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[Leo Gura]

53 minutes ago, Yeah Yeah said:

If everything — including my past, identity, and body — is being imagined here and now, then it seems like that imagination should be reconfigurable, at least in a meaningful way.

It's tied to your life and identity.

If it reconfigured significantly, you'd be dead or insane.

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Yet my experience feels constrained. There’s continuity, causality, and accumulated effects. Patterns, habits, and physical states persist in ways that I can’t simply “re-imagine” out of existence. Reality doesn’t behave like a lucid dream — it feels structured and resistant.

So the question is:

If all of this is being imagined now, why does that imagination appear both fluid (in perception, interpretation, meaning) and yet rigid (in structure, consequences, and identity)?

To maintain your self and sanity.

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Is “no past” only meant in the sense that everything is accessed in the present, rather than implying that the past and its effects can actually be altered?

Nothing exists unless it is imagined.

The notion of a past has to be actively imagined for it to exist.

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And if imagination is happening at some deeper, unconscious level — what determines it, and why does it produce a reality that feels constrained rather than freely reconfigurable?

Imagination is happening at the physical level. The physical world is imaginary.

If the physical world was fluid you would feel insane and you could not survive.

We have mental hospitals full of people who can't survive by themselves without medication and 24/7 assistance. And they have only mild fluidity of mind relative to what is truly possible is the mind was more free.

You are taking for granted being human. You think this is just a given. But being human requires imagining that you're human every waking minute of the day. If that stopped you would cease to be human, which you would hate.

Survival shapes imagination to be very specialized and narrow.

You already know what dreams are like. You cannot live a human life within a dream because it is too fluid.

Edited 2 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Natasha Tori Maru]

Rufus Du Sol 

You might know this one - but it's one of my favourites:

https://youtu.be/Tx9zMFodNtA?si=6HxlnW6ctWPBjc-W

They were great live 

Edited 3 hours ago by Natasha Tori Maru

[Leo Gura]

1 hour ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

They were great live 

They play in Vegas a lot.

[No1Here2c]

2 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

It's tied to your life and identity.

If it reconfigured significantly, you'd be dead or insane.

To maintain your self and sanity.

Nothing exists unless it is imagined.

The notion of a past has to be actively imagined for it to exist.

Imagination is happening at the physical level. The physical world is imaginary.

If the physical world was fluid you would feel insane and you could not survive.

We have mental hospitals full of people who can't survive by themselves without medication and 24/7 assistance. And they have only mild fluidity of mind relative to what is truly possible is the mind was more free.

You are taking for granted being human. You think this is just a given. But being human requires imagining that you're human every waking minute of the day. If that stopped you would cease to be human, which you would hate.

Survival shapes imagination to be very specialized and narrow.

You already know what dreams are like. You cannot live a human life within a dream because it is too fluid.

Lots of depth here to be grasped.

How can I see how this applies directly to my experience at this very instance?

How may these words themselves reinforce the notion of humanness in my mind?

Is it so that I continue to be forced into the direction of safety, shallowness, fear-avoidance & deception?

[No1Here2c]

One of the blog posts Leo mentioned something along the line of this:

" Selfishness is too masterful a deceptionist in order to be subdued through force. In order to tackle selfishness requires strategy, technique and skill. "

I found this to be an important insight to be reminded of. So often it seems, I let the birds out of the cage in the cockpit of my mind and let them duel until death.

I must use words and thought to begin again reflecting thought back upon itself. Thought, often so busy point toward other things, rarely turns to itself. I must derive the understanding. Extraction shall be a careful process. Wouldn't want to make a mess.

Death be due by all of us eventually.

Edited 48 minutes ago by No1Here2c

[No1Here2c]

Doesnt God imagine beautiful forms so that he can chase after them?

God wanted to be able to experience the thrill of the hunt, so he imagined himself as something to chase after the pixie dust and sparkly objects which he also imagined. Attraction to them is part of the design. 

Wouldn't to put these all down mean that all of this material worlds has to go away? 

We do love it here when we are in tune. Wouldn't want it all to go away.

And even while unconsciously fumbling around with desire and mesmerization, insight could strike or it may lead to discoveries. 

Through the entire interacting process & system of unconsciousness, consciousness begins to recognize itself. This is not a flaw, this is what happens in a nondual world.

Consciousness is unconsciousness. Unconsciousness stumbling into itself enough for consciousness to spontaneously arise.