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Hi, I've been wondering on what is your take on enlightenment, consciousness and the brain? I mean, from what I've read is that the main take on enlightenment is that there is only consciousness, and everything else is just an illusion inside consciousness, including ourselves. But is the human brain just a vessel to try and reach enlightenment, or is the human brain just an illusion altogether? Or is the human brain like a radio receiver which you can use to tap into consciousness? What if you have brain damage and say you're in vegetable state, and you are not able to think anymore, nor try to reach enlightenment? Doesn't a physical damage then deny you from your spiritual path? If everything is happening inside consciousness, the consciousness should be "stronger" than the physical damage. I know this sounds like my ego is coming up with all these questions resisting the enlightenment and it probably is just that.

Yeah, it would be nice to have an enlightened scientist. Some of my thoughts concerning this topic came from reading Jed Mckenna, he's always referring our universe as dreamstate, and all the other character he's interacting with are just dream characters, and not real. From what I know, from my own experience, is that I don't have a brain damage and I am able to think clearly. What if you all are just dream characters in my dreamstate, and no such thing as brain damage actually exists, it is just this concept created by my own mind. Since I personally don't have or haven't had a direct experience of a brain damage, I can only believe that there is such a thing as brain damage. Sure there are several million papers and videos and whatnot about brain damage, but I haven't experienced it myself. Thus it's just a very very very comprehensive belief that there exists such a thing as brain damage. But it's still just a belief. Do I even have a brain... I haven't seen my brain...