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  1. Posted · Edited by A Fellow Lighter

    If I may ...

    On 05/02/2025 at 1:53 PM, Nirvanababyyyyy said:

    is it possible to know why I created exactly that what is present?

    Yes. This is what enlightenment is at best. 

    On 05/02/2025 at 1:53 PM, Nirvanababyyyyy said:

    Can you become so concious that you understand why you create what you create?

    Yes. This is self-realisation.

    On 05/02/2025 at 1:53 PM, Nirvanababyyyyy said:

    Because if so, I’m not able to do so yet. 

    Because you still consider yourself as existing in a reality, as part of a reality. It has not yet dawned to you that you are the reality, that you don't have a life but are the life, rather.

    The problem here is that you've not self-realised — you have not realised that you are not conscious, that you don't possess consciousness but you instead are consciousness. You are the reality you that you think you live in, you are the consciousness you think you have.

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    1 hour ago, LastThursday said:

    I'm going to be annoying and play devil's advocate. Why not?

    ^_^ feel welcome 

    1 hour ago, LastThursday said:

    It's a good metaphor, but it isn't actually a simulation, because it's not a copy of something else, it is its own thing and unique.

    Well, it's not even a metaphor because reality literally functions like and as a simulation. But more importantly, the term simulation doesn't just mean copy or recreation. The creation of a model of something yet to be discovered in the real world is also a simulation. Look up the verb form of the word. 

    1 hour ago, LastThursday said:

    Consciousness is a concept, but life and reality isn't.

    It's really not just a concept. I mean where does life or reality come from? But solipsism is a concept in truth, however an accurate one.

    2 hours ago, LastThursday said:

    Solipsism needs a separation between observer and observed to work- because it says there's only one observer - but there is no separation between the two in reality.

    No, who says that there needs to be a separation? A distinction, yes, but not actual seperation. The distinction is creator and creation, but both are in essence one beingness.

    The main point driven by solipsism is one mind ~ this is 100% true.

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    Reality is a divine simulation. It's a simulation not run by a computer, but by the mind of God, rather. Hence "divine".

    That's it, this is it. There is nothing more that can be said about reality beyond this. 

    Reality, life, your life, is a simulation. And this reality is solipsistic, and it must be this way. It is this way and can only be this way because it serves a purpose/a function. 

    The purpose of life is consciousness. Consciousness and it's expansion (or total realisation) is the purpose of this life, this .. what we call reality. 

    And, yes, solipsism is 100% true. There is no other way it can be.

    Guys, it's been fun. Thanks Leo, thank you for starting this and seeing it through till now. 

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    21 hours ago, Schizophonia said:

    Yes, he is a public personality (Franck Lopvet) who works on love relationships and basically non-dual spirituality, he's been in it for a good decade but now he can just see people during his internship, look at them a little here and there, and deduce what their great grandfather was like lol.
    He also talks about other emanations and that kind of thing.

    I don't know if he has a formation on that.

    Neat. Let me look him up.

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    @Kuba Powiertowski, thank you so much for the perspective. It really means a lot. In the meantime I'll continue with Pontiac's content and see where it leads me.

    What I've learned from the particular interview in the video that you've shared is that this Chaos Magick seems to have it's own philosophy, one strong enough to build an 'in-group' at least. This makes me wonder whether all kinds of magicks have their philosophies or not. 

    Anyway, your point of magick being an approach to spirituality is solid. Thank you for sharing.

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    @Kuba Powiertowski, thank you for the references. May I ask how long you've followed Ronnie Pontiac's content for? 

    4 hours ago, Kuba Powiertowski said:

    For me these practices are the extreme ways of spirituality.

    How so?

    5 hours ago, PurpleTree said:

    Doesn’t really interest me anymore. Gnosticism, Kabbalism, Magick, Esotericism etc. seems overly complicated. I prefer non duallity now.

    I see.

    3 hours ago, Schizophonia said:

    It's the siddhi of my mentor.

    I'm not sure I follow. Do you mean your mentor has mastered clairvoyance?

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    10 hours ago, DreamScape said:

    Yes

    What kind of stuff are you looking into? Is there something you want to achieve?

    10 hours ago, Schizophonia said:

    Clairvoyance.

    Can you tell me more? Is that something you want to develop or just understand?

    10 hours ago, PurpleTree said:

    I was interested for a while and was ok at tarot cards and stuff but now i mostly lost interest.

    Why's that?

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    Enlightenment is permanent in that it is happening all the time. This is because it is the only thing that can happen. Enlightenment means accessing truth more and more. This is not a momentary thing but an indefinite thing because all things boil down to the access of truth. The depression trip is not enlightenment but neither is the psychedelic trip. Nothing in particular is enlightenment. Instead enlightenment is the most permanent or constant thing that can happen. It is the way. It is the Dao.

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    13 hours ago, Breakingthewall said:

    Yes but that being is infinite. When you talk with someone, this conversation is infinite, and has infinite ramifications, like everything else. Are infinite in it's depth.

    I'm not sure I follow. The word infinite has acquired much semantic saturation. I've come to find it a tad complicated to recognise exactly how the word is being used in the statements it is used in, such as the one quoted above.

    13 hours ago, Breakingthewall said:

    It's impossible to understand or grasp because our perception is limited.

    If by perception  you refer to the way in which one can makes sense of reality, then, yes. Our perception is limited. 

    13 hours ago, Breakingthewall said:

    The being ramificates itself in infinite dimensions. Here and now the infinity is, and it's movement is infinite, because has not bottom. It could be a scary realization, because there is no grasp, understanding, known territory, it's only infinite being.  

    Okay, I can assume here that by infinite  you mean that which is 'endless', an unfathomable depth, in other words. 

    Okay. Understanding, or grasp, is in deed very limited because it serves the illision, the experience, rather, as opposed to serving the reality itself — the mind itself that is. Understanding is still perception, it still refers to the way in which we make sense of the world.

    How we make sense of the world is literally a matter of making something out of nothing (or that which is not a thing). Hence we have things. It is through imagination that we have things. Imagination is the fabrication of some thing out of that which is not a thing, out of that which is being itself.

    So, no. One cannot understand that which is not a thing. We can only understand the things we imagine. This is for the sake of experience — not awakening. It's for the sake of the illusion  as we call it. Only meditation can bring about awakening.

    Being-ness requires awareness, not understanding. The infinite is already here, it is not a hidden truth but an absolute one. One needs only to be aware of it.

  19. Posted

    Final Realisation 

    There are no things, only being. This is true on all levels, all scales and all complexities (or simplicities). This is the total collapse of the Subject and Object dichotomy created by language.

    The finality of it comes from the awareness of how all identities, all patterns and all statements ultimately collapse into one activity — the mind. 

    There are levels to this mind. Ego-mind is one of them. There is also karma and psyche and more which are all equally mind. All of this is still one activity which is mind. This activity is for the purpose of consciousness, or the self-recognition of consciousness, rather.

    Consciousness is the only meaning/purpose of mind, or life as most of us will refer it. There are no things. There is nothing but mind.

  20. Posted

    2 hours ago, UnbornTao said:

    But notice this assessment doesn’t specify what it is, other than making a generic claim that might not reflect actual experience.

    It's not an assessment, friend. It's a recognition. Sentience is an illusion. 

    2 hours ago, UnbornTao said:

    Our current experience of sentience doesn’t seem illusory, except perhaps as a conceptual overlay that hinders investigation.

    No illusion seems like an illusion. If it did then it would simply be called an appearance as opposed to an illusion. Also, it is possible to investigate an illusion without ever realising that it's an illusion. Our scientists do that all the time. The illusion doesn't even need to be a conceptual overlay because it is already an experiential one.

    2 hours ago, UnbornTao said:

    I'm inviting contemplation without presuming to know what it is. It's a complex, advanced topic.

    How does sentience arise, and what is it composed of? 

    Then I, for one, accept this invitation. 

    Sentience refers to the capacity to have subjective experiences and sensations, essentially the ability to perceive and feel things. 

    "How does sentience arise?" There's no plausible explanation for it, at least in the scientific sense. It's the same question as how does dead matter give rise to consciousness, isn't it? And the answer to that is, nobody knows. "What is it composed of?" Still, nobody knows? 

    So many unknowns for something that is right there, blunt and in the open. But its composition forever elusive. And its origin, totally allusive. And yet it appears to be as real as anything else that is apparant to observation: objects and the environment.

    Now, you can still say it's an assumption to call it an illusion if you want. But if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then I'm recognising a duck as a duck.

  23. Posted

    There are degrees to the extent to which you understand something, that's for sure. But there are no degrees to being happy. I'm not sure how to explain this, yet. But definitely, either you're happy or you're not. This is definitely my position which you so strongly contradict (I'm okay with that, btw).

    The reason why I say that either you're happy or you're not is because, in truth, things don't make you happy. Happiness comes from within, just as hatred comes from within. Hatred is the polar opposite of happiness, btw. And it is also a form of resistance.

    56 minutes ago, Clarence said:

    Awareness and understanding are of course crucial, but it's not always that simple to get them. You may believe you have made all the lights on your trauma and causes of your suffering, but there might be things that are still hidden from you, running unconscious, and causing reactions you don't understand.

    Yes, this is true. What I'm saying does not suggest anything otherwise from what you say here. 

    58 minutes ago, Clarence said:

    So I think the issue is much broader than you make it sound to be. You might have all the awareness in the world, but there can still be things that remain stuck in the unconscious and nearly impossible to bring to the conscious mind. You might be able to resolve certain issues on your own with your awareness, but still be missing a deeper resolution.

    Is it broad? All that I'm saying is that all of this suffering, whether conscious or unconscious, is caused by one's own resistance of consciousness itself. This resistance can be in the form of a suppressed memory in which it is still you who is suppressing the memory. It could be in the form of a projection, the form of a defence mechanism, the form of a bad habit like smoking or doing drugs. Really there are many forms of resistance.

    However, one truth remains. It is you, no one else and nothing external to you or out of your control, who are doing the resisting. Even if your trauma is straight up from your birth, which is highly unlike because you're not yet developed cognitively yet at that stage, but even if that happens to be the case. Should there be resistance from such a trauma, that resistance would still come from you. And, it would still (equally) be the resistance of consciousness. Hence, the struggle is with consciousness.

    1 hour ago, Clarence said:

    Also, awareness alone is not likely to be enough to bring bliss and happiness.

    Perhaps not bliss, but definitely happiness. Once something is understood, perhaps something like a wild animal or a criminal or some sort of demonic entity (absolutely whatever) even pain, once it is understood due to awareness, it is impossible to hate it. Why? The mere act of understanding something is connecting to that something in a way that is both transpersonal and impersonal. It has nothing to do with you as an individual, but has everything to do with consciousness. You will be happy even with your scar because you understand that the attack, the violation, or mistreatment you encountered was not personal, not at all.

    1 hour ago, Clarence said:

    Having awareness and understanding about that is not likely to be enough.

    It is exactly enough. Exactly. And if your basic needs are being met, such as the nutrition, the shelter, just the basic stuff, then your struggle with consciousness comes from your own inner resistance. There is a matter that you are resisting.

    By the way, in case I've still not made it clear. In life, as we call it, there is no choice but consciousness. Consciousness is direct experience. Whatever it is that you're trying so hard not to experience, you will experience it – one way or the other. 

  24. Posted

    You're rationslising too much. Love is the reason why you get out of bed every morning, why you do things that keep you alive. Love is the reason why there is any kind of movement. Because, really there is no reason for any activity. All that we do we do out of love. Even though we might imagine some sort of cause, there is none, nor is there any purpose for anything in particular. All motion is driven by pure illogical transrational non-mechanical love. It is spirit.