I came to know you channel recently Denis, and is quickly becoming one of my favorites. I’m a seeker of Wisdom too, and a lover of books. It feels good when you know someone who is walking a path similar to yours. Keep up the good work! And the Great Work ;)

I once had an experience like this due to blood loss. It was expansive and unforgettable. Like being the ocean.

I love this channel! So valuable, informative, and accessible.

I think I just discovered why I enjoy karaoke so much. Singing for spiritually medicinal purposes.

I have just created this channel so I can say... thank you Denis

It must have happened to me the first time i took LSD. I went to a place words cant describe, it was more like a vibration. I do remember clearly descending through my ceiling and back into my body laughing uncontrollably. I dont think it will ever happen again.

Joe Rogan: That's Crazy, Man. Have You Ever Done DMT?

I have experienced this escape into the God experience. Ive never been afraid of after death since that awareness awakened my mind. It doesnt make anyone an "Angel" or supernatural. If anything, it makes the world of human beings seem like such a sad effort. However, Im always hopeful for more people to grow beyond their littleness of consciousness.

A decade ago I would have had an inkling how important this video is, 2 decades ago I would have had none, and worse, thought myself "above it." At least in my experience, you are spot on here. The deeper I get into spiritual states and studies, the more it can be summed up as " letting what unfolds be okay." It sounds deceptively simple because it is simple, but the work is hidden in how many fears and disappointments are lurking in the shadows. There's a whole army of disorganized yet dangerous misfits waiting to parade on stage the moment you turn your spotlight of attention inward. To me this is the most unexplained part of personal growth, but if you can turn the volume down on the fear response in the face of your inner demons, you can make them your friends. Keep preaching foolish fish, I'll try to keep the rest of my comments closer to an "amen" and less of my own sermonizing 😉🤐 Edit: spelling

The video is a very accurate telling of the experience. I experienced being god and individuation at the same time with my first mushroom trip. the ego is like the end roots of a tree, and that we inherit consciousness drawn by a line in our lineage. Now, I'm partly experiencing it with magick and meditation

Thanks for these Esoteric Saturday videos. I'm finding them interesting

Mate, thank you so much for Saturdays. Keep doing this

Excellent descriptive analogy - separate to the link with Apotheosis it made me think of the Shaman J.Beuys and his experience/piece with the Coyote

Thank you for sharing all this information.

Another excellent video, thank you!

thanks gever, this ties together a few things for me that occurred on the transition from ceremonial to personal. very much enjoying and looking forward to your channel.

Okay new favorite channel!

lying in a pitch dark room and trying to forget how big or small you are or how vast or tiny the room is until their is no size comparison is an amazing experiance.has anyone else done this?or is their a word for this experience? 93,s

Brother thank you for your wisdom. In my lifes story. I expirienced during a "ritualistinc" entheogene expirience. Its stock for a while i was 18. I then began working and got lost in the rat race. After seeing some of your videos instarted reading a bunch. History science and well this we call magic. I stumbled across to a book The Universal One by Walter Russel and the Sacred Mushroom and The Cross by John M. Alegro. And something in my brain clicked. Everything Jordan Peaterson and Allan Watss makes absoute sence now! That we are god in a human shell basicly. I just wanted to thank you for your wisdom i learned as a Christian raiced Catholic that the Cristo and Satan or good and evil arent thing seperated from me but that they are me and through study, meditation and self reflexion, we can learn about ourself and learn to control our demons our emotions and subsecuently not let other manipulate us. I feel amaizing and really wanted to thank you. Ive never met you I dont know you but I love you! Thank you brother!

I think you are a great speaker with Wonderful information. Thank you for your work.

In Eastern Orthodox Christianity, the goal of the Christian life is called "Theosis", also called "Divinization", in which one realizes the Divinity which we are. What I heard you state in this video jives and dovetails and corresponds extremely well together with Theosis and like with your assertions, in Theosis, one does not confuse, now equate oneself with being G-d himself.

I’ve definitely achieved apotheosis through different means. Very interesting experience I must say. Extremely profound

Great video! I experience this both with psychedelics and pranayama. I especially like your analogy with the rope in a dark room. 👌🏽🙏🏽✊🏽🌺

This should be taught compulsorily in all schools, and beyond. Everybody should have access to your carefully provided, imperative information. Thank you. Very well, seemingly spontaneously produced. Much appreciated!

Needed this. Thanks 🙏

I freaking love this channel I found it a few months back, to explain my journey into magick is a bit hectic, my journey into magick and eastern philosophy are interwoven which is good because I then realized they come from eachother and created one another, but my calling to the great work and magick literally started when I was so young it’s led me so far and I only now am starting to understand that feeling of a flame or endlessness in my soul wanting to burst out and not destroy or consume but just burst forth in raging glory like a fire it’s a desire for power not for powers sake but I can only define it as, for the ability to express true being and potential like becoming a star not to burn or shine but because it was your true nature to be a flaming ball of destructive beautiful light capable of creating things

I'm so impressed that you mentioned tongues. This has been such a powerful tool in breaking negative lines of thought and transcending my egoic patterns. Again, thank you for sharing. I'll be tuning in.

I for one, absolutely hate "spiritual culture", I completely hate with every fibre of my being the pretentious snobbery and egotistic buffoonery that comes with "normies" exploring their consciousness, and I must say that you yourself dont exhibit anything besides a humble interpretation of what may be. I massively respect that, to be able to have an entire channel about these kinds of things and yet show such an open mind is very telling of your intelligence, thanks for the video.

one just cant possibly know everything ! And without darkness , light would serve no purpose , or vice versa. and thankyou i learn something new every day :)

Great video, thank you

I like your story about the snake! It really is true that you only need a quick glimpse of "true reality" to cause a permanent change in your worldview.

I think you'd like a book "Ego and Archetype" by Edward F. Edinger. My current one and it's amazing.

When you said a man secluded in a dark room 9:14 a bell went off in my head. I read a book titled The Lost Art of Reresection. It describes the initiation ritual of passing through (maybe even spending some time in) cramped stone tunnels and chambers. It's been a while since I read it and haven't finished reading it, but could doing that increase the carbon dioxide in your blood? Is there a name for the process of doing what you have described here in your video?

This is exactly what is depicted in the 'hniochos' myth from Plato. Two horses dragging the cart while we as the rider can't tame and control them!

Amazing . Amazing. Amazing

Thank you for this. I have not been able to find the follow up video to this, your assistance please. As a future topic I'd love to hear your breakdown of the "hand of the philosopher".

so many great words out there. next time someone at a party asks me what i do, i’m going to answer, “i’m an aposteistic syncreticist.”

god this channel is just so wholesome lol. its weird to say that but its true.

much love to you

Love your content Mate 🦖🧠🐒

I was wondering what that existential oceanic vibration feeling I was feeling during meditation a couple months back was called, thank you so much for your videos, I’m more of a Zoroastrian-thelemite type and I just love it! I kinda see the internet itself as a great tool created by G-d through people to either separate or enlighten destruction/evil/ignorance so it doesn’t try to eat/destroy creation/good/wisdom. 10:39 great allegory for how a doctor would think of this negatively because it’s depriving a brain section of necessities, then when they experience it, they’d realize that as long as there’s no permanent damage it is really just turning perception even from quantum-brain scale (and thus either an oceanic feeling, or a light and airy feeling of bliss that sticks with you) way up and enjoying the ride, or feeling such bliss you feel like you’re going to die of endogenous DMT, oxytocin, and serotonin. 10:56 I’d say it’s a good way to understand it in a way that more people ought to try out for themselves, I’ll say that much!

🤯 now a lot of thinks make sense thankss a lot ,!

Thank you for the fascinating content. 🤔Could you expound on the possibility that “offerings” to our inner demons may come in the form of sugar, sexual pleasures, or any other sensual indulgence.

Thank you so much for these videos!

I cant get over how much you sound like Sabastian Roche. You should definitely look him up to hear him speak. He plays Balthazar on Supernatural and Jerry Jax on General Hospital. (And he's on odyssey five and Fringe, but I havent seen those)

Ive been in that state a few times, there is no more you, really, that distengrates, rather you are just caught up in being with this white vibrational infinity. As I merged with that, I could see time from the start and the end, and it loop back in itself, time seemed like one giant screen, in which different moments all existed at once. I just was with that, It moved me in a deep way. It's expansive, infinite, loving, everything at once and nothing at all. I don't know if that makes any sense, but words fail me when it comes to describing that state of being.

Interesting subject. At first I thought it may be the same as samadhi. But apotheosis seems more like a metaphorical “birds-eye” view. While samadhi is more of a melting into oneness, one mind, one moment. This is just my interpretation; any other perspectives are welcome.

If the hypothalamus is responsible for controlling unconscious breathing, putting it to sleep even temporarily could prove deadly. But for less immediately urgent for survival, I can see hope temporarily putting it to sleep could allow for access to deeper levels of awareness.

To find out the snake is a rope from a visual, I can't help but wonder what the rope truley is to senses beyond our nature.

What's the next video????

Before I watch this, this is something I wrote the first time I feel as though I reached this mental state. This is the other side. There are infinite opposite sides. And they are one. This is the truth. You are not in control. But I let you be. And you let yourself. It. Let’s itself. Be. It. Us. All one. We. Are. it. Just be. Have fun. Love. Share. Create. Laugh. Be. I am experiencing myself. I am god. There has been a duality existence and the other side tried to pull me into it. But it is itself. And I must stay true to myself. Resist the other side which must exist, bc it is one with me, which exists. God loves me bc he is me. But I love him because he is he. Which is me. But I must remember there is both duality and unity bc they both must exist in order for them to both exist. Infinity The key Have fun. You can do that later. B No You know better. T This is a new resistance. It is true. Have fun. Don’t go to the other side, for you know it is evil. Instead. Believe it is part of you. Accept it. Commit to that belief. And throw away everything evil. Figure out what those things are (what it is. And annihilate it. Do away and avoid at all costs. All costs. There’s a cost. Everyone has to perish before they rise. I have not perished yet. I know this to be truth. That is the next step. But not for now Is this a class? And I learning? I am. Growing. Learning everything. But I must take a break. I am tired. I am human. What else can I be. I am human. Be. Love. To love yourself is to love everyone including yourself bc you are everyone and everyone is one. I have to assign myself to one thing. Bc. Is it forbidden for me to interact with other humans of myself? Perhaps that is my mission. Like I said, everything connects You are on the other side that is telling you that you must stay on this other side in order for both sides to exist. In order for there to be 2. 1 must lose itself. Sacrifice itself. Pay the cost. To rise infinitely higher. It will be hard. But you can do it. Accept. Believe. Commit. This is a puzzle. You along with everyone else is supposed to help each other achieve the goal of completing the puzzle. You as a human can not comprehend infinite, so this is to help you understand. You are growing. Now back to. Being your human self.

Not trying to dig up old videos, but could you provide any documentation showing that singing increase C02 blood levels? I tried to find datas that support that claim, but I can't.

Gonna get cerebral here. I'm really resonating with the thoughts about CO2, hypothalamus depression, and apotheosis. There was a Halloween special of Vsause's Mind Field, where they wanted to get to the bottom of what is the most terrifying to all humans. The test subject was a woman who had never felt fear (due to issues in her amygdala). She for the first time felt absolute mortal terror when she had "blood CO2 levels elevate in the presence of an external threat (or lack of control)". Does someone with no natural ability to feel fear, when forced into a depressed hypothalamic state, have the ability to reach apotheosis so completely it can terrorize and break the mind of the lower self? The girl in the experiment was fine, but just some food for thought. Keep the levels elevated but not deadly and who knows...

Hi there But you didn't mention how to do that

What type of yogic breathing ?? Ask sadghuru

ALL AM I.

i cant stop from commenting , im at 08.29 and now realise why singers ... especially in the charts industry all promote ... a higher being.. weather its the hiding of the one eye... ect ..i dont wish to stereotypes but if you can understand where im coming from ...im defenatly joining to be able to conversate with you... ive been realising i do this too much.. i didn't know there was a name for it.. but i never see myself as perfect, as theres just so much more to learn. ive come to the realisation i may never get the awnsers or discover the real truths of the universe

Hey breath work does this or breath holding

Hmm. I didn’t think there was. Line (division)between the subconscious and the collective of you know what I mean, or is it just there for demonstration purposes?

Does this have to do with "ego's death"? I'm sorry if I'm being ignorant here.

do one on chaos theory

What about microdosing dmt daily wouldent that keep that electricity going ? Say if deprived of dopamine or other sucj receptors that are burnt out due to addictions , could it not strengthen and keep the homeostasis of the brains electricity that flows through it repairs itself through such ways maybe ? I dont know i feel that every onde and awhile is a good thing for the body mind and soul .

Is increasing CO2 concentration and reducing O2 really the safest way? High levels of CO2 produce anxiety states. Mediation reduces anxiety. While slowing breathing during meditation you are also slowing metabolism (I think), so I didn't think that meditation reduced overall O2 levels and increased Co2 levels. I may be totally confused about this. But I am just confused about the exact role of the hypothalamus (if it controls autonomic breathing turning it off could be dangerous), O2 and CO2 levels. I would think slow deep breathing would keep O2 and CO2 levels in the bloodstream basically constant but perhaps decrease hypothalamus activity by means of allowing the release of fear. I'm not trying to be a skeptic, and even if the technical details of this video are off, it does not undermine the overall message of this video. And if I am wrong about the scientific details (and Foolish Fish is correct), or if neither of us is correct, I would like to hear from someone who knows more about the science.

I wouldn’t say the hypothalamus is a source of altered states of consciousness nor can you selectively “turn off” that part of the brain. Dysfunction of the hypothalamus would lead to endocrine disorders, not spiritual awakenings. But it’s a cool metaphor, just not biologically accurate

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is this why some people use LSD/Magic Mushrooms?

Nitrous can also be used I believe.

Dolphins have to conciously choose to breath unlike a human that automatically breaths. I believe they also have a higher percentage of total brain function than a human. I wonder what that says about the active parts of our brain vs inactive. The dolphins continue to live while choosing to breath.

Of course you can experience being. It just depends what God you believe in.

It's interesting. There are no gods. Only perceptions of god. How interesting this shows up today.

Speaking in tongues increases your CO2 lvls? What? Did I misundertood something there?

Or an NDE will do it.😉😅

You are god. If you don't think you are god then you don't believe In god.

God is lonely.

I love your videos but I hate the sound of your pen:(

This Neurophysiology and Psychology is very wrong!!! VERY WRONG!!!

The concept of Apotheosis (experience of oneself as God) -- This concept belongs entirely to the Hindu religion and does not exist in western teachings. The whole science yoga aims to achieve exactly this , and teaches us that we are one with God. It is entirely an eastern concept and has nothing to do with west. You present this concept as some new unheard of idea that is a western teaching, when in fact it stolen from Indian teachings . You make no mention that this is the teachings of the science of Yoga . Ramana Maharishi was one who came close to experiencing this concept