Teleportation

[Apotheose]

On 21/04/2025 at 12:16 AM, Tommy said:

That does bring up a good question. How does one know whether it is a hallucination or real? If two people are involved and they both confirm the event then maybe? But, if it is just a single person then where is the confirmation?

This reminds me of a great Boxing quote which reads — “weight matters more than small guys would admit and less than big guys want to be true”.

 

Things like these tend to be faker than what a guru would want you to believe and truer than what a skeptic would assume to be true.

 

An individual experience could be true as well as a collective experience could be a result of a mass hypnotic state, as Neirong eloquently expressed. Generalizing it could lead us to inaccuracy.

 

If I were to guess, I’d say it would be easier (= more common) to experience a hallucination, or even a true apparition of a more condensed astral body, than an actual sight of a physical presence composed of atoms and molecules which interact with its surroundings. And I’d also guess that the chances of it being a lie or an illusion would be very high, in general.

 

However, being a student of the Art for some time, I can recall a handful of occasions where I dealt with real and disquieting surprise when I found some of my rock solid disbeliefs shattered. So, I don’t doubt the possibility of such things as teleportations being real and doable, however, it’s important to take everything which is extracted from the internet with a grain of salt, including what I just said. Lying is easy and costs nothing. So it’s better to only believe that which you can empirically experience in your personal studies or which is confirmed by a personal reliable source, like a frater/soror who practices the same exercises or explores the esoteric under the same organization as you do.

[stirling]

On 4/20/2025 at 8:16 PM, Tommy said:

That does bring up a good question. How does one know whether it is a hallucination or real? If two people are involved and they both confirm the event then maybe? But, if it is just a single person then where is the confirmation?

 

Experiences are just experiences. They are real in the moment they are experienced, and then they only exist as stories. No story is "real"... it is, by definition, the account happening NOW of something that isn't happening now, and can't be experienced first hand.