I posted this reply in a deja-vu topic in sci/tech/nature and I thought it would fit here too, so here goes:
Happen to me almost everday. One of the interesting effects of Salvia Divinorum is that it increases the frequency of Deja Vus that you experience, as a long-term effect.
Quote (TidsL @ Feb 6 2010 06:40pm)
Doesn't surprise me at all... Salvia Divinorum is a very strong boundary dissolving drug which produces an incredibly intense experience, and what I think it has done, is that it has locked up certain things in you. In other words strenghtened your connection to your soul. I think everything in our reality, each and every tiny little building block 'stretches out' beyond our perceivable world, and in that way potentially connects us all to some level. (Making telepathy etc possible) And we too, of course, are multidimensional beings, and the main part of our individual souls, I think, exists far outside of ourselves, beyond our reality, outside of time.
Time is only a physical phenomena, and since such a large part of ourselves exists in another, what you can call another dimension, in another wave spectrum so to speak, it means that from the souls perspective - everything is now. "Past" and "future" are concepts that don't apply there the way we think of it. We on the other hand don't have the "everything is now"-feeling because right now we are physical inhabitants temporarily bound by its laws.
The deja vu-feeling comes out as a neurological phenomena when information for whatever reason "leaks out" from our non-physical selves, creating the feeling of an old memory concerning a new experience. (In a way it is a memory, I think we're all living here according to an indiviual "plan", will develop a tiny bit in a sec) It feels like it has happened before, because in a sence it has happened before, cause time is an illusion. (not false, time sure exists, but still).
I think our individual souls (or whatever you wanna call it) makes up a plan for our lifes in advance, to learn and to experience certain things that it feels (or knows) is necessary for its own development. So when you find yourself on one of your planned paths, you can sometimes experience that feeling of deja vu. It's also possible that the deja vu feeling in some cases is caused by a memory of a past life experience, if you for ex. arrive at a place you've been to in another life, I mean. You don't have to follow your souls plan of course, you can always use your free will to avoid it but your subconscious is always trying to drag you back on track if you've lost it, so to speak. I guess you can think of this "soul-plan" in terms of fate if you will...
"We're not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience" - Terence Mckenna
Feel free to discuss the deja vu phenomenon from all possible perspectives and, well yeah, we'll see what it leads to.
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