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In the same lifetime hehe, it's happening right now. And not just animals IMO.

They're questioned and should be considered accurate. The appearance of duality and matter and so on is without any question or doubt. Other models are confusing but they needn't be.

It is commonly described by others as a contraction of consciousness. But I don't want to use others words I want to relate my own ideas... So I would say that: Wherever there exists an observed, there is observer. Observer is what we call "I", and I believe it exists as the other side of ALL experience, even if the thing having the experience is not sentient enough to even be aware of the "I" (AKA self-aware). To be able to have any experience as we do, an appearance of duality must be created. Rupert Spira describes this perfectly, in his beach dream analogy. The moment you see any part of that beach you must be localized somewhere within it. So wherever there is experience there is localization. Scale it up the same way evolution took cells to beings made of millions of cells... Simply various ports of localized experience acting seamlessly as a singular separate entity. That is the idea I am working on.

@VeganAwake Well, even considering everything to be one mind without boundary, there is still multiplicity in experience. One experience, even some interaction between atoms, can be considered to be a self if there is indeed experience there. To me, how I am seeing this, is that much as cells came together to work as one unit, various conscious experiences have merged into that one unit also. Combination problem suggests the smaller experiences vanish but I don't believe they do. The hemisphere split surgery is a good indicator for this idea in my opinion. Taking standard Eastern philosophy like Zen, then describing the workings of consciousness within the material world with a model of Panpsychism, is how I believe this to be working. When localized within a dream that localization adheres to the dream. So here, matter etc. has relation to the contents of consciousness. There is God's mind, and ego minds. And manifestations that are I think not even being observed but I'm not sure about this aspect.

When you have a dream of a beach, the moment you see any of the beach you are localized within the beach (a duality is created of observed and observer). It would not be possible to see the beach otherwise.

Having used Salvia on numerous occasions I have found n,n-DMT to be far weirder, in a very "different" way than any other thing a person could conceive or think of. I have used ketamine too. I used DMT MANY times despite the fact that it is almost always frightening, and one time traumatic. Once you hit it (at least after many uses) there's the "wtf did I do?" then "oh this again" and you have to re-learn REAL fucking sharpish to relinquish all control to the horror unfolding, lest you make it worse. I've found the mind blocks out the very start of a trip because it's too disturbing for it when sober. With many trips this part can be recalled. It is the moment where the room first opens up into the hallways and movement etc. The main trip is generally shortly after this.

Certainly. There is no way I would ever have had thoughts like this without trying to find confirmation and text on my own experience. It was not spontaneous but induced by DMT and LSD taken together. DMT on its own I find to be very sinister and uninsightful.

You didn't type that sentence, another brain did. That brain is being observed by God from first person. God felt the keys beneath the other poster's fingers and saw the screen through his eyes. Also saw your screen through YOUR eyes and felt the keys beneath your fingers when you read the reply. Do you see? What is seeing through your eyes isn't God AND "Thought Art". "Thought Art" does not exist beyond a label of a set of localized experiences God is having. What sees through your eyes is ONLY God. And the same for all other people.

When you encounter the divine, God is an intuitive term. Like saying love when you feel love for a person. It might not be a literal sky daddy God or any of this, but the term is what springs to mind when confronted with something of such intense power. I considered my own experiences of heavy DMT breakthroughs to have been religious experiences. Nonduality when realized is something very much divine.

It is in my estimation. That is why the existence of external reality cannot be trusted, at least certainly not how we see it. If something is "like" something that cannot be what it is objectively. Since being "like" anything is reliant upon perceptions from sensory organs and so on. E.g. look around your room. Look at something red. Red does not exist outside of your mind, to a materialist, what is actually "out there" is just frequency of light. The brain is simply processing raw data that we can never access directly. There is no way to say the external world is like we think it is, or in fact if there even exists such a thing at all.

On another video I saw him explain that his definition of love is simply embracing something. So if you are totally one with something it's considered Love.

How can a person believe their own consciousness is a hallucination? Lol...

In my opinion there is no "out there" called the physical world at all. If you could somehow exit your brain and see the world as it objectively is, I believe it would simply be a singularity. Think of something like a natural version of simulation theory. Our brains you might picture as something like being a finger on your hand. As a finger you can only pick up some kind of reaction from touching an object. You have no idea what other fingers feel or what sight is etc. All of that qualia is nonexistent from your point of view. Yet exists somewhere in the entire human as a whole (the entire singularity). Saying there's an "external world" is like saying the world of The Sims is external from the point of view of a Sim. The world of a human is external from the point of view of a human. But really it's all just "code" processed in one place. ... People are quite blind to the extent that the external world can be manipulated chemically in the brain, while still working exactly the same way. Such things are often experienced on heavier psychedelic drugs... That is to say, my fingers can suddenly look like they're half the length they are, and yet when I go to touch something they don't just stop short because there's actually some invisible extra finger length. They touch exactly where it looks like they will. The brain can create various accurate and working models of the external world. There is no saying for example, that your perception of distance is the same as mine. We might both measure with a ruler 30cm from our eyes to the screen, but the sensation of how far our hands travel to reach it can differ wildly while still producing the expected outcomes. Not one law of science or physics is broken but the experience is wildly different in every way. The external world is heavily malleable like that. There is no real way to say what it is actually "like" out there if it's even out there at all. But some kind of singularity in which everythingness is contained, would explain everything as far as I can tell. And would not invalidate any scientific understanding of reality.

Hard to say. I've suffered so many years, I think the effects diminish over time. I do think it certainly helps to at least identify WHAT you are afraid of. If you misidentify what you're scared of, how could you know how to resolve it? There's also an element of self acceptance. Like sufferers of chronic pain, embracing it lessens the psychological component of the suffering. I've seen Rupert Spira give such advice. I consider the condition to be just something my body is/does. If a person sees a frightened kitten, they don't laugh at the kitten etc they just think that's the way the kitten is. If you can accept the feelings instead of fighting them (and not just "accepting it to make it go away" but truly being willing to sit with them) then the suffering that comes with it is lessened dramatically.

@CBDinfused Consider, your conscious mind can predict in advance entire lines of dialogue you will say. You cannot do this with others. Why? If only your mind exists, there is surely existent at least some separate inaccessible part of it. And if so, what's the difference between that and multiple minds? Also consider WHO or WHAT sees from your perspective. Consider for a moment that what is seeing from your eyes right now as you read this, is God. No not you AND God. JUST God. You are an appearance within that. You don't experience you, God does.

I have this condition, I have done for over 10 years. It was initially SEVERE, I mean I literally would hyperventilate all day at work with every single interaction, even on Valium which I took daily just to walk into the office. Social Anxiety is a fear of your own mind. That is literally what it is. You think you're scared of others. You're not. Look into what scares you about others? You are scared that they will think bad things about you and that their bad thoughts WILL MAKE YOU FEEL BAD. Or that their opinions WILL MAKE YOU THINK THOSE THINGS ABOUT YOURSELF. That is the fear. Srs. 100%. You're scared their thoughts might be right and the ensuing psychological distress you will feel from that. It's a fear of the thoughts and feelings YOU will experience if an interaction goes a negative way.

Curious for your input upon Darwinian Evolution. Assuming it is correct as I do believe so, how does that fit into a model where reality is totally subjective? And I mean reality IS subjective as can be demonstrated. There is no getting around it, it's simply factual that the world is subjective. So what is going on with that? What is the "objective" reality like if there even exists one? We imagine that it's in God's mind, but what is it "like" in God's mind before it is perceived. If like nothing, then what is evolution and the pre-mind cosmos? Good questions to seek answers to.

The problem is, that there are aspects of external reality that simply CANNOT be true. For example, if I see an apple as red and it seems close to me, then I smoke some drugs and it is seen as blue and seems very far, yet in both scenarios I can reach out and touch that apple where it looks to be... Then at least one of these models of the apparent world has to be wrong. It's not possible for it to be like both at the same time if it's something objectively "out there". The color red exists in our mind, it does not exist "out there". Where does it stop? If I can get high and everything seems suddenly super close, maybe everything IS super close. How can I know that extremes like the 2D flat imagery of the world around me on Salvia is not how it really appears? Some of these perceptions MUST be wrong. But if the external reality were objective as we see it, then the hallucinations wouldn't function. Like if you see a wall you might walk into it because it's "objectively" closer. But that's NOT what happens. Various renderings of the environment work. Is there really anything out there at all?

That man is a doctor in neuroscience. This may help.

As far as I can see, quantum entanglement proves God knows all in advance. People will put forward instantaneous faster than light speed information-sharing, or even time travel (quantum eraser), to avoid God. It's pretty obvious that the entire universe and all states beginning to end are known in advance.

I doubt it will do it if 5 does not, but, try n,n-DMT freebased (not Changa). In my experience I could replicate nondual trips with high dose acid + DMT smoked on top of it. I understood that the drug had affected my brain, but that fact didn't carry any meaning. It's like, yes my brain is me, yes a drug altered the brain, no it has no bearing on the realization whatsoever. There are some serious issues with Materialism. Some of the truths are factual even from a Materialist paradigm. E.g. a person must realize they arose FROM the universe and are a manifestation of that. I can show many things regarding the apparent truth are more logically sound than materialism.

It is hard to get clear answers on what people believe actually. Is consciousness fundamental reality in your opinion, or is consciousness something which fundamental reality does/is? In the former case, do we suppose things like atoms have some basic level of consciousness? Leo says infinite consciousness often, but then when discussing the "Godhead" seems to describe it as a sort of infinite singularity which I find makes a lot more sense. There are passages in religious doctrines which state that "It" is beyond even labels like awareness. Nothingness seems to marry easier with ideas of the big bang etc, and the discovery and measurement of things we can only record with tools. Like, things could then exist without a conscious observer or the universe needing to implement alterations and laws retroactively. If the Godhead HAS consciousness then this is all easy to explain. If it IS consciousness, then it is more difficult to suppose things are existent before any conscious mind becomes aware of it. I just finished a book called "God is Nothingness" but find the appendix sort of buffers the opinion expressed in the rest of the book.

@Adamq8 Yeah it would necessitate the existence of things that cannot be confirmed. There is exception of course, if Panpsychist outlooks are correct. If every individual thing down to the quantum level has an experience of being conscious, or an experience of a certain property like mass, then that is also not contradictory. Otherwise failing that, if perception is required then it is hard to square away with the big bang etc. without saying it all exists retroactively. If the ground is nothing/everything, then there is no conflict whatsoever. And there is no infinite regress from "what caused X". Nothing requires no cause.

@Adamq8 The opposite of nothing is everything, not awareness. "Everything" would contain consciousness as a manifestation. In other words the base of reality is conscious because it is all things and being conscious is something it is/does. It is in all of us at once. Being the absolute is outside of time, consciousness is imprinted into the eternal. However this is surely just one element of its being. There must also be unconscious processes. E.g. a universe with nothing but floating chairs. Places where things do not presently have perceptions.

Perhaps it goes all the way down and all the way up, like one of those mandelbrot things. If infinity is inside itself then maybe yeah.