Carl-Richard

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  1. Synchronistically telepathically communicating a misunderstanding, now that would be unlikely. Telepathy, when the context and the content are communicated, without misinterpretation πŸ˜‹
  2. You're trying so hard to not use the word "ego" πŸ˜‚ @Natasha Tori Maru This is an example of a language game. Tip: start using concepts in your thinking, let words be secondary. Words are surface-level tools for conveying underlying concepts. To get yourself in a twist about using the words "dropping ego" vs "aligning with reality", that's to get in a twist about words. The ego resists reality. When you align with reality, you drop the ego. It's as simple as that. Now, dropping the ego does not mean becoming a plant, or becoming an ascetic, or relinquishing all your possessions. That's a misunderstanding of what the ego is. Now, using words like "aligning with reality" can help you to deal with this misunderstanding, but to present it as a completely different thing, that is indeed also a misunderstanding.
  3. What is it that survives? It it the ego? And if anxiety and worry reduces, what happens to the ego? Does it maybe, reduce? So aligning with reality reduces ego? Hmmm.
  4. How do you become anxious, worried, etc.?
  5. What does an aligned person look like? Describe their behavior. Are they generally worried, anxious, dwelling on the past, indecisive, etc.?
  6. Some years ago, I listened to Cynic's "Traced In Air" album, and I had a thought "it would be nice if they could've released the album without the screams", because they seemed a bit out of place and a bit clichΓ© for the genre. Then I believe only a few days later (or less, I can't remember), Cynic released a remixed version of the album, without the screams. I almost couldn't believe what had happened. It's one of the least believable things that has ever happened to me. It felt like I had manifested something or literally communicated with the band.
  7. I will define crypto-materialism as follows: Consciousness is fundamental (that is, Cosmic, Universal, Trans-personal consciousness is at the bottom of reality) Minds (i.e. personal, private mental states) do not interact non-locally or psychically (or their interactions are soelly bound by physical mechanisms) Subtle energetic phenomena (not easily measured by physical instruments, e.g. spirits, auras, spiritual energy) are not real: they are mental projections on the same level as thoughts and "hallucinations". They are private phenomena that cannot be co-verified by separate observers The crypto-materialist adopts a mostly idealist ontological primitive, where consciousness makes up the formless foundation of reality (emptiness, awareness), while in the world of form (phenomena, events, objects, processes), they hold on to the epistemology of materialism. In the world of form, reality supposedly works as if reality is physical, local, Newtonian, mechanistic. Information supposedly doesn't travel in mental space, it only rests within it. The irony of course is that despite the ontological primitive being consciousness (and not atomic billiard balls or the quantum mechanical equivalent or whatever the cutting edge of physics postulates), somehow they believe the "products" of this primitive follow the laws of a non-consciousness or physicalist universe. The crypto-materialist has likely not yet opened their mind to all the possibilities that exist within a universe made of consciousness and has likely not actively sought out counterevidence to their existing view. Maybe your dislike for "New Agers" is based on some unchecked assumptions πŸ€”
  8. Most claimed originality is rather uniqueness. You didn't create it, but the way you express it, it's yours. It's rare to get such topics in spoken long-format video, with high production value, and by somebody who knows how to speak clearly and actually make themselves understood, without superficial or roundabout stuff (except the Infinity of Gods video, of course πŸ˜‰). As for "Alien consciousness" or "Leo's deepest awakening yet which cannot be communicated" etc., nothing has been said there, nothing to say there.
  9. And what does aligned or unaligned behavior look like? Does it have any ramifications or distinguishing qualities?
  10. "But the Queen is the strongest Chess piece, but ultimately, the Queen must submit to the King, because the King is the Top G πŸ˜ŽπŸ‘‡πŸ‘†"
  11. That's just what happens. You know how a child with behavioral misconduct can throw a tantrum over the smallest things? Is that a structure you can "align" with? Is the alignment process you're describing completely devoid of any structure itself, or does the behavior of an aligned individual look like something?
  12. The ego goes deeper than conceptual thought. It's an entire mode of being. It's a mode that can be switched off. In that sense, it's very illusion-like. Where is the mode? Is it more accurate to say that the mode is like a pattern that arises and less like a discrete thing with definite boundaries?
  13. Brain-experience correlations aside, brain explaining consciousness is completely incoherent. Ions and fluids floating in and out of barriers (neuronal potentials) => the experience of sounds, colors, sensations? Nothing is explained there. It's like explaining the weather by saying the word "atoms". At the very most, it's the most vacuous shell of an explanation.
  14. Are you able to see how something can be real in one sense and an illusion in another?
  15. The jury is still out on anything being the case except the fact that reality exists. Reincarnation is not the radical baseless claim materialists and crypto-materialists make it out to be. Half-assing awakening can make your life better, but going all the way means giving up your life (as you currently know it). If you're fine with being nothing, being love, being openness, go there.
  16. You are not the body, you are not even the mind. This is not to deny these things, but to go beyond them. Spirituality is about going beyond your humanity, not going against it.
  17. I think talking to many women as friends helps to understand that the women you're talking about in the thread are mostly a sub-section of women, and that if you talk to men, you find a similar sub-section mirroring them. I don't have many female friends per se, but I have been in psychology for many years which is dominated by women, and you inevitably have to talk to them 😝
  18. I'm saying death doesn't grant you lasting awakening, because you quickly go back to sleep again (granting reincarnation, which we are already granting, because life is you reincarnating moment to moment). I would claim everybody has had small moments of awakening, but they quickly go back to sleep, so it mostly doesn't even register. The profound moments of awakening are those that last a bit longer and that cause a kind of transformation or shift in perspective and an opening to what is possible. The "awakening" at death is similarly only a relatively small one, and it will quickly end. If you want lasting awakening (enlightenment), you have to aim at it, be it before death or after death.
  19. Truth is being revealed to you right now, but you go back to sleep, same as will happen at your death.
  20. @OBEler Do you have many female friends?