I tend to disagree. Can you elaborate on why this is so.

But how can we have a soul without a God/Creator?

Do you subscribe to the theory that Nanobiotechnology can one day make us live forever?

Isn't a bit deceiving on their behalf to do this. With Marian apparitions, they are leading millions of people to continue on believing in heaven/hell/God. All these faithful followers think they are the Virgin Mary and Jesus. These apparitions only confirm to the faithful that Catholicism is the truth. Why do they do this?

You should also read up on so-called rays, the basic forces that create the universe. On physical level some of them are manifested as our familiar forces of physics, on higher levels they drive people to behave in certain ways. Just like grains of sand organize into a regular pattern when exposed to a certain vibration, so people organize when exposed to these subtle forces. And some rays produce definitely political, business, religious or other patterns in individuals and whole nations. We can't get rid of these social phenomena, that's how we react to the "cosmic weather". But we can transform them from the present imperfect form to their higher counterpart. From politics to leadership, from business to global communication and travel, from religion to love. 

However, nanobiotechnology and advanced genetic engineering is a worthy goal. If we can make the life active and comfortable up to the very end, prolong it for a couple of decades and eliminate disease, why not? We already did it to smallpox and bubonic plague and God didn't complain.

Well and now, when Masters start to work in the world openly though still anonymously, the signs are used to raise people's expectations. To let them know that something is happening and that they should actively expect whatever they call their messiah. That's the message for religious folks, we modern and rational westerners expect "the guy to fix the economy"

I must also say, yes, technically, that's deceiving, even if the people doing it were in their times Jesus, Mary or whatever. And what's wrong about it? Giving these people the truth is like giving pearls to the swine. They can't handle reality. Truth can be diffcult, dangerous and for some people also useless. Truth is like freedom, soungs good in theory, but many people died because of it. Truth must be given in digestible form and manageable doses to those who can put it to some good use. 
I must say, in esotericism there is a "sin" called pulling the information. With information comes responsibility and if you have the information you need/want and yet you don't act according to it, the consequences get worse. I know how a work with a clairvoyant psychic looks like, it's like asking an oracle and it often involves asking for permission to ask something. It's a price for safety and usefulness of the information.

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When it comes to some occult phenomena, I do have a couple of ideas, for example, the interaction between astral and etheric body. But that's just a few pieces of information that fit together, I'm far from assembling a full image of how these things work. There are whole fields of science out there, untouched by the plough of research.

This reminds me... theres an interesting website you might enjoy Tony. It's a good website to checkout for anyone whos into science and skepticism. It has alot of debunking, ranging from haunted houses to the virgin mary's tilma.

skeptoid.com

"Skeptoid is a weekly science podcast dedicated to furthering knowledge by blasting away the widespread pseudosciences that infect popular culture, and replacing them with way cooler reality.

Each weekly episode focuses on a single phenomenon — an urban legend, a paranormal claim, alternative therapy, or something just plain stupid — that you've heard of, and that you probably believe in. Skeptoid attempts to expose the folly of belief in non-evidence based phenomena, and more importantly, explains the factual scientific reality."

Why does sex feel good, what is the explanation for this? How did this come about?

These next 2 questions are philosophical religious questions..

I'm having a hard time responding mainly to the second question when asked by Christians..

1. There is evil/suffering in the world because in order for us to know what is good and make a choice there has to be duality. There has to be cold and hot, evil and good, etc. Basically, the reason why there's suffering in the world is so we can know what it is. In order for us to know what is good, we must know what is evil. That's why god allows evil to occur on earth. ?

2. The reason why god doesn't just appear to everyone is because it would negate our free will. If he just appeared we would all do good and avoid sins, and that would rob us of our free will. That's why god chooses to remain hidden, because he wants us to have free will. God is testing us, he wants us to have faith rather than to know know he exists... If he appeared we would all be scared to even do the slightest bad thing because we would now know he is always watching us non stop. In order for us to exercise our free will in a comfortable way we have to be allowed to roam freely and that's why god doesn't appear...?

The whole game of free will, god allowing evil and remaining hidden, and knowing ahead of time what choices we would make is so weak and contradictory that you shouldn't even consider it a theory. It is a stupid lie derived from the back-pedalling of the authors, who were grasping at straws to try and make the earlier parts of their stories make sense to their hapless victims that they were trying to pass it off on. That's why they went back to Adam and Eve to try and make it look like the concept was there in the beginning. Don't think for a second that they didn't go back and re-write this shit many times over.

When asked these questions by christians, there is simply no way to sugar coat it. You have a choice to answer honestly or to walk away and let them carry on with their fairy tale world. That is up to you. When someone is spreading any other bullshit stories and lies to you or to others in your presence, do you call them out on it or do you let the bullshit fly. Some bullshit stories can be harmless and not worthy of stopping, but christianity is not one of them. It instills fear, guilt, and delusions into people and it needs to be stopped every little step of the way. It's up to you. No one is going to address the whole world at once and stop it. Every little religious lie is a poisonous weed that must be yanked before it spreads.

Depending on your definition of "natural" the "supernatural" definition may not apply at all. 

Consider the String theory which says that our Universe is but one in a multitude "floating away" in this 11th dimension. Now, these other universes have their own natural laws completely alien to our Universal physical laws. 

If you consider these other Universes beyond our own as "natural" then the word "supernatural" makes absolutely no sense at all. Since everything that exists or may exist outside our natural plane of existence is also natural.

This is why, since yesterday, I stopped using the the word supernatural when I want to explain a phenomenon that I consider real but it is outside current human knowledge or acceptance. I use Preternatural phenomenon instead.

I'm not sure about the answer to your first question. It depends on how you define "Theism" and "Deity". 

About my beliefs of the origin of this Universe - I beleive it was created intentionally by an unknown First Cause - some hypothesis of this are here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuned_Universe#Alien_design . I have No reason to worship this First Cause though...

On the question of human life I have personal reasons to believe, and others not so personal, that the property of conscience is not an exclusive product of the brain and survives the physical death. The non personal reasons come mostly from Near Death accounts and research. This belief does not entail a belief in a Deity... so there is no theism involved... 

The most important truth that I take from NDE is that the purpose of life is Love. Love in complete personal attachment to other humans, much like in the philosophy of Gandhi or Leo Tolstoy, above any other priorities. This purpose comes from the fact that we are all linked like particles in quantum entanglement.

When I first started posting here long ago I think I had slightly different ideas than I have today. Debating here helped me shape my ideas over time.

Although I think it's because of these beliefs I mentioned above, that I have the theist badge in this forum... dispite controversy of what a theist is and if I fit the category.

I prefer preternatural than unexplainable. God in many accounts is unexplainable. Unexplainable doesn't entail the possibility of being explainable someday. Preternatural does.

Reminds me..........dam i need to know the answer now that you brought it up, why IS the humans "lil guy" bigger than the animals you mentioned?

Why do women "bleed" every month, how did this come about and why? How did they deal with it in the past, 100's, 1000's, of years ago?

What are your thoughts on Zen Buddhism?

How did people in the ancient past know about Chakras? How/where did they get this information?

Are NDE's a valid way to know what happens after we die?

Why are, correct me if I'm wrong, men more "logical" and women more "emotional" driven?

How did being allergic to certain things come out?

Is the Ouija board a way to communicate with the spirit world, or is it all "hokum" ?

I just found this! I haven't seen it yet! This guy is one of the best researchers in the field!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPwMJQms8JE"> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPwMJQms8JE

Lancet Study

The Ouija is at least an unexplained phenomenon. I know you don't believe me but I've tryed it and it works, I dare you to do the same with people you trust.

I used the table setting with 4 people, which completely invalidates the Ideomotor effect... that and the weight of the glass. 

I had to lift my butt of the chair so that my finger wouldn't loose contact with the glass.

I like that

 ... This is the first time I put his interview here, but I already showed them the Lancet Study... nothing changed... most of them are die-hard people... you should know that already.

I think I know what the problem is: There is this "brave new world" as a possibility BUT the public discussion that you want gets corrupted by organized religions AND by impatient Skeptics who are tired of all this non sensical religious ideas.

I know about the brain in a vat thought experiment. It's a valid thought. There are things for and against it.

The nature of matter and the observator problem in quantum experiments seem to point to a "diffuse" nature of matter and energy.

On the other hand it seems to exist "something" beyond what is percieved by our senses - Both people with sight and blind people crash into walls. The world seems predictable independently of your senses range, or on how you see the world.

I actually believe in something similar to a "brain in a vat". I believe that conscience manifests itself not from the brain but Through it! It's not the brain that's in a Vat it's the "subjective conscience" itself that's in a vat, or in this case, a brain. I call it subjective not just because of it's personal nature but also because in our current development we can't yet "measure" conscience. Conscience is actually one of the biggest mysteries in neuroscience.

Meditation started perhaps with someone focusing so much on the "self" that effectivelly shut off the world outside. Thus allowing the brain to enter another state. Chakras and chi's and such is part of eastern philosophies and religions. I am  a skeptic to those, meaning I have not seen convincing evidence that chakras exist. Or that work through them produced significant effects outside placebo. I have done a Reiki course and I remained skeptic.

NDE experiences are pretty clear and unanymous regarding suicide. Your "soul" would be lost and un prepared for the "next stage". It's like you have made a contract and you forfeit it, you would have to return again to earth life. You would feel very bad about it. Everything is self imposed and self judged, there is no power judging your act but you would be very hard on yourself for your act, as if it was an act against Nature. 

When you die you have a radically different perspective of reality (eg. Plato's cave).

So we get these legends of early human races, like Lemurian or Atlantean, where people did not have a properly sharp personality and consciousness like we may have, but they picked a lot of wisdom directly. From whom? From an organized group of highly advanced individuals, god-like men who first came from another, more developed planet (on subtle world levels of that planet, of course, not physically)  and later recruited the more evolved earthlings into their ranks. Today all but a few are local people, some of them famous from their incarnations. In many cases they incarnated as teachers, to act out a symbolical story with esoteric meaning for a local culture (hence we get parallels between Jesus, Mithras, Dionysos, etc) and usher a new era of civilization. (reminds me a lot of Frank Herbert's Bene Gesserit and their missionaria protectiva policy) Such is the legend of how we got here. I don't say I understand it all or that it all jibes with me, but to understand esotericism one must understand this story.

So this group of god-like men, teachers, guides is called the Great White Brotherhood or the Hierarchy. This present state of ignorance lasts since 100,000 years ago, when there was a great war that ended with stalemate, after which the Hierarchy went into hiding. Only now they want to emerge again to become public figures in daily life of humanity as they once were. Not as Atlantean priest-kings, but as teachers, some global, some according to their chosen departments like science or religions. And that is a very sensitive process (to not infringe humanity's free will) and one of the most far-fetched sounding topics in esotericism, one of the most ridden with New Age delusions and commercial propaganda. 

I don't know how reliable the stories are. But from my personal observations I can say that it is possible for such an ascended person to inhabit higher subtle realms and to materialize a temporary illusory body (etheric or dense) at need to intervene in the world where necessary. I am involved in activities that benefit the goals of Hierarchy and from this position I can tell that they exist, that they perform some visible activity in the world and I can also see what they want and what kind of a person they value as a disciple and a worker. And one kind of workers they value greatly is someone, who can be trained to receive their messages clearly. Such people are the authors of some books on the Ageless Wisdom. 

According to the teaching, meditation of whatever kind is the basic method of building connection with the soul, called antahkarana. As such it has universal importance and is recommended in any system influenced by the Ageless Wisdom or the Hierarchy. There is no pure mind and body, what we consider as mind is still a mechanism, albeit made mostly of astral matter. And our range of consciousness is rather technically determined by the state of our chakras and subtle bodies in general. We can imagine the chakras like holes on a flute on which the soul is playing - the breath is the consciousness and the music is our life. (see the symbolism, Krishna was a flute player) . 

The suicide is usually a sign of deeper problems. These problems have to be dealt with. If the problems reflect themselves as a coarse composition of the astral body, then the period of astral stay isn't pleasant nor short. There may be even some haunting of places of suicide. Alternatively, the higher awareness after death might show the person a solution to the life problem that he didn't see - but from where he is now he can't do anything about it, which is not pleasant either. Anyway, whatever happens, the progress can not be stopped. After several years or even centuries the personality will either reincarnate on its own, or get re-processed by the soul and incarnate again. If a proper realization of the problem and lesson was not achieved, the person will have to solve a similar problem in the next life, otherwise there might be just a small version of it or nothing at all. So if you don't want to burden your next life with today's problems, solve them in this one.

Theoretically, if you're very old or terminally ill and suffering, I don't see a reason why you couldn't take a cyanide pill. It's a risk that you miss some lesson of life, but it's your life and an acceptable risk. But I'd rather achieve such a soul influence on me that the soul will be able to take me out when it's time without any drastical measures. It's the motivation and your condition that matters, not if and how you end your life. I believe there is a difference between Socrates drinking his hemlock and a drug addict who got really desperate.

I personally consider this an irrelevant, mechanistic Cartesian philosophy. It can be all answered by one big SO WHAT? It makes claims about the nature of the world, but no purpose is coming out of it. No suggestion what to do, is it best to wake up from the Matrix, or to achieve perfection within the Matrix? What method leads to these goals? How can we improve our lives within (or outside) the Matrix? Is there any greater purpose of Matrix? 

If some smart evil aliens have us in this matrix, i think we should want to get the fuck out. I think they everything about us so theres no way we can get out. Having said that i guess we could just forget about it..

Yes its best to wake up from the matrix just like Neo did

"I'm going to show these people what You dont want them to see.. a world without boundaries.. a world without rules... "

We cant achieven perfection in a matrix because after all, were in a matrix. A matrix by definition is an evil concept. Being in the matrx/a matrix=bad

I guess we cant ever really know if we are in a matrix not... if were in one big hologram or not... if an alien just farted us into existence or not...

We can feel our chakras in a rudimentary way, when doing corresponding activities. (they're after all connected to major endocrine glands) For example, my ajna chakra (forehead) is very active, actually way too much, due to my cerebral activities. It's a real buzz, as my one friend digital artist from Canada once described it. Besides the physical feelings of pressure and excitation in that spot it's accompanied by characteristic high-frequency hissing. But in a similar way, through a meditation of compassion you can focus energy in the heart chakra (energy follows thought) and excitate it so much that you can feel it. It of course improves with practice and intensity of concentration. I was born with this sensitivity so I can't tell how long it takes, but if you do such training in boring free moments of daily life, you should get the results. Focusing on heart chakra is generally safe, but common sense is still necessary.  

This is why I'm inclined to believe that NDE involves an intervention of the person's soul, otherwise people would keep seeing what they want to see or fear to see, like pearly gates or hell with classy red horned devils. The positive, loving experience reminds me very much of the soul contact. The soul literally loves us, it is the standard and permanent state of consciousness on the soul level. 

The principle of involution is the direction of evolving "downwards", involving itself with material world, even in most possessive and aggressive ways, without concepts of good and evil and thereby colonizing it. Humanity already evolves in opposite direction and any involutionary activities are evil to us. So we get people who try to ascend back again to the higher levels of the soul, lotus eaters like me. Which is understandable, I think the soul had to to kick me out of up there, otherwise I wouldn't go. But that is wrong, we're not supposed to get out of the material world, but stay here, develop a powerful but disciplined ego and hand over a control over it to the soul. Our subtle bodies are instruments for the soul (and monad) to reach and act directly here in the physical reality, with all the geniality, wisdom and power that it has. The more of soul qualities we are able to manifest, the greater impact we have on the world and such people often enter the history. Once we learned all that Earth life system has to offer, we're free to go and not to incarnate, and if yes, then instantly as a mayavirupa. But such a person is not a manifestation of ego, it is not even the soul, it is monad, something that used the soul as an interface to the lower worlds and something that even most of esotericists can't properly comprehend yet. And people who can - well, I suppose they don't need esotericism anymore. 

Thanks very much for the answers.

I dont have any questions at the moment.

But if you want some scientific take on the chakras, we can google up something together. There seems to be a number of studies on chi energy. The chakras were also measured, through electric and optical means. As for meridians, I have a good experience with EAV measuring. (it works well and costs only a few bucks here) And bad experience when they give me headache.
 

The soul is not theoretical, it influenced and inspired many people, not only in NDE but in normal waking life. There is no scientific evidence for it, only cultural. But it is the main object of esotericism, a source of some sweet energy and bitter life lessons. When subtle bodies like etheric are well-known, it will be possible to demonstrate the soul's presence in the system, its control over certain energy centers of some people. 

You know the Christian doctrine of how nobody can achieve his own salvation? That's grossly misunderstood, but there's a kernel of truth in it. We can't improve the soul or monad by what we do here. The actual improvement comes from how much we manifest things, ideas, qualities, from the higher (soul) levels to here. We learn, work, build and serve, but that is to build an infrastructure for the soul's manifestation in everyday reality, which is what we need. The soul doesn't need us where it is, we need it where we are. This is the meaning behind Christian phrase of bringing God's kingdom to Earth. 

But, my thoughts. 
Video #5, the architecture and energy. All is energy. And one of esoteric axioms says, that certain shapes have inherent energetic properties. It is a science we don't yet have, but which in future might determine the look of our cities as centers of culture, knowledge, spirituality and so on. Not the residential and productive sprawl we have now. We know only small pieces of information, for example the shape of pyramid draws energy from astral levels and the shape of tetrahedron (three-sided pyramid) draws energy from mental levels. 

I don't believe there is any evil elite or Antichrist as the videos imply, the suspicious architecture seems to be done by thoughtful and inspired people. For example, I used to script programs that generated ornamental pictures of lines according to mathemathical sequences and they always gave a certain output, sort of an universal sacred geometry. The architects may be simply inspired by mathemathic principles and religious architecture of Egypt, Mayans, India and so on. Maybe they watch such conspiratory videos and build things for the lulz

Yes, there are subtle energy leylines and centers (chakras) of Earth. But many of today's monuments like Stonehenge don't stand on them anymore, because they shift slowly by time. And the claims of opening a door to different dimensions... that's just far-fetched. Dimension as we know it is a property of material particles, not a place, we can not "enter" it. We must either convert the matter of our bodies, or more appropriately, we simply use the subtle body we already have, like astral body for the astral dimension.

As for video #27, I'm not sure at all. I can't make a sense of it, too many weird things. We know that WTC buildings were built airplaneproof. They were almost untouched by fire. Yet they crumbled like dust or almost imploded and the untouched WTC 7 building with them. And I'm still not sure what the hell happened with a corner of Pentagon, if there was any Boeing 747 full of passengers and hectoliters of extremely flammable fuel. Some people say it was a military drone, which makes it all even weirder. So I prefer to take it simply. Whoever did it, wanted to show American economic dominance. It wasn't a religious act, they didn't blow up any church. The target of WTC was picked by people who understand economy, see that Americans are the haves and many other people, for example Muslims are the have nots. Injustice is the main cause of terrorism and America should see it coming. Hell, they saw it coming, there were military exercises and emergency plans to prevent such an attack. I don't know what exactly happened or who did it (some international group, apparently), but the underlying cause of economic injustice is clear. And yes, George Bush jr. is a war criminal and should be locked up till he gets all striped from the sunlight through bars.

When it comes to video #42, I wouldn't worry. To me it seems like a heap of hooey. If there really are people behind the scenes who think that ancient gods or bloodlines and genetics mean anything, then they're hopelessly deluded and anachronistic. They must be like my president, (who is probably afflicted with narcissism personality disorder) who mistook people's call for freedom as lobbyism, while actual lobbyism scandals are showing up. His worldview is completely upside down, irrational, without touch with people's everyday reality. We today see some global events that have no analogy in our history. Which means people rigid in their ways and thinking have no idea what's happening and no control over the events. Never before was the world so interconnected, educated, active and developing. 

My information is rather different. Much less... bombastic. But to understand it, you'd have to read up on some basic concepts from AWT. One thing is clear, we are undergoing a global transformation that will decide about our future. There may be the esoteric side of things, like all the energies, dimensions and subtle bodies undergoing certain changes or even conflicts, I wouldn't deny that. But there is also the objective side, which is the side of economy, finances, politics, social organization and awakening of people's collective will. 

That Facebook page is a typical "astral", emotional presentation, lots of appeal on feelings but few hard facts or things we could do anything about. I think I can avoid such sources without missing anything important. I'll link you towards my sources. They're in text and you can read them much faster than I can view these videos with lots of cinematic imagery and little text in between. I was convinced of Mr Creme's validity of information thanks to seeing it confirmed in practice. I'm also fond of Creme because he does not forget the facts of politics, ecology, economy and so on. So you can start with a short sum of AWT, continue with FAQ and then maybe pick some of the books in PDF. I think many of your questions will be answered or you will be given a good alternative to your sources.

If you want some credentials, here's the former diplomat Wayne Peterson, who is one of few people in the public who openly admit they met work with the Hierarchy personally. He wrote a book with which I am very familiar. Aside from a diplomatic career he was a director of the Fulbright Scholarship program and participated on conferences with some very famous and powerful people. As a member of Peace Corps in Brazil he also founded an institution in Brazil that helped millions of poor people. He's one of my heroes and hopefully I will be able to meet him this year if he makes a detour into my country from his program in UK. (what he says about Maitreya, about his "selective invisibility", that's exactly what our people also observed from ocassional encounters, I bet he's having fun)

LMAO!!!! 

Yep, "Satan" came from a verb, to a noun, to a proper noun. It is silly. People should take responsibility for their own mistakes.

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However, there are many lesser kinds of evidence and in many cases it is enough for individuals to be convinced, if they are at right place and right time. I am highly confident about the afterlife/reincarnation principles, but I've been in the esoteric community for most of my life and I've seen things firsthand that most of other people never see in a lifetime. That and collective effort other people who proved themselves over the years. Not only it is a collective effort, it's a huge puzzle consisting of personal observations, judging trustworthy reports, studying and comparing literature and checking with science and logical principles if we're not going against them. (much New Age bullshit can be ruled out simply because it doesn't respect logistics, subsidiarity, hierarchic arrangement, economic way of doing things and so on, it's a spam filter against Nigerian princes and benevolent spiritual beings from Andromeda galaxy)

This is not a hobby for people who don't like to read. You have to enjoy reading. I can point you towards the occult manual or a scientific research of reincarnation, but maybe the most convincing and enjoyable read is Robert Allan Monroe. You can buy his books for a really affordable price (trust me) on the link that I sent you via personal message. I am familiar with these books because my folks translated and published them.

Monroe did not have anything to do with occult stuff, he was an audio engineer and a businessman. But when his talent awakened, he started exploring the hidden worlds beyond dense-material level. If you compare his findings with esotericism, he really saw and been in what we esotericists just read about or feel indirectly. But he was not an esotericist and had no freakin' idea what he was seeing, so he tried to describe everything as closely as he could. So some passages might be a little complex, but you're a native English speaksman, so there's one less trouble for you.

Alternatively, just do some activity on esoteric basis. The best is to visit (or organize) a Transmission Meditation session. Some people do this meditation because they like to feel the energies, it's an interesting experience for them. Or you can try some aura viewing or some energetic practices like psi-sphere or psi-ball, there's a plenty of instructions on the web. These experiences do not directly prove reincarnation or afterlife. But they will show you (if done correctly) that there is this subtle and unseen part of reality that esotericism describes and indirectly, if esotericism is right about this, it might be also right about reincarnation. I believe a direct experience, even if only personal and not objective, is important for a true open-mindedness, that is, taking these things as a serious possibility.