JosephKnecht

The senses are perceived through thought as sensations. They are not just thought because sensing precedes thought. If you identify with thoughts too much, try a mediation practice. What you saw during your trip was real, but it is no longer real. Only the present is real. Trying to think of the past as Absolute is your delusion.

We can't validate your subjective experience. From your description, you have had a glimpse, which should open your mind to a reality beyond materialism. I will tell you one thing... You have not transcended the ego until you love the ego. If you want to grow spiritually, you should love the finite. Do not go chasing high states, but rather use these experiences to grow your base state.

Donald Trump is your daddy... Read his books.

When the brand falls out of favor, just change the name.

I didn't say you are right or wrong. I can sense the negativity in the tone of voice you write. Don't blame others. They have done the best they could. If you can do better, get into the arena and change things. Blaming others helps no one.

Send me all your lies, and I will give you the truth. Take that pointing finger towards yourself. It will be more accurate.

Wait until you find out that Leo deceives you too.

The government can barely deliver my mail. How can they deliver me a bride? It is much more likely that in the future there will be an algorithm that can calculate a "compatibility partner" for you. All the data that has been gathered by google, facebook, etc can be used to deduce your personal preferences and can find a "partner" that is suitable for you. (This assumes that google,FB, know you better than you know yourself).

Your mind is trying to conceptualize too much. You can't think your way to enlightenment. Same problem. Meditation is a practice that tries to focus your mind on not knowing. If you just started your practice recently, try to first focus your attention on your breath(or single object) for 20 minutes. Train your attention to focus on something before you can focus on nothing.

You can use strength training as an extended sort of meditation. While you exercise, you can shift all your focus to muscle contraction/extension. Feel deeply into your body. If you are looking for inspiration, check out David Goggins or Tavi Castro.

My third eye is going places. When I focus on her eyes, the rest becomes a painting.

Understanding life.

Nobody knows the future. Take a look at how inflation has been going in the past, and extrapolate that trend into the future. Look at the people that can prevent inflation and see their inability to stop it.

You sound like a woke bloke.

Take cold showers.

@ValiantSalvatore If you understand Calculus level math, you will be fine. For the Laws of Form, you have to know the rules of boolean algebra.

I have been contemplating something for the past few weeks. 1. Is there an order in which dualities are constructed? 2. Can one formalize the steps that can move one from duality into non-duality and vice-versa? 3. If no such formalized order can be constructed, what is the thing that limits that construction? Intuitively, I can sense that self-vs-other is the first(1st order) duality, and imagination-vs-reality is the last(n-th order) duality. In between these two, all other dualities exist in some ordered form... Can one attempt to create an ordered list in which all dualities are constructed/deconstructed? The order does not need to be exact but can serve as a map in which students can deconstruct dualities.

The same could be said about this forum. Yet, here we are.

The average lifespan is 80 years. How much more patience do you need?

Check out Laws of Form by George Spencer-Brown. This guy constructs formal logic from the ground up. Also check Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.

All global problems stem from personal problems. If all the people were "perfect", there would be no global problems.

Humanity must invent global problems in order to preoccupy itself. Global warming is such an invented global problem. Do not concern yourself with the problems of humanity before solving your own personal problems. You can't change society if you can't change yourself first.

LSD is best done alone. I have had similar experiences as you. Small doses of LSD increase your ability to introspect. Sometimes, while you introspect your thoughts might get entangled with the thoughts of people around you. Since you don't have "direct" access to their thoughts, you might end up in a loop out of which you can't get out off. This has been my personal experience. Other people might experience it differently.

Have you tried the mirror?

Leo is partially right. NSA has introduced backdoors into encryption algorithms that itself help create. In 2013, interest began to increase considerably when it was discovered that the NSA had potentially implemented a backdoor into the P-256 curve based Dual_EC_DRBG algorithm.[11] While not directly related,[12] suspicious aspects of the NIST's P curve constants[13] led to concerns[14] that the NSA had chosen values that gave them an advantage in breaking the encryption.[15][16] Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve25519 However, there are elliptic curves that are currently mathematically unbreakable. You just have to use the right one.