Materialism is complete BS

[Vilius]

Hi everyone,

I recently re-watched Leo’s video on how State of Consciousness is Everything, and something clicked in a way that’s fundamentally changing how I view reality.

Intuitively, I’ve never accepted the materialist paradigm. The idea that existence is just atoms bouncing around randomly always felt cold and incomplete to me. Yet, despite that intuition, I realized I was subconsciously running a reductive, materialist operating system in the background of my mind. Whenever I looked at the world, my default assumption remained that consciousness was just generated by a physical brain.

Even after heavy psychedelic experiences, I kept defaulting to that old framework simply because I lacked the concepts to integrate what happened. During one intense trip, my sense of self melted away—I felt no boundary between myself and the carpet beneath me, and looking at my girlfriend felt like looking at myself. But because those experiences shattered my need for a "solid," stable bedrock, they spooked me, making me cling even harder to materialism for a while.

Recently, after diving back into Leo’s videos on naive realism and reading through his booklist, it finally hit me: reality is mental, and appearance IS reality.

It’s been a massive daily shift. My brain still occasionally tries to pull me back into reductive thinking, but after working through a lot of existential anxiety, I'm coming to terms with reality as pure Being.

It’s almost impossible to discuss this with people in everyday life, so I wanted to share it here. I don't claim to have it all figured out, but it feels like a fundamental threshold I'm finally crossing. Would love to hear your thoughts or advice on integrating this shift.
 

Also, I have a question, doe's society truly need scientists to tell people that flower is bunch of atoms?? I mean you can directly experience the flower and know what it is, why we need some scientists come and tell what it is, child know what flower and dirt is better than scientists. I had a discussion with a friend and he seems like that he needs  clings to scientific explanation what things are, it's crazy most people aswell, is it like collective delusion?

[kavaris]

47 minutes ago, Vilius said:

is it like collective delusion?

Thats probably the most well put, well worded things you can ever say, a collective delusion. I mean, its a metaphor that can serve you for now, if course. it is like that, yeah. Its like that because  —  its the first idea ~

Like if someone gaves you a piece of paper and it said "Its all yogurt. Reality is all yogurt", its like, now the world is literally under the impression of, like...

Its a baseline that, from that point on, is to be taken for granted, cause "Reality IS yogurt". Nothing is there to refute it, nothing is there to take away yogurt in order to replace it, reframe it, or otherwise challenge it in some way.

Reality is yogurt.

What can you do about it? Everything you see now, is in itself, defined as yogurt. Yogurt is now at this top of a hierarchy that you, as a simple citizen, cant get around. After the first psychedelic trip, that is like, the door into summer, As its a new season to tell yourself something different.

But i digress. As, there are truths... Like. Its not like, its all just this "baseline, grounding" thing. Theres a sense of enlightenment that can be found, within yourself, And, most prevalant, is how you frame it all, or really, 'how you ask the question to begin w/

Most people start w/ God, like is God behind it all, does God = Consciousness, And i would just say, thats a mistake, a big one to be made along the way (... theres more to it than that of course, im just beating around the bush)

its something to consider at least, how to frame it all. Or, rather, how to ask the question, towards "answering the question of"

Edited 26 minutes ago by kavaris