Thread: My Theory on Death

Originally Posted by Xei

The major problem I have with your idea is that I don't see why what reason you have for coming to that conclusion.

I have no citations to back up my beliefs. It just makes more sense to me than the other stuff I've heard about based on my personal experiences.

Long story short:
drugs helped me see things differently

Slightly longer version, but still shortened a lot:
I had a 3rd of July adventure that solidified this belief for me. Before then, I was considering it, but didn't see anything pointing me either towards or away from that until then.

I got really fu*ked up before seeing the fireworks. I had the sensation that I was in a dream, like when you first become lucid. When I looked at people when they talked, it was like I could see their consciousness looking back at me, and everything just seemed connected to everything else, via cause and effect (to the extreme from my perspective) and I just sensed it. I know, it probably sounds crazy. But at the time, it was even crazier. The difference between this time, and other parties, is that I remember everything so vividly it's as if I wasn't even messed up at all, virtually no gaps in my memory. It's really kind of hard for me to describe, and that doesn't do my argument any justice. But for me personally, everything just makes sense after that.

And a few nights after that, I was at an outdoor gathering of people and bands, and alcohol. I somehow managed to focus on the music so much, that there was nothing else in my reality but the band that was playing. I could clearly see each of the members of the band and hear each of their instruments more than usual. I could feel the music more than I ever thought I could. It was incredible. Since then, I hear more music when I listen to it, instead of sometimes missing out on the bass line, or some random keyboard part, or w/e occasionally, I just let it take over my subconscious and enjoy it to the max. I also noticed that I am better at playing guitar (still not good, but now I don't suck, there was a huge jump for me). It could be unrelated, but who knows.

7/03/08
1 40oz, 6 cans, 1 shot, of alcohol, a 'healthy' 3 hookah sessions, and 2 bowls of heads just before heading out. I struggled finishing the last half of the 40 as we were being rushed out the door. The weird part is, I didn't feel drunk at all. I didn't even feel high. And yes, I was coherent enough for normal conversation, although I was a bit distracted by everything. It was like a dream. It was so much like a dream, that I was almost convinced I was dreaming at one point and thought I was going crazy, so I decided to just see where the 'dream' would take me and had an amazing night.

Anyways, that's just what made me believe it. There's a lot more detail I left out if any part of that was too confusing.

So this one time, I was someking some new kinda weed, I'm not sure where I got it, because I smoked it all, and stuff.

Wait, where was I?

Oh yea, weed.

So I was somking this weed, right? And then I decided to take a hit of hacid and BOOM. This little Korean guy's sitting in my living room, and he told me the secrets of the universe.

Yea. But then I ate a mushroom and don't really remember what he said

Originally Posted by Schmaven

I have no citations to back up my beliefs. It just makes more sense to me than the other stuff I've heard about based on my personal experiences.

Long story short:
drugs helped me see things differently

Slightly longer version, but still shortened a lot:
I had a 3rd of July adventure that solidified this belief for me. Before then, I was considering it, but didn't see anything pointing me either towards or away from that until then.

I got really fu*ked up before seeing the fireworks. I had the sensation that I was in a dream, like when you first become lucid. When I looked at people when they talked, it was like I could see their consciousness looking back at me, and everything just seemed connected to everything else, via cause and effect (to the extreme from my perspective) and I just sensed it. I know, it probably sounds crazy. But at the time, it was even crazier. The difference between this time, and other parties, is that I remember everything so vividly it's as if I wasn't even messed up at all, virtually no gaps in my memory. It's really kind of hard for me to describe, and that doesn't do my argument any justice. But for me personally, everything just makes sense after that.

And a few nights after that, I was at an outdoor gathering of people and bands, and alcohol. I somehow managed to focus on the music so much, that there was nothing else in my reality but the band that was playing. I could clearly see each of the members of the band and hear each of their instruments more than usual. I could feel the music more than I ever thought I could. It was incredible. Since then, I hear more music when I listen to it, instead of sometimes missing out on the bass line, or some random keyboard part, or w/e occasionally, I just let it take over my subconscious and enjoy it to the max. I also noticed that I am better at playing guitar (still not good, but now I don't suck, there was a huge jump for me). It could be unrelated, but who knows.


Anyways, that's just what made me believe it. There's a lot more detail I left out if any part of that was too confusing.

I think that's a perfect example to describe the concept of a collective; music, I mean. I think a unified field of consciousness is like a chorus or orhastra working together. We assume that our complex view of the world around us is the result of individual perception, but what if it is the reult of many perceptions working together.

For example in music, a harp playing by itself sounds beautiful; but it's no way near as powerful as an orchastra playing together. The many instruments tap into a variety of sounds that the harp could never tap by itself. That is what a collective is like, the many contributing to a larger whole and we experience it even now.

Originally Posted by Xei

The major problem I have with your idea is that I don't see why what reason you have for coming to that conclusion.

It's pretty clear to me that we're all separate consciousnesses due to separate brains and separate neural networks.

Originally Posted by Tricky

Well do you have any reason to believe this, or anything to back it up? Forgive me if it was mentioned in the thread, I didnt read it.

Originally Posted by Schmaven

What if 'God' is the consciousness of everything, all subjectively witnessing itself. In that case, I would assume that once you die, you would join this collective witnessing of everything. But that would be really intense, to see every perspective of every living thing in the universe all at the same time.

Feel free to criticize / tell me what your theory is.

Well do you have any reason to believe this, or anything to back it up? Forgive me if it was mentioned in the thread, I didnt read it.