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I agree. That’s if you want results

Hahaha I don’t mind pondering . You could ask the question, how? And get to know how through pondering

When you say “with the mind” do you mean it’s only a intellectual realization for them? This reminds me of when I heard Rupert Spira say something along the lines of there being two steps to awakening. First you awaken to nothing/awareness, but it’s still separate from everything, then realization that awareness isn’t separate from everything so it merges with everything. Sounds a little like what you’re saying

Exactly

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A lot to ponder…

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I think so too in a way . What do you mean by “with sufficient consciousness” you mean consciousness is the substance of everything and that it “dreams” realities?

Yea I think I’ve read that too. Yea I understand. I’m not gonna get stuck on a detail

Don’t know of either of those

Why fear death? I get if someone is afraid of hell, because that would be scary asf, or some bad reincarnation (that has been my fear as a child), but void, nothingness, everlasting sleep, why would that be scary? Think about it, is it ever scary to fall asleep? No , then death (if it’s like that) won’t be scary. If you believe in reincarnation then that could even be positive, so the things you miss in this life might happen in your next life? Yay . lol just some thoughts.

A new species of homo sapien has been discovered! The no self people!!! hahah but yea it’s hard to tell sometimes if someone is that or not. It’s kind of like the next step in the human evolution.

Such sweet message

Solipsism seems like the silliest idea to me to be honest. Why would reality be limited to only one sense of self? I enjoy pondering these things.

Shouldn’t you have used the “look at this car” meme 😹

Some non dualists like Jim Newman whom I like how he speaks, says something alone the lines of how continuity is a part of the “dream” , and that reality is actually chaotic, this is chaos. Something like that. It’s weird because for us reality seems very structured. But maybe they mean the total of reality

I rarely eat sausage so I don’t know. But aren’t there some sausages with minimum ingredients that would be healthy? Thanks for the info. I didn’t know. I know that taste can correlate with what’s good/bad for us. So something poisonous probably tastes bad most of the time. But aren’t there many circumstances when it’s not the case that taste corresponds to if it’s good/bad for us. Also considering we are used to things like salt, oils, and heavily processed foods makes our taste buds more likely to dislike natural veggies. So whether we think something is tasty or not might not be a good indicator of it being good/bad for us in this day and age.

Yea from the info I have it seems it all varies based on the vegetable. And yes I agree most important is to eat plants at all, and a variety of them. From a little research I’ve done science supports a predominantly plant based diet, so plants being the main part of the diet. So that aligns with what you wrote

I don’t mean it’s sciences job I just used science as example how it’s one of those questions that are pondered widely hahah I might sound hesitant but it’s just because I truly don’t know. But if you feel you’ve came to a truth then I respect that for you. For me I still don’t know but I reflect on it

Yea I was thinking it was due to the change in perception of time. It’s cool . And yes I can imagine memory can mess it up.

Wtf that’s so cool. You mean the time perception was of 100 years not actually 100 years? Now I get why you mentioned salvia in that other thread talking about brains and consciousness.

It’s very fascinating indeed. I have wondered to myself about this too. Like maybe all the rules to reality is just one of the infinite possibilities that reality can be. Like reality could dream up another kind of reality with opposite rules. But then the thing is, just because something COULD exist, does it mean that it does? Like maybe all the possible scenarios don’t exist And why is this reality so structured? Why isn’t it just random things appearing, like a pink elephant jumping around one moment then a rainbow unicorn the next. Why is my apartment the same everyday, why is my body the same every day. It’s one of the most fascinating questions. And why doesn’t a self appear in objects (or so it seems can we really know) like a stone doesn’t have a self. So it seems in this particular reality a brain is needed for a sense of self. But does it need to be that way always? Who knows.

Yea that’s right the self is the basis that then sees selves everywhere. But I think that’s reasonable. Yea you could say it’s all appearance of the absolute

Everything you experience is within your experience. Exactly . I don’t know for now the answer to the rest and I don’t know what would be required to know.

Ok cool. You mention near death experience to prove a point of how consciousness can exist outside the brain right. I’ve had out of body astral projection so I have some experience along those lines. It for sure does put a question on how it all works When it comes to having a brain that sounds a little solipsistic. It’s like “how do you know other have selves just because you have” it’s a valid question but I think it’s silly to assume you’d be the only one with a self. Similarly, you could look at anyone’s brain, why would you think you don’t have one. You can look at your arm and say you got an arm. Just because you can’t see or feel brain doesn’t mean it’s not there. Or actually we can’t know that. If you lose feeling in your arm and move it away from your vision, if we think everything that exists is our direct experience, we could say arm no longer exists until it’s within your sense perceptions