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Post by zendancer on May 13, 2022 7:58:51 GMT -5
Welcome to the forum. The loss of identification is the loss of the sense of "me" as a separate volitional entity. Most people identify with a body, a name, and a story about what appears to be a personal history. This identity can be seen through, and when that happens, past self-referential thought patterns fall away and the "default mode neural network," which seems to be responsible for the sense of selfhood, shifts to what might be called "a unity-consciousness neural network." When this happens, the organism discovers the impersonal field of intelligence--Source--that is the actual observer and doer of whatever is seen or done. It is beyond name, form, thought, birth, and death. Thank you for the welcome, zendancer.
The "neural network" is part of the scientific account of reality. Science says that we are biological organisms, human beings - with neural networks - living on Earth. You seem convinced that it is possible for the human organism to switch from a selfish personal neural network to a unity-consciousness neural network.
How does this unity-consciousness neural network inform perception that enables the individual human organism to fend for itself? Do space and time still exist for such a human organism that needs to be fed, clothed, and sheltered?
Good question. Yes, I'm convinced about the shift from a personal to impersonal/personal (we have no exact words for pointing to the result of the shift ) perspective because that's what happened here on August 17, 1999 after hiking in the mountains while contemplating how such a shift to a non-dual unity-consciosness perspective could become permanent. This organism had had what I call a "hard-core" sense of selfhood that was probably a result of strongly identifying with numerous interests. It felt as if "I" was an entity inside the body, or inside the head, looking out of the eyes at an external world. On that day I/THIS had a deep emotional experience of extreme gratitude which left me feeling peaceful and buoyant. A few hours later I/THIS looked "inside" and the past sense of a "me" had totally vanished. It suddenly became obvious that there had never been a "me," and that the past sense of being a separate volitional entity had been a total illusion. Furthermore, the psychologically-felt boundary between inside and outside had also disappeared, and all that remained was a body/mind organism looking at the world. I/THIS then realized that the actual doer of everything was always the process of reality, which is a unified infinite field of being that I now refer to as "THIS." It can be called "God," "Tao," Self," "the Unborn," "Source," or "The Absolute." THIS is what sees, hears, thinks, walks, and talks in the form of humans, and it is what causes flowers to bloom in the Spring. Seeing the truth ended the spiritual search for understanding and resulted in psychological freedom and a sense of "flow." After the sense of a separate "me" vanished, a felt sense of simple beingness, or oneness with "what is," is what remained, and life continued just as before but without all of the past self-referential thought patterns of the past. What I realized that day, and what became more and more embodied over the last 22 years, is that THIS takes care of everything and THIS runs the whole show. Every human, animal, plant, rock, star, and galaxy is THIS, and THIS is what causes a human heart to beat 100,000 times per day from birth until the body dies. Any human who discovers THIS instantly loses all fear of death because it is seen that THIS is beyond birth and death. Because this organism has pursued a particular meditative activity for more than 35 years, the mind is now extremely silent, and I/THIS often drives a car in silence. The other day a car/THIS coming toward me/THIS in the opposing lane began drifting across the center line toward my car/THIS. In total mental silence THIS began defensively steering the car toward the right shoulder of the road, and would probably have left the road completely and driven into an adjacent field if the driver/THIS of the oncoming car had not noticed what was happening and swerved back into the "correct"lane. There was no "me" involved in anything that happened. If the mind becomes silent, it becomes obvious that THIS is the actual doer of everything. Any human who discovers THIS can relax and simply be what one already is and has always been. What you are is also THIS, and to discover this simple truth just become still and watch. You can't go wrong no matter what you do, because what you actually are is taking care of everything. Cheers!
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Post by sree on May 13, 2022 9:04:03 GMT -5
Thank you for the welcome, zendancer.
The "neural network" is part of the scientific account of reality. Science says that we are biological organisms, human beings - with neural networks - living on Earth. You seem convinced that it is possible for the human organism to switch from a selfish personal neural network to a unity-consciousness neural network.
How does this unity-consciousness neural network inform perception that enables the individual human organism to fend for itself? Do space and time still exist for such a human organism that needs to be fed, clothed, and sheltered?
Furthermore, the psychologically-felt boundary between inside and outside had also disappeared, and all that remained was a body/mind organism looking at the world. The "psychologically-felt boundary" had disappeared, you say. What about the "physically-felt" boundary?
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Post by sree on May 13, 2022 10:32:59 GMT -5
Thank you for the welcome, zendancer.
The "neural network" is part of the scientific account of reality. Science says that we are biological organisms, human beings - with neural networks - living on Earth. You seem convinced that it is possible for the human organism to switch from a selfish personal neural network to a unity-consciousness neural network.
How does this unity-consciousness neural network inform perception that enables the individual human organism to fend for itself? Do space and time still exist for such a human organism that needs to be fed, clothed, and sheltered?
Good question. Yes, I'm convinced about the shift from a personal to impersonal/personal (we have no exact words for pointing to the result of the shift ) perspective because that's what happened here on August 17, 1999 after hiking in the mountains while contemplating how such a shift to a non-dual unity-consciosness perspective could become permanent. This organism had had what I call a "hard-core" sense of selfhood that was probably a result of strongly identifying with numerous interests. It felt as if "I" was an entity inside the body, or inside the head, looking out of the eyes at an external world. On that day I/THIS had a deep emotional experience of extreme gratitude which left me feeling peaceful and buoyant. A few hours later I/THIS looked "inside" and the past sense of a "me" had totally vanished. It suddenly became obvious that there had never been a "me," and that the past sense of being a separate volitional entity had been a total illusion. I share your conviction about "a non-dual unity-consciousness". For me, this is still a work in progress and I have questions that I need to sort out. Your help in this regard would be great. I also had an experience that wiped out both the sense of a psychological "me", as well as, the physical nature of our worldly reality.
It happened on a boat at sea. I was standing by its railing looking at a dark patch on the horizon. A squall was forming. The cloudy sky was still clear where I was, and the sun shone through casting an iridescent glow on the fine mist descending around me. The promise of rain was in the air. Suddenly, my attention was drawn to the emergence of a rainbow arcing over the sea with one end touching its surface a couple hundreds yards away and the other end some 20 miles away at the horizon. (That's how far the horizon is, we are told.) The rainbow arc kept growing until both ends met to form a gigantic ring of colors hanging in the sky before me. I lost all sense of space because there was no frame of reference as the depth of field had disappeared when the ends of the rainbow met to become an awesome dimensionless phenomenon. My senses were still functioning but without any anchor to reality as we know it. The unnerving experience, that lasted several moments, disappeared as the rainbow faded and our physical world reasserted its presence.
There was nothing "spiritual" about my rainbow experience. It came unsolicited. It did shake my faith in the scientific account of the world: that we are human organisms living on Earth, a planet floating in an objective, physical universe. Be that as it may, our perception of reality governs every aspect of our lives. If we are to be free of duality, we need to correct the science in order to change our perception.
What do you say?
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Post by zendancer on May 13, 2022 15:41:17 GMT -5
Furthermore, the psychologically-felt boundary between inside and outside had also disappeared, and all that remained was a body/mind organism looking at the world. The "psychologically-felt boundary" had disappeared, you say. What about the "physically-felt" boundary?
I would put it this way, there is the actual and there is the imaginary, and all boundaries are imaginary in the sense that they are abstract distinctions. Conventionally speaking, the world is seen in the same way as before but with the understanding that what people call "boundaries" are not actual lines of demarcation. Just as there is no actual dividing line between what we call "a hand" and "an arm" there are no other actual dividing lines anywhere.
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Post by zendancer on May 13, 2022 15:53:34 GMT -5
Good question. Yes, I'm convinced about the shift from a personal to impersonal/personal (we have no exact words for pointing to the result of the shift ) perspective because that's what happened here on August 17, 1999 after hiking in the mountains while contemplating how such a shift to a non-dual unity-consciosness perspective could become permanent. This organism had had what I call a "hard-core" sense of selfhood that was probably a result of strongly identifying with numerous interests. It felt as if "I" was an entity inside the body, or inside the head, looking out of the eyes at an external world. On that day I/THIS had a deep emotional experience of extreme gratitude which left me feeling peaceful and buoyant. A few hours later I/THIS looked "inside" and the past sense of a "me" had totally vanished. It suddenly became obvious that there had never been a "me," and that the past sense of being a separate volitional entity had been a total illusion. I share your conviction about "a non-dual unity-consciousness". For me, this is still a work in progress and I have questions that I need to sort out. Your help in this regard would be great. I also had an experience that wiped out both the sense of a psychological "me", as well as, the physical nature of our worldly reality. It happened on a boat at sea. I was standing by its railing looking at a dark patch on the horizon. A squall was forming. The cloudy sky was still clear where I was, and the sun shone through casting an iridescent glow on the fine mist descending around me. The promise of rain was in the air. Suddenly, my attention was drawn to the emergence of a rainbow arcing over the sea with one end touching its surface a couple hundreds yards away and the other end some 20 miles away at the horizon. (That's how far the horizon is, we are told.) The rainbow arc kept growing until both ends met to form a gigantic ring of colors hanging in the sky before me. I lost all sense of space because there was no frame of reference as the depth of field had disappeared when the ends of the rainbow met to become an awesome dimensionless phenomenon. My senses were still functioning but without any anchor to reality as we know it. The unnerving experience, that lasted several moments, disappeared as the rainbow faded and our physical world reasserted its presence.
There was nothing "spiritual" about my rainbow experience. It came unsolicited. It did shake my faith in the scientific account of the world: that we are human organisms living on Earth, a planet floating in an objective, physical universe. Be that as it may, our perception of reality governs every aspect of our lives. If we are to be free of duality, we need to correct the science in order to change our perception.
What do you say?
I suspect that more and more scientists are waking up to the non-dual truth of what's going on, but scientists spend a lot of time being culturally-conditioned to think about reality as if it is an objective space-time continuum populated by separate things that interact with one another in particular ways. For this reason, alone, it may be harder for scientists to penetrate the illusion of separateness. Quantum mechanics, however, is changing this way of thinking about reality because it challenges the consensus paradigm in many ways, and even if they don't understand the actual truth of the matter, most scientists at least acknowledge that somehow the observer is an integral aspect of whatever is observed. Most of them, of course, haven't yet realized that when they look at the universe, they are looking at themselves. Fortunately, it is not necessary to correct the science to be free of duality. What we are is already non-dual, and a particular realization can make that obvious regardless of what scientists think.
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Post by zazeniac on May 14, 2022 8:12:53 GMT -5
I share your conviction about "a non-dual unity-consciousness". For me, this is still a work in progress and I have questions that I need to sort out. Your help in this regard would be great. I also had an experience that wiped out both the sense of a psychological "me", as well as, the physical nature of our worldly reality. It happened on a boat at sea. I was standing by its railing looking at a dark patch on the horizon. A squall was forming. The cloudy sky was still clear where I was, and the sun shone through casting an iridescent glow on the fine mist descending around me. The promise of rain was in the air. Suddenly, my attention was drawn to the emergence of a rainbow arcing over the sea with one end touching its surface a couple hundreds yards away and the other end some 20 miles away at the horizon. (That's how far the horizon is, we are told.) The rainbow arc kept growing until both ends met to form a gigantic ring of colors hanging in the sky before me. I lost all sense of space because there was no frame of reference as the depth of field had disappeared when the ends of the rainbow met to become an awesome dimensionless phenomenon. My senses were still functioning but without any anchor to reality as we know it. The unnerving experience, that lasted several moments, disappeared as the rainbow faded and our physical world reasserted its presence.
There was nothing "spiritual" about my rainbow experience. It came unsolicited. It did shake my faith in the scientific account of the world: that we are human organisms living on Earth, a planet floating in an objective, physical universe. Be that as it may, our perception of reality governs every aspect of our lives. If we are to be free of duality, we need to correct the science in order to change our perception.
What do you say?
I suspect that more and more scientists are waking up to the non-dual truth of what's going on, but scientists spend a lot of time being culturally-conditioned to think about reality as if it is an objective space-time continuum populated by separate things that interact with one another in particular ways. For this reason, alone, it may be harder for scientists to penetrate the illusion of separateness. Quantum mechanics, however, is changing this way of thinking about reality because it challenges the consensus paradigm in many ways, and even if they don't understand the actual truth of the matter, most scientists at least acknowledge that somehow the observer is an integral aspect of whatever is observed. Most of them, of course, haven't yet realized that when they look at the universe, they are looking at themselves. Fortunately, it is not necessary to correct the science to be free of duality. What we are is already non-dual, and a particular realization can make that obvious regardless of what scientists think. "Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else."[ Erwin Schrodinger
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Post by zendancer on May 14, 2022 15:04:56 GMT -5
I suspect that more and more scientists are waking up to the non-dual truth of what's going on, but scientists spend a lot of time being culturally-conditioned to think about reality as if it is an objective space-time continuum populated by separate things that interact with one another in particular ways. For this reason, alone, it may be harder for scientists to penetrate the illusion of separateness. Quantum mechanics, however, is changing this way of thinking about reality because it challenges the consensus paradigm in many ways, and even if they don't understand the actual truth of the matter, most scientists at least acknowledge that somehow the observer is an integral aspect of whatever is observed. Most of them, of course, haven't yet realized that when they look at the universe, they are looking at themselves. Fortunately, it is not necessary to correct the science to be free of duality. What we are is already non-dual, and a particular realization can make that obvious regardless of what scientists think. "Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else."[ Erwin Schrodinger Yes, Schrodinger and some of the other pioneers of QM realized that at some level everything is unified and that awareness is, in Niz's words, primordial to all else.
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Post by ouroboros on May 15, 2022 6:32:37 GMT -5
The "psychologically-felt boundary" had disappeared, you say. What about the "physically-felt" boundary?
I would put it this way, there is the actual and there is the imaginary, and all boundaries are imaginary in the sense that they are abstract distinctions. Conventionally speaking, the world is seen in the same way as before but with the understanding that what people call "boundaries" are not actual lines of demarcation. Just as there is no actual dividing line between what we call "a hand" and "an arm" there are no other actual dividing lines anywhere. I always think that for the sake of balance it should be acknowledged that perception itself effectively is a process of distinction, on every level :- that is to say both sensory/psychological. What people call "boundaries" are like shifting sands. Yet we can predict what time the sun will rise tomorrow … or imagine it if you like.
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Post by zazeniac on May 15, 2022 8:04:20 GMT -5
I share your conviction about "a non-dual unity-consciousness". For me, this is still a work in progress and I have questions that I need to sort out. Your help in this regard would be great. I also had an experience that wiped out both the sense of a psychological "me", as well as, the physical nature of our worldly reality. It happened on a boat at sea. I was standing by its railing looking at a dark patch on the horizon. A squall was forming. The cloudy sky was still clear where I was, and the sun shone through casting an iridescent glow on the fine mist descending around me. The promise of rain was in the air. Suddenly, my attention was drawn to the emergence of a rainbow arcing over the sea with one end touching its surface a couple hundreds yards away and the other end some 20 miles away at the horizon. (That's how far the horizon is, we are told.) The rainbow arc kept growing until both ends met to form a gigantic ring of colors hanging in the sky before me. I lost all sense of space because there was no frame of reference as the depth of field had disappeared when the ends of the rainbow met to become an awesome dimensionless phenomenon. My senses were still functioning but without any anchor to reality as we know it. The unnerving experience, that lasted several moments, disappeared as the rainbow faded and our physical world reasserted its presence.
There was nothing "spiritual" about my rainbow experience. It came unsolicited. It did shake my faith in the scientific account of the world: that we are human organisms living on Earth, a planet floating in an objective, physical universe. Be that as it may, our perception of reality governs every aspect of our lives. If we are to be free of duality, we need to correct the science in order to change our perception.
What do you say?
I suspect that more and more scientists are waking up to the non-dual truth of what's going on, but scientists spend a lot of time being culturally-conditioned to think about reality as if it is an objective space-time continuum populated by separate things that interact with one another in particular ways. For this reason, alone, it may be harder for scientists to penetrate the illusion of separateness. Quantum mechanics, however, is changing this way of thinking about reality because it challenges the consensus paradigm in many ways, and even if they don't understand the actual truth of the matter, most scientists at least acknowledge that somehow the observer is an integral aspect of whatever is observed. Most of them, of course, haven't yet realized that when they look at the universe, they are looking at themselves. Fortunately, it is not necessary to correct the science to be free of duality. What we are is already non-dual, and a particular realization can make that obvious regardless of what scientists think. Just pointing out that scientists views on reality aren't monolithic. They come in many flavors including logical positivists, but not exclusively. It is interesting to me how ideology seems to taint almost everything now. I prefer Baghavan's advice about reforming the world, that you start with yourself. It is so hard to do though.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2022 18:02:11 GMT -5
I suspect that more and more scientists are waking up to the non-dual truth of what's going on, but scientists spend a lot of time being culturally-conditioned to think about reality as if it is an objective space-time continuum populated by separate things that interact with one another in particular ways. For this reason, alone, it may be harder for scientists to penetrate the illusion of separateness. Quantum mechanics, however, is changing this way of thinking about reality because it challenges the consensus paradigm in many ways, and even if they don't understand the actual truth of the matter, most scientists at least acknowledge that somehow the observer is an integral aspect of whatever is observed. Most of them, of course, haven't yet realized that when they look at the universe, they are looking at themselves. Fortunately, it is not necessary to correct the science to be free of duality. What we are is already non-dual, and a particular realization can make that obvious regardless of what scientists think. Just pointing out that scientists views on reality aren't monolithic. They come in many flavors including logical positivists, but not exclusively. It is interesting to me how ideology seems to taint almost everything now. I prefer Baghavan's advice about reforming the world, that you start with yourself. It is so hard to do though. .. asking ourselves how we want to feel today and then making to-feel lists so that we attract experiences that match that sort of feeling or state of being.. .. LOA in combination with your inner guidance system, once you've understood it, is your best friend. It is consistent and never fails you. It may break some of your self-delusions from time to time, like when you think you are long past certain feeling states and suddenly a series of manifestations shows you that the exact opposite is true, but that can be fun too, once you know what that means and how to deal with it. It's all a matter of perspective after all. spiritualteachers.proboards.com/post/484990
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Post by zazeniac on May 16, 2022 8:25:25 GMT -5
Just pointing out that scientists views on reality aren't monolithic. They come in many flavors including logical positivists, but not exclusively. It is interesting to me how ideology seems to taint almost everything now. I prefer Baghavan's advice about reforming the world, that you start with yourself. It is so hard to do though. .. asking ourselves how we want to feel today and then making to-feel lists so that we attract experiences that match that sort of feeling or state of being.. .. LOA in combination with your inner guidance system, once you've understood it, is your best friend. It is consistent and never fails you. It may break some of your self-delusions from time to time, like when you think you are long past certain feeling states and suddenly a series of manifestations shows you that the exact opposite is true, but that can be fun too, once you know what that means and how to deal with it. It's all a matter of perspective after all. spiritualteachers.proboards.com/post/484990Think Baghavan was referring to self inquiry in this. Turning focus away from mental objects. I like the way Hedderman phrases it "living in what's not happening;" it's the opposite, of course. Just being. Silent.
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Post by laughter on May 16, 2022 10:13:23 GMT -5
Good question. Yes, I'm convinced about the shift from a personal to impersonal/personal (we have no exact words for pointing to the result of the shift ) perspective because that's what happened here on August 17, 1999 after hiking in the mountains while contemplating how such a shift to a non-dual unity-consciosness perspective could become permanent. This organism had had what I call a "hard-core" sense of selfhood that was probably a result of strongly identifying with numerous interests. It felt as if "I" was an entity inside the body, or inside the head, looking out of the eyes at an external world. On that day I/THIS had a deep emotional experience of extreme gratitude which left me feeling peaceful and buoyant. A few hours later I/THIS looked "inside" and the past sense of a "me" had totally vanished. It suddenly became obvious that there had never been a "me," and that the past sense of being a separate volitional entity had been a total illusion. I share your conviction about "a non-dual unity-consciousness". For me, this is still a work in progress and I have questions that I need to sort out. Your help in this regard would be great. I also had an experience that wiped out both the sense of a psychological "me", as well as, the physical nature of our worldly reality. It happened on a boat at sea. I was standing by its railing looking at a dark patch on the horizon. A squall was forming. The cloudy sky was still clear where I was, and the sun shone through casting an iridescent glow on the fine mist descending around me. The promise of rain was in the air. Suddenly, my attention was drawn to the emergence of a rainbow arcing over the sea with one end touching its surface a couple hundreds yards away and the other end some 20 miles away at the horizon. (That's how far the horizon is, we are told.) The rainbow arc kept growing until both ends met to form a gigantic ring of colors hanging in the sky before me. I lost all sense of space because there was no frame of reference as the depth of field had disappeared when the ends of the rainbow met to become an awesome dimensionless phenomenon. My senses were still functioning but without any anchor to reality as we know it. The unnerving experience, that lasted several moments, disappeared as the rainbow faded and our physical world reasserted its presence.
There was nothing "spiritual" about my rainbow experience. It came unsolicited. It did shake my faith in the scientific account of the world: that we are human organisms living on Earth, a planet floating in an objective, physical universe. Be that as it may, our perception of reality governs every aspect of our lives. If we are to be free of duality, we need to correct the science in order to change our perception.
What do you say?
Thanks for sharing that. Science, and the intellect are great tools, useful for all sorts of purpose. They can even be helpful in terms of a journey of self-inquiry, but only to a point. Any intellect is limited, and even the collective efforts of many minds will ultimately be faced with the unknown, always the greater relative extent than the known. The very nature of intellect is limitation, by way of distinction, and by way of bringing the unknown, into the known. Objective reason can help sort out various falsity, and so, to a point, can be useful in saying what you are not. But, an eye can never see anything but a reflection of itself, and what you are is, in actuality, unbounded. Altered states of consciousness like the one you described are a sort of flashlight that pierces the haze of our conditioning, and I can certainly relate to having been conditioned to see the world in objective, reasonable and limited terms.
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Post by sree on May 16, 2022 16:55:59 GMT -5
The "psychologically-felt boundary" had disappeared, you say. What about the "physically-felt" boundary?
I would put it this way, there is the actual and there is the imaginary, and all boundaries are imaginary in the sense that they are abstract distinctions. Conventionally speaking, the world is seen in the same way as before but with the understanding that what people call "boundaries" are not actual lines of demarcation. Just as there is no actual dividing line between what we call "a hand" and "an arm" there are no other actual dividing lines anywhere. This is pretty deep stuff.
“All boundaries are imaginary”, zendancer says. I like that. Let’s get serious about this.
The world is now conventionally perceived only one way: physics, the way of the hard sciences. This is the consensus worldview of objective reality where the rock (matter) that we stub our toe on is “out there” separate from us, the observer (non-matter). This actual boundary line of demarcation separating us (conscious subject) from the rock (material object) is an abstract distinction, you say. I don’t have a problem with this because I can resolve “the hard problem of consciousness”. But I would like to know your solution to this problem. If it is consistent with mine, then it would be incumbent on us to publish our finding and submit it for peer review in academia.
“Unity-consciousness” needs to take its rightful place in our conventional life. For that to happen, a paradigm change in conventional consciousness must occur to alter our consensus worldview from one of self to one of Source.
Are you on board with me?
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Post by laughter on May 16, 2022 23:24:13 GMT -5
Thank you for the welcome, zendancer.
The "neural network" is part of the scientific account of reality. Science says that we are biological organisms, human beings - with neural networks - living on Earth. You seem convinced that it is possible for the human organism to switch from a selfish personal neural network to a unity-consciousness neural network.
How does this unity-consciousness neural network inform perception that enables the individual human organism to fend for itself? Do space and time still exist for such a human organism that needs to be fed, clothed, and sheltered?
Good question. Yes, I'm convinced about the shift from a personal to impersonal/personal (we have no exact words for pointing to the result of the shift ) perspective because that's what happened here on August 17, 1999 after hiking in the mountains while contemplating how such a shift to a non-dual unity-consciosness perspective could become permanent. This organism had had what I call a "hard-core" sense of selfhood that was probably a result of strongly identifying with numerous interests. It felt as if "I" was an entity inside the body, or inside the head, looking out of the eyes at an external world. On that day I/THIS had a deep emotional experience of extreme gratitude which left me feeling peaceful and buoyant. A few hours later I/THIS looked "inside" and the past sense of a "me" had totally vanished. It suddenly became obvious that there had never been a "me," and that the past sense of being a separate volitional entity had been a total illusion. Furthermore, the psychologically-felt boundary between inside and outside had also disappeared, and all that remained was a body/mind organism looking at the world. I/THIS then realized that the actual doer of everything was always the process of reality, which is a unified infinite field of being that I now refer to as "THIS." It can be called "God," "Tao," Self," "the Unborn," "Source," or "The Absolute." THIS is what sees, hears, thinks, walks, and talks in the form of humans, and it is what causes flowers to bloom in the Spring. Seeing the truth ended the spiritual search for understanding and resulted in psychological freedom and a sense of "flow." After the sense of a separate "me" vanished, a felt sense of simple beingness, or oneness with "what is," is what remained, and life continued just as before but without all of the past self-referential thought patterns of the past. What I realized that day, and what became more and more embodied over the last 22 years, is that THIS takes care of everything and THIS runs the whole show. Every human, animal, plant, rock, star, and galaxy is THIS, and THIS is what causes a human heart to beat 100,000 times per day from birth until the body dies. Any human who discovers THIS instantly loses all fear of death because it is seen that THIS is beyond birth and death. Because this organism has pursued a particular meditative activity for more than 35 years, the mind is now extremely silent, and I/THIS often drives a car in silence. The other day a car/THIS coming toward me/THIS in the opposing lane began drifting across the center line toward my car/THIS. In total mental silence THIS began defensively steering the car toward the right shoulder of the road, and would probably have left the road completely and driven into an adjacent field if the driver/THIS of the oncoming car had not noticed what was happening and swerved back into the "correct"lane. There was no "me" involved in anything that happened. If the mind becomes silent, it becomes obvious that THIS is the actual doer of everything. Any human who discovers THIS can relax and simply be what one already is and has always been. What you are is also THIS, and to discover this simple truth just become still and watch. You can't go wrong no matter what you do, because what you actually are is taking care of everything. Cheers!
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2022 1:57:00 GMT -5
Think Baghavan was referring to self inquiry in this. Turning focus away from mental objects. I like the way Hedderman phrases it "living in what's not happening;" it's the opposite, of course. Just being. Silent. If you sincerely want to be more connected to feeling and being in the energy of this moment then you will be. Activating the conceptual mind and then using it to say you don't want to activate it, just looks like misuse to me.. and yeah you might want such ventures to end.
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