Leo Gura

Sam Harris is not awake.

Hot witch girlfriend? Lol You guys are so predictable.

In the materialist paradigm all things are different yet made of protons and electrons.

This will vary a lot from person to person. 125ug is a full God-consciousness for me.

Something like that. Everything must collapse. All of the mind's explanations and models must collapse. The mind must surrender and acknowledge its own futility in the face of God. The mind must become unmoored. The bottom of reality must fall out.

Yes

Oh for fuck's sake, just realize you are God! Put an end to these endless religious games.

@zeroISinfinity If you need help with understanding and navigating the ego backlashes that come on the spiritual path you should read some of the books from my book list in the Spirituality category which specifically talk about these issues and how to deal with them.

No Don't forget that many people on TV are reading a teleprompter with words they themselves didn't even write. Lol They probably practice a lot in various ways. And also, people on TV are often gonna be naturals too. A person doesn't get on TV unless you're exceptionally talented. If you want to gain lots of public speaking experience, join Toastmasters.

You can grasp it, as God/Love The best is yet ahead for you. Keep inquiring what reality is.

India has a deep philosophical/spiritual tradition. Osho was basically a philosopher. So was Sri Aurobindo. And countless others. Why don't you take some inspiration from them? You can teach yourself philosophy. In fact, that's really the only way you can be a serious philosopher.

Hehehe, this is like warning that pissing into the wind will get you wet. It is not a punishment of God when you piss into the wind.

Almost none of them have come true. Predicting that disasters will happen is the easiest thing in the world. Many disasters will happen to life. So what? Mother nature is not fighting mankind. This would make a devil of mother nature. Mankind is fighting its own ignorance.

@Mosess That was a tiny glimpse, but clearly you're still not awake and not clear about the nature of reality/self/God/consciousness. You must go much deeper to reach a stable awakening. The ego-mind will go through stuff like Dark Night of the Mind and Dark Night of the Soul. It will react in all sorts of sneaky ways to get you to stop fully awakening. It's all normal stuff.

@Keyhole Tales of apocalypse have existed in every generation of humans for thousands of years. Take them with a grain of salt.

Given your lack of research and due diligence, you should not be doing psychedelics. You are going to get yourself in trouble.

This must be denied by materialists in order to maintain materialism. They act as though materialism is the only position when in fact for most of mankind's history idealism was taken seriously. Materialism became dominant only a few hundred years ago.

Nope, not even close. The map is not the territory. Logic is not awakening. Because you didn't actually awaken. Your state of consciousness didn't change. That was closer. There's just a lot to get, so one brief glimpse is not enough. Imagine if I showed you a picture of the Earth for 3 seconds. Would you "get" the Earth? No! You'd need to look at it a lot longer and a lot closer. Yes, you're missing 99.9999999999% of it. Stop torturing yourself and take a psychedelic. You'll instantly get it.

That's why God created psychedelics

Sam Seder takes far too much glee in running circles around Costco Kevin. Just look as his face. Libertarian Cringe is almost a redundancy.

YouGov polls are online polls so I wouldn't take them too seriously.

Imagine for a moment that the entire universe is one single Infinite Mind. But this mind suffers from split personality disorder. This mind fractured itself into a trillion sub-minds which each imagine they are independent. But if ever this Infinite Mind awakens to itself, it will realize that all the "other" minds were always just fractures of itself. And then the Mind becomes ONE. The split personality disorder is healed. Notice how you treat your body as a single whole unit. You don't think of your arm, your leg, your dick, and your head as all being different "others". You clearly see that they are all ONE unified whole. But someone who is fractured and thinks that the arm, leg, dick, and head are all separate things would say, "But that's solipsism to think that you are one unified body!" It's solipsism from his fractured perspective. But actually it's just holism from the higher, unified perspective. Now extend that logic to the entire universe.

Penrose doesn't grasp that reality must fundamentally be groundless. He is trying to ground consciousness is some other thing, like microtubules, brains, matter, quantum wave functions, math, or whatever else. But consciousness cannot ever be grounded in any such thing because consciousness is that which imagines those things. That is the fundamental insight he's missing. The reason consciousness is non-computable is because it is infinite and it imagines computation. Computation is a sub-set of consciousness, so of course consciousness itself cannot be computable. That notion is simply absurd. So he's got the right intuition but he's missing an awakening to Infinity.

No, I think there are less enlightened women because culture does not encourage women to pursue such things. People largely become enlightened because culture guides them in that direction somehow. They rarely do it on their own.

@Someone here If it is possible to create an embryo in a lab -- which it is -- that is already science creating a conscious being, so to speak. Science could possibly do a similar thing but with inorganic "matter".