All the new england movies are inland, I spent my summers on the coast so like... "Hysterical" and "One Crazy Summer" are almost it. "Mystic Pizza".
Are there seeds? Any phenos you spotted or indications of them?
Import a bug to eat em?
So... empirically we can't quantify and chart or measure "afterlife", that tells me to put an opinion on hold.
Suzy quite definitely to the letter as we talked about, communicated in a careful way I'd get and very forcefully, in front of other people.
Instead of running to the discovery channel, as I'd told her I would so we could put it on display for science, I very calmly filed that as "strong evidence of afterlife". I think I put it on hold for more evidence. This is such a big thing it deserves many proofs.
In a nutshell we talked and agreed that whoever goes first at least makes a direct contact. No fucky guessing games, clear contact, in front of people. And then we tell people. We lived in the L shaped crook of a graveyard, for whatever reason I've always lived a stone's throw from a graveyard or religious something.... personally I am not into faith and NOT EVER TALKING ABOUT RELIGION OR CHARLIE WHATSHISFACE OR MANY THINGS BUT I HAVE TO RESERVE THE RIGHT TO SCREAM FOR RUSSIAN BLOOD AS I AM A SLAV AND LOOK WHAT THEY DID!
(we are now examining the dysfunction)
Ummmm anyway yeah. I think there is some evidence of an afterlife but no conclusion, and personal experiences are brain chemicals.
My grandparents left some very obvious signs. I've already told the story, so I won't bore you with it again.
Pretty much every major civilization and religion ever, has believed in some sort of afterlife. I don't believe that would be the case if there was nothing there at all.
I believe in Infinity. No beginning. No ending...
First Law (Conservation of Energy):
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed from one form to another. The total energy of an isolated system stays constant.
ΔU=Q−W\Delta U = Q - WΔU=Q−W where ΔU\Delta UΔU is change in internal energy, QQQ is heat added, and WWW is work done.
It is possible to experience the Infinite first hand. There are many [proven] ways to do so.
Sometimes you just get lucky... or unlikely, depending on how you look at it.
With great knowledge comes great responsibility (this is the prob with AI)
here’s a straight, no-frills list of some of the major paths people have used across time and culture to talk about reaching enlightenment, nirvana, or whatever name you give to the infinite:
Advaita Vedanta’s neti neti (not this, not that), Zen’s satori through meditation and koans, Theravada Buddhism’s vipassana leading to nibbana, Mahayana’s bodhisattva path, Vajrayana’s tantra and Dzogchen, Hindu bhakti yoga (devotion) and jnana yoga (knowledge), Taoism’s wu wei (effortless action) and merging with the Tao, Sufism’s annihilation of the self in God (fana), Christian mysticism’s union with the divine (Meister Eckhart, John of the Cross), Jewish Kabbalah’s Ein Sof (the infinite), Gnostic direct knowing beyond dogma,
shamanic journeys via plant medicines and trance,
(Yes; even cannabis if the right strain, and the right dosage is used) modern nondual teachings (Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta),
psychedelic and entheogenic experiences dissolving ego boundaries, and the purely rationalist or existentialist routes of seeing through self and meaning to arrive at freedom (like some interpretations of Nagarjuna or even Camus’ absurdism).