Carl-Richard

I know you like Leo, and I know you just took some LSD, but said tongue in cheek, the world didn't come into existence yesterday, us "skeptics" have been following Leo for a long time, done a lot of LSD, even meditated quite a bit. Thinking differently about things is still possible despite that. So now, what is your thinking on the topic? You don't need to tell anymore that you had an experience. I can trust that you had.

I shoot Buddhas for a living. I think solipsism is more like materialism than idealism, partially by you being unwilling or unable to argue for your position, partially by it being, well, stuck in the relative rather than taking absolute reality for what it is.

The versions of idealism that are consistent with non-duality as the ultimate reality claim that whatever you perceive in your mind's eye is limited, while non-duality is unlimited. When you start claiming things about perception in your mind's eye, what it is, what its boundaries are, what its limitations are, you are outside the domain of non-duality and into the relative. In other words, solipsism is relative, not absolute. The absolute exists beyond all limitations, beyond any notion of a boundary, internal and external, it's all relative.

So solipsism is true and not true at the same time? The objects are there, they exist, but they also are not there, they don't exist, at the same time?

Does an object exist or is it a carving out that you do with your mind? Where does the beach end and the ocean begin?

Consciousness transcends forms, objects, perceptions, people, beings; illusion, Maya, the dance of Shakti. Consciousness transcends (and includes) the illusion.

There isn't much data on this though, or?

Where is Rupert Spira wrong here?:

You missed the important part of the sentence: routine. The more often you smoke weed and associate with masturbation and crackers rather than shamanistic rituals, the less consciousness expanding you should expect it to be. Also, I'm for legalizing weed, but in a civilized society, I'm for people keeping their psychotropic substances outside public areas. If not a law, there should the very least be a norm for keeping weed smoke far away from places where you would expect to run into other people (or where the smoke makes contact with other people).

And soon we'll evolve past people needing to numb their consciousness with routine weed use.

If you can't feel any influence from a microdose exposure to a psychoactive substance, even tobacco, you're either interoceptively inept or you're so used to dulling yourself with drugs that you can't feel any subtle change. And I'm going even more radical than that. In the gym before, I've been in the same room as somebody who was high, I didn't know that they were there initially, but I felt something was slowly creeping up on me. I was getting the kundalini rush sensation in my spine that I get from weed. I was like "why am I getting high?", so I looked around, and then there is this guy with extremely blood shot eyes who smells like weed. In fact, I think this guy could probably be the cause of what happened with the ventilation system that day. This is almost a placebo-controlled experiment, because I felt I got high before I saw the high person and before I noticed any strong smell (I did maybe notice a subtle smell straight after). It wasn't that I smelled a strong weed smell and then I thought I got high. The first thing I noticed was the kundalini rush and altered perception. And then I saw a high person which corroborated the theory that it was a weed high. You can only doubt it by saying that the sudden peculiar changes was something else and that I either didn't see a high person or that their strawberry eyes and subsequent weed smell was a coincidence.

What stops this from being true? But also, what is the evidence?

"And some people believe [...] that for example idealism is in line with that. But actually, it's the other way around: that materialism is more in line with that than non-duality".

Enlightenment is like you're dying, moment by moment, while your body is still alive.

Locked for low quality.

The problem is when you don't know that you're doing it. "Existence is colors, shapes, sounds", claiming this statement to be absolute, while claiming that all other statements are not, is to not know that you're projecting concepts onto reality.

Many People Who Are Solipsists Don't Even Know They Are Projecting Concepts Onto Reality

There are things about a person or family that you would never be able to predict in a million years. You know the person who died? She met with Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega and flew in his private plane. She danced with Bruce Springsteen on stage. I went to the same high school at the same time as two artists who are now both world famous (both have top songs on Spotify with more than 1 billion listens). One of them took the same music classes as me, just one year above me.

Happenstance. Take the Stoltenberg family: father and mother were famous politicians, son ex-prime minister and ex-NATO general secretary, one daughter ex-head of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and current head of Norwegian Research Centre AS (NORCE), the other daughter worked in television and stuggled with a heroin addiction and died of a drug overdose (according to her sister, not the official story).

Social anxiety disappears if you're focused on a task, or more generally a mission.

I built the basic infrastructure for a website that provides an online service with ChatGPT-5 Thinking in a day with no web design knowledge.

You're too identified with the objects of awareness that awareness without objects seems like nothing to you. Only in awareness with objects, there is time. Only in awareness with objects, there is space. If you spend all of your life trapped in space and time, then that will be all you think is real.

A public toilet while you're scoring a date, or the toilet at work while you're holding a meeting.

@Elliott I just watched the news and it said while Sweden has twice the unemployment, Norway has 10.7% of people of working age on disability while Sweden only has 3.7%. So all in all, the total amount of working age people in the workforce is actually 80% in Norway, 81.9% in Sweden (Eurostat, 2024). In 2007, Sweden had 10% on disability, but they tightened the criteria for it over the years.