It is possible to modify your awareness to perceive what plants perceive, birds, beings in the astral, the causal.

You may feel a sensation of floating. You may see colors, maybe no phenomena, it doesn't matter. You are absorbing power.

We hide from ourselves by being with others.

All the creations of God stretch out infinitely. All times, past, present and future for all beings, worlds unimagined

In meditation we get a sense of the countless selves within ourselves, the different forms they take. Those that don't seem positive or helpful we push aside. Those that seem progressive we enjoy.

At the beginning and the middle and the end of all things, there is only the perfection of enlightenment that is nirvana.

This is the fourth age, the Kali Yuga, and it's a time of great darkness. At the end of this age, there's supposed to be a cosmic dissolution and then life begins anew. It's a wonderful cycle of rebirth.