http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Logo_250X250.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Background_1024X576.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Banner_686X60.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Half-Banner_234X60.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Logo_250X250 http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Logo-Watermark_250X250.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Background_1024X576.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Half-Banner-ALT_234X60.jpg Bigthink - User Ideas Feed Bigthink http://www.bigthink.com/feed/rss/user/14614 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:48:39 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 something I need to say http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/12184 This is in a nutshell, anyway, here goes...

Since I was young I had a fascination with the topic of God.  I was 22 when I first sat down and talked to a philosopher.  I had goose-bumps and something was telling me that I should pay attention to this way of thinking.  A couple of months later I was talking to my wife in our living room and was thinking about the center of Earth's gravity when I had my first out of body experience.  Up to that point I didn't believe there was a God.  Now this may seem crazy but this is what I saw.  I saw a light and went into it, it just happened, I didn't see it coming.  While I was out there I saw a face that was unclear but for some reason I knew the face was Socrates.  When I was there I was like a part of the light.  This was only a second, then I came back to my body and I was completely overwhelmed.  The voice in my head was loud and seemingly out of my control saying that I was Socrates.  Yep!  and I'm just getting started.  This experience scared the shit out of me and I kind of lost it.  Within two days I opened myself to God.  I actually gave myself to God or whatever you want to call it, how bout' Fred?  I think it was an indescribable moment.  Things changed in my life in a hurry after that.  Trying to understand what had happened to me was wild, to say the least.  I ended up leaving town and stayed with a friend, hoping to find some sort of explanation for the things that I was experiencing.  I knew I had to keep looking inside myself and didn't think any one could give me the answers.  The next 5months were intense.  Humbling. 

Shortly after my first out-of-body I thought there would be two more.  On January 13th, 2000 I was at work in a deep conversation about everything and the center of gravity (I would like to remember exactly how that thinking went) when something "jumped into me".  It took me over and I honestly felt indescribable, it was like I could feel everything around me.  It ran me into the living room of the house we were working, hitting my hands to the sides of my head yelling "I did it, I did it".  Then I turned, faced my friends, raised my arms and thought I yelled that I am God, though it turns out I didn't.  It was what I heard on the way out.  Loud.  I felt myself leave the same as the first time but this time I went all the way out into the light and turned around to look at myself.  That's what I saw, I was about 6 or 8 feet away from my body frozen in the moment I left it in.  The rest was light.  I paned across from right to left (my right not my body's, ha, true though) looking at myself and this lasted what seemed like 4 seconds or so.  Then I somehow came back to my body but couldn't really feel it.  I collapsed and I recalled or saw my life as Bryan from beginning to then, like I was looking at the last 23 years through my eyes in a few seconds.  After that the vision changed to me running fast and low to the ground, like I was some kind of cat or dog or something.  It seemed real and for some reason I slammed into the ground and left the body.  Then it was like I was only one piece of light but I could still see where I was at.  I flew up, looked at the sky, and looked down at some land and a big body of water.  That was it.  I came back to and felt incredible.  It was like I could lift or jump over a house.  I started getting excited and jumped around because of how huge it all seemed and then I remembered that I didn't know shit about what was happening to me.  If you're following me here you can imagine that the next few moments and months were something.  Honestly it scared the shit out of me.  At some time during those next few months I was by my self in my living room when I had a recollection/vision of my last look at the ground before my eyes shut and I died, secured to something like a tree.  So, those are the life altering big spiritual experiences that I have mentioned.  I'm honestly not making these things up.  On top of this people have told me I'm Jesus.  Wouldn't talk to me about it though.  Ya, anyway, take it how you will.  I think it's the craziest shit in the world.  I'm sure I'll get some agreement there.  I'm not sure what to do with it any more, so I give it to you.       

Love and Peace           

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Bigthink Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:48:29 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/12184
God is everything. http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/11855 God is _____.  God is life.  We are God.  God is every possibility.  Aware of God we choose this real life.  These chemicals reacting are the ultimate story being lived. 

 

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Bigthink Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:25:54 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/11855
letters for peace http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/11726 This is the last letter I sent George Bush.

G.W. Hello, My name is Bryan Cridlebaugh. I would like to share an idea with you. I know you are busy so I'll keep it short. I think that love will end this war. Love will end all wars. You have to find love in your heart and stay focused on making peace happen. Don't forget that Jesus spoke of love. Love, equality, peace. Think of human nature and try to be more understanding. Give love. It works great. I still love you brother. You are in a great position to spread love. God bless the World.

So I'm thinking that if we get together and try to contact whoever, maybe G.W, we might get heard.  So, if you want, share the message that you are trying to get across to whoever you want, post it here, we can discuss it and together, maybe make something happen? 

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Bigthink Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:48:30 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/11726
Faith & Beliefs http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/11668 Bigthink Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:55:52 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/11668 Love, a survival mechanism... http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/11606 Bigthink Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:36:25 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/11606 love.. http://www.bigthink.com/love-happiness/11329 Discuss love, reasons to love each other, and peace.  Does anything have more potential for making peace?  Should peace by way of understanding love, become the main topic of conversation world wide?  If we think and talk about peace enough, will it happen?

Why not try it out?  

 

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Bigthink Sun, 15 Jun 2008 07:14:28 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/love-happiness/11329
What is everything? http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/11328 I've noticed a lot of, what seems to be, an attempt to narrow things (at least everything beyond what we perceive) down to nothing, do to lack of proof of anything.  I guess it is in the pudding.  Why pudding?  What about everything?  I'm not talking just about everything you see here or everything that has happened or we see happening in this universe.  I'm not talking about just the physical.  I mean every possibility actually existing.  Maybe life is simply the best, better than all the rest:)  Could life be any more real?  Maybe life is made of love?  I have also noticed a lot of people saying that the idea of an after life is silly because (I guess) they just don't want any more of this 'life stuff' or for what ever reason.  Why not live forever if we are able to?  You are alive now aren't you?  Can the truth disappear?  Even without time space and matter the truth still exists?  Do you desire your awareness to turn into nothingness?  Anyway, this is the way I think when it comes to this stuff.  Do any of you shoot pool or cook or hike or play cards...chess?  This BT is fun but I think getting to know each other and living and understanding love would be sweet.  I don't think you need a college education to find inner peace...I love you.

 

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Bigthink Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:01:58 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/11328
Re: world peace? http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/11255 Bigthink Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:41:11 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/11255 Re: Riddle this Big Thinkers http://www.bigthink.com/wisdom/11141 Bigthink Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:06:22 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/wisdom/11141 What do you know for sure.. http://www.bigthink.com/wisdom/10738 Bigthink Sun, 25 May 2008 08:36:35 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/wisdom/10738 Can awareness exist without... http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/10709 Bigthink Fri, 23 May 2008 05:43:55 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/10709 What does Big Thinker think of Big Think so far? http://www.bigthink.com/identity/10669 Bigthink Thu, 22 May 2008 19:59:21 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/identity/10669 What to do with now? http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/10656 Eternity is NOW.  Life is knowing every thought and just thinking this life. 

  

 

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Bigthink Thu, 22 May 2008 06:20:38 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/10656
What is love worth? http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/10602 How valuable is love? 

At the stroke of midnight New Years 2000, a woman standing to my side, who I had never met before, came up to me, gave me a hug, and after a short introduction told me that everything is made of love.  True story.  I think love is the positive that keeps us alive.  It means everything.

 

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Bigthink Sun, 18 May 2008 21:34:39 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/10602
and I think to myself... http://www.bigthink.com/inspiration/10599 what a wonderful world.  I wouldn't trade this world for anything.  This thought is inspired by music.  So, what are some songs that make you feel good.  Maybe some songs that you think most people haven't heard.

Here are a few I would like to share.  One of my favorites, Where The River Goes...by Stone Temple Pilots (Core has to be one of the best albums ever, at least in my book).  Welcome To This World...by Primus.  and speaking of angles in real life...Under The Weather...by KT Tunstall.

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Bigthink Sun, 18 May 2008 18:43:00 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/inspiration/10599
Beginning or no beginning? http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/10528 Bigthink Thu, 15 May 2008 05:32:43 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/10528 How sad is war? http://www.bigthink.com/life-death/10264 People being shot and blown apart.

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Bigthink Fri, 02 May 2008 22:57:14 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/life-death/10264
Are all things natural? http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/10241 I think yes.  It was even natural for us as humans to explore our imaginations and physical world to make the atom bomb.   I think religions/cults (including atheism) are natural too.  Same with what may-be 'supernatural'.....natural.

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Bigthink Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:10:40 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/10241
reincarnation... http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/10238 Do you believe that out of eternity, this life is the only one?  Out of eternity?  What are the odds?

 

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Bigthink Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:25:25 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/10238
Is there anything everyone can agree on? http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/9985 Bigthink Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:01:28 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/9985