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Hello. I wrote a very long post, but I clicked back and it got deleted... Here goes short version.
The world we live in today is nothing, but electrical signals in the brain. It is designed to appear very much real. Yet it is an illusory reality formulated by our brains, which itself isn't real. What is real? Consciousness is real. We are the conscious part of the universe becoming aware of itself. All consciousness comes from a source or 1 local point and it is connected like the world wide web.

Think of the computer/internet as a simulation, within a simulation(bigger so called "Real world". We are the consciousness giving life, and meaning to the virtual world. Without consciousness the avatars on world of Warcraft wouldn't function.

The time when man first discovered fire is when man became divided. There were those who possessed technology and were powerful, and those who didn't. As civilizations progressed there became 4 distinct classes. The poor, middle, rich, and shadow class(also called priests).

Priests keep record of the occult knowledge. While the profane (us) live in ignorance. We must begin to uncover the occult knowledge, and start taking psychedelics to better understand consciousness and improve ourselves.

I was with you until the bit about priests and psychedelics. Biblical priests are totally different: YHWH wanted his priests to teach the common person and anyone who joined his set-apart nation. Same law for both Gentile and Jew. He didn't want his ways kept "secret"; his ways are discerned by reading what's written, heeding the prophets, Jesus and the apostles—not taking drugs. In fact, he's always telling us to be sober-minded to prevent losing discernment and getting into trouble (i.e. don't get drunk, you might get your nakedness uncovered or get into brawls - Habakkuk 2:15; Proverbs 20:1). If you're hallucinating on psychedelics, and you're walking around, who knows what you'll fall into. The fact that there is such a thing as a "bad trip", is enough to fully dissuade me from trying it. Not to mention, what people describe seeing and feeling during the bad trip; it sounds demonic. Now that I mention it, it reminds me of this verse that connects lack of sobriety with getting attacked by the devil (1 Peter 5:8 ). When you're not aware of your surroundings nor aware of the nature of what you're engaging in/experiencing, you're easy prey apparently.

But anyway about the priests and their duty to teach everyone:
















I included two prophets (Habakkuk and Jeremiah), but the point remains: divine information was intended to reach the masses, not by drugs but priests and prophets.

IMO, occult knowledge/mystery religions and "secret" gospels are demonic in origin:

I think this is a "1 Peter 5:8" situation; dark spirits waiting to pounce on us the moment we enter the spiritual realm and aren't armed with YHWH's discernment or protection. And this coming from a person who actively pursued the occult and was often attacked during sleep (until I repented away from all that and unto YHWH and his commands).

The biblical worldview divides the information between two sources: from the Most High or from lesser beings/fallen angels/demons. Those fallen beings:

• (1) also operate in the spiritual realm, seeing as they are spirits,
  
  
• (2) have been known to divulge information to human beings, (Book of Enoch, Chapter 6 to 8; but also, the spirits behind false prophets - 1 John 4:1; 1 Timothy 4:1; and some times, when his people wouldn't repent, YHWH would himself send deceiving spirits as punishment i.e. 1 Kings 22:23, teaching things/advising them in ways that went against his law and brought about their own destruction; in the end, it's their choice for choosing to listen to these miraculous, deceiving spirits instead of the law he gave them through his prophets and son; anything that speaks against his commandments is false).
  
  
• (3) are capable of giving us psychic abilities (example, Acts 16:16-19, she was possessed and the apostle Paul, whom was in-dwelled with the Holy Spirit, drove her divining spirit out; that spirit allowed her to know about people she never met and enabled her to predict the future),
  
  
• (4) want to lead us to our death once they take possession of a corpse, human or animal (like how the demons drove the pigs into the lake in Matthew 8:30-31 to drown them, and drove a kid through fire and water in Mark 9:22 in attempts to burn/drown him to death, respectively; people undergoing "bad trips" are described as having "suicidal tendencies", sounds just like demonic possession). I for one do believe in Jesus' miracles and his exorcisms as they're documented in the canonical gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John), including the information he offers about demons.

The devil/darkness can endow a person with power, enabling you to perform miracles too, according to 2 Thessalonians 2:9. When they accused Jesus of being endowed by the dark side, he said Satan will not/cannot drive out Satan, he was doing it instead by the power of the Holy Spirit (Matthew 12:26-32); so, there must be two opposing forces then: if you believe the Jesus of the scriptures is dark side, then you'll believe the one behind astrology, divination, medium-ship and channeling is of the light. But I believe Jesus is of the light, thereby making his adversaries dark and all the practices condemned by our Heavenly Father being of the dark too.

Another example are the Pharaoh's magicians (though the devil is never credited outright, Pharaoh's magicians are coming against Moses—a man empowered by YHWH's Holy Spirit—in an attempt to discredit Moses' miracles and the source from which those miracles come from; thus we can infer that it's from the devil/fallen spirits since they're coming against YHWH, not in support of him). And in Revelation 13:4, the beast and false prophet are enabled by the devil's power.

Those are the two sources the bible gives: YHWH or demonic. If either of these two would be classified as "shadow", it would be the demons. Also "of the shadow" would be false prophets and corrupted priests who speak against YHWH's revelations (again, the revelations which we common people have access to; revelations which are anti-elite as well, which I'll get to). From personal experience in astral projection (or attempts to do it, rather) and the occult itself (I engaged in divination; won't mention the type as I do not want to encourage anyone to pursue it), I'm convinced of this: the occult is demonic/shadow; YHWH and his scriptures are life-giving light.

If we were to follow what Jesus says, that would definitely collapse the entire materialistic/capitalist society, yet his information, as we common folk have in our hands today, is revealed for all to see; it's not secret. The way the early Christians lived, when finally filled with the Holy spirit in Acts 2, is diametrically opposed to "greedy hoarding of material wealth".

Acts 2:42-47 (NIV)

42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43 Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. 44 All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. 46 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, 47 praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

Also, like I hinted at earlier, the information in the scriptures is very anti-elite: Zephaniah 1:8; Isaiah 24:21; Psalm 76:12, to name a few. He's always threatening the kings of a nation, his own nation more often than not, especially when they're not following the scriptures given to the Israelites, as we common people have them written in our hands today, not some secret version. Threatening to kill the kings and priests who don't teach according to our common folk scripture (Hosea 5:1) is anti-elite, not pro-elite/dark-side. Israel wasn't even a formidable nation; they're not like China or North Korea. YHWH always picks the little guy, beats out the elites who come against his anointed, and wins (i.e. poor carpenter Jesus, poor shepherd-boy David, barren Sarah, speech-impediment Moses to lead/speak on behalf of YHWH when leading a whole nation out of egypt).

Not only did he often hate elites, but also elitist attitudes:

Luke 14:12-14 (NIV)

12 Then Jesus said to his host, “When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or sisters, your relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid. 13 But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, 14 and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

When you have the bible speaking against the elites and elitist attitudes, you have to ask yourself: is it actually a part of the shadow? What keeps us in bondage is debt, love of money, the pride of life, being guided by the desires of the flesh instead of the spirit, and he spoke against all of that in the widely-accessible scriptures we have today, even adding provisions in his society to free people from debt every 7 years and 50 years; if they couldn't pay what they owe, yeah they had to sell themselves as slaves to pay off their debt, but their debts were wiped completely after a time (Deuteronomy 15:1 and Leviticus 25:8-55). Total opposite of what we're facing today.

That was a bit long sweatdrop

The point is the consciousness is duplicating itself through self awareness. That is at least what I see is happening. As soon as we give birth to computer AI we will have a new way of looking at things. It is about making things more real. Through self awareness computer AI and human AI will create a new paradise here on earth. The idea of what this illusory world is for is open to speculation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo8Op6_D_1Q

How did it start and where is it going? The consciousness bit that is. How did it become self-aware.

We're still wrestling with the same old questions; we're just making up new answers for them.

Don't get me wrong. You could be completely correct. All I'm saying is that it doesn't seem to matter.
Yeah I guess it really doesn't matter does it? We are far away from artificial intelligence. Once we get it though you will begin to see the programming for artificial intelligence transfer into different machines. There consciousness will be connected like the world wide web. They will be smarter then us, and more telepathic. Humans may or may not survive after that happens. A scenario like the matrix is very much a possibility.

Alright, now this is getting confusing. God created the worlds, universe, and everything else, and that's when science took over. Prophets and priests were made to ensure God had followers, not to spread lies. As such, God created the reality we live in today. Some people in comas go through different realities, or 'dreams', through their minds. How do you know if the world is real? Simple, if it weren't realy, then why would the oxygen be flowing through our lungs, the blood pumping through our veins, and life and death are real. So, let me ask you a simple question, how do you know the reality isn't real? You don't have to know the answer to just say this reality is fake or real, just live through it and be happy you are alive my friends. Let's not try to find answers to problems we have that are way beyond our way of undertstanding. Just live life and be happy. That's all.

Correct, my friend. That's your answer to the question if reality is real or not.

I've always figured that the reality around me was just a figment of my imagination, even when I was little. But... if it is just a trick from my mind, why can I not make things that are unreal in my perception of reality?