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Mi take on this is that everything has to come from nothingness. There must be a point where nothing was there, and matter manifested from that nothing... our mind can't not comprehend it, because we have an "idea" of what nothing is. Let's say that nothing is a state where there's all the possibilities for everything to manifest. It contradicts our logic. In that nothingness everything is manifested. The only thing that exist is nothing, or you can call it silence, the void. Our mind try to separate things to understand. It says, here there's a person, a tree, an animal, etc... but everything is made of the same substance. Awareness. Some people call it God, others the source, others nothingness, and so on... God has thousands of names. It is personal and impersonal at the same time... and I won't continue writing because everything I write is not even near of what reality is. God is the ultimate reality. Think of nothingness as the ultimate truth. Truth shall make you free!

Nothing exists outside your mind.

True!

One of the differences with solipsism is that there's not a you... solipsism says that only you exist, right? Awareness only exists, but awareness can't be defined or encapsulated in an idea... so it is your real you... but in reality awareness transcends all that. The you is the way, but the absolute is not a you... At least this is what I am beginning to notice or experience.

Yes, that's one of my conclusions without knowing anything about QM. But it makes a lot of sense. :-)

@zambize Thank you! I feel better now... hahahaha... Yes, the thing for me is that anything can be an observer and create an interference (or a collapse in the wave function). I am not so sure quantum mechanics proves anything. The only clear thing to me is what Niels Bohr said, that matter is made out of things that we don't consider matter. (Not his exact words, but that's the idea.) Thanks again! :-)

I agree with that. One thing I don't understand in Quantum Mechanics is the fact that when there's no "measurement" the particles behave like waves and when someone is measuring them they behave like particles. Isn't it also that the same slits are also affecting the particles/waves? How is it possible to do anything without any kind of "observer". There's always an observer. It can be a person or it can be just another particle, photon, whatever... maybe I am a bit dumb. LoL Maybe you can help me understand that @zambize

Crazy Jane, a character from Doom Patrol

@Gabriel Antonio Awesome!

Knowledge is limited, the unknown has no limits. Because knowledge needs the unknown to arise, but the unknown is just that... unknown. I don't know is this make sense... :-)

Thanks Leo for your pointers!!!!

I realized that when I go deeper and deeper is when I see that I don't know what I AM. To say "we are / I am awareness" is an idea, a simplification. We really can't describe what we are....

@Leo Gura Thanks Leo!!!

@Leo Gura you said in the video that there's also maps in all religions, even in christianity. Do you know any Christian Map for salvation (enlightenment) ????

This recalls me of Matthew 18:3 "And he said: "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven."

hehehehe... we are being tricked by our senses.

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@John Lula This made me think of the infinite loop animation that Leo mentioned before. But, when I wanted to download this animation, I realized that it wasn't an animation. It's a fixed image that it seems to be moving. Weird, right?

@Joseph Maynor Interesting....

I was always curious about Salvia... thanks for sharing your insights!

When you realize that life is an illusion, you really live it fully.

It caused me a lot of uneasiness, when I didn't know anything about self actualization, enlightenment, etc... It was so scary to be nothing that I ended in the hospital. I had my dark night of the soul really. It was fast but necessary. I wouldn't be talking about this if I didn't pass for that period. My (the) mind went crazy for sometime.

A lot of sense... thoughts have to keep creating that idea of a person constantly, there's no person in reality. So nice!!! We are free! :-)

Cool lyrics! Good one!

I know what you are talking about. When we act more in the way our true self would act is not so much as a fassade. That could be the difference to know who is really faking it (like some religious people that are always happy but they didn't transcend it, or judgmental, etc...) and who is really closer to what he really is. Right? I know what you are talking about. Thanks! :-)