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I respect him a lot for this Interview. It seems to me that in his old days, he becomes more open to the radical truths. For those of you who dont know Bernardo Kastrup, he is one of the most clear headed intellectuals promoting Idealism, which is basically advaita vedanta for westeners (not quite the same, but still very similar at the core). I would advise anyone, regardless of your personal journey, to read his books and watch his interviews. Its pretty interesting because I dont think many skeptics would engage in such Interview with Kastrup. I couldnt imagine a Richard Dawkins, Dennet or even Harris to have the same quality of Interaction with him. Definitely worth watching.

Lets consider the limited capabilities of language to describe the ineffable. There are many layers do this and you are talking about the most radical, most absolute truth. There is a place for individuality you can become concious of, even though it disappears when you go deep enough - but still, lets keep it nuanced.

Is a wave in the ocean 100% wave ,100% ocean, or both? Therein lies your answer

Is a hammer necessary to build a house? Space answered that one pretty well. What I want to add is the following: Do some inquiry on the nature of hallucinations. Then look at your question again. Also, if you dont already know this: https://thethirdwave.co/psychedelics/ - great site for psychodelic information!

Well, thats something you could easily test for yourself Here is some important literature on that - read that book and then test the hypothesis with direct experience. Us telling you is pretty useless because it will remain in the domain of second hand knowledge.

The vaccine works, thats safe to say at this moment. Here is what I can tell you about the safety. I work as a medical doctor in a pretty big hospital. Myself, almost everyone I work with and everyone I truly care about is vaccinated. Noone I personally know, no patient I have seen in the last 3-4 months had any serious side effects from the vaccine. I know of cases who had anaphylactic reactions after the shot, but those are vanishingly rare. The worst "side effect" I have personally witnessed was a young man with a very slight case of myocarditis which didnt cause any irreverseble damage. There is no epidemic of vaccine side effects, thats bullshit. Now, every medical intervention is intrinsically coupled with certain level of risk. There is a real chance that you can die from taking cough syrup. The chance that you will get in contact with Covid in the next few years is almost 100%. If you are a healthy young human being with no prior health conditions, the cahnce of dying from covid is very, very, very low. On the other hand, I have seen young, super healthy individuals getting really weird complications from it. Long story short: - In my opinion, if you are an adult - get the vaccine since its propably the more secure path.

I love him as an actor, but I would have never guessed that... Its not even superficial spirituality (as mainstream is usually plagued with) - he has noticeable depth and nuance in his views

MD here Got vaccinated 1 month ago with AstraZeneca - first shot caused incredibly strong reaction and knocked me out for 2 days! Second shot was better. Vaccines seem to be quite safe - have seen 1 really bad adverse effect in a patient so far (sinus vein thrombosis and pulmunary artery embolism) Have seen a lot of nocebo effects who turned out to be nothing at all in mostly young teachers who got the shot. No medical intervention is 100% safe. Yet as much as we know at the moment, it seems to be more safe to get vaccinated than getting covid. I have seen several young patients (18-30) who have suffer from severe post covid syndrome (One can barely walk because difficulties with breathing) The thing I am really worried about is that high vaccination levels combined with the fact that those vaccines all target the same part of the virus (spike protein) might elevate the evolutionary pressure to such an extent that we have vacc-immune types of this Coronavirus by May.

Disclaimer: This is an essay I wrote a coupple of years ago - its an attempt to unite the notions of "being" and "becoming". Its an issue that took me quite a long time to work thorugh and I know that a lot of people struggle with it as well. You will notice that the language/writing used in this essay may seem sloppy from time to time. Its because its originally derived from loosely bound ideas and concepts rather than anything written down. Over the years I have shared this ideas with many people and the feedback was overwhelmingly positve. Thus I decided to share this with you guys. Enjoy ___________________________________________________________ To be or to become? On presence & purpose in life Many times in my life I asked myself this question: Why do anything? Why struggle? Why work on myself? Why face rejection? Why be someone? After all, isnt this just ego? If the ontological nature of my day to day reality is based on an illusion, what basis is there to do anything at all? Especially with all the potential suffering that comes with it. If all meaning is illusory, whats left to do? Is there even something like a free will or is this just pure theatre? What does "free will" even mean in the context of what I know? Why should I do anything else than meditating 24/7, trying to deepen the connection with the source? Is there a way to make sense of this? So I tried... We can be in a place where we flip flop between truths that both are self-evidently true and yet seem irreconsilable - or we can reconsile and live them both more fully simultaneously. In order to do the right thing we have to enter a plane of higher-dimensional sensemaking. Its how we understand the complexity of reality that really matters here. First of all lets introduce a model because I really think it will help with the understanding: I want to compare for a minute, roughly generelized, very oversimplified, a eastern model and western model of the nature of reality, meaning and spirituality. Obviously its simplified because first of all there are a lot of models and the delineation between them isnt clear at all. But lets say, with eastern I mean the kind of vedantic-buddhist primary interpretations, which are very "being" focused. We are using them as a reference for this particular dichotomy. You will notice in most interpretations of the Buddhist tradition, the focus is exclusively on being. In fact, "doing", that to say any chop wood-carry water like activity is just because it needs to be done, while everything else is focused on the being while doing it - which ultimately is the only thing that matters. One of the reasons why that becomes insightful, is that the Buddhists and the Hindus vedantic model of time is a circular one. They have this system of time called Kalpa or the Yugas, where the time and universe itself is believed to cycle through birth and death. These people watched nature very deeply . They saw seasons like spring and fall, they saw empires rise and fall, they saw people born and die, they saw relationships come together and fall apart - they just saw everything cycling. They saw cycles within cycles, days within months, within years, within galactic cycles. So because of that - if everything's cycling, nothing is actually going anywhere. There is no progress, it's just the wheel of time. So if you're trying to push something forward, you've bought into the illusion that you're going anywhere. They talk about this as Maya, illusion or samsara, the cycle of being. If it's just this illlusory wheel that isn't actually going anywhere, going further is fundamentally meaningless. The goal there becomes getting off the wheel, getting out of the concept of linear time completely, being able to access the eternal through the now. The idea of becoming, progress, or making the world better when the whole thing itself is illusory to begin with. It just means you bought into the illusion and you don't get the ultimate truth. Its the lived ontological quality of "now and complete" - in a way that doesn't have progress built in at all. Basically that's the kind of pure Zenith of a being model. You notice that happiness in that worldview is a model of contentment, serenity or fullness with what "is" right now. In fact, anything like passion or desire or excitement is called the cause of all suffering - because that means that you believe something good is in the future, so you sacrifice being in the moment for wanting something thats not "here". We all know how it works because it just leads you to getting all feverish and fucked up. When you get what you want, you aren't even that happy - you want something else while being anxious of losing it. Dont desire anything, dont have passion- they are for plenty of sound and fury leading to suffering and nothing - Be full and content now. It can sound boring, but of course the idea of boring, in that model, would be a mental trap. And that when you come into the fullness of being right now, you can access, and this is true, a state of serenity, that has a kind of blissfulness to it, that doesn't need you to do anything. But that's that model. And even though its true in some ssense it's also so far from TRUTH that it's actually infinitely off the bigger picture. Now the western model of time is basically originating in Judaism, greek philosophy and then of course modern science. Because the early Jews were very focused on history they were recording that they were actually noticing net change over time. There was clear evidence that new things were emerging that didn't exist before. So rather than focusing on the nature and seeing everything as cyclical, they were focused on the emergence of creations. They realized that adding stuff actually means going somewhere, which ultimately led to a more linear model of time. In their eyes, time was phenomologically real, actually going somewhere, which led to a dialectic of progress and a general focus on becoming rather than being. New implications arised – if there is progress, there has to be something like a beginning and an end. Maybe the beginning is the beginning of the universe in Genesis? Maybe the beginning is when you were born, maybe the end is heaven, right? There are different kinds of theological models and they can completely disagree with each other. Yet this dynamic unveils something else. if you think the universe is actually going somewhere, then adding to this evolving project is inherently meaningful. Also you and me, being a part of where it's going is inherently significant. So then, just being in the moment is not that interesting. Becoming evermore in a universe that is itself becoming evermore, developing oneself to he highest capabilities is the thing to do. That means just being completely content in a way that has no drive is antithetical to what's purposeful. You do notice that their definition of happiness has a lot more to do with qualities like passion and excitement, rather the peace and contentment. If you were to look at this culture, there's a lot of singing, dancing, even partying - whereas more eastern philosophies tend to be a lot quieter. (I do realise the exceptions, yet in general this is true.) Now, some might argue that the eastern model sounds fundamentally bland and boring, which is not true. In fact, it‘s the kind of western bias that only the unexperienced would utter because they haven't dropped into that place of getting it. You might have had moments where you are just walking along a lake or a beautiful landside or during meditation - and you stop, and everything kind of stops. You just see sparkles on the water, there is no thinking about what's coming next - the moment is just full. Whats surprising is that it's more full, in a certain quality, than excitement about the future could ever be. It's about independence. A part of enlightenment in that model is being able to be fully with what „is“, no matter what. It doesnt matter matter what is happening, because everything that's happening is an illusion, right? It's all just changing and flexing - but the consciousness that's witnessing it is ever present. Realizing that the light is actually the light of consciousness - that's what waking up means in their context. Now, so if one wanted to bias from that direction, they could look at the western thing with all the singing, dancing, linearity of time and say: „Look how immature it is !!“ - It's excitement when things go well and disappointment when things don't go well. Look at how little sovereignty those people have, they're so affected by their environment, their circumstance - look at how they rush around trying to change their circumstances to make themselves happy - look at how attached they get to other people and how fucked up they are when things don't go the way they want. Look at how unhappy they are, when they lose something. Look at how when they get what they want - they're only happy for like 15 minutes, and then they want something else. There's like almost nothing of seeming enduring depth there. In the west the focus becomes purpose because purpose is a time bound concept, which unfolds chronologically. Evolution is a time bound concept. So if it‘s about evolving ourselves, evolving others, evolving the world around us - becoming more able to express more of the infinite potential through the finite, through time - then of course when you get what you wanted, you aren't just boringly happy about it. Because then you would stop becoming, when the goal is to be becoming forever. The goal is actually to be in the process of blossoming, that actually adds to the depth of what the universe is. The evolutionary „intelligence“ that brings subatomic particles together into particles and particles into higher order particles, into biology - the whole thing from the Big Bang on is what keeps organizing the universe towards more orderly complexity. You are "it" and the infinite blossoming into higher order potential of universe at the same time. You also have the ability to choose, in a way, that aligns yourself with that truth. And so, of course, when you get something, you're only happy for a moment because you're in the becoming. Whats important to understand is that it's actually the being in the becoming, which is is interesting. Its what many great philosophers called „the lure of becoming“ - because it's about becoming and it's also every moment! Now, what's interesting is, when you put these two together, you have a circular model of time and a linear one. Corresponding with the circular is being, with the linear is becoming - the circular is presence, the linear is purpose. The circular is contentment, serenity in the fullness of the now. The linear is passion, purpose and the promise of possibility. You notice that the circular model maps to seratonin and the linear model maps to dopamine which makes perfect sense. If you take MDMA, a seratonergic drug, you usually will become very in the moment, very sensory, very feeling, very in the fullness of everything being overwhelmingly beautiful right now, with almost no awareness of anything else. Contrary to that someone else takes a dopaminergic agent like Adderall or cocaine or whatever. They will became profoundly focused on what they want to create. All they want to do is being in the process of creating it. Well now we can also see the beauty and the crashes of both of those - what becomes more available or less available. We can see them in the ways of living. A lot of the Eastern practices are serotoninergic practices: being in the moment, breathing slow, being in nature, having all of your awareness at one point. On the western part you have it the other way around: create goals, achieve the goals, feel good that you achieve them, check them off, reinforce having goals, create more goals - those are dopaminergic practices. You also get addiction with that, which is mostly working on the dopaminergic axis. Now lets go back to the circular and linear model of time. If we embed those two on each other in a higher dimensional way, you get a spiral of time, which is a circle that isn't closing on itself. It's a circle that is actually moving along the line. So you might ask, are there even cycles now? Yes, there are cycles. And there is net change from one cycle to the next. Now as we look at the ecosystem we see that you've got spring and fall and spring and fall involved, things are born and die, the cyclical nature is there. Yet over the course of time, you look at the fossil record, there's evolution of new organisms that weren't there before, so there is net change over time. It's important to understand that there are cycles, because in ordert to proceed in your becoming, you need to have phases of activity and phases of rest, phases of going outward and phases of coming inward, phases of learning new things and then phases of applying that learning followed by phases of digesting. If you don't understand the cycles you'll feel like you're not making progress. Anyhow, I hope this makes much more sense now.

Hey tatsumaru, Learning how to think is a very individual process - if you just want some books, than thats okay - its a necessary partm but be aware that this alone wont make you a good thinker. Its takes practice and a lot of feedback in my opinion - we are very easy to trick, especially by ourselves! First thing to know, bad thinking is a pandemic. There are not many good thinkers - Its rare. Extremely rare. By far the best meta-thinker I have encountered in the last coupple of years is a guy called "Daniel Schmachtenberger". I will link some relevant videos below - its relevant, because "sensemaking" and "how to think" are one of his biggest topics. It will give you a great starting point!

2 things 1) Yes, there definitely is a huge amount of blindfolded rationality in the stage orange paradigm, 2) Most spiritual communities suffer from the same issues, just on a different plane. I have seen members on this forum, self proclaimed stage yellow or above, arguing for flath earth and other dipshit conspiracies. If you cant even make sense of the simplest stuff, dont even try to go deeper- you are not ready. It seems like, that in this community, there is some kind of jungian shadow response when it comes to "rationality" - an allergic reaction to anything scientific. Being trans-rational, which means going beyond, doesnt have anything to do with being naive. Real second tier includes the ability the be hyperrational and materialistic on purpose - because sometimes, thats exactly what you want and need. Now to the quantum mysticism: Show some humility, unless you did the work. We know that some fathers of quantum mechanics showed mystical tendencies when asked about the interpretations of their findings. We also know that most phycisists today dont share this at all. The field evolved and we now know much more about quantum mechanics than we did in the times of Bohr, Heisenberg or Schrödinger. I am not saying that either interpretation is right or wrong - I dont know - and you (propably) dont know it either. If you are really honest, you propably dont know shit about QM besides some quasi explanation of the double-slit experiment or the collapse of the wave funciton. You dont understand the schrödinger equation or the copenhagen interpretation. Your ego might think you do, but you dont. So either you do the work and come up with an informed critique of the topic, or just let it be and focus on your stuff.

Thank god there are plenty of youtube channels out there exposing this fraud

Nobody knows exactly whats going on Nobody knows exactly whats going on!!!!!

People in this community love to signal how introspective and concious they are. But if you actually take a deep dive at epistemiology and bias, you will realize that the average sensemaking capability of the "seeker" is ridicolously low. (which is substantianted by some of the answers you got in this thread).Thats why I left this place years ago and it was one of the smarter decisions in my life. Dont get me wrong, I am not hating here - I believe wholeheartedly that the source of this communitas is one of benevolence and altruism. On the also side its also true that the road to hell is parved with good intentions. I respect Leo a lot, because he obviously has done the hard work - but I disagree with him on a whole lot of things. Does this mean he is wrong? Of course not - Maybe I am just an unenlightened chip unable to realize the profound truths channeled through this man. But lets just say that I have done my homework too and here I am shitting on some of his, in my opionion obviously biased, claims. The reason why I think I can help you with this is because I see myself in the way you phrased your dilemma. I have been there.... What you my friend need to do in my humble opinion is the following: 1) Learn about epistemiology - how do we know something to be "real" or "true"? Here is a great introduction video: 2) Learn about "uncertainty" and how to deal with it Dont presume to map the infinite. If you every checked the accounts of the deepest mystic you will recognize really fast that NONE OF THEM MATCH UP! The reason for that is beacuse every attept is mediated by humans and the prisonhouse of language. Let the mysery stay the mystery. Share your perspective but realize that its just a perspective, not more, not less. When you think you have the answer, you stop seeking - Instead, plant a garden where mystery and strange plants bloom. You can no more become fully enlightened than you can become fully educated. Take the insights for what/all that they are and KEEP going! 3) Before going deeper into spirituality, fix the fundament (ignore if already in order) I just repeat this one because I have seen it again and again and again.... Did you know that some Ashrams in India require you to have "made it in the material word" in order to get accepted as a novice? I have a friend who spent 10 years in such a facility and most of his teachers were highly educated PHD's, physicists, physicians or at least very successful in some other domain. Why is that? Getting far on the spiritual path is way fucking harder than anything you run away from in the marterial world. It requires a huge amount of discipline and courage, plus a high amount of resistence in the face of graet delusions. Honestly, if you are at a low point in your life, then this is not the the right time to start a spiritual path. Its not. Everyone who says so and doesn't tell you about the dangers/difficulties that come with going on this journey is lying to you or has no real knowledge about it. Its basically sending a soldier who suffers from PTSD back into the war zone. Dont listen to anyone that who tells you otherwise. Most often you don't really know what your psyche can bare and what will trigger a heavy psychosis. If you are in a deep depression right now or have any other psychological/physiological difficulties, give yourself at least 5 years to fix them. It doesnt mean that you cant use tools out of the high conciousness toolbox. Psychodelics, after all, are propably the best thing to battle depression with, right now (in the right setting of course). Just be careful and take care of your needs. Take Maslows hierachy of needs as orientation. Maybe your lack of sexual intercourse is going to bite you in the ass later, you never know. Build on a strong fundament and you will be far more likely to succeed. This is so freaking important, yet talked about so rarely.

A Siddhi caught on camera or just a great magic trick? There is actually a book written about this guy called "The magus of Java" - worth a read if you are into crazy stuff. I remain agnostic towards the claims put forward - its seem to me more like a descirption of some real life Dragonball Z story than anything "real". But who knows? The set of possible "unknown unknowns" is way too high to make any solid predictions. Real or fake? Real or fake? If you are interested in these topics, read "Real Magic" by Dean Radin - Especially the chapter called "Merlin-class magicians" https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/B07BGCQDR2/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_de_DE=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&dchild=1&keywords=radin+magic&qid=1612087997&sr=8-1 Personally, I remain highly skeptical about such claims. A lot of people in those "spiritual communities" are full of shit and terrible at sensemaking. This harsh accusation of course includes a big part of this forum, but thats a topic for another day.

90 minutes of pure wisdom, logical & open minded thought Daniel Schmachtenberger became one of my all time favorites when it comes to sensemaking - he truly is a genius. Enjoy!

Never thought something like this would come from this channel Just WoW!

One of the most interesting podcasts I have listened to in the last years. First hour is for free, then there is a paywall for the remaining 2 hours. Donald Hoffmans work might be a crucial stepping stone for mainstream science to finally get more into the ontological roots of conciousness as a fundation of reality. Hoffman recently spoke at a science an non-duality conference, which you can find on youtube. https://samharris.org/podcasts/178-reality-illusion/ enjoy!

Great, was worried about your for a moment! Enjoy your journey!

Are you telling us that you plan to kill yourself?

Just came across this video and found it to be pretty shareable! In my opinion this is what healthy orange looks like. I also believe that this guy has some amount of yellow in him. A lot of people will disagree with this, but there is clearly some notion of stage-awareness in the way he talks. Nevertheless, its a great video if you feel stuck. What do you guys think?

Because Leo is a soyboy obviously

There is no point in playing World of Warcraft either, yet I played that fucking game for years and I dont regret any second of it. By the way: Nobody ACTUALLY knows if there is something like "meaning" or not. Just dont believe what is thrown around in this actualized.org echo chamber. There are many accounts of people who took psychodelics and came back with direct experience of what meaning might look like. Most accounts have something to do with "love", that we are here to practice love. Others are about a training ground for god. I dont really know what to make of that. MAybe there is, maybe there isnt. Act like there is. If there is not, there still a fucking beautiful game to play out there.

What you indetify as a sound is your brain rendering electric signals that are ultimately caused by compression/rarefaction of air (longitudinal waves). Without conciousness there wouldnt be a tree to begin with. Even if there is no "human" or "animal" to perceive that sound, conciousness is everywhere.