I’m not religious at all. But ya, seeing this stuff certainly does evoke some religious ideas.

The creator. It’s creating the universe. Basically a big sun-jewel that emits “poetry energy”. No intelligence tho. No personality. Just a big shining thing. No judgment or judgy vibes.

And the land of the dead. Underground. Stone buildings. Lit by colored lamps. Eternal low-key party. Chill music. Spacey people hanging out, talking about their former lives and stuff. Occasional (nonconfrontational) demon (a tall gangly person with arms and legs all poking out in weird directions, swiftly staggering along on its demonly business).

I have a theory about why there’s a “land of the dead” (because why would a dead person have a body?). I think I (my “soul”) carries around a translator with it. That translates any experience into “time, space, things, people, light, dark etc”. A universal human-style-experience metaphorizer.

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    If you’re seeing things you should get checked out by a psychologist.

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      To see the creator : Concentration meditation on nose-tip-breath-feeling till good and concentrated. Then concentration on thought stream. Penetrating that, the “creator” becomes visible.

      To see the land of the dead : Vipassana, lots of vipassana. Then lucid dreaming starts happening. Then one night I find myself in the land (city) of the dead.

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        Do you mean that vipassana meditation takes you directly into lucid dreaming, or you begin lucid dreaming more as a result of Vipassana?

        I lucid dream occasionally, but I don’t meditate.

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    I think you’re confusing meditation with a LSD trip.

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    Every time I trip I go through the Noble Truths like clockwork, because it’s the only way to get back to the party.

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    I’ve seen eternal life. It’s far less terrifying than I would have expected. Though I guess it could get scary later. There’s a whole of later.