Posts by Michael Gonzalez77

Michael Hernandez77 said:It’s not just a cliché; it’s the only moment that actually exists.

Just try to see where I'm coming from. Thanks.

btw, time isn't even real.

Elizabeth Castillo87 said:That’s exactly why every single person is their own little universe; you’ll never find two people with the exact same set of memories.
So, regardless of how spiritual we think we are or what that actually entails, memories aren't just some junk pile. They are the very things that shape who we are.
Even if we should live in the present moment, that doesn't mean we need to throw our memories away.

It isn't about "renouncing" anything. It's about perspective—realizing through experience that everything accumulated over the years isn't actually "you." It’s just how the mind works, how life functions. Instead of identifying with that accumulation—this subconscious process of building a "self"—we fall into the trap of saying, "This is me." That’s pure madness. Honestly, it leads straight to insanity because the world is starting to look like one massive asylum where nobody can tell who the crazy ones are anymore. Madness has become the new normal. If someone can't see that, they might as well stay asleep for a while longer.

You’re clinging too hard to my specific words instead of grasping the actual point. This "dump of impressions" isn't some ugly thing; it’s just life. What *is* ugly is when a person tries to find themselves within that pile, building an identity out of those same old accumulations. They end up drifting through life completely unconscious, staring into their own self-important psychological world of ideas, ideologies, and prejudices. They get blinded by the scale of their own little creation, losing sight of the true Creation that they can't even begin to experience clearly.

For most people, the whole "living in the moment" thing is just a hollow cliché, no matter how much they wrap themselves in it. They never actually move beyond their own thought processes, their compulsions, or the repetitive cycles of life they create for themselves. A thought is always rooted in the past; there is no "present moment" in a thought. Most people are just living in a psychological box made of accumulated impressions, hoarding information and draining their energy. They lock themselves into this cozy, tiny little house of security, clinging to certain beliefs, religions, or ideologies, or even that phony sense of individuality where they strive to "be different" or "be original."

A person is many things, but they aren't a cosmos in the way you're describing it. A person is a cosmos by virtue of their existential definition, not their psychology. The cosmos is defined by the fact that its various elements work together to allow it to exist as it does, providing a real opportunity for us to become aware of that existence—not through psychological theory, but through lived experience.

placidwolf27 said:you haven't seen a single living dog in your life

Not true. 🤦

Is anyone actually following this conversation, or are people just talking nonsense just to hear themselves speak? 😁

If you think a dog isn't naturally peaceful by its very nature—just like a bat, a kangaroo, or a giraffe—or if you don't think a dog is meant to be lively and joyful by instinct (like a raccoon, a mouse, or a whale)—then you’ve clearly only ever seen abused dogs. But even so, being human and dealing with the psychological dimension is a different story entirely. A person, or some self-righteous individual, has to go hunting for "inner peace" because we are essentially half-aware of what we think, feel, and experience. All we really know of "life" is our own thoughts and feelings derived from impressions, memories, and mental recordings—mostly unpleasant ones. We suffer because we think we're living, when really we're just sleeping on a landfill of random impressions we've collected, haunted by ghosts of our own making.

A human being is basically a junk drawer of ideas, prejudices, and recorded memories. We exist within that mess, and we try to find peace inside that pile of data—but it won't work, Miles. 🙄

Drew Cooper4 said:How can you tell if a dog is actually at peace? For all you know, he could be spiraling internally, just boiling over while keeping a straight face.

It’s because a dog is just a dog. They aren't some complex psychological machine like you seem to think (and I really hope you're joking about that). Dogs, like most animals, don't have the mental complexity we do; their "software" is much more straightforward than ours. The only thing that truly lacks "inner peace" is a human being. It boils down to this: we struggle to control what we possess—our physical bodies and our minds—yet we identify so deeply with them. A person doesn't just *have* thoughts; those thoughts and emotions essentially *become* the person. It reminds me of that old story where it took dolphins two days just to teach a human how to stand by the pool and toss them fish.😁

Honestly, I'm still not quite following why there's any confusion left regarding this whole Envy dog situation.

velvetbear132 said:Your dog is lost, period. If he were a normal dog, he’d be looking to you for peace.
But honestly, I can't say I'm surprised... poor little guy.

He isn't actually "lost." It’s not like he’s out there searching for "peace within himself" or "peace in Jesus" (assuming we take him at his word)—the point is, peace isn't a destination. Peace is likely reserved for those who have "rest in peace," people who act like they're alive but are actually dead inside, or at least have completely numbed their nervous systems because they're so obsessed with their own frantic energy.

Drew Cooper4 said:Exactly. That’s what peace in Jesus looks like.

That sounds more like you're looking for peace on behalf of someone else. 🤔

What about people who aren't looking for peace in Jesus because they've never even heard of Him? Can they still find peace? And if they can, "in whom" do they find it—even if that sounds like a silly way to put it, since everyone should be seeking peace for themselves (not for someone else, especially if they haven't even heard of Him).

Take my dog, for example. He's totally at peace, yet he's never heard of—or at least could never imagine—anyone named Jesus. It seems pretty strange then.

"Seeking (one's own) peace in Jesus" 🤔

Drew Cooper4 said:First, you find peace within—let's call it peace of the soul—right here in the middle of the fight, and then again after the body finally gives out.

But is peace really the same thing as the "Kingdom of God"? To me, peace is just the starting line, not the finish. Only someone who has actually found that inner calm can build a meaningful quality of life. It’s what allows you to sit down to a meal or do your job with actual excellence.

Think about it: throughout history, people all over the globe—including today—have lived lives of quiet contentment, yet they wouldn't necessarily say they've tapped into the "Kingdom of God."

So, is there something deeper than just being at peace? I mean, my dog is pretty peaceful, and the neighbor's parrot isn't exactly stressed out either. Is there something more to the story than that?

Elizabeth Castillo87 said:We all see the world through our own unique lens, and that’s how we build our entire universe.

The truth is, everyone is just working with a tiny, limited slice of perception and a very narrow set of memories. We take those fragments and try to construct an entire "cosmos," but it isn't reality—it isn't even life. It's really just a psychological dumping ground.

Elizabeth Castillo87 said:I have to admit, I struggle to follow your point sometimes...

Let me try again. If life is just the sum of everything we experience through our senses, then what actually remains once it's over? What we’re truly searching for deep down isn't just "living" in the biological sense. Life is merely the backdrop—the setting. People tend to take this whole existence way too seriously, acting like the credits are never going to roll. Then, suddenly, the movie ends, and they're left sitting there wondering, "Wait, now what?"

Drew Cooper4 said:Seek first the kingdom of heaven, and everything else will fall into place.

So, based on what you know—whether from actual experience or just your own theories and gut feelings—what does "the kingdom of heaven" actually look like to you?

stormywolf5 said:Sometimes I get this mystical vibe, always triggered by this deep, mystic silence. It makes me think of something timeless—something eternal, gentle yet powerful, ecstatic and comforting all at once. I love that feeling; it just settles my soul.

Honestly, it might be better if it didn't remind you of anything at all. No comparison can ever truly capture something that is fundamentally unimaginable. You can't wrap your head around the "unimaginable" by using labels, even if those labels feel paradoxical.

For some people, that sensation might feel just like the buzz after their first craft beer, except they blame the drink while you're limiting the beauty of the moment by trying to categorize it.

Elizabeth Castillo87 said:Every single one of us is an entire universe unto ourselves. It doesn’t matter how small we seem. Anyone who leaves carries that whole universe right along with them.

Think about it: thoughts, experiences, emotions, even our entire memory—none of that actually matters when you're talking about true self-discovery. Up until that point, all of it feels vital. But anyone who truly "moves on" isn't carrying anything except that same identification with what they perceive as life. In reality, they're just carrying those same ties to emptiness. Unless you can shed that weight—which is that rare thing we’re all chasing, whether we realize it or not—you haven't reached anything. You become more than a universe, because a universe is really only halfway to finding who you actually are. Everything we deem important in life is essentially meaningless, aside from being temporarily, contextually, and conditionally important. Life is conditionally "important," but fundamentally? It's not.

bluecyclist64 said:If you’re going to quote someone, even if what they say is utter nonsense, the least you could do is provide a source.

Not everyone can spot the auras and authors like you can, oh enlightened master...😒

They aren't even quotes. 😒

Ashley Wells85 said:Could you clarify that?

What kind of timeframe are we talking about here?

Because from what I understand, no species currently living on this planet actually evolved from some other preceding form. Sure, human genetics share certain touchpoints with other species, but that doesn't mean we branched off from primates. It’s more like a soul migration...

The "Idea of Man" is essentially a genetic embryo containing all phylogenetic stages in a latent sense. However, its actual development starts at a rudimentary level. In this context, humanity has been on Earth for 5 million years, and our progression from then until now involves evolving toward the highest dimensions of existence, while also experiencing a curious "fall" back into the initial dimension where we currently reside. Before we developed multi-dimensionally—before consciousness crystallized for perspective-driven growth—humanity branched out in four directions. Three of those paths were non-perspective, including modern primates, which never reached the point of acquiring the specific energetic characteristics humans possess today. We gained those through multidimensional evolution (specifically through the three-layered astral body and an energetic structure referred to as the Soul—not to be confused with the aspect translated as Atma, which encompasses both organic and inorganic worlds, nor the light body which facilitates unrestrained creativity). So, man didn't evolve from monkeys; rather, humanity is the natural flowering of cosmic evolution. We carry the entire phylogenesis of material living beings within us, embodying the full experience of the cosmos regarding the development of material life. This evolution didn't just play out on Earth moving from inorganic to organic as the Darwinian hypothesis suggests; instead, this development unfolded within a cosmic context over eons and eons (what we perceive as infinite time), starting from the accidental emergence of matter and leading up to the appearance of beings with crystallized or complete consciousness. This applies to the "Idea of Man" and other advanced cosmic civilizations, whose shared developmental hallmark is a Collective Consciousness. Anything below that is merely preparation for creating that collective awareness—though in humans, due to free will and the capacity for creative growth, we see the rare phenomenon of developing flawed mindsets and practical self-sabotage.

The Soul is one. Fundamentally, there is no such thing as "soul migration." That’s just an illusion of separation caused by the weight of accumulated impressions—the idea that the Soul is this, or that, or a stone, a plant, an insect, a fish, a bird, an animal, or a human. What looks like "migration" is actually just the assimilation of a new physical medium driven by existing energy and the mental envelope where stored impressions exist, pushing to manifest and exhaust themselves.

Ashley Wells85 said:The Vedas hold the lion's share of meaningful data regarding the universe, the nature of existence—from the birth and decay of physical forms to the migration of the soul...
As for the Ramin Bridge, Dwarka, Kurukshetra, and those other locations mentioned in the books we discussed earlier, there's a very high probability they actually existed. I recall watching a documentary a few years back that investigated the specific region where the battle at Kurukshetra supposedly took place; they cited evidence, I think it was some kind of radiation signature or similar findings.
Basically, it's been established that a significant conflict did occur there, which aligns with what's described in the Bhagavad Gita Quote

Just because it isn't official doesn't mean He isn't communicating...

Humans were never monkeys.

But they certainly existed in a rudimentary state, far below the level of today's primates.

David Vaughn75 said:You actually went and said there’s no such thing as good or bad because that just forces everything into these extreme little boxes

Well, newsflash—there absolutely is!

I think you missed my point entirely.
Sure, "good" and "evil" exist, but only within the mind—specifically how our limited, individual consciousness perceives things. Every single experience we have is filtered through that mental lens of duality.
The same goes for labeling people as "good" or "bad." That’s just the soul’s consciousness identifying itself with the illusion of opposites. If we didn't have this narrow perception and this tendency to identify with it, there wouldn't be a sense of "Life" as we know it—there would be no feeling of separation or individuality. But while this sense of life feels incredibly real, it’s just as much an illusion as the divide between "good and bad," "up and down," "left and right," "heaven and hell," or "you and me."

I mean, does anyone actually know where "up" or "down" is in the vastness of the cosmos?

Now, look—certain things can disrupt other processes, and we call those "harmful events." But when you're talking about human beings and their psychological lives, what’s "good" for one person might be "harmful" for another depending on their specific situation. It's complicated. Talking about morality gets messy because, at its core, Life is one undivided, whole process of unfolding and receding. You could call it the "dance of time and energy." Form is temporary and constantly shifting—not to mention the psychological layer where people dream they are living and "awake" in some objective "reality."

Of course, if you're operating on the level of everyday human consciousness—dealing with social norms, cultural conventions, survival instincts, and the way we perceive the world through our senses—then yes, you have to talk about "morality," "harm," "danger," "good and bad people," and "right versus wrong." I'm simply not talking about that level.

David Vaughn75 said:So, let me get this straight—if someone jumps you in an alley, is that "bad" or just "neutral"?
Would you even care? Just take a slap to the face and go right back to sipping your Starbucks?

If there's no such thing as good and evil, then morality is just a joke without a punchline.
And if morality doesn't mean anything, then there's nothing left to push us to be better people.

You completely missed my point because of how I phrased things. What I was actually saying has absolutely nothing to do with your comment.

David Vaughn75 said:Look, you can move forward, or you can slide backward. It's that simple.

If you kill someone just to grab their cash, you’re acting exactly like a predator in the wild, and yeah, you're basically hitting the reverse gear on your evolution. But if all you're doing is eating, sleeping, breeding, and defending your territory? Honestly, how are you any different from a dog?

Real progress happens when you actually gain spiritual insight—that's the only way you truly level up and earn the status of being "human."

Every impression we collect in our causal body eventually demands to be worked through and balanced out. In that sense, both "positive" and "negative" experiences carry weight when it comes to true liberation. Honestly, it’s often easier to let go of the "bad" stuff than it is to stop clinging to being "good," because at the end of the day, the mind creates these extreme categories of good vs. evil that don't exist in the way we think they do. That doesn't mean human suffering isn't real, of course. In everyday life, we definitely need those distinctions, but on a spiritual level, the goal is to move past those extremes entirely.

Lawrence Torres56 said:Listen, guys, you really need to wrap your heads around this: metempsychosis is coming for you, and there’s absolutely no escaping it. 😁

So, I was thinking about some of these theories floating around, and honestly, it makes a weird kind of sense—what if we aren't just spinning in this same circle of souls because of all those messy, unfinished karmic ties? Like, sure, maybe we're stuck together because of old business that never got settled, but what if there's a more purposeful side to it? What if we’re actually circling back to one another just to act as a sort of cosmic support system, purely to help each other navigate and lighten the load of these crazy lifelong lessons we're all forced to learn? Isn't it possible that we're basically just celestial study buddies helping each other pass the ultimate test?

Once a person hits that stage of conscious inward regression—think of it as a spiritual highway where you’re actively navigating through the subtle and mental bodies rather than just the physical one—there’s no turning back. You can't slide back down those evolutionary rungs once you've climbed them. However, there is a theoretical possibility of a total mental collapse, regressing all the way down to a state of rudimentary consciousness. This is only possible within the specific range of powers an individualized soul can wield and potentially misuse. While that kind of breakdown is technically possible, it’s such a freak occurrence that it’s basically just a rare curiosity of nature.

It’s incredibly rare—almost unheard of—for a soul that has reached a human level to actually regress back down to the state of a lower mammal. Once you've ascended to this stage, stepping backward in the evolutionary or spiritual ladder just doesn't happen under normal circumstances.

Does anyone ever just "skip" millions upon millions of evolutionary links at any given stage? No. Not even close.

Lawrence Torres56 said:But hey, maybe you've got a point there.😁

The whole idea of "intelligence" is pretty subjective, though, right?

I mean, who's actually "smarter"—some guy obsessed with chasing wild conspiracy theories and letting them dictate how he lives his life, or some wild animal out in the woods just doing its thing, finding its own food and figuring out how to survive the winter on its own?

Look, even if we set aside survival skills—where animals operate on raw, unconscious instinct that functions autonomously without any self-awareness—humans are still at the top of the evolutionary ladder when it comes to nervous systems, consciousness, and creative potential. The issue is that humans fail to use that intellect and creativity in harmony. We lack that deep connection to the underlying intelligence driving nature because we're too caught up in our own self-made illusions. It’s a uniquely human struggle. But even with all our flaws, an animal doesn't have the capacity we do: the ability to achieve true self-realization at our level of evolution.