Have I covered everything?

[Bensharp]

I am just curious. I don't know if anyone thinks of this before. What happens after the light is turn off.

Nothingness depending on who you are this could be bliss or terrifying

Limbo state ghoul ghost

Another dimension

Reincarnation human or animal based on merit or randomness on this earth/ another planet.

Heaven or hell depending on your religious disposition

These are more than the likely possibilities.

Are there other possibilities I am not considering.

 

[booray]

The closer I am to catching the bus, the more I believe that there is some kind of afterlife and possibly even reincarnation.

 

[Thegoldenapples]

Yeah I totally believe in reincarnation. We are more than just our bodies. Our soul/spiritual health is what gives our physical body life. Once the silver cord that connects the two is cut, which happens upon death, we are not bound to our bodies anymore and our souls go back to the spirit world/home. One life is jsut a blink in comparison to how many lives we live.

 

[kukukoko]

The majority of time I think it's nothingness. Especially because I never was really religious, it's difficult for me to truly believe in afterlife.

But if I do, I think about reincarnation. But the thought makes me feel dreary. Especially because ctb is useless then. You'd just wake up again.

 

[GenesAndEnvironment]

Nothingness depending on who you are this could be bliss or terrifying

No, there wouldn't be any emotions and you wouldn't exist if there's nothingness.

the likely possibilities.

 

[Dead beat dad]

One man's hell is another man's heaven and we all live this every day., so in a way that kind of exists.
I believe when you die it's like going for one of those sleeps where you shut your eyes and you've been out for like 10 hours but feels like a blink, you remember nothing, no dreams, nada... Minus the waking up part

DBD

 

[lofticries]

This life could also be some kind of virtual reality of some kind. Maybe once you ctb you'll go back to being the real you in the real world. What a mind fuck that would be.

 

[shijsrzh]

Before I got into the miserable state I'm in now, I had what in Zen Buddhism is called Kenshō. To see one's true nature, one's essence which doesn't get born and doesn't die. All pervasive and infinite because it is everything in existence. I know, this is standard Buddhist talk. And if I hadn't experienced it myself, I would never have believed such words. Anyway, I felt in that brief moment as though all life forms combined, everything around me had in itself a consciousness, what you could call God or Brahman or whatever. I felt extraordinary bliss, and it freed me. For a while at least.
So for me, although I came to hate everything again, I can't possibly deny that there is a plane of energy/spirit beyond us. And I feel when I die I will at least know why there had to be such pointless suffering in life.

 

[GenesAndEnvironment]

Before I got into the miserable state I'm in now, I had what in Zen Buddhism is called Kenshō. To see one's true nature, one's essence which doesn't get born and doesn't die. All pervasive and infinite because it is everything in existence. I know, this is standard Buddhist talk. And if I hadn't experienced it myself, I would never have believed such words. Anyway, I felt in that brief moment as though all life forms combined, everything around me had in itself a consciousness, what you could call God or Brahman or whatever. I felt extraordinary bliss, and it freed me. For a while at least.
So for me, although I came to hate everything again, I can't possibly deny that there is a plane of energy/spirit beyond us. And I feel when I die I will at least know why there had to be such pointless suffering in life.

Had a similar experience four years ago when I was meditating a lot. Didn't draw any conclusions from it but I "saw" my ego/defence mechanisms/neuroticism dissolve and felt unconditional love toward my surroundings, peace, etc, for a day or so. Another time I meditated for an hour and a half but it felt as if I had sat down and almost instantly stood up again, time flew by so fast that I never came close to that amount of time-perception-variability again.

I have a strong tendency to just throw the experiences away as the brain fucking around in same way as it does during solitary confinement or when taking psychedelics rather than form conclusions about reality from it, but still.

 

[shijsrzh]

I can relate to what you wrote. I do a similar thing. I always destroying what I have put so much effort in. In my case, I believe I clung too much to the experience, thus losing it. And now I am more miserable than ever. And I think that is BECAUSE I had this blissful experience. Like in Goethe's poem the sorcerer's apprentice, I came into contact with a great power/reality, but didn't have the necessary wisdom/stability to wield it.
Also, your description of the unconditional brought tears to my eyes for a moment. Made me remember that I felt this incredible omnipresence and love that is way beyond us in that brief moment.

 

[GenesAndEnvironment]

I can relate to what you wrote. I do the same. Always destroying what I have put so much effort in. In my case, I believe I clung too much to the experience, thus losing it. And now I am more miserable than ever. And I think that is BECAUSE I had this blissful experience. Like in Goethe's poem the sorcerer's apprentice, I came into contact with a great power/reality, but didn't have the necessary wisdom/stability to wield it.
Also, your description of the unconditional brought tears to my eyes for a moment. Made me remember that I felt this incredible omnipresence and love that is way beyond us in that brief moment.

Remember to tag or reply so that ppl u talk to don't miss ur posts. Yes, I've heard of the importance of not clinging onto any experience, even feelings of enlightenment and similar stuff. Ironic that the practice of letting go of aversion and attachment through clear observation of experience can make us more attached to favoured outcomes.

 

[Cockney_Rebel]

The closer I am to catching the bus, the more I believe that there is some kind of afterlife and possibly even reincarnation.

I strongly believe in reincarnation.

It's actually one of my motivators when I OD.

 

[Wandering_Fox]

There's an afterlife. Karma is real.

 

[shijsrzh]

Remember to tag or reply so that ppl u talk to don't miss ur posts. Yes, I've heard of the importance of not clinging onto any experience, even feelings of enlightenment and similar stuff. Ironic that the practice of letting go of aversion and attachment through clear observation of experience can make us more attached to favoured outcomes.

Yeah, right? In my case, the intensity of disgust and hate towards the world has never been stronger. I'm deeper into aversion than ever. But I would say that is my fault. The experience was probably wasted on me.

 

[GenesAndEnvironment]

Yeah, right? In my case, the intensity of disgust and hate towards the world has never been stronger. I'm deeper into aversion than ever. But I would say that is my fault. The experience was probably wasted on me.

Are you sure it's the world you hate? That looked a bit egodystonic.

 

[shijsrzh]

Are you sure it's the world you hate? That looked a bit egodystonic.

Could you elaborate? I'm not familiar with the term egodystonic.
Do you mean the contrast between me saying I hate the world and at the same time blaming myself?

 

[GenesAndEnvironment]

Could you elaborate? I'm not familiar with the term egodystonic.

It sounds like the anger you project outward is caused by guilt or feelings of inferiority. I have the same thing. When I use fancy words I never, without fail, know what they actually mean so don't mind it.

 

[shijsrzh]

That hits the nail on the head, wow! The first sentence is the whole root of my personality and suffering. Apparently, you're very similar in that regard. And you're right. I feel incredible guilt and inferiority and project it outward. But I DO hate the world. It is a mix of projecting and a society that is without any shadow of doubt profoundly sick. Of course, these two intertwine and resonate with each other.

 

[GenesAndEnvironment]

That hits the nail on the head, wow! The first sentence is the whole root of my personality and suffering. Apparently, you're very similar in that regard. And you're right. I feel incredible guilt and inferiority and project it outward. But I DO hate the world. It is a mix of projecting and a society that is without any shadow of doubt profoundly sick.

Wow, the addition you made I also agree with completely. Btw, tag or reply for the sake of Talos.

 

[shijsrzh]

Wow, the addition you made I also agree with completely. Btw, tag or reply for the sake of Talos.

Sorry, forgot it again.

 

[ClairyFairy]

I think the switch is flipped and you're gone. That's it. That's why I think none of it matters, at all.