AtmanIsBrahman

Pretty much all men lie about height on dating apps. It is justified from a certain pov because women have height filters that eliminate a huge quantity of men from the pool. I mean, yes, it is low-integrity devilry technically, but compared to all the other things humans do it's quite understandable.

@BlessedLion 2 points. 1) You admit that self-concept is very important and does bring results. This is something you can manifest. For the success with women example, you can listen to subliminals for attracting women (if you don't know, these are audios with affirmations put in at a very low volume to target your subconscious). Alternatively, you can affirm "I have great success with women" or "Every woman is attracted to me." This will make you believe it if you do it consistently with an open mind. The point is that you're making your mind believe something without evidence and then it tries to make the thing come true. This is way more effective than cold-approaching hundreds of girls to try to build up "hard-earned" confidence. Nope, just tell yourself you're already great with women! 2) The person in the video claims that they manifested things which could easily be acquired through action. That makes it easy to be skeptical. A manifestation believer will believe her, but a skeptic won't. The way to bypass this is by manifesting something physical -- something that would require an absurdly lucky coincidence or breaking physical laws to happen. If it works, then you've proved manifestation definitively. The problem is that you're being too lazy to try this out seriously and would rather insist manifestation is nonsense, probably because your ego would be upset if it realized effort is actually pointless.

Academic formatting of writing is very conformist in general

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Being sick always raises my consciousness. I don't know why, but it does.

I'm aware of that, but more so in the sense that two is one than in the fact that one is two, right? What I mean is that the numbers 1 and 2 are both encompassed within the field of oneness, if that makes sense. This might just get beyond what language can communicate. Didn't you also say in your Infinity of Gods video that even if you imagine another sovereign consciousness, it's still ultimately your imagination and so still one consciousness?

@Carl-Richard you're too focused on rationalist clarity and rigor.

Yes!! I've been saying this for a while. They basically take you past rationality. I still see people in the forum arguing in rationalist ways and wonder if they haven't gotten the message.

So you're saying the realization that seeing comes from nowhere isn't enough to ascribe any properties to seeing, right? I would agree, but it being YOU is not a property. It is an absolute, the claim being that YOU=NOTHING absolutely. I think you fail to consider that people on this forum might actually have direct consciousness of solipsism and aren't deluded or conceptually confused.

Has anyone had this same insight? The fact that two consciousnesses can't exist is quite profound

Your approach is too scientific. But anyways, I'm done defending myself on this thread.

If I don't get my desire. I'm attempting to manifest some physically impossible things, so confirmation bias isn't really an issue.

To all the skeptics: For me manifestation is an empirical issue. I'll update if/when I get results, but otherwise I don't think there's any point in talking about it.

Agreed. Thanks for explaining your perspective.

Maybe I misunderstood your notion of solipsism then. I don't see how the ego-you could truly be separate from the cosmic You. The You that's imagining everything has to be the same as the ego-you because of unity, right?

Ok, you're right on this. But my other point... What happened to solipsism? Manifestors are some of the only people who actually believe in solipsism (at least many of them). Maybe reality is just you're reality and you're imagining everything, including other people and demons. If you decide there are no demons, there will be none, and if you decide there are then there will be. There is no interference between manifestations of different people because everything is your hallucination. Isn't this your exact metaphysical view?

But maybe it only works if you're in a positive vibration? Plus most people assume manifestation isn't possible, so it makes sense that not everyone would be doing it. Also, this assumes we are in a shared reality.

This is a good primer on the law of assumption, one of the key laws people use to manifest.

I think you're treating this too flippantly, kind of like how a materialist would treat consciousness work. Even if everything is your imagination, it might be more difficult to imagine certain things than others for your ego. Manifestation mainly has to do with making small things in reality go your way, such as your career, your physical appearance, romantic partners, etc. I don't know how much of it is legitimate, but it really just has to be tested with direct experience, otherwise you're being close minded. The money thing in practice would be something like this: Affirm something like "I easily attract money, I always have enough" (or listen to subliminals). Do that for a couple weeks with full belief. Then things start moving your way - a job offer, a raise, randomly getting free stuff, a bank or tax error in your favor, finding a new gig.

The last blog post “All Explanation is Circular” was so cool to see. I was literally thinking of the exact same thing recently, in the same exact words!

I defined it in the original post - "The art and science of causing change in conformity and will." Example: I want money. I do some magical practice. I somehow get $5000 sent to my bank account from a random person.

The professor is like the embodiment of the fool archetype

He didn’t really invent anything. He just grew up in blackpill PSL communities and blew up as their representative. I don't agree that he's such a bad influence though. People don't realize that a lot of the things he has done, like bonesmashing and taking steroids, he doesn't advocate for people to do. If you actually watch his podcast appearances, you will see that he doesn't advocate for very crazy things. PSL communities have real insights into human nature. They are a necessary stage of self-understanding: without them, humanity would not understand social and romantic dynamics as well. Of course, they take things too far by making it into an ideology and giving it far too much importance.