A divine revelation

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When I was 18 I suffered what I feel was a divine revelation.



I was walking back through my towns streets from my dealers house where I'd picked up 50 tabs of acid when it happened. I was for all intents and purposes, stone cold sober.

Police were approaching on the pavement and I resolved to look normal as I figured they had nothing on me, they quizzed who I was and apologised saying I looked like someone they were after. I'm 6'6 so that's fucking unlikely, but maybe they were watching the dealers place and wanted to build up info, who knows.


I mention this only to impart that I was not in a normal state of mind at the time. It was dusk and the streets were dark but the sky was still light, obscured by the terraced housing. I carried on my way relieved and several steps later had a vision that almost caused me to stumble. It was nothing revelatory, just a flash of grey/pink gradated light and a black wedge/line curved across it. As surprising as it was, it lasted only a fraction of a second and I put it down to a perceptual disturbance like a rush to head or the like, an experience, being tall with low blood pressure that I'm familiar with.

It was ten minutes later that I was walking across a bridge where the view of the sky was exposed, the wind blew my fringe across my eyes and I flicked my head to put it back in place. The flash of grey/pink light was the sunset, the curved wedge of black was my fringe in front of my eye, the image was identical.

The timing of it, such that I still had full recollection of the unusual first image, and my absolute certainty as to the experience lead me to conclude that I had been shown in no uncertain terms that the universe was entirely fated. That I had been shown a glimpse of my immediate future.

This I reasoned was the best evidence I'd ever had for their being a God, the beaming into my brain of that near future image not only told me the future was as scripted as the past, but that I was supposed to know this. That some intentionality chose to reveal this universal truth to me and in that moment reveal to me that such intentionality existed beyond myself. It brought tears to my eyes, I laughed at the joy of it all.

At the time I was certain it was God, as time has passed I feel it might have been the universe itself, aliens, demons. Recently I think of it as maybe an artifact of myself as my post singularity self relives a simulation of its own life, the most meaningful simulation it could create.

Anyway. I've never experienced anything like it, 25 years later I'm still convinced there is only one possible reality, that God does not play dice with the universe.
 
I was so close to referencing Philip K Dick and Valis, read that a few years later and was shook!
I suspect we're in some kind of simulation. But there are a lot more questions than answers.
 
When I was 18 I suffered what I feel was a divine revelation.



I was walking back through my towns streets from my dealers house where I'd picked up 50 tabs of acid when it happened. I was for all intents and purposes, stone cold sober.

Police were approaching on the pavement and I resolved to look normal as I figured they had nothing on me, they quizzed who I was and apologised saying I looked like someone they were after. I'm 6'6 so that's fucking unlikely, but maybe they were watching the dealers place and wanted to build up info, who knows.


I mention this only to impart that I was not in a normal state of mind at the time. It was dusk and the streets were dark but the sky was still light, obscured by the terraced housing. I carried on my way relieved and several steps later had a vision that almost caused me to stumble. It was nothing revelatory, just a flash of grey/pink gradated light and a black wedge/line curved across it. As surprising as it was, it lasted only a fraction of a second and I put it down to a perceptual disturbance like a rush to head or the like, an experience, being tall with low blood pressure that I'm familiar with.

It was ten minutes later that I was walking across a bridge where the view of the sky was exposed, the wind blew my fringe across my eyes and I flicked my head to put it back in place. The flash of grey/pink light was the sunset, the curved wedge of black was my fringe in front of my eye, the image was identical.

The timing of it, such that I still had full recollection of the unusual first image, and my absolute certainty as to the experience lead me to conclude that I had been shown in no uncertain terms that the universe was entirely fated. That I had been shown a glimpse of my immediate future.

This I reasoned was the best evidence I'd ever had for their being a God, the beaming into my brain of that near future image not only told me the future was as scripted as the past, but that I was supposed to know this. That some intentionality chose to reveal this universal truth to me and in that moment reveal to me that such intentionality existed beyond myself. It brought tears to my eyes, I laughed at the joy of it all.

At the time I was certain it was God, as time has passed I feel it might have been the universe itself, aliens, demons. Recently I think of it as maybe an artifact of myself as my post singularity self relives a simulation of its own life, the most meaningful simulation it could create.

Anyway. I've never experienced anything like it, 25 years later I'm still convinced there is only one possible reality, that God does not play dice with the universe.
Certain events or happenings in the future are 'fixed' but not all.
It is, as is everything a paradox of free will and determinism.
The immediate future is more 'fixed' than the distant future...usually.
And yes 'God' is real becauss it is also the Universe.
There are certain paths that are more aligned with what you should be doing, synchronicities can show you this way also.

How was the acid?
 
There's definitely something, maybe multiple different somethings if that makes sense. Might have to do with our brains or bodies being in tune which let's us experience things. I've always been able to tell when something bad is about to happen. I would feel like this negative wave that hits fast and lingers then after a few days it passes. Similar to your vision, premonitions are warnings of future events which get picked up by our senses.
 
I suspect we're in some kind of simulation. But there are a lot more questions than answers.

I like the idea, simulation, game etc. Christianity has all the players being judged/ranked at the end of time. I think that's how the idea of the soul or reincarnation can work. Not a thing in you that's not detectable in this reality but a part of you outside of this reality.

Certain events or happenings in the future are 'fixed' but not all.
It is, as is everything a paradox of free will and determinism.
The immediate future is more 'fixed' than the distant future...usually.
And yes 'God' is real becauss it is also the Universe.
There are certain paths that are more aligned with what you should be doing, synchronicities can show you this way also.

How was the acid?
I believe everything is fixed, that God does not play dice with the universe. But I appreciate the view. I think that's a result of perceptual ability rather than any example of indeterminism.

Agree re God being another word for universe,

Agree that synchronicity can illuminate.

It was great, everyone at the party had a fun time!
There's definitely something, maybe multiple different somethings if that makes sense. Might have to do with our brains or bodies being in tune which let's us experience things. I've always been able to tell when something bad is about to happen. I would feel like this negative wave that hits fast and lingers then after a few days it passes. Similar to your vision, premonitions are warnings of future events which get picked up by our senses.

Yeah, I'm a fundamentalist rationalist. I don't believe in shit that ain't substantiated, and I'd never have had this perspective without the above revelation.

It's the one instance where I've had to accept a core divergence from most established views of reality. Happened at a time with no mental instability, no history of hallucination or the like and absolutely startling. I was walking along thinking "that was fucking weird" with no context to the image, then reality itself conspired to give me the context.
 
When I was 18 I suffered what I feel was a divine revelation.



I was walking back through my towns streets from my dealers house where I'd picked up 50 tabs of acid when it happened. I was for all intents and purposes, stone cold sober.

Police were approaching on the pavement and I resolved to look normal as I figured they had nothing on me, they quizzed who I was and apologised saying I looked like someone they were after. I'm 6'6 so that's fucking unlikely, but maybe they were watching the dealers place and wanted to build up info, who knows.


I mention this only to impart that I was not in a normal state of mind at the time. It was dusk and the streets were dark but the sky was still light, obscured by the terraced housing. I carried on my way relieved and several steps later had a vision that almost caused me to stumble. It was nothing revelatory, just a flash of grey/pink gradated light and a black wedge/line curved across it. As surprising as it was, it lasted only a fraction of a second and I put it down to a perceptual disturbance like a rush to head or the like, an experience, being tall with low blood pressure that I'm familiar with.

It was ten minutes later that I was walking across a bridge where the view of the sky was exposed, the wind blew my fringe across my eyes and I flicked my head to put it back in place. The flash of grey/pink light was the sunset, the curved wedge of black was my fringe in front of my eye, the image was identical.

The timing of it, such that I still had full recollection of the unusual first image, and my absolute certainty as to the experience lead me to conclude that I had been shown in no uncertain terms that the universe was entirely fated. That I had been shown a glimpse of my immediate future.

This I reasoned was the best evidence I'd ever had for their being a God, the beaming into my brain of that near future image not only told me the future was as scripted as the past, but that I was supposed to know this. That some intentionality chose to reveal this universal truth to me and in that moment reveal to me that such intentionality existed beyond myself. It brought tears to my eyes, I laughed at the joy of it all.

At the time I was certain it was God, as time has passed I feel it might have been the universe itself, aliens, demons. Recently I think of it as maybe an artifact of myself as my post singularity self relives a simulation of its own life, the most meaningful simulation it could create.

Anyway. I've never experienced anything like it, 25 years later I'm still convinced there is only one possible reality, that God does not play dice with the universe.
sounds like some good shit, pity the cops didn't wait just a minute to share your enthusiasm.
 
The machines simply changed something in the Matrix. Happens all the time.

From what I understand that explains deja vu, the feeling of seeing the same thing before, or having lived the same thing before. Whereas my experience was a vision, an image, which minutes later was the exact view of sky and hair, horizon etc. Not a feeling, but an exact recollection of a recent, entirely novel and remarkable event.

But it's similar enough that I could imagine the definition stretches to encompass it.

sounds like some good shit, pity the cops didn't wait just a minute to share your enthusiasm.
If they had I couldn't have had the experience as I wouldn't have been where I was.

Reality is one thing, spacetime is one thing, there is no other possibility.
 
I had a shared experience once of time stopping and it was as if a bubble had formed around me and the other person the air was very still and it felt like the atmospheric pressure had altered dramatically. It was the other person that commented first about the strange experience. It's never happened again.
 
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