Truth Seeking, what is life, what is humanity, what is you Options

as the topic suggests.

Lately i am missing more occult discussions on these forums. altough i like talking about vegetarianism and drugs, i want to talk more about the nature of my beliefs and study.
namely the search for pure untainted truth. and the gathering of as much power as i can contain.
Those are my goals, towards enlightenment.

I was wondering how others view their search for whatever they are searching for.
perhaps some have found some form of truth they are content with, i wish to hear about these opinions in a respectable way.
no bashing others ideas, just sharing (IMG:style_emoticons/default/baby.gif)

I myself belief in non-existance. however i believe this truth has to be experienced in an enlightening experience, or more experiences.
at the moment i have experienced this at times. but i seem to keep forgetting it in the long run, and their seems to be a need for constant experiencing this non-existance. thus to live fully in this awarenes. This is hard to do, but rewarding as it makes life a peacefull experiences.

No-mind, the stopping of mind chatter is the primary practise of this belief, toghether with meditation.

this i try to combine with ceremonial magick, trying to get a taste and feeling of magickal essense and energys. i have found they have a distinct taste when working with them over the years. enlarging this taste and connection is one of my goals.

the increase in magickal potence gives me more control over things in life trough magick. this enables me to worry less about things not nesesary for the first goal of no mind. This way i can use magick to steer my life where i want it with little effort, so that i can practise no-mind and non-existance in an undisturbed way.

However, i have many questions still and many ways to go.

I hope this will get a possible discussion started, perhaps we can enlighten each other on various ways.
i would really like to learn more about the magickal side, sinse i consider myself still a child in learning at that side. The consepts of the spiritual side are easier.

so lets get started, anyone wanna share their core beliefs, mentalities conserning their practise. not really the tools of the trade, but really what goes on in the head while doing them. feelings tastes sensations that happen during practise.

my magick practise tastes verry purple. the nature of these energies tastes not evil or good, its a strange taste. a feeling of strength and energy without a connection to good or evil, a purple goo swirling around me. this is not something i visualise, its not important to me how you visualise your magick. its the feedback you get. no matter how i visualise my magick acts, it always tastes like this to me, wich is something i think more true than my visualisations.

I believe that by discussing these tactile connections we can learn from each other how to closer connect to these energies. in truth and not merely visualisation techniques. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

lets begin...

i love your description of the various energies, its nice to see others that try to taste and feel certain energies.

i myself had a lot of trouble with this in the beginning. I might even have begun magickal study to achieve powers like on tv. with the trowing of energy balls and such.
However, that search has led me to more spiritual paths.

I always had problems with seeing things too, and i must admit that it made me feel unhappy at times when i read about full blown magick done by others.
But lately i have stopped caring about this, i just perform the magick and try to sense what is going on as good as i can.
My practise is focused more on the spiritual side anyway, and visuals are not needed on that path, control over the mind is more important.

my idea of non-existance is also a form of assenscion. The silencing of the mind i believe leads to this, when the mind is silence other parts of consiousness awaken. This way i think one can dive deeper and deeper into what is the subtle body you speak about.
In this way when the chatter of the lower mind is silenced more and more, the higher parts open more and more.
I believe there to be several levels to it, and i have felt myself when the lower mind silence.

I have walked around this way for about a month last year, after serious deep meditation and study of eastern paths. I felt a silence inside, my mind was never thinking about anything, everything would roll of my back since it could find no place in my mind. At the same time i felt love at everything i saw, the birds, the trees, the bus i was riding and the people in it. It was powerfull to feel this way and happy. However, due to that happynes i started to slack and it wore of after about a month. Lately i have been seeking that experience again, i think i should keep at it and keep practising even after i have found it again.

I love the idea you talk about death. I believe it may be so too. Perhaps after training and preparing the subtle body it is able to keep existing at a higher level an ascended plane. perhaps the true immortals where able to ascend in place but we may wait for death to come naturally, so that we are naturally severed from our body.

I really liked your reply. Talking about personal sensations and feelings when dealing with magick and spirituality is so much more learning than dry text books like the ones written by various occult authors. these authors talk mostly about universal things, and how you should feel, and never about how it feels to them personally. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)