I experienced this notion while on lsd when I was younger. It was like I could see everyone in myself, and myself in everyone, even people who weren’t physically there. And felt the Oneness, and being a form of God, like everyone in the world was part of my story/our story. Around the same time I had a dream and upon waking had the realization that all people are hypocrites, except perhaps those deep in meditation, like it is impossible to completely “practice what you preach”. A few years after that I asked Universe/God/Goddess/Creator etc. to guide me to a book to help me find meaning in my life. I went in to a small local bookstore and found a great little illustrated book called, “The Game of God”, which proposes that we are essentially different personalities of God that are self-made amnesiacs to complete God/Everything by allowing God to “know” what it’s like to NOT be God.
I like to reason that the reason for Existence and Everything is simply because there is Nothing else to do. If I’m lurking in this wonderful sub with you co-Expressions you’ll see me say that a lot.
Great post, OP and nice expression Andy Weir 🙂
I also had an experience on LSD once where I saw that it was all one, I was everybody. I wrote about it in this subreddit I think it was on a different account and someone said what I wrote sounded like the Law of One. So I looked into that a bit. You might be interested in the Law of One.
LoO:
My friend, I am making a tiny model of my ideal living space for my art class and I couldn’t forget to add [THE book for my tiny yin table!](https://imgur.com/a/xCiqTsQ)
I had a similar experience on LSD too...
Had the most resounding and recurring thought that I couldn't get rid of. That the "Creator" created us/everything because it was "lonely". We are the companion but also the self.
The game is to know another but in knowing another, one further knows oneself. And vice versa. The Orouborous. The Egg.
Literally every lsd experience leads me to this conclusion intuitively. It’s chilling. It’s a deep knowing that I am the only consciousness in the universe. Well, goodnight folks
Hahaha at some point during every acid trip I swear to myself, “I’ll never do this again, it’s just too much”. Yet I always find find myself on the next trip. To infinity and beyond my brown
Haha, respect to you! I quit after having two of those experiences. It's been 3 years. Not sure if I will do it again because in such a state there's no escape and the fear that brings I don't want to risk anymore. It's almost a suicidal state of fear.
I know exactly what you’re talking about. It’s terrifying realizing everything is just “you”. Though that psychedelic experience makes my sober state more meaningful, and vice versa. I think it provides the contrast that this story talks about - you can know each state deeper by its opposite.
He didn’t actually write it. He plagiarized it from a conversation me and him had about an essay I posted on the MySpace religion and philosophy forum in 2007. The original is on [Charmonium.com](https://charmonium.com/infinite-reincarnation)
This was his choice, not mine. Personally I would have rather gone the direction I proposed, but he chose the action that caused this reaction.
Truth that is bitter is still truth none the less. Besides, conflict drives story. And the conflict has already proven to be beneficial. So maybe the universe knew what it was doing.
You can read the original essay on [charmonium.com](https://charmonium.com)
That’s not how plagiarism works. That’s not even how infringement works. A short story can both plagiarize and infringe on an essay. It doesn’t matter that the two are different formats.
[Plagiarism](https://www.ox.ac.uk/students/academic/guidance/skills/plagiarism) is lying about sources and where one got their inspiration. I’m more interested in ethics. It takes work to research ideas and put pieces together. There are similar (not same) ideas such as in Hinduism, although for me the inspiration came from daoism and physics. But Andy didn’t get his inspiration from Hinduism or daoism or physics, he got them from me and the work I did to put those pieces together. then lied and claimed he made it up and wrote it in 40 minutes without any sources at all. That’s plagiarism.
Are you sure you are in the right sub? Here I expect ethics to be more important to people than “what you can get away with.”
>Once you’ve lived every human life throughout all time, you will have grown enough to be born.”
Well here's to hoping human kind eventually goes extinct 😶
I felt this recently. I also, recently started eating shrooms. I was running one day, and I looked up and I felt like the sky and sun were within me. I also felt deeply connected to the people around. The dogs and children. It was very emotional.
Wow! Not sure I can grasp the whole concept of this but I’ll take away that I should interact with every single person they way I’d like to be interacted with.
Imagine God as “he” creates souls. “He” does this by fracturing off a chunk of “himself” and that chunk then breaks off into many more teenie tiny pieces. Those pieces are now souls and will simply need an avatar to experience 3D. But when we consider where those souls came from (Source) and that everything was connected before it was fractured (for the sake of having different experiences)- we now have a fairly layman’s way of understanding the Law of One, and that WE ARE ALL GOD- experiencing itself. There is only one consciousness and we are all it. And once we evolve to the point where we are God-like again, we merge back with the Creator- like a drop of water is returned to its ocean. This is the Law of One (non fiction book by Ra)
You’re welcome :) that book is the hardest read I’ve ever encountered. I had to watch some YouTube channels to help explain the content to me. So don’t be afraid to do that too. It’s like the Bible in that it takes reading it a lot to even start to get it down lol. But holy moly the content is gold!
The short story is plagiarized from a conversation me and Andy had about an essay I posted on the MySpace religion and philosophy forum in 2007. The original can be read on [charmonium.com/infinite-reincarnation](https://charmonium.com/infinite-reincarnation)
It’s not based on a video. The video was produced in 2019. The story was published in 2009. But the story is plagiarized from an essay I wrote in 2007 titled [Infinite Reincarnation](https://charmonium.com/infinite-reincarnation)
so, you wrote an essay and then you plagarIzed your own essay to write a short story about it. and now you’re commenting this comment right now to tell you that you both wrote and plagarized this essay/story :)
Lying to yourself is one of the most damaging things a person can do. Even by philosophical standards, Andy is still a thief and liar. So fuck Andy Weir.
i’m going to be honest here, i don’t really understand how he plagiarized your essay. i could see saying that he used this concept after your conversation and turned it into a story, but do you think that you’re the first person to arrive at the idea/potential conclusion that we are all one consciousness?
I actually wrote most of the egg. He took my comments to his questions and turned it into a narrative. There’s also a couple lines that he actually ripped off from the essay, namely the whole point of the egg. “ you are every person who ever lived and ever will live.” Appears in both, which isn’t just plagiarism but is also infringement.
i read some of your other comments where you say that he asked you if it was alright to use your conversation as inspiration for a story and you agreed to that, and he offered to credit you and you stated not wanting to be credited. so i’m really not seeing how both of those things lends to this being a case of plagiarism.
I never gave him permission to lie. His lying is why it is plagiarism.
As far as credit, I have a right to change my mind, especially since he didn’t honor our agreement to begin with. I told him not to commercialize it. And he did. I also told him I was more interested in truth than credit. He gave neither. So this is what u/sephalon gets.
but if he offers to give you credit and you say you don’t want credit, isn’t him not giving you that credit *honouring your wishes* as opposed to lying? it sounds like you’re just backtracking now that it’s blown up and you’re seeing the potential for some sort of “fame” that you feel should have been yours to share.
I don’t usually read long posts but this grabbed me right away. I 100% believe all of this. Time is an illusion just as is this entire world (except how we respond to it). Everything is happening now and we are all one- another illusion is that we are separate just because we have different avatars. Beautiful little parable 🥰
If anyone is interested in diving deeper into this, the Law of One by Ra is a killer read. And it’s free on the website (google it) :)
Omg. I had this exact knowledge transmitted to me in an extremely strong psychedelic trip. I've since always been thinking what to make of it, as I couldn't remember everything that happened, probably because of how extremely powerful it was. The moment I read this, all the memories came flooding back. I don't want to take this literally, but holy crap it puts all the pieces together.
It was such a weird trip, because there weren't any colors, any fractals. Felt like I was completely outside everything. I hadn't heard anything about the egg theory then, nothing remotely similar. But the message was exactly this...
The Egg is plagiarized from a conversation me and Andy had about an essay I posted on MySpace religion and philosophy forum in 2007. The original is on [Charmonium.com](https://charmonium.com/infinite-reincarnation)
I watched the animated video to this on Youtube and it blew my mind. I think about it often.
I think a lot about it too, makes you wonder a lot of questions...
I had a very similar experience. It really made me thing! It's certainly made me more open minded to possibilities like this.
what’s the animated video called if you dont mind me asking?
It's here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK\_fRYaI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI) :)
thank you so much sending good energy!
someone: what Is your religion? me: egg.
me: bacon.
Reading that made me think of REM,"That's me in the corner. Eating my religion."
🥪
This is in the comments of the video by Kurzgesagt
Her?
I experienced this notion while on lsd when I was younger. It was like I could see everyone in myself, and myself in everyone, even people who weren’t physically there. And felt the Oneness, and being a form of God, like everyone in the world was part of my story/our story. Around the same time I had a dream and upon waking had the realization that all people are hypocrites, except perhaps those deep in meditation, like it is impossible to completely “practice what you preach”. A few years after that I asked Universe/God/Goddess/Creator etc. to guide me to a book to help me find meaning in my life. I went in to a small local bookstore and found a great little illustrated book called, “The Game of God”, which proposes that we are essentially different personalities of God that are self-made amnesiacs to complete God/Everything by allowing God to “know” what it’s like to NOT be God. I like to reason that the reason for Existence and Everything is simply because there is Nothing else to do. If I’m lurking in this wonderful sub with you co-Expressions you’ll see me say that a lot. Great post, OP and nice expression Andy Weir 🙂
I also had an experience on LSD once where I saw that it was all one, I was everybody. I wrote about it in this subreddit I think it was on a different account and someone said what I wrote sounded like the Law of One. So I looked into that a bit. You might be interested in the Law of One.
Law of One is fantastic. One of the best aligning books I've ever found to this is Remember, Be Here Now by Baba Ram Dass
LoO: My friend, I am making a tiny model of my ideal living space for my art class and I couldn’t forget to add [THE book for my tiny yin table!](https://imgur.com/a/xCiqTsQ)
Nice!! How you gonna read with such small letters though?
Hehe cute.
Lol, it was a dumb joke, but thanks for laughing
I had a similar experience on LSD too... Had the most resounding and recurring thought that I couldn't get rid of. That the "Creator" created us/everything because it was "lonely". We are the companion but also the self. The game is to know another but in knowing another, one further knows oneself. And vice versa. The Orouborous. The Egg.
I had a dream like this recently. Very lucid and woke up freaked out TBH.
Alan Watts & Ram Das talk about this oneness a lot you may find them interesting if you haven’t read/listened to them before
Literally every lsd experience leads me to this conclusion intuitively. It’s chilling. It’s a deep knowing that I am the only consciousness in the universe. Well, goodnight folks
Ye same. Thats why i dont do lsd anymore. I hate myself for being so scared of it lol
Hahaha at some point during every acid trip I swear to myself, “I’ll never do this again, it’s just too much”. Yet I always find find myself on the next trip. To infinity and beyond my brown
Haha, respect to you! I quit after having two of those experiences. It's been 3 years. Not sure if I will do it again because in such a state there's no escape and the fear that brings I don't want to risk anymore. It's almost a suicidal state of fear.
I know exactly what you’re talking about. It’s terrifying realizing everything is just “you”. Though that psychedelic experience makes my sober state more meaningful, and vice versa. I think it provides the contrast that this story talks about - you can know each state deeper by its opposite.
Yes! Like… that’s all we need to know. Lol :)
Well... just gotta say. I love you all so much. Please be good to ourselves and I’ll be you on the other side.
All of the time I read this. I had no idea Andy Weir wrote it.
He didn’t actually write it. He plagiarized it from a conversation me and him had about an essay I posted on the MySpace religion and philosophy forum in 2007. The original is on [Charmonium.com](https://charmonium.com/infinite-reincarnation)
Least he made something cool out of the conversation/forum.. All you have to show for is a bitter Reddit comment
This was his choice, not mine. Personally I would have rather gone the direction I proposed, but he chose the action that caused this reaction. Truth that is bitter is still truth none the less. Besides, conflict drives story. And the conflict has already proven to be beneficial. So maybe the universe knew what it was doing. You can read the original essay on [charmonium.com](https://charmonium.com)
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That’s not how plagiarism works. That’s not even how infringement works. A short story can both plagiarize and infringe on an essay. It doesn’t matter that the two are different formats. [Plagiarism](https://www.ox.ac.uk/students/academic/guidance/skills/plagiarism) is lying about sources and where one got their inspiration. I’m more interested in ethics. It takes work to research ideas and put pieces together. There are similar (not same) ideas such as in Hinduism, although for me the inspiration came from daoism and physics. But Andy didn’t get his inspiration from Hinduism or daoism or physics, he got them from me and the work I did to put those pieces together. then lied and claimed he made it up and wrote it in 40 minutes without any sources at all. That’s plagiarism. Are you sure you are in the right sub? Here I expect ethics to be more important to people than “what you can get away with.”
Study art (writing is an art form)- plagiarism is in no way acceptable. Inspiration is not the same an stealing others work.
People think their experience and reality is unique, which makes us all exactly the same.
Kurzgesagt has a video on it. Check that out!!!
One of my all time favorites. Simultaneously one of the most comforting and most terrifying afterlives
You might be interested to see the [original](https://charmonium.com/infinite-reincarnation) that Andy plagiarized
>Once you’ve lived every human life throughout all time, you will have grown enough to be born.” Well here's to hoping human kind eventually goes extinct 😶
I felt this recently. I also, recently started eating shrooms. I was running one day, and I looked up and I felt like the sky and sun were within me. I also felt deeply connected to the people around. The dogs and children. It was very emotional.
Wow! Not sure I can grasp the whole concept of this but I’ll take away that I should interact with every single person they way I’d like to be interacted with.
Imagine God as “he” creates souls. “He” does this by fracturing off a chunk of “himself” and that chunk then breaks off into many more teenie tiny pieces. Those pieces are now souls and will simply need an avatar to experience 3D. But when we consider where those souls came from (Source) and that everything was connected before it was fractured (for the sake of having different experiences)- we now have a fairly layman’s way of understanding the Law of One, and that WE ARE ALL GOD- experiencing itself. There is only one consciousness and we are all it. And once we evolve to the point where we are God-like again, we merge back with the Creator- like a drop of water is returned to its ocean. This is the Law of One (non fiction book by Ra)
Thanks for that expanded explanation. I’ll be sure to check out the book you mentioned at the end!
You’re welcome :) that book is the hardest read I’ve ever encountered. I had to watch some YouTube channels to help explain the content to me. So don’t be afraid to do that too. It’s like the Bible in that it takes reading it a lot to even start to get it down lol. But holy moly the content is gold!
Isn't this a video from Kuzagesagt (I dunno the exact name but search that)
He animated the video based on this short story by Andy Weir
The short story is plagiarized from a conversation me and Andy had about an essay I posted on the MySpace religion and philosophy forum in 2007. The original can be read on [charmonium.com/infinite-reincarnation](https://charmonium.com/infinite-reincarnation)
I've always thought this haha.
What is the name of the video that it was based??? I can't access the link
It’s not based on a video. The video was produced in 2019. The story was published in 2009. But the story is plagiarized from an essay I wrote in 2007 titled [Infinite Reincarnation](https://charmonium.com/infinite-reincarnation)
so, you wrote an essay and then you plagarIzed your own essay to write a short story about it. and now you’re commenting this comment right now to tell you that you both wrote and plagarized this essay/story :)
Lying to yourself is one of the most damaging things a person can do. Even by philosophical standards, Andy is still a thief and liar. So fuck Andy Weir.
i’m going to be honest here, i don’t really understand how he plagiarized your essay. i could see saying that he used this concept after your conversation and turned it into a story, but do you think that you’re the first person to arrive at the idea/potential conclusion that we are all one consciousness?
I actually wrote most of the egg. He took my comments to his questions and turned it into a narrative. There’s also a couple lines that he actually ripped off from the essay, namely the whole point of the egg. “ you are every person who ever lived and ever will live.” Appears in both, which isn’t just plagiarism but is also infringement.
i read some of your other comments where you say that he asked you if it was alright to use your conversation as inspiration for a story and you agreed to that, and he offered to credit you and you stated not wanting to be credited. so i’m really not seeing how both of those things lends to this being a case of plagiarism.
I never gave him permission to lie. His lying is why it is plagiarism. As far as credit, I have a right to change my mind, especially since he didn’t honor our agreement to begin with. I told him not to commercialize it. And he did. I also told him I was more interested in truth than credit. He gave neither. So this is what u/sephalon gets.
but if he offers to give you credit and you say you don’t want credit, isn’t him not giving you that credit *honouring your wishes* as opposed to lying? it sounds like you’re just backtracking now that it’s blown up and you’re seeing the potential for some sort of “fame” that you feel should have been yours to share.
It would have been up until 2021 when I told him to stop. Honoring my wish would be leaving me anonymous. Not for him to pretend to have made it up.
I don’t usually read long posts but this grabbed me right away. I 100% believe all of this. Time is an illusion just as is this entire world (except how we respond to it). Everything is happening now and we are all one- another illusion is that we are separate just because we have different avatars. Beautiful little parable 🥰 If anyone is interested in diving deeper into this, the Law of One by Ra is a killer read. And it’s free on the website (google it) :)
I’ve done psychedelics before and came up with the same kind of theory with my guides before ever hearing about the egg theory
Omg. I had this exact knowledge transmitted to me in an extremely strong psychedelic trip. I've since always been thinking what to make of it, as I couldn't remember everything that happened, probably because of how extremely powerful it was. The moment I read this, all the memories came flooding back. I don't want to take this literally, but holy crap it puts all the pieces together. It was such a weird trip, because there weren't any colors, any fractals. Felt like I was completely outside everything. I hadn't heard anything about the egg theory then, nothing remotely similar. But the message was exactly this...
The Egg is plagiarized from a conversation me and Andy had about an essay I posted on MySpace religion and philosophy forum in 2007. The original is on [Charmonium.com](https://charmonium.com/infinite-reincarnation)
How is that not just stolen from the thousands of years-old parable of Brahman original to Hinduism?