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Thank you! Yeah. I am not ready to eat shrooms, particularly ones I have found in the wild. Need to do more research for sure. Thank you for your input! Tripping for weeks?! That is intense! I could see that being useful for a retreat

Another image I have from my spiritual hike in mountains: Of course this is all for educational purposes. Thank you!

Thanks Thanks! The aloness felt with solipsism was realizing I am imagining all bubbles and I only experience myself. The mistake I made was confusing myself for the bubble, but the bubble is all I ever have. I gotta see it from the sponge perspective. But it seems difficult to do that when we will always be trapped in our own rooms or bubbles in consciousness. But I realize it is the same room or space looking out. It is Nothing. Damn. At first I was thinking of past lives, but I realize I cannot verify at the moment if past lives are true. Then I realized that I have killed many ants, bugs, etc. growing up. But then I realize from God POV, I kill every day and heal everyday. What a monster and saint God can be lol.

I will take the red pill of Truth! I am tired of living a lie. I’ve been fed the blue pill from the social matrix my whole life. It is mind blowing the lengths God goes to delude itself that it isn’t God, but I guess that is what makes a mindgasm out of awakening.

I remember Leo had a video about What is Perception where he had the sponge analogy that God is the whole sponge and all of us egos are each bubble in the sponge. And each bubble represents this perception bubble of perception and direct experience that you have here. But then Leo stated in God Realization episode that there is only one bubble. I wonder, why aren’t there other bubbles? Couldn’t there be other bubbles that are outside of my direct experience? I know I am imagining other bubbles right now, but couldn’t they still exist? What is limiting the universe to one bubble? I am still contemplating this stuff cause it blows my mind every day. I understand that this bubble that this ego identifies with is what exists. The ego will never experience another bubble but the one you are in now, but does that really mean that your parents aren’t having an experience of their own bubble reality? Even though I don’t experience other dream characters bubbles but my own, I don’t conclude that this perceptual bubble that I identify with is the only bubble that exists. There are infinite other bubbles in the universe that are all me as God right? All I have ever experienced is my bubble, but does that really mean that I can conclude my bubble only exists? I say my and I cause it is hard to communicate without self-referential thought. What is stopping or limiting infinity to one bubble and not infinity bubbles. In the sponge analogy, the sponge is the one bubble that contains infinite bubbles. If this is the case, then solipsism isn’t true in the way that is commonly thought. There isn’t one ego in the world, there are many egos and one God. edit: I also realize that all “other” bubbles I am imagining are always experienced or rather imagined in this one bubble that I call “mine” and “human.” But that doesn’t mean that a dog doesn’t have its own bubble right? A dog isn’t an NPC like on a single player game like Skyrim, but rather a multiplayer game? Or shared dream?

Hello fellow Actualizers. I know, I know. Another solipsism thread; however, I felt called to make a post the specifically addresses Solipsism as a part of the spiritual process of God-Realization based on my own experiences with being in the solipsism phase. Solipsism has been a huge obstacle for me (and I also suspect it has been an issue with "other" "seekers" as well) and I think it still is for some part. Is solipsism a trap on the spiritual journey or a feature of it? I will give you my take on solipsism and enlightenment. I will post my objections and answers, and I will post my questions are in the conclusion section. This is my understanding based on my experiences thus far. Introduction In my own experience, I have realized that Consciousness is all there is and there is nothing outside of direct experience and it is completely infinite. Since the ego is an illusion, there are no "others" because there is also no-self. The question then arises if there are "other" consciousnesses or "other" experiences? But deeper contemplation reveals that Consciousness is completely one and ultimately alone, imagining other consciousnesses, imagining a self, and imagining others. Consciousness is in avidya or ignorance with identifying itself as the dream character instead of realizing it is the entire dream experience. Misconceptions of Solipsism There are many misconceptions and stigmas with solipsism. A lot of people think that solipsism is "bad" that being completely alone is "bad." But these are all labels and judgments onto what actually is. Togetherness and aloneness are one in that since consciousness is one, it is either alone nor is it together. In the relative sense, we are all alone together and realizing that, you go full-circle, which can help you cope with nihilism and solipsism. One of the misconceptions and assumptions I notice is that people make a worldview out of solipsism as being the ego as the only thing that exists and everything else is imagination. This is false if you consider the dream analogy. When you are in a dream, you think you are the character in the dream. But when you take the red pill (a psychedelic), you awaken from the illusion that you are no longer a part of something, but that you are everything. You are the entire dream talking with yourself, ultimately alone. But the misconception is to think that being alone on your own little solipsistic island is a bad thing. When solipsism goes full-circle, you realize that there is no island, but that there is a world. You are not cut off from the world alone, you are everything which completely shatters the duality between aloneness and togetherness. You are literally everything and all is occurring in this eternity of a moment is direct experience interacting with itself and you eventually also drop the idea of solipsism. When you are literally present in this experience right now, you realize the present moment has no "others." Contemplate exactly what is meant by "other" and "yourself." Since direct experience is one, there are no other direct experiences now. All that has been going on is direct experience. Coping with Solipsism How do we get off the solipsistic island? By realizing that the island is the mind's own creation to try to ground itself into something that cannot be grounded. Here i will distinguish between true and false solipsism, where false solipsism sees itself on an island completely alone and isolated from the world (because this solipsism is still highly egotistical). Whereas true solipsism realizing that since the ego is an illusion, that means that all "others" are the same as Myself as Consciousness. It is important to learn to go "further" as Jed McKenna stated. Also realize that any suffering with solipsism is another worldview and identity the ego is trying to latch onto. The ego may eventually let go of the realism identity and adopt the spiritual ego identity of solipsism. Eventually, the solipsism identity must be dropped and deconstructed. This is a part of what it means to go meta. Leo gave great examples of going beyond skepticism and all theories and worldviews. Solipsism in the sense of being the only ego is a theory, but it is true in the sense of being the Self or Consciousness that only exists. There are many meanings and interpretations for how your mind constructs reality. Notice this. Notice all the interpretations and reframe solipsism as being total freedom than as being a prisoner to yourself forever. Can you see how going through solipsism and going meta on it is total freedom? Total freedom is awakening from all illusions of attachment and identification with the self. Objections: Prior to experiences of "solipsism" as being "true" or direct experience as being all there is with no others, it is very radical to accept complete aloneness as God. The mistake with God or Consciousness is that people think it is some "mystical" realm that you access, but isn't it just this moment right here with a higher recontextualization of this moment? Q: Some of the objections I have had about solipsism have included that my dog believes in an external reality. My dog right now is outside my door barking to get my attention. The dog has an idea of object permanence and external reality, so how can I be a fool in denying that my dog exists independently of me? A: Consider that consciousness or direct experience is the foundation of everything and is everything that exists. You imagine your dog, yourself, and you experience sounds that you associate with the concept "dog" but a dog is a certain concept and experience within Consciousness. What this means is that when you were born, the entire universe was born and when you die, the universe dies. But then again, what is infinite has no birth or death in the absolute sense. Q: Okay I get how I can only know that I exist, but that does not mean that there are no other experiences or consciousnesses taken place behind the scenes right? Just because I don't observe something does not mean it doesn't exist right? A: Well what does it mean for something to exist? What is existence if there is no appearances? All we have are appearances/experiences occurring right now. You exist as the bubble of perception/appearance/experience/whatever you wanna call it; however realize that I call it a bubble, but true infinity has no shape. Notice what behind the scenes really is. It is existing as nothing in this moment right now. Behind the scenes is always imagined here and now by the mind. Observation is existence. If you cannot observe to exist, then imagine a universe that has no experience, perception or appearance. What is the difference between a universe without subjectivity or experience vs. a non-existent universe? Notice that non-existence is a concept that exists now in experience now. But if there is no experience/perception/appearance, then what could you really mean by existence if everything that you say has existed has taken place within Direct Experience? Q: So if we both close our eyes and I shoot you with a gun, you won't die? A: Well think about it like a first-person shooter video game. In a video game, there is no external reality, but there is only the appearance or illusion of one. In a video game, I can turn my character away from another and I can still get shot in the back even though I never perceived the shooter. Since consciousness imagines everything including external reality and object permanence, there is no difference between reality and imagination. These were some of the objections I had and that I think many others have had. Conclusion How do you understand solipsism? How have you coped with solipsism? What is your take on what I have stated? Do you agree/disagree? What is the difference between solipsism and enlightenment? Is solipsism a bug or a feature?

But also realize that there is nothing wrong with being alone. At a deeper level it is still you talking to yourself. Solipsism can be freeing in a way that you realize that you don’t need to create the illusion of others to feel connected and that there is nothing wrong with being alone. Madness is being lost in duality and separation of thinking you need “others” is it not?

Be nice to have a video that addresses solipsism more in-depth on the spiritual journey. Solipsism is something I think many seekers will encounter on their journeys. Solipsism has stumped me on my journey for sure. It would be a nice sequel to Understanding and Coping with Nihilism. Thank you!

I answered yes because the question already assumes realism to be true in that the question assumes a tree and a forest exist without being seen. If this is true, then a sound can exist without being heard.

Thank you! Determinism seems interesting. I guess it really depends on how you frame it! I think this is a great scene from the movie Knowing! This is one of the reasons why I framed the question around determinism than free will. I am curious that since Life is Meaningless, then there is no purpose. If there is no purpose or meaning, then is there any order to anything? Yeah knowledge is an illusion in the same way I think free will is an illusion, which is that knowing implies an ego who knows. It implies a knower. It seems like that reality is ordered in such a way that it allows for some randomness in it. What is really order without chaos?

I have been contemplating a lot recently more than meditation. I personally find it easier to contemplate than meditate, and I find more value in contemplating than meditating. I have been contemplating solipsism, thoughts, origin of thoughts, time, free will, determinism, and randomness recently. The first video of Actualized.org's that I ever watched was "Free Will vs. Determinism." I rewatched that video and it seems that the whole free will vs. determinism debate is not as simple as it seems. Both of sides have their issues, and I felt that Leo came from a deterministic point of view in that video. After watching Leo's later videos "Brains do not exist," "Consciousness," etc. I wonder if his stance has changed on the issue. Here are some of the strengths and limitations of each of the theories that I have noticed: Determinism I realized that since time is an illusion and materialism is an illusion, that also means that determinism is also an illusion since determinism seems to assume that the Newtonian clockwork universe paradigm is true. The thing determinism gets correct is that there is an order to reality. However, what I think it gets wrong is that it assumes that everything can be predicted if we know the causes behind it (e.g., the first domino will knock down the second one, etc.). Reality is more complex than this linear cause and effect process. Determinism may exist in the relative domain, but may not be true in the absolute sense. Free Will Free will is an illusion only because it assumes that the ego is the one in control. In the Absolute sense, I have realized that God, the no-self, has free will. However, free will seems to completely lose its meaning if there is no thing that is controlling something else, hence a duality between a subject controlling an object. Randomness or Spontaneity Randomness or spontaneity has been something of interest in my contemplations. When thinking about what thoughts are, their nature, and origin, I cannot help but notice that thoughts appear out of complete nowhere and are sometimes completely random and out of the blue. Sometimes, I will sit in my room and meditate and I will have thoughts come to me completely randomly, out of the blue, with no external cause. I also noticed that memories and events that we may have forgotten can come back to us in a seemingly spontaneous manner. What randomness theory gets right seems to be that "things just happen" and appear spontaneously with no cause and effect. What randomness theory seems to get wrong is that it assumes that everything in the universe is random and up to chance. However, it seems to me that everything in the universe is absolutely ordered in the sense that what appears to be "chaos" or "randomness" is ordered and structured at a higher level of consciousness. Maybe the thoughts that appear to be random are completely ordered or deterministic at a higher level? Conclusion All in all, I think all the theories seem to contain slivers of truth to them. Thoughts happen spontaneously the relative level, but they are highly ordered at the Absolute level. Determinism seems to assume in a clockwork universe. If reality is a giant mind, then free will seems to be true at the absolute level but not at the relative level, since the ego is a mirage (e.g., The mind of God can think and imagine anything it wants, but the human mind cannot). What do you all think? Thank you! “ My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. ” --- Ursula K. Le Guin

It’s not about believing. Belief is egos way of clinging to a sense of reality and ideology, to preserve itself. You should doubt everything and contemplate all teachings until you find them to be true or not. Solipsism is this reality. There is only consciousness and nothing is outside of it. Notice that deeply and be present in this moment. It’s like a dream or a video game. All the characters and yourself are programmed to identify with the content of the dream. But in reality it’s all made out of mind stuff and of the same substance. Therefore it’s all one. There are no other separate minds from yours. You are talking to yourself in life the same way you do in your dreams each night. Consider that there is no boundary between dream and reality. Keep questioning this stuff as I am. It’s not about belief. Notice that I and you is all imagined content in the dream. There is no dreamer but rather only dream. Recontextualize your existence as headless. Lose your head and realize you are the entire universe experiencing itself through a human form while also realizing that the entire world is also you.

Here’s my take. Belief is a matter of conviction of whether you are convinced something is true or false. But beliefs go deeper in that some beliefs don’t care about truth and are all about promoting survival, which may lead to faith. Trust is willingness to be vulnerable to a situation or person out of a deep feeling or intuition that the person will honor their word. Faith is similar trust and hope and belief in that it is a belief and hope in something beyond the evidence given. Faith is not a sign of weakness but is a strength. Faith is willingness to believe and hope even if all the logic and evidence do not ignite the path. You use element of faith every day of your life because faith is a dimension of life. Everything revolves around faith or rather it all works cause of faith. “when the mob, the press, and the whole world tell you to move, you plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth and say no! You move!” - Captain America

It’s a paradox. To live a meaningful life, you also need to realize the meaningless of life. In the same way that you don’t know what true freedom is until you have it taken away like Frankl did. Frankl’s meaning and freedom came from meaninglessness and imprisonment. For you cannot fully understand one without context of the other. Its not about one perspective of nihilism vs self-actualization. They are both true and there is no problem with that. Meaning comes from meaninglessness. You are free to construct any meaning you want when you realize nihilism is true. If you think God creates the meaning for you, then you aren’t really free to create your own meaning unless you deconstruct beliefs and identities of your old self. You are constructing reality right now. Enjoy it.

I used to believe in objective morality for the longest time in my life. But after studying philosophy and many cultures, what is right and wrong is completely relative. If you look at history, Moral Absolutism or Objectivism was used to justify all sorts of violence. Look at Japanese Americans 1942 or War in Vietnam or The Genocide of Native Americans. All of that came from a Moral Absolutist perspective of that “we are right and they are wrong so we must change their culture and their beliefs cause ours is correct.” Absolutism leads to ethnocentrism naturally because if you think there are right answers to moral questions which are based on cultural perspectives, then you are advocating that some cultures are better or worse than others. But that notion is relative to you and your cultural standards. There is nothing logical about survival or morality. Morality is useful for survival, but that doesn’t mean you can find the correct answers out in the universe. You stated yourself that morality is a mental concept and social construction. If that is true, then the answers to moral questions are always relative to that. The abortion and gun arguments make it clear that relativism is the case even when we agree, relativism is still the case, but it’s confused for objectivism. It all depends on what you value. If you value the rights of a fetus, then abortion is bad. If you value rights of adult humans to have freedom to make their own choices, then right to abortion is good. Who is right? Nobody. It is perspective. You gotta look at where you are drawing these lines in reality and notice that all lines are relative. See my post on relativism and continue to study relativism. Relativism accounts for multiple perspectives and considers others cultures whereas absolutism demonizes cultural practices. This video also made me question and deconstruct my absolutism

This is for people to share their own experiences in their process of Spiritual Autolysis, which is a way to annihilate the ego. Enlightenment is all about Truth-realization, by becoming less false and less full of shit. If you negate all that is false, only truth remains. For example: “all belief systems are just the stories we create in order to deal with the void. Ego abhors a vacuum, so everybody’s scrambling to create the illusion of something where there’s nothing. Belief systems are simply the devices we use to explain away the unthinkable horror of no-self.” ― Jed McKenna, Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing In case you don't know, this is how you do Spiritual Autolysis: “Listen! Here’s all you need to know to become enlightened: Sit down, shut up, and ask yourself what’s true until you know. That’s it. That’s the whole deal; a complete teaching of enlightenment, a complete practice. If you ever have any questions or problems—no matter what the question or problem is—the answer is always exactly the same: Sit down, shut up, and ask yourself what’s true until you know. In other words, go jump off a cliff. Don’t go near the cliff and contemplate jumping off. Don’t read a book about jumping off. Don’t study the art and science of jumping off. Don’t join a support group for jumping off. Don’t write poems about jumping off. Don’t kiss the ass of someone else who jumped off. Just jump.” ― Jed McKenna, Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing So here's how this process works. Write down what you know for certain, and then tackle that statement and realize that everything you write is false. All thoughts, words, beliefs, and concepts are full of shit. Here's my example: "What is true? What do I know for certain?" 1. I know that I am typing right now. - How do I know that I am typing right now? What is the I? What is typing? The assumption is that my senses are based in reality. How do I know that I am actually typing on Actualized.org? I do not know. I believe!! 2. I am a human being on planet earth that is rotating around a sun. - I assume that I am a human being on an earth that goes around the sun. What is a planet? What is a human? Sun? Rotation? These are all beliefs that I have never verified. If I dream that I am a butterfly, does that mean that I am a butterfly or am I just a butterfly dreaming that it is a human, or neither? 3. I am NOT dreaming right now - How do I know this? Since I am so convinced in my dreams that when I wake up, I see its absurd, why am I falling into the same trap when I "wake up?" How do I know that what we call the "real world" is just but another dream? 4. The Universe Started at the Big Bang - Is this really knowledge or is this a belief? This is a belief. I believed the mainstream cultural story of creation. Big Bang is basically the scientists' God. Science is making the same flaw as religious folks, and yet, I fell into this trap. How gullible of me. The Truth is that the origin is unknown, but that assumes reality has an origin, which cannot be known either, or can it? - Claiming that knowledge is impossible is foolish because there is no way you can know if knowledge is impossible. If you knew that knowledge is impossible, then that would mean that the statement is false because knowledge is possible. If it is true that knowledge of anything is impossible, there is no way for you to know if it is or isn't. This is still the ego trying to grab hold of the tiller. Some thing is always assumed and taken on faith from that which all other explanations are based. 5. I have a brain that allows me to experience - I don't know this either. I have never seen my own brain. Based on my memory, which may be true or false, I have seen another person's brain. But I have never seen my own brain. I assume I have a brain and that experience is rendered by it. How do I know that the object of a brain that I see on the table is what "my brain" is? A brain is seeing a brain according to this logic, but since the brain interprets reality, how do we know that our perceptions have any basis in reality. - This whole materialistic proposition assumes that consciousness is objectified in a brain. If this is the case, you cannot know anything. Even if it isn't the case, you cannot know either. I know it sounds like I am claiming that knowledge is impossible, hence my fallacy from above, but I am saying that if you do not experience reality directly, how can you know that your sense of reality is reality? I mean after all, according to this materialistic view, everything is interpreted by electrochemical receptors and neurons firing in the brain that interpret reality. But if you look for neurons or brains in this experience now, you will realize that in your experience, you never experienced neurons or brains. You only believe them, and do not actually know them. If this is a dream, how can we trust anything to be real? All authority figures are agents in the matrix that prevent us from reflecting inward. So this is my example of Spiritual Autolysis. I came to the conclusion that we don't really know anything, and this includes that I don't know if we can know anything. Anything that is believed to exist, cannot be known to exist. This process is basically like Cogito Ergo Sum. The only thing you really know is that you exist. That's it. Anything else is concept and imagination. I would like to see some of your threads on how you all tackle Spiritual Autolysis (I assume there are other people who will respond lol!) Good luck with this work. I still realize that my journey with Spiritual Autolysis is not even close to complete because I am still so full of crap. In fact, I already see the bullshit in trying to explain why I am full of shit. Everything I wrote on this form, will be attacked the next day (assuming a next day exists or "day" in general).

Sounds like you all have been reading up on Douglas Harding and Richard Lang's work on the Headless way. I am trying to understand the bible verse What I gather from this is that YOU CAN see MY FACE and LIVE because the No-Face is All-Face. The Face of No-Face is the same for all. Oh but I think I am getting another interpretation here in that No "man" meaning ego can see the God-self of No-face and continue to exist. The No-Face shatters the illusion of having a head or ego and thus when you see my face, meaning the no-face of nothingness in all of us, then your ego is gone and you no longer live, meaning living as a self in a world, but rather a world experiencing a self. Did I get it?

Hello everyone! I would like to make a thread dedicating to understanding and diving deeper into Native American Philosophy and Spirituality. Native Americans have been victimized, demonized, oppressed, and have had their cultural identities stripped away by the white men over the years, which is very unfortunate. After reading this really awesome article here: https://www.powwows.com/native-american-religion-and-spirituality-common-threads-unique-beliefs-and-too-many-misconceptions/ I have found that certain Native American philosophies resemble those similar to nondual teachings. For instance, the term Mitakuye Oyasin, means everything and all beings are related and one. Also certain Native American traditions view life, God, and reality as animalistic, polytheistic, monotheistic, and even pantheistic. Wakan Tanka is a conception of God that translates to mean "The Great Spirit" or "The Great Mystery" and is considered the sacred life energy, spirit, or unknowable force that is within all things. In addition, Native Americans valued being in harmony with Nature and viewed the sun as very spiritual and would honor nature and each other through Sun Dance rituals that were outlawed until the American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978. The video below has insights and describes the Sun Dance rituals and Vision Quests and how they were used for Enlightenment and Spiritual Traditions to connect with Love. This is what I leave you all with thus far! There is so much wisdom that is overlooked from Native American ways of life. I plan on adding more to this as I learn and grow more knowledge of Native American Spirituality and way of life. Feel free to contribute your own findings of Native Spirituality. My goal is to bring back Native traditions and philosophies to the mainstream, de-stigmatize Native Spirituality, and gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of Native American way of life because this population is still largely marginalized and oppressed even today. “Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish been caught, and the last stream poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money.” -- Cree Indian Prophecy

I agree. The last paragraph reminds me of Tony Stark's (Iron Man's) worldview of making weapons and how he thought it was good, until he realized the weapons were used against him. Then, he saw his weapon-making as a corruption of evil and shut down Tony Enterprises. It depends on what you mean by "natural" and "progression." I think you make a good point about natural progression in the analogy of math, but don't forget about the plateau in life. You could say that spirituality is the process of going from addition and subtraction progressing all the way up and through to calculus to eventually jailbreaking the mind and going beyond math all together to realize its illusory and constructed nature. So likewise when one meditates and inquires into life, one goes from unconsciousness to consciousness from survival to liberation over time. But I could be wrong.

So I have been contemplating relativism and recently rewatched Leo's Relativism Part 1 video after I watched his Nihilism video. I am stuck at a wall when trying to see how relativism is true and yet not all perspectives are equally valid or "true." The thing I am trying to understand about relativism is the seemingly hierarchy of perspectives that Leo mentioned in the Nihilism episode when discussing higher vs. lower perspectives, which boil down to Love vs. fear. So for instance, Qanon is a cult to me, but to the followers of it, it is the objective truth and reality. This is all based on fear from my perspective, which makes it a lower perspective, but judging perspectives as higher or lower seems to be a construction rather than being a written truth in the universe. In addition, the Qanon person could say that Biden supporters are based off of fear and not love. What is delusion to one person is reality to another, but relative to the facts (which are relative) could we say that a Qanon supporter is deluded and misguided? If everything is relative, where does that leave delusion, and what metrics are we using to say that a person or ourselves are deluded or not? Obviously, I am still in this process of contemplating and unraveling relativism. I am kind of in the phase of thinking that all perspectives are equally valid, but in my personal life, I do not act like this at all. My biases infiltrate my worldview and color how I see the world such that I see more corruption on the Right wing than on the Left wing. But the concept of corruption and what qualifies as corruption is relative to each individual, so a Right winger could see more corruption on the Left than Right depending on how they construct and define corruption. But who am I to say that the Right wing is deluded or that Qanon followers or Flat Earthers are deluded? If perspectives are not equally valid, then what is the standard for which they are not equally valid? Love vs. fear?? The whole metric of higher vs. lower perspectives does not seem to be a written truth in the universe, but is rather a construct and projection of the mind? But I guess the same logic applies to viewing perspectives as hierarchical in that some perspectives are more valid than others. But when I say that some perspectives are more valid than others, it does not seem like relativity anymore, but maybe I am still misunderstanding relativism. So I guess my final thoughts on the matter is that the Elephant is Love and Truth, and all the perspectives of the blind men are partial, relative truths and the Qanon and Neo-Nazis are up deep in the elephant's asshole in fear because Nazism and Qanon is a form of love? Whereas the Christ's and Gandhis are in the brain and heart of the elephant because they embody higher degrees of Love? I appreciate any of your thoughts and perspectives on this.

@Flowerfaeiry @Godhead Thank you so much for your inputs and insights! These are so helpful! Thank you so much!

Hello everyone! I have been dealing with screen addiction a.ka. technology addiction, internet addiction, etc., where I have been craving to play video games, play chess games on chess.com or watch James Bond movies to get a dopamine hit. I have been avoiding much of the spiritual work of contemplation/meditation and I have been avoiding my Life Purpose and my ambitious passions to exercise and kaizen my knowledge. I am just curious if anyone has gone through, is currently going through, or has beaten their screen addiction? What solutions have been most helpful to you? Here are some of the solutions I have considered: (1) selling all my games (although, I feel so attached to them and selling them won't get rid of the addiction because I will still have movies and my phone) (2) doing a meditation retreat all day (I have not tried this yet and I plan on doing it soon before I get busy) (3) Doing more activities outdoors in nature (4) Make a star chart and reward my behaviors to control my impulses (5) put screen timers The issue with screen addiction is that screens are a normalized part of our world today. Everything and all knowledge and accessibilities is on technology and technology is so accessible that it is a hard addiction to overcome. I believe it is a real addiction despite it not being listed in the DSM. I think the main causes of screen addiction for me are to escape the discomfort of spiritual and physical work and that I am addicted to comfort. I appreciate your time and input.

Thank you for your time and detailed response! It makes much more sense now. Thank you! So on the one hand, there is a way that reality actually is and the way we imagine it to be. So for example, earth is round from outer space but appears like a plane from earth perspective. What I did wrong was I confused objective truth for relative truth. So flat earthers are wrong about the earth being flat from space relative to their perceptions and sensations. If an alien looks at earth from 7D and sees it as flat and I am in 3D seeing it as round, then we would be both “correct” and no perception in this case is more valid than others relative to survival. If the human who sees in 3D and is on a planet in 7D, their perceptions won’t match with the survival needs of those in 7D in this hypothetical. So assuming we all perceive reality in the same dimension, a flat earther would see a similar social constructed spherical shape, dictated by our culture as spherical and round. The flat earther would be fooling themselves if they denied their perceptions that the earth appears spherical when it is. But the Alien in 7D May see our earth completely different and not spherical at all. Maybe aliens see shapes totally different like you mentioned in the Cat and Boop example. And to a blind man, the earth is neither flat nor round in the experiential perspective. Shapes and colors do not exist visually to a blind man and shapes are relative to how we define shapes. Thanks for your response and I plan on contemplating this a bit more and I will reread your post again to add more clarity to my contemplation and to make sure I am getting this and not confusing or deluding myself.

Knowledge is impossible. The only thing that can be known is consciousness. Descartes got it wrong. It’s not I think therefore I am, but rather Experience or Consciousness therefore Existence. Nothing outside of Consciousness can be known. Knowledge is illusion because it is a duality between knower and known. Once you realize the illusory self, you also realize the illusory nature of all dualities including knowledge. But illusion isn’t good or bad because good or bad is just another label and illusion created to sustain the illusion. Nothing is known. Nothing is everything. The real question is how do you know the moon exists even when you are experiencing it. This leads you to Esse Este Percipi