My Latest Solipsistic Insight

[Nemra]

16 hours ago, Yimpa said:

You won’t need to restrict your communication when you absolutely understand and are directly conscious of what God is.

Sure, but I wanted to say that if people think solipsism is ineffective, then they should throw out the word "God" as well from their vocabulary, knowing how people have been using that word.

Edited 8 hours ago by Nemra

[Carl-Richard]

On 4.10.2026 at 10:53 PM, Willy Phallicus said:

You don't have an argument, you have a belief system about the word solipsism and its effectiveness which isn't coming off as objective.  You can't reasonably suggest that its problematic when applied to the reality of One mind inventing all other minds.

The solipsism word seems to be unique in that it works through a conflation that many people are just very inequipped to deal with (the distinction between personal minds and transpersonal Mind). For me personally, it wasn't before I had started my psychology degree that I started to get a firm grasp on the distinction. If you don't have that kind of background or haven't read similar stuff or other relevant fields like philosophy, it seems like the default is to not know the difference.

The word is culturally contaminated in the sense that in the most common cultural conception of it, it holds the personal mind to be the center, while the non-dual geeks hold the transpersonal Mind to be the center (and Absolute), and then when the non-dual noobie starts to learn about non-duality and then learns that the solipsism word is actually (allegedly) a way to describe non-duality, then he gets pulled into the culturally contaminated version while at the same time holding on to the notion that it's non-dual and Absolute, which is of course contradictory, but they don't know the difference so they don't know that.

The antidote is of course educating oneself about the difference, but this is not as easy as it sounds (evidenced by the countless threads expressing confusion on the topic; see the latest one on solipsism apparently contradicting veganism), and it might simply be better to not bother with that particular word.

 

On 5.10.2026 at 3:52 PM, Nemra said:

"God" is probably one of the most abused words. People use it to brainwash others.

So, we shouldn't use that word?

Many teachers and traditions (Buddhism) are careful with that word exactly because of its cultural connotations. But it seems to be less pernicious than solipsism, at least on this forum, because you arguably see less threads of people being very confused about what "God" actually means or trying very hard to grasp or logically prove it to themselves.

"God" is also a much more general concept than "solipsism" even in the general culture (it can be deistic, monotheistic, polytheistic, pantheistic, etc.), so you'll perhaps be more open and questioning rather than conclusive when learning about it in the context of non-duality, while solipsism in the general culture is reliably interpreted in a very specific way ("personal mind is the center"), so you're much more reliably forced towards one specific and in this case contradictory interpretation and to be more conclusive. You can of course use it to mean "Cosmic solipsism" if you know about that philosophical interpretation, but again, that requires actually knowing about that, and it doesn't seem to be meaningfully the case for most people.

Edited 4 hours ago by Carl-Richard