Leo Gura

@Breakingthewall Dude, if they exist at all, they've been flying here for thousands of years.

@Breakingthewall A lot of UFO reports are probably fake or delusional. If aliens walk around, it would be very rare, not a yearly occurrence.

Who said they are walking around? What kind of strawman is this?

@EternalForest Okay, so by your logic if I have my name on a piece of paper that say I'm God, then I must be God, eh? And if 5 guys from MIT say that I'm God, I'm God, eh? Two can your game. Prove that you are not a corrupt scientist who is deluded. Just because you can dress up in a white lab coat does not mean your understanding of reality is worth anything. I can show you a video of me going to church. Does that make church valid? You couldn't even know your name was in a journal without memory. If you play me a piece of music to prove that you're a musician, I will tell you, What piece of music? I don't remember any music. Your diploma? I can print you a fake MIT diploma. I can pay someone to hack the MIT servers and put my name in the real diploma database. Your publications in journals? I can bribe a journal to publish my name. Your research paper? I can pay someone to write me a research paper and put my name on it. Your friends? You mean your deluded conspirators? You mean the guys you paid to say they are your friends? Your lab video? You mean an AI deep fake where you pasted your face on some other scientist? Your notebooks? How do we know you didn't just steal and copy someone else's notebooks? You know scientific concepts? Oh, great! Just like I know scientology concepts. You passed exams? Great! I passed exams is chakra quantum energy rebalancing. What if you're just mentally ill and think you went to school for science? Of course you'd deny it. You're too mentally ill to even admit it to yourself.

Rogan is not Yellow. He's Orange-Green. Especially the post-Covid Rogan.

@LambdaDelta Very good. Some serious consciousness.

Wagnerian

We need need a song titled: Confessions Of An Epistemic Scoundrel

I could make all sorts of amazing art and businesses, but my health makes large projects basically impossible. I have to be extremely conservative with my energy.

If I modified your DNA so that you grow two working dicks and two working vaginas, what gender would you be? Contemplate.

I have a trade deficit with my toilet.

@Something Funny Try this: Imagine an apple in your mind. Now clear your mind. Now imagine the apple again. Now contemplate: Is it the same apple if you imagined them identically both times? Your human mind is just a microcosm of God's Mind.

Correct

That's why I'm here. To tell you you're mistaken

It is that but also beyond that. Being is logical.

Sure, but we're talking about self-reflection and becoming conscious of more than just being an animal. An animal does not grasp Truth, even though it exists as it. A human in a vegetative state is not our goal here. Do not confuse vegetative animal state for Awakening or serious Consciousness. Animals are zombies.

Or is it?

He's a master at that kind of political correctness.

Just search the internet for whatever you're trying to find.

I don't recommend aiming for a psychotic break. You should just aim for higher mystical states, some of them will be so high they will go beyond sanity, but it will not be a dysfunctional psychotic break. There are states of consciousness which are negative harmful psychotic breaks and insanity, and then there is a positive kind of insanity, which is like trans-sanity, but it's not something negative. If demons are telling you to kill people, that's like negative insanity. But there are positive or neutral forms of insanity. Obviously you need to avoid the negative ones.

It depends. These are definitions we create to suit our needs. There are far-fetched versions of mysticism which are more about exploring the insane realms of consciousness rather than pure Awakening. That's mostly what I mean in the context of this thread. Sure, but you also dream a lot of other random weird stuff too. My psychedelic scarves are not silk.

Usually not. Insanity would be more radical and troublesome. If you had a proper psychotic break and call that dark night then maybe. That dark night label could be attached to many different states of consciousness, so be careful assuming people apply it to the same state.

Those thought-experiments assume a lot of wrong materialist ontology and limited notions of identity. Sameness and difference is a matter of imagination, not rigid givens. What makes experience "you" is that it's always happening inside you. Any experience that's happening is you by definition. If tomorrow God dreamed that you are kangaroo, that would be you too, just a new form of you. So in this sense YOU are always the same YOU. YOU is an Absolute. That's what mystics do. That's the whole point of mystical practices and trainings. Silk. I don't want everyone copying me so I won't share that for now. Everything is a mystical experience. You need to throw out this bad frame that some things are mystical and some are not.

Not really. Object permanence is a kind of illusion which happens from highly coherent dreaming. Think of a video game. Every time you turn it on, a coherent world appears. If you turn it off it disappears. Then it appears again when you turn it back on. The game world is not really permanent, but it appears consistently when you turn it on/off. That's what's happening. Or, rather, God is even imagining that lapses in consciousness happened to you. If God did not imagine your past, there would be no lapses in consciousness. So even lapses in consciousness are imaginary. It's the same version if God imagines it's continuous. God is in control of what sameness means. Sameness is a matter of perspective. It's worth exploring to understand how Consciousness works. But it's also dangerous. So there's a trade-off to exploration. You might sail off the edge of the Earth. Depends on what level you want to look at it from. You could say a broken brain creates demons. But in a deeper sense a "broken brain" is just a way of saying that God is dreaming reality in a looser way. It's unclear how far you can push the dream. This depends on things like genetic talents, your skill, your training, your intelligence, your level of consciousness, etc. Well, theoretically highly spiritually advanced mystics are able to have some siddhis. How far this goes is unclear to me.