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@Cocolove thank you! That’s great hear you have some background knowledge on Wilber’s work. He is a truely inspiring visionary. I might aim at reading all of those and start with the integral transformation ?

@Patrick Lynam meaning is not found it is created. Reality does not hold segments of meaning spread through it, you create them. An enlightened being realises there is no meaning and so then adopts the power to create it. To live fully you don’t require enlightenment, you require doing your best in all areas of life through the lens of your own unique being. Enlightenment will come once all your attachments dissolve.

All there is, is existence, concepts are just one part of this. A dead person is also a concept. No one has experienced death. Nor has anyone experienced unconsciousness. How can one be unconscious without a consciousness to observe it? Impossible, unconsciousness does not exist.

@Shubham chaudharyLook into the field of Phenomenology and Theory of Mind. These areas of study deeply explore the mechanics in how humans interpret and construct reality via the mind.

@Danioover9000 Existence includes everything. That is, all possibilities. Non-existence is an idea stemmed from existence, it’s no more real than a thought. In fact, non-existence is a thought. No thought = no non-existence and just pure existence. Not to mention, no one has ever experienced non-existence but assumes it to exist. To experience non-existence one would have to exist outside of it so as to validate it exists. Since one cannot do this it is a pure fallacy of mind.

@Eren Eeager what channel are you watching? Haha Leo is shedding tears and speaking with deep emotion almost every episode.

@TrynaBeTurquoise you only have to observe his manner of speech, the caliber of his logic, his level of inclusive sensitivity, his financial motives, his political campaigns, his egoic defensiveness and hypocrisy to gauge an understanding of the man. Much may be left to know about him as a person or his past, but very little suggests he has any sense in what he is doing or the implications of it for that matter His level of consciousness is equivalent to that of a rock. And even thats a generous complement.

@WHO IS haha you undermine the intelligence of it all. It’s that you are provided an infinite number of possibilities to experience. From the most suffering to the most liberated. This freedom is not stupid but immensely intelligent. To only have the option to experience liberated states is a limitation. And you only can know the significance of liberation once suffering, hence why suffering exists. It’s the reference point from which you anchor all the beauty in life.

@WHO IS Thats right, we are here because we have been deluded by our own mind that we are a finite self. Just like the mind that sees a stick in the distance mistaking it for a snake. We too, have mistaken this human life for the existence that we are. Discussions of this thought become redundant once the attachment to mind dissolves.

@WHO IS Why assume there ever was a human to begin with? One who liberates them self becomes what they always were, infinite awareness. The self whom was experiencing the suffering becomes realised as no more real than a dream. Thus, the human was always imagined.

@WHO IS Because: A. You can choose to be a suffering finite self. or B. You can choose to become a liberated self whom transcends suffering all together. Both exist under the same Absolute but since both are relative you can choose which to embark. The latter appears much more fulfilling.

@actualizing25 You’re privileging your mind over your experience. Tell me, how does this supposed brain exist without your conceptualisation that it does? The brain is concept dependent. Meaning, it does not exist without your conceptualisation that it does. If you have no thought about it, the brain holds no more physicality to it than the air you breath.

@actualizing25Brains do not exist simply by the fact that when you experience one, it is dependent on an associating concept in order to be known. In other words, brains are not independent of the thought in having one. To have a brain one must conceptualise a brain. Easy experiment: does a brain exist without the thought of one? Of course not, this is a superimposition of mind. When we perceive a “brain”, we imagine a brain and associate a concept to it. All that exists is your consciousness and the concepts which it formulates is what humans have mistaken for reality. Ie. Brains, bodies, physical experience.

@The Don In a developed countries, consciousness should be the primacy. All things will naturally follow. Raising the consciousness of our fellow beings raises the consciousness of nations which sustains and revolutionises existence. We have all the solutions within the consciousness we operate, it just requires we access it. Our present world problems are a direct precipitation of our ceaseless attention outward when it should be directed inward.

@Michael569 they’ve created a literal indoctrination machine. Hahaha it’s quite hysterical that we all here are on the same page but conventional society would think we are all delusional, figures

@DreamScape Because from an Absolute perspective not each finite being has the capacity to create all things even though all things presently exist. A finite self is a limited entity therefore can only experience so much. Each finite self is endowed the privilege to express their unique share of the Absolute with other finite self’s different to them. This way, each finite self complements the inabilities of another, coalescing like earth and water. Thus, each being is expressing the same Absolute but from one of the many infinite possibility through which it can be expressed.

@wk197 The app itself is quite problematic as it creates relentless sensory seduction. The app allows for creative usability, however, its pros are far out weighted by its cons, especially in how people are intending to use it. It’s being used as a substitutional ego distraction that pulls attention away from fundamental deep work. It stimulates sensory titilisation that makes its user less aware of what they are doing. I invite you to observe people using the app. It’s quite fascinating. Users become no more aware than monkeys transfixed by an endless supply of bananas “more, more, more”.

@danilofaria yes essentially. Allow the body to move as it pleases. But reframe the letting as a “natural course” of the body’s movement. Don’t try to get comfortable using the mind to control the body but rather allow the body to settle itself through the instinctual release of tensions and agitations. The catharsis should be a natural arising from the function of freely letting go. Otherwise, you would be just compounding the already existing tensions with more of them. The power of letting go is that is like a liberating reset.

@annonnimm32 This is a nice way to conceive of the human duality of perspective. Human perspectives ought to have some varying truth to them since they are all perceiving the same thing and accounting for it from different angles. A human can only perceive from one angle at a time. In this sense, knowledge is contextual. We are accurate in what we see since we are limited to the angle we are seeing it. Rather than assuming one is correct and one is not, it is more accurate to understand that each human perspective is correct but from a particular angle. Truth can be ascertained from the most deniable source. As all perspectives must in the end merge, since all derive from the same source and perceive the same source and thus, are explaining it form one of the many angles it can be explained by. Oneness maintains that all perspectives are correct and incorrect simultaneously. A perspective is correct because it rests in the Absolute of Oneness, but it is incorrect in that it cannot not fully explain Oneness, since a part can never explain the whole. Our current times only exemplify how two conflicting perspectives can be equally valuable.

@LfcCharlie4 Exactly! definitely an empowering way to live

Hahaha @GodDesireOnlyLove your user pic is epic ? To respond to your question @WHO IS, for me personally life is not serious at all. Life is uncultured and just pure is-ness. Human experience is the only area one could consider serious, and even that is merely a story created however we so desire. Human life requires responsibility, effort and commitment. However, we can do this joyfully or sufferingly. The choice is at our disposal. I recommend that we seek to live like a child with curiosity, creativity, wonder and play, while guiding our decisions like an adult, with independence, critical thinking and freedom.

@Meta-Man appreciate the love! Right back at ya ?

@The Don why ascribe to either? Both propose valuable points but both are inherently delusional and limited if taken to their epitome. Whether to take insight from either side should be a contextual matter not an absolutistic one. Seek to observe what a given environment needs at given time. Go meta and exercise the cognitive flexibility to move between both according to what is presently required. Adherence to either one only precipitates the fundamentalism we see in government all too often. The friction between both sides, is the very reason why government fails operate as efficiently as it could. It’s not that the right or left is a problem, it’s that they fail to recognise the necessity and value in both. Allow a Love for both, as both are valuable. Ps. Truth is beyond both a left vs. right dichotomy. This you are likely to only realise once ego and self/other perish.

@danilofaria I’ve also found that mushrooms produce discomfort and an incessant need to move the body at the beginning. Feelings I find extremely uncomfortable. However, like others have said it’s important to let yourself settle in naturally. Don’t try to resist the need to move by stationing yourself. Just let go and allow the body to do what it needs to. The body is built up of so much unconscious tensions and suppression’s, it’s only expected it will convulse and move in a cathartic manner. For me, I had an extremely powerful physiological release from mushrooms. My body began twitching while on the ground releasing emotional baggage. This letting go allowed for the excess agitation and tension to release as it required.

Hey there @Dwarniel great to here different approaches are being trialed at these times. Interesting to here the differences in Norway too. I imagine there being possible benefits to such approaches too. As for where my country, Australia, social distancing and travel ban measures have been implemented. The whole motive behind Australian policies was to minimise the social gathering of people and thus, reduce the degree of transmutable opportunities. It has supposedly been doing well. Further, we had large incentives to invest into mental health (therapy, psychiatry etc). as well as employment incentives to keep businesses open and people employed. The curve has been progressively decreasing and measures are now beginning to be loosened. The effectiveness of this however, does not go without consequences. Such as businesses closing and people becoming more prone to demosteoc violence and obtuse unusual behaviours. Obviously many have not been prepared for the implications of such measures. I feel these efforts have good intent and largely benefit the entirety of society but real impact for these times will only show in times to come. Nonetheless, feel there will be far more positives than negatives deriving out of this: awareness in business and cooperate strategies, more conscious consumerism, more emphasis on connection, more gratitude for social resources, and hopefully raised collective consciousness from the illumination of social instabilities.