Contest -- Survey for Islekine

1. Have you ever experienced anything considered paranormal?

Oh, yes. Although sometimes the line blurs because of what I've come to understand about 'reality'. Essentially, anything we don't think we can understand or explain gets lumped into the concept of 'paranormal' or 'supernatural'. One of the most important lessons I've learnt in my life is that 'magic' falls into the same rule -- the only reason we think "magic" doesn't exist is that we don't consider what we do all the time 'magic' merely because we understand how it works! Ask the fish in an aquarium whether "magic" is real. Ask a member of an isolated indigenous nation seeing a helicopter for the first time whether or not technology is a form of magic.

To answer the question more directly, I have had the following experiences in various forms, often dissimilarly from cultural stereotypes and expectations regarding them.

-- Precognitive dreaming.
-- Prophetic dreaming.
-- Lucid dreaming.
-- Exploration of the 'spirit world' while dreaming.
-- Tele-empathic contact with totems and other non-physical entities while dreaming and while awake
-- Communion with the living, active, thoroughly aware sentience of various teacher plants and substances.
-- Communion with "God".
-- Tele-empathic contact with the entity called "Jesus Christ", also "Buddha", "Ganesha", "Shiva", "Coyote", and others.
-- Synchronicity
-- Weak telepathic/strong empathic connection with other humans
-- Weak telepathic/strong empathic connection with nonhumans
-- Refocusing of nontemporal nonphysical awareness ("spirit" or "soul") to the quantum wavelength, thus limited full-self awareness of the All ("God")
-- Shapeshifting in dreams.
-- Memories of past lives in dreams and while awake.
-- Phantom limbs and other bodily appendages (horns, claws, muzzle, teeth, feathers, et cetera) from past lives, et cetera
-- Channeling various totems, 'deities', spirits, et cetera
-- Consistently true divination via cards (tarot, personal systems)
-- Being spiritually assaulted by a 'corrupt'/'unnatural' or wholly negative, nonentropic destructive self-aware thoughtform/nonphysical being ("Bane", "demon", etc.)
-- Summoning and directing other spirits to attack and destroy aforementioned nonentropic destructive thoughtforms.
-- Creating wards, changing the color of stoplights, and otherwise manifesting via combination of meditation/'prayer', logical directed "material/real-world" action, and outright quantum data projection.
-- Having my memories paged through and read at a distance by someone much more skilled at telepathic connection.
-- Being soul-bonded to someone else.

I could go on and on and on and on. My life is a continuous web of occult spirituality, yet I hardly notice it because it's so fundamental and interwoven into anything, just as much as science and logic are. In fact, the more I study both, the more I come to discover that they are, in their purest, cleanest, best forms, one and the same.


2. Do you believe in an afterlife? Explain.

I do not "believe" in an "afterlife" in the conventional sense. Rather, both direct personal experience and scientific logic lead me to conclude the following.

a. All matter is 'made of' energy, which in turn is 'made of' quarks. To make a long story short, the quarks are ultimately made up of data. Information. The deepest quantum level of existence is a foam of unmanifest potential, that from which all that is arises, including Spacetime itself. Spacetime is best thought of as a set of two axes, Space as X, Time as Y perhaps; coordinates, just part of the vast amount of data eternally communicated to all quarks by all quarks simultaneously.

b. Our physical bodies, then, are made up of this data, as is our awareness of ourself. We therefore "survive death" in two ways. The quarks that make up the matter of our body will continue to evolve and change, made manifest in the decay of the body and its eventual transformation into nutrients which are then incorporated into other life forms, or into inanimate beings. The quarks that make up the nonphysical aspect of our existence -- our mind, spirit, or 'soul' for lack of a better term -- in turn flow onward into a new configuration.

c. All things that we perceive are nothing less or more than manifested potentials from the All. When we "die", we simply return to the All, to be remanifest. When we 'remember our past lives' we are doing nothing more complex than tapping into the infinite databank that is the quantum level of the All. I suspect it is easier to access data that pertains to the quarks we are specifically made of, that it seems "closer", and that less related data seems "farther away", with totally unconnected and unrelated information being "far off", at least from the limited perspective of a single manifest potential. In short, when we die, even if our quarks do 'fragment' and swirl off to become other things rather than remaining in a coherent 'cloud' as a 'soul' is usually imagined, the fact that time and space do not exist on the quantum level as we usually conceive them (in fact, they may not exist at all except as bits of data equal to any other stored in the quarks) means that all that you have ever been and will ever be exists simultaneously for you when your awareness is at that level of existence.

3. Do you believe in reincarnation?

My answer to the last question answers this one as well. The All is an infinite sea of potential constantly manifesting, being, then unmanifesting via the process of entropy. Once matter is subject to entropy, it reverts into energy, which itself reverts to raw data. It then goes without saying that the process continues indefinitely, without beginning or end, due to the very nature of the process. A potential which is unmanifest is remanifest; energy released from entrophied matter coalesces into new molecules to become new matter. All is fluid, all is infinite, constantly destroying that it may create anew.

4. Do you think man has ever walked on the moon? Explain.

I don't see any reason why they couldn't have. It is theoretically possible that we will be able to master teleportation technology; it is simply a matter of translating understanding of quantum dynamics into practical applications. Granted that's not really "simple", but compared to a problem in which you don't even know if the laws of the universe will even allow it to be done, or how to find out if that's so, it's relatively tractable. Considering how much we've poured into our technology magic -- making it so ubiquitous in our lives that we do not even recognize its true nature anymore and have not for untold ages, perhaps in some cases never -- I do not find it implausible that humans could have walked on the moon. Certainly we've done a lot in space since then that's 100% undeniable. I'll put it this way. If humans could build the space station MIR (which certainly and provably existed) and inhabit it, they could certainly visit the moon briefly.

That said, it is also possible that the moon landing was a hoax. In fact, in an alternate reality-tunnel, it is a hoax. But in *our* shared-reality-tunnel I suspect it really did happen.

5. Do you think aliens (ETs) have visited Earth? Explain.

This is really two questions -- do I believe that aliens exist, and if so, do I believe they've come to Earth?

My answer to this question has to be prefaced by an explanation of my understanding of reality (that which hasn't already been covered above, that is.) Firstly, existence is truly and literally infinite, which means non-finite, which means not limited in any way. This is true beyond argument; I have experienced its limitlessness first-hand. It's not the same as experiencing something too big to fully comprehend. Even if you can't make it all out, you can still tell, intuitively if not with your direct senses, that there is an end to it all -someplace-, a limit, a border, a boundary. But when your awareness drops to the Eighth Circuit and you get a direct glimpse of quantum data processing, you touch the true infinity, and you feel that truth of it beyond all question.  The simple mathematical consequence of this fact, which I indulge myself by calling the Universal Law of Probability, is as follows:

If something is even the slightest bit possible -- no matter how remotely so -- then not only has it happened, but it has happened infinite times at infinite locations and will continue to happen infinitely.

There is, however, an absolutely critical corollary to this Law. It states the following:

The numerical 'likelihood' or probability of a given potential does not represent the chance that the potential will /ever/ manifest, as anything that can happen does, infinitely. Rather, it is the chance that a given potential will manifest anywhere remotely near enough to a given observer's location such that it can actually be perceived, interacted with, and such.

It seems to me that, even if one allows for a very open-minded definition of the concept of "life", even if one presumes that human ideas about what is 'required' for life (of some form or another) to exist ludicrously underestimate life's versatility and tenacity, it still seems very unlikely that there would be another race of beings all *that* similar to us *that* close by. I am certain that life exists elsewhere than on Earth, sentient life included. I am simply not convinced that, even if it is anywhere remotely close to Earth, it would resemble anything humans have ever conceived, or behave as humans would ever expect. Or it might be startlingly familiar in a completely unexpected guise -- perhaps that's where, say, dragon legends came from and why dragons are no longer seen and none of their bones or other evidence are ever found? Just blue-mooning, but you get my point, I think.

I'm not saying that it's never happened. Or that it has. I'm just saying that I've never seen any convincing evidence to say for sure that it has, and I tend to think it's rather improbable. But far enough from impossible that I nurse a secret hope of seeing a First Official Contact in this lifetime. It's not fervent or strong or anything. I don't really think about it much. But it is sitting there, silently, at the back of my psyche, presuming disappointment but nevertheless possessed of a drop of hope just big enough to keep from dissolving, just in case it is ever needed.

6. Have you ever experienced orbs? Explain.

Orbs? I have no idea. I've never encountered that term in this context on its own before. I'll do some research, then come back and edit this question, maybe, because for all I know, I have and don't realize it just because I don't know the term and never thought to discuss it.

7. Do you believe in Big Foot? Explain.

Eh; I dunno. Certainly we don't know everything about Earth's biosphere, but something about it just doesn't seem right. There may well be great furry beasts out there of some sort or another which we don't understand, but I doubt the reality bears much resemblance to the stereotypical Big Foot.

8. Do you meditate?

Constantly. There are many ways to meditate, however, and not everyone would recognize everything I do as 'meditation', although it is. For example, I make great use of teacher plants and substances, incenses, varying activities, music, location, and other tools to produce specific 'hues'/'colors' of psychospiritual being. I try to explore all of myself and all of existence as much as possible, so I make use of all the tools that work for me as much as possible, albeit always with respect and moderation relative to my needs, biochemistry, understanding, and so forth. You can meditate while singing with music, while asleep and dreaming, while exercising,  and so on just as effectively as when seated silently in the lotus position. Different tools and techniques are most suited for various different situations, goals, et cetera. 

9. Do you believe in angels? Explain.

Sort of. 'Angels' are just another sort of nonphysical active thought-form, which I call 'spirits' for lack of a better word. Some are probably self-aware; some may not be. I would expect that there are thoughtforms which, from the Spacetime perspective, 'predate' human religions which involve angels but which are similar enough in behavior that humans predisposed to such concepts interpret them as such. For the most part, however, I would lean towards the hypothesis which states that 'angels' are generally the consequence of mass belief in religions which preach the existence of angels. When a person believes in something, they invest energy in it -- meaning they create a pocket of data which is outside themselves precisely because it is directed at something they consider 'outside' themselves. With enough people doing the same thing more or less consistently, enough data will eventually pile up in order for the rough conceptual equivalent of Bose-Einstein condensates to begin forming. When a given 'pocket' of data reaches a critical mass of content and complexity, it becomes self-aware. This is my theory, anyhow, and I have worked diligently to try to test it, as much as possible. It is very difficult given the limitations in my own life that I must work with, but no matter. I persevere out of love and need to understand.

10. What is your concept of God?

God is nothing more and nothing less than the unified awareness and totality of All, the fundamental wholeness, the superior sum of infinite parts. What most people worship in the name of "God" are simply facets of this eternality; this is not to say that, say, Yahweh or whomever is not real. They are indeed gods, mighty thoughtforms indeed capable of much more than even many of their believers would give them credit for. They are not, however, God. This is why so many of them are jealous of their worshippers -- because they NEED them. A god without worshippers becomes stagnant, lost, receives no new data, no new energy, and withers away. S/he/it will not cease to exist, of course, but it ceases to -change-, to evolve, to grow, to move toward eventual re-unity with All. It simply exists, essentially in a sort of thinking stasis as far as Spacetime is concerned. All spiritual progress as an entity ceases. Therefore many gods fight bitterly for worship, to the point of directing their followers to kill each other in dramatic, attention-getting ways. It's all to feed themselves, to keep themselves going, to keep growing, evolving... in short, to stay meaningfully alive.

The true God, meanwhile, is literally everything. It is All. There really isn't much more that can be said.