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but its hard to argue against the fact that behind your eyes, there is Nothingness. in deep sleep, there is Nothingness. and Nothingness, in virtue of it being Nothing, permiates all of existence. I think its fair to draw a distinction between Nothingness and consciousness, but also notice that the Nothingness EXISTS. which to me indicates that it is still a certain degree of consciousness, and thus consciousness can plausibly be viewed a the Absolute imo. But one should not lightly cast away the notion of Nothingness, since it is the closest thing to an antithesis of consciousness that exists

@Leo Gura whats ur take on the Absolute being Nothingness, beyond consciousness? several spiritual traditions seem to point to this

yes agree, but my point is that the claim can be made that consciousness is still there even when experience / all objects of consciousness ceases. consciousness is just not aware of itself, since it can only know that it exists through duality. but yes again, semantics.

ive been contemplating this consciousness duality. the fact that without an object of consciousness, consciousness ceases. im not sure i think thats true. i think it can be argued that consciousness actually IS the absolute, unchanging true Nothingness/deep sleep, from which all things, including experience emerge. the nature of consciousness is simply such that if it has nothing to know itself in relation to (duality), it cannot know that it itself actually exists. so the vast Nothingness without apperances (absolute) is actually pure consciousness. but its consciousness which is not aware of itself, since consciousness only can know that it exists through duality. Nothingness still has to be Something, since it is something that can actually be experienced, through cessation or deep sleep, meaning there is still a degree of sentience present.

@RightHand hello, no, ive been able to find a facilitator who lives near me. i will be vaping it

@Leo Gura i miss u posting spiritual stuff. love this description of awakening

beautiful, absolutley agree with this. eternity equals consciousness

at this point i dont really believe in deep sleep. multiple times have i awoken seemingly from a deep sleep, only to moments later specifically remember going from dreaming state to waking state. forgotten dreams mimic deep sleep

its actually fucking insane people are being forced to fight in shitty wars. wtf.

thats such an epic one liner.

that does sound like retardation

i agree completely with OP. the concept of eternity has extreme metaphysical implications

funny, i just pondered something similar due to dream experiences the other day. you've literally died a thousand times in your dreams. everytime a dream ends, thats a death. the character of the dream is gone forever, vanished. im fairly certain real death is not that different from ending a dream

easy. god is both existence and non existence; this is implicit in the concept of infinity

beautifully written, great to have u back on the forums. high quality post as always completely agree, god is lack of control; id however say ego is the ILLUSION of control.

this is indeed the biggest lol ive seen in a while. im lost for words

lol

literally cant believe this guy......literally have to restrain myself from commenting everytime i read your comments because they are always permiated by extreme degrees of obvious arrogance, narcisism and superiority complex, claiming you are just on the verge of dissolving your very last spark of karma. LOL. the obviousness is what makes restraining a bit easier i guess, because its ridicolus at this point.

you really shouldnt underestimate ayahuasca in a shamanic setting. these bois have experiemented with the stuff for centuries, developing and perfecting techniques and methods for enhancing and utilizing the effects. speaking from personal experience, they truly know their craft, and a psychedelic experience in a ceremonial, shamanic setting is completely different from taking psychedelics in ordinary fashion

think about it; all physical objects can be reduced to their composition of molcules; this is virtually impossible to do with consciosuness. say you locate the "source" of consciousness in the brain, a certain neurotransmitter. how would you correlate that neurotransmitter with consciosuness? the neurotransmitter in itself is not physically consciousness. whatever you label the source of consciosuness, you will have a massive explanatory gap, since you will never be able to prove the correlation between your labelled source of consciousness, and consciosuness in itself. with water for example, you prove that water exists because of a certain arrangement of molecules, namely H2o. You can create water from Ho2, and you can reduce water to Ho2. its a perfect correlation that explains the structural arrangement of water in every scenario. this is impossible to do with consciosuness. consciousness has no physical appearance. likewise with a thought; when you have a thought of an image in your mind, you find no image in your physical brain - HOW IS THIS? comprehending this is FUCKING RADICAL. why is physicality accompanied by experience. you can never correlate physical phenomena with experience, because experience is formless and physicality is not.

truly comprehending the radicality of the hard problem of consciousness should make everyone question materialism

this is actually a good point

@Xonas Pitfall masterfully done

wow i fucking love hyperdimensional shit. super interesting report. DMT realm is the place to go if u wanna go full hyperdimensional

i smoked weed earlier today, and i got totally fucking blown away. it was SUPER psychedelic, nearing god consciosuness i would say. there was no distinction between my body and the world at all. I became my entire sphere of experience without any discrimination. ALL me, totally alone. very solipsistic. a sense of loneliness struck me, but i quickly realized that i only felt lonely in virtue of my conceptualization of the incident. the experience itself was not lonely, only my thoughts surrounding it, and my thoughts are not truth. I was able to understand at a pretty high level how i was creating my entire existence, and how i was deluding myself into thinking i was a seperate human being. i created gurus, leo, everybody, just for the joy of it i guess. and my conceptualization around it all was the dream / delusion. its all a fucking illusion. I broke out in laughter in the middle of my city, because I realized that every single apperance / object / thing in existence is literally God itself screaming at itself HERE I AM, HOW STUPID ARE YOU. nothing exists which is not that. It got pretty intense and it kind of terrified me. i felt like i was being sucked into the vortex of existence. felt like i was about to leave my body or something. enlightenment is the most obvious thing ever because its all there is (im not enlightened, but would label this an enlightenment experience) god is a never ending party. this is existence. it fucks itself for ever