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>>42652465
Actually, I guess these are metaphysical questions
Speaking of which, I have more:
So what happens when a demon dies? Does it just re-spawn in Hell or does it move onto an after-life after the after-life?
If it re-spawns, what is the point of death in Hell?
In fact, what happens when a regular person dies in Hell? Do they move onto the after-life after the after-life?

If you lack anything in the after-life more than your consciousness (eg, no memories, no opinions, no thoughts beyond basic animal survival), no beliefs, no faith, no love, no hate, no happiness, no anger, etc, etc, what was the point of life in the first place?
Also, what happens to your soul after you die in heaven?

One hypothesis for the purpose of life might be that the soul may be mailable in some way, that exposing a soul to certain emotions for a lifetime could cause it to change, evolve, or adapt somehow. Perhaps a soul subjected to lots of mental trauma would become more hardy somehow or a soul that led a life of luxury would become tasty to God or something.

>>42652465
>memory seems to be entirely connected with the physical neural networks
I'd say the contention from reincarnationists is that the soul also holds this, but selectively with the ability to refuse the data being written.

>what would the soul or conscious "witness" be beyond an unfeeling pair of eyes and ears?
I've done past life regression is recent years that seems to be telling me that I have a fairly consistent personality intrinsic to my soul. It's not like my every incarnation is the same person, per se, but that our/my collective behavioral patterns can be recognized as something circling a "me" which is both beyond and received by the brain. When I crossed the boundaries between realities my soul knew it would forget things but also that they the established pattern would simply emerge again.

"The Witness" is actually a concept I've been circling but don't really know how to approach. Maybe it's God all the way down and the transient "me" that seems to be tracked across incarnations is also illusory. I don't really know.

>how do the demons maintain their own personalities when they inhabit the brains of the people they possess?
I believe demons just trick their victims into modeling "bad" behavior patterns. A person's mind is possessed when they can't resist the impulses or worse: they believe the impulse is actually them.

Imagine if every time I told you to slap yourself you actually obeyed. Now instead of "slap yourself" it was "drink alcohol" or "do drugs" and you've got what looks a lot like demonic influence.

>how do you maintain your personhood without the brain that gives you everything that makes you uniquely you?
>What even is a soul?
Maybe a "soul" is all the awareness which can be fully independent of a body.

>>42652561
>So what happens when a demon dies?
I don't think they're actually alive, so "respawn" doesn't apply except the general idea is the same. They're sent away but can return for whatever reason.

There is no death in "Hell". The hellplane is a mode of suffering that won't be escaped because the mind/soul wouldn't choose to leave behind the patterns which sent it there.

I actually believe there is a kind of "death" in heaven, but it's actually like completing all of your goals and missions. Your soul did everything that it could've ever wanted to do, and now all that's left is to leave. Where to? I think to merge with God and cease to exist; collapsing into pure potential.

I'm this Anon >>42652565
I can go into more detail about my soul history (or what I believe I've experienced) if that could help you, OP. From what I can discern, I remember being created, being given a soul mission, and as well as glimpses into what my other lives were doing.

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>>42652565
>the soul also holds this
>I have a fairly consistent personality intrinsic to my soul
This is what intrigues me a lot. It's the ultimate nature vs nurture question. What if your soul influences your brain somehow?
The hypothesis one might reach is that the purpose of life is to cultivate a soul over many thousands of generations of rebirth. So you might start out in 40,000 BC, 1000 lives ago (assuming average number of years before you die) and your blank soul gets imprinted by a brain that is nurtured to be self sacrificing, proud, and introspective. You die, reincarnate and, if lucky, your next life fosters these traits. Then with each new life, your soul exerts a stronger impulse for self sacrifice, pride, and introspection.

Then again, if this is the case, we should expect to see great trait extremism today... hmm actually, maybe there's something to this. Maybe it's not all TV. Maybe different racial behavior is the result of souls influencing brains. Maybe the NPC populace is just new souls or unfortunate ones without consistent nurturing.

>Imagine if every time I told you to slap yourself you actually obeyed. Now instead of "slap yourself" it was "drink alcohol" or "do drugs"
How would you say demons influence you? afaiui, alcoholism is a physical addiction in the brain.

>>42652583
If demons are not living beings, what are they? Where did they come from?

>The hellplane is a mode of suffering that won't be escaped because the mind/soul wouldn't choose to leave behind the patterns which sent it there.
But the very mental patterns that sent it there cease to exist upon death. The brain rots, the soul may be influenced or imprinted by the brain, but it cannot possibly be as strong except in extreme circumstances. I still don't understand how the soul can think anything without a brain, or want or feel.

>>42652583
>I think to merge with God and cease to exist; collapsing into pure potential.
Random tangent, but what if God is a giant bomb? All that potential building and building for eternity. To what end?
On a slightly less schizo level, without the brain, how can a soul want to do or complete anything? How could it even make decisions without a memory?

And yes, this subject intrigues me a lot so I would like as much detail of your past lives as you can recall. Specifically and especially related to how you're able to access memories from your previous life, how previous life emotions work (such as, say you loved someone and how you feel about it, or if you held an ideal then that you don't now)

>>42652625
>>42652630
One thing that stands out to me is that it genuinely seems like my soul is not "remembering" things at all; my soul is fully engaged in the art of **being**. My incarnated selves have the memories and experiences of life to draw from, but my actual soul is not so focused on past or future. It's about presence, not just accessing data.

Based on what I've seen from my past lives:

Other versions of me are/were aware that they are also this particular human life. There is a structural "flow" of "time" that helps to categorize the memories (x before, y after, etc), but my impression is that that is for the benefit of the incarnations to get their bearings.

There seems to be some form of "soul-wide" knowledge that has a transient (temporal?) element to it which serves a practical purpose. Meaning, my incarnations have a sense of where they are in relation to the soul's completed journey. Some felt that they were at the beginning, others understand that they are nearer to The End.

There are also 'bits' of iterative or repeating traits which has manifested in various ways:
-Heterodox thinking and beliefs
-Stubbornness in the face of direct challenges
-Endurance in times of hardship
-Solitary self-reflection leading to further actualization

In one life I was imprisoned for many years for refusing to obey the law.
In another life I was born in the wilderness and then became an outlaw.
In one life I was brash and impulsive which led to being excommunicated from a renowned group.
In another I used stood up to people in positions of power and it got me killed.

To my mind it looks like I've been developing the same personality again and again. It's not just "memory" as we understand because I didn't know it was happening. I was planted, like a seed, in the physical world and what emerged was the fruit I was destined to become. Rebel, hermit, and scholar.

It's like my soul was going through a maturation process.

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>>42652630
(Continued)

One story which caused me *immense* pain to recover in past-life regression was the life where I refused to obey the law. This seems to have been amongst a collective of bluish skinned humans. (pic related)

I was betrothed to a woman I adored, and we were eagerly looking forward to the day we would be officially married. In that culture, it was possible to use technology to reveal if someone was telling the truth (like a perfect lie detector), and it was also considered deeply sacred to share that with someone willingly. It was also used for judicial actions, which comes into play with how I ended up being imprisoned.

My betrothed wanted to demonstrate our commitments before our wedding day, and so she asked that I use the truth-telling device to reveal my deepest and darkest secret to her as a showing of devotion. That was something known to our people as somewhat taboo, but because it can and did lead to couples splitting up. Once married we were expected to stay together for our entire lives, so it wasn't a small risk to be taking.

I, of course, agreed to reveal myself to her. She instantly rejected me and tried to break our betrothal.

Long story short, I was taken before a magistrate and we were ordered to be married as we had agreed to, but I was furious and didn't want to forgive her for betraying me. In that culture, revealing anothers' secrets is grounds for divorce but we hadn't been wed yet so our people expected us to figure it out and heal with time. I realized there was no way to escape marrying her so I threatened to kill the magistrate and was imprisoned for threatening murder. (They made me use the lie detector and I confirmed that I was ready to do something drastic.)

I carried the anger towards my former betrothed for years afterward. I was so angry at how she let me down.

When recovering these memories I realized that my aloofness in this life was related to past instances of betrayal.

Lmaooooo

OP thinks the BRAIN and the MIND are the same thing LOL.

The brain is the physical organ housed within your skull.

THE MIND is non physical, and surrounds the body.

and get this....

you are not even the mind!

you are the soul who HAS a mind and HAS a brain!

you just don't get it yet do you.

>>42652749
(Continued)

The other interesting thing about reading this as one life's problems had to be solved in other, is that my overall trajectory was set very "early" in the cycle of incarnation.

In one of the lives that feels much closer to the "beginning" of my soul, I refused a coupling with another being that I was destined to partner with. (This all gets much more abstract and I'll admit I probably have done more than a little guessing as to the actual meaning.)

Basically, we were a society of new souls learning how to be whatever we were, and our Father/God was much more involved in our daily lives than what humans experience today. Specifically I was assigned a mate whom I knew nothing about. "She" (if that's even the right word) was obviously beautiful but I did not like her personality.

I simply refused her over and over again, and each time she became more and more insistent that she had refused me just as much. We were like children who didn't know anything except what we were, and so this is partly why I described my soul's journey as a "maturation process".

Eventually Father demanded that we make peace and copulate as we were told to, but instead of obeying I ran away and hid in what would be equivalent to the wilderness today. This isolation was devastating on a level I couldn't comprehend in that era, both for her and for me. She eventually was allowed to find someone else and I simply refused to re-join society. From what I can tell my soul was "held back" because of that incarnations choices while she eventually ascended far beyond me.

So coupled with this other incarnations life (>>42652749) it would seem that my soul made two very similar choices with disastrous consequences for the lives they were apart of. The kicker is that my spirit guides seem to be telling me that I was fated to make those choices and defy the control systems around me.

Why?

Development, maybe? Growth? The soul's self actualization?

I hope so.

>>42652465
Says who? Soience?

Look at out-of-body and near-death experiencers. They are literally, clinically dead, but suddenly they can see their own bodies from above because they're hovering right there in the room. If I remember right, that’s exactly what set Dr. Ian Stevenson on his path. A woman clinically died on the operating table, decided to basically spy on her doctors in spirit form, and was later able to describe specific details about a little patch on a suit that was completely hidden from view. Clearly our mainstream view of how this reality works is flawed.

>>42652465
Dream of a different time, a different place, a different memory, a different feeling. The differing color still comes from the same kaleidoscope. The shape differs, yet still matches the gestalt. You are what you practice. Karma are simply deeds. What you give becomes your power, and what you take becomes your burden. Your gifts are an opportunity for you to matter, and how you matter echoes into the next life.

"I’ve now been engaged in this research for twenty years, and I continue
to be impressed by new cases. A while back, I met Grant, a little boy who,
from a very early age, told his mother that she was not his only mommy.
When he was five, he asked his parents if they remembered when he was in
the war. He said he was in the army and described being on the beach and in
the jungle. He said it was 1969, and when his parents asked him if he was
talking about Vietnam, he told them he was. He said he had died in an
explosion when he was twenty-one. He gave the state he was from and his
last name, an unusual one I’ll call “Slaven,” which occurs with similar
frequency in the United States.

>>42652877
His mother went to the Vietnam Memorial website and was shocked to
see that a soldier named Slaven from the state Grant had said was killed in
the war when he was twenty-one. She showed Grant pictures of various
men on the site, and when they got to Slaven’s, he said, “Oh, that’s me.”
His mother then contacted our office and agreed to an interview.
Before meeting the family, I joined a virtual newspaper archive site and
accessed Slaven’s obituary. Following leads from it, I was able to obtain
certain details about his life, including his family’s address when he was in
high school.
I met Grant and his parents in their spacious home near a city in the
middle of the United States that is rich with history. His parents came
across as totally reasonable people. They are Catholic (though non-
practicing), and his father in particular had initially been quite skeptical
about a past-life connection.
I brought along pictures to use as tests for
Grant, who was still only five years old. I showed him pairs of photographs,
one from Slaven’s life along with a control picture, one that had nothing to
do with him. When I showed Grant a picture of the Slaven family’s house
along with a control picture, Grant said he didn’t remember either one. Of
course, I don’t know how the appearance of the house may have changed
over the last fifty years.

>>42652881
I then showed him a picture of the house across the
street from the Slaven home along with a control, and he pointed to the
correct one and said he remembered it. Slaven went to a Central High
School, and when I showed Grant pictures of two large Central High
schools, he pointed to the correct one and said he had been to it.
After the meeting, I continued searching online for information about
Slaven. I was eventually able to access his high school yearbook from 1968,
the year he graduated. I emailed electronic copies of pages from the
yearbook, along with pages from the 1968 yearbook of a different Central
High School, to Grant’s mother. I sent three pairs: pages showing the
school’s administration, ones showing teachers, and ones showing students.
I did not tell Grant’s mother which pages were the correct ones. Grant
picked the one from Slaven’s school for all three pairs. When I told his
mother the results, she replied, “Oh wow, that is absolutely crazy!!! Again,
wow, I am blown away that they were all right, he was so casual about it.”
After doing some more internet sleuthing, I wrote to Slaven’s sister, and
her daughter sent me some family photographs. I sent Grant’s mother pairs
for each of Slaven’s parents. Again, I did not tell her which pictures were
correct. At that point, Grant asked why he had to keep taking tests. He
didn’t make a choice for the mothers, although he did ask if we had a better
picture of the second woman, which was Slaven’s mother. For the fathers,
he picked the correct one.
Altogether, we showed Grant eight pairs of pictures. For the ones he
made a selection on, he was six out of six.
This is what our work involves. We approach each case with an open
mind and then work to determine, as carefully and methodically as we can,
whether there is evidence to support the child’s claims about a past life.
Adding together the evidence from case after case after case, it starts to look undeniable.

>>42652885
And it will only become more so. We have upped our profile in recent years, and with the help of the internet, more and more
families are finding us. Over a hundred parents have contacted us in the
past year after their children reported memories of a previous life. And
more are contacting us when the children are still young and still
remembering. I was able to give picture tests to another little boy recently as I did with Grant, and that boy was five out of five. So the evidence
continues to grow.
William James, the famed philosopher and psychologist, said that if you
want to upset the law that all crows are black, you don’t need to show that
no crows are. It’s enough if you produce a single white crow. In these two
books you’ll find a flock of crows that look awfully white to me. They are
telling us that there is more to reality than just physical matter. And there is
more to us than just physical matter. And more to the story than you live
once and then you die, the end. Instead of the end, the cases tell us we can
have a return to life.
How about that?

>>42652465
>>42652561

The word “demon” has become a cipher for the fearful stupidity and laziness of the moron using it. Classical pagans had complex classifications for beings including daimons, egregores, gods, titans, and hybrids. Tibetan Buddhists distinguish between pretas (hungry ghosts), tulpas (egregores), devas, asuras, etc.

Those who brand everything that they don’t even want to try to understand as a “demon” are more dangerous than terrorists.

but to answer your demon questions, demons can't "die". just like you and I, we can't die in sou form. it appears that we are stuck in god yep. altho this god seems to be good fr fr, it gives a chance for these "demon" entities to learn from their mistakes and genuinly become better and "level up" and leave their hell shithole realms.

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>>42652709
>>42652749
>>42652792
This is interesting.
Just how detailed are your memories of previous lives? You described specific details, but not names. Do you recall names, places, and other details? What was the secret?
And you described what can only be another dimension. How do you recall these memories and what knowledge do you have on how you're able to carry memories across time and dimension?

What is your earliest life memory? Would you judge that you've become more stubborn and solitary since then?

>>42652759
How does the mind store memories? And if that's true, why is it that brain damage and deterioration has a perfect correlation with memory deterioration?

>>42652465
Souls obviously exist. They are the anima that animates the body. They are called animals for a reason. Anima is the latin word for air, breath and life. Animals are a Etymological derivative of it. We are animals therfore we have Anima aka souls. It's funny how humanity went from searching where the anima was located, then when we finally understood consciousness, we just decided actually souls aren't a thing. Despite naming animals from the anima.

>>42652818
>Clearly our mainstream view of how this reality works is flawed.
Maybe so. But how then do we explain brain injuries affecting our memories and personality?

>>42652881
>>42652885
>>42652889
I certainly have no explanation for this and want to know more, especially more on how this could be. I absolutely have zero memories of previous lives. Why is it that some people seem to naturally remember things from previous lives yet I do not recall a single thing that could possibly be of another life? Perhaps my soul is new?
More importantly, how are they doing this, if true? I am convinced that memory occurs in the brain. But if this is true, that cannot be the full story. Yet how do we explain dementia or brain injuries changing core memories and personalities?
In fact, memory itself is mailable and you change memory just by recalling it.

>>42654229
>I absolutely have zero memories of previous lives.

Have you tried hypnosis?

>>42654437
No money to spare.

>>42654205
I don't remember names, but I can *somewhat* visualize places without really understanding their significance. In my opinion my human brain has to fill in a lot of gaps, but the narratives arose as if simply remembered.I get a general "feel" of what the memories represent and then my human mind interprets them based on things I would understand.

I remember details like that I harvested crops and helped to scale up agricultural practices to be more efficient, and some major life events with lots of emotion twisted up in them. So the gist of things but not nearly all of it. I remember what the secret was because it affects my life today, and so I won't be revealing it soon.

As best I can tell, versions of me across the fabric of reality have become enlightened. In more than one life I see myself in contemplation for years and years, like a cloistered monk. The life where I was imprisoned was one of them, and that version of me gained awareness of the life I live now and so forth.

In one life I specifically remember meeting "Father Time" and asking that I be allowed to remember part of that particular cycle. I believe this signifies being blessed by the divine in general and having/unlocking special privileges as a soul.

My earliest memories (as far as I can tell) is of being at the end of a universe. Essentially whatever I was somehow knew that life was coming to an end and so started planning my future iterations including my life today in some fashion. What this means is that even more of my soul history is locked away than I can truly consider today, and I think that's probably true for everyone with a soul. We see the narrative layer because that's what allows the parts of us that *need* to follow iterative incarnations and "soul story" to function at all.

My sense of things is that I was created as a stubborn one, and me discovering that is also me self-actualizing and growing. I don't want to be trapped by it nor trapped by its denial.

>>42652749
These niggas are the arcturians aren't they

>>42654229
That little story is from this one
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/284397.Life_Before_Life

>Why is it that some people seem to naturally remember things from previous lives

It's not necessarily essential or even advantageous to remember your past lives, especially since, as I understand it, most of us on Earth are here to reincarnate over and over again, sometimes hundreds of times on average. Now, why is that? I'm honestly not sure. Some people say Earth was once part of a kind of prison system created by non human intelligence, tho they believe that's no longer the case. Others say there was never any prison at all, that it's always been voluntary, and we simply become deeply attached, or even addicted, to physical reality. (like I think at one point Robert Monroe had this conclusion before glowies got involved)

But if you look at Earth as a school for souls and spiritual growth and you imagine you're writing a brandnew novel....would you want every page to constantly remind you of the last novel you wrote, or would u rather immerse yourself completely in a new world and a new story?
I've never had any spontaneous memories of previous lives myself, but the way I've scooby dood it together, if it does happen to someone, perhaps it's because their current life contains lessons that directly connect to another incarnation. Or maybe they hold beliefs that allow symbolic information from the subconscious to be interpreted as past life memories.

>>42657481
And that's where hypnosis comes into the equation. It's the method I used to explore one of my previous incarnations. Although, technically, it didn't happen in the "past," because from a "higher" perspective, where our higher self "lives" all lifetimes exist simultaneously. Time, as we experience it, is really a feature of this physical dimension. Outside of it, there isn't the same linear progression of past, present, and future.
But anyway to recommend you another book:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/306612.Past_Lives_Future_Lives

"Hypnosis is a natural state of focused concentration and relaxation.
Let me further clarify this level of consciousness by asserting that hypnosis
is a way of relaxing and setting aside the conscious mind (willpower), while
at the same time activating the subconscious mind. Suggestions can then be
made directly to the subconscious, enabling the individual to act on these
suggestions with greater ease and efficiency.
Hypnosis can be described by the following formula: misdirected attention
+ belief + expectation = hypnosis Until relatively recently, hypnosis has
been viewed as either a mysterious or dangerous, artificially induced
technique. Nothing could be further from the truth. There is nothing
magical or mystical about hypnosis.
It is a state of consciousness that is entered naturally, but is not usually
called hypnosis or trance. It is simply labeled a daydream.
This ancient art known as hypnosis has been used to promote healing for
more than 50,000 years! More than 2,500 hours each year of your life are
spent in natural hypnosis. Each day, four hours of this total constitutes
daydreams, and night dreams (REM cycle) account for three additional
hours."

You can get all the books from annas-archive dot gl

>>42657481
How can souls grow spiritually?

>>42656846
That is interesting. Name recognition is a very complex process covering many parts of the brain. But it seems especially related to the hippocampus and the fusiform face area which, as the name suggests, is responsible for facial recognition while other parts of the brain link faces with names.
Can you remember faces but not names? This would suggest that the spirit or soul possesses some sort of physical influence over the fusiform face area as well as well as the neocortex and amygdala. In other words, you remember faces and emotional memories, but not names and episodic memorization.
But how does this work???
I really want to know this as it's baffling.

This is especially backed up by your story about remembering only "I was living in the end of the universe." That is an emotionally charged memory, but you lack specific details. Thus, it would be encoded as an emotional memory, which is in line with other things you've said.
It also might imply that your soul is like 15 billion years old. The story I'm interpreting is that you're remembering time from before this universe began, from the ashes of the previous one in a never ending cycle. A fitting timeline of cosmic death and rebirth, of individual death and rebirth.
Or maybe I'm reading too much into this. How can you possible remember being not just a different species but ~300 million generations of yourself? We can't even count to that number.

If this is true, my soul is extremely young since I feel that I am nowhere near wise enough to be a being with even 100 million lifetimes of experience in my emotional memory. I do not handle loss well, so I must be extremely young in the cosmic sense.

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>>42652465
>how can you possibly retain memories after being reincarnated?
It's very rare, and requires the subtle mind to carry on, detaching from the physical. It doesnt happen often, despite claims.
>what would the soul or conscious "witness" be beyond an unfeeling pair of eyes and ears?
It would identify with the timespace situation it is in, just as it is doing now.
>If demons can possess people
Dont bring christian nonsense into this.
>If there is an afterlife, how do you maintain your personhood
Depends which destination after this life you mean.
>In astral projection, is your conscious "witness" spirit severing connection with your brain?
No, just the physical. The subtle body - ego, intellect, mind - is what astrally travels.

>>42659130
Going off of this, areas of the brain related to mechanical memory must be wholly unaffected by the soul because babies lack basic motor skills. Obviously.
Or the soul lacks mechanical and motor skill memorization capabilities.

Another metaphysical question I now have is: There is some anecdotal evidence that organ transplants can alter a person's memory and perhaps personality. This implies that a heart or liver may contain emotional memories somehow. But does this affect the soul?

And still, how is a soul carrying emotional memories? In fact, most examples of memory loss seem to occur from damage in the brain's processes of retrieving memory. Though there are examples of brain trauma altering memories.
Emotional memory is stored in a broad network around the brain but damage to one part of the brain can cause important parts of memories to warp.

>>42659155
>he subtle body - ego, intellect, mind
I've heard that the mind exists outside of the body. But how can this be when damage to the brain can eliminate mechanical and intellectual abilities?

>>42659160
As pointed out in another thread - there are people walking around having perfectly normal, intellectual lives that have practically zero brain matter.
The physical object is important to mind, as the mind is the central collation of the sensorial information comin in, but it isnt as needed as you might think.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edition-1.3679117/scientists-research-man-missing-90-of-his-brain-who-leads-a-normal-life-1.3679125

>>42659130
I think what I'm getting are impressions of things. I don't think I'm really able to recall exactly what I looked like so my human brain has to interpret the data and find analogues. I have an idea of what my face looked like and so the brain builds a face that fits the idea.

Same goes for others' faces but I think I have even less of a conception of what they truly looked like. Much more fill in the blanks and extrapolation.

As for the "end of the universe" life I was referring to, I actually do remember more details but I've become convinced I'm reaching for definity in abstraction. Meaning, the details are so specific and archetypal I now doubt that they are touching the actual substance of what was. They are shadows of shadows.

In that "memory" I see myself as a man with white wings, silver armor, and him writing on parchment paper. These are such earthly things I'm leaning towards them being symbolic representations of a higher truth that my current brain/form are not ready for.

As far as the "300 million generations" and/or my soul being billions of years old, I actually think the sum total of lived/remembered passage of time that I've carried into this life is *maybe* 1000 years. From our current frame of reference the gaps in-between my incarnations seem to be astronomical; I incarnate for specific reasons and with eons spent in the other world. At the same time I think that actually is in-line with the notion that past-life regression can't give you more than you can handle without the structure breaking down; if I want to see/remember more I need to develop my consciousness to handle higher bandwidth data.

It may even be the case that your soul is not "young" and mine is not "old" but rather that our current brains are accepting different forms of reality occlusion. I see what I need to see, you see what you need to see, neither sees the ALL until The End.

I think I bring packets of data between universes for people like you to find.

>>42659221
This is fascinating.
I've been trying to learn more about this case but all articles are basically the same and the information scant.
It appears that 90% of his skull is cerebral fluid with his brain crushed to a thin space on the inside of his skull.
I desperately want to know what kinds of memories he can access, working memory, and thought processes are.

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>>42659721
There is also the understanding that mind and intellect - as understood by Vedic/Aristotelean/elemental conception - doesnt need a neotcortex, or a brain at all.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/honey-bees-can-do-simple-arithmetic-after-little-schooling-180971451/
The mind is the nexus of the sensory information, and simultaneously creates opposing desires: I want thing/I dont want thing.
This is chosen/discriminated/etc. by the intellect, as per the values set out by the ego's temporary identifications.
Even trees can be arguably observed communicating desires with each other through a system of roots/fungal networks and sharing resources to members of the forest in more want - and much of it "guided" by mother trees.
https://mothertreeproject.org/about-mother-trees/
Though obviously this and other pushes for plant intelligence is very contentious science.

>>42652465
>If there is an afterlife, how do you maintain your personhood without the brain that gives you everything that makes you uniquely you? What even is a soul?
Dualism

>In astral projection, is your conscious "witness" spirit severing connection with your brain? If so, how are you consciously or even unconsciously *you?* And if not, how does the spirit maintain connection with the sleeping brain?
Cartesian Dualism

>>42659130
>How can souls grow spiritually

Practice hypnosis and meditation (or anything that gets you into alpha brain waves)
Eliminate negative foods, drink, non physedelic drugs, and toxic emotions from your life.
Pay attention to your intuition and spiritual insights.
Remember that everyone you meet, whether the meeting is a positive or negative experience, is merely a projection of your
consciousness. It is what you most dislike that you most deny in yourself.
Eliminate the tendency to judge yourself and others.
Do not seek external approval.
Live life in the current moment and appreciate it fully.
Let go of the past and do not worry about the future.
Let go of all anger.
Be motivated by love rather than fear
And do not ever lose your sense of humor

>>42652465
>If so, how are you consciously or even unconsciously *you?*

you are assuming that consciousness is inside the brain but I think everything points toward that the brain is not the generator of consciousness. it is more like a transceiver.
so for astral projection or remote viewing to work, you have to not be defined by your physical location..so you're not defined as a point in 3D space.. you're consciousness or a soul being itself. a kind of a pattern of vibration, unique, individual, got our god given free will but we are being projected from somewhere else, and we're merely occupying these flesh bodies currently yeah?
but what projects us here? that is what's called our higher self. and it lives in the "5th dimension" and we are it's focused awareness in this physical reality.
so astral projection is like changing tv channels while keeping the tv plugged in. and what our oversoul or higher self is doing is like shining a flashlight through different windows. the light appears in different places, but it is still coming from the same source
this would explain terminal lucidity, which I think is something you'd like to learn more about

>>42659481
I appreciate your insight and honesty. I want to know everything

>>42660061
How can this be true when brain trauma or degradation so obviously affects intellect and memory? I appreciate your example but I simply cannot find more information on the specifics of this guy's memory and intelligence, beyond that he was a very low iq

>>42662119
I can understand that the brain is merely a conduit for the consciousness to control the body. But I keep getting hung up on the most fundamental aspect of our conscious being: our memories. How can soul vibrations carry specific memories, opinions, and desires?

>>42663814
>brain trauma or degradation so obviously affects
Affects does not equal cause.
Why get so hung up on the brain when we can show life without a brain or even nervous system exhibiting memory and intellect?

>>42652465
Umm because the alayavijnana doesn't exist the individual brain.

>>42663973
Fyi the Bhagavad Gita calls out physicalists/materialists in like 3500 bc and calls them ignorant; also the Lotus Sutra tells Bodhisattvas not to associate with materialists or "extreme materialists."

>Read Department of the Army, Analysis of the Gateway Process

Military has known this since LSD experiments in the 70s

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>>42663827
the same way as a radio "contains" a song. does it really contain it? the song is not inside the circuitry. the circuitry is simply configured to receive a particular pattern. now, if you want to see the actual equations and numbers... don't hold your breath, at the current rate and with the level of narrowmindedness prevalent in academia, it may take a while.
read pic rel for a start

>>42664268
The physical brain has more influence than a radio over the song.
You can mess with the physical structure and change people's opinions or memories.
It'd be like hitting the radio and being able to change what the DJ says.

>>42664268
Damn, his name is a joke. Fed Faggin.' Those guys are hilarious. Federico faggin' out. Fuck

>>42664315
slay queeeeeen
https://youtu.be/0nOtLj8UYCw

>>42663966
>life without a brain or even nervous system exhibiting memory and intellect?
What examples are these?

>>42664268
Thankyou for the book recommendation.
At present, I am perplexed by this concept but if the spirit can possess memories, opinions, and thoughts, this changes everything we think we know about what it is to be human.
What is your opinion on how memories can permanently be altered based on your mood?

>>42664989
I linked examples of both bees doing math, and trees communicating.
Please provide evidence that you have at least looked at those studies before responding.

>>42652465
Look up what demon actually meant in Plato's time.

>>42660061
>>42665044
I apologize as I lost track of the thread since I was at work. But I agree that trees favoring their offspring is intelligence.
Maybe you're right. Brains are not needed for intelligence. Perhaps our brains exist merely as a way for the soul spirit to control the body.
I need to do more research on this. Thanks.

>>42664989
I guess it's our interpretation of these past memories what changes. Whenever we recall a memory we are recreating a present moment version of what we call "the past."
And the emotional frequency you are in the now acts as a filter therefor if you are vibrating in fear, your consciousness naturally resonates with versions of your history that appear fearful.
But If u are vibrating in appreciation, your consciousness resonates with aspects of ur history where all you can see is gratitude or opportunities for example.
Of course facts do not change, but interpretation does, and because your experience of reality is defined more by meaning than by raw events, changing the meaning effectively changes the life you believe you have lived.
So if someone remains in one emotional state for a long period then yes, he may eventually become convinced that his past was entirely different than he once remembered, not because hes wrong but because he is selecting a different organization of information that is compatible with his current state of being.

>>42652465
>Since memory seems to be entirely connected with the physical neural networks
It doesn't seem that way as there are mediums who can communicate with the dead. There are other dimensions out there.