FabSwingers.com forum: Profound experiences

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Frisky Mare just talked about having some profound spiritual experiences so I thought it'd be fun to start a thread just telling us of a profound experience you've had. These can be weird, spiritual, religious... but they can also be crazy coincidences, unexplainable freakiness, ufo sightings, weird natural phenomena, amazing events... basically anything that you'd call a "profound experience"

Try not to get into any arguments.. we're all merely listing weird stuff here... no need to try and "explain" it away... that's for another thread if you feel the need. Cheers

I'll post one in a mo

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By *ohnaronMan
over a year ago

london

I was at a charity sale and from a packed table of books I picked one at random. It was American and signed by author to my sisters name. Our name is not that common. Now and again these strange "coincidences" happen to me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've been to medium events where a group of women came into my friends pub.

I found 99% of it to be total bullshit, the 1% left intrigued me and it was after they had left and with some friends we continued with a franks box, a few odd things came about down in the cellar.

One of which I can't even think of a logical reason of how it could of happened.

My phone was on a shelf, think we had the flash on for some light. A shadow moved over it and left an extremely fine layer of dust, almost like talc over my entire phone.

Tried knocking the plasterwork above my phone (the shelf was a built in recess) and nothing even came close to resembling the dust from the shadow.

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By *rish_And_BlondieCouple
over a year ago

Liverpool and Ireland

Nothing sexual for once LOL.

My mother before I was born was walking through the town and a Gypsy asked her to buy some Heather. My mum obliged and handed her the 1 pound coin and took the Heather for her grasp. As she turned the gypsy called her name. My mum was only with my sister who at the time was around 4 year old and as she turned the gypsy took my mothers hand and said -

"You are going to have a little girl, you don't know it yet but having her will change your whole path in life, she will be born on 9th Feburary next year and your husband will return home with news later this week that you are moving to foreign lands soon"

Well later that week my dad received news that his next project to direct was based in Ohio and he would be moving out there. My mum had me 9 months later after returning home with a pregnancy test after talking with the gypsy and once I was born we all moved over to be with my father in the states.

now my mum isn't exactly the gypsy, palm reader spiritualist type.. She's as upper class Middle English as you can get, hilariously so, so for this to happen was completely out of the ordinary!

To some it may seem too coincidental but to my mum I think it scared her into buying Heather for life hahahaha.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Wow some great ones already guys... you've set the bar pretty high

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've got a few and I'm trying to get to sleep so I'll write them all down.

Right my problem is to do with the law of attraction and my friends ability to use it. 2010 her friend that she'd known for ages a guy was happily with a girl he'd been with for 13 years, she bumped into him in tesco and they talked and he said about how he was getting engaged and all that crap, Facebook pictures showed him and his gf, they just got back from a holiday, anyway my friend decides that she likes him and that she was going to have him. Wrote a letter to the universe thanking it for Paul and for a month she done whatever she did in her head chants or whatever the fuck she did. All with no contact from this guy other than the 5 minute conversation they had the other month, anyway got a call late one night from her, he turned up on her doorstep saying he had split with his gf, they started seeing each other after that! They lasted about a year then she wrote another letter describing everything she wanted in a guy down to how he looked and his personality and temperament, guess what, she finds him, they've just got a mortgage and he wants to marry her.

I met a guy last year who I really liked, yes he was very very arrogant but not to me he wasn't, I introduced them and she didn't like him and didn't think I should be with him, not long after that he didn't seem as interested anymore and that was that. Months passed and I tried this law of attraction thing and he contacted me again, out the blue, I exchanged lots of messages with him and spoke a lot on the phone with the intention to meet again, told my friend and then I didn't hear from him again, 5 months later he contacts me again, chat chat, message message, meet, then I told my friend and haven't heard from him since. I think she uses her law of attraction power to keep him away!

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By *ohnaronMan
over a year ago

london

Many years ago I was reading a book by Francis Chichester and thought how nice itwould be to have his long out of print first book. A couple of days later in a part of London I never normally vist it lept out at me from a table outside a second hand shop. I believe people call this the Library Angel at work. Similar things have happed to me a number of times.

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

I've seen and experienced many kinds of spiritual phenomenon, pleasant and not so, from instant physiological changes to a deep and abiding connection with the spirit of a horse.

I have no problem with the actuality, it is the context and the interpretation that seems to take a lifetime.

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

"Many years ago I was reading a book by Francis Chichester and thought how nice itwould be to have his long out of print first book. A couple of days later in a part of London I never normally vist it lept out at me from a table outside a second hand shop. I believe people call this the Library Angel at work. Similar things have happed to me a number of times."

Haha, I have a parking angel - wherever I go, a space miraculously appears!

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By *tretchygirl and tintinWoman
over a year ago

Dartford

I used to be in my school choir and every 2 years we went on amazing trips. The second one I went on was to Venice, I was so lucky.

After 2 days of being in Venice we did our first concert and everything went really well. I left feeling on a high and ready for our next performance which was going to be in St Mark's Basilica.

The morning leading up to the concert went well and our teacher dropped the bombshell on us that we would be singing as part of the mass, it was an honour.

The mass started and we sang our songs, as we I sang I started to feel very uplifted. It's not my normal reaction as although I feel good it's always something I had to concentrate on. The more I sang the easier it seemed to be. I began to feel like I was bathed in a warm light. To this day I've never been able to explain why that happened and although I'm not religious and I don't believe in a God of any kind, I certainly felt special that day.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Ok.. as promised I'll chip in. I was living in LA helping out deprived gang kids and joined a crazy religious cult just for the fun of it... as you do

One day I had to drive straight from my gang kids off to some special function my cult was having in a Beverley Hills mansion. That was already weird enough. Anyway... I got there and the guru got up on stage and started talking. Now... get me right here... I joined this cult purely out of cynical curiosity so I wasn't sold on it whatsoever. Anyway the guru asks us to start staring at him and just to follow his lead. At this point I remember having to decide between resisting the process, remaining critical and withdrawn from it all, or going with the flow and seeing what happened. I figured... what the heck.. in for a penny in for a pound

Anyway there we are focussing on the guru guy and suddenly his head starts glowing gold out into the room until the whole room is full of gold... then, as if that wasn't whacky enough, his face started changing, revealing other people's faces in it. It was actually pretty wonderful... women, children, old people. It felt to me that he had kinda taught me a technique... rather than it was specifically about him. So when I went out to pick up my car from the valet I took a look at his face and pretty soon I was able to start seeing other faces appear in it. It's not really something I've tried since, and at the time it didn't happen with everyone's faces so it wasn't a drug experience, so I'm just happy to take it on face value, if you can excuse the pun. There ya go... one more for the weird pile

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I used to be in my school choir and every 2 years we went on amazing trips. The second one I went on was to Venice, I was so lucky.

After 2 days of being in Venice we did our first concert and everything went really well. I left feeling on a high and ready for our next performance which was going to be in St Mark's Basilica.

The morning leading up to the concert went well and our teacher dropped the bombshell on us that we would be singing as part of the mass, it was an honour.

That's just beautiful Stretchy... I'm so glad I asked

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By *ohnaronMan
over a year ago

london

Oh I also astro travel but do not linger where there are red candles or vine leaves.

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By *irceWoman
over a year ago

Gloucester

Used to have a ghost of a lady sit on my bed as a child, found out years later a woman died in my bedroom found under the bed

Have had the same dream from a young age,celtic female with two children stood on a hillside looking out to the sea from a estuary waiting the return of her partner who is not going to return. Yeah I know nuts ...lol.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

We were on a beach and I was throwing stones into the big cresting waves when a weird encounter happened. I had my arm cocked, ready to chuck my stone into he heart of a wave when a big fat seal just appeared lying in the middle of it, as if leaning back on a chaise longue, and just stared out at me as if to say "hi there". Time slowed down for a moment and we just stared at each other... man meet seal... seal meet man. Then he/she was gone. A wonderful encounter with a wild animal

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By *tretchygirl and tintinWoman
over a year ago

Dartford

"I used to be in my school choir and every 2 years we went on amazing trips. The second one I went on was to Venice, I was so lucky.

After 2 days of being in Venice we did our first concert and everything went really well. I left feeling on a high and ready for our next performance which was going to be in St Mark's Basilica.

The morning leading up to the concert went well and our teacher dropped the bombshell on us that we would be singing as part of the mass, it was an honour.

That's just beautiful Stretchy... I'm so glad I asked

Thanks

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not a good experience for me, I was about 7 or 8 cycling back to Prescot from visiting relatives in Connors Quay. I got knocked off my bike on the Stanlow roundabout heading towards frodsham, the driver saw my dad sadly didn't see me.

We got taken to the hospital by ambulance, my dad had the joyous task of telling my mum what had happened. My mum picked up the phone and said to me dad, how bad is J, how bad is his face. No one told my mum about my accidents, she claimed she saw it as it happened. My poor dad was shell shocked.

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

I saw my own crash. I remember in a dream riding along the rainford bypass heading towards St. Helens, I remember seeing the car pull out in front of me and watch what happened to me. Needless to say several months later, I go over the bonnet of a car that had pulled out in front of me. The worst bit was before setting out that morning I had a bad feeling but never knew what it was about.

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

Sorry posting again so soon.

I also saw my own air pistol injury. I saw someone pull an air pistol on me and shot me in the eye, few months later a mate did just that messing about with it.

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

I sometimes know things I don't really have enough information to know - I confirm after the fact

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

My cousin used to live in a house and told me that she would sometimes see shadows move across the top of the stairs. There were no trees outside to facilitate this phenomena (i.e. branches blowing in the wind). I was sat with her one afternoon and we both heard what we thought were footsteps in the bedroom upstairs. Obviously there was nobody upstairs

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

I've known several times when my sister has had an accident and been taken to hospital. I've told people I was with at the time. One time in a chemistry class I got it and told my school friend. When I got home I discovered she'd fallen down the stairs at school and broken her arm - this was the first veritable instance.

O don't know if it's premonition or just when it's already happened. It has made me feel closer to her.

As a sceptic I'm in opposition to most stuff but I can't explain my experiences with her.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

One night I had this dream about meeting a girl. Not just any girl she had a mochican, good looking and about same age I was which 21 at the time. Well anyway the next day was out in town and guess what this girl comes up to me and she's the girl I dreamt of down to the hair, clothes everything. Unfortunately probably a case of meeting the girl of my dreams at the wrong time but we did become really good mates.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If we're talking psychics I've got a few experiences with those as well. In 2008 I was on holiday in Egypt and was speaking to this French couple in our hotel and she said she was a psychic. I was on holiday with my then boyfriend and she told me she saw two paths for me, if I split with him I would meet a tall blonde man who I would fall for but he would hurt me (she didn't say whether that was physically or emotionally, that's why I bang on about only wanting guys with dark hair!) she said if I stayed with my boyfriend I would be pregnant on my next birthday, she said I was giving her a feeling of heartburn and that my baby girl would be born with a full head of dark hair! I was pregnant on my next birthday and my daughter was born with a full head of dark hair! My ex and I split after that and that's when I dabbled in some spells to try and get him back!

For years after I would go to psychics and the first guy Paul Rees he's quite well known round here, tried with me for about 10 minutes then have my money back and said he couldn't read me. Went to another psychic and she wouldn't take my money and said I had too nuch negative energy around me. The one that freaked me out the most was when I went to a psychic party and there was 9 of us in my friends house and each one of us was paying £35 each to have a private reading off this guy. He done my friend first which was fine, took her money and she was happy with her reading then it was my turn. He tried with me for about 10 minutes then he told me I made his spirit guide leave and that he couldn't do anymore readings. Didn't take my money and left the house. That freaked me out because he lost out on 8 lots of £35. After that I went to a spiritual meeting and at the start of each meeting we all sat in a circle with this woman walking behind us all whilst we sort of meditated, when we lifted our heads back up she said that her spirit guide usually walks round the group in a circle but stood behind me for the whole 10 minutes (I'm freaking myself out as I write this!) she said I'm under psychic attack and done this cleansing thing on me and then I was asked to leave! I went back to this woman phychic who had refused my money previously and told her I was under this attack thing so she done raike healing (dunno if it's spelt correctly) had 6 sessions which should have been £25 each time but she have me the first 3 free as she thought she could sort it, it took longer than she thought so I said to her look I've got to pay you for your time cos it's like an hour each time. After that she was able to tell me some things but when my friend and I came to the shop to buy new tarot cards for me an my friend bought angel cards she asked my friend to wait behind in the shop. I went outside and when my friend came out I asked her what she said and the woman told my friend not to let me touch her cards and put my energy on them!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Many related to energy and consciousness and a number of transformative experiences for myself and others. Using words to describe them often belies the experiences.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Many years ago my sister had a cancer scare & I said a prayer in my head asking that everything would be OK & I heard a voice in my head that basically told me off & said "My will will be done, not yours."

Not really what I was expecting!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Around about 2000 When we moved to a new house, we knew that the land opposite had been a coal yard before it had been landscaped and a nature walk built on the old tracks. Sometimes mostly at night I could feel tremors in the ground, im deaf so put this down to my others senses, but didn't really think much about it... until my daughter then aged about 5 asked my where the trains where now... on questioning her she told me the clickerty clack and clanking noises sometimes woke her up at night. (she had the bedroom nearest to where the old tracks had been). but there are no trains in use in this area and the old track hadn't been used since 1970.

she also had a friend, a little boy who wore funny shoes (later found and old pair of clogs in the garden) she would visit her at night but never spoke just stood in the corner of her bedroom. she took to coming into my bedroom at night dragging her duvet and sleeping on the floor besides my bed because he kept waking her up.

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By *icky999Man
over a year ago

warrington

I had a dream that everybody was equal and nobody worried about money.

poundland experiences

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Profound experiences?

* Working with a woman who had been trafficked to the UK at the age of 14

* Working with a young asylum seeker who's mother had early-onset dementia

* The birth of my daughter

* Burying friends

* Burning Man

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember exploring in Waratah National Park once when this young lad fell into a deep hole. He was in a pretty bad way and I couldn't get him out. All of a sudden I heard this strange clicking sound, I turned round to see what it was, I shit you not, there was this kangaroo on his mobile phone calling in a rescue team.

You don't get a much weirder experience than that.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sucking my first cock. Changed everything for me sexually

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've had quite a few, the one that sticks in my mind is just after I read 'The will to power by Nietzsche, I thought " what's the point", sat by my favourite Oak in the woods staring into space, everything started to change around me, but I think I was seeing it differently, without lines of division, don't know how long it lasted, but I suddenly felt euphoric, I've learned since these are called " peak experiences", when the mind goes quiet and changes into an unrecognisable state, had them since, but not as powerful, changed me in a big way.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I've had quite a few, the one that sticks in my mind is just after I read 'The will to power by Nietzsche, I thought " what's the point", sat by my favourite Oak in the woods staring into space, everything started to change around me, but I think I was seeing it differently, without lines of division, don't know how long it lasted, but I suddenly felt euphoric, I've learned since these are called " peak experiences", when the mind goes quiet and changes into an unrecognisable state, had them since, but not as powerful, changed me in a big way. "

Very Ekhart Tolle.

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

Have you read much Nietzsche? I'm always quoting him but when it came to sitting down and reading I was not sure which book to start with?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I experienced something similar most commonly referred to as subspace... I was being flogged rather hard... no real pain involved... just the very sensual repetitive thud of heavy floggers on my back... I was so relaxed i started to actually bounce off the padded table i was strapped to, I can't really describe the sensation other than i felt like i was floating, Ive never experienced anything that came close to that either before or afterwards...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've had a few profound experiences. The obvious joyous ones like the birth of my children etc, but also of a horror filled nature that has left be broken and destroyed. Such is life.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The most profound moment I've ever had was in a field near the sea in cornwall, just before dawn around 3:45am heading for a walk on the beach , entire field of ground mist around 2ft high, couldn't even see your own feet it was that thick, full moon illuminating everything and the distant sound of a fog horn!.

Anyhow such was the ambiance that I crossed this field faster than usain bolt.... I've no idea if there was anything in that mist... But by golly my imagination did!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I think there must be something about nihilism that borders on the religious, as it did the same for me. It wasn't in direct response to reading... but I became a pretty extreme nihilist after reading Nietzsche and it was this which helped me to clear my conceptual realm of a load of useless clutter and set the stage for an experience very much like your own. Strangely enough, it would seem that this is a mystic path to God called the via negativa, in which we empty our mind of our preconceptions and just perceive reality as it actually is. Here's a quote that describes it somewhat...

"His fixed gaze no longer scans each object in its turn and his mind ceases identifying their particulars. The whole framework of intelligent understanding, by which he normally appraises his impressions, sinks into abeyance and uncovers a world experienced uncomprehendingly as a divine miracle."

When this happened to me, as it did you, I became aware of a vast indescribable presence watching me. I thought "hello" in my mind and an inner voice I'd never heard before replied "hello". Since then I have built a friendship with this presence and come to find it the most loving, graceful and wise being I know. This is how I would decribe the god experience... very much as you described it but with the rather unexpected addition of this weird being. It certainly did my head in at the time... as you might imagine after having become totally entrenched in Nietzsche, Nihilism and all that "God is dead" stuff lol

Here's another quote about the via negativa that also resonates with me...

"[It is often] allied with the approach of mysticism, which focuses on a spontaneous or cultivated individual experience of the divine reality beyond the realm of ordinary perception, an experience often unmediated by the structures of traditional organized religion or by the conditioned role-playing and learned defensive behavior of the outer man."

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By *ensualtouch15Man
over a year ago

ashby de la zouch

My fave was when a "reader" assured me i was going to have 3 lovely baby boys

She then cursed me when I informed here I was sterile

My last amazing moment was Monday practicing yoga upon my surf board as the sun sparked into the ripples and jelly fish jetted serenely into the depths . I find Wales a deeply calming place xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Very Ekhart Tolle."

I'll look him up, a lot of people have had this experience, J Krishnamurti, Fritjof Kapra, Morihei Ueshiba, it appears to be a natural state of mind, possibly linked to what we said about children yesterday.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Have you read much Nietzsche? I'm always quoting him but when it came to sitting down and reading I was not sure which book to start with?"

Only The will to power, and Zarathustra, in the latter he speaks of us being a bridge from Ape to Superhuman, I read them when I was at Art college years ago, then moved on the J Krishnamurti and Alan Watts, more Eastern and spiritual.

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

Have you read much Nietzsche? I'm always quoting him but when it came to sitting down and reading I was not sure which book to start with?

Yes, I am not very eastern inclined.....I need to sit down and research one day, though I would like a copy of 'Nietzsche's greatest hits' really lol!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Here's another quote about the via negativa that also resonates with me...

It was the feeling that nothing at all matters that put me in that state of mind. Have a read of J krishnamurti's book ' Freedom from the Known', got me into his teachings after Nietzsche.

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

"A true nihilist would believe in nothing, have no loyalties, and no purpose other than, perhaps, an impulse to destroy."

Why would the latter be so??

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Have you read much Nietzsche? I'm always quoting him but when it came to sitting down and reading I was not sure which book to start with?

Yes, I am not very eastern inclined.....I need to sit down and research one day, though I would like a copy of 'Nietzsche's greatest hits' really lol!

There are books which concentrate on his basic concepts, Eastern philosophy is very relevant to us in the west, try Alan Watts, he was a great speaker, try this from you tube, forgive the cheesy music.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=emHAoQGoQic

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"It was the feeling that nothing at all matters that put me in that state of mind. Have a read of J krishnamurti's book 'Freedom from the Known', got me into his teachings after Nietzsche."

Yeah read some of Krishnamurti's work but he never really did it for me. He was raised by a weird bunch of esotericists to be the second coming of Jesus and although he disbanded the sect I don't think he ever saw things straight after that... too much ego for my liking

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

""A true nihilist would believe in nothing, have no loyalties, and no purpose other than, perhaps, an impulse to destroy."

Why would the latter be so??

I don't know where you got your quote from but I guess the general maxim of nihilism is... if it isn't True throw it in the bin

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"It was the feeling that nothing at all matters that put me in that state of mind. Have a read of J krishnamurti's book 'Freedom from the Known', got me into his teachings after Nietzsche.

I disagree, I feel he is clear about what he says, especially about the danger of the ego.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"It was the feeling that nothing at all matters that put me in that state of mind. Have a read of J krishnamurti's book 'Freedom from the Known', got me into his teachings after Nietzsche.

I disagree, I feel he is clear about what he says, especially about the danger of the ego."

But its obviously an oxymoron... seeing as he himself is the embodiment of a supreme "listen to me" ego. Once you realise that then you can't really trust anything else he says imo... but of course... that's just my opinion. I appreciate that he's been a big influence on many others... that's just my explanation of why he didn't rock my boat

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

Have you read much Nietzsche? I'm always quoting him but when it came to sitting down and reading I was not sure which book to start with?

Yes, I am not very eastern inclined.....I need to sit down and research one day, though I would like a copy of 'Nietzsche's greatest hits' really lol!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=emHAoQGoQic"

Yes, stilling the mind is common to all spiritual disciplines - I find mucking out gets me into that neutral place where I can 'hear'.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"It was the feeling that nothing at all matters that put me in that state of mind. Have a read of J krishnamurti's book 'Freedom from the Known', got me into his teachings after Nietzsche.

I disagree, I feel he is clear about what he says, especially about the danger of the ego.

His aim was to free the human mind, so that people can see for themselves, he was adamant that people should not see him as a guru or leader, just a teacher who points the way for you to see for yourself.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Have you read much Nietzsche? I'm always quoting him but when it came to sitting down and reading I was not sure which book to start with?

Yes, I am not very eastern inclined.....I need to sit down and research one day, though I would like a copy of 'Nietzsche's greatest hits' really lol!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=emHAoQGoQic

Yes, stilling the mind is common to all spiritual disciplines - I find mucking out gets me into that neutral place where I can 'hear'."

My mind was clear during that experience, that's why I felt no division between me and everything around me, there was no me. Then the question arises, what is me?

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over a year ago

"It was the feeling that nothing at all matters that put me in that state of mind. Have a read of J krishnamurti's book 'Freedom from the Known', got me into his teachings after Nietzsche.

I disagree, I feel he is clear about what he says, especially about the danger of the ego.

Perhaps he would've been better off using a nom de plume then

WIthout that it ends up being a variant on the liars paradox... "take my word for it, don't take anyone's word for it"

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Jacqueline du Pré - Elgar - Cello Concerto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOzatzJEnSo

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

Have you read much Nietzsche? I'm always quoting him but when it came to sitting down and reading I was not sure which book to start with?

Yes, I am not very eastern inclined.....I need to sit down and research one day, though I would like a copy of 'Nietzsche's greatest hits' really lol!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=emHAoQGoQic

Yes, stilling the mind is common to all spiritual disciplines - I find mucking out gets me into that neutral place where I can 'hear'.

My mind was clear during that experience, that's why I felt no division between me and everything around me, there was no me. Then the question arises, what is me?"

Yes, a feeling of unity is something that moves me in many ways.

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over a year ago

"Yes, a feeling of unity is something that moves me in many ways."

I think it is the essence of most spiritual and religious experiences... the dawning awareness that everything is interconnected and that all things add up to one single living "thing" or Being

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over a year ago

I have many a story to tell but won't go into too much detail here as I don't want to fill the thread. I'll give a few brief examples of some of the experiences I have had.

As a small child I would often go into the forest and be drawn to certain areas. My senses would tell me where I should go and I would often find unusual things. I would then collect stones and other natural objects to add to the things that I had found or make a stone circle and do some sort of ritual. I used to completely lose track of time and everything I did/said was instinctive. I often go to the woods and just sit in silence when I need to be calm. I still find unusual things sometimes too for example a very old foreign coin just resting on a small stone.

I had a book given to me at a jumble sale in Surrey when I was 7. I remember the picture on the cover it was an illustration. The book had nothing to do with the picture on the cover and nothing to do with Wales but I felt like it belonged to me. My favourite view from a window of the house that I now live in is exactly the same as that book cover.

I have met people for the first time on several occasions and been able to tell them very personal things. It only happens when I am very relaxed and only with a few people. Once I start telling them things they just keep coming. I have been spot on each time.

I have very strong premonitions at times. I think of a friend I've not seen for a while and bump into them. I also know when something is wrong with close friends/family. I told my best friend both times when she was pregnant and both tests were positive.

I've seen objects move seemingly on their own. I've had gypsies tell me things that would happen come true. I had a random elderly lady talk to me on a bus she knew my job, how many children I had and told me something that would happen to me and it did.

Just a few things from many.

B x

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"Yes, a feeling of unity is something that moves me in many ways.

I think it is the essence of most spiritual and religious experiences... the dawning awareness that everything is interconnected and that all things add up to one single living "thing" or Being

I've heard that described as " The immeasurable, that which cannot be measured", thought is time, so it has to cease, for us to see the immeasurable.

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over a year ago

"Yes, a feeling of unity is something that moves me in many ways.

I think it is the essence of most spiritual and religious experiences... the dawning awareness that everything is interconnected and that all things add up to one single living "thing" or Being

I've heard that described as " The immeasurable, that which cannot be measured", thought is time, so it has to cease, for us to see the immeasurable."

I also tend to think of this as being an attempt to comprehend the whole as a whole... to resist dividing it down. It's like turning off your main vision and trying to apprehend everything via your peripheral vision. It's all about refraining from isolating and judging "things" but flipping into more of a listening mode where you just receive. As others have attested... this can happen in all kinds of places... out with the horses, on a surf board. We look up to the stars and feel amazement for being a part of this... and then it suddenly hits us that "this" is a part of the Infinite... and that's where everything gets more weird

Interesting thread everyone. Thanks so much for all the wonderful stories... keep em coming

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

A 19-hr session with a HAWT black dancer back in March. That was profound.

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

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I've had some incredible, beyond words, states of mind and presence, usually via meditation, hypnosis or yoga - which I mix to taste. I can recall the places and echoes of them now.

I think our bodies and minds are largely treated to an existence that's akin to having a racing car but driving at 5mph on a potholed road.

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

"I've had some incredible, beyond words, states of mind and presence, usually via meditation, hypnosis or yoga - which I mix to taste. I can recall the places and echoes of them now.

I think our bodies and minds are largely treated to an existence that's akin to having a racing car but driving at 5mph on a potholed road. "

Yup, good analogy.

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By *ensualtouch15Man
over a year ago

ashby de la zouch

"I've had some incredible, beyond words, states of mind and presence, usually via meditation, hypnosis or yoga - which I mix to taste. I can recall the places and echoes of them now.

I think our bodies and minds are largely treated to an existence that's akin to having a racing car but driving at 5mph on a potholed road. "

I prefer the rugged path xx

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