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The problem with spirituality is that people can be easily deceived by wrong guidance and practices. There are a bunch of spiritual gurus who read pseudoscience from internet and claim that they have discovered something great by mixing science and spirituality. Since people believe magical spiritual gurus blindly, they get mass number of followers whereas 'real' spiritual gurus who are more passionate in knowing the truth rather than gaining popularity have lot of wisdom but very few followers. People always want something more than reality. They want magic. Science can do great new magic but spirituality can only show that everything is magical.

@Inliytened1 one can be both but most people are either this or that. Yeah, science is too young and stuck in its own world but it's rapidly improvising. There are many scientists who are more eager to understand consciousness nowadays and are having an open mind.

Both materialists and non dualists deny each other, and believe they are capable of knowing the absolute truth. Scientists discover things which are tinier and tinier and feel they are moving closer towards knowing the secret of the universe but there might never be an end to the search. Similarly, non dualists experience directly the absoluteness , they do it repeatedly and get several insights into the truth, but different people have different insights for the same version. They see the truth but not able to explain it with clarity. We as human beings are stuck with an analytical mind which analyses thoughts and memories and come to a conclusion. As long as we do that, we will never know the absolute truth.

Life is there to experience something different other than blissfullness, be it joy, fear, anger or even a joke.

A good example of selfless animal will be dolphins. They love to save people. Unfortunately, from what I believe, some animals are selfless simply because they could survive longer that way. Those genes managed to survive but most animals don't have the selfless character because they were all killed and eaten by selfish creatures. Human beings are different though, because we are so advanced that nothing can kill us, and we are free to choose whether to be selfish or selfless. But, being selfless, for some reasons, allows us to realize our true nature of self by shutting the deceitful brain and revealing there is no self.

Sure, we can have dreams and imaginations running in our mind and see it, but what about the external world? Can I see it closing my eyes by some means? Can I know who is standing in front of me without using my eyes or other common senses?

@Bulgarianspirit right, awareness is independent of seeing or any other senses, but can the sense of being alone enable us to feel what's around me, even if I am blind? @Corpus Does the more realistic world with psychedelics consist of a single constant world with the same elements during a single experience or is it constantly changing abstractly? @Pookie are you able to do it? Did it happen naturally or during a particular incident or while using meditation / psychedelics? @The0Self

Maybe you were already experiencing that during that time as a wife, just that you had forgotten.

Is there anybody in this world right now who can do such things?

These memories are not illusions only if you are able to recall something that seemed very real but you had never ever seen that before. Take this for example : If you are experiencing yourself eating something white and round ( if you were a South Indian in your past life ) but you had never seen or heard about it but able to vividly experience the appearance and taste of it, then you have proved that reincarnation is real. Any other kind of proof which originate from existing memory you had in this life has a good chance of turning out to be the result of powerful imagination.

A perspective for easy understanding of pain: Physical pain arises from nerves which are connected to the brain. All thoughts are created by the brain including painful sensations. We may not have control over the external environment which causes, but we always have more control than we imagine over our own mind. All sufferings are created by our own mind. When it comes to thoughts related to sensations, the process can be considered to have two sections. The first one allows you to feel the painful sensations. We may choose to ignore these thoughts but they may come back sooner or later. The second one reacts to the pain by causing undesirable effects like sadness, discomfort and all the negative emotions. This part we have the full control and by doing meditation for longer durations and focusing and observing on pain itself and the thoughts associated with them, we realize that these thoughts can simply be switched off or felt in a good way at the moment. It's all about programming our mind, tricking it into believe that pain is not a bad sensation. A good place to start will be to start believing consciously they pain is not a bad thing even if it's not true. Start thinking where theSE sensations occur, do they occur at the place where you scratch your body, in the brain or somewhere else? Placebo effect is a good example to prove that suffering is in fact within our grasp of control. But it's not possible consciously and instantaneously. That's why it's very easy to believe that we have no control over it. Meditation surely helps to reduce our suffering 'practically'.

Law of attraction is a good example for what you say. It is just a belief that never seems to work and turns tired people against spirituality. The placebo effect only works for the physical body and the mind and not for the whole world. Even that doesn't protect us from the external factors such as bacteria and viruses. Spirituality changes our perception of the world and hence reduces the perception of our suffering, not cure it by changing reality. All that quantum mechanics changing reality stuff, as far as my understanding and experience, are just stupid interpretations of funny discoveries.

A true data master indeed! We can only stop reacting to the internal and external world to a particular extent, we can never change it. (Source : I see that point clearly in the everyday experience of my world ). The only choice we are left is to realize the world's nature and choose whether we can continue enjoying / suffering having the experience or skip having it. Even that may not be of free will.

Yes, nothing can be proved in the absolute sense by science. Direct experience is a better way than science to have faith in something because illusions and assumptions don't exist when it comes to direct experience. ( which can also be a belief ). In the end, it's the human mind making all sorts of interpretations on these things which can only relatively bring us closer to the truth. That's a far better feeling than knowing nothing at all. But that doesn't mean we need to believe whatever we see, whatever we hear, read etc. , that's the most dangerous thing, atleast comparatively. Religions are a good example for blind faith.

@WellbeingSeeker No, it wasn't realistic at all. I can easily fake what he had done myself. I believe he wasn't able to keep his secret and wanted to badly share with somebody and told me the truth. But after that he realised his mistake and didn't offer any further explanation. What I assume is that the priests have paid him to make people fear God.

I had personally asked a guy who was trembling because of God entering him. He confessed that it was all set up. Truth and lies are so mixed up nowadays such that it's impossible to distinguish between them. Either direct experience or some scientific proof might help. One thing that I can vouch for is that blind faith is the most dangerous thing in the world.

If that's the case, I will enjoy the dream as much as I can. ( and exit it when I feel the experience is enough)

If I am a human being, I have to navigate in a three dimension dimensional space and experience time as well.

This happened to me all the time when I was trying to crack very difficult questions in a competitive exam. The second best thing to do is to relax your body by some visualisation techniques, try to figure out different ways to solve the problem and try with the new ones. But the best thing to do is simply to ignore the problem and go on to other solvable problems. Accept the limitations of your mind and be happy that you are able to come to this level atleast. Understand that the world will always have unsolvable problems and an individual being cannot solve all of that, even if you have an Einstein's brain. Contribute what you are capable of and enjoy the rewards.

Nice explanation, thanks for taking your time to explain! ?

For people who have experienced nothingness, how was time felt during the experience? Was it relatively faster / slower / infinite or something else ?

The concept of time can be imaginary, but what about motion? Isn't time just a tool used by mind to experience motion? And why is motion only towards a particular direction and not the opposite way?

Having the concept of death maybe a good thing after all, atleast till the body lasts.

Can you try to elaborate? @fridjonk @Gesundheit Then, why do some people say that the experience lasted only for sometime and the experience lasted way longer? How do they describe the experience relatively if there is no experience of time? @Javfly33

After death - After death of my ego, memories, body, personality etc. The things that give an identity. If you say that I would still remember my past lives after I am dead, then I will accept that there is nothing called death. have awareness - opposite to being in a blank state, similar to sleep @WaveInTheOcean It's interesting that you noted sleep is an illusion,How do you say that? If I am not able to be aware during sleep, how does it make it an illusion?