How can I get a direct experience of solipsism?

[Never_give_up]

I am very good at contemplation and deep thinking in general.

I am not good at meditation, can't do psychedelics (at least for now).

 

Any advice? 

[OBEler]

@Never_give_up if I could not use psychedelics I would choose yoga. Kriya yoga or shambhavi mahamudra from Isha (sadhguru) and see if you can produce a mystical experience. There you could experience Solipsismus but no guarantee.

[UnbornTao]

One can't experience what's true by going for the validation of a notion and system. Also, don't conflate mind activity with the act of grasping what your nature is. I suggest you start asking who and what you are throughout the day, beginning with the "who". Really question that until you get a breakthrough in consciousness. 

[The Crocodile]

You can get a direct experience of why Leo thinks it's true, when it isn't. You can learn how God can have multiple perspectives at once, and how there's no contradiction here.

The only yoga you need to know is pranayama (specific breathing patterns like inhaling for a minute, holding breath for a minute, exhaling for a minute, holding breath for a minute, repeat) and trataka (staring at a point or a light for hours and hours without blinking). I'd stay away from sadhguru, he's an idiot.

I'd also suggest https://firekasina.org/

[WelcometoReality]

@Never_give_up Let truth be your guide.

[Breakingthewall]

Contemplate the implications of infinity. Imagine something that has no limits, therefore it is already all possibilities, but it is not closed, it is open but at the same time it is complete, since it cannot be expanded, it is already infinitely expanded. If you really contemplate it, your logical mind will realize its unreality, its impossibility to grasp the magnitude of infinity and it will break, then only you will remain, but you as what exists, absolutely unlimited. That is solipsism, everything is you, you are reality, there is no reality other than you, but everything you see is absolutely real, any perception is the absolute reflecting itself, so the depth of everything is total, because your depth is absolute. Nothing is finite, the finite is impossible, it only seems finite, but it contains the totality of existence to the infinite power. Death is impossible, you are, and anything else is just appearances 

Anyway, solipsism is just an idea, what is much more interesting is realizing what you are: you are the life , the absolute being. Everything is in you, the power of the infinity, the absolute alive. 

Edited January 23 by Breakingthewall

[The Crocodile]

No, there is no highest level.

If there is it's undefinable.

[Princess Arabia]

Try to be in two places at the same time. You can't; so recognize you're all there is because everywhere you go you're always there. You are the only common denominator in your entire existence. But all that is just a story. No such thing because there's no you, so you can't be the only thing in existence. 

Edited January 24 by Princess Arabia

[Davino]

 

 

 

[ryoko]

Just don't believe what Leo or anyone says about Solipsism and you're halfway there.

[TruthFreedom]

Solipsism is not true.

It is only true in a relativistic sense.

I.e. your mind is the only thing it is possible for you to experience, but this does not mean that other minds do not exist. You only need to use basic logic to realise that other people DO EXIST and they have their own separate minds and experiences.

So Leo is wrong in his solipsism video.

[TruthFreedom]

I once saw Barack Obama giving a speech and he said something along the lines of:

"We must believe in an outside world. This podium is NOT a rhinoceros"

He got a laugh from the audience.

[Human Mint]

Hmm, if you can't use psychedelics then I don't see how you can verify it. Something that I am noticing is that it takes a lot of time to start grasping this. Month by month my perception changes and I am able to understand the same teachings in a more solid way. If you already assume that you're constructing all of reality then is much easier to grasp the truth. Still a belief, but it sets you in the correct direction. Different than the conventional narrative of our society.

Is a growth process, you can't rush it but you can start investing in it.

[Someone here]

It can't be explained..gotten ..grasped ..understood ..derived..deduced or anything else .

It hits you in a fraction of a second . You already know what is the Truth. 

Go look into your face in the mirror at 3 AM until something happens.   And once it happens you will understand that nobody gets it.

[Oppositionless]

On 1/25/2025 at 5:18 AM, TruthFreedom said:

Solipsism is not true.

It is only true in a relativistic sense.

I.e. your mind is the only thing it is possible for you to experience, but this does not mean that other minds do not exist. You only need to use basic logic to realise that other people DO EXIST and they have their own separate minds and experiences.

So Leo is wrong in his solipsism video.

I think the point is that other minds only difference in content, and content is ultimately unreal, so in the absolute sense you can't differentiate them

[tuku747]

Honestly the only practical reason for you to call something unreal is to acknowledge that it's in the mind. But everything is in the mind. So then everything is unreal. Okay, but it's real to us as individuals. I think often when people call something unreal it is to downplay it's importance. I think it is a mistake to downplay the importance of the reality of the emotions and experiences of other-selves, specifically because they are you. To deny anything at all is to deny yourself.

Edited Saturday at 10:55 PM by tuku747

[Matty1]

Dreams. Life supposedly works in the same way. Everything you see around is actually from within you and yada yada. I honestly have no idea what kind of experience would solidify the understanding of solipsism for you. It's not that there are no other conscious beings other than yourself, it's more that what you're experiencing isn't "consciousness"at all and is more the absolute foundation of reality. Solipsism implies only your mind is real, but there is no such thing as mind. There is only a single form of substance (reality) from which everything is built. God is an experience (or rather, THE experience. There are no others), and it can dress up however it wants. There's nothing stopping it from disguising itself as "multiple" consciousnesses at once like in a split screen game. Or like the consciousness of an entire civilization at once (like in an RTS game). It's just right now it's pretending to be a human's consciousness.

Edited 9 hours ago by Matty1