Oppositionless

I think solipsism is true in a sense. You really don't know anything, solipsism is pure not knowing .

I think solipsism is true in a sense. You really don't know anything, solipsism is pure not knowing .

Oh Will You've been through so much . time to move to a monastery for 3 months and be free. ADHD is a bitch. Living in a bedroom that looks like a prison cell, getting addicted to pot . I've had some profound realizations but my life is so boring. And sometimes I have psychotic thoughts , the relationship between the two is unclear.

Seeing my old account is crazy . I was like 16.

All I know is whatever is appearing within awareness right now!! Knowledge is an experience!!!

Some people will say enlightenment is no self an awakening is God realization but even that isn't super descriptive! All just words!

Awakening is defined in a lot of different ways! It could refer to lots of different experiences. Some realize no self but don't realize they're God. I kinda think Jesus was the first to realize he was God, before he could do that Buddha had to realize no self! There's also differences in degree, big ones. A spiritual prodigy like Ramakrishna spent many many hours in profound samadhi. But most just have the realization and it doesn't lead to such profound psychological effects!

The real question is, traditional kriya yoga or Sadhguru kriya yoga?

This is the best part about moving to the Pacific Northwest. I can work out by exploring nature rather than boring myself to death at the gym (I still go sometimes despite my boredom😆)

If I go full on solipsist I can simply affirm "Unconsciousness does not exist. Period." If I allow for a world outside myself I can say I am pure emptiness, nothing, absolutely nothing , and the world is also nothing. I have no fucking idea what will happen after the body dies .

Yes i agree . The hard problem is deadly , and all the other arguments from paranormal phenomena are merely the nails in materialism's coffin. But I also don't think immortality is a guarantee. The Absolute could imagine my survival after death, or not, and neither would be wrong. It's perfect either way. Survival seems baked into certain theories I call experientialism (the subjective idealism of Bernardo Kastrup and other related ideas), but if you read the words of Ramana, "only that which exists in deep dreamless sleep is real" and find they ring true, you are forced to accept that survival isn't baked into metaphysics. Which is scary for some. In short i think pursuing Truth for the sake of personal immortality is an egoic corruption. But ndes are interesting and the most I can say about them is that they seem to convince the people who have them that there is more.

Skeptics will say it's explainable because some brain activity remains after a cardiac arrest. But that begs the question of why anasthesia removes consciousness with more leftover brain activity than in the case of an cardiac arrest nde. I guess you could argue that anasthesia targets specific brain regions associated with consciousness, but I find it highly improbable that those regions are not disturbed even more so in the case of an NDE. Also, some of them occur during surgery, with the addition of anasthesia. I have not decided what to make of it. Some also report veridical details about what was going on with their operation and even what was going on in different rooms during their experience. NDEs are also not the only data point. Remote viewers report similar veridical details beyond the reach of the five senses.

I identified God with nature in catholic school as a boy. I believed I had powers and could influence sport games on the tv with my mind. I was introduced to the concept of alternative religion by a friend when I was 14 who practiced Wicca, claimed to be able to astral project and enter other people's dreams, and to be a demon. I learned about enlightenment from Leo in high school. I also started smoking weed and having otherworldly experiences at this time. Life has been a disappointment and I have not made the progress I would like, and it appears as if I could not have done anything different. Yet the curtain hasn't fallen, and the show must go on.

I don't think "consciousness is all" means "experience is all." Mind can imagine anything, including unconscious matter. But as quantumn mechanics shows us, this matter is not bouncing billiard balls, but a field of potentiality generated "on the fly" by contact with an observer (although it's unclear what "observer" exactly means, and whether it needs to be conscious, I lean towards no). "Awareness is the first ignorance." Nisargadatta "Only that which exists in deep, dreamless sleep is real." Ramana

I think it's more than cultural gaslighting. I think it's structural , that is, for consciousness to evolve to the point of doing rationality, it had to abandon some of these abilities. You could check out the work of Jean Gebser, or the YouTuber Formscapes' videos on his theory. And really, is creating a smartphone any less miraculous than perceiving subtle energies? Ultimately it just comes down to bias to say one is a miracle and one isn't. Consciousness is evolving, and concessions are made.