of us, in everything that goes on. They like a lot of things about our culture, too. They like some of our music. Bluegrass is their favorite so far as I've seen. They like it a lot. They LOVE that african instrument that looks like a gourd with 13 strings. LOVE IT. But they cannot stand horns or horn music, so they hate classical music and jazz. I think trumpets sort of sound like their language? It's a feeling that I get, but I've never been able to ask them. My experiences were not exactly like this person's, but this description shed light on certain things for me. As a result of this revelation, I suddenly remembered that night in the garage, even though I had been repressing it for literally decades. My easy trip was obliterated, made into Something Else by a higher power. I went beyond the threshold and was briefly back there in the dark, a kid again. Only this time, I had the vast knowledge and support of my guide with me. I recognized the Grays in the darkness as something that she referred to as “elders”, and they weren't just idly feeding. They apparently were also trying to communicate an important message that my neurodivergent child brain couldn't understand. She 'showed' me the process of how they fed from me too, partially to help me process a lot of the fear it still causes, I think. I felt how they were using some invisible force to “unravel” and “eat” the chemical emotional energy sloshing in the bodies of my friend and I, created by all the curiosity, fear, etc. we felt. Sorry but I don't know how to describe it other than feeling it invisibly, because all of it takes place in dimensions or wavelengths of light we can't see directly. Thanks to the present-day altered mental state however, I could perceive the aura of it, like how invisible heat waves can become perceptible in certain conditions. That feeding may have contributed to my lack of clearer memory about the rest of what happened too, even with substance assistance. Even though I still felt how afraid I was, I saw how the force was reducing my fear too- not only the fear that night, but also other unrelated fears that were occupying my mind. It looked like just a normal, natural process that doesn't always harm, and can often even help us. The Grays may or may not have been actually helping me in the long run, but they believed they were. I was also sent to find this post about Tom DeLonge's stuff (https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3967914&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=5#post514793271)- with the caveat that the beings I met were not demonic or evil. I don't believe that and neither do my guides. But there is still important evidence here. I'll transcribe the image since it looks a little blurry to me: quote:1. Universe is teaming with life various levels of intelligence and development. I don't believe the 'elders' who visited me had evil intentions like these Others who work with the government. Spirits and other energy beings can and do feed on emotions like hate and fear, and some of them do cultivate and revel in it. But note that the Grays from my memory fed on our curiosity too, and also remember that demons are far from the only stories we have of otherworldly beings. Not all of their interactions with us are feeding. Sometimes they just want to say something, chill, or pursue their own goals we'd have a hard time understanding. But when they do feed, they don't only have to do it with the emotions that feel bad to us. They can feed on happiness, pleasure, creativity, etc. too. They can farm those emotions, carefully pruning and weeding, and then when they harvest, they can do so joyfully and carefully, without causing damage. (I believe psilocybin works like this- pieces of mycelial network spirits compassionately grow then consume our excess ego energy, so that we can be more content, and usually in a fun way). Really, calling it "feeding" doesn't feel like it fits anymore at that point. It's more like symbiosis. The point is, they don't have to harm us, just like we don't have to harm the other creatures of the earth as we live with them. It all depends on the choices they, and we, make. -- Despite gaining this much understanding, there are still questions I don't have clear answers to yet (such as what message the 'elders' were trying to communicate, or why my guide called them that). I have my suspicions about answers, but this post has gone long and I really need a break. It was good to finally write down what happened after all these years, but also draining, as you can probably imagine. I will try to go into more if and when I figure it out though. Either way, thanks for this opportunity to talk about things. Hopefully it helps someone else process and figure things out too! As before, don't let the hater aliens get you down. Orbs has issued a correction as of 15:56 on Jan 17, 2024 |
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Jan 17, 2024 09:22
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Thanks for the thanks and kind words everybody! I had a strong feeling this thread was the right place to share.sharknado slashfic posted:I don't know if I have an interdimensional war in me, I'm very tired UFOTacoMan posted:I'm going to be thinking about aliens liking bluegrass music for a long time. Orbs has issued a correction as of 16:27 on Jan 17, 2024 |
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Jan 17, 2024 15:18
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:
 Even if aitees somehow turn out not to exist after all, practicing this empathy would still be of massive benefit to us and the world.I appreciate the thread's book recommendations about the Right Hemisphere and A Thousand Brains, although I admit to sharing the skepticism about a seeming over-emphasis of the brain's relevance and control over our experiences. It's a powerful part of our bodies... but I believe it's exactly that, a part of our bodies, a piece of the whole. Not separate or standing above like a ruler. But I like that one of them connects consciousness to gestures, that sounds promising. If I have the chance I will read them with an open mind and heart, and see what I can find. Thank you. I wanted to recommend a book myself, while we're on the topic, especially to those of you who have mentioned exploring with mushrooms: Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake. I think the description does a great job summing up why it's so interesting, but I'll post a few of my favorite passages from it too. Description: "When we think of fungi, we probably think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that support and sustain nearly all living systems. The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them. Sheldrake’s mind-bending journey into this hidden world ranges from yeast to psychedelics, to the fungi that sprawl for miles underground and are the largest organisms on the planet, to those that make all plant life possible, to those that infiltrate and manipulate insect bodies with devastating precision. Fungi throw our concepts of individuality and even intelligence into question. They can change our minds, heal our bodies, and even help us remediate environmental disaster. By examining fungi on their own terms, Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms – and our relationships with them – are changing our understanding of how life works." quote:A mycelial network is a map of a fungus's recent history and is a helpful reminder that all life-forms are in fact processes not things. The "you" of five years ago was made from different stuff than the "you" of today. Nature is an event that never stops. As William Bateson, who coined the term genetics, observed, "We commonly think of animals and plants as matter, but they are really systems through which matter is continually passing." When we see an organism, from a fungus to a pine tree, we catch a single moment in its continual development. quote:In the case of Ophiocordyceps, an infected ant's behavior can be thought of as fungal behavior. The death grip, summit disease -- these are extended characteristics of the fungus, part of its extended phenotype. Can the alterations in human consciousness and behavior brought about by psilocybin mushrooms be thought of as an extended phenotype of the fungus? The extended behavior of Ophiocordyceps leaves an imprint on the world in the form of fossilized scars on the undersides of leaves. Can the extended behavior of psilocybin mushrooms be thought of as leaving an imprint in the world in the form of ceremonies, rituals, chants, and the other cultural and technological outgrowths of our altered states? Do psilocybin fungi wear our minds, as Ophiocordyceps and Massospora wear insect bodies? quote:Horses and humans remains separate organisms, as do plants and mycorrhizal fungi, but both are echoes of an ancient tendency for organisms to associate. The anthropologists Natasha Myers and Carla Hustak argue that the word evolution, which literally means "rolling outward", doesn't capture the readiness of organisms to involve themselves in one another's lives. Myers and Hustak suggest that the word involution--from the word involve--better describes this tendency: a "rolling, curling, turning inward." In their view, the concept of involution better captures the entangled pushing and pulling of "organisms constantly inventing new ways to live with and alongside one another." It was their tendency to involve themselves in the lives of others that enabled plants to borrow a root system for fifty million years while they evolved their own. Today, even with their own root systems, almost all plants still depend on mycorrhizal fungi to manage their underground lives. Their involuntary tendencies enabled fungi to borrow a photosynthesizing alga to handle their atmospheric affairs. They still do. Mycorrhizal fungi are not built into plant seeds. Plants and fungi must constantly form and reform their relationships. Involution is ongoing and extravagant: By associating with one another, all participants wander outside and beyond their prior limits.
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Riot Bimbo posted:I have a job interview today where i'll get to advocate for people in need and it pays well and i'm so excited y'all. 
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Jan 18, 2024 18:29
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Milosh posted:https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/heres-what-i-learned-as-the-u-s-governments-ufo-hunter/ quote:I can assure you as its former director that AARO is unwaveringly committed to harnessing science and technology to bring unprecedented clarity to these fascinating, important, and stubborn mysteries and to do so with maximum transparency. Its talented staff and team of supporting scientists are at this very moment striving in collaboration with the armed forces, intelligence community,
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:so are there aliens yet?
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:I had a dream-scene last night where a person -- a presenter, a lecturer, a professor, a curator? -- was telling me the things that were needed to create new -- worlds? Gods? reality matrices?  Turpitude posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tezcatlipoca
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D-Pad posted:Where did you get your mirror? Coldrice posted:If you’re interested in getting into the mythology of Central America, this is a fun way to start - put together using the actual art, with historians, teachers, and some indigenous folk. It’s about an hour. Some cultures have big departures from this, while some are only different in minor ways or in names Objurium posted:First time I've seen a compendium debunking the Trinity case all in one place.
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Jan 27, 2024 10:24
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my bony fealty posted:the Trinity book is absolute garbage, one of the worst UFO books I've read and I've read a lot of bad ones. even in the book it's obvious that the two main guys are just making poo poo up. DDJ is doing a great service so thoroughly tearing the story down. my bony fealty posted:even if Jose Padilla was really a troop and a cop who was so lovely at both jobs that he got shot doing them it's very telling that Vallee considers that the best credentials a person could have. a dumbfuck soldier and a dumbfuck cop. lol. come on Jaques you dumbass.
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Barry Foster posted:Thread I have really lost all perspective recently, I've been drinking too much, doing stupid poo poo and being full of anger and petulance and oppositional defiance. I've been ignoring the people I love and pursuing my own self destruction, all for the sake of my own entitlement and for a grievance I can't even remember but which drives me to do things I almost immediately hate myself for afterwards  to you as well, here's what my reading earlier today gave me. It reflects a lot on my personal situation, but I believe it will on yours as well. Let me walk you through the related parts of the ritual a little bit though, because it's not a standard tarot reading exactly.As the incense burns, I look into the obsidian mirror and breathe into the big twenty-sided die I'm rolling, with deep breaths in through the nose, slowly exhaling through the mouth. As the breaths cycle, I try to "look at the problems without looking at them", thinking about them without thinking about them. When I choose to roll, that tells me which of the major arcana from my deck to draw. (It only has the major arcana since it's from a video game, but they still have personal significance to me. Also, the Fool is numbered 0; I draw that when the die rolls off the table or knocks something over.)  Today, I rolled 13- Death. Most people reading this thread probably know this, but just in case, a disclaimer: the Death card rarely if ever symbolizes actual physical death. Death really signals that one major phase in your life is ending, and a new one is going to start. You just need to close one door, so the new one will open. The past needs to be placed behind you, so you can focus your energy on what is ahead of you. It sounds like you already have closed the old door, or started to close it. I believe this card is reinforcing to you that that was the right decision, and possibly hinting at new decisions ahead. It sounds like you're doing amazing work, and the cosmos knows. There is a little more to the ritual that you might also find meaningful*, I did. After rolling the d20, I roll the six-sided one with the skulls, and the results of the two rolls combined can be shaped into a number that tells me which pages to turn to in my copy of The Little Zen Companion, another personally significant item that is basically a collection of quotes from people the authors believed meant something in Zen Buddhism. I rolled a 2 today, so I turned to page 132 (13+2)... only to discover that page 132 has been ripped out, leaving just the pages before and ahead of it. "When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean." -Lin-Chi "I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough." -Diogenes Edit: * I realize I didn't actually explain how the missing page was meaningful, and that was because the meaning was so big to me personally, that I was still processing it. I'm still sitting with it now, but this interpretation posted resonates with me, and might also with you: LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Particularly in connection with the Death card I interpreted it as your upcoming days being huge with possibility. "It's time to write your own fortune." You may already have everything you need for your next journey or project too, I see a pencil and a journal on the table there behind the book with the missing page. Divination being such as it is there are many correct ways to understand it I am sure but that is the one immediately to mind for me, so I hope that may be helpful Orbs has issued a correction as of 23:29 on Feb 3, 2024 |
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uber_stoat posted:i should infest myself with lichen. i believe it would provide many benefits to me. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/668166 quote:The notion of the “biological individual” is crucial to studies of genetics, immunology, evolution, development, anatomy, and physiology. Each of these biological subdisciplines has a specific conception of individuality, which has historically provided conceptual contexts for integrating newly acquired data. During the past decade, nucleic acid analysis, especially genomic sequencing and high-throughput RNA techniques, has challenged each of these disciplinary definitions by finding significant interactions of animals and plants with symbiotic microorganisms that disrupt the boundaries that heretofore had characterized the biological individual. Animals cannot be considered individuals by anatomical or physiological criteria because a diversity of symbionts are both present and functional in completing metabolic pathways and serving other physiological functions. Similarly, these new studies have shown that animal development is incomplete without symbionts. Symbionts also constitute a second mode of genetic inheritance, providing selectable genetic variation for natural selection. The immune system also develops, in part, in dialogue with symbionts and thereby functions as a mechanism for integrating microbes into the animal-cell community. Recognizing the “holobiont”—the multicellular eukaryote plus its colonies of persistent symbionts—as a critically important unit of anatomy, development, physiology, immunology, and evolution opens up new investigative avenues and conceptually challenges the ways in which the biological subdisciplines have heretofore characterized living entities. A followup talking more about lichens: https://nmnh.typepad.com/the_plant_press/2016/10/we-are-all-lichens.html LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Whoa, love that. May I ask how you interpreted the fact of the missing page when you turned to it?
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Particularly in connection with the Death card I interpreted it as your upcoming days being huge with possibility. "It's time to write your own fortune." You may already have everything you need for your next journey or project too, I see a pencil and a journal on the table there behind the book with the missing page. Divination being such as it is there are many correct ways to understand it I am sure but that is the one immediately to mind for me, so I hope that may be helpful Orbs has issued a correction as of 23:53 on Feb 3, 2024 |
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Lux Anima posted:This is how the Death (a grand transformation) of a friend or family or ally can stymie personal growth, from a person's own impatience/ignorance perspective: suddenly, a resource you counted on being there for you becomes unresponsive or acts as if it never existed, and you have to find an 'understudy' or else alternate paths to finding certain knowledges to help you on your path. Barry Foster posted:These are super relevant to me, especially the first one! Or rather, the first is what I am grappling with; the latter will be my challenge when I have mastered the former. Tighclops posted:these are the keepers of ontological shocking secrets, sombering Orbs has issued a correction as of 16:05 on Feb 4, 2024 |
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Charlatan Eschaton posted:theres a bunch of types of manna and most of them are tree resins but one is a variety of lichen. here's an article about it
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Barry Foster posted:Thanks so much asking, that's really kind ArmedZombie posted:a normal space rock that aliens put a warp drive on and turned into an interstellar spaceship Good Soldier Svejk posted:He doesn't seem manic or obscenely high in this video he hosted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXRDex1IXu0
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Nichael posted:Hello aitee enthusiasts. quote:Terror and Healing  when I went to pick this book up again after putting it down for a couple weeks, and the bookmark was in the middle of this story. (And it being about 9/11 plus us posting on Something Awful made me laugh)
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The Protagonist posted:it's downright funny how bad salvia is Orbs has issued a correction as of 11:13 on Feb 9, 2024 |
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The Demilich posted:I found out my mushroom bars were counterfeit after doing some more research on them. Most likely the poo poo taste was probably from low quality cannabis, although most online say for these knockoffs typically contain 4-aco-dmt... which if true is still odd since it had no effect on me. Getting spores is a fun idea if you already know they work on you in general though. I have friends who have done that, it sounds like a very interesting process.
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The Demilich posted:I haven't, but in any case I don't take any medications.
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Given the nature of the NHIs I believe I and many others have met, I think it makes perfect sense to look for contact using hallucinogens/entheogens. They seem to be heavily linked or responsive to our emotional/mental states, and few substances in our lives alter those more than entheogens. But even if you don't believe that explanation, using things like shrooms to cope with the huge ongoing ontological shock of the semi-reveal followed by coverup is probably wise too, because they can help minds become more open and flexible. Of course I know it can be bothersome sometimes. A lot of such threads dedicated to psychedelics and the like tend to be 50% novice "how do I dose" posts, and 50% experienced folks trying to one-up each other with wild stories. There's a place for that and it can be fun/useful, but here, it seems a little more focused and relevant. Helping us prepare for what's ahead, or searching for it ourselves. I don't mind it at all, welcome it even. That being said, these videos seem like good poo poo too, I've been waiting for them! I don't deny that the scientific method is still a powerful and helpful tool for these questions as well. I will devour asap: helta posted:https://www.youtube.com/@_SolFoundation/videos Bucswabe posted:Thank you so much to everyone here for the words of support and for indulging me in my... self expression(?) last night The Demilich posted:Comrade, you don't need to earn kindness. Orbs has issued a correction as of 16:46 on Feb 12, 2024 |
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:Since posting here I don't feel like I need entheogens anymore. And I mean this very literally as during my crisis I experienced things far more crazy than any trip I ever had. I also realized I simply don't have the time nor the opportunities anymore to trip, so (after asking friends if they were interested) I simply threw away all the psychedelics I had stored in my desk. Two dozens of tabs of LSD analogs, 1g of miprocin and metocin, and a bunch of salvia concentrate bags. I don't have a steady partner or kids, so I have the time, money, and space to be a lot freer with my explorations. I can always explore extra with my sight and tarot readings on behalf of those who can't or don't want to. Doing that has actually been a great way I've started reconnecting with my community in recent months. Orbs has issued a correction as of 16:42 on Feb 12, 2024 |
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helta posted:https://www.youtube.com/@_SolFoundation/videos 
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Hooplah posted:your image host seems kinda hosed I'm really loving Peter Skafish's talk about anthropomorphism and ontology too. In the second half he mentions specifically looking into animism as a possible perspective shift that might be helpful for investigating NHI phenomena. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gLz5QYjJZA
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Speaking of those advertisements. I have so much anger today about what happened in Rafah last night, clearly specifically timed so that news reports about the bombings and murders would be concealed from Americans beneath breathless headlines about the Superbowl and celebrities. I usually work this anger into some kind of action or sense of purpose but today it is nearly paralytic and the sense of it just churning away uselessly inside of me is just making me angrier. "In the dark of night, you are taking a path you are unsure of, for there could be danger lurking in its depths. The moon's light can bring you clarity and understanding, and you should allow your intuition to guide you through the darkness." "The forces that are bringing you confusion are starting to dissipate. You have started managing your fears and anxiety. Whatever negative energies you have been facing are slowly fading away. It presents a liberating experience as you discover the positive side of things." My Zen book roll was a 6, leading me to page 186, an author's note about the experience of enlightenment in the Zen tradition: The Little Zen Companion by David Schiller posted:Awakening—or satori, or kensho—is the fundamental aim of Zen. It is seeing into your nature, realizing your own Buddhahood, freeing yourself from the cycle of birth and death. It is "to die completely and then come back to life." According to the koan text Denkoroku, "Even if you sit until your seat breaks through... even if you are a person of lofty deeds and pure behavior, if you haven't reached satori you can't get out of the prison of the world." To die completely and then come back to life. A new phase of the moon. Liberation. There is a version of a vow of the bodhisattvas that I've seen translated like this: quote:The unrescued I will rescue
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Thank you, Sibling.   Charlatan Eschaton posted:thank you bird and klingon for articulating what i have been feeling as a weird dull haze lately. seen lots of gross religious opinions in too many places. trying to do productive work has been a mess i keep screwing up simple tasks, having trouble getting some food plants started for summer. have been trying to do wild yeast bread starters and have been failing since december, i'll get bubbles for two or three refreshes and then it just stops growing. i read you have to keep stirring it every day even when it looks like it failed and i think that is finally working. went outside and saw the first leaves of jute plants starting and it gave me some small feeling of hope trying to send out positive vibes from them. How! posted:I get down on UFOs as just another grift and then I see this or reread the bhagavid ghita Barry Foster posted:Unless something very new has happened every version of video of this event online is a recreation, the original was destroyed
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The Demilich posted:Decided to do a tarot spread regarding the one that ghosted me, cause the wound cut deep as hell. I know I shouldn't but it being Valentine's day has me feeling melancholic, especially after they posted some fiction related topics I by default found interesting (especially their commentary). The fact that these posts are probably the last time I'll hear their voice hit pretty hard as well. Fitzy Fitz posted:I might be able to help with this. I have trouble focusing and a terrible memory, so I accept that I have to work through books slowly. I highlight important lines, take notes with page numbers, and add bookmarks for sections I want to reference often. I also take short breaks to do further research when I get to something that I think deserves more of my attention. Andy Pandy posted:The Sol Foundation, to me, is yet another circle of secret-keeping spooks who have been formed to frame the "disclosure" narrative in the most palatable way possible.
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Ben Nerevarine posted:the Jroot is loose
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These are rookie numbers, we need to pump them if we're going to become a drug-smuggling death cult
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Yeah for me personally until et starts zapping those fuckers to dust i don't care what they have to say
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neutral milf hotel posted:this is very cute One day soon all the aitees will be free.mdemone posted:8-yo daughter drew this for me. I didn't tell her about the jellyfish, I swear The Demilich posted:Warning: long post ahead. Since there were several asks for card pulls, I was considering adding them to the big divination I planned this long weekend. I have an ounce of amigo shrooms and plenty of Salvia leaf and extract, which I want to use for their Seeing and Listening purposes. Much of it is to regain focus and grounding after a lot of personal/political activity lately, but I will absolutely also be keeping all of my eyes open for any knowledge, guidance, support, or evidence of intelligent life that might benefit or interest the thread. As I was preparing my space for the journey ahead, I discovered two more big novelty d20s I owned. It was revealed to me that each of the dice represents a different voice and path, which feels like exactly what we need since many folks, myself included, are trying to decide among multiple possible directions. The d6 and the mirror are also secondary helper voices, and the five of them have spent a couple days strongly indicating that they'll have a lot to say to me in the near future. I look forward to finding out where I'll go with them. Here's a glimpse of what they said to me during their personal "introduction". While not a reading specific to any person, it might still be helpful/interesting in the interim, and it will help me solidify my interpretation of their perspectives.  Red: 20 - JUDGEMENT. Rebirth, inner calling, absolution. Red is associated by my thoughts with the Sun. Tarot (from biddy tarot): "Tune in to a higher frequency. Let go of your old self and step into this newest version of who you really are." Zen Page: "We walk, and our religion is shown (even to the dullest and most insensitive person) in how we walk. Or to put it more accurately, living in this world means choosing, choosing to walk, and the way choose to walk is infallibly and perfectly expressed in the walk itself. Nothing can disguise it. The walk of an ordinary man and of an enlightened man are as different as that of a snake and a giraffe." - R. H. Blyth Green: 11 - JUSTICE. Fairness, truth, cause and effect. Associated by me with the Earth. Tarot: "You need to ask yourself, 'Do I stand by my decisions and accept the consequences of my actions?' If you cannot, then dig deeper, plunging into the shadows of what is right and wrong, until you find the place where you can stand in integrity and strength." Zen Page: "The thing about Zen is that it pushes contradictions to their ultimate limit where one has to choose between madness and innocence. And Zen suggests that we may be driving toward one or the other on a cosmic scale. Driving toward them because, one way or the other, as madmen or innocents, we are already there. It might be good to open our eyes and see." -Thomas Merton Blue: 14 - TEMPERANCE. Balance, moderation, patience, purpose. Associated by me with Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the milky way. Tarot: "There is alchemy within Temperance. This Tarot card is about blending, mixing, and combining diverse elements in a way that creates something new and even more valuable than its separate parts. ‘Blending’ can take on many forms; for example, a blended family, an artist who blends different materials or techniques, a bartender who mixes new and exciting cocktails, or a chef who combines different cuisines and cooking styles." Zen Page: "In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us." -Peter Matthiessen Moon/Mirror: 18. The meaning of this card from the last ritual was reversed by the Mirror. Instead of confusing, the moon's light is guiding. Showing the way toward light amidst confusion. Associated with Earth's moon. Zen Page: "Soon the child's clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines, and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day... we become seekers." -Peter Matthiessen Black d6: 6 - THE LOVERS. Harmony, relationships, values alignment, choices. Associated by me with plant and fungi spirits of the earth like Salvia and psilocybin, which help form bridges between the physical and the spiritual. (Similar to how the d6 roll result links the Tarot reading to the Zen reading.) Tarot: "Given that the man and woman are naked, they are both willing to be in their most vulnerable states and have learned to open their hearts to one another and share their truest feelings. They shape the container from which trust and confidence can emerge, and this makes for a powerful bond between the two. In a reading, this card is a sign that by communicating openly and honestly with those you care about, you will create a harmonious and fulfilling relationship built on trust and respect." Zen Page: "Good pitching will always stop good hitting, and vice versa." -Casey Stengel Like I said, this is just the introduction, but I can see pieces already forming of helpful ways to use their power and guidance in my rituals (and of course, others are always invited to form their own interpretations out of these pieces). I know that when I look at this arrangement now and think about my paths, the emotions the different cards, quotes, and contexts make me feel nudges me toward one or the other. That will help me as I'm rolling them later, and trying to figure out how to form their voices into a message. Or if there is more than one message. I will feel it out as it comes. No matter what happens, everything will be okay. Best wishes.
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