My Tibetan Cave

[Bill Ryan]

Dear Friends, I don't know if this really qualifies as a 'Remarkable Personal Experience'. But it's definitely an ongoing and developing experience that's both subtle and ever so gradually growing all the time.

Many readers may remember that I've shared now and then that for 1000 or so years I was a monk/Lama in Tibet, consciously deciding to reincarnate in the west in 1850.

During those centuries I attained a fair degree of spiritual development, which (as it always is!) is very hard, dedicated work. When I arrived in the west (with quite a crash landing! :)) I lost access to all that for several lifetimes, and only in this one (as 'Bill Ryan') have I ever started to regain, or rehabilitate, some of it.

The title of this thread — My Tibetan Cave — refers to two things. When in Tibet, I would regularly send long periods of time alone and isolated in a high mountain cave, weeks or sometimes may months. It was the very rough Tibetan best-equivalent of a modern Sensory Deprivation Tank or Isolation Tank (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolation_tank).

Though I could see and hear and feel with my physical senses, and observe the weather outside, there would be minimal sensory input or variety. And no other people at all, save for an assistant who would bring fresh food and water to the cave entrance (and with whom I never spoke).

Alexandra David-Neel, the celebrated French explorer, refers to this kind of extended personal spiritual experience in her marvelous book Magic and Mystery in Tibet (library copy here (http://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Alexandra%20David-Neel%20-%20Magic%20and%20Mystery%20in%20Tibet.pdf)) an utterly fascinating and extraordinary book which I cannot recommend too highly.

Here's what this thread is really about.

I had always assumed that my experiences in those caves (in more than one Tibetan lifetime) were all about enhancing meditative experiences, a kind of spiritual 'deepening'. But just recently, here and now, I came to realize that it was actually more than that. It was an aid to enhancing remote psychic perception.

In my own present life here in Ecuador I'm in a modern-day equivalent – extremely diluted, of course — of the same kind of 'in my cave' experience. I'm on the internet here, of course, and I keep up with global news and developments. But I live alone with my dog, I'm not on any social media, I don't use a smartphone, and as many know I regularly hike (also alone, with my dog) in the high mountains surrounded by nature, at exactly the same high thin-air altitudes I lived in in Tibet.

And I rarely talk to anyone — literally, I rarely speak — unless I'm in town buying something or attending to some chores, in which case it's just a few polite words of Spanish. I do have wonderful friends and neighbors here — Gilberto, Myriam, Noam and Pema — and when they're at home I see them most days, even just for a quick hello. But they travel a lot, and sometimes for weeks on end they're not here at all.

So I'm also in my cave — really quite a lot of the time.

And what I've noticed is that my remote psychic perception is also gradually enhancing itself.

It really is. The prime purpose of this post is to try to describe this as best I can.

There are I think three aspects of this, or ways it's happening.

1) I'm highly sensitively attuned to nature, to everything that's living, even the tiniest alpine flower, insect, or blade of grass. I shared this (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?121866-Man-the-psychopath.-Will-nature-fight-back&p=1576734&viewfull=1#post1576734) back in 2023:

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Indigenous people know that when (e.g.) hunting and killing an animal, one gives thanks and honors the animal for its sacrifice. When I'm cutting the grass, about an hour beforehand I telepathically warn all the little creatures living there that I'm about to do it, and explain to the grass that I have to take this action, and assure it that it will grow back, and that I'm not its enemy. I really do those things.
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And since then, I've not cut my grass here for over a year. (It's very long!) But it's a whole micro-ecosystem of its own. I truly can't bear any more to disturb and destroy it so violently.

2) Starting in December 2023, I started to receive, but very intermittently, 'messages' (the only term I can really use) containing apparent predictions of the future. (Do see this thread (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?123844-More-predictions--maybe-).) Some have been fairly accurate, many are yet to be realized, and a few might be quite wrong. But the experience of this information somehow 'coming in' — as I tried to describe, rather like suddenly 'taking dictation' — is distinct and real. It's quite out of my control, but I know when it's happening, like a kind of 'window' suddenly opening from outside.

3) And here's maybe the most interesting thing. Only recently did I confirm to myself that this is (a) real, and (b) starting to grow. It's like I can start to 'look inside people's heads' when I'm physically near them. It's not so much like I 'read their minds', but I can feel exactly what they're feeling to a very marked degree.

And I've come to realize that this has been happening for quite a while now, but each time I unconsciously 'pull back' so as not to interfere or affect them in any way. It's like a psychic 'withdraw' reflex.

Not only that, but there's a self-protecting thing as well. If I really consciously 'opened up' to all this, I suspect it would become overwhelming and maybe sometimes even distressing. I've read accounts from others who (maybe after a head injury, e.g.) have found themselves drowned out by a cacophony of thoughts and feelings from passers-by in the street, and it's been almost impossible for them to cope with. I do think I'm in the very beginning state of this.

My suspicion is that this was an ability that our remote ancestors always had, maybe in the distant era before language, or before developed language. And animals have this too, to this day — of course.

I suspect that as language and tribal society gradually grew more complex, with more and more intensity of human interaction every day, we gradually lost this ability over the millennia. But some indigenous peoples — many Australian Aboriginals, for sure – still possess and quietly harness all this.

And now, in my modern 'cave' — or at least, a kind of partial cave — I'm starting to re-experience, and very slightly regain, all this myself.

I'm quite comfortable with this, and most intrigued and fascinated that it seems to be happening. So it's not in way any kind of a problem.

But I'm curious: can anyone reading this relate or easily understand?

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[avid]

Thanks Bill for such an insightful post. Indeed, for the past few years I have become very reclusive, hardly talking to anyone. Such a relief after years of ‘lecturing’. My turn to have silence and freedom. I expect lots of folk experience the same need to withdraw….

[silver birch]

Thank you for opening up on this very personal matter.

When I read your third point, I can not avoid thinking of Ingo Swann, in one of his books describing how he trained his perception by sitting in front of a mirror-polished copper sheet for extended periods.
Just as you say, later he could not stand it as he could see people casting out emotional hooks, to catch passersby. He had to ask a friend for help to put an end to that sensitivity.


Regarding communication with nature, my take on that, after having studied animal communication from four books, and succeeding to have a short dialogue with a moose hit by a car, is that it boils down to sending and receiving with the heart as opposed to the brain.
And taking the time to listen for answers.

[arwen]

Yes. I can easily relate and definitely understand.

Different back story and life experience, but I am pretty much in the same place. I have some animals and an aging partner to care for - my last assignment for this life - but other than that, no interest in engaging with this world other than the bare minimum necessary, and observing the human Theatre of the Absurd playing on repeat - seen this movie so many times before. I rarely speak to anyone other than those I am caring for.

This could have been such an incredible planet if it were not occupied by humans and their Wetiko virus - had humans simply stuck to their role in Tending the garden and enjoying its delights - this would have been amazing.

Instead the poison everywhere has consumed everything and the worship of the false god of Money will hasten the demise of this world, polluting and poisoning everything. My own psychic abilities have been dulled a bit by the fact that I am currently living in a horribly polluted country. But they are still there, and I am using them to connect with where I want to go after this, rather than anything on this world. I personally, am DONE with this world.

So I find myself very Dreamy (that may also be because of the strong influence of Neptune :bigsmile: and focused on the Universes I have full clear recall of where life was fun and games, the goal was creativity and originality, the code was love and happiness. Totally possible because I lived it somewhere and recall it so clearly.

This video gives an idea - a small idea - of what worlds are possible, and when I am done here, I am going back to worlds like this:

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[rgray222]

My suspicion is that this was an ability that our remote ancestors always had, maybe in the distant era before language, or before developed language. And animals have this too, to this day — of course.

I suspect that as language and tribal society gradually grew more complex, with more and more intensity of human interaction every day, we gradually lost this ability over the millennia. But some indigenous peoples — many Australian Aboriginals, for sure – still possess and quietly harness all this.

And now, in my modern 'cave' — or at least, a kind of partial cave — I'm starting to re-experience, and very slightly regain, all this myself.

I'm quite comfortable with this, and most intrigued and fascinated that it seems to be happening. So it's not in way any kind of a problem.

But I'm curious: can anyone reading this relate or easily understand?

:flower:

I think we all have similar experiences, maybe not to the extent that you are having them, but they are happening all the time. I think the universe is talking to us all, but we rarely take the time to listen to what is being said. I know that it sounds like esoteric speak, but we are all truly connected. Not just all living things but everything, the soil, water, air, man-made products and of course plants, insects, animals etc. The connection goes well beyond the social and emotional level it is at a basic soul level. We have yet to learn that our interconnectedness is our strength and our power to achieve great things. Our collective actions can solve virtually every problem on this planet.

The universe is talking to all of us all the time, the trick is to pay attention and not write it off as a quirky odd experience.

[Arcturian108]

Bill: You now qualify for my Soul Healing Course, an in-person course that I give every few years to highly psychic people who want to help humanity on the soul level. I am partly joking, but truly you are now in a position to help a lot of people, and institutions that need fixing.

Getting rid of wi-fi and cell phones is certainly a way to tune into the collective unconscious. As the human biome grows in size, now 8 billion and counting, our abilities to communicate without speaking grows as well.

There is a lot to unpack here, but I always like to be brief.

[Bruce G Charlton]

Very interesting. I would guess that it is part of the task of old age, as it applies to you personally - and an increasing orientation towards what comes after death.

[Johan (Keyholder)]

While I have some memories relating to Tibet, most of my cave-dwelling-memories come from medieval Ireland.
In this lifetime, I have been there many times - between 2018 and 2022 - and several places in the Donegal area were very familiar.
There was also a connection with the island of Iona (Scotland), which presented a "link" between Donegal and Iona (by means of St Columba).

Several things Bill has described happen to me as well. It probably "comes with age" (I am 67).
While Bill is in beautiful Ecuador, I am in "polluted Belgium". Still, somehow (for now) my place seems to be here.

It's a very interesting topic for sure!

[Rizotto]

Thank you Bill. As someone who's spent a lot of time alone in nature, I've experienced a lot of what you have described above.

[snoman]

I was listening to the Telepathy Tapes. Non--verbal autistic people are communing this way. Upshot of it all, when I listened closely to what they all seem to say, is that the frequency that allows them to hang out in groups, remotely, telepathically in a space they all refer to as The Hill, is LOVE. We are spiritual beings in physical bodies, but in their case with a neurology that means they cannot talk but only type/spell words. This is how they are letting us know that they are telepathic. The cave they live in is people's dismissal of their capabilities. They are the epitome of what you are referring to. Sounds very much like you have created such a silence that you might now develop this way of listening. Resonate to set your receiver. I think if you haven't already, you ought to listen to The Telepathy Tapes.

[Harmony]

I do understand to the degree that each of us can as we are all a little different. I was born that way and can remember experiencing all that before I could walk really and thought it was normal. Feel what others were feeling so I didn't speak as much to other people and they would say "she's shy". And the feeling of being connected to plants and creatures as well. It has always caused great pain and often shutting off because it can be too much to bear. But also great joy in connection as well. I think most are like that too, but the sheild of "dealing" with a world that doesn't seem to be in balance is very difficult sometimes.


What I feel is happening is that all that information is always available and it is our own vessel or interface that is open or closed due to numerous things. We are all wonderful spirits which we think of as less material in this realm, but it may not be in another place with different rules or parameters. I do wonder often if these "openings" more are experiencing are a natural progression, yet it seems we are intentionally being held back from fully opening or fully integrating with our "material" part of or unique selves by not fully understanding that part of our being.


It may all be part of a process that I don't understand but hope to "one day". I think many of us have "travelled" to those other realities where things are quite different, where that feeling of "love" is actual and each soul is in full trust and integrity of themselves and the consequences of their thoughts and actions on each other as though "it is themselves". Our shared soul energy is all the protection needed for safety as no "out of harmony" being can enter such a field.


There seem to be many now that understand that concept and are trying to learn those new ways of being and overcoming a lot of the noise, which isn't easy :heart:

[rgray222]

Thanks Bill for such an insightful post. Indeed, for the past few years I have become very reclusive, hardly talking to anyone. Such a relief after years of ‘lecturing’. My turn to have silence and freedom. I expect lots of folk experience the same need to withdraw….

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[shaberon]

It's not so much like I 'read their minds', but I can feel exactly what they're feeling to a very marked degree.

And I've come to realize that this has been happening for quite a while now, but each time I unconsciously 'pull back' so as not to interfere or affect them in any way...


Yes, I understand, it's hard to put into words because it isn't words.

The rest of your description about a primal ability more or less drowned out by modernity is accurate.

The most reliable way I have found it to work is a Lie Detector.

Keep in mind I'm not like you. I am that type of Buddhist who was brought in by the martial arts, and, I have spent almost my entire existence in numerous human embroilments from the difficult to the worst kind. The ability to enjoy a pastoral existence is the grace of fortune. Instead I spend most of my time in situations completely against what I personally believe. But, I have this nature, and that type of empathic response to Deceit has been next to infallible.

It's a form of clairsentience.

What you are talking about is the real "communication", and it is so not because it is words, but because it is the constant life of the heart.

That's what I, personally, try to "speak", however many humans shred it, and most are at best uninterested. Correspondingly, animals love it, and it is possible to find people that do. So, it is Animal Magnetism. I also understand it in terms we have posted on The Plasma Individual. Of course it is the Shakti of Yoga. Mme. David-Neel is exemplary on having gotten "extraordinary" effects from this. The only thing unique about me as an individual, that I would say is real, is this type of yoga. I know from experience it exists.

It communicates the same way. By doing this, I am reduced to the point where one of the few beings I could truly "relate" to was a Tibetan Nyingma Dzogchen master who literally had come out of a cave after twenty years. But, you know, it was an instantaneous recognition, before he introduced himself and started talking through an interpreter. Me and this person literally had no words for each other. It was just a knowing.

And yes, that is how the Buddhist Sangha works. You will keep coming back until you are done. It's the Bodhisattva Path. It's all I can recommend or actually suggest anyone do. I can talk to anyone academically about other Indian yogas, or plasma, etc., but I only do one thing. It is, of course, not the words of posts, but an actual palpable force you can choose to open yourself to.

Nice OP, I can relate to the intuitive part exactly, and the idyllic existence in my dreams.

[lunaflare]

literally, I rarely speak

This seems key to your heightened sensitivity and remarkable gnosis of the sentient world around you.

It feels very natural to talk sparingly and to live alone. Currently, I am caring for my 90 year old mother. But it is a dream...and it would be an immense relief.

I am reminded of the words written by Antoine de Saint Exupery in, The Little Prince. These words are said by the fox.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly (clearly);
what is essential is invisible to the eye

[RunningDeer]

I was listening to the Telepathy Tapes. Non--verbal autistic people are communing this way. Upshot of it all, when I listened closely to what they all seem to say, is that the frequency that allows them to hang out in groups, remotely, telepathically in a space they all refer to as The Hill, is LOVE. We are spiritual beings in physical bodies, but in their case with a neurology that means they cannot talk but only type/spell words. This is how they are letting us know that they are telepathic. The cave they live in is people's dismissal of their capabilities. They are the epitome of what you are referring to. Sounds very much like you have created such a silence that you might now develop this way of listening. Resonate to set your receiver. I think if you haven't already, you ought to listen to The Telepathy Tapes.




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Thread: The Telepathy Tapes (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?124114-The-Telepathy-Tapes&highlight=Telepathy+tapes)

[Michel Leclerc]

If being silent is so important, if silence is so important – why then are we writing?

(Here or elsewhere.)

[JackMcThorn]

Ben Franklin wrote his 13 virtues [in his 2o's] that he says he spent time working on over his years. The 2nd virtue is Silence described as 'to not speak unless it benefits others or yourself - to avoid trifling conversation'.

So my best guess on interpreting this is to basically have the self awareness to be helpful in your communications which include writing. [He was a printer...] And I think some of these quieter people who post and write are indeed benefiting others and themselves to a point.

I cannot relate to the acts of 'remote viewing' or 'past lives' but I can relate to some matters of the mind and I understand the peacefulness associated with solitude and quiet.

[TrumanCash]

Hi, Bill. Do you recall when you were in your Tibetan cave what kind of meditation you did? Was it active meditation like visualization, for example. Or simply being and not thinking?

[Bill Ryan]

Hi, Bill. Do you recall when you were in your Tibetan cave what kind of meditation you did? Was it active meditation like visualization, for example. Or simply being and not thinking?Thanks for the question! But I'm afraid I have no recall of that whatsoever.

[sylviawong]

For a period of time, I felt somewhat lonely and always kept myself away from the crowd. During that time, I visited a Tibetan Buddhist temple in Beijing and communicated with the Buddha statues through my thoughts. I said (without making a sound from my throat), "If you truly exist, then please grant me a wish to prove your existence." It was something with zero probability of happening, but nine months later, it actually came true. So, I began to believe in all of this—the existence of multiple dimensions, and that it's not just an illusion.

[shaberon]

If being silent is so important, if silence is so important – why then are we writing?

(Here or elsewhere.)



Because it is a complete cycle, Pravrtti and Nirvrtti.

Our teaching says that "enlightenment" is not to be found in the realm of reason and words, but, the realm of reason *is* a field for conventional truth such as providing benefits to beings.

In this sense, the expression Bodhisattva Path is much harder than anything else, since most yogas revolve around "liberation from conditioned existence", meaning the being or soul passes to the beyond or to the Solar realm. We, instead, bear the burden of transmigration and reincarnation for a cause, synonymous to Salvation or of a similar category.

Moreover, this is an Indian liturgical step that has been omitted in Tibet. It is distinguished in the Samputa (translated) and Sarvabuddha Samayoga (being translated). It's called "Urging through Song". This is a very specific message to the practitioner not to remain in undisturbed Nirvana, but to emerge from silence and do your work. Hence the expression "the lotus grows in mud".

"Bodhisattva" does not exist as such in Pali Buddhism, but, it is in all the distributed sects, such as Tibet, China, etc., and so you might go so far as to say the Theravada is represented by Thai forest hermitage lifestyle, i. e., it has much more the character of seclusion. Most Mahayana uses Retreat as your vacation. It is tuned to be urbanizing and to interact with non-Buddhists. So it has both sides of the coin for things like isolation and silence.

In my experience, I would have to say "yoga" is not Buddhist property, only a certain method of it is. As a seeker without any guide, I wound up attempting a mishmash of yogas of various sources. That's because I have a natural affinity for it, and was able to unleash my tigers in a much faster way than the ordinary person. And so yes, the raw energy of the universe, so to speak, *does* carry a huge "withdrawal" impulse to take you straight out of this world. That was happening to me, a lot, while it took a large number of years with limited resources to learn the Mahayana system. Because of that, what I basically had to do was "force it to stop", I had to make myself much more worldly and literally stifle the yogic energies because they were too overpowering. I would not have been able to function like a normal person. It took more than a year for the reverberations to fade.

If I had the concise, direct guidance available to me then that is available now, it would have helped me.

Now that I have it, from middle age I plan on living backwards, to do some work and eventually move my way into an old-age retreat and just do this, because the intent is a conscious death process.

[shaberon]

Hi, Bill. Do you recall when you were in your Tibetan cave what kind of meditation you did? Was it active meditation like visualization, for example. Or simply being and not thinking?


Thinking about this, there aren't really different meditations.

Rather, it is more like a "block outline" with certain adjustable modules.

All Tibet shares the same Preliminaries, called Ngondro. This is what was done at the Dharma Center I went to. But I went there because I had already attained a high level, and was seeking guidance, and they weren't doing any talk sessions. The extra-curricular material at the time was from CT Rinpoche and that "Shamballah Warrior" literature came out, and I thought something was off about that, it's trendy and westernized. And yes, here on Avalon we have a thread about Maurice Strong and the weird stuff they did in Colorado, and unfortunately Buddhism got sucked in to that.

The Tibetan schools are minorly differentiated by lineage holders and selection of deities. This is what is supposed to travel with you from lifetime to lifetime. So, for me, personally, I don't see myself as having been any particular person at any point in time, but, rather making a commitment to Tara which is permanent. That's what made it easy in this lifetime.

There isn't really anything besides Preliminaries and Deity Yoga, and it is just parsed out according to the development of the meditator.

[Rawhide68]

Was it fun in the cave?

[Lunesoleil]

But I'm curious: can anyone reading this relate or easily understand?

the energy of the Total Lunar Eclipse in Pisces, your Sun sign will have opened a door between two worlds?

[Sunny-side-up]

Hello Bill and all.

Your Cave post reminds me of a regular meditation I used to do back in the day.

I would do breathing exercise's and once in the right mind/realm I would launch myself flying through a snow storm, blustery winds etc, no rain.
Then I would start to see a ledge taking shape in the distance, a ledge with a cave opening, very inviting.
All the time I could feel the cold air rushing past me with snow in my eye's
Once arriving on the ledge I was out of the storm watching it all happen outside the cave. I was now very much in a deep meditation and well energized.

I knew this mountain ledge was up Everest. I have never been mountain climbing, much respect to those who have, Bill :)

Alan
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[Bill Ryan]

Was it fun in the cave?'Fun' isn't quite the right word. :) That kind of thing is a discipline, a very focused one. There's no physical activity, though it's very hard work. But there are tremendous potential rewards.

[Victoria]

I would guess that it is part of the task of old age..." Bruce G Charlton:sun:   I can appreciate what that entails in stage 8, because I have seen family members shift from depression to making peace with the reflections of their lives,  but I don't know about this being the case in Bill's instance.  Bill is not quite the average man, I think he has always been extraordinarily reflective and I surely do hope he has many, many years and happiness-filled journeys ahead.

I am not exactly old yet, either, and I definitely was not close to aging when something started occurring to me in a very similar way as to Bill. Except, that my version of an isolating cave was a trauma response which exhibited as a severely limiting form of extreme shyness. During those early years, I recognized things very much like Bill mentions, with an empathy and knowing that most of my peers did not share.


As rgray222 put beautifully, "... we are all truly connected. Not just all living things but everything, the soil, water, air, man made products and of course plants, insects, animals etc."   

The only times that I felt truly at ease were when immersed in nature away from people; in the pacifying company of our family dogs; when flying well above the cloud cover during travels, or looking toward the trees at night while everything was a palette of calming indigo blues, emerald greens and deepest grey. 

As long as animals (including insects) were present in the vicinity, I felt relatively safe...and believing I could understand (or communicate with) them was my comfort in every situation growing up.
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I still look for the resident creatures every place I go, in order to reach out. They soothe my soul and help me center. Honestly, I think animals are what saved me from being completely mute and fearful for life. They certainly taught me about humanity in others and in myself.

Thus, I really love and relate to what you describe Bill.  You have a conscience for the consciousness of all life. :heart:

It is wonderful to read about your new experiences and also your efforts to warn and spare the ecosystem in your yard from being razed and trampled. (Which reminds me, too, of Karen caring for all the creatures on her property- I hope she is well!) When we have to trim trees, we do nearly the same. I have always had this idea that our land should be a safe haven for all creatures and beings that visit- a sanctuary, or respite of sorts. We're a bit far from it, still, but it's a work in progress!

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I think the soothing blanket of solitude and energetic peace, can hone a type of hyper-analytical vision needed to gauge physical details people so often overlook. It also allows emotional space for recognition of the electromagnetic relay that occurs constantly between living creatures and their surroundings.  


As an adult, if one intentionally seeks solitude and consonance with the wilderness and natural world, or even if placed into that simply by existential circumstances,  it seems one gradually returns home to a state of harmony and full perception.  .

I have heard similar anecdotes of increased perception from friends who go on long and lonely treks into the wilderness, or who have hiked the entire Appalachian Trail, and emerge changed.  The concept of a walk-about seems very similar, although I imagine the reconnection is intensely strengthened by epigenetics, the tradition and one's ancestors in that case. 

It feels like when we are surrounded by a destabilizing cacophony, such as in big cities or tightly knit communities where everyone is in everyone else's bubble and business,  we automatically, instinctually react by trying to tune out any excess noise- thereby tuning down our own mental dial in order to block it all. 

That type of deleterious neurohabitat makes it difficult to operate in a state of empathy. It's not practical (or healthy) to feel and absorb everything all around you when surrounded by a million other swarming bodies and minds.

We moved to our current relatively remote wilderness location because I understood it to be a safe harbor, which we needed at the time.

In doing so, a spontaneous information flow has periodically come in like an astonishing flash flood. 

This is amplified when visiting even more desolate locations, surrounded only by marvels of (at least what I perceive to be) a manless realm. It happens when staring up in silence toward the universe spread out above, imagining distant horizons without any hint of human presence in between.

It is not the same when looking out across a cityscape or the corresponding light dome, despite the beauty of buildings and sparkling lights. Connection to the infinite feels lost and completely silent then.

Perhaps, it is as much the mere perception of being removed and completely alone as actually physically being so, which allows the mind to relax enough to receive.

Shaberon said "The most reliable way I have found it to work is a Lie Detector."

This is very much the case in my experience, too, and I feel bad when it happens because I am not typically trying to decipher the truth in what someone confides in me.

Usually, I have to look away and close my eyes for a moment to retrain concentration on the sound of their voice and their intended message: what it is they need to express.  It tends to take place while I'm trying to really, really empathize or feel where someone is coming from; to literally show them I understand and care.

I've tried to be more conscious of when and how certain things take place in order to control the process better, or prevent it.  Mostly, I just have observations right now.


Maybe an expansion of mental clarity and clairsentience is happening to more and more people recently? Maybe whatever was hoisted onto all of us during the traumatic experience of covid and its aftermath forced some of humanity to branch off from the chaos of the rest and internally pursue a new course of understanding?

So much of the world's population has been funneled into urban living that has only gotten more tumultuous and discordant in recent years.

For those immersed in the mayhem of career demands/social expectations and a clamoring urban lifestyle with little control over the commotion around them, who are sensitive to energies and the frequency of such a communal megalopolis swirling about, but who cannot escape to a pastoral existence, I think the automatic recourse is to wall oneself off emotionally and just push others away. To become cold and numb. 

The more tightly populated an area, the more this might be so. Like a method of self defense to de-stress and realign in an attempt to preserve our innermost space for self and sanity. The last frontier that can be held privately.

Perhaps this results in more and more people behaving as what some call NPCs while they are forced to tune everyone and everything out, processing it all as minimally as possible? When the fabric of society becomes increasingly strained and breaks down around them, or the chaos seems too great, people begin to shut down physically, emotionally and mentally and it has a caustic snowball effect. That was the first thing I thought of when someone shared this video clip with me.

*Apologies, I do not know what video this is excerpted from or who the men are in it *

https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1899287644305080320/vid/avc1/874x720/iZaK-sNhPZ9uMZPi.mp4?tag=16

Not that people are really devoid and soulless non playable characters, but maybe that they have been forced to wall themselves off in order to assimilate with the borg-like requirements of communal city dwelling while still preserving some modicum of their internal state without someone else infringing it...the tiniest of spaces that is still theirs.

Maybe, we are all supposed to be in a state of energetic communication, but in order to have the mental clarity necessary and be emotionally balanced enough to receive and reciprocate without our usual physical senses, we need the silence and tranquility of adequate space between us...or we tend to destroy ourselves.

It reminds me of the Georgia Guidestones. When friends and I visited them 15 years ago, everybody took offense to the, "Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature" line... 

But what if the world's populace were suddenly highly intuitive and psychic and communicated without words, while knowing what many do about the current state in the hearts and minds of men? Illness and wetiko, included. If there are too many people, in too close of a proximity, there might be total mayhem, with reactive responses and violent emotions.

So, maybe the safety mechanism in humanity is to keep us functioning with only minimal psychic senses so long as we are materially concentrated as a species in tightly confined areas and don't know how to control ourselves? Maybe if we were more spread out, our attentions and minds unfettered, allowed to wander, we might have the necessary freedom to really develop those subtle, hidden skills without it being a threat to one another?

[Pfaffenhofen_2009]

I agree with that.

[Listkov]

Was it fun in the cave?'Fun' isn't quite the right word. :) That kind of thing is a discipline, a very focused one. There's no physical activity, though it's very hard work. But there are tremendous potential rewards.

What's fun is being in the sun. Anyone can notice how it energizes you. If you're around people you can notice how closely tied people's fluctuations in mood are to it.
But it dampens the subtle perceptions. Everything physical is literally much brighter.

Winter has a similar effect. I can't speak on the "Russian Soul" but what I can tell you is there would be no more Dostoevsky if he took his vitamin D and went on a nice walk on a sunny beach every day. When I lived up north, I would wander around at night because it was easiest to hang out with spirits that way. I could physically see them.

The intensification of the internal world is not dissimilar to a psychedelic experience. Largely mediated by serotonin, albeit different receptors. It's what makes the other mammals hibernate. If you have the flu you can notice that everything seems more vivid, although there's an unreal sense to it - like a fever dream.

You can't live in a city and have second sight. I've always disliked people because most of them have what I call normiEMF radiation. Most people are miserable and they seem to radiate some sort of wave around them that makes you feel whatever they're feeling. Works the opposite way too, cheers you up. But the West is very, very sick. Extrapolating, the idea of higher beings and gods doesn't seem so implausible. I DON'T NEED to know that the guy sitting next to me is extremely depressed and the guy across the street is looking at me to see if I look like enough of a sucker to get robbed. That's why I listen to music.

In my old country, we could sense energies like that so we could take care of it and clean it up. But when I moved to China and every single cave and every single stone in the ground was full of thousands of years of who knows what it drove me sick and I lost my second sight.