When was your awakening? or are you still asleep?

[greenfrog]

I remember the day i had my awakening. It was in May of 1994. I was fed up with life, comtemplating suicide, had actually tried it and at the time felt a cold hand like power cover my heart and decided noway was any cold hand getting my heart!.

I remember a phrase from my childhood " in the name of christ get behind me satan". I said that out loud, I was flooded with a light and warmth that was so powerful it moved me to tears. at that moment i woke up and started to live and stopped dying.

I had started smoking weed a year before because it helped to ease the pain of life, the experience so startled me and i wanted to know if it was real or imagined i didn't smoke for a week and the warmth and healing i felt stayed with me for 7 days. Weird, made a beleiver out of me! I am still visited by that power occasionaly, it trips me out but also comforts.

Tell me your awakening experience 8)

greenfrog Reviewed by greenfrog on 11-02-2005. When was your awakening? or are you still asleep? I remember the day i had my awakening. It was in May of 1994. I was fed up with life, comtemplating suicide, had actually tried it and at the time felt a cold hand like power cover my heart and decided noway was any cold hand getting my heart!. I remember a phrase from my childhood " in the name of christ get behind me satan". I said that out loud, I was flooded with a light and warmth that was so powerful it moved me to tears. at that moment i woke up and started to Rating: 5

[ermitonto]

My awakening happened when I was in my early teens. I had a paper route, and was contemplating the existence of souls. I realized that all the evidence points toward the brain as the origin of consciousness, and decided there was no rational way I could justify to myself the existence of non-matter non-energy soul stuff that somehow controls all that neural activity. How could things which are not made of measurable amounts of matter and energy affect things that are? Surely that would violate some fundamental laws of physics. Around the same time I realized that if there really is a God, he must not think very highly of me if he doesn't bother to provide any proof of his existence. Surely he would know I was the skeptical type, and I couldn't be expected to believe in something for which there was no proof. If there really was a loving God, he would reveal the true nature of the universe to mankind. To allow all this murderous quabbling over religion would be cruel and heartless when it could easily be prevented by coming out and saying "all right guys, this is how the universe really works". And even then I knew that the Bible was full of such wacky things as witches, demons, ghosts, pregnant virgins, talking animals, worldwide floods for which there is no geological evidence, etc. which could not possibly have existed, and which no rational person could reasonably believe in without extraordinary proof. From that day forward I have been the definer of my own life, knowing that I am not subject to the whims of some tyrannical dictator of the universe. I was no longer confined to the dogmatic assumptions of past generations, and I began my life anew as a free atheist.

[beachguy in thongs]

Ermontito, you have no spirit. Don't you want a soul? It's up to you.

[ermitonto]

What is a soul? If by soul you mean the capacity to think and make free decisions, then I already have one, only I call it a mind. I don't desire anything more than that.

[lemonboy]

Good read ermitonto, thanks.

[beachguy in thongs]

What is a soul? If by soul you mean the capacity to think and make free decisions, then I already have one, only I call it a mind. I don't desire anything more than that.

Soul is seperate from mind and body. It is the energy you feel. It's where your thoughts and actions get all their meaning from. Did you ever hear of the expression "To be at peace with your Mind, Body, and Soul"...it means, then we won't need anything else, but what we already have.

[ermitonto]

"Energy"? I don't understand. If such "energy" exists, it must be measurable, like energy always is. Energy is a very concrete phenomenon. Everything in the universe is made out of matter and energy, including me, so all the energy inside me is part of my mind or body (the mind is actually a subset of the body). If it is not measurable then there's no reason to call it energy. And if it isn't measurable, how can we say it exists at all? How can something we can't measure or detect in any way have any influence on the physical universe which contains my body and mind? I just don't get the idea that there are things in this universe which we can know of and are not made out of matter and energy (in the scientific, physical sense of the word). People seem to think these "souls" exist in some sort of undetectable parallel universe, a kind of transcendental la-la land which there just isn't any evidence for.

As Thomas Jefferson put it:

To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are nothings, or that there is no god, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise ... without plunging into the fathomless abyss of dreams and phantasms. I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence.

[Stoner Shadow Wolf]

there are many awakenings one will undergo... just how awakened are you?

[P.E.N.G.U.I.N.]

Energy and matter are the same thing...

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E=MC

[WalkaWalka]

i awakened when i realized all the evil shit that man has done in the name of religion