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I just had this insight and I started crying because it was so profound. Some important prerequisites: The nature of the universe is exact, not accidental, and is implied by nothingness. By what logic nothingness implies this specific universe is not clear to me. Maybe one day it will be. I was not born into the universe, the universe was born into me. I am the only conscious being in the universe. Now the insight: The universe created itself out of necessity in order to understand how it created itself. I am the universe's latest attempt at understanding itself. @Sincerity Helped me make this discovery with his latest post so thanks for that. I think I am just destined to repeat what Leo said 5 years at this point lol. It's an incredible insight here, and I wanted to share it with you all. Thanks Leo for Actualized.org.

As far as I can tell, the whole purpose of reality is to gain understanding of... something. Personally, my entire life has been geared to learn more about the world in an ever-deeper sense. Look at the way life has evolved ever more to process information and develop greater intelligence throughout its history. You may say that this is simply a byproduct of Darwinian evolution and that there have been many successful lifeforms of low intelligence, but I say why has nature given an edge to lifeforms of higher intelligence? Look at what the dominant species is right now - humans! And why are we so dominant? Because of our superior intelligence as well as our social abilities that allow us to coordinate and share information on a wide scale. Atoms don't exist for their own sake, they exist so they can create molecules and macroscopic objects! In the same way, the laws of physics don't exist for fun, they were meant to allow life to occur. The world is not an accident. Why do I exist? I'm god, I'm everything, yet I don't know everything. I exist out of logical necessity from nothing, yet I don't know why nothing logically necessitates my being. But the logical necessity of my existence also necessitates that I seek to understand that very fact, at that is the only way it can be. How do I know? because that is the way it is!

Okay, assuming you have had a spiritual awakening, you will know that there is only subjective experience, and no experiencer. This means that the entire universe is a self perpetuating, ever changing, infinitesimal moment in time that can be best described as pure consciousness. Since there is only one thing in the universe, and you exist, you have to be that thing, so you are the entire universe. And again, since there is only one thing in the universe, the statement "you are the universe" and "I am the universe" are equivalent. This line of reasoning is obviously begs many questions if you are coming from a dualistic paradigm. I recommend Fred Davis's YouTube channel. He does a really good job of addressing pretty much every objection to the claim of nonduality out there. He helped me understand this thing a lot. The second statement is pretty easy. I have been interested in physics, philosophy, and religion my entire life. Practically the whole idea of a "spiritual journey" is trying to understand the world from a fundamental perspective. If you study physics for any extended period of time, you will find that the specific things we see in the universe are emergent from a few underlying principals that all work together gracefully and perfectly. Noting the way mathematics not only is able to describe everything we see around us, but seems to be the only way to do so, as well as the fact that math is a field that again fulfills a few underlying principals to give us amazing ways to think about the world, I think you might be able to say that the way reality is structured is the only way it could possible be structured. And since the natural numbers are literally constructed from so called "empty sets", it may be logical to conclude that total nothingness implies this exact universe.

I combined the two facts that: I am the universe. I am trying to understand the universe. I can explain these facts in more detail if you wish, but it's hard to explain unless you've had a spiritual experience.

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From the physics point of view, time is just another dimension like the 3 spatial dimensions. Relativity defines a "reference frame" where all objects inside the reference frame have the same velocity. From the perspective of any given reference frame, it is not moving through space at all, only time. However, other reference frames, which do seem to be moving though space, seem to be experiencing time differently. So we see here that the passage of time is the same for all observers from their own perspective. I honestly have no idea what the implications of this are. It will take far more contemplation.

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@EntropicChaos I think that you are correct that objective truth seems to be a very rare commodity right now, as it has always been. I think that your username captures the crux of the issue quite nicely. In an inherently chaotic world, any understanding or belief will always be an approximation of the actual truth. This is because the world is infinitely complex, but we are finite. From how you are talking, I am guessing that you think someone out there "knows the answer", but this is simply not the case. On my own spiritual journey, I have personally consulted numerous religious figures and scientists to try to see what they think of the world, and honestly there are only two kinds of people: People who have no idea what is going on, and people who are lying to themselves. The correct course of action is not to bewail this fact, but to embrace it, while also continuing to learn and live the best life you can according to the your own principles and what what you have personally discovered to be wise choices. I have basically just summarized the worldview of stage yellow of Spiral Dynamics, so watch Leo's video on that to understand more. The fact that you have realized that all truths are relative means that your eyes are finally open, and you are now at the point where you can truly begin to learn about the world with a clear and unfiltered mind. Embrace the Nihilism, you will become comfortable with it, and eventually you will realize the beauty in it.

From what I understand, actual happiness is basically equivalent to satisfaction. I would give myself a 7/10 for the past 5 years, but I don't keep a journal or anything like that so I may be looking back with a perspective biased by my current happiness level, which I would say is more like 8.5/10. I think the only way to measure happiness is to ask for subjective scores from individual people, as it is defiantly an individual experience. There are external indicators, such as extraversion, mental health, cortisol levels, testosterone levels, and serotonin levels. These still do not completely explain the subjective experience of satisfaction though, so I think that a personal score out of 10 is really the best measurement we have.

I know that @Danioover9000 made a thread about maturity and Immaturity, but I noticed a lot more examples of immaturity than maturity on that thread. Some of the time it was people posting a mix of both which I thought was very confusing. It was almost starting to feel like people were just taking the opportunity to call other people immature which is pretty ironic so I decided to make a thread of exclusively for examples of maturity. As a reminder here are some of the main indicators of maturity as per Leo's video: - Mature people willingly take on responsibility and make sacrifices in order to do what they know they need to do. - Mature people face the truth willingly, especially difficult truths. - Maturity people adhere to a set of values and act beyond their own self-interest. - Mature people refrain from emotional manipulation or otherwise getting things from people the easy way. I have 2 examples to share here. The first example I have is from the movie "Gandhi" where he displays exceptional maturity by following his values unwaveringly and stands up for what he knows is right despite knowing the pain he will have to endure as a result. For anyone who has not watched the movie I highly recommend it. The story of Gandhi is one of the most inspiring of all time. The second example is a compilation of the character Jean Luc Picard from the series "Star Trek: The Next Generation". I thought this was a great example because of the quote Leo gave at the beginning of his video. The Next Generation specifically is perhaps one of the most philosophical and forward thinking sci-fi shows ever. Again, I highly recommend the series to anyone who likes philosophy or self actualization work. It is also entertaining! I am excited to see your own examples of Maturity!

Many novels have a philosophical or moral element to them that gives the reader new perspectives and ways to think about the world. Elon Musk says that if you want to think like him, you should read lots of books. His book recommendations include: The Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the "Foundations" book series, and the condensed Encyclopedia Britannica. Having inspiration and vision for the future is just as important as technical skills.

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Guys, give him a break. The man doesn't owe us consistent masterpieces! Plus, you can progress spiritually without his constant help. There are many high quality books and videos out there to read. Also you can contemplate and meditate on your own and reap new and profound insights.

I think it is important to remember that our brains are extremely sophisticated computing machines, and the process by which they process information and allow us to think is very complicated. I'm not a neuroscience expert, My personal theory to explain the phenomenon of forgetting something and then 30 minutes later suddenly remembering it again has to do with our brain's process of memory consolidation. We remember details from our experiences and over time our brain must integrate these memories into our general store of knowledge which it can then use to understand the world. During this integration process, our brain will discard seemingly unimportant details to simplify and streamline the newly learned information for more efficient use. I believe the brain does this by severing the connections between relevant processing centers and the memory structure, thereby leaving the remaining memory connections to deteriorate over time and free up the neurons involved available to encode new information in the future. Sometimes we need to recall this piece of information even after the connections have been severed. In some cases, the memory structure is still there but our brain does not have an efficient path to access it. This is how we can have the sensation that we SHOULD remember something, but we don't. Now for the reason why we suddenly re-remember something after the fact. According to chatGPT: "The default mode network (DMN) is a network of brain regions that is active when an individual is not focused on the external world or engaged in specific tasks that require attention. It was first discovered through functional brain imaging studies and is often referred to as the "resting state network" because it tends to be most active when the mind is at rest and not engaged in directed cognitive tasks." One of these tasks is: "Memory Consolidation: The DMN is involved in the consolidation of information from short-term to long-term memory, helping to store and retrieve personal memories.". So, while you are doing nothing, the DMN is active and may be trying to rekindle that lost memory. This would explain why you get this memory back when you are driving, as the DMN is also responsible for mind-wandering. As for being able to put words to the memory, I think it is simply due to the fact that once you have access to the memory again, your brain can work with it again. That includes the language processing centers of your brain. As for the fact that you become conscious of the phenomenon, I literally have know idea why/how this happens. From what it seems to me, consciousness/god imagines that it's a human, and thus sort of experiences our brain as a whole. I don't know the exact mechanism by which imagined physical phenomena in the brain are translated into subjective experience.

Hello, I have this question because so many people in the spiritual community seem to talk casually about paranormal phenomena. This includes mind-reading, remote viewing, clairvoyance, ghosts, levitation, telekinesis, being able to understand animals, being able to see other realms/dimensions, being able to see past lives, astral projection, talking to the dead, and more. Obviously if you ask any scientist why there is no scientific evidence for these things, they will give the answer that these phenomena don't exist. That's so boring though! As far as I can tell, the failure of science to prove the existence of these phenomena is not for lack of trying. It always seems to be the same story, where one person will come out with some experiment that demonstrates that a person has supernatural powers, only for the results to not be replicable, or for the methods in the experiment to not be sound. It's quite reminiscent of the quest to find room-temperature superconductors in the physics community. It seems like every 2 years some new group claims to have found one, but then it always turns out to not actually be the case. The explanation that I often hear is that supernatural abilities are somehow suppressed by the act of empirical investigation. The slightly less common explanation is that these abilities are very rare and only the most isolated and gifted can access them. I never understood these explanations because they beg the questions: why does empirical investigation inhibit supernatural abilities, and how are these abilities too rare for scientists to test on but frequent enough for the spiritual community to know about? Also, I should say, I have never personally experienced a paranormal phenomenon, so obviously that makes me more skeptical. What I want to know is: Do you guys believe these phenomena actually exist? Have you personally witnessed or experienced anything paranormal? Why has science been unable to verify these phenomena? Is it possible to objectively verify their existence?

Psychedelics combined with reading books from Leo's book list will actually get you pretty far. I was able to go beyond stage orange by receiving a liberal arts education, thinking more deeply about other's feelings and emotions, and taking psychedelics. I was able to advance somewhat to stage yellow by reflecting on my place in society, think about our economic and social structures and how they evolve, and wrapping those two things up in my understanding of biology and how life evolves in the universe. Also psychedelics. Whatever stage you are in, I would suggest finding someone in the next stage and just talking to them about what their values are and why they are important to them. Right now I don't know how to get to stage turquoise, but I'm going to try to keep refining my worldview by reading books, watching videos, and taking classes (in college or elsewhere) on philosophy, social psychology, government, religion, and any other medium I can find to keep challenging what I already know and find new ways to think. Leo's videos explaining each stage and their values are very useful, especially for assessing where you are in the spiral and giving you indicators for when you are progressing. If you would like to know more about my progression feel free to dm me.

Give 10 million to each of my family members Put 50 million into investments Live off the remaining 20 million and continue studying physics.

Did you watch the video? If you didn't, you should. It's very good. If there's anyone who thinks things through and has limited self bias it's physicists.

If you look at the "about me" section on my profile page I have a gif that I think represents god pretty well. It's an infinitely complex, constantly changing, infinitesimal moment and it is all there is and all there will ever be. It is both awareness and the thing its aware of. No distinction.

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I think that consistently practicing what you want to get good at is much more important than being in peak performance during your practice session. It is quite conceivable that you are simply getting tired after doing so much in one day. In my opinion as long as you keep up with your work consistently then you can achieve what you want. If you really want to see your life from a bird's eye view, I would recommend journaling every day and writing down your thoughts about your life. This will give you time to really think through what you are doing and how you are doing it. The other thing you can do is travel (if you can). Getting away from what you are doing for a short time can allow you to see your life from a new perspective and make certain things much more clear to you in regards to how you should live your life.

I think as long as you are honest and the new values you are adopting are your highest values, it is healthy to change them. From what it sounds like to me you may be going from stage green to stage yellow. 6 years is a long time. Generally I find myself to be a completely different person from who I was just 5 years ago. Your values changing is a sign of growth. Also, I don't know why you would have to give up connection and honesty in order to have excellence and mastery. They could go hand in hand.

Can I ask what you need better ideas for? What kind of creative thing are you perusing? Also, I think traveling is a great way to think in new ways. It puts you in a new environment and break you out of recurring thought patterns. It's very psychedelic-like in my experience. Especially traveling to national parks or other places away from society. Make sure to journal a lot whatever you decide to do. Creativity requires both brainstorming/thinking and experience/practice.