If everything living has a soul shouldn’t we treasure these animals as well?

My friend made this Binaural Beats app to assist with Astral Projection, NHI contact and altered states of consciousness. It's takes aspects of the Gateway Experience and CE5 to create a much more focused experience.

I've been using it as a tester for a month now and I really love the simplicity, but most importantly the Journeys are really amazing. They move between brain states and allow for deeper, more fluid experiences. It also includes a dream journal which is helpful to have inside the app.

Hope you guys enjoy as much as I do. Save travels!

At night it takes me ages to doze off bc I feel uneasy and get in my head, is there any simple things I can do to protect me ? In other words protect myself from any form of negative energy.

I love the "brain = processor running the simulation" idea, and yeah, it's a metaphor for our computer-brained era.

But there's an other take I keep coming back to: What if the brain doesn't generate consciousness at all, it just filters it? Like a radio picking one station out of a signal that was already there the whole time....

Here's why that clicks for me more than the computer idea: If the brain generates consciousness, less brain activity should mean less experience. But that's not what we see in some experiments.

Take certain "substances": People report the most vivid, "more real than real" experiences of their lives. While their brain activity (especially the Default Mode Network) actually drops. That's backwards if the brain is the source.

Or terminal lucidity: Dementia patients with "wrecked" brains sometimes get a sudden window of total clarity right before they die. The hardware didn't come back online. So where did the clarity come from?

Or NDEs during cardiac arrest, flat EEG and everything, where people describe experiences that are somehow sharper and faster than normal waking thought. That shouldn't happen if the brain's the engine. It fits fine if the brain's the bottleneck.

I'm not saying any single one of these proves anything on its own, self-reports are messy and there's real debate about all of it. But stack them up and "the brain restricts" starts looking like the better explanation than "the brain produces."

Bernardo Kastrup's analytic idealism, takes it further: Instead of matter being fundamental and mind popping out of it somehow, mind is fundamental, and matter (brains included) is just what mind looks like from outside. On this view you and I aren't separate simulated characters, we're more like localized eddies in one bigger mind (or simulation).

That's a different claim than simulation theory, even though people here tend to blend them. Simulation theory keeps the physical-stuff-is-fundamental assumption and just moves it up a level (we're a sim running on someone's real computer). Idealism ditches that assumption completely.

What I like about the radio idea over the simulation idea: nobody has to invent a hidden programmer for it. You can actually go poke at it yourself, on a cushion or in a study, instead of just speculating about a computer nobody's ever seen.

Ever since I delved into spirituality and started practicing meditation seriously, I've noticed that I'm becoming more and more okay with not wanting to know everything. I used to remember I was so fascinated by parallel realities, afterlife, mystical realms, reincarnation and similar topics. However, this is how I see things now - I return to immortality anyways so why not be human for a change? Everything that I seek answers to will come to me after I leave my body. For an immortal being, life's a short blip anyway so why not be fully grounded? It has come to a point where I don't even want to seriously pursue any spiritual practice since it feels like I am in a meditative state without practicing anything, just being in nature works wonders. I don't want to sound like I've outgrown spiritual practices but that's definitely the gist of it. Has anyone else gone through something similar?

Recently there was a death of a loved one in my immediate family (about a month ago). My SO has since had two dreams in which this loved one visited them and the message was conveyed that they're ok. It's either that or they're just visiting because they want to be back, aren't sure what to do, etc. (not sure, because that spirit was an dog).

Now I do not subscribe to any religions but I am highly spiritual. I believe in an intelligent creator/source (that is indifferent/non-judgmental to its creations), non-local consciousness, sentient consciousness post-physical death and the theory that sometimes the other realms of existence can be peered into and communication can happen. Believe might not even cover it, not even sure if faith does - I know these things to be true in my very core existence.

I have had several close family members pass on (humans) and I do grieve, but to me it's more like someone is just going away to college or something. Not that they're ceasing to exist. For that reason, I don't ever really get too sad. It's definitely sad, but I am never really devastated like most people are when a loved one dies. I would feel this same way for even the absolute closest of family members who pass on.

The reason I bring all that up is because I want to know if it plays a role in the fact that I never receive any communication from these souls after they pass on. No dreams with comforting visits, no odd signs or cryptic communications. Nothing. I worry that maybe because of past mistakes or bad decisions, that my soul might be tainted in such a way that it either prevents communication, or it is not desired, and I am cut off. It is an odd feeling that I don't know exactly how to describe or explain.

I don't even really know what insight I'd be seeking because I know the classic response is going to be to convey a message to the source of repentance or some other religious connotation - I don't think it works like that. I believe each of us are on our own and we judge our own instances in this physical life at death, but then move on to the next "thing" either way - no interference or forgiveness being handed out by some authority figure.

I don't know, every now and then this thought pops into my head. It could just be that I get crappy sleep and have trouble remembering dreams/sleep travel.

I’m asking because there’s a specific neighborhood in my city where everytime I go to it, I experience a slew of lucky and positive experiences the following days (getting invited to fun events for free, winning prizes, running into friends at random, etc.). The neighborhood also has a lot of beautiful houses and wealthy residents.

Is this neighborhood somehow emanating energies of luck and abundance? I do wonder if there are certain crystals in the ground around there, or if someone living there has a bunch of powerful crystals in their home.

So I’ve been getting into spirituality recently; I only started to fully invest about a week ago and since then I’ve been researching chakras, meditating and I’m already more than halfway through a book called “The Untethered Soul,” and I’ve also engaged with this sub a couple of times.

I normally give up something after a couple of days but it’s been a week and my curiosity into spirituality is still growing strong.

Anyways, in the book it talked about energies and leaving your heart open for any opportunity to allow the energy to flow, so much so that people can feel it. Well I’ve been doing that and wow…

I have a job interview in 5 days and usually I’d be stressing, overthinking and panicking about my performance. Instead, I’ve been leaving my heart open and I’ve been getting excited about it and I’ve barely even had an anxious thought about it.

And whenever I have had thoughts about it, instead of engaging I’ve just been observing without analysing as that would use my energy.

And what truly made me make this post is this thought I had “There’s no need to worry about the interview as everything will go fine, and if it doesn’t, the universe has better plans for me.” This has shifted my mentality.

If I don’t get this job, I won’t be sad at all. It’s the universes way of saying that it’s not the best opportunity for me at the moment and something better will come.

I’ve had ups and downs my entire life and throughout my teenage years and even recently and there’s been times where I feel like I’ve had bad luck or moments that made me feel hopeless, for an example: going on a date with a girl who didn’t want to go on a second date. I felt quite sad after that.

But after rethinking everything, the date didn’t go well because the universe has something better for me in the future.

RIGHT NOW is a perfect example. All the ups and downs I’ve had lead me to THIS moment. The moment where spirituality has been calling to me.

Hello, I have a question for you. This experience has been bothering me, so I’ll get straight to the point. Whenever I close my eyes while trying to sleep, I see strange faces. They’re usually scary faces that I don’t recognize and have never seen before. Sometimes I see both faces and eyes, almost as if they’re watching me.

After I try to fall asleep for a while, they eventually go away, but whenever I close my eyes, I see these frightening faces again, almost like they’ve come straight out of a horror movie. I’ve researched this before, but I couldn’t really find much about it. Usually, people say these things are temporary and come and go, but mine don’t. They’re always there.

i can’t do this anymore. i’m not meant for it. i’m in hell. i’m in psychosis. i want out. i’m done.

My roommate and I recently moved into a new apartment. Immediately after getting the keys, I used white sage to cleanse the entire empty space. After about a week of living here, my roommate and I used blue sage to cleanse ourselves, our phones, and the entire home. We requested for all negative energy to be cleansed from us, our space, and our belongings. This was on August 8th, 2026.

Beginning just a couple hours later and continuing throughout the next few days, nearly everything I knew and loved blew up in my face and left my life. My (now ex) partner and I had been taking a break since the middle of mercury retrograde, and just that night/next day they permanently ended things. Two of my closest friends of many years stabbed me in the back in the midst of this. Situations I thought were on good terms switched to bad, and people I loved and trusted and cared about began to resent me over misunderstandings/lies from outside parties and left.

I still have wonderful friends that are there for me and a beautiful home, but aside from that, most things in my life have seemingly gone downhill since that day. Did I do something wrong? How do I fix this?

I've noticed nobody in this community has really broken down the actual techniques side by side. So I pulled together a breakdown of the major schools — core work, technique, and the actual belief behind each — based on about two years of reading and practicing across most of these. Hope it helps you find what fits.

Camp1: Belief Creates it

(Start inward, aim at a specific outcome)

Person	Core Work	Key Technique	Core Belief
Florence Scovel Shinn	The Game of Life and How to Play It (1925)	Sponken Affirmation	Speak the outcome into being; spoken conviction sets that law in motion
Neville Goddard	The Power of Awareness (1952)	SATS — State Akin To Sleep	Live in the end: assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled, and reality will conform to your assumption.
Joseph Murphy	The Power of Your Subconscious Mind (1963)	Repeated subconcscious suggestion before sleep	Whatever is impressed on the subconscious becomes the blueprint for outer circumstance
Abraham Hicks	Ask and It Is Given (2004)	Emotional Guidance Scale； Ask-Believe Receive；	You attract what you vibrate, not what you want.
Vadim Zeland	Reality Transurfing (2004)	Outer Intention；Slide；Reducing Importance	All possible outcomes already exist in an "alternatives space"; reduced attachment lets you drift into the one you want
Rhonda Byrne	The Secret (2006)	Ask-Believe-Receive	Like attracts like — thought and feeling emit a "frequency" that draws matching outcomes

Camp2: Belief Alone Isn't Enough

(Start inward, require more than belief)

Person	Core Work	Key Technique	Core Belief
Wang Yangming (王阳明)	Chuan Xi Lu（～1512）	The unity of knowledge and action	A belief that is never enacted was never real knowledge to begin with — knowing and doing are one act
Yuan Liaofan (袁了凡)	Liaofan's Four Lessons (~1602)	Ledger of merit and demerit — daily tally of concrete deeds	"Destiny is made by me, fortune is sought by myself" — fate is rewritten only through verified conduct, not belief alone
Eckhart Tolle	The Power of Now (1997)	Presence	Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have
Michael Singer	The Untethered Soul (2007)	Surrender	Freedom comes from releasing all grasping at outcomes, not from directing them
Roxie Nafousi	Manifest: 7 Steps (2022)	Vision Board；Guided Visualization	We can only manifest what we believe we deserve
James Doty	Mind Magic (2024)	Mind Magic（4 steps）	When our brain changes, we change. But when our heart changes, everything changes

We are our own jailer, prisoner, warden, and demons until we start doing our own deep interpretation. It is then we start heal, forgive, let go and reconize that it is only us that can truly hurt ourselves.

lately im noticing i procrastinate all the damn time .im so clumsy,at least 7 things fall from my hands each day,and im losing interest and talent in my fav hobbies.also im mad and treat people bad even tho they havent done anything..whats happening ?im a spiritual person and its just so weird..also ive dreamed 2 times in a row that i died.once in a drown accindent,and then by crashing my car.i need help asap i dont get whats happeninggggggg

Original women carried a zero-trauma, zero-loss womb field, they could call a soul in, gestate it in pure Oversoul alignment, and birth it without pain, blood, or cellular decay

The womb was a dimensional gate, not a factory

i’ve never been actually educated on spiritual things and i’ve always thought it wasn’t real, i basically didn’t know a single thing about it, but just a few months ago i overheard some of my friends talking about it and they tried to educate me on it, but then the same day i suddenly was filled with so much anxiety and i’d never felt that way before, it was like the feeling that something bad was gonna happen and it’s been there since, and the feeling always got worse whenever someone mentioned spiritual things in the conversation or god, so i’ve tried to avoid talking about anything related to that. i think the same day or the day after my friends tried to educate me, i experienced sleep paralysis, and it’s been happening from time to time and it never used to happen before. One of my close friends has also told me how their parents had like cursed books or something, i’m not too sure because he refused to tell me anything more because he didn’t want anything to happen to me, because it’s been happening to his boyfriend after my friend told him about it, and his boyfriend genuinely couldn’t sleep without getting sleep paralysis. i was sleeping over and every few minutes he would start twitching in his sleep and wake up gasping from it. it doesn’t happen anymore to him, but suddenly these past 2-3 days bad things have kept repeatedly happening to me, i relapsed, my mental health is getting bad again, three of my piercings in complete different areas got infected, i’m unable to sleep at all at night because the anxiety feeling, and i have no idea what’s going on. i don’t think i’m being crazy, what should i do???

I’ve read a lot of books in this category , but I’m always looking for new inspiration. All suggestions welcomed.

I've recently just started and im not having the easiest time of turning my thoughts off and its discouraging. Is this normal? Will it get easier the more I practice?

After surviving and leaving a narcissistic marriage and over all these years of not setting boundaries around people, allowing red flags and toxic behaviour from partners, family, friends, I am finally on my path of spiritual awakening. And I can feel it, I am more intuitive now, very self aware, wise and ALONE. Nobody can understand this feeling unless they go through it themselves.

I kinda miss bonding with people, I used to be extremely social and had a lot of friends. Now I can barely relate with the 2-3 friends that have been with me since the past 10-12 years. I do not enjoy going out for drinks, I do not like the crowd being loud, it feels negative and damaging for my mental health. My old friends have barely had any character development all these years.

I also feel more inclined towards people who are more into fitness, spirituality, embracing their culture, healthy habits. I enjoy deep talks about life, traumas, experiences, history. Surface level conversations give me the ick.

So basically I am scared that all this is making me lonely and I am not able to connect with my old friends and making new connections are becoming tougher unless they are on a similar path as me. It can get lonely sometimes but I rather be alone than being around a friend /partner that dulls my spark and has not changed (for good) all these years. I cannot people please anymore.

Anybody gets this feeling or is it just me?

Im not totally convinced us humans have an afterlife and that scares me. Its crazy how everyone's gonna die you know? And I've been reading stuff about this topic and its only people's beliefs on human afterlife, but what are people's thoughts on bugs and animals? Ive started feeling so guilty for killing ants and whatever other bugs, they're just trying to live and survive and I just kill them forever? Insane. I also have been feeling super guilty about eating meat, like some poor cow died just for my fatass to enjoy a burger. Another thing is i am 16f and have grown up with my cat who is also 16, he is old but he is perfectly healthy and runs around and is super healthy, but i do fear that ill never see him again and that scares me. Ive grown up with him and love him so much, i honeslty cant live without him. He sleeps with me everynight, i talk to him about literally everything. I just wanna hear people's takes on this because im curious. If bugs have an afterlife, they better be in a different one far away from me.