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Hello Does the teaching of infinite imagination contradict the advaita view that reality is fundamentally awareness? Is there a part of consciousness which is not awareness? is imagination and infinite intelligence other than awareness? thank you.

All for one, one for all. I’m starting to think alien consciousness means actually becoming another awareness. the end of solipsism. That would be the most profound fucking thing .

true. believing I was God was a big ego trip. smoking weed fed into that. Getting sober while doing spiritual work has been the best thing in my life.

I have a casual interest in the subject but I can get a glean of the immense complexity of what this is by looking at the complexity of math Physics reminds me that there is more to awakening than just an empty void of nothingness that buddhists talk about. if that was the end all, well, I don’t see why we would be able to talk about it!

that’s a very poetic way of saying it

that’s one level of awakening, but there seems to be an immense degree of intelligence, structure and intent behind this nothingness. after all, the heart beats , the mind thinks and the body speaks.

I’m not sure. I’ve been obsessed with God as far back as I can remember, watching the pirates of the caribbean movies and learning about voodoo. did you know voodoo means “spirit of God”?

I love that there’s so much more to learn. I’m gonna be digesting just knowing that there’s more for awhile before I explore it. Deal with the mundane stuff like talking to girls and life purpose. Thank you.

it’s been an interesting journey from materialism to idealism to…. just this, the obvious. thank you. I’m okay with not knowing what this is yet. maybe I’ll explore psychedelics again in the future. love you, and everyone else who shared their thoughts on this thread.

You could substitute the word consciousness for mind if that makes it more clear. there are mental processes occuring which are outside of your conscious knowing of it. the unconscious, and the superconscious. intelligence, and the question of where thoughts come from. unconscious perceptions, like the sense of being stared at. psychic impressions. the stability of the material world. law of attraction. so mind could be bigger than just awareness.

God is everywhere at all levels. the intelligence of your hand is innate, it doesn’t need a God above to be infinitely intelligent. but yes, I completely agree that there are no limits at all, no top level. the buddhists were right about that one. the notion of self is interesting. self is just an appearance, a thought. I fear death but part of me knows that I’ve died before, that I’ve died every time I ceased thinking of self, and yet, here I am. I fear the death of the body but I also have some limited knowledge that the solipsistic awareness in which self arises has nothing to do with the body.

what I was asking is if there is an intelligence which operates without awareness. my question comes from watching videos of Bernardo Kastrup talking about the mind at large and explaining the universe as “what the mind at large looks like from across a dissociative boundary.” to me, that isn’t how reality works. because it is intelligently designed. awareness is fed with perceptions by an infinitely intelligent mind, and that mind doesn’t need to have awarness to function. it might but it’s not strictly necessary, and in some ways it might be more infinite if it doesn’t have awarwness.

I don’t think that awakening to consciousness is all necessarily reveals what consciousness is. Or what intelligence is. someone can tell you that God creates the universe with infinite imagination and infinite intelligence, but do you really know what those words mean? if all you know is that consciousness is all, great, you know more than 99.999% of people, but that doesn’t mean you know what consciousness is. if all you have is the understanding that consciousness is all, then it’s easy to just give up and say some nondual cliche, like consciousness is nothing, or consciousness is awareness, or truth can’t be spoken. and then you turn around and say “there is only one awakening” because no one around you knows anything else. I sort of admire the zen philosophy, not because it’s correct, but because it doesn’t give any definitive answers. and it doesn’t deny the physical world. but to expand on that I would say that the physical world is part of an aspect of consciousness that is outside of awareness.

I’m working hard to stop getting butthurt over the elves (rich celebrities) . I try to remind myself that I’m better off for knowing about all this spirituality stuff and having a practice.

that’s what I thought too, even when I “believed” in nonduality and naive idealism. the whole “to be is to be perceived” thing always struck me as a simplification that presented reality as a stupid , inert thing. not too different a description from materialism. it also didn’t make sense of the bizarre experiences of synchronicity I’ve had.

@Scholar okay , I have a question if we live in a brain-simulated reality, what is a brain? science tells us that matter and energy are equivalent. Well, the definition of energy is “the ability to do work.” so essentially, you’re saying we live in a reality simulated by an abstract concept “the ability to do work.”

some will be open to it. like my friend who I told about my astral projections , he said it was an intetesting dream. he does a lot of psychedelics and I used to smoke weed with him. your mileage will vary.

the paradox is that “after death” doesn’t make sense without an ego-mind. if you didn’t have an ego, there wouldn’t be an “after” or a “before” , since those concepts are dependent on memory, which is another part of the dream. another way of saying it, is if you became omniscient there would be no memory, and therefore no time.

meditation is super useful. it’s not going to bring you to the highest states of consciousness possible, but that’s not the point. meditation is like brushing your teeth or taking a shower.

wow, I feel like this video came to me at the perfect time

why would the next life be any different than this one if you don’t work hard to deal with your issues in this life? I get where you’re coming from. I wanted to leave this planet so I could have another chance with an ex in another life, for a long time. but it’s an illusion, there is no escape but hard backbreaking emotional labor.

maybe awakening is the relative truth of becoming conscious of absolute truth. does that make sense? I also am not sure what awakening is, past becoming aware that consciousness is all. but according to Leo and others it goes deeper. so that means it’s a relative truth, It think?

that’s one interpretation, but to me, the belief (and that’s all it is, I don’t claim to be awakened) in immortality has the opposite effect. in my life, it means that unresolved issues are going to follow me to the next life, because death isn’t an easy escape.

can I direct message you?

is it? not being able to cold approach is the main thing ruining my self esteem at the moment. I go out most weekends and my approaches are still only in the single digits. It makes me hate myself.