Mohammad

@Loreena Maybe you do receive,you just dont receive it in a way that you want or desire.Look at your life as a whole. @Deep Very nicely put.But for me it's not easy to stop this flow.

I wonder that too

@PureExp Absolutely.And what a beauty is this consciousness.

It is one of the basic assumptions in animal physiology and neuroscience.And how humans recognize that brain creates our experiences?exactly by the help of cases like HM.Lots of information about function of different parts of brain come from studying pathological cases like HM and others.scientists see that this particular human has some abnormalities in his behavior and consciousness , and when they look at their brain they can see some anatomical abnormalities in them,and then they connect the function of that part to that task(like if someone has an abnormal amygdala and he doesnt feel fear,they assume that amygdala has something to do with creating emotion of fear).and nowadays fMRI machines and EEG have also help them in identifying this. So because we see that changes in structure of brain or function of brain cells(e.g. by using drugs and chemicals) causes changes in our experiences,it is commonly held belief among scientists that brain is the creator of experiences. But,we also can think of brain not as the creator,but as the receiver.

You are absolutely right.And all this seems so obvious,but somehow even some of the great scientists,even neuroscientists that studying the brain is their main concern in life cant see this! And some just assume that: well,we know that brain creates our experience,and by this experience we know that "the brain"(matter) exist,but how this material thing creates our experience?well we dont know yet,so we use some lab equipment to figure this out! but this is so obvious.if brain creates reality,which science says it does,then all of the material world is construction of it,even the fact that there is such a thing as brain! seems to me like a paradoxical joke.

@LifeandDeath I am also struggling with myself on becoming comfortable with the fact that all this will end and death is the perfect end to all of this thing called "I". But on a practical level,I think that if you just remind yourself whenever you can in your daily life of the fact that death will come,it is real,and just try to fully accept it with all your being,it will make your life more joyful and your mind more clear so that you can explore more of the beauty of this journey that is life.

@Gopackgo Thank you for the suggestion,I will surely watch his videos. And I agree on what you say about science.But the thing is that most of mankind,even some of the most intelligent ones,cant distinguish between the objective and subjective side of reality and they treat reality as fully objective.This is a trap that I still struggle with.But if you look at it closely,and just observe it,reality will show it's true nature to you. @PureExp It is really ironic.But the question is what is the quality of modern science that makes it so efficient? I mean ancient civilizations had they own scientific thinking too,but they couldnt change their reality so dramatically as modern science has done.What do you think is it that modern science has that makes many people fall into it's trap of "science explains everything"?

Where are you?

@Gopackgo I agree with you on direct experience. Sometimes I feel like I always felt,I am moving through the 3 dimensional universe.But sometimes,the other way around,as you say.I am always where I am.objects are coming into awareness and then changing shape and giving their place to some other object.it's kinda like that everything is a formless entity,and each time this entity enters the awareness(which is me) in a different form(reminds me of quantum universe where electrons are supposed to be every where until you observe them.) But I think that we need to realize,that what ever form it takes,it is always beautiful.because it is the "beauty". And even maybe there is no me or awareness,and this entity.maybe we are not separate,but one.but I dont feel this way.

I believe they can feel because they are a form of life.but their "feeling" might be different than animal's. They might not hear you,or see you,but they surely are connected to their surroundings and sense it,they communicate to each other,and there is a great vitality in them. Modern biology is just beginning to understand the life of plants and they are surely very interesting life forms. There is an Italian scientist,Stefano Mancuso,which studies plant intelligence passionately.you can follow his works if you are interested.

I've had many weird experiences.but one of them was very different,and it is not easy for me to explain it.because when I try to explain it does not even seem real to myself. I was meditating with my eyes closed.I was listening to my wall clock ticking,and the sound of distant cars moving in the streets out of my room's window.and then,suddenly without any attempt,I became one with my room.I was the walls,the clock that was still ticking,and the cold window of the room,and everything else inside the room even the body.I sat there for maybe about 2-3 minutes,very peacefully and comfortable.an then slowly "I" came back into the body and I felt that I was inside my body again.and the weird thing for me was that all of this experience,at that moment,was not weird at all!it felt very natural to me.it happened,and then I was myself again,I opened my eyes and went outside of my room.It was just after a while that I realized what a weird shit just happened to me.and it was awesome!

@Gopackgo Just a note on your sixth grade science class.if you look at it closely,when we try to touch an object,with our hands or just walking on ground,there is a thought that "I" am touching something,but in reality the only thing that exist is the sensation.the sensation of my hands touching the keyboard exist,but the fact that "I" am typing,is just a thought! So,science says that atoms push each other away by their magnetic force,they never collide,the things that I call "my" hands never collide with the keyboard,this I can grasp.but the fact of the matter is that I relate the sensations that exist (e.g.hand touching keyboard) to "my hand".There is no "my hand" if we look at it closely.we are observing that atoms never collide.and a sensation exists.that's all.and this does not make any sense!because although I know this intellectually,there is always this thought present in my mind that I am touching stuff.Am I atoms?I dont feel like it.but it looks like that I am.and this does not make any sense! Sometimes these types of contemplation helps me to break something old in the models.but unfortunately I can see that it becomes replaced by another model very rapidly,even if it seems like that the new model might be more "real". We are masters of our own deception.I realize that more day by day.

I dont think that there is a vivid line separating these two."mystical experience" and "enlightenment" are just two words.I think lots of differences between these two arises when humans try to communicate to each other something that they understood.maybe enlightenment is just a deep and high form of mystical experience.and maybe even enlightenment is not end of the road.the end has no name.

I used to have(and I think still have) a scientific mind too.I am a master student of physiology.and lots of similiar expriences to yours made me realize that my models were just made up and non existent.the brain is creating my expriences?brain is just made up of matter.even signals in the brain are being created by movement of Ions(matter).these are what science says.but then,what is matter?! nowadays its so obvious to me that all of this is just a model.feeling,seeing,hearing... these are not movement of ions! The questions that you ask are very good questions and deserve time for contemplation.