ExploringReality

Enfj + psychonaut here

Freaky shit

" We are the inheritors of a historical dysfunctional relationship". -Terence McKenna

Hallelujah

I like this one to

I had a dream where I traced time all the way back, further and further, until time itself dissolved. You won't believe what I discovered! What I found was this. The present moment. Infinite, nowhere, here and alive. I wasn't looking at it from the outside. I am it looking as itself but there is no one looking. Consciousness recognizing itself. Everything that has ever existed or could ever exist was just this one thing taking every possible form. And somehow, in that dream, I knew it completely. Not as a thought. As what I am. Everything that is possible exist in every possible way imaginable, if you imagine the multiverse times infinity, even that exists in infinite possible different ways, times infinity motherfucker. Infinity is pregnant.

@Leo Gura William James said "Our normal waking consciousness is but one special type of consciousness whilst all about it parted from it by the filmiest of screens their lie potential forms of Consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting the existence but apply the requisite stimulus and at a touch they are there in all their completeness definite types of mentality which probably somewhere have their field of application and adaptation. No amount of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of Consciousness quite disregarded. Now to regard them as the question for they are so discontinuous with ordinary consciousness. They may determine attitudes, though they cannot furnish formulas and open a region though they fail to give a map. At any rate they forbid our premature closing of accounts with reality". He wrote that in 1902

I've experienced all these fears on LSD over a period of 12 hours, but what's fucked up is that every minute is eternity. It was so much that I begged to come down, prayed to be sober again and to forget God for a moment. I can't go back, but I'm happy I have a strong mind, didn't scream for help, simply held my brothers arm so I wouldn't sink down into the pits of cosmic God knows what. Your descriptions give me flashbacks however. This is serious shit

Are you talking about the lead hand punch?

Anyone have experience or something to say about high yield savings accounts for emergency funds, down payment for a house and savings for their kids future using high yield savings account branches like Alley.com, fidelity ect? How do you structure your savings? Interested in hearing y'all's plans

How corrupt and pathetic, to literally scam the bottom of the bottom. Hard-working people that don't make much are making $4 for a single delivery at best.

Perfectly said. This insight can only be extrapolated backwards after being directly conscious of this first. Money cannot buy this gem of an insight. There's no going back after you unlock this realization. It's worth way more than a million dollars.

@Inliytened1 Love Eminem. Tryna brighten up the thread, sometimes God sits in a chat forum discussing solipsism.

Can the real slim solipsist please stand up, I repeat can the real slim solipsist please stand up? We're gonna have a problem here. Lol

I would say Everything is Truth... But some truths are relatively true or relatively false and that there are degrees of relative truths.

Technically I grew up on the border of millennials and Gen z era, but I didn't grow up with a tablet and I didn't get a phone till the end of high school, I grew up spending time socializing with friends in real time, played sports, basketball, skateboarding, and boxing. I started reading osho, Alan Watts and very advanced self-help and metaphysical books in high school while everyone was on their phones, so I could genuinely connect with people but at the same time I fell like an outsider, A witness. I could step into people's reality bubbles and not get married to one paradigm and at the same time I can understand their worldview and the logics of it but I couldn't stay stuck in it, this simultaneously made me feel a little alone. Some examples of this gen z culture that we live in. •short attention span •tiktok for info and education •irony as communication and shallow condensed use of vocabulary for expressing feelings •not caring as value signaling •numbness Come up with more examples, what do you notice? I don't claim to be special or above it, I just noticed it and I want to become aware of it more because in a sense I want to extricate myself from this. If I didn't know something or wanted to learn a topic, I will go to Great lengths to read books on it to read articles on it and to cross reference things and sources, but now people will just go on tiktok, it's kind of lazy if I'm being honest.

You just have to be careful not to delude yourself into thinking that everything you think is the truth especially in the relative domain of survival. Always be cautious and aware of self-deception and developing metacognition, this is why epistemology is so important and why Leo stresses it as well.

I have experiences of the dissolution of reality and mind, spiritual emergencies and states of consciousness so radical that I just wanted it to end. I can confirm that whatever you think actually is reality, not just a thought. State of Consciousness is crucial because a thought in a ordinary consensus state is mere images, feeling in the mind, but in those higher states, my goodness. This is why mindfulness and meditation is so freaking important before you venture off into those radical states of consciousness because your thoughts become reality. You become supernovas and black holes and all kinds of crazy stuff. Truth is literally what is actual. If your imaging being kidnapped by a kangaroo, that's literally the truth right now

This post is lame

I close my eyes, and I realized: Because I AM!!! motherfucker!!!!

👍🏽 Thanks man. My dad set the tone, granted he only read fictions like james Patterson, social economics and black economics. He was very good at teaching me about his experiences growing up during the 60s and educating me on systemic racism

Over a hundred books I'm proud to collected over 10 years , I know this is going to be valuable over my life and I don't just read these books once or twice I go over them multiple times because I know I will have to in order to have a degree of understanding that I may not have at the moment that I read it but I understand how important this is to my life. I even bought a bunch of books for my babies that we read together, I'm not reading them Peter Ralston and Ken Wilbur, LOL but I did buy them books on emotions, emotional literacy, educational and very simple cognitive development books. My babies are three and they do not have a single iPad or phone, and we monitor screen time. Sucks that the rest of the families like their cousin and other relatives already have iPhones and iPads and they are just sucked on that stuff, not my twins.

AI is definitely a tool, but you don't want to let the tool become the master. I do use Claude AI for fact check or to go even deeper on a topic that I don't understand and I ask a lot of simple and advanced questions not to just extract answers from it but to have a deeper understanding and a better clarification of topics to learn from and I don't just say I know it because I looked it up and used ai, I use it to further deepen my questioning and I don't just stop there. I totally understand the traps of using AI and how it could be used as a substitute to use your own mind to think about things. For example I'm learning more and more about black history, slavery, the Atlantic slave trade, black activist in the early 20th century, the Jim Crow laws etc so that I can command my depth and memory of human history. And I think it's the intention behind using it as well and not just consuming it

@Leo Gura you mentioned in your latest episode " deconstructing rationality part 3" that what's happening with AI with this generation is really bad, pretty soon kids won't even be able to read. Well it's already happened.

These people vote! 😂 There are only 47 presidents as of now. It was funny though but man these are our fellow humans. Makes me just want to learn basic history, read more. I'm glad I don't have a tiktok for fucks sake