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14:31 / 25.09.01

Has anybody ever had an information download from the beyond? What sort of information was it? How has is changed your life?

17:26 / 25.09.01

I had OS/2 on one of my computers. It produced a very deep fear of hardware vendors producing operating systems.

09:54 / 26.09.01

Not quite what you're asking, but years ago myself & my brother had an experience that's somewhat relevant. One time we'd been walking along a country road at night. It was a pretty creepy place and we had the impression of being followed home by something. Afterwards we both went kind of psychic for a while - in conversations we'd suddenly know bits of information about people we were talking to. Unfortunately it was pretty random, and limited to stuff like guessing the most embarrassing record they owned. This strangely useless gift stopped after a couple of weeks - with maybe 2 or 3 occurrences each. No real effect on our lives except for freaking out a few friends.

We had a theory that we might have activated some kind of psychic self defence mechanism - like whatever innate psychic awareness we possessed had gone into overdrive...

09:54 / 26.09.01

hmmm...
first time I experienced DMT... was that all over...

The second time I did 'Shrooms as well...

about the 3rd time I tried Salvia... I then developed a modestly green thumb.

hrmmmm... is there a patturn here?

Aside from the ones on the walls I mean...huh? what do you mean "what walls" . . . those. We're outside??? oh yeah sure... & that's NOT a pink bunny!

09:54 / 26.09.01

My first major download occured when I saw the chaos triangle for the first time.

The mysteries of triangulation. The blinding light.

The next major download occured at an outdoor rave called earthcore on new years eve 5 years ago.

The secret future history of the neurotech conspiracy and the traitor rebellion.

I'm still decyphering that puzzle. It involved plant telepathy, 3 dimensional time and the spiritual machine synthesis.

The last major download was first bad trip (about 3 years ago now). It was one of the most horrific experiences of my life so far. It ended my love affair with acid.

It involved apocalypse of various flavours, gut-renching self loathing and fear, being positioned in the god-head and being terrified of it. Being directly attacked by a version of hell I had designed myself.

I believed I had arrived at the last day of the world. I was the instrument of apocalypse. I was destined to be stabbed to death by my best friend to end the world. Trying to avoid this would only make the suffering greater and would not prevent the envitable. I was doomed.

I have never been more afraid in my life.

The information from the trip is still being assilmilated

These event have altered my life completely.

09:54 / 26.09.01

No, but once, due to some freak occurance, my 14.4K baud modem downloaded a meg in about 5 seconds.

Which means one of two things - a) the Man is keeping connection rates down on hardware that can handle more... or b) it was cached up and it just looked that way.

09:54 / 26.09.01

Just a couple of days ago I made contact with my Spirit Guide (who first appeared to me quite spontaneously during a visualisation session. I've been attempting to strengthen the connection ever since.)

She told me "Rosemary" or "Rose Marie". I'm not sure which and I have no idea what it means!

(However, can I just say how damn cool it is to be able to genuinely say stuff like this! Spirit guides are talking to me! Yay!)

[ 26-09-2001: Message edited by: Warewullf ]

11:48 / 26.09.01

Rosemary is for remembrance.
That's the only bit of that sort of herb lore I can remember. There were correspondences for all sorts of plants in centuries gone.

Have I received "downloads"?
Well, sudden, minor epiphanies, yeah, but nothing major.

12:02 / 26.09.01

Found this as well:it improves your circulation and memory and is a powerful antioxidant. Magickally, it is used for good luck and the enhancement of love.

My memory is rubbish. Maybe I should try some Withcraft to enhance it...

(Source: The Electric Witch )

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

12:08 / 26.09.01

When I was fifteen, I was mowing the lawn (a perfect setting for meditation, although I didn't know i was doing so at the time) when I happened upon the idea that all is God. He's not a seperate thing from the universe, I thought to myself. He IS the universe. We are all God! Holy Shit! Like Rumi said (something else I didn't know at the time), "God is the lamp and we are all holes in the lampshade". I figured I had realized something really important. I felt like I was floating a couple of inches off the ground, like I could walk off down the street and never say a word to another soul in my life and be perfectly happy just walking around. I was so at peace and joyful...I would kill to experience that again. That eventually led me to things like Taoism and Zen, which have affected my life for the good. Things made a great deal more sense after that.

20:49 / 26.09.01

Cosmic information download is the family business.

I've lost track of the amount of times I've had prophetic insight into people and situations. This stuff has been the bedrock of my life since before birth.

By the way, any thinking person will understand how much the above is not a boast. It's made my life incredibly hard. Imagine second guessing every decision, and the problems that inherently come with how other people see a hereditary anointing.

The most immediately relevant example:

I've had two major dreams that have predicted the future course of my life's events in exact detail. They acted as maps for my actions and decisions. In a way, I'm still working through the implications of both. I posted one to the board ages ago, but I've forgotten which thread.