[what are the arguments against the materialist paradigm?]

@Leo Gura I posted a new revelation today, was it too stoopit to not delete, or?  

[Feeling as if im dreaming]

You’re awakening from the delusion, the dream that you don’t realize is happening.

[Feeling as if im dreaming]

@Delmo I said you’ve found the truth, mate!

[what are the arguments against the materialist paradigm?]

@Preetom Damn, where were you four years ago, mate?  ? The journey might have been a bit less rocky.

In 2014, I found an old leather bracelet laying in the dirt....

”None but ourselves can free our minds”  Robert Nesta Marley

May have been a sign, I took it as a challenge, fired my shrink and quit taking a shit ton of brain meds, cold turkey.

Your words have me giggly.

Thanks.

[Feeling as if im dreaming]

@Delmo now that you’re aware of that awareness, spend a bunch of time in stillness/meditation/whateveryoucallit, it may come back quicker than you think.

Many tiny moments of latching on to “it” (you) has the potential to you experiencing it 24/7, no?

[Feeling as if im dreaming]

When you feel those magnificent, blissful tears, try this....

Close your eyes and let that feeling of love well up in your chest until it feels like you’ll burst.  Wait just a bit longer......now let it flow out, all in one big whoosh.   But, don’t aim.

I call em love bombs, and I have faith that they do hit.

[Meditation can get you in trouble]

LOL, luckily I’m retired.....already lost five hours today!

[Unreliability of the Physical?]

“The connecting link was the Sativa strain you just smoked”.

[Unreliability of the Physical?]

Just received this tidbit from the collective, whatever “that” is.

”When you fully accept that “you” are 100% spiritual and zero physical, you will see the absurdity in having any faith, even belief, that ANY physical exists, at all”

This “came to me”, (without words, of course.....I did my best) during a nice moment of stillness, today.

Awareness IS the one truth, so who knows WTF the physical is.....or if the physical is physical.

Also, who the hell is it on the other end of that connecting link?

Thanks for everything.

 

[what are the arguments against the materialist paradigm?]

@Saumaya nicely worded.

[what are the arguments against the materialist paradigm?]

@Nahm my conscious consciousness of being conscious (gotta weed out likely ego trickery, been there) is not a thing, ok.

Sensation?  cool

Experience?  same

 

[what are the arguments against the materialist paradigm?]

@Viking to your question re: “consciousness/awareness can I be aware of it”?

I’m confused at your confusion.

[what are the arguments against the materialist paradigm?]

Consciousness/awareness?   

You ARE it.

 

[Feel like a pussy, self esteem hits an all time low.]

I’ve a most excellent friend who practiced emergency medicine for just a few years after graduation from doctor school, then left the medical field all together to follow his true passion.

He’s doing well these days, as a concert pianist in Germany and Switzerland!

Follow that passion.

[Meditation when it's hot and humid.]

In the “hot” tub at 80F.

Blissfully.

[Looking for small, easy, healthy high energy snacks]

Almonds, peanuts and avocados.

[Heavy Feeling]

A relaxed abdominal breath (diaphragmatic) as opposed to the more common chest breath wherein the intercostal and clavicular muscles are involved, and easily fatigued.....leading to that sensation?

(old respiratory therapist, I watch people breath and wonder how they have enough energy to do it “that way”)

[Brain sensations dangerous?]

@Viking eloquently worded, thanks for doing what I struggle (but I’m cool with) with....lol.

I’d like a refund on that English major.

Tearing down that shoddily-built mental construct of self is not ez, but pretty damn worth the effort.

 

 

[DAE have lower consciousness in the evening vs the morning? Why?]

1 hour ago, Martin123 said:

@isabel hey actually you often experience reintegration of your uncoscnious emotional baggage in your sleep.

You can often wake up and be mad, pissed or totally sad and depressed. That’s ok, it’s just a symptom of all the integration that’s already happened. There is no reason to worry about it or try to fix it at all. 

You can literally go from an enlightened master of the holy land of allumination blessing all humans with your immaculate presence in the evening, to a hurt five year old who demands his birthday cake to be chocolate instead of strawberry in the morning! It’s pretty fun

Ed Zachary.  “The Guest House”.....accept it, live it, love it.  Lol

[Real Spiritual Value of Marijuana]

Anything that quiets that damn monkey has tremendous SPIRITUAL value to me!!

[Should I even pursue enlightenment right now?]

Knowing what I do now, I’d *almost* do life all over again......in consciousness!

Way more fun.

[Feel like a pussy, self esteem hits an all time low.]

What is the field of your passion?

[Depression and Suicidal thoughts affecting an outlook on Life]

This 57 year young guy can vividly imagine a moment when you’ll look back at this and giggle, a little, OP.

Hang in there, you’re super far from alone.

 

Love.

[Heavy Feeling]

Do you enjoy a nice, full, relaxed belly breath, or do you breath like a typical adult human?

[Real Spiritual Value of Marijuana]

1 minute ago, Viking said:

personally when I use cannabis, even a little I become a retard and I have very bad short term memory.

This is what I’m referencing, but only a recent phenomena.  Four years of heavy “medical” use post retirement, and NOW, it’s becoming a slight deterrent to my enjoyment of super simple consciousness.

Damn crossbreeders.