This article describes such states of consciousness induced by psychedelic drugs, although they are virtually indistinguishable from genuine mystical experience.
Don’t let the name of this place fool you. Here you won’t find Lululemon attire or slim, fit yoga bodies. Here there are no warrior poses or excessive handstands.
It’s possible to use illusion to create a different reality for oneself, and sometimes even for entire groups of people.
Astrology concurs that the manifest personality can be altered according to time and place as well. We are not as fixed as we may have thought…
Ask the question: Who is Ishvara and how will special devotion bring me to that high level of super consciousness?
You can realize Truth in experience, but you cannot “think truth.” The best that thoughts can do is point you in the direction of that ultimate, essential truth.
If God is love, how could he ask anyone to sacrifice his only son? Isn’t it a sadistic God who would test his believer with such a torturous task, only to turn around last minute with a “just kidding”?
It takes tremendous courage and self-knowledge to say “I don’t know what to do; teach me what you know so I may act wisely.”