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Bernardo Kastrup post new age? I haven't followed his work in a while but I remember his books were the thing that broke me out of materialism, but I became frustrated bc he said physical death was like being in a sensory depirvation tank.

I don't think there's anything outside of consciousness but I'm skeptical of anyone's ability to define it. The hard problem of consciousness in philosophy of mind effectively limited it to just its phenomenal aspect, the "what it's like to be"ness of it, because presumably that's the only thing that materialism can't explain. In doing so consciousness was stripped of an inherent will, creativity, intelligence, etc. Also, deep sleep, which many deeply awakened people have said is another state of consciousness, pretty much negates the definition of consciousness as just "what it's like to be." if you define consciousness just as the screen of perception then I would say no consciousness isn't all there is.

I'm curious about this . I question what "everything" means for God. Everything which is logically possible, or only everything which is Beautiful? Are there some realities which are not Beautiful and therefore do not exist?

Consciousness is supernatural . Science can't explain it, doesn't get any more cut and dry than that.

Yeah. But I'll steelman it by saying , I don't think Mind is much less mysterious either. I can't define mind, its very weird to me. altho I do know it exists.

There are a lot of different types of neutral monism. But essentially you have one "substance" or basic reality, which can take on either physical or mental properties, presumably based on how it's "arranged" or "viewed." some readings of the Heart Sutra "form is emptiness, emptiness is form" lean neutral monist, but thats somewhat dubious. Bertrand Russell might be the most famous Western neutral monist. Im not a big fan of it but I wanted to throw it out there as an option.

Thanks @Joseph Maynor for reccomend it this video to me

What about neutral monism, the view that reality is neither inherently mental nor inherently material?

It's shockingly uncommon .

Psychedelics , not enough meditation , not enough philosophy, not enough All three, now we're talking .

"The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world. "

It should be obvious from studying life that this is the case. Working with intellectually disabled people has given me a profound insight into this exact things

@Leo Gura do you think Buddhists who talk about the Absolute are closer to realizing God or are they equally deluded. I've followed Buddhist teachers who say the thing looking out through my eyes is the same as the thing looking out through your eyes. I've even listened to one who talks about the absolute as love .

Scientists are currently giving people IV drips of dmt to see what happens when someone is in hyperspace for long periods of time . One of the goals of the project is to attempt to have a "veridical dmt trip." Veridical meaning the participant acquired information they wouldn't have otherwise known, this could prove that the realms and entities encountered on dmt are real, or at least, as real as this realm.

Like getting wrapped in a blanket that contains everything. Like being in deep sleep while 1000% awake . Like power washing your brain until it's gone. Like popping the bubble that's behind your eyes. Like drowning in an ocean of love . Knowing you've only met one person. Having sex without a body . Being "intertwined, sewn together" (Adrianne lenker lyrics) with every one and everything. The feeling of self swept up by the wind and dispersed all over the sky.

Did you guys watch the video lol. It's about keeping someone at the peak of a dmt trip for an extended period, how you gonna do that with a vape pen? .

Leo I think you underestimate a daily meditation practice for producing mystical states. But I think that's bc as you said in one of your other posts, you're not very mentally loose, so you need a more hardcore practice like kriya yoga. But for someone who is loose I think kriya yoga can actually be too much.

Plenty of western studios teach real yoga.

The Monroe institute has classes where they claim to teach you spoonbending in 6 hours

@Hyperion that's very inspiring . Meditation helped you deal with your Dhukka? Did you need external help as well therapy etc? I did kriya yoga daily for some time but eventually it started feeling demonic like tapping into dark energies , sometimes I'd feel a presence in the room after doing it.

@Hyperion yeah I try to do 2 a year haha I wish! Meditation doesn't come naturally to me at all . I have to fight and work my ass off just to sit for 20 minutes lol. It gets easier on a retreat but still a pain.

Zen retreat (sesshin). I don't go to those 10 day vipassana retreats because they're too long (at least for this part of my path). A sesshin is usually 4 or 5 days.

yeah more or less. Never been sick that long before.

Ive been sick for almost three weeks now. Thankfully the acute fever only lasted two weeks . But damn, this sucks. Totally has made me recontexualize health.

After this last retreat I went on, I think idealism might just be the final stepping stone before you can finally embrace direct realism. The realization I had is that phenomena simply exist . I already knew they didn't come from a brain; but I was still attached to the idea they come from consciousness. Even writing this I'm doubting it, but the realization on retreat was obvious : phenomena exist, nothing creates them, not even consciousness. Ironically direct realism is the unconscious view we all had as babies, so when you deconstruct your conditioning, you come back to the natural viewpoint . This is a very recent development for me but I wanted to share bc it's profound. When I think about it it doesn't make sense , I'm not sure the intellect can understand it. The intellect assumes cause and effect , that everything has a source .