Leo Gura

I was being sarcastic.

I made a post just last month on my blog: https://www.actualized.org/insights/modern-humans-are-350000-years-old Homo sapiens are at least 350,000 years old, if we are to trust current science. Neantherthals had very different brains from us. They might even have been far more spiritual, but got killed off by the more egotistical and pragmatic humans. Just speculation, but quite plausible. Homo sapiens may also have been genetically far more spiritual in the past. The spiritual ones would have easily gotten killed off by the bloodthirsty ones, like dodo birds.

I always knew Jesus spoke in a high-pitched British accent.

How is the simulation possible and why does it exist? And what is the relationship between subject and object? Don't let clever words mask the underlying ignorance.

@Cesar Alba Start with just reading, taking notes, and thinking about what is possible -- get your bearings. Order 20 good books and read them a bit each night over the next year.

The distinction between science and pseudoscience is nonsense. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. 100 years ago x-rays were pseudo-science. Today, it would be pseudo-science to deny their existence. 400 years ago, telescopes were pseudo-science. Today, you would be called insane if you say, "Telescopes are a tool of the devil meant to deceive mankind." Yet that is exactly what the good scientists of the day told Galileo. No! Empirical evidence does not matter at all when you're dealing with a dogmatic person. That's the whole point! The evaluate evidence properly requires total openmindedness. Stop assuming that scientists have it. Not even close. Yes, it will. And it has. And we have it. But so what? It will not become a part of mainstream cultural knowledge or mainstream science because they are the gatekeepers and will throw it away. It will just become religious myth. No, he won't. He will be ridiculed as a fraud or delusional religious kook. And in the rare case where you do succeed in getting a lab to study him, that lab will get discredited and their results thrown out for "improper procedural methods." Obviously the methods must have been improper, because everyone knows that stopping the heart is physically impossible. You're still not grasping the depth of this problem.

@electroBeam The materialist paradigm exists, just like Santa Claus.

Hahahaha... You give scientists WAY too much credit. Do you realize that scientists are masters as explaining away and ignoring anomalies? That's what they do for a living. The scientist's first choice is always to reject any data which doesn't fit his metaphysical paradigm. Because obviously the paradigm is right, and the data must be erroneous. And in the rare case where one scientist is successfully convinced that the whole paradigm is wrong, what do you think will happen?? What do you think his colleagues will say when he runs over to them and say, "Look guys! I found a man with no heartbeat! All our theories about human physiology were wrong!"? Will say hug him and say, "Wow! Great work! Let's admit to the public we were fools all this time. Let's re-write all the textbooks and tell all the doctors we taught them lies for 100 years. Yay! Hooray! All our reputations are going down the toilet! Yay!" They will just ban him from the university for talking woo-woo pseudoscience. They will say he's been hanging out with religious kooks and has turned to a New Age believer. His reputation will be destroyed, no serious scientist will ever want to work with him, and all of his grant money will be pulled. You don't get it yet. Science is a political game. For a thing to be accepted as true, it must win a long political battle. It's not about truth, it's about self-preservation. "Black matter" isn't a problem for them because it fits the paradigm. It's "matter". Try to get them to fit "God" or siddhis into their paradigm and see what happens. They still don't accept the full ramifications of quantum mechanics. The greatest professors at CalTech still do not know the difference between a math equation and a cheeseburger! What wisdom can you expect from such a dense person? It's like explaining a joke to a donkey. There is no substitute for having a sense of humor. And there is no substitute for consciousness or radical openmindedness.

@electroBeam Super Mario World is so consistent! Look! Mario is affected by gravity and he doesn't fall through the floor! And fast-moving turtle shells really hurt! Therefore, Super Mario World must be real. QED #RationalistGenius

@Shanmugam I would bet that human beings have been independently experiencing nonduality for 50,000+ years. Way before any kind of written surviving records, languages, or traditions. Psychedelic mushrooms grow on every continent. And they would have certainly been eaten.

Yes, all enlightenment or spiritual practices ultimately lead there. Self-inquiry Contemplation Meditation Yoga Psychedelics Etc. You don't really stop seeing the elephant. You rise to a new level of consciousness where you realize that the elephant was always also a non-elephant. The non-elephant exists in exactly the same place as the elephant! An elephant is a non-elephant. Get it? No. Mind cannot go there. Some form of meditation is required. If you eat some mushrooms, you'll see it.

Lol, it doesn't. Oh, the tradgic irony...

@Krishna Siva Wasn't this answered by the 3 videos about self-deception?

@egoless That was revealed here: https://www.actualized.org/articles/how-to-develop-big-picture-understanding That is also sorta what my book will be about, going into the enormous depth of it. But that won't be ready for years.

The trick is finding a good way to administer it without vomiting your guts out. I want to plug it, but that will require sticking half a gram of powder up the butt. Not sure about that... For the sake of science, I guess...

@MM1988 Well, when they hooked Sadhguru up to an EEG machine, it registered him as clinically brain dead. Science has done a poor job of researching yogis. If a serious scientist measures a yogi with no heart beat, what do you think will happen? Do you think he will say, "Oh! Look! All of our understanding of human physiology is wrong!" or will he say, "Oh! What a fluke! This is just some strange anomaly. I can't explain it, but this obviously can't be real so let's get back to studying normal people." Any scientist who starts to validate mysticism will be outcast by his peers and called a mystic himself. It's a political game you cannot win. So most scientists have learned not to even approach this domain of investigation. All scientific evidence of the paranormal (and there is much of it) is automatically dismissed as impossible. Because it doesn't fit the materialist paradigm. And the paradigm is what's king. You can only "see" evidence which your paradigm is open to. You're thinking about this whole thing backwards. It's not evidence which supports the paradigm, it's the paradigm which creates or denies the evidence.

Daily stretching might help you. How comfortable postures feel depends on many factors, from your weight, to your age, to your body shape, to your flexibility, to your circulation, etc. Find a posture that's comfortable enough so you can sit for at least 30 minutes and focus on your Kriya techniques. If you are too distracted by pain to do the techniques, that's no good.

Part 2 out now:

@MM1988 The problem is that you are expecting yoga to be commensurable with your materialist ways of quantifying the world. And it just isn't. You cannot grasp the subtle with the gross. There are aspects of reality which cannot be mapped, symbolized, or quantified. The scientist needs to have enough self-awareness to realize, "Oh, yeah... I shouldn't expect yoga to fit my terms, but instead I should fit myself to yoga's terms." Instead of testing yoga in a lab, you should ditch the lab and sit down and do yoga yourself. That IS the test.

Metaphysically, string theory is not different from quantum mechanics. String theory says that everything is just a collection of tiny vibrating strings or loops. Okay... but what are these loops themselves made out of? Nothing. They are just mathematical equations. Science cannot grasp the "substance" of reality. Because there is no substance there to be grasped. All you can do is map stuff with symbols in an infinite circle.

That would be your projection. Indeed, the mind is sneaky.

@Ether Does it matter?

@Edvard Have an awakening first, then let's talk.

Death is right here. You're it.

I like the one where some disgruntled villager who hated the Buddha sent an angry elephant charging at him. As the elephant was about to strample him, the Buddha gently held up his hand and the elephant bowed. Always brings a tear to my eye.