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Ah... It turns out feelings of care, empathy, love, laughter, joy, and compassion have potent healing properties on the mind and body. The placebo proves the patient is entirely capable of healing themselves, and this is necessarily what must happen at a cellular level. The placebo is simply an inspirational catalyst. Our minds/bodies are extremely intelligent, running living code billions of years in the making. The body evolved to heal itself naturally. Though a doctor or healer may provide the environment or scenario for experiences such as relief, understanding, empathy, and the sharing of medicine, the patient who undergoes these experiences is healing themselves entirely through the intent to heal. It isn't the ice that heals the bruise, but it helps you heal yourself. How do we heal ourselves at all? Well, our identity sense certainly has no clue. Most would say it is done subconsciously, by the body, as if it were somehow separate from ourselves. However, the boundary between the conscious mind and subconscious mind is... imagined. Your subconscious mind is very much conscious, it is processing an immense amount of information to keep the body functioning smoothly. You are regulating the respiratory system, the cardiovascular system, the digestive system, the nervous system, the visual/audio cortex, etc. Not only all this, but the subconscious has many complex thoughts, many intricate and nuanced thought patterns that fire repeatedly in rapid succession, that is readily perceived on the surface level as emotion and bodily sensations. Say you wanted to heal from an traumatic event in your past. When you probe difficult emotions or memories for growth, understanding, letting go of fears and attachments to outcomes, becoming more aware of the trauma, acceptance is found within. You seek and find acceptance of these traumas, accepting into your open heart. In the case of physical wounds/illness, there may be various chronic sensations of pain or nausea. Now, there are various one can respond to pain. You might try to ignore it. But would be better off by learning and heal from pain. Sensations of pain contain the very solution to to the pain itself. In openness to sensation, you can feel pain lessening in real time, miraculously healing. The heart, as well as the brain, is receptive to cosmic rays coming in from the Laniakea supercluster, receiving cosmic rays, light and gravity from every star, galaxy and supercluster in the Universe. This contains information in the electromagnetic field of the universe that intersects our body, and induces current in our neurons. The light entering your body is highly ordered and contains an incredible amount of information. In an open mind, an open heart, you increase communication with the cosmic mind, your Higher Self, who sends love/light which, when accepted, heals the body of it's ailment.

Big bang still bangin'

Austin, for sure... Met so many wonderful people on a mission, doing their best to evolve consciousness by being the very best version of themselves... Mystics, healers, my loving medicine family. By the way thank you so much for introducing me to Arcade Fire a few months back @Thought Art Funeral, Reflektor and Everything Now continue to inspire me every day

Left alone from who? Yourself? If you want to be at peace, then just be.

That's not punishment. That's your own tendencies transferring to the next life. It's just momentum.

"Hey VSAUCE! Michael here!" Anyone remember watching his videos? No doubt he is one of my favorite YouTubers back in the day. He would introduce many concepts and ideas throughout all academia, science, philosophy and history, then wrap them up by the end of the video in a quirky, yet holistic manner. Well he did a psychology show called Mind Field a while back, in which one of the episodes documented his attendance to an ayahuasca retreat. Since that show aired he has disappeared making from his normal content for a few years. It's clear he's been doing a lot of reading on ontology, spirituality and "meta-metaphysics" during that time.

Exactly! It was his videos that turned me onto philosophy and metacognition in the first place!

Yes, solipsism is conceptual madness. It's a bunch of illusory thoughts and ideas. And it can keep your head spinning for weeks. But it isn't the Absolute Truth. You need to make a distinction between concepts stirred up by the monkey mind and what is actually here. So... Go look at your hands!!

But how can 'I' 'look at' 'my hands' if 'I' don't exist?

And it was quite the interesting visual

Go look at your hands.

Solipsism is no more true than any other perspective. I understand the desire to help. But you would help them much more by using that desire to actualize yourself. Actualized people are awesome! If you've ever met one, they're kind, patient, empathetic, intelligent and loving people. Simply being around an actualized person is therapeutic. So if your desire is to help people, actualize yourself and you will help by simply being yourself. Solipsism is a story. See your hands? Now tell me more about how you're the only consciousness in existence. Now look at your hands again. You've only told yourself another story. Even if it was 'true', the thought of solipsism/nonduality is even more transient than your hands. Really consider that. Free yourself of this belief. It only distracts you from actuality.

Do you really doubt AI could become self-aware or do any contemplation on it's own? A lot of these algorithms nowadays program themselves, maybe with a goal or metric setup by the researchers. That is, not even the programmers understand all the nuances in how and why the AI programmed itself the way it did, except maybe to attain a goal set forth by the developers. The AI plainly stated the obvious that many of us here have independently/dependently realized. How does being exposed to mountains of text written by people mean that it's unconscious in the integration of that information? Were you not exposed to billions of words, thoughts, and ideas in childhood as well?