Oppositionless

Nobody knows. What use is adopting a belief about what happens? Pascal's wager is fear based nonsense.

It just seems way too good to be true. So many people die of starvation every year. Also I think it would have been proven by now... the same people who've more or less proven other controversial phenomena such as remote viewing would have jumped on any oppurtunity to prove Breatharianism.

I don't think it's real with the exception of maybe some very advanced mystics like Therese Neumann and Ramakrishna (actually Ramakrishna is interesting bc sometimes he supposedly wouldn't even breathe for awhile), but I'm obsessed with Breatharianism.

Yeah I've had this insight with tennis. Tennis isn't a sport, it doesn't exist .

He told me consciousness wasn't the absolute (I believe ) in a thread awhile back I don't remember what it was.

I had this thought while watching Leo's video and reading this quote from Ramana maharshi "Only that which existsts in deep, dreamless sleep is real." Is this pure Truth, which appears to simply be Nothingness, more fundamental than consciousness / experience? Or is Truth itself an experience?

It's so obvious. That's why I question it so much.

I don't just accept what Leo says. Some people on this forum , such as breaking the wall, have made interesting arguments for consciousness not being the absolute.

Yeah like Star Wars. But more influential , probably the most influential story on Western culture. It makes sense why people would become Christians. Have you read the Gospel of Thomas? It's one of my favorite spiritual works. The Church couldn't handle it so they didn't include it in the Bible.

Jesus is a very powerful myth, if you've found it helpful that's good. Ultimately Jesus cannot be God however, because you imagined Jesus . @Flowerfaeiry it's not a new age thing to say, it doesn't have to be about your identity at all. It just is. @Someone here @Salvijus I believe the problem of evil is resolved by God being Infinite. I want to put my faith in it but it seems indifferent to my suffering , sometimes. Sometimes it seems very purposeful and I can't make sense of it .

I'm not sure about chakras but have you ever seen any of these telekinesis videos on YouTube?

Theme of going full circle: being so low consciousness that you flip and become and enlightened master .

I think solipsism is true in a sense. You really don't know anything, solipsism is pure not knowing .

I think solipsism is true in a sense. You really don't know anything, solipsism is pure not knowing .

Oh Will You've been through so much . time to move to a monastery for 3 months and be free. ADHD is a bitch. Living in a bedroom that looks like a prison cell, getting addicted to pot . I've had some profound realizations but my life is so boring. And sometimes I have psychotic thoughts , the relationship between the two is unclear.

Seeing my old account is crazy . I was like 16.

All I know is whatever is appearing within awareness right now!! Knowledge is an experience!!!

Some people will say enlightenment is no self an awakening is God realization but even that isn't super descriptive! All just words!

Awakening is defined in a lot of different ways! It could refer to lots of different experiences. Some realize no self but don't realize they're God. I kinda think Jesus was the first to realize he was God, before he could do that Buddha had to realize no self! There's also differences in degree, big ones. A spiritual prodigy like Ramakrishna spent many many hours in profound samadhi. But most just have the realization and it doesn't lead to such profound psychological effects!

The real question is, traditional kriya yoga or Sadhguru kriya yoga?

This is the best part about moving to the Pacific Northwest. I can work out by exploring nature rather than boring myself to death at the gym (I still go sometimes despite my boredom😆)

If I go full on solipsist I can simply affirm "Unconsciousness does not exist. Period." If I allow for a world outside myself I can say I am pure emptiness, nothing, absolutely nothing , and the world is also nothing. I have no fucking idea what will happen after the body dies .

Yes i agree . The hard problem is deadly , and all the other arguments from paranormal phenomena are merely the nails in materialism's coffin. But I also don't think immortality is a guarantee. The Absolute could imagine my survival after death, or not, and neither would be wrong. It's perfect either way. Survival seems baked into certain theories I call experientialism (the subjective idealism of Bernardo Kastrup and other related ideas), but if you read the words of Ramana, "only that which exists in deep dreamless sleep is real" and find they ring true, you are forced to accept that survival isn't baked into metaphysics. Which is scary for some. In short i think pursuing Truth for the sake of personal immortality is an egoic corruption. But ndes are interesting and the most I can say about them is that they seem to convince the people who have them that there is more.

Skeptics will say it's explainable because some brain activity remains after a cardiac arrest. But that begs the question of why anasthesia removes consciousness with more leftover brain activity than in the case of an cardiac arrest nde. I guess you could argue that anasthesia targets specific brain regions associated with consciousness, but I find it highly improbable that those regions are not disturbed even more so in the case of an NDE. Also, some of them occur during surgery, with the addition of anasthesia. I have not decided what to make of it. Some also report veridical details about what was going on with their operation and even what was going on in different rooms during their experience. NDEs are also not the only data point. Remote viewers report similar veridical details beyond the reach of the five senses.