GodisOne

Psychedelics are not harmless. They do have negative effects on the brain and can take you into a psychotic state.

I can't claim to have realized God. How could a finite mind realize That which is beyond space-time itself? "Vision does not encompass Him, but He encompasses all vision; and He is the Subtle, the All-Aware." [Quran 6:103] However, the obstacle between the mind and everything else is the illusion of awareness/duality. That is why we pray to God to lift the veil of illusion.

Who told you you are "eternal consciousness"? You're not infinite my friend. You would have to be deluded to believe that. In most nonduality circles, they'll tell you "you" do not exist, which is much closer to the truth than that. Infinity and eternity belong to God. You are a limited, finite human being. But the possibility is to realize that the whole framework is non-existent. No, this is not what he wants. Does an adult with cancer want to have cancer? As an individual, we do not have total control of our realities, because God exists and His Will supersedes ours. Why He does what He does is beyond our understanding.

Blaming everyone else, including yourself for lying, is definitely an unstable state to be in. Maybe you're lying to us about people lying? There are lies and there are truths. There are also people who lie and people who tell the truth. That is what drives the wheels of karma, or you can say allows for a balance in the world of relativity. Science and logic are filters that separate lies from truth. So anyone claiming he or she is infinite, with them being part of the finite spacetime, are clearly lying. Another reason is that the Infinite cannot fully know Itself (I can share with you evidence that full self-knowledge is not possible). And so that is a perfect example of how Greed knows no ends. Therefore, trust science and logic, not people's claims, because sometimes they lie. It's about recognizing the illusion of knowing that is between our minds (finite) and the known (Illusion of Duality).

That's fair. Our minds do share some qualities (but NOT infiniteness) with God's mind, but they are not the same. Within our universe, there are larger minds and smaller minds, like your reference to Cantor theory supports. But I think God's mind is alone the Infinite and Eternal Mind. Being your mind does give you indications to its complex nature, but as agreed, doesn't mean you can know all of it fully. It was never about being God, because our minds (within the finite spacetime) CANNOT be infinite, but about recognizing the illusion of duality between our minds and the known, the observer and the observed.

Anything can "be". I am talking specifically about whether a knower can fully and perfectly know itself.

Please ignore this previous post (quoted above). EDIT: I have since noted many inconsistencies in my that post, where I asserted that "Only the Infinite can fully know Itself." But I have since come to the conclusion that no knower can fully know themselves, which is more consistent with radical nonduality. Following is my correction: The Infinite and Finite cannot fully know themselves: To fully know itself, a knower falls into the self-modelling problem of infinite regress, because to know Itself it needs to include its model of its self, which needs to include its model, which needs to include its model, and so on...leading to infinite regress. Similar to self-modelling problem, Halting's self-prediction problem also prevents self-knowledge. To predict itself, the program would need to simulate itself — but that simulation is itself running, which needs to be simulated, which needs to be simulated... For the Infinite knower, the regress is amplified — Cantor generates larger infinities at each step. Self-description always generates something larger than the container (Cantor’s theorem). Any attempt at self-description generates a larger infinity than the original. For the finite knower, failure happens immediately due to information capacity problem as it can't hold that much information. Aside from Cantor’s theory, another theory explains why the knower cannot know itself. A set of type n can only contain members of type n-1 (Russell’s type theory). So a set cannot contain itself because it would need to be both type n and type n-1 simultaneously.

You believe in reincarnation, but you don't believe in heaven and hell? If you take the general definition of heaven and hell, where one is a better life and the other is a worse life, then, if you believe in reincarnation, you HAVE to believe in heaven and hell. Even if you take the strict religious definition, then if you believe in reincarnation, you are more likely to believe in heaven and hell i.e places where you go to in the next life. You believe in jinns. But you don't believe in angels. That's ridiculous. If you're going to believe in unseen creatures, might as well believe in them all; you don't get to choose which ones to believe in based on preference. The source ends when you end? So now you're taking a solipsistic view. That's the ultimate narcissistic viewpoint that's seen as ridiculous by almost everyone. Your understanding of reality sounds very confused.

Yes, it can reflect some properties about its source, but it cannot reflect the totality of the source or fully know its source, because as you said it's a "subset of the Infinite". It will always be limited in its understanding or perception of the Infinite. Only the Infinite can fully know Itself. If X was limited, it would not be able to fully know itself, but if X is Infinite, it evades many of the problems that a limited X would face in knowing itself. Firstly, it evades the self-reference problem of infinite regress, because to know Itself it needs to include its mirror (its own self), which needs to include its own self, and that mirror needs to include itself, and so on... And it also evades the information-capacity problem, because the Infinite would need to contain details of itself infinitely, which it can. You can also argue that the Infinite can evade Halting's self-prediction problem, because with the Infinite, there would be nothing outside the Infinite to change Its behavior in such a way that causes a contradiction. But once again, the finite cannot fully know the Infinite.

@Natasha Tori Maru @integral Be very careful with eating neural tissue. Mad cow disease emerged from cows eating neural tissue that "spontaneously" become contaminated with prions (type of misfolded proteins). In infected animals, the brain has the highest concentration of prions so be careful. And it has occurred that the disease has spread to humans by eating infected bovine brains; the disease is called Variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.

How can a finite mind "recognize" the Infinite? It can only dissipate in It. Also, I sent you a message asking if you can add the "Like" button to posts/comments. It would make the experience more engaging. I don't know if you saw the request.

Look at the contradiction. You say "I" is the dream; then "your" current experience is reality. If "I" is a dream, how can something that belongs to that "I" be real? Note your other contradiction: you specifically said earlier it's a dream with different characters, and now it's reality? Your viewpoint sounds confused.

Yes, the dream may appear, but it always appears with "I" and its objects, codependently. Not "I" by itself, as mentioned in solipsism. The dream is nothing more than the Absolute appearing as the dream. All there is is the Absolute.

You don't need "other" when speaking of divine unity. But you need "other" when speaking of "I". And that is why solipsism, which holds that "I alone exist" does not hold any ground, because its opposite "other" is needed to contrast and give meaning to the "I". And this I have said multiple times. "The part of God that knows is talking to the part of God that doubts or doesn’t know at all." that knows what? "knowing" belongs to duality only, as it requires the knower and the known. Duality is an illusion.

If there is only one thing, and you are part of that one thing, how could you know that one thing? You would have to stand apart from that one thing, point at it to be able to know it, but the problem is you cannot stand apart from it, because you are also it. For that reason, I said you cannot know the Absolute, nor look through the lens of the Absolute. The Absolute remains the Unknown. What you can know is that it is Unknown. On to solipsism. Solipsism is not "I am". Solipsism is "I alone am". The problem with that, is in the world of relativity, for anything to be described, its opposite must exist. Like "up" cannot be understood without "down". So to say "I" exists without its opposite the "other" is violating the law of opposites. It is only when people become so self-centered that they think they alone exist, and the irony is that they think "if you are totally against solipsism as an idea you're further away from the truth than someone who accepts it", not realizing they are admitting there are OTHER people who don't accept it. So they say there are no "others", then they say there "other" people who don't accept solipsism. Self-contradiction at its best. Stick to logic and science my friend. Otherwise, you fall into delusion.