Inliytened1

And did you?

That's not the point. The question is really can you stomach doing something completely against your worldview. And if you were forced to how could you react.

@Leo Gura this is an interesting philosophical question though. What if you were absolutely forced to? How would you turn it into a positive? These questions that we do not want to face- those are the ones that make or break us. So its not about this particular question.

My sentiments exactly.

What would be the need? The point was i paid no attention at your age and cheated on the exam by looking at someone else's answers. At your age you are contemplating reality. Now..Now I am beyond academia. Just funny how life unfolds. It doesn't mean past philosophers don't interest me they do. But only for what they obtained...which can be transcended.

Yeah its funny. I cheated on my final exam in Philosophy class in college. My major was business but I had a philosophy class. If I could go back there now I would tell Kant and Descartes to take a dump.

But you can know it. I have this fantasy about you that you have been through university philosophy. For some reason I imagine you as the young guy who has gone through all the academia and all the philosophy classes and yet has gone beyond in his own mind. And that is you whether you sat through the classes or not. You are my hero for being interested in reality at such a young age. Im 55. But..you can know it. You just have to be in a different state of consciousness.

I understand what you are saying. But its a very Buddhist approach. I am simply offering that you can grasp reality at the most highest levels- but it requires transcending the self. Of course no one could say the Absolute Truth. When that is reached there are none to talk to or explain it too. I get it. But what I'm pointing to goes beyond traditional Buddhism and no self.

And I'm telling you that's wrong. Not that its Being it is. But its knowing as Being. Requires awakening.

Yeah but just don't feel like you can't know reality. You can. It's not just not going to be at the level of concept.

A lot of his masterpieces go unnoticed because most of the population cannot appreciate it. His episode "States of Consciousness is everything" is a Masterpiece.

Could it become Conscious is what your asking. The question is flawed. Is your mother Conscious? Or is it just You.

But you know it just not at the level of duality. For example - omniscience isn't knowing in the traditional sense.

Most don't.

It doesn't matter what you can or cannot prove against Trump. That's not what its about. I was on his side when the Biden administration failed. And I want everyone on this forum to hear this from me. He has turned out to be a complete and utter failure. He's lied about everything. Which of course, isn't anything new. But he does it without any style..which makes it worse than Biden. Everything he promised has failed to materialize. So dude get lost with this crap. The guy needs to be voted out as soon as possible. He doesn't even know whether he is coming or going anymore. He made very bad decisions and the economy for the middle class has gotten worse than ever before. All the guy cares about is tearing apart the east wing or whatever, of the White house. Get him out and get him out quick.

@thierry God.

Oh yes right. The answer is you cannot know it. 😀 quite irrational.

@Never_give_up And I broke it down to you..thats gonna sound foreign to you and that's fine. But use tools mentioned here to help you. Mysticism is not in knowing but in not knowing. So use meditation/psychedelics to really get to the bottom of reality. Ultimately concepts can only take you so far. They will build you a framework from which to do your spiritual work. But first if you are stuck or locked in any type of paradigm you must release that. You must be open to the notion that literally anything is possible

Nasty boy

You can become it if your Consciousness shifts to the level of Being only. Raw Being. That is awakening. But from a finite perspective you can only look at it from various angles. The finite cannot grasp Infinity itself so it will only be able to know that it is ungraspable. But it can be grasped just as it itself.

OK it seemed like it might come up in the latter episodes - wasn't sure how much you would touch on it here.

Well that is what I am asking. Not necessarily the why but is there a spiritual element here at work. I think so.

But isn't it also good to study this as well...we haven't found a way to overcome paralysis in general (in most spinal injuries that are a complete break) so perhaps a mystical approach could work down the line. I just wanna examine this because it could indicate higher levels of consciousness and ways to break through physical paralysis as well. And it could also be a spiritual experience.

@Leo Gura nice way to dodge the question about sanity and intelligence beyond human. I guess let's wait for part 2. But check your understanding of insanity really hard. And also what a higher intelligence would be. Not an Infinite one but a higher finite one.

And that's not mystical?