Time to blow your mind - the "block world" concept

[TheLotusEater]

@Lady Eva

[quote=“TheLotusEater, post:6, topic:2683”]I heard Terence McKenna once say that it is extremely unlikely that all of this is happening in real-time. I wasn’t sure what that meant but this gets me closer to understanding it.

Our very own Sultitan_Itan did a post recently that encapsulates that possibility:

@Sultitan_Itan

Most initiatory paths are designed to help divert you from confronting the fact that the world is yours. The world you live in is not the world other people live in; it has been issued directly to you and you own it. You’re conditioned from an early age to think that you must answer to everyone else, that things happen out there and you react to them, but in reality everything out there answers to you. Those people and events out there are not “sharing a timeline” with you - these particular copies of them are being rendered in YOUR timeline. Your experience of perceiving things that “occur” “out there” is actually the boomerang reaction of an intention to perceive “what’s going on out there.” You look first, then you see. Everything “out there” is on YOUR turf, and the difference between accepting and integrating the awareness of that and using the surface “work” of magic to divert yourself away from it is the difference between magic and mysticism, a line that humans intentionally blur because the implications of the former are disconcerting to their conditioned notions of self and identity.

I’ve had experiences that bear this out and I think tapping into this concept along with the block-world stuff is valuable - well for me anyway, I have to be able to believe in magick before I can think it works, and when my belief is absolute because it has a theoretical underpinning, the bastardly “doubt” is completely banished.

It beats down the culturally ingrained skepticism I’ve been immersed in, on its own home ground - the language of science and physically measurable phenomena.[/quote]
Ehhh…Ive been down that road and I can see why that point of view makes sense, but the problem that at least I keep running into is that when you run into another self-aware person, or another magician even, and spend even 10 minutes with them, the whole thing just crumbles because suddenly there’s another entity in your immediate space that has all the abilities you do, to the extent that they can change your reality every bit as much as you can change theirs. Add more magicians to the room and it just gets weirder, and I would say this forum is an example! Im not claiming that anybody’s right or wrong, but I think there’s more going on than we may be aware of.