Principium Nexus

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  1. I really like this way of creating mind-maps and schematically ordering thought. In this mind-map I look what "Good" and "Evil" are and what their relationship is.
  2. No time is ever wasted, it's your own perspective that clings to certain things you want to achieve.
  3. @okulele I recommend going for Javascript or C++/C# and use the Unity Game Enige Python is a great entry language, its based on readability and used a lot, you want to use pygame module when you got a hang of using it. A downside of python is that it is less optimized and can give slower FPS compared to C++/C# which will give you the best performance in games.
  4. I think there has already been this discussion before about which layer of reality we are talking about. #1 Fundamentally you could reason nothing exists, non-dual, basically talking about any concept is illusionary in its nature so why even bother coming to a forum if you embrace this as the ultimate answer for everything. #2 Reality is empty in nature, however, the illusionary world of concepts has created its own practical part and contemplating how and why these exist can give interesting insights of practical nature, even though these answers will ultimately also be illusionary in nature. My take on this good and evil debate is what it personally means to me how we "could" categorize these concepts and which may result in some practical insights
  5. Self-inquiry = meditation, let the mind become silent and you find everything that you are searching for.
  6. @Strikr Losing everything does not have to be bad. You can actually gain something, which can be truth by losing a false sense of self or delusional perception of reality. Now how one handles the truth, that's completely up to them, they can accept or keep fighting until they die.
  7. Attaining Selflessness is possible, getting rid of the ego completely is not possible as long as you are alive. It's still a part of you, rather embrace it than trying to kill it and create a new "ego that says killing old ego is only way to be good".
  8. @Leo Gura I understand what you mean Leo and what you say is also required to gather insight/reflect/contemplate/experience, on this forum however we can ONLY conceptualize through words. What I try to do after my personal experiences with what I think is "Good" or "Evil" is by replacing the ACTUAL experience here with a variable that should always result in a "Good" or "Evil" value after that experience has finished. I'm looking for the conditions that make me perceive something to be "Good" or "Evil" not only NOW but ALWAYS everywhere. Oh and I do understand that "Good" and "Evil" do not exist outside from Subjective interpretation. To me there is no Evil, anyone who hurts me (intentionally or unintentionally) does this because they are unable to do good and that causes them to suffer. I cannot blame someone who suffers for doing "evil" things, only forgive and try to give love back what they so desperately need.
  9. @Enizeo XMind Zen, free program for Mac/Win/Linux
  10. @ivankiss You are doing a good job, both in creating understanding for others as yourself. Who ever attempt to follow in your footsteps after reading your report is completely responsible for his own actions and also understand that things can go in a very unexpected direction.
  11. @Strikr God is insane, psychedelics are for those ready to lose everything they hold onto.
  12. @Leo Gura Talking about Psychedelics is not wrong, they are profound, but it's important to note that they can be life-shattering and someone should only attempt if they are ready to have their ego killed.
  13. @Nadosa Follow that path you rather don't want to look. Go for it, you will end up suffering by running away from something you don't really understand yet or even have a possibility of relief as you see it can be a place of tranquillity and peace. I had this dream once where I was running away for something, it was a dark entity and I did not know what it was, my fear was thus only in not knowing what was following my as I was running. There was a moment in the dream where I realized that my fear was continuously held alive because I did not want to face the unknowable. I took courage and told myself I rather want to see in full detail what makes me fear than running away for something that is only grounded in emotion but not rationality or understanding. Once I faced the entity the dream comically halted as if a movie director just called for a break, the thing was nothing and I was actually running away from myself, not wanting to face this unknowable. That moment the dream turned into a vivid dream where I could explore every part of this interesting dream reality that was presented to me, in complete peace, without rush to fear or the need to go anywhere, infinite detail of texture and beauty presented itself as I was mesmerized with the things I did not notice before due to the emotional layer that was covering my perception.
  14. Enlightenment to the Buddha was waking up from the dream of existence. He understood that what is perceived as separate is an illusion but what is infinite and the whole is not. The all, wholeness, infinity or nothingness (unified indifferentiable being). He also understood that all things arise from the mind as we project purpose and meaning to those concepts the self interacts with. We do this to define ourselves and orientate in the world of things and survive. Without self, identity ceases to exist and you and the whole be one, timeless, beyond time, beyond being born or dying. He understood that "we" will all return to this state as impermanence is in all things. As a result, one will see that suffering is due to attachment to the self, and this suffering will cease when the mind is empty and disidentifies. Disidentifying from the illusion, understanding that he is infinite and not confined and that he is nothing as a thing compared to everything. Human-life is suffering as we attach ourselves to many things due to what we love and pursue and suffer when we cannot attain those things. Key is to understand these attachments are something to strive for but should not makes us suffer and when they do make us suffer we should take responsibility as it is us we clings to those. Nirvana is selflessness, Samsara is ego (I must).
  15. @Dodo There are many people who have beautiful and meaningful experiences, whether you are open to that is up to you. It's great if you try to persue wisdom and enlightenment through mindfulness and meditation. Psychedelics are powerful, they should be used with respect and are no longterm solution or meant to be frequently used. When you do break through on psychedelics there will be no doubt anywhere that the insight about the Malleability of perception and reality, that is where it's power lays and how you can study the mind, with care.
  16. Hello forum members of Actualized.org, I have always been fully fascinated with the actual phenomena of reality and time. Several years ago, I had a complete ego death and this experience is still deeply embedded in my being and everyday actions and perspective. First, I want to give you an abstract overview of what my psychedelic experience was like and what deeper direct insight the experience showed me. Please note that this experience was life changing and completely forced me to reconstruct my believes and solid foundations of what I thought what reality seemed to be. During that time, it was hard to cope with all these ideas and "normal regular life". I'm still giving it a place and will keep doing this my entire life, but it was both the best as the worst experience i have ever encountered. Nothing can be unseen, but with mindful intention you can transform what you make of things. For my trip report I mainly want to focus on the important things I experienced but I will give a general overview what the set and setting was. Everything started on a regular vacation day. My friends and I had decided we wanted to try some magic truffles again since earlier experiences have always been really enjoyable and funny. On an empty stomach we all ate some truffles and slowly the effects became apparent. Some weightless feelings like being on a cloud while walking, increased colour vividness and perception in all senses. We all quite enjoyed the experience quite well, just the total ridicules of being alive and that this "substance" or tool is able to affect the experience of reality so dramatically that it almost feels like the matrix. Morphing solid shapes, everything breathing like it is totally alive like one large being. These experience often go with pure awe for beginners and can be an eye opener or something that destroys your world, perspective is crucial in how you will experience life and thus having a broad knowledge is essential to be able to position yourself in life, even if you don't exactly know what real truth is. This is why I have great respect for all people that give their life to peruse understanding and knowledge, becoming a sage like @Leo Gura also states in one of his videos is my ultimate pursuit. So, there was this moment in my psychedelic experience where I slowly began to drift away. I was standing somewhere against a statue next to some friend looking at this massive willow tree on a small island several meters away. The whole tree was illuminated by a light and I was slowly being hypnotised by its presence, the branches timelessly waving in the air. Before I entered this upcoming trance my emotion was pure indecisiveness due some situation where my friends split up and I was not able to choose whether I wanted to go with them or stay. Eventually I stayed to look after some friends but was thrown in this deeply hypnotised state. My presence was slowly merging with the tree across the water and I began to feel its history and future. I felt the cold of the winter and all the seasons that cycled over a thousand times, maybe an infinite times. I really cannot tell since time slowly ceased to exist and I became it. Everything was fast-forwarded like a time-lapse, people walking by, the environment changing over hundreds of years, until time came to an absolute end. Now reflecting on this experience the force that drove me to a complete ego death or dissolution was the pure indecisiveness I entered it early with. My reality window or perspective couldn't decide what to experience or focus on and eventually I became absolute nothingness. This timeless state of being that was undifferentiated and a complete void was still perceived as being nothing. Now this is very hard to grasp and only direct experience can show you what true infinity and nothingness is at the same time. A nice sentence I like to refer to is; Ultimate silence holds the greatest potential of invoking anything infinitely larger that itself. One of the most beautiful moments was the witness of the absolute transformation of Non-duality to the Duality. After an infinite amount of time had past in the absolute non-dual state there was a moment where two orbs of light came into my vision. They shared this dance what felt to me like pure love and reminds me of ying and yang. From the non-dual unlimited potential arose the perspective or experience of two entities both identical and it was me who give their distinct identity. I felt that I was them but also reflected on this from a distant perspective, which in turn created an experience of separation. Slowly my perspective began to zoom out or expand and I saw that my entire vision was filled with these dancing energy orbs until my complete view of normal reality emerged from this. As if reality was build from these pixels and that the human experience is somehow at this current level of awareness. This experience was just pure awe, but coming back was the hardest part. Dealing with the feeling of being infinitely away from this reality and then coming back you get overwhelmed with what you experienced and at first I just freaked out. My friends told me I was away for a long time and this really scared me. I didn't feel safe because i still had to grasp what this reality was, how it functioned and who these people were. I wanted to go home because that was the only safe place I could remember but luckily my friends calmed me down. It was one intense ride for sure! The important part I want to emphasize is this conversion of non-duality to duality since it is the absolute essence of creation. I know this can be labelled as "just a experience while being under influence" but the message is clear. You only begin to fully grasp what real masters of the mind are talking about when they speak of enlightenment. It is really you who creates your entire world, every "value" you apply to one of those orbs creates your complete experience of reality. Duality is the labelling system of the mind of how to identify anything and is build from relativity in perspective from all other values. Changing one value as to say directly changes the relation with all others and this simply is your perspective or vision what life looks like or gets experienced. Mindset, vision, belief are really the key to enlightment and will only be reveal by true dedication, integration and pursuit of knowledge. Tell me what you think about this! Has anybody else ever experienced such thing. I have the feeling that some people might have had the similar experience but were not able to completely verbalize it. EDIT: One thing I want to add is that the creation fo the universe by the big bang is exactly the same process. We arose from a timeless state and the universe as we know it was born by the creation of relativity (duality) from this non-dual indifferentiated state. Relativity is the core requisite of experiencing reality by using the ego. As relativity was born so was time and the space continium. Interesting philosophical questions arise if you take this as how this mental universe is created, are there any real bounderies if there is no ultimate outside perspective? Who knows Namaste, fellow adventurers.
  17. Life and death are an illusion. The person who was your grandfather has been dying and being reborn every single day. They say that every 7 years nearly all cells have been replaced so "you" is physically gone, but transformed always into a new state of "you". Same applies to your psychology, the mindset you have, goals, knowledge, point in life all contribute to an ever-changing idea of the self. You has died many times already but is also been reborn into a new shape. The physical moment where the heart stops beating, brain activity ceases to continue and body dissolves back to where it came from, that death is what we call significant death, as there is to our knowledge no return from this state directly back into a functioning being. You is just an idea, a collection of characteristics and certain physical feature, all which greatly change over time and same for other people. I would say your grandfather lives on in a new state of being closer to the source where everything arises from and where we will join them sooner or later. The beauty is that all our energy that we expel in form of psychological implications aswell as physical changes to the environment will all be united again in the end. Whether that is "heaven" is up to you, just another label. Bottom line, death and life only exist in the mind.
  18. @Dodo I respect your opinion but to be honest god probably doesn't care how you try to find truth. In the end the only thing that matters is if it has value to you. I've experienced something that I would never been able to imagine or get a glimps of through normal everyday life. The experience transcends words, only direct experience can give you the true meaning. In academic setting more than 80% of participants who used psilocybin said it was the single most experience they ever experienced. It been used to help people overcome severe depression with good results. Saying that there is nothing to find there is bit overstated. I would love to hear any mystical experiences/insights that you experieced.
  19. It's been a while since I've been active again on this forum. More time has passed and my reflection on these things has learned me a few new things. First, have a clear mind at all times will greatly enhance how you are able to experience everything that is been given to you. If your mind is tilted by any emotion and you feel this when you feel easily exhausted or angry, stop and calm down until you know you settled this unprocessed energy. Meditation daily, even if it's only 10-20min, try to really ease the mind, relax your muscles, breath. Get rid of caffeine, usually you drink it to feel productive/energetic, it's only short lasting and will make you unfocused/jittry during and/or afterwards. Caffeine also releases adrenaline, Adrenaline is the "fight or flight" hormone. Being in "fight or flight" mode is anything but relaxed, your brain is overly sensitive and it can even trigger anxious feelings, thus disturbing your emotional clarity and peace of mind. Get rid of excessive drinking or stop completely. Same for smoking nicotine or anything that causes you to have withdrawls and feel unbalanced afterwards. What do you really gain by using those short-termistic substances? For concentration use binaural beats or music that helps you being productive and joyful. Minimalism can feel great, just invest in the things that are important and give you satisfaction every day. If you have any thing you would like to add please share your thoughts and leave a comment! I love to discuss how to achieve a serene but productive state of mind.
  20. Cool mathematical insight! Yeah I do understand that there must be a vector transformation that would yield a single line and from a certain perspective this would look like a single point containing all the points that were transformed.
  21. Hi everyone, been a while since I've been on this forum. I watched @Leo Gura last video "What Is Perception? - The Metaphysics Of Perception" and wanted to reflect upon a few things he stated. In one part Leo talks about the color red just being out there in the universe without a conscious observer. I understand his idea but if you really think about it, it would mean that there is always a conscious observer and can never be anyone not observing everything. Leo also talked earlier in one of his video's about Indra's web, Idra's web talks about that everything is reflected into each part, so if the whole universe is connected then even the furthest thing would still be visible anywhere and everywhere. We are basically seeing everything always anywhere, as everything is always reflected at any time. I also questioned what the definition of a "conscious observer" is. Do we consider only humans as conscious? Animals or single-celled organisms? What about inorganic life, like crystals which are self-organizing or viruses that can replicate themselves if they have a host? Or maybe we can say that everything is conscious all-together because every part of any conscious being is always reflected from anywhere anytime? How does this change the way we think of Schrodinger's wave-collapse function? The universe is self-conscious then and it will just keep defining itself, there is nothing like a non-observer. Your thoughts and my thoughts they are the universe, these should not be personified as they are a cause of all. The state of personification or the feeling of identity exists, in my/our minds, it is a quality of the universe, a phase balancing the universe internally and externally, something that will fade again like any other but does create suffering in those who cling. Bottom line like always, all is one. Now to come back to my title I tried to put some statements about the universe in a mindmap, you can create one of these yourself on www.mindmup.com. I'm looking forward to seeing your models, you can cover any statement or idea and try to reason why something should be true based on axioms or collective set that must be true due specific condition. Just try it out and share what you got! Here is mine: https://imgur.com/a/mQB7p2r
  22. Man I've been there too, the solipsistic view/experience, the more time passes the more you understand that you don't know anything and will never know for sure. Solipsism can be experienced as very real when you change you perspective but there are so many things outside of you what you don't know and can make you wonder or fall in awe that it also challenges the idea strongly. The thinking trap, it's so common, falling for a paradigm you so strongly believe in while it hurts you more than you gain.. In the end you want to just feel; the wind, sun, touch and experience what alive means. All the thought of how things can or could be melt away and you are left with the now, blissful and without too much clinging. You really want to get out of your head, by sporting, doing activities, being in the momevement or in contact with people. It will help and feel rewarding
  23. "Who am I?" "What am I?" "Why am I?" "Whither am I bound?" "What is my relation to the universe, to man, and to God?" "What is Truth? How am I to know Truth?" "Whence cometh my power? What is the Source of my power?" "How am I to find Balance? In my dealings with my fellow men, how am I to know that balance in our interchange which will enrich both him and me?" "Countless are the religious teachings, and many are the commandments to goodness, but goodness is still veiled from my eyes like a thick mist which hides Thy Light which I vainly seek." "I stumble in its darkness. Unbalanced I fall." "O thou unseen One, tear from my eyes the blinding veil which hides the path to Thy Light, that I may find my way to Thee."
  24. Scary ≠ bad, rather a significant but shaking experience. You can only grow and become stronger by really knowing how to walk in the dark.
  25. @SaltyMeatballs Everything has it's time, use your time to improve yourself even more, travel, create, have fun. All things eventually fall in to place