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My roomate and I are both struggling financially . I am hoping hardcore meditation makes me a better manifestor. I landed a job that I actually enjoy but want / need more hours . This is after years of working jobs I don't like . I intentionally engage with content that suggests meditation has paranormal effect on the physical world, such as the Maharishi effect , and this video , I must've watched this video many times : Also I listen to subliminals :

@cetusyeah that makes sense to me, the version of nonduality that Bernardo Kastrup and other rational-spiritualists where after death you just merge with the whole with no individuality left wasn't very intellectually or emotionally satisfying to me. I think in an interview Bernardo was asked about death and he said he pictures it being like a sensory deprivation tank. But I don't think the data (NDEs, past life memories, out of body experiences) supports that.

I'm curious what you guys think is the relationship between oneness / infinity and individuality after physical death.

Sorry for your loss. how specific were the details ? I've heard people say similarly , but then when asked for the actual details it's very vague and general. sorry if that's rude given the circumstances I'm just really curious because I've also lost people .

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@Monster Energy I think I could get behind calling it all consciousness provided you expand your defintion of consciousness a bit beyond just bare awareness. Awareness is part of it but so is the will / animacy. Then again most people just mean raw experientiality so it's easier to use a different word ie God.

God isn't the same thing as siddhis . how many professional psychics are God realized?

That's valid, but what would the nature of that consciousness be? It reminds me of the idealist philosopher George Berkeley, who said that the reason the world doesn't disappear is God is always observing. But we're so conditioned into perceiving consciousness with our senses, I'm not sure how God would perceive everything.

Depends on what you mean by God. If you mean reality / the one then I'm 100% certain but if you mean an infinite mind thing that imagines everything like it's a dream idk.

not sure whether you're being serious but Descartes was instrumental in codifying the strong distinction between mind and matter as well as the notion of consciousness as a private, internal world (the internal "movie" as David Chalmers calls it). Prior to the time of Descartes the distinction between mind and matter wasn't so strong, if you asked an ancient Greek philosopher where pain occurs when you stub your toe for example they wouldn't have the concept of an internal subject to whom pain occurs rather they would say the pain literally occurs in the toe instead of the modern person who says the pain occurs in my mind / in my brain.

@Tistepiste did your retreat experiences get stronger as you did more ? Ie was the second stronger than the first third stronger etc ? Im going to my second retreat in October . The first I experienced a profound unconditional love awakening but I sensed there was a lot more and since I didn't have a meditation discipline prior to the retreat I spent most of retreat just fighting my body .

It's consciousness . Or emptiness. Whatever this right now is. Western people call it consciousness because of Descartes, people without a western ego might just call it being .

Interesting I've only done zen retreats never vipassana , sounds like more or less the same tho lol congrats 🎉 I'm looking at doing my next retreat in October .

@Yimpa thanks