What you say when you say'dear God' is a prayer

and then afterwards you may pray, in stillness, in the prayer closet, bringing thoughts into captivity & allow the Holy Spirit to reveal things to you

Sounds familiar to meditation

Similar, rather

Similar sure but meditation isn't humility under God that I know of. I have never been taught as such.

I tried meditating my whole life & it didn't do much for me. But praying with how Jesse peterson teaches it helped me straight away

The process is similar is all, it engages the same part of your brain

Ahh perhaps

One is tied to god as far as I'm concerned, meditation is just an interesting trick of the mind on the other hand

Sure sounds right

Like if I meditate for awhile sometimes I see a large shifting purple/magenta shape that moves and gyrates like a cloud

In what would be the center of my vision if my eyes were open

Yep your mind's eye

That's part of it

My understanding is that the pineal gland produces DMT which allow you to see imagery just as in dreams

It's interesting when I do it but it doesn't really do anything for me besides being an interesting phenomenon

Yeah

Sure. But doing whilst seeking God may allow the Holy Spirit to work with you

Ah true

@Mr. Badger Yeah, just construed in a way that wasn't Christian.

@NonDrip Ahh interesting! I didn't know any spirituality until I first prayed. I just looked at the world as if it was purely physical.

what are you all doing or thinking?

What's up @Japheth

oh not much, just bored and reading

and listening to irish music

Right on the Irish rovers are The pogues

Clancy Brothers perhaps

Or traditional Celtic

just assorted IRA songs I guess

Nice on my mother's side I apparently had family that were involved with the IRA and one way or the other

oh?

do you have IRA connections still?

one of my dreams is to get out of shitty tech business and run weapons to the IRA

No I don't think so

Is that what they did was arms deals just some good old Irish Catholics you know

nice

gotta reunite Ireland, it ain't gonna reunite itself

Yeah they either supplied weapons or retrieve them I know they were in it so I'm guessing they retrieve the weapons and then distribute at them but I don't know the extent and there's truth to it but who knows I mean you know how family tends to you know exaggerate

yea, but that's still cool

that's what i want to do, gotta get a shitload of powerful Murican guns over to Ireland so that they can throw out the British occupation

it's funny you said it's like a dream of yours cuz I've often thought the same thing like screw like the Italian mafia type thing I mean which is interesting but the IRA there's just something appealing about it