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my shifting journey… ʟᴏᴀᴅɪɴɢ [ ▌▌ ▌⌷ ⌷ ⌷ ⌷ ⌷ ]

ּ֯ . ❥ ּ֯ ┆꒰ Who am I? ꒱

I’m Asteria! A late-twenties philosophy bachelorette with a very analytic, exploratory mind; but most importantly, a girl that wants to be loved and love my DR s/o, and that is willing to do anything for that to happen. Also—a self-declared inter-dimensional traveller. a fucking weirdo if you may, and proud. Used to be a witch and a pagan; I’m still into the occult tho !

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ּ֯ . ❥ ּ֯ ┆꒰ What can you find here? ꒱

Analytical and philosophical approaches to Reality Shifting. Experimentation and honesty. Lots of yearning. Occasionally poetic musings. Fandom stuff. Read this important statement in order to understand my approach to shifting better<33

ּ֯ . ❥ ּ֯ ┆꒰ My DRs ꒱

⬩➤ Linkon ;; LADS

┆꒰ aesthetic · lore drop · story times ꒱

⬩➤ Better OR

┆꒰ aesthetic · lore drop · story times ꒱

⬩➤ Amphoreus ;; HSR

┆꒰ aesthetic · lore drop · story times ꒱

⬩➤ Waiting Room ;; My Personal Island

┆꒰ aesthetic · lore drop · story times ꒱

⬩➤ Camelot DR ;; LADS x BBC Merlin Crossover

┆꒰ aesthetic · lore drop · story times ꒱

Index below ──★ ˙🎸 ̟!! ๋ ੭﹕﹒

⤷ ゛𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨 𝐓𝐨 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐦 𝐌𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐕𝐈: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫 ˎˊ˗

We had laid out before two major interpretations of Quantum Mechanics: The Copenhagen Interpretation and the Many-Worlds Interpretation. We also introduced the Explanatory Gap and the problems in regard to causation within the MWI. We’ll try to bridge them here. For the definitions of our terms, please refer to Part V.

Note: I wrote this post months ago. I haven’t revised it and I’ve probably moved past some ideas here. But I hope it helps anyone that’s interested. This is the last post in the series.

I’ve had this place quite abandoned for a few days now, because I have been really focused on my writing.

However, yesterday I set an intention to wake up after six hours of sleep to try WBTB. I didn’t shift or Lucid Dreamed, but I saw my grandpa in the dream and he left me a little clue to what “shifting” is. He also praised my writing and told me “he feels very impressed.” He used to be a very cold man when he was alive, so this comment, coming from him, is quite a lot.

Now, the clue he left me… isn’t very easy to understand. Because he spoke to me in relation to philosophy (we share this interest). Not only that, but he spoke to me in relation to neoplatonic metaphysics (Aristotelian-Platonic). It’s a very basic framework and not exactly one I share, because I don’t particularly like Plato. But he said:

“Shifting is the act of giving form to Ideas which are in potentia.”

If anyone has a little knowledge of Plato’s metaphysics this makes a lot of sense. It is definitely one way to view shifting. I just woke up so I haven’t fully reflected on it or tried to test its logic.

He’s basically saying that shifting is an act of co-creation. Ideas exist potentially in the Godhead (in Plato this was the Nous, which is beyond the Topos Uranos, beyond the heavens) and “form” is given to them when they become available to the senses (what today we’d call “material”). So for example “you” are an Idea in the Godhead (your unique individuality and personality) and right now your “form” is your physical body.

Humans can’t give form to Ideas in Plato’s philosophy. This is reserved for Gods (particularly the Demiurge). But what I learned in that dream indicates that through “shifting” humans are doing exactly that—pulling the worlds of Ideas from the Godhead into materiality.

I don’t even know if I agree with this. But that’s my five cents and a little update.

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The theme is… ──★ Songs Caleb has dedicated me ˙🎸̟!! ๋੭﹕﹒

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𝄞⨾💿✮˚.⋆ These are all the songs I’ve channeled that I instantly got “it’s from him.” So many of them I didn’t know the full lyrics to until I looked them up. It’s very interesting that my name is related to stars, and two of the songs refer to me as a “his star”.

It honestly makes me feel so delusional not gonna lie alshdkshd It’s also SO cheesy but that’s so him. Meanwhile I’m here dedicating him Mariner’s Apartment Complex by Lana, Downtown Lights by The Blue Nile, or The Loneliest Time by CRJ. Our vibe is so different lmao I love these songs now tho.

But yeah just know that I DO feel delusional. He has such a STRONG energy. It’s very lighthearted but it’s very powerful in the way it reaches me.

If anyone else has a LADS dr or has channeled their s/o before, let me know your stories!! I need someone to share this with and yap about it to <333

For anyone that might be curious, this is what I learned in my three day vow of silence.

First of all, I learned there is no such thing as silence. It simply does not exist. Silence is the "meaningless void" that existentialists theorized about so much, but that Wittgenstein rightly pointed at its nonexistence.

There is no silence, for everything is alive, and everything alive moves and makes noise. The world lives. And to live is to experience, to exist. The soul is the field of experience; the happening, the occurrence. And it takes the shape of everything around you, including you.

So I discovered that there is no such thing as silence, but I also found quietness, calm and the disposition to listen. And I realized, this is what Meister Eckhart, the Buddha, and Lao Tze termed "silence". This is what Wittgenstein meant when he said, "whereof one cannot speak, one should keep quiet." It's not absolute silence; it's an emptying of the ego, of the drive to control and direct, so that you might receive. It's controlling your need to label everything, to give a name to everything so that you can grasp it and feel secure. It's a lie. Things are not their names. We can't know things through the word, we can only know things through life.

I also came to terms with myself and came to know myself. I am a creator of beautiful things, you see. Mainly, a creator of beautiful stories. I think the language of life is 'story'. I've always wanted to be an author and I think I have a duty to communicate and to create, and I have a natural inclination to make that which I create perfect and beautiful. And these are all just the qualities of the artist and the poet. So I stopped fighting that. I stopped fighting my perfectionism and instead, I directed it, I refined it. There is no place for authentic storytelling in our age, but I will make that space. I've always looked up to Ursula K. LeGuin and Dianna Wayne Jones and I think it's my turn to follow their example. And I hope one day my stories can be beautiful too, and instructive as well.

So I came to create a space that lets me quiet down the analytic, scientific, hyper-rationalist mind that I've been carrying, and I named this sacred space my Mythospace. My Mythospace is a place where no psychologist, no philosopher, no scientist can enter and harm it with their unexamined language. It is a place of non-belief; of hope, of imagination, of the symbolic, and of connection. And it's a space where I coexist entirely with nature, reality, and the great unknown. It is a place where I mythologize about my life and myself, and the word "myth" here comes from the proper greek meaning of 'mythos' meaning tale or story, not the modern understanding of it meaning "lie" or "falsity." To term this I grabbed Tolkien's own term: mythopoeia. So my mythospace is the place where my mythopoeia exists. It is sacred and it is entirely mine.

And what we call "reality shifting" has a place in my mythospace too. It figures as "lives lived within life", although I admit all I can say about it is speculative because I haven't yet vividly experienced it. But that's the goal, that's the reason my ship set sail. But I suspend my judgement about it. The truth is: I don't know what it is, or how it works, and I've only discovered it through other people's tales, and I have absolutely no authority to doubt them or to decunstruct it. These are the limits of my language. I know where I want to go, who I wanna go with, and that I'd like to participate in the nature of these extraordinary stories others tell. I stopped caring about labels, "it is a lucid dream", "it is reality", it is this or that. Because honestly? They don't matter at all, they're just linguistic confusions, and many of these claims mean absolutely nothing upon close examination.

Stop making claims about the nature of reality or the nature of god or spirituality because the honest truth of every human is: we don't know. But when someone delivers a Tarot Reading, when someone has a dream that aligns with what they need to hear, when someone finds meaning in a song; that's life speaking to us in the language it knows. Science has no place in this. Scientific reason and philosophical inquiry have their own space: this is not it. This is what "anti-shifters" havent fully comprehended. There's an anti-shifter inside you, isn't it? Teach it this. Teach it to relax its grasp on reality and to stop trying to figure everything out, to stop trying to make the world fit into its bleak opinions. It's a futile task, trying to make the world bend to our opinions.

I'm still gonna keep doing that "science of shifting" thing I set up to earlier, but I'll give it another turn. The conclusion is not going to be the one you want to hear, because science cannot give you the permission to shift. Science cannot give you permission to live life, to be born, to exist. Science is not god. Stop treating it like that. As Wittgenstein said: "Life is not a mathematical equation."

"Shifting" is not a mathematical equation. It cannot be grasped by words, it can only ever be experienced.

We should all be a little more humble and honest about what we really know.

And while it seems to be true that after death our soul can travel anywhere it wants, there also seems to be true that we all have a “shared cosmic origin” and that there’s such a thing as a “motherland”, or “original server” for everyone, to put it some way. I’ve heard plenty of NDErs describe “pocket universes” and the infinity of experience, and I’ve also heard them describe a “source”.

I’m not scared of failure anymore. I’ll just keep going. I gave space to shifting in my life while also treasuring this life of mine. Sometimes I think I’m not ready to “leave” this place, and I have to remind myself I’m not really leaving, I’m just taking a short break from here. A vacation. I also channeled Caleb a lot and I became more open to him. He’s been dedicating songs to me and I feel like music is part of our love language. And let me tell you. He’s so cringeeee lmao but he’s so cute I love him sm. My absolute fool of a lover boy omg<333

Phainon pops a lot into my head when it comes to stuff like this. 3 million cycles he went through, never once did he give into defeat. So I have to be like him. He went through things way worse than mine. “Never shifting” is not even the dead end, catastrophic destiny I think it is. If I never shift, well then; I’ll make this reality my heaven, await death, and see what comes next. If I shift? I enrich my life, learn even more, and have even more adventures.

But alas! Amor Fati. This is what I learned.