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Cool!

Thanks for sharing @Genghis Khan I noticed that the movie altered states is based on some of his works. I saw that movie when I was a teen and it was crazy. I remember there was a scene with that sensory deprivation tank in that movie. I have to watch it again. And I will order that book! I want it now! :-P Nice!

Silence

Think in the example of Jesus. It makes more sense if you know he was talking from the POV of awareness when he was in the cross. And he said "forgive them father, because they don't know what they are doing". What causes suffering and evil is ignorance of what they really are. They don't know what they are doing, that's why they wanted to kill Jesus. And Jesus forgives them because is not their fault, it's the lack of knowledge. If you are enlightened you will feel the suffering and evil, you will be sad, etc... but you will know that this is happening because of ignorance, and you will see all that happening, from the perspective of awareness, with compassion and forgiveness. Because you will understand. Truth shall make you free. I never understood how Jesus could forgive and love his enemies, until I understood non-duality.

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

I think that all that is a reflection of how you see the forum. I don't see it that way. But I get it. Remember we all are asleep. We don't know what we are doing and saying hahaha...

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.

Take a look...

@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!