R.V. Star replied to the topic A proof that consciousness is non-physical in...
@eliot, “So I would say non-physical would encompass subjective experiences that are not based in the materialistic world (like dreams, OBEs, psychedelic trips…).” Don’t all these things take place as...
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@cognizantelephant, “But if it’s all just a phase of this life, should we do anything about it?” If it’s just a phase, then let’s put it behind us. I think if people could understand that they aren’t...
View ArticleR.V. Star replied to the topic A proof that consciousness is non-physical in...
@eliot, I would say that the brain is material, and the mind is an immaterial outgrowth of that. The mind is definitely subjective. But It seems to me that in between and every where, there is a thing...
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@healingchime, I am perceiving, but there doesn’t seem to be any evidence for a perceiver of percieving
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@angzilla, you are not your mind/thoughts
View ArticleR.V. Star replied to the topic WTF is "normal"? in the forum Epiphanies & Ideas
@adamm0ss, a collective hallucination
View ArticleR.V. Star replied to the topic Happiness and temptation in the forum Mind
@feeltheburn, isn’t your desire for happiness just another desire/temptation that you are supposed to let go of? You have a desire to let go of desires….
View ArticleR.V. Star replied to the topic Food for thought, take action of your world in...
@breynolds1633, have you considered that the current state of things might be a natural phase in the life cycle of hunanity? I’m fairly certain there were wars and greedy assholes before money. Why?...
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@feeltheburn, what would you do once you achieved complete happiness? If you’re seeking happiness, the key verb here is seeking and it implies a lack. If you are always seeking instead of happying...
View ArticleR.V. Star replied to the topic Happiness and temptation in the forum Mind
@feeltheburn, Yeah, I think a lot of people are incessantly seeking happiness, which is why many of them aren’t happy.
View ArticleR.V. Star replied to the topic Food for thought, take action of your world in...
@breynolds1633, wouldn’t we then have social classes based on who controlled the most resources used for bartering and trading?
View ArticleR.V. Star replied to the topic Help me focus on the present in the forum Mind
@danryan, when did all your day dreaming and shifting of focus happen? Now. Right? It’s natural to be distracted while doing things you dont want to be doing. Your mind has its own priorities that it...
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perfect human beings are boring human beings..nothing is happening….so tell people they need to change, be more of this or that, and spend a buck along the way
View ArticleR.V. Star replied to the topic After Death, in the forum Epiphanies & Ideas
@mitchel9997, YOU can’t be dead. If there’s no “afterlife” then there’s just nothing and not even perception of nothing. If there is an afterlife then you just keep going on as usual. Either way,...
View ArticleR.V. Star replied to the topic Too much meditation? in the forum Mind
@iluvdamusic, well if you got angry, then so what? The idea that meditation is always supposed to make you serene and whatnot is false. I usually meditate twenty to thirty minutes at a time. Either...
View ArticleR.V. Star replied to the topic Too much meditation? in the forum Mind
@iluvdamusic, Good book. “So when the thoughts come do you dismiss them or continue thinking about that thought?” I let the thoughts go for however long they want to go. Sometimes they don’t go very...
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Reality is not words.
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@mateamkalib, Yeah depends why you are smoking and how you react to different strains. I used it for insomnia and I found that if I smoked indica leaning strains then I wouldn’t be put out of my mind...
View ArticleR.V. Star replied to the topic Why are people spacing out instead of in? in...
Where does the world appear to be? In our minds, right? Where does the mind appear to be? In our bodies? Which are in the world, right?
View ArticleR.V. Star replied to the topic The 3 Frames of Consciousness (Alan Watts) in...
@justinr, Great lectures from Alan Watts… I think it is largely metaphorical, but it points to the truth that we are not just a body/mind
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