Daniel Shankin

Has anybody read Isaac Asimov’s story “the last question”? I just did and found the last bit very much like certain psychedelic experiences I’ve had, particularly on 5.

astronomy.org/moravian/C00...

Behavior is a sign of what we need, not who we are.

"All I can say is that I recommend that you get terror stricken, because it is the jet fuel which will carry you farther into the various states and farther out into the universes than anything else will." - John Lilly
#psychedelic

The human opportunity is to transform flashes of illumination into abiding light.

- Huston Smith, Cleansing the Doors of Perception

“During the mindfulness process, you do not judge, compare, or try to fix your emotions or mind states. Instead you learn to be fully present to whatever you are experiencing, with a calm, nonjudgmental mind and an open heart.”

— Emotional Chaos to Clarity by Phillip Moffitt

Explaining to my children that all of their cheap plastic toys will eventually break, and all of their balloons will eventually deflate, and the only thing they can count on is love.

Maybe that’s wishful thinking of projection or something, but that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

With that in mind, I love you all, and happy thanksgiving.

One thing seems certain, behind it all, powering the whole thing, seems to an enormous, unrelenting, unbearable, irresistible, love.

I’m thoroughly mystified by various entheogenic visions of the nature of reality. The information about the mechanics of it all is often conflicting, and frankly above my pay grade.

I like to believe that we are all held in perfect safety and love in the mind of God. I picture this God as a dreaming Vishnu, infinite and peaceful.

Of course this is only the material universe. The spiritual universe most likely has a different history, about which I can only speculate.

From what I’ve gathered, the size of the universe is equal to the age of the universe times the speed of light.

Hello bluesky.

I just keep thinking about how we know the universe isn’t infinitely old and infinitely big. If it were, the night sky would be totally blazing bright with an infinite amount of starlight.

You can stick me on it, your starter pack is the reason I finally joined