Nemra

So in your nightly dreams, parts of the dream haven't affected the dream itself?

Loved the Brain Fuel perspective. Psychedelics are categorized in such a way that it creates bias towards them, and people treat that categorization as absolute. These catagories are Hallucinogen: Assumes malfunction Illegal Drug: Assume criminality Narcotic: Assume addiction

Sure. I just don't agree with your logical perspective. But it is what it is.

@Breakingthewall, ah, man, we aren't going to have effective communication. We both think we're way more open-minded and more truthful than the other. I'm only going to say that you're using logic unfairly, and most probably you won't agree with that.

@Mellowmarsh

For example, is there a visual field that exists for itself outside of your visual field? From my observation, there isn't a such thing. Do cameras have a visual field of their own outside your visual field, even if you can watch the recorded videos, which, by the way, will appear in your visual field? Your visual field is one and only in terms of actuality. The above is different from saying that some things are actual and other things are potential now. Potentiality is like when you are about to take a picture and actuality when you captured it. And because the captured photo can only be actual, the photo itself is the only actual thing that can be as a photo. The captured photo is an analogy of your visual field.

Some believe that God resides on the clouds and heaven is a place filled with gold.

Well, I don't know what to say about that. It's just actual. It can be conceptualizing. What's stopping you from conceptualizing everything? I don't think that others are just a projection, but I can't provide an honest, deep answer about the nature of the "other" as of now.

@Breakingthewall, let's forget about solipsism for now. I mean whatever is actual is actual, and whatever is potential can actualize itself later. From my observation, experience, by definition, must be actual; it is some way and not other way. So, we cannot actually compare experience with potential experiences because we will not be comparing experiences that are actual. You can think about potential experiences by conceptualizing. Interestingly, the act of conceptualizing potential experiences is an actual experience. This makes, for example, your sight a thing that doesn't have its other.

@Breakingthewall, how can you compare something that exists with something that doesn't exist? Well, you can, but you'll be comparing the ideas of what was actual. Won't you? For me, actuality and potentiality are like apples and oranges.

I don't see how infinite reflections would present a contradiction here. Don't you agree that experience, whatever it is, is actual? I don't understand why we should compare what is still potential with what is actual, even if potentiality becomes actuality and vice versa.

Simple logic: If God encompasses everything and there's nothing outside of it, then there can't be more than one God, like the God that encompasses everything and has no outside, existing together. If there are more than one God existing together, then those Gods cannot encompass everything and have no outside, like the God that does. However, by definition, God has no outside; otherwise, it cannot be God. So, God must be solipsistic.

Prophet's Prey Overview: Filmmaker Amy Berg sheds light on the sexual, financial and spiritual abuses heaped upon members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by their former leader, Warren Jeffs.

In a twisted way, it's true. Of course, he was trying to make sociopaths seem superior to people who can have compassion, as if compassion itself is some sort of illness. He really believed that he was an awakened person because he hadn't experienced compassion.

In the episode 8 of "The Vow" documentary, it goes into detail of how the cult leader, Keith Raniere, trains women to experience humiliation that he says men experience so that they could understand men in the guise of open-mindedness. He was manipulating those women into feeling bad for men's hardships and sneakily blaming them for making men's lives more complicated. He thought of abuse as nonsense. Eventually, he started to guilt-trip them all using the injustices of the world. However, in the beginning, he was talking with those women as if he cared to understand them. Jeez.

Treating very eccentric, erratic, energetic actors as misunderstood geniuses.

No problem. I will share more. I will devour them all.

NXIVM is one of the non-cartoonish and sneakiest cults I have ever observed. It tried to make people think that their beliefs are limiting them and then it preyed on their open-mindedness without giving them the power of opening their minds for themselves. No believing in outlandish stuff. This is genius! Also, cult leaders have a hypnotic nature that gravitates people towards themselves, who are more prone to hypnosis. People can easily judge the victims, however they overestimate their ability to notice whether they are in a cult or not.

"The Vow" documentary TV series goes into details of the NXIVM cult. It's so damn good. It has two seasons; a total of 15 episodes.

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One of the most cringeworthy things. 😬

The non-duality of waking reality and nightly dreams, i.e., seeing both as essentially the same in terms of actuality, must make you reconsider the following: The "dreaming" of the dream The "you" that you think is limited to waking reality The viewing of stability as more true than instability

The Vow Overview: Following the experiences of people deeply involved in the self-improvement group NXIVM, an organization under siege with charges including sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy brought against its highest members and founder Keith Raniere.

If I'm really nailing it, that's because my teacher is one of the best in the biz.