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I don't understand the part where he says that The Infinite cannot know the finite, and that only the finite can know the finite.... Why would that be the case?

I am watching this video below with Daniel Schmachtenberger. At 36:00 he begins talking about Consciousness. At some points he says: What do you guys think about his opinion?

@Mason Riggle There are many more benefits to realizing and embodying that free will is an illusion except from the judgement component. What i've found is that now i am a LOT more liberated and less concerned when i talk to somebody or when i practicing something. I don't try to control anything. I just let things happen without any resistance and this is very freeing and beautiful when you no longer try to have agency over your actions and thoughts. It liberates you from a lot of anxiety and turmoil.

@kinesin Yes..that's a good point! My expectations are not realistic enough maybe.

@KaRzual Basically 8 months ago i had a trip that went horribly horribly horribly wrong. I mixed many LSA caps with Syrian rue and got a pretty unexpected strong Reaction. For two days straight i couldn't sleep and it felt like i was high permanently. This high wasn't though like a dopamine rush or something pleasurable. My perception had just shifted. It is like i was permanently enlightned (maybe i was) BUT after a certain point i didn't like it. I wanted things to be as they used to be before. At the beginning , this shift in perception was very fine to my ego. It felt like an accomplishment. That i finally made the permanent breakthrough i was looking for. But after 48 hours and lil to no sleep i began experiencng a Deep Existential Terror. An existential Terror that i never experienced before as i was grasping the radical consequences of Non-duality. I began feeling very nihilistic at times like nothing mattered. Whatever i decided to do seemed like a good idea. Dying seemed like a good idea. What i found was that this is death. I am already dead. When i grasped that i am already Dead, afterwards Everything seemed like a good idea. All the social constraints that i had on myself didn't matter anymore. I was happy with whatever happening to my body. I just didn't care. At this point i slowly began losing my mind. Insanity was a good way to escape from the unbearable truths that i was confronted. After a certain point i didn't like what non-duality was showing me. On one hand it was Beautiful but on the other hand it wasn't so good and so pleasant for my ego. I just wanted things to be as they were before. To keep it short. After all this, my behavior changed dramatically. I began shouting at friends, doing crazy sh*t that was out of my character (i didn't try to harm anyone though). I just didn't care about anything. When my mind began deteriorating i couldn't find any difference between acting normal vs insane. As i said before, Everything seemed like a good idea at this point. Which is very crazy i know but from a certain perspective it's true also. This lack of discernment and care lead to a very unusual behavior that eventually lead to my arrest and i was sent to a mental hospital. I was forced to stay for 3 weeks there. I was also forced to take medications that i DIDN'T want to take which was one of the worst things that could ever happen to me. These 3 weeks there were extremely difficult for many many different reasons. At one point (in the very beginning) i was even strapped to a bed which was like torture for me. Anyways the stay in the mental asylym wasn't a walk in the park. I had to be around people who i didn't want to be around. Also I saw some pretty disturbing things in there.. A man who was in the same room with me was crying every day and talking things out before going to sleep. It was a pretty sad situation. Most people are never exposed to situations so sad and tragic. I coudn't use the internet, Cellphones were NOT allowed. It was basically like a prison. All i could do is walking, do some exercise, take showers and read. The times wasn't passing. I didn't have many things to do. I couldn't even be near Nature, which was the biggest torture for me. Imagine that for 3 weeks you are limited to your house without any access outdoors. Even after 3 weeks i didn't get used to it. Every day was like psychological torture. I wanted to stay in bed for as long as i could so the time would pass easier. Some other patients also stayed in bed for like 12-14 hours a day because that was their only escape. After i was released and went home, things didn't get much better. Why? Because my body was kinda dependent on the medications while all i wanted was the medications out of my life since i was very scared of the potential consquences & i didn't enjoy at all the way they made me feel. Moreover I couldn't quit cold-turkey because of potential heart implications. It was a struggle to quit these terrible terrible drugs. After a month of cutting down the dosages i managed to quit safely. These drugs were so scary that while i was on them, i began experiencing memory losses and speech problems. That was super scary and left me even more depressed. My memory was always on point so you can imagine that this wasn't fun to experience at all. While i was on these medications i felt very weird. Like a zombie. Like a dead souless man. I couldn't feel anything deeply. But there was a mild depression on the background always. When i stopped taking them, it took me like 2 weeks to feel normal again and the worst withdrawl i felt was a very deep and sudden depression. I am talking about real depression. (Mind you i never experienced real depression before, i am always in quite a good mood). For the 1st time in my life i experienced what a true depression felt like. Nothing could make me happy and everything seemed pathetic and pointless. I was crying almost every day. I couldn't even watch a video on YouTube for 5 minutes straights. Didn't have the motivation to do it. Nonetheless now i feel very good. It took me 3 months to fully recover and get my sh*t together. There was a lot of regret, shame, emotional trauma and etc because all of the stupid sh*t i did. I lost friends, i gained a ton of weight back & all of my progress with meditation, life purpose and etc was abruptly stopped and i had to kinda start all over again. This hurt a lot because before this trip i was in the best phase of my life ever. I was firing on all cylinders. And one stupid mistake cost me so much that it's was not even funny. I am still shocked how a single mistake can cost you almost everything. It's insane. Not even in a hundreds years i thought something like this could happen to me. I am still angry at myself that i allowed such a stupid thing to happen. It's ridiculous how a 'lil' mistake can lead to months and months of misery and pain. Thankfully i don't experience any serious lingering effects from all this that happened. But still it's painful because i lost friends, i lost months from my life, i had to re-start many healthy habits and i suffered tremendously like i never did before. This was by far the worst phase of my life. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy, Especially the depression caused by stopping the medications was the worst. What i wrote here is just a tiny fraction of all the misery i endured. It was a stupid mistake and i payed very dearly for this stupidity. Noways i am much more cautious and wise.

Life Sucks. End of story.

I recently heard a talk about the Fine-Tune arguement. Some people claim that things don't happen for a reason. Because noone threw the dice. There were just infinite random throw of the dice that lead to more connectedness, more connected and here we are. Because of mathematics after so many throws of the dice it was inevitable that there would be a universe with intelligent conscious beings. And we find after the fact when in reality there was no reason at all. When we look backwards we find reasons but we can't find any reason in the beginning. Personally i don't think this is true. I beleve everything was very deliberate and God threw the dices with a deliberate purpose. Any opinions? How do you reconcile all this?

I like a lot this answer that ForestLuv gave me in an earlier post that fits nicely with this topic

@RedLine No..but i believe that God created by mouth, my anus, my hands & etc for a very specific reason. They serve a biological function. God is not an idiot. 'He' knows what he is doing.

@Mason Riggle Yes..

@Mason Riggle Reality is Love doesn't explain much though..

@Eternal Unity Basically why God wanted it this way and not some other way. Why God wanted me to use the anus to go to the bathroom, why it wanted me to use the mouth to eat and etc. Was it just randomness that lead to this amazing organization of the universe? Or Is there no reason whatsoever behind it? Is there a reason why the Earth is this way and not some other way?

@Someone here I hope so..

@Leo Gura Can we say that God is Infinite Intelligence also?? I've heard a non-dual discussion from a writer here is in Greece who talks about these topics. Basically his arguement was that ''Intelligence and Random Possible Organization is one and the same. Because of Infinity there were Infinite throws of the dice and it was INEVITABLE with Mathematical Precision that all these infinite dices would lead to more connectednesss and more connectedness''. He also said What's your take on all of that?? This doesn't sound like Infinite intelligence to me. On one hand he says that there is Intelligence but on the other hand he says that there is randomness. Be he negates both at the same time. Here is the discussion for everyone who understand greek.

@flowboy Quitting caffeine wasn't so hard for my system. Maybe because i was fasting also. I don't know. But after 3 days of no caffeine i feel back to 'normal'. I had quit caffeine for like 2 weeks. But i got heavily influenced by Dave Asprey and began drinking again. Lol. Now i want to quit again.

I am very confused regarding coffee and caffeine in general. Many people love coffee and praise it for its health benefits like the polyphenols . Dave Asprey even says: "f*ck kale, coffee should be at the top of the pyramid regarding superFoods". From my personal experience i don't like to drink a lot of coffee because it makes me physically dependent on it and i feel it robbs my of my energy levels. I have experimented twice to quite coffee/caffeine in the last year. I quit coffee for 4 months and i was feeling great. Tons of Energy. No problems whatsoever. Then i got back into drinking coffee everyday and it became a habit (unfortunately) for many months. Then the last 10-11 days i quit coffee/caffeine again and i had even more energy than ever before (after few days). Then yesterday i got heavily influenced by Dave Asprey and decided to drink one cup of coffee today. I don't know if i did the right thing. I am afraid of coffee because i like it to much to be honest. I can restrain myself and drink only two cups a day though. Anyways after the 1st cup (50mg of caffeine) i wanted another one but i decided to do the emotional difficult thing and not drink another one. Now i am considering whether i should consume coffee/caffeine for some days of the month for the supposed health benefits that everyone talks about or whether should i ditch it alltogether? Can someone give me some solid advice and information based on research and personal experience? -Thank you!!

@4201 Yes i agree. Many people justify their coffee use (sometimes abuse) because it somewhat helps them be more productive. But what i've found is that this is an illusion. I have more energy when i am caffeine free.

@vladorion Very very good points!!

Lately i haven't been eating bread that much. But when i eat large quantities of bread, i notice that the next day i feel some sort of blockage in my intestinal organs.. It is super weird. Yesterday i ate a lot of white bread (>200g) and then the next day i was feeling quite uncomfortable just below the belly button. It was a feeling of something being stuck there... Even after 16 hours of eating i still felt that blockage sensation. Also i didn't defecate that day. I think the bread is responsible. Why is that happening? Can someone give me an explanation? - Thank you!

Thank you all for the replies so far but.. still i feel like my question hasn't been answered to the extent that i wished for.. I still don't get it why some kids for example make fun of other kids. I've noticed that some other kids never do this. They never made fun of other kids. How is that explained? Even as a kid it wasn't fun for me to ridicule others. I found it disgusting. Which it is.

@King Merk True.

I recently stumbled upon this guy, Paul Saladino. He seems quite a well-spoken and intelligent dude who promotes a carnivore diet as far as i'm concerned. He is very controversial going against many of the preconceived notions we have about nutrition. He goes against many of the things i have been taught by other health experts... I really don't know what to make of his content. I haven't watched many of his videos. And even if i do i am not an expert on nutrition. Personally i am not a fan of carnivore. I prefer fruits and vegetables. But i care mostly about what is true so i am open to new ideas. What is your opinion about him?

@Consilience Yes i agree with what you said. Life is a mixture of immense suffering and joy. There is always that Peace in the background, but sometimes the dream of life can become so unbearable that you just want a way out. I understand that suffering and pain are necessary but sometimes i wish they didn't exist to such a Radical degree. The suffering and pain can become so extreme that it's not even funny. Most people i know haven't truly suffered yet. I thought i had suffered in my life. But nope. The last 8 months i was introduced to a whole new level of suffering that shoock me to my core. I am still in awe of what happened. I never expected that such level of extreme suffering could ever exist. Now thankfully i am back to normal and quite happy most of the time. But still it's like i have been traumatized by what i experienced. I will never be the same now knowing that this ridiculous level of suffering exists. And ofcourse now i have a LOT more compassion for people who suffer from depression, ptsd and etc.

@Shin I think it is appropriate to label life ''it sucks''. Since it is full of misery, injustice, survival struggles etc. Living on this planet is not a walk in the park. Life can become so unbearable at times that it's not even funny. I appreciate how profound life is but also i recognize all the brutal uncomfortable truths that noone wants to look closely. All the evil and devilry that goes on this planet. All the immense suffering that most people face. All the illnesses, pain, emotional & physical torture etc. I don't mind giving negative connotations to things i don't like. I don't like being poor or being in pain. Nobody does.

@Zeroguy Maybe it is awesome to you at this moment. But let's see how you will view life when you get old, suffer from illnesses or other life difficulties.