AtheisticNonduality

That book is about the evolution of humankind, yes. But the Spirit mentioned in that book is not the same thing as Spirit in the sense it would be used here.

Brahman is the Truth. This is what those spiritual journeyers, monks, and ascetics say when they leave this world and go to some other-world. Nietzsche would call these ones the Afterworldsmen or the Preachers of Death or the weak fettered victims of slave morality, patheticness, and illness of their fragile bodies and minds of this world so that they must flee on to another. Brahman is One. This is what the enlightened say when they achieve understanding of the Truth that they sought and stumbled upon. Brahman is the world. This is what they see and say when they realize that, due to Brahman's nonduality, Brahman and the physical world are indistinguishable, forming a bridge between life and what is beyond even life and at the same time refuting Nietzsche's attack on journeys into higher Spirit beyond this world (because beyond this world is not necessarily a dissociation from this world).

Discovered through invention / invented through discovery. Although, it depends on your definitions. Generally equations don't preexist before humans make them, so invention seems like a more accurate term, unless aliens had already developed them.

What should I make of doubts, repetitive thoughts and actions, and things that have built themselves up inside my mind?

I'm still alive, so yes, I can talk if you want.

@something_else It's because this one was with young children and a high amount of deaths.

Years ago had a moral/existential crisis where I experienced what I felt to be the collective suffering of all humankind and even all sentient beings: Suffering as capitalized. Famines, bloodstained sands of desert murders and wars, diseases, etc. I remember vividly this was by a Christmas tree in November 2019. I've had occurrences like this since, but that was the most beautiful one by far: the realization of the beauty of Suffering---though I was despaired and pained and terrified by it.

There is what we might call a teleology of awakening where the time, the when, of the event becomes important. For example, we might allude to an "end of history" that would consist of mass scale awakening with all of past human history as a building story that led to it, that grew it from space out of infinities of temporal work and story. This also applies on an individual level: certain people may have timelines of life where their consciousness undergoes certain experiences that only make sense in the context of something unfolding as an arc. So this means that not everything happens right now, even if everything happens Now. This sort of line of events that seem to synchronize into something otherworldly and imbued with hints of Truth may only happen when there are hits going on at certain points on a time graph, one hit here and another there and so on. And then hits of greater awakening exist as contextualized by time; there's no getting around time because awakening as a phenomenon cannot escape from it. Even if time becomes an illusion to an illuminated perception, it is still there governing events, awakening being an event and a powerful one. This just means that awakenings have an order to them and around them, not necessarily that the incapacity or inoppurtunity to awaken now is just a result of distortion or imprisonment of the Will. My first experience was when I was fourteen and woke up and everything felt different, like my consciousness was disincarnate from any physical grounding or "real" existence under the rule of a nervous system experiencing other material objects in a world of pure physicality. There was an intuition of a lonely God there. This caused a massive cascade of events to follow in its wake, and it needed to happen at that specific point for it to make sense teleologically, as something leading to something else.

Sure, you could DM me.

No matter what you lose, don't lose yourself.

Makeup done well looks really good.

My God, how can somebody so Orange not believe in material things like chemicals?

Companionship.

@thisintegrated @Carl-Richard Weed is for little girls. Real men smoke a mixture of meth and salvia while peaking on datura.

@thisintegrated What is this? In terms of MBTI.

Interesting.

One time a pizza deliverer just left the pizza on my step and didn't ask for any money. And then I kept ordering from that place, and the guy repeatedly just left the pizza without taking any money. WAS THAT YOU!?!?!?!?!

corrrected exgaustion-isduced typos.

Or another bad post from Gesundheit. Which would be a multitude of bad claims! The contradiction is resultant from contextual differences: in one case, he is saying brains don't exist in his immediate experience, which he regards as absolute and "sovereign" and such. On the other hand, by the laws of reality, you may have regardless of the absoluteness of a specific frame of experience the fact that certain correlations between the Upper Right-Hand quadrants and the Upper Left-Hand Quadrants (brains and minds) are real. A Consciousness may imagine a mind and an image of a brain that has movements which correlate exactly and inseparably from the mental activities. This does not presume materialism. This presumes Consciousness. "Serotonin" and "meditation" are equally relative, objective, imagined, "illusory" and whatever other labels, yet you seem to think one of them is more existent, possibly because serotonin is associated with your ideas of science and atoms, which you have disregarded in favor of fantasies about awakenings totally detached from physicality. But that is irrelevant to the truth. If awakening happens to a person, it is an altered state since the person exists as a state made of forms and therefore through their alteration must become an altered state. You can't say awakening is exclusive to formlessness and beyond materiality, transcended past the relative, when humans have material bodies and are relative beings of form which affect and are intertwined with materiality and object-made mentality. So any meditation happening to that being is again just a state, and the same goes for any effect of the meditation.

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@thisintegrated Sunflowers facing the sun, roots finding water, vines climbing tree limbs, flytraps consuming animals. Of course plants make choices!

Nope, trees extend their branches to the sunlight. On the other hand, animals have no choices because they are slaves to their emotions.

@thisintegrated Trees perform processes that have logic in the sense they must do things that make sense regarding their environment, but that I not how people define logic. The "logic" that insects have is just mindless impulsions.

@thisintegrated Animals don't have higher-order Human Reason like complex logic or symbols that make up concepts in language, mathematics. But they have emotions that are primal, which of course have a logic to them since they have to recognize and respond to things of causality, of the outside world of patterns that the instincts must make sense of.