Mason Riggle

@mandyjw nice.

Remember that the bad news is, nothing last forever.. the good news is, nothing lasts forever. What you are asking is tantamount to asking, 'how can I enjoy flavors of ice cream I dislike, if the definition of 'dislike' means I don't enjoy them?'. "If you are going through hell, keep going." Perhaps consider that if you could accept everything as it is, then ''Hell' has no definition.

@RMQualtrough did you miss what I put in parentheses? I defined what I mean by 'matter', and it has nothing to do with 'purpose', and everything to do with perceiving differences. I's 6 of one, half a dozen of the other.. they are the same thing. Objectively existing, and 'seemingly objectively existing' are the same thing.

It literally doesn't matter (it makes no difference, there is no difference, there is no perceptible difference, etc.) whether or not 'objects' exist anywhere beyond 'the perceptions of them', so long as it seems like they do. I seem to by typing this comment on a keyboard. Is there really a keyboard, or just the 'seeming like there's a keyboard'? It literally doesn't matter which it is, if you can't tell the difference, which you can't.

Please wait 180 seconds before casting another vote....

Please demonstrate anything. This conversation is just as 'absurd' as matter.. and yet here it is.

@LastThursday yes. It is a mistake to think 'appearances in consciousness' and 'consciousness' are two separate things. One, not two. There are no layers to it. It's direct.

You are 'other people'.. you're all of it.. and that's where consciousness is found.

@Someone here I'm not suggesting consciousness is reducible to matter. This is a straw man. I said consciousness and matter are the same thing.

It's a combination of factors that determines what occurs. Consider the way flowers bloom. All the flowering plants don't make big beautiful flowers.. just the ones that get enough water and nutrients and sunlight, and they must be in the fortunate circumstance of being a healthy flowering plant, rather than a damaged one.. or rather than a non flowering plant.. or rather than a rock. We are products of circumstances.

You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy. - Adyashanti

If you believe this, smash your material skull open and see what happens to the subject of that experience.

@Someone here consciousness and matter are the same thing. Where is the the Universe? It's in your head, you see?

It's the same reason you set an alarm clock.. to wake yourself up!

I might describe it as the dissolution of 'separateness'. The same way you don't seem separate from 'your hand', you can feel this way about 'your friends' or 'your shirt' or 'the moon'.. you become all of it, and you can do this so succesfully that it actually becomes impossible to 'distinguish' anything from anything else..

@Someone here yeah, materialism is like half of a duality. It's like saying, 'this cup has an outside, but no inside'.

@Carl-Richard @Carl-Richard @Jacob Morres I'm quoting myself. It's totally legit. Go ahead and try to change something. Notice that whatever you do us just more 'what is already happening'.

@cookiemonster I also don't necessarily think manifesting works quite like that (maybe it does). I see it more like.. The 'superconsciousness' has desires, namely, survival, so part of satisfying this desire is pollinating fruit plants, and feeding mammals, and fertilizing the soil, etc.. and humans are part of that system, and so the superconciousness influences our consciousness (causes our desires to eat and survive etc.) so that we behave in a way that satisfies it's desires. It doesn't end there tho.. once humans 'discover' what they want, the superconciousness 'helps them' fulfil those desires. The creepy feeling before something bad happens. The 'random encounter' with your old school mate who happens to be a stock investor the day after you were thinking about maybe trying your hand at day trading. (I'll borrow the phrase, once you know what you want, the Universe conspires to make it happen) Humans seems to have lost touch with their ability to pay attention to help, or they confuse their desires with other desires, and so we manifest a lot of things out of alignment with the 'superconscious desires'. Thats just my model. Addendum: (there really is no separation between the 'superconsciouness' and our consciousness any more than there is separation between our subconscious and our conscious. It all 'flows together'.)

@cookiemonster your belief that you can't do it is blocking the path. Beliefs are hard to change. You are convinced you can't until you're not, and what constitutes as 'sufficent evidence' to cause this shift is not really up to you. Maybe you can and just don't know how, and you have no evidence suggesting you can, so you believe you can't, and so you can't.

I like to consider 'the path' to getting from 'here' to where what I want to manifest is. For example, if I want to manifest 'a glass of Pepsi' (this is an easy one, because it's super plausible).. I can invision the path where I go to the store, buy some Pepsi, return home, pour it in a glass.. and then I follow the path. Voila.. Glass of Pepsi. The point is, if I had no idea how to get from not having a glass of Pepsi to having a glass of Pepsi, it would seem impossible!! Really think about what it takes.. the path that gets you there, and take that path.

@Inliytened1 I think we [mostly] agree. Language is such an obstacle. I think all dualities collapse, including the 'relative/Absolute' duality.

And when not in state of consciousness.. that's still all there is.

@Inliytened1 did who have all the realizations at the same time? God or God pretending to be me, which is still God? God forgetting it's God, or God remembering it's God, is all just more God being God, which is all there is.