u/Moxcaos

Lately I’ve been thinking about what “enlightenment” actually means, and I keep coming back to something very simple: it’s not about leaving the world or changing everything, it’s about being at peace with yourself and what’s already here.

Most of the suffering I notice in myself comes from resisting things, trying to fix the past, control the future, or force reality to feel different than it is right now.

But when you actually slow down and observe it, there’s a point where you can just… let it all be. Thoughts come and go. Situations are what they are. Even emotions rise and fall on their own.

Peace isn’t something you achieve, it’s something you stop interrupting.

I’ve been seeing more people getting interested in the occult lately, which is fine, curiosity is natural. But one thing that doesn’t get talked about enough is how important it is to stay grounded and careful.

A lot of practices, whether it’s rituals, meditation, or symbolic work, can affect your mindset more than you expect. Not in some dramatic “movie” way, but in subtle ways that can build over time if you’re not paying attention.

It’s easy to get pulled into:

• overinterpreting normal experiences
• convincing yourself something has meaning when it might not
• pushing too far too fast without understanding what you’re doing

There’s also a tendency to chase experiences instead of understanding them, which can lead to confusion more than anything else.

Whatever your beliefs are, it’s important to:

• stay mentally grounded
• question your own interpretations
• take breaks when things feel overwhelming
• keep a clear boundary between practice and reality

You don’t need to dive into everything at once, and you don’t need to prove anything to anyone.

Exploration is fine, but awareness matters more than intensity.

Curious how others here balance curiosity with staying grounded.

Lately I’ve been revisiting Neville Goddard and his idea that manifestation isn’t about forcing outcomes, but about sustaining a state of being.

The part that clicked for me is this:

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Staying positive isn’t about pretending everything is perfect. It’s more about not letting temporary circumstances define your internal state. If you constantly react to what’s happening, your mindset keeps shifting. But if you hold a stable assumption about who you are and where you’re going, things start to feel… different.

I’ve been trying to apply this in a simple way:

• instead of worrying about results, I focus on the feeling of already having them
• when doubt comes up, I don’t fight it, I just return to that state
• small daily consistency instead of big emotional swings

It’s not instant, and it’s not always easy. But I’ve noticed that when I stay aligned mentally, decisions become clearer and I don’t get pulled around as much by external situations.

It feels less like “manifesting things” and more like stabilizing your internal direction until reality catches up.

Curious how others apply Neville’s teachings in practice, especially when it comes to staying consistent during difficult periods.

I used to think mindfulness meant trying to “stop thinking” or somehow silence everything in my head. Every time I tried, it just made my thoughts louder and more chaotic, like I was wrestling a radio that refused to turn off.

What I’m slowly realizing is that mindfulness isn’t about shutting thoughts down, it’s about changing your relationship to them.

Instead of getting pulled into every thought like it’s a command or a truth, you can start noticing them as events passing through your mind. A thought appears, stays for a moment, then disappears. You don’t have to chase it or fight it.

It’s strange at first, because you start noticing how much of your day is spent automatically reacting to internal noise without even realizing it. Worries, memories, predictions, most of it just plays in the background like a system you never turned off.

When I manage to step back even slightly, there’s this quiet space underneath it all. Not empty, just… less tangled. More present.

I’m not claiming I’ve “mastered” anything, but I understand now why people say mindfulness isn’t about escape, it’s about observation.

Curious how others here experience it, especially when thoughts get really loud.

I’ve been diving into the idea of psychedelics and how they affect the human brain, especially after getting interested in Psychonauts and the way it visualises the mind as this layered, symbolic space.

From what I’ve read, psychedelics like psilocybin and LSD don’t just “alter perception” in a vague sense, they actually reduce activity in parts of the brain linked to rigid thinking and self-control, particularly the default mode network. That seems to be why people often report ego dissolution or feeling like the boundaries between “self” and everything else start to blur.

What’s fascinating is that instead of the brain becoming more chaotic, it seems to become more connected, with regions that don’t normally communicate starting to interact in unusual ways. That might explain the vivid imagery, emotional shifts, and dream-like logic people describe.

It kind of makes Psychonauts feel oddly accurate in a symbolic way, the idea of the mind as different regions interacting, sometimes in harmony, sometimes in distortion.

I’m not promoting anything here, just genuinely interested in how flexible perception really is and how much of “reality” is constructed by the brain’s filtering systems.

Curious if anyone else has looked into this or had experiences that made them rethink how perception works.

I used to work night security in an office building, and one thing still doesn’t sit right with me. Around 1–3am, I’d occasionally see doors on the CCTV slowly open by themselves in one specific hallway. Not swinging wide, just gently creaking open like someone pushed them. The first time I went to check, the door was completely closed when I got there. I thought it was just a latch issue or airflow, but it kept happening. Sometimes it was one door, sometimes two opening one after another, always with no one on camera. Every single time I walked over to check, the doors were shut and the rooms were empty. I even rewound the footage and it clearly showed the doors opening with nothing there. Maintenance checked everything and found no issues. What stuck with me the most is that whatever was happening never existed when I was physically there… only on the cameras.

I used to work night security at a multi-storey car park on the edge of town. Quiet job. Too quiet, most nights. After 11pm it was just me, the cameras, and rows of empty cars that all looked the same under those flickering lights.

There were five levels. I checked them every hour.

Level 1 to 5. Always the same.

Until one night.

Around 2:40am, I was in the security booth watching the monitors when I noticed something odd. Camera 6, the one covering the ramp between Level 4 and Level 5, showed a car slowly driving upward.

That wasn’t strange by itself.

What was strange… was that the car didn’t stop.

It just kept going.

I frowned and rewound the footage. The ramp ends at Level 5. There’s nowhere else to go. But on the screen, the headlights kept climbing past where Level 5 should be… into darkness.

I assumed it was a camera glitch.

So I grabbed my torch and went to check.

Level 1. Empty.
Level 2. Empty.
Level 3. Empty.
Level 4. Same as always.

When I reached Level 5, I noticed something immediately.

The air felt… wrong. Colder. Still.

And the ramp at the far end
the one that should just curve into Level 5

was going up.

Just… continuing.

Like it always had.

I stood there for a while, trying to convince myself I’d just never noticed it before. Maybe I had the layout wrong. Maybe there was a sixth level.

But something in my gut told me not to go up there.

So I turned around and went back to the booth.

I checked the building plans.

Five levels.

No sixth.

I didn’t sleep that day.