Wilhelm44

Microdosing golden teacher mushrooms.

I havent watched this video, but in the interview i watched years ago, he claimed to function without any thoughts. Silent mind 24/7.

@Hyperion Okay, how about this, Can the Absolute grow, become different, change etc ? None of those make any sense right, because the Absolute is already the Absolute. If something actually happened, it would have an actual effect. But the Absolute is never affected. If it were, we would be in trouble, but we're not.

Thank you

I hear you, and yet i have heard many say that siddhis etc are a distraction, ignore them and move on. Im open though.

Thank you

I would love to be able to bilocate

I hear you. And I agree, no words can come close when talking about the Absolute. A statement like: "nothing has ever truly happened" is not trying to describe the Absolute though. It's simply pointing to a very logical fact. From the perspective of the Absolute. Hence it's been uttered by so many sages through the years. But yeah, all words are relatively (un)true.

In any dream, including this life, it feels as if things are truly happening, otherwise the dream wouldn't be very convincing. From the perspective of the Absolute or the Changeless, nothing has ultimately changed, hence a statement which i think many a sage has made: nothing has ever truly happened. (You could say this is nothingness happening, ie pure magic.) "No world has ever been created" - Ramana Maharshi

I think i once heard him claim that he doesnt have any thoughts anymore.

Because you're nuts

You bamboozling me with that one Is it not just plain and simple to say: The tsunami didn't actually wipe out my town, it was just a dream. ie it didn't actually happen, period.

Personally I feel earth is part of a larger intelligence system. It's quite possible also that some kind of cataclysmic event is on the way. But there's always some kind of rebirth. The ending scene of Oblivion touched something in me.

@Hyperion When I dream at night that a tsunami wiped out my town. And I wake up in the morning to realize that it was just a dream. Can we not say that what apparently happened in the dream, never actually happened ?

Yeah, it feels like the mind is being sucked in by some singularity.

Really, there are actually people who believe the bus will pass right through them ?

@Hyperion Have you not experienced a dreamlike quality to this reality ? That's all I meant by simultaneously real and unreal. Doesn't mean a bus won't knock you over if you get hit by one. (I haven't met anyone yet who believed otherwise.)

Absolutely

Agreed. I don't think anyone is advocating stepping in front of a bus. (I think this might be many people's misunderstanding with regards to radical nonduality. It is somehow viewed as being in denial of life. And yet it actually leads to a more intense experience of life. The no self thing is just a doorway in my opinion. Less filters, less resistance etc.) You could also be violently hit over the head during a dream (virtual reality) at night, and when you wake up and realize it was just a dream it's as if it never actually happened. Similarly, from the perspective of "that which has no opposite because it is all that there is" nothing has happened.

Thanks, I'm not a fanatic So if I simply said that what I see before me right now is simultaneously real and unreal, would we agree ?

Thanks, I'm curious, can you say a bit more about this ?

@Hyperion Im curious, did you follow a specific path like Vedanta for example ?