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# Spirituality
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Links and resources specifically relating to spirituality, metaphysics and the
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nature of existence and reality.
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I started writing this page on **Aug 9, 2019** after a couple years reading into
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lots of esoteric stuff. The page will grow as I come and backfill in links to
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all sorts of things I found, and the purpose of this page is to distill down the
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common "fundamental truths" and read between the lines of all religions and magick
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while providing links to examples found everywhere.
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* [Common Root Phenomena](#common-root-phenomena)
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* [Mind Is Everything](#mind-is-everything) (Reality is subjective)
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* [Lucid Dreaming](#lucid-dreaming) (Astral Projection)
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* [Law of Attraction](#law-of-attraction) (Chaos Magick, Wicca, Dimension Jumping)
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* [The Two Cups Method](#the-two-cups-method)
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* [The Unknowable God](#the-unknowable-god) (Source, the One Consciousness, the True God)
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* [Behind the Veil](#behind-the-veil)
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* [The Akashic Records](#the-akashic-records)
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* [The Wheel of Time](#the-wheel-of-time)
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* [Indra's Net](#indra-s-net)
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## My Personal Beliefs
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There's a lot of "woo-woo" linked on this page but these are just the examples
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to show that a lot of people, with their own varied and crazy belief systems, are
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actually talking about the same things and I rather go straight to their source.
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* I don't subscribe to horoscopes, chakras, crystals, psychic powers, astral
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projection, occult magic, angels or demons, archons or the demiurge as I
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have never directly experienced these things.
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* However, I believe these things are real _for those who believe_ and reality
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is subjective anyway. If you believe in and wish to see angels or spirits or
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what have you, I believe you will start to see them. If they help you live
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your life and achieve your goals, more power to you.
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* [Law of Attraction](#law-of-attraction) is real and there's an infinite number
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of methods to use it, from "woo-woo magick" to every self-help book and
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motivational speech that I've ever heard. You don't need be religious or believe
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in any magic to manifest reality with your thoughts.
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* I subscribe and keep tabs on all sorts of spiritual topics. You never know
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when a piece of wisdom will come from an unexpected source.
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# Common Root Phenomena
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Religions and various practices all throughout the world and history have given
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many different names, symbols and rituals to some common root phenomena that
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have been experienced by different people at different times.
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I'm specifically talking about Abrahamic religions (i.e. Christianity, Judaism,
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Islam, Gnosticism) as well as Hinduism and Buddhism. Also Wicca, chaos magick
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and the occult in general.
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## Mind Is Everything
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What most of these common phenomena boil down to is that "mind is everything,
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reality is subjective, the universe works exactly how you think it does, what
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happens when you die is exactly what you think will happen" and there's no
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objectively right answers.
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A common thing you'll encounter when reading about various forms of magick is
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that it mostly only affects your _personal reality_ and you won't be able to
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convince anybody else of any of it if they don't want to believe. But what even
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_is_ "reality" anyway?
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Each of us is living in our own personal reality even while we seem to interact
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with other people "out there" in the real world. Even if you take the stark
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materialist, scientific approach: you're a brain living in a dark skull that
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doesn't see the real world, only the electrical impulses given by your eyes and
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ears that your brain uses to re-construct an approximation of reality that lets
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you function in the world. [Is your red the same as my red?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evQsOFQju08)
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## Lucid Dreaming
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> **Other names:** Astral Projection, Out of Body Experience
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Lucid dreaming is the act of becoming aware that one is having a dream _while_
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in a dream. When you become lucid and you realize the dream world is entirely of
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your own creation, you can change it, fly through the air like Peter Pan, summon
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any dream character (real or fictional) you want, teleport to new surroundings,
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explore distant planets and fantastical environments and so on.
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See ["The Phase" - Leave Your Body in 3 Days](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQjAIlFZWWc)
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for a good overview of how to lucid dream.
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Astral Projection is another word for lucid dreaming. AP'ers will believe they've
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left their body and gone to the astral plane and it might be based on real-world
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locations of which they are familiar, but they fail to bring back any objective
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hard evidence that would convince a skeptic that Astral Projection has anything
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to it.
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Links:
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* Reddit:
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* [/r/luciddreaming](https://www.reddit.com/r/luciddreaming)
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* [/r/AstralProjection](https://www.reddit.com/r/AstralProjection/)
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* ["The Phase" - Leave Your Body in 3 Days](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQjAIlFZWWc)
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## Law of Attraction
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> **Other names:** Chaos Magick, Dimensional Jumping, various occult magick
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> disciplines (Wicca, Voodo, etc.)
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The [Law of Attraction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_attraction_%28New_Thought%29)
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is another common root phenomena that has many different names and belief
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systems surrounding it.
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The LoA can be summarized as "like attracts like" or "put out positive thoughts
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and intention into the world and the world gives you positive results" and the
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same goes the opposite way.
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**Prayer** and **meditation** are the most common ways people invoke the Law of
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Attraction. In the former, you're intently focused on a prayer to your favorite
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deity for something to unfold in your life and in the latter you may just be
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focused on what you want to achieve. Then you forget about it and go on the rest
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of your day, and what you want manifests itself in sometimes improbable ways.
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Various techniques and methods are used to help you further visualize and focus
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your intentions:
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* **Chaos magick**
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* This is "non-denominational" magick. It states that all the rituals and symbols
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associated with magic use (candles, pentagrams, chants, etc.) are all fundamentally
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meaningless but they help you visualize and believe in the magick which is the
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root mechanism for the Law of Attraction, to be intently focused on an outcome
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and to put the emotional energy and intent behind it for it to manifest.
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* [The Complete Psychonaut Field Manual - A Cartoon Guide to Chaos Magick](https://ultraculture.org/blog/2015/11/13/psychonaut-field-manual/)
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offers a good introduction and overview in easily digestable webcomic format.
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* [Chaos magick on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_magic)
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* **Dimension Jumping**
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* Subreddits: [/r/dimensionjumping](https://www.reddit.com/r/dimensionjumping) and
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[/r/dimensionaljumping](https://www.reddit.com/r/dimensionaljumping) - the latter
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is archived but has a wealth of information to search.
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* The belief system is that The Universe actually consists of a multiverse of infinite
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parallel realities -- every reality possible, in fact -- and a countless number of
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these realities have _you_ in them. By focusing your intention and performing
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chaos magick-like experiments you can "jump" to alternate dimensions to manifest things
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you want.
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* There's no hard scientific proof of the multiverse and the methods proposed on
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these subreddits are similar to ones you find in other magick and LoA practices.
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### The Two Cups Method
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To evidence the connection between Law of Attraction with various magick and
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quantum multiverse theories, I've seen the two cups method come up multiple
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times in my research.
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The two cups method is basically this:
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* Think of something you want to change or manifest into your reality.
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* Get two cups and a way to label them (masking tape, sticky note, tape a slip
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of paper you can write on, etc.)
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* On one cup, summarize the current state you want to change as one word, for
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example "Debt" or "Sickness" and fill this cup with water.
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* On the other cup, summarize the desired state in the same way, for example
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"Wealth" or "Healthy"
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* While focusing carefully on your intention, slowly pour the water from the
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first cup into the second, the water helping you visualize the transition to
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getting what you want.
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* Drink the water from the new cup. Remove the labels and put the cups away,
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you're done! Don't dwell on it much more, Law of Attraction works best when
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you let the universe manifest it in its own way.
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Links to where I've seen this under different labels:
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* [Dimensional Jumping](https://www.reddit.com/r/DimensionalJumping/comments/3h2yxo/the_act_is_the_fact_part_one_an_exercise/)
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* [A site about witchcraft and magick](https://www.shadowharvestwitch.com/blogharvestingshadows/2018/9/20/two-cup-method-spell)
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## The Unknowable God
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> **Other names:** Source, the One Consciousness, the True God, the Universe Itself,
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> The Supreme Self, Brahman, The Father.
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The most common fundamental belief at the root of all the religions I've found is
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the idea that the universe itself is made of consciousness. Consciousness is **all**
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that exists, and the universe wouldn't exist without it. Matter is made from
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consciousness. The brain does not create consciousness; consciousness creates the
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brain.
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"We are just the universe experiencing itself." We are all God, in one way or
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another. What are the characteristics of God as defined by most religions?
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All-powerful, omniscient, omnipresent. God can't be a subject _inside_ the
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universe, for that would imply the universe is greater than God. There can't
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be anything _outside_ of the universe, or else God would be contained within
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that too.
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The Unknowable God therefore is the very fabric of existence itself, the whole
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entire universe all at once. Not a humanoid figure that one could know. The
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unknowable god is the Source of all consciousness that exists, you and I and all
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the animals and creatures and everything is a part of this One Consciousness.
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In a way, God is playing that he's _not_ God by imagining that he is each and
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every one of us, wearing us all like masks.
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This isn't necessarily to imply the universe is [solipsistic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism)
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(although it very well could be). From one scale of looking at it, we _are_ all
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God because God is all that could exist, but if you zoom in to our scale of living
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we all might as well be separate individuals with our own private perspectives.
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* [Hinduism and the Belief in One God](https://www.hinduwebsite.com/onegod.asp) -
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"He exists in all and all beings exist in him. There is nothing other than Him,
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and there is nothing that is outside of Him. He is Imperishable, unknowable,
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immortal, infinite, without a beginning and without an end."
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* [An Unknowable God - What Bahá’ís Believe](https://www.bahai.org/beliefs/god-his-creation/revelation/unknowable-god)
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* [**The Egg**](http://galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html), a short story by Andy Weir
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* [Video adaptation on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehRggplMieM)
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* [The Unknowable God](http://theforbiddenreligion.com/the-unknowable-god.htm) - from
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the Gnostic book "Primordial Gnosis: The Forbidden Religion"
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-----
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# Behind the Veil
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This section of the page and onwards is not a list of things that commonly appear
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across a _wide_ range of spiritual disciplines but does have enough of a
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recurring theme (experienced by many different people) that it warrants its own
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section.
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IMHO, the mechanisms of what goes on "behind the veil" are _probably_ none of
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our business and you can learn to enjoy "heaven on Earth" with your own outlook
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on life. This section details near death experiences, psychedelic trip reports
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and other scary things that people have _commonly_ encountered on the other side.
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## The Akashic Records
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TBD.
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## The Wheel of Time
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Most commonly reported by people who've consumed Salvia, many have reported
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encountering the "wheel of time" or the "wheel of karma," a crazy fractal
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wheel-like object that contains the entirety of the universe and all its
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possible timelines and realities.
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I first heard of it from [a near-death experience report](https://www.reddit.com/r/Psychonaut/comments/6o3233/this_near_death_experience_nde_account_resembles/)
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on Reddit and through comments was linked to a
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[search for "wheel" on /r/salvia](https://www.reddit.com/r/Salvia/search/?q=wheel&restrict_sr=1)
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where I found many trip reports and artist depictions of the wheel.
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Links:
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* **Near Death Experiences**
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* [I fell out of the 3rd dimension into...another dimension?](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/332k1c/serious_redditors_who_have_been_clinically_dead/cqh5wj2/) - Redditor
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describes seeing fractals of realities similar to his own and having to choose
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one to return to. Isn't sure he returned to the correct reality.
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* [Fatal car wreck and description of a "water wheel" of every conceivable reality](https://www.reddit.com/r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix/comments/60rtm5/meta_near_death_experience_glitch_reveals/)
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* **Salvia Trip Reports**
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* ["Welcome back, my child"](https://www.reddit.com/r/Drugs/comments/39ciq3/first_trip_report_20x_welcome_back_my_child_xpost/)
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* [My first experience with the wheel](https://www.reddit.com/r/Salvia/comments/7ysx69/my_first_experience_with_the_wheel/)
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## Indra's Net
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TBD.
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