• InternetLefty [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    The latest internet spiritualism fads seem to be so invested in a no-rules type of spirituality that is ultimately very solipsistic. I think it’s a result of our late capitalist isolation - some people want to push back against it but others fully embrace it. The idea that you can create a whole different reality based solely on your OWN decisions where other people are essentially just objects in your new reality while you maintain subjectivity is very solipsistic. 21st century cults are reflective of our new stay-at-home reality - why go to the compound with the rest of your Brothers and Sisters? Stay at home, microdose mushrooms and colloidal silver, and have your cult delivered to you over the Internet!

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    I can’t even dunk on shit like this it just makes me sad. I so understand just wanting to be in another world and hoping beyond hope that you’ll just one day wake up where it’s better and not hell world

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    People who have no connection to material reality will make up all kinds of bullshit ideologies and world views.

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      Reminds me of this subreddit I came across once called /r/twinflames. As far as I can tell it’s like the concept of a “soul mate.” I was introduced to it by a user posting about how their life sucks because their “partner” or something (I can’t remember what word they used) won’t spend time with them. And everyone was like “dude this person wants nothing to do with you leave them alone” and I checked their post history and it was full of this twin flames stuff where they had convinced themselves they had some kind of supernatural connection with some random person who literally did not even want to be friends with them. After a little bit of pushback from people outside that sub they deleted their entire account. Probably made another one and just hang around in the creepy echo chamber after that.

      (Oh god one of the top posts right now mentions shifting, there’s a connection scared seriously though this stuff is freaky)

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    7 months ago

    Believe it or not it also happens whenever you jerk off. Your alternate reality version jerked off to something much less disgusting.

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    7 months ago

    shifting is moving your consciousness from one reality, the one your currently in, to a reality that you want to be in.

    Manifest destiny.

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    7 months ago

    i hate that i already knew about this because a relative got really into it like a bit over 6 months ago or so, tbf she’s also 13 and realised it was bullshit after like two weeks so i think she can be forgiven

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    I’m reading their FAQ and it’s pretty crank. The thing I’ve noticed is that everyone has a desired reality (DR) but since it’s extraordinarily unlikely that people will share the same DR due to differences in what they consciously and subconsciously desire, the vast majority of DR would be populated by clones with only the shifter as the “real” conscious agent, which is pretty depressing. Almost nothing that happens in the DR transfers over to current reality (CR), which makes the DR pretty pointless outside of experiencing a particular psychedelic experience or, as I suspect, as a form of escapism and coping in a harsh reality. Something bad happens in CR, you shift to your DR as your clone in CR eats shit, and you shift back to CR after the dust has settled.

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      Tbh this description doesn’t seem to conform to the posts I’ve been reading where people describe their own experience with it.

      It seems like lucid dreaming is an important part for many, like a gateway, but it is unclear to me whether they are describing an extended lucid dream where they go to a separate reality in the dream (a lot of Harry potter based realities apparently) and their physical body is just sleeping.

      Some say they have shifted for years and then woken up a day later. Some describe a “clone” of themselves doing all the things they would do, while they themselves are living in a separate reality.

      It all seems very idiosyncratic from person to person.

      Edit: even the clones part is unclear.

      Clones are really just parallel realitys.

      When everyone thinks of clones they think of them in this reality being life an empty shell and obeying their commands of their script after they shift to their Dr.

      What are clones actually? -The reality of it is, clones don’t exist. When you script that your clone will clean your room while you are gone, you are essentially scripting that you’ll come back to a parallel reality in which you cleaned your room.

      Whatever you script your “clone” to do, you’re simply scripting to shift back to a reality in which you did that, not changing or altering what you’re going to do in this specific reality once you shift. You would not be coming back to the same reality.

      You can not control realitys or specific people in realities while you’re not even there, so I don’t know where the misconception of clones came in at.

      TLDR; clones aren’t real, you’re shifting to parallel realities.