That was absolutely brilliant, everything i've thought about consciousness just got taken to a WHOLE new other level. Incredible some of these thoughts were brought up over 100 and two hundred years ago and by Yogi's, who've had it right for a millenium and we're just catching up, incredible! Thank you :)
Remarkably lucid. As a former physicist and current Diamond Approach student, I really appreciate his attention to detail and rigorous search for the truth in both the world of physics and the world of consciousness.
An excellent presentation done by Peter...If any feathers were ruffled, I assure you, it's for the Highest Good,,,From my Heart, with my Heart, to your Heart, Thanks for posting !!!
What i think: im a warrior "ego" an this should be "spirit" or "real" What i am: a mercenary paid by a nation "conscience" perhaps it should be "ego" "fake" Delination point: shackled by mass consensus of nation state politics What im labeled by society in either direction: a killer "terrorist", a killer with a cause "revolutionary/patroit", insert psychological mumbo jumbo of character analysis What i think: im a healer "ego" "real" What i do: sell drugs "conscience" "fake" Delination point: selling prescription drugs, legal Selling non prescription drugs, illegal What society thinks: young: thats cool Old: bad Make sense of this? Lol
I don't know that thought IS 'ego' but certainly what I am is conscious (not "consciousness" because 'ness' implies attribute). Conscious IS what I AM. Thus when I am not conscious I am not. Here we get a clue as to why the word 'conscious' is bereft of a definition. The word 'conscious' is a mere decoration of language in the way 'eh' was when I was young. "Know what I mean, eh"?
Wow! What a most appropriate way to end this fascinating talk: By quoting the Indian mystic, Nisargadatta. “The world you perceive is made of consciousness. What you call matter is consciousness itself.” What Sri Ramana Maharshi, and Meherbaba, and Nisargadatta, and Swami Vivekananda have said are not their original ideas or thoughts. All of them have only quoted from the Upanishads found in the Vedas, the scriptures that the Hindus consider holy or sacred. And what you find in the Upanishads is the truth revealed to the Hindu Sages at least three thousand years ago as they meditated. According to these Upanishads, mind is also matter, but composed of “subtle matter” ; and matter has consciousness also, the difference is only in the degree of awareness. Yes, “Matter as we know it exists only in the mind.” How true! Science is only beginning to understand and catch up with what was known to the ancient rishis of India thousands of years ago. Yesh Prabhu, Bushkill, Pennsylvania
+Free Speech Pack it in everyone, escape your spells. The ultimate truth has been reconciled right here! That or incisive and challenging questions to your rigid atheist worldview is perceived as a slight and makes you emotional.
+Free Speech I'm no adherent to any single perspective of reality other than my own. I'm skeptical by nature and glean what I can from as many perspectives as I can. These are confounding and interesting questions that nobody has all the answers to and therefore aren't at all illegitimate. But being interested in these questions makes me a moron (heretic) apparently.
One of the most real explanations of consciousnesses creating the glorious mysteries of Love , the essence of our Creators ultimate consciousness -love ....in our earthly many forms of humans , animals etc that make up the material results of the CORE OF IT ALL BEING LOVE . ..,,therefore the more Love we become conscious of .,..the more love we become and ....that results in more unity together with our entire existence of thought YESSSSS
Very interesting. I agree with a lot of what Peter Russell spoke about. But, I am glad one of the questions posed was "how do you prove it?" And, the answer - "I don't know." So, the journey continues...
I have been thinking this a lot lately. That all is consciousness. I even see it and feel it in more and more things. The dog, the cow, the insects flying around, the wind that rustles the leaves...
the solution ~ change yourself: Picture a child you love very much at the age of 2 years old. Imagine this child before you and focus on the feelings of love you have for this child. Focus on your love for the child until it has expanded so much that you are smiling and feeling joy. After you have maintained this feeling for a few minutes, move this child to the side and place in front of you ~ yourself at the age of 2. Picture yourself now at the age of 2 and keep focusing on the feelings you built up for the first child ~ is not the second child as precious as the first? You are now loving yourself ~ stay with the feeling and expand it further ~ open your heart. Now that you know how to get into a feeling of love for yourself, you can change your age to focus on areas that may be more difficult for you to love yourself. Do this exercise daily and loving yourself will be become your natural response to yourself
Clearly consciousness creates a virtual reality for us which is the map of the reality of nature but not the actual reality as such which would forever remain elusive to us .
We talk about consciousness but we forget that we are consciousness. What body system is speaking through mouth is not you. You are consciousness or awareness aware of body and words coming from mouth. Good vedio. Thanks very much.
"We talk about consciousness but we forget that we are consciousness." Well not quite. Try instead... We talk about consciousness but we forget that we are conscious.
There are tools to break through this dead dullness of matter and realize the essence of this cosmos and our existence and beyond. Yogis of different sorts have enumerated various paths for this. SatChidAnanda sums up the basis of reality - Existence-Knowledge(Consciousnesses)-Bliss
Brahman is where our pure consciousness exist, the consciousness of our true selves, the full awakning. How I know this? How can I prove it? First, I know it by my own experience, and secondly; I can't prove it for anyone, this is something every each person has to discover by them selves. But with correct guidens everyone can experience it. A fast guide to achieve it: You have to sit down and meditate, focus on a middle point between your eyebrows. You have to collect all the awareness on this point. The point is that you should only be conscious about this point. By breathing correctly you will lose yourself more and more into this point, the breathing makes you be more conscious about this point. In this way you will stop being conscious about all the 5 senses, your inner world like, picture, feelings, your inner dialog. When you have disconnected yourself from all these things, you suddenly falling down with your consciousness into your heart region. So in this stage you are only conscious of your existens with out thoughts feelings and all other stuff, the only thing you are experience is total emptiness, darkness, you are just a constant conscious ARE... But, there is an equalent for this stage where you can experience fullness, brightntess, and you will experience that by your souls desire to move backwards, like that you have a body inside another body that wants to move out by pushing you out from the body backward. This is something you have to figure out by yourselv when you are in this stage. Now I said your consciousness fell down into the heart region, so when you are seperating yourself backward you will escape your self through your heart, while doing so you will experience light, the more you seperate from your body, the more light you will experience, the universe feels like it shrinks, and you will feel like you're getting bigger, until you feel like the universe has a size of a sand corn and you are a gaient made of pure spiritual, conscious light. The feeling by seperating is like you vibrating out from the universe, it feels like you're going through trillions of trillions of small vibrating unseen particles and at the same time you are melting into like a big sun and you also become the sun at the end, and there or no vibrations anylonger, only pure spiritual light. In this stage you won't feel if you're big or small cause you left the universe, you don't have anything to relate with, you are only one with the light, and there are no past or future, only now, only a constant now that is constatnly refreshing itself. This spiritual light is amazing, you got the most happy feeling, your consciousness is like you know everything, knowing unlimited things at same time. It's hard to tell, because our brain can't imagin this state, you have to go through this process to experience by yourself. I have much to say about it. I felt like I became God, because of this unlimited knowledge, this absolute awakeness, total happiness, eternity, ect. The only thing you can't do is to do something, you can only BE... nothing more, only to BE and experience all these wonderful things that is going on at same time in the present of NOW. As soon your soul, or self wanna do something you will be throwen out from this Super Conscious State into this material universe. That what happen to me when I desired to do something. In this Brahman light there is no place for doings, doings is for material world. So when you feel to do something you will be throwen out in an eye blink, it feels like you are jumping into a sea of mud, from being in a water of pure water you are thrown back into a water of dirty mud, you are going through this trillions dense of vibration until you are back into the dark quietness of your body, and from there you have to desire to raise your consciousness up to your brain to shut on the machinery so you can start with your inner dialoge, to access your memories and stuff like that: I just wanted to tell :) Do it and you will experience the exactly the same thing. It can take time, but if you practice and are very determint to achieve this, you'll get it. The way is easy to understand, but to do it can be tricky, the brain doesn't want you to stop thinking and trying to capture your attention on various things, just focus on the point in the middle of your eyes, when you have nearly all conscious collected to thins point you will have to power of your brain, you will be the commander, if you wanna shut down all the processes in your brain like stop talking to yourselv you will be doing that in a second. Just a tip. Wish the scientist could go through this process too, this will be a intressting peace to include in there equations. Happy journey.
A lot of grammer mistakes and spellings. I just wrote this down as fast as I could without going through the text. English is not my mother language. But atleast I tried to explain the process of becoming one with Brahman. Now you can call Brahman what ever, because there is no name in Brahman. I would call the material world to have a low quality energy, and brahman a high quality energy. Some may wanna describe it as material energy and spiritual energy, but anyways... all these are all about energies, what ever the name you give it.
Max Planck 1944: “All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.”
At 34:43 Speaker says " ..we are the universes way of recognizing, that there is only consciousness.." I would suggest that this idea should be lovingly observed and taken to even deeper understanding.
@saniyagamer-xd2oq I don't think so exactly, or maybe what you are calling soul they would call consciousness, at its essence, without ego or assumptions.. then yes, there is an intelligence to everything- there is information- being- maybe even an aware essence to all, and that exist inherently in everything. What do you mean when you say the word "soul"? Maybe that should be my first question!
There's no reason to believe that a desk isn't conscious. But a desk, not being a brain, is certainly conscious of something different than thoughts, sights and sounds.
We are all conscious now and that is the truth. Forces oppose that is a fact. We may never get to what ever the one true answer is but we also may already be there... We are metaphysically growing back towards the earth ,not up inbonding
It is like visiting a confluence of two religions: Science as the West understands it and the East that has been constantly saying about it from the Vedanta point of view. That the modern Scientists have come round to accept the Non Dual theory of Shankar is very much welcome. Thanks to the illuminating speaker.
Egocentricity, too many thoughts create confusion and counteract cosciousness. We are spirit having a human experience, until we allow self awareness and understand what drives us subconsciously we can only limit ourselves to what we think we are. Yes, it is what it is and acheiving stillness to be present in the now is the only way to original thought and authentic self. Expand consciousness by allowing yourself to experience outside whatever perception you have from your belief system. Connect with each other and create awareness through the knowing of instinct as spirit not human. This is how we understand the reason why we are here, doing what we are doing as flesh and blood, pain and pleasure. When we free ourselves from the restaint of ideas that limit us to thinking that is all we are, we have expanded consciousness. Acheiving true joy and only then having the awareness to understand. We are made of the same stuff as the universe, the patterns are there to see clearly. We are working parts of something bigger just as the bacteria inside our bodies are necessary for our funnctionality. Consciousness is being aware that we are all the same, hate and negativity cannot exist when we understand this. Be in love energy and it's easy to know what our journey means. 💖
Consciousness is the stillness in the momentum of now. The centre of , hot - cold , inside - outside and so on, the division that separates decision, the awareness of being .
McLovinYaMam What is "NOW"? Is now the reaction of the observable? My consciousness or the part of me that is in now ,is always that fragment ahead of my "realtime" experience. This I think is the purpose of existence , to work this out ,certainly we all feel it. It is at the cusp of all beliefs, What is it? A universal reaction taking place in the initial moment of momentum? A virtual program? A moment cannot be measured, yet it can be anticipated. I don't even pretend to know the answer to this , as it is just ahead of what I think is the real me , like the dragon eating it's own tail , it cannot consume itself entirely.
Universal conciousness permeates everything and individual counciuosness is just a part of the bigger one. Individual conciousness is a parallel on, happening there where the attention is. For example: Just because you can see a tree on the other side of the planet it does not mean it does not exist, but in fact it does exist because of its own part in the Universal conciousness. Its like a constant interconection of manifestation through this massive and no measurable consciousness that comprehends the all...At least, not measurable from a smaller portion of conciuosness.
The nature of reality isn't about atoms or pieces of the whole it's about the entire whole. The fact that we can't even see the pieces reinforces the idea of looking for answers by looking at the whole.
In answer to the question at the end as to how can we prove consciousness, I remember a lecture on Vedanta on the seer and the seen...The eyes see the book and the eyes are the seer, the mind knows what the eyes see and the mind is the knower, our conscious/awareness experiences the mind so consciousness is the seer and the mind is the seen. when it gets to consciousness they are strategically silent about being able to observe consciousness. Not that it is unknowable but that it is more than known, form Swami Vivekananda," The self is never an object of knowledge". This consciousness is the self.
Any ideas and concepts conducive for our growth whether materialistic or spiritual should be followed and practiced unless proved otherwise.Knowing the infinite through our finite mind limited by time and space!
materialists scientists often refer to consciousness as the hard problem. but you know what, it's only a hard problem if you hold to the belief in materialism, which is just that, a belief. there's simply no way to prove that all that exists is matter and the re-arrangements of it and that there's nothing beyond that. so these scientists are as religious as religious people. their epistemological foundation is completely made up of unprovable beliefs.
When someome says it’s all just matter, what are they saying really? What do they mean by ‘matter’, exactly? Sometimes you’ll get an answer to that in terms of protons and quarks and stuff, but that’s essentially just defining things in terms of other undefined things. All those concepts like matter and electrons and quarks are very useful in the sense that they quite well model how reality appears to behave, and predict what we’re likely to experience in what circumstances. But by no means whatsoever does it explain WHAT IT IS. 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Dream stuff. Imaginability. It all seems to be imaginings. And some of them are capable of becoming very dense and longer lasting than others. But it's all continuum. Infinity making partitions of itself, while still essentially being infinity, or call it PlayDough. It's all the same suchness, transforming into resistances that hold together against other resistances, though it's all the same suchness.
35:35 Question " It's an interesting idea but how can I determine if it's true or not." By applying the the scientific method. Start with the conjecture (hypothesis), derive predictions as logical consequences, and then carry out experiments or empirical observations based on those predictions. To do so one needs to first thoroughly wrap ones brain around the hypothesis that consciousness is primary and then make some predictions that follow from that and could be tested.
high quality and high volume data transfer, self shaping through some mechanism, in us repetition of similar data transfers, sensory inputs of some kind, and a set of flexible inbuilt goals. There is not a doubt in my mind that consciousness can arise from the combination of these things. We simply haven't done so yet out of technical difficulty.
Consciousness can't exist without the universe, universe can't exist without consciousness. The universe needs to be observed in order to exist. I believe consciousness & universe is twined and feeds off each other
All i need to know is that I have no knowledge of the universe before I was born, I've only ever heard 2 hand accounts. From my perspective the universe is there to be observed, the more you observe and appreciate the more it gives. Nothing is created for no reason, including life. We are all one cog in an enormous wheel that I don't think anyone can explain imo
You're speaking of subjective, not objective experience. My point is that if humans were extinct tomorrow, the moon would still be there, taking the occasional meteor impact. It's real regardless.
"Does the harmony which human intelligence thinks it discovers in Nature exist apart from such intelligence? Assuredly no. A reality completely independent of the spirit that conceives it, sees it or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so external as that, even if it existed, would be for ever inaccessible to us. What we call "objective reality" is, strictly speaking, that which is common to several thinking beings and might be common to all; this common part, we shall see, can only be the harmony expressed by mathematical laws." - Poincare' The Value of Science
Interesting - I think the speaker just verbalized the panpsychism argument a bit better than I've heard done before - he motivated quite well how you just can't draw that line. But I still just can't quite by into the idea. I don't know if I'll get this point across well, but it somehow it feels like that panpsychism requires us to solve the problem twice. That is, the laws of physics have to cause all the itty bits to go together in a way that makes the physical world, and simultaneously with that those same fundamental entities have to combine "one bit consciousness" in just the right way to make complex minds. If the "laws of physics" and the "laws of consciousness" are that similar, then I would lean heavily toward there only being one thing from the jump. Based on that, I think idealism is a better answer. Consciousness is fundamental. Maybe it starts simple and builds up, or maybe different complexity conscious entities just exist to start with. But that's all there is at the fundamental level. The physical world then is a manifestation of the interactions of conscious beings. It feels simpler to me.
Spiritual scientists are the most reliable scientists :) The popular science as we know it is merely knowledge limited to what we observe. Also disappointing to know that this consciousness theory was the point of basically all religions but the followers failed to acknowledge this and turned it into something completely different.
+avarmauk Better yet, I dropped out of school at 4. Jk. Anyway, what point are you trying to get across? That everything we observe is the only reality there is?
avarmauk Maybe start doubting your open mindedness and own intelligence. You seem rather bigoted. If you actually believe that everything revolves around the human and is limited to our observation, that is quite funny.
anityy I'm open to evidence. Seeing as this is void of any it simply a load of unsubstantiated claims. Like I said, you don't understand Science and probably never will. It's a shame really
"The sole purpose of creation is for the soul to enjoy the infinite state of the Oversoul consciously. Although the soul eternally exists in and with the Oversoul in an inviolable unity, it cannot be conscious of this unity independently of creation, which is within the limitations of time. It must therefore evolve consciousness before it can realize its true status and nature as being identical with the infinite Oversoul, which is one without a second. The evolution of consciousness requires the duality of subject and object - the center of consciousness and the environment (that is, the world of forms)." ...... "How does the soul get caught up in Illusion? How did the formless, infinite, and eternal Soul come to experience itself as having form and as being finite and destructible? How did Purusha, or the supreme Spirit, come to think of itself as prakriti, or the world of nature? In other words, what is the cause of the cosmic Illusion in which the individualized soul finds itself? To realize the true status of the Oversoul - which is one, indivisible, real, and infinite - the soul needs consciousness. The soul does get consciousness; however this consciousness is not of God but of the universe, not of the Oversoul but of its shadow, not of the One but of many, not of the Infinite but of the finite, not of the Eternal but of the transitory. Thus the soul, instead of realizing the Oversoul, gets involved in cosmic Illusion; and hence, though really infinite, it comes to experience itself as finite. In other words, when the soul develops consciousness, it does not become conscious of its own true nature but of the phenomenal world, which is its own shadow." Meher Baba
The oversouls have individualized units of consciousness like you and me , we have many simultaneous incarnations all experiencing and feeding back to the oversoul.. The Seth books and matrix books are awesome...
Love the comments here. People sure do get worked up over consciousness. "Woowoo Science" is my favorite term. We so lack the words to discuss these experiences, language devolves into childish terms. Lets begin with Dr. Greyson's talk "Is Consciousness Produced by the Brain?" (on youtube) He cites medical cases where the brain was not functioning, could not function and yet people see, hear and remember experiences they shouldn't have. People with severe alzheimers who suddenly regain all their consciousness and memories moments, hours, or days prior to death - but autopsies show their brains should not have been able to do so. As if the "filters" that prevent us from accessing this information have been shut down. Thousands of cases of people having near death experiences with the same hallmarks - some who were blind since birth, and yet accurately described colors they saw in the operating room. (Sam Parnia's "The Awareness Project") So let's begin there. Consciousness in not, cannot only be produced by the brain. Then follow the accounts of people who claim consistently that they've visited other "realms" that they describe as "home" or "where we all return after death." (I've filmed 26 sessions of people doing so, I chose subjects for their skepticism, backgrounds in science, and the results have been consistent throughout). I offer transcripts from these sessions and cite a number of scientists in "It's a Wonderful Afterlife". Near death experiencers, people under deep hypnosis, people in comas, some out of body experiencers report the same basic hallmarks of this "realm that's not here" where they claim to have conscious memories, not only of past lives, but a life and journey between lives. It's not philosophy or belief - or woowoo science - it's just reporting what thousands have said consistently. It's only data. We shouldn't dislike or fear data - but examine it to see how we can apply it to the world in front of us. If its true what these people are consistently saying about consciousness, then we do choose to come to this planet, we choose our parents, and our fields of endeavor for specifice reasons. And if that's true, then doesn't it make sense to leave behind a planet that has fresh air, water and land? But don't take my word for it, examine the reports for yourself. ("Flipside" or "Its a Wonderful Afterlife" talks available on youtube at MartiniProds).
The perplexing thing to me is this. If matter is consciousness taking form, then each atom in my brain is conscious. Why is it that when I open my eyes I am conscious of a WHOLE wide picture - a whole group of conscious atoms (retina, nerves, brain etc) working together to display a whole image to this 'consciousness' that simultaneously is aware of multiple atoms (and yet not those outside of my body), rather than each individual atom being conscious of receiving a single photon etc. Presumably consciousness is existing in multiple viewpoints/levels everywhere in my body, so my thumb is also conscious. The puzzling thing is that all these individual cells and atoms each conscious in themselves all somehow feed into a meta consciousness that watches and feels the whole 'picture' of what is going on in the brain and receiving multiple inputs from each separate receptor and transmitter. How do multiple conscious manifestations also join together to form a 'traveling' conscious manifestation that enjoys awareness from multiple places (body parts, cells etc) all at once?
OK, so I have a question. If it's all in the mind, why is it that, lets say a wall is built, that animals will avoid the wall, plants will grow around or on the wall, etc.. The wall is there physically, and not in the mind of the human. Granted, I haven't watched the entire video yet, but this hit me right off the bat at about 10 minutes in.
There is a green, since we simply give a word to a physical frequency. It’s not important what we call it, or if others see the same “hue” for that same frequency. One can show predictable interactions with the green frequency, and it will behave the same way each time. Thus, our experience of the frequency is neither important, nor a denial of its existence. Also, any duality of wave and particle is not consciousness or experience, but simply the outcome for the particular interaction that occurs in the type of measurement done.
Isn't it funny how so much has been done to hide from view the only thing we are certain of? I mean, I will never be sure if the sofa I am lying on really exists, but I'm sure of my sharing pf consciousness. Yet, if you listen to what most people would think, you would find that so many would swear on the existence of the sofa and be uncertain about the existence of consciousness... What a weird world we live in!
In the Pottapada sutta of the Digha nikaya the Buddha expounds on 14 unanswerable/undetermined metaphysical issues. When asked why these remain undetermined by him, he answers: “Because, Potthapada, this is not connected to a purpose, nor is it connected to virtue, nor is it connected with the life of purity, nor does it lead to humility, nor to dispassion, nor to cessation, nor to tranquility, nor to superior understanding, nor to supreme awakening, nor to nirvana. Therefore, I have not determined.” “What then, venerable sir, has the Lord determined?” “I have determined that this is discontent, this is the cause of discontent, this is the cessation of discontent, and this is the path leading to the cessation of discontent.” (DN ix.28)
The Buddhas, on manifesting themselves in the world, seized dung-shovels to rid themselves of all such rubbish as books containing metaphysics and sophistry. - Huang Po
makes me wonder whether the reason consciousness has not yet been detected in the human brain is simply because we're looking in the wrong place. And the universe itself consciousness.
This all was explained millions of years ago in Vedas and yoga sutras... The West was caught in false releageon and is learning it now... Ancient Indian wisdom..
Duality is about the formal mind observing a substance reality, you can entertain nihilistic ideas about the nature of reality but frankly no one human is all that fundamental to anything, human consciousness is a puddle in the rain, circumstances conducive to it, statistic probability. The universe continues without us, we are merely capable of the concept of continuation.
That was absolutely brilliant, everything i've thought about consciousness just got taken to a WHOLE new other level. Incredible some of these thoughts were brought up over 100 and two hundred years ago and by Yogi's, who've had it right for a millenium and we're just catching up, incredible! Thank you :)
Thousands of years ago near the himalayas
@@jashan1957 you mean in consciousness? 😋
Remarkably lucid. As a former physicist and current Diamond Approach student, I really appreciate his attention to detail and rigorous search for the truth in both the world of physics and the world of consciousness.
I never tire of listening to Peter. Thank you for sharing.
My humble respect to all of you, all can't be understand without submission before the CREATOR of all being and being with conscious. Ahsan.
An excellent presentation done by Peter...If any feathers were ruffled, I assure you, it's for the Highest Good,,,From my Heart, with my Heart, to your Heart, Thanks for posting !!!
what I think is ego , what I am is consciousness.
Stephen Gillum you said nothing
What your relative self is is ego and ur true nature is awareness
What i think: im a warrior "ego" an this should be "spirit" or "real"
What i am: a mercenary paid by a nation "conscience" perhaps it should be "ego" "fake"
Delination point: shackled by mass consensus of nation state politics
What im labeled by society in either direction: a killer "terrorist", a killer with a cause "revolutionary/patroit", insert psychological mumbo jumbo of character analysis
What i think: im a healer "ego" "real"
What i do: sell drugs "conscience" "fake"
Delination point: selling prescription drugs, legal
Selling non prescription drugs, illegal
What society thinks:
young: thats cool
Old: bad
Make sense of this? Lol
You just don't understand what he is saying.
I don't know that thought IS 'ego' but certainly what I am is conscious (not "consciousness" because 'ness' implies attribute). Conscious IS what I AM. Thus when I am not conscious I am not. Here we get a clue as to why the word 'conscious' is bereft of a definition. The word 'conscious' is a mere decoration of language in the way 'eh' was when I was young. "Know what I mean, eh"?
Wow! What a most appropriate way to end this fascinating talk: By quoting the Indian mystic, Nisargadatta. “The world you perceive is made of consciousness. What you call matter is consciousness itself.” What Sri Ramana Maharshi, and Meherbaba, and Nisargadatta, and Swami Vivekananda have said are not their original ideas or thoughts. All of them have only quoted from the Upanishads found in the Vedas, the scriptures that the Hindus consider holy or sacred. And what you find in the Upanishads is the truth revealed to the Hindu Sages at least three thousand years ago as they meditated. According to these Upanishads, mind is also matter, but composed of “subtle matter” ; and matter has consciousness also, the difference is only in the degree of awareness.
Yes, “Matter as we know it exists only in the mind.” How true! Science is only beginning to understand and catch up with what was known to the ancient rishis of India thousands of years ago.
Yesh Prabhu, Bushkill, Pennsylvania
read www.DirectRealizationOfBrahman.com
+Free Speech Pack it in everyone, escape your spells. The ultimate truth has been reconciled right here! That or incisive and challenging questions to your rigid atheist worldview is perceived as a slight and makes you emotional.
+Free Speech I'm no adherent to any single perspective of reality other than my own. I'm skeptical by nature and glean what I can from as many perspectives as I can. These are confounding and interesting questions that nobody has all the answers to and therefore aren't at all illegitimate. But being interested in these questions makes me a moron (heretic) apparently.
Free Speech Stop seeking the truth and you will never be Fooled Again. Don't let your curiosity stand in your way of perceptions.
Eric_Hitchmo 🤔🤗😎
“Whatever matter is, it is not made of matter." - physicist Hans-Peter Dürr
Whatever matter is, it doesn't matter.
it doesn't matter !
waz ah matter, waz ah matter, waz ah matter wit you A? LOL
Bravo Mr Russell
Thank you for speaking truth
Consciousness comes first, before matter. I remember a time when I was pure consciousness, and it was before I manifested as matter.
maestasify
I remember that too, that must mean I am you.🤔👥
I, also, remember.
@@carolbriseno3132 I used to remember. Now I forgot
Totally correct. Brilliant work Peter!
all is consciousness. and it is what it is. i love this lecture!
The most understandable video towards this ILLUSION of life
Another wonderful talk and how delightful to hear Dr. Russell Targ in the audience! Wow! Double-insights!
This guy is on another level 4 sho’. Amazing how the logic of his argument makes perfect sense and leads to most civilizations intuited conclusions
I can make myself invisible when no one is watching and my eyes are closed.
One of the most real explanations of consciousnesses creating the glorious mysteries of Love , the essence of our Creators ultimate consciousness -love ....in our earthly many forms of humans , animals etc that make up the material results of the CORE OF IT ALL BEING LOVE . ..,,therefore the more Love we become conscious of .,..the more love we become and ....that results in more unity together with our entire existence of thought YESSSSS
Very interesting. I agree with a lot of what Peter Russell spoke about. But, I am glad one of the questions posed was "how do you prove it?" And, the answer - "I don't know."
So, the journey continues...
Are they even trying?
One of the best pioneers of consciousness in the scientific world.
Consciousness is it's content, infinite expressions of Love!
I have been thinking this a lot lately. That all is consciousness. I even see it and feel it in more and more things. The dog, the cow, the insects flying around, the wind that rustles the leaves...
the solution ~ change yourself: Picture a child you love very much at the age of 2 years old. Imagine this child before you and focus on the feelings of love you have for this child. Focus on your love for the child until it has expanded so much that you are smiling and feeling joy. After you have maintained this feeling for a few minutes, move this child to the side and place in front of you ~ yourself at the age of 2. Picture yourself now at the age of 2 and keep focusing on the feelings you built up for the first child ~ is not the second child as precious as the first? You are now loving yourself ~ stay with the feeling and expand it further ~ open your heart. Now that you know how to get into a feeling of love for yourself, you can change your age to focus on areas that may be more difficult for you to love yourself. Do this exercise daily and loving yourself will be become your natural response to yourself
Clearly consciousness creates a virtual reality for us which is the map of the reality of nature but not the actual reality as such which would forever remain elusive to us .
Partha Datta
Contemplate this are your dreams real?! Or just imagined. 🤣🤗😎
Consciousness creates for us? Who are we if not consciousness?
You are always only looking at yourself! I finally really got this thanks to this talk.
truly a new perspective to widen the gambit of looking at life
Everything is consciousness. Life Is a dream of separate selves. We are in a bittersweet dance with ourselves.
Wow, this is absolutely brilliant. So happy I found this.
We talk about consciousness but we forget that we are consciousness. What body system is speaking through mouth is not you. You are consciousness or awareness aware of body and words coming from mouth. Good vedio. Thanks very much.
Yes..we are souls and we experience the body
"We talk about consciousness but we forget that we are consciousness."
Well not quite. Try instead...
We talk about consciousness but we forget that we are conscious.
There are tools to break through this dead dullness of matter and realize the essence of this cosmos and our existence and beyond. Yogis of different sorts have enumerated various paths for this.
SatChidAnanda sums up the basis of reality - Existence-Knowledge(Consciousnesses)-Bliss
This is amazing, science is finally catching up, there is hope!
One of th emost important lectures I've ever heard....thank you for this work
Consciousness creates the information we perceive as the World.
Brahman is where our pure consciousness exist, the consciousness of our true selves, the full awakning. How I know this? How can I prove it? First, I know it by my own experience, and secondly; I can't prove it for anyone, this is something every each person has to discover by them selves. But with correct guidens everyone can experience it.
A fast guide to achieve it:
You have to sit down and meditate, focus on a middle point between your eyebrows. You have to collect all the awareness on this point. The point is that you should only be conscious about this point. By breathing correctly you will lose yourself more and more into this point, the breathing makes you be more conscious about this point. In this way you will stop being conscious about all the 5 senses, your inner world like, picture, feelings, your inner dialog. When you have disconnected yourself from all these things, you suddenly falling down with your consciousness into your heart region. So in this stage you are only conscious of your existens with out thoughts feelings and all other stuff, the only thing you are experience is total emptiness, darkness, you are just a constant conscious ARE... But, there is an equalent for this stage where you can experience fullness, brightntess, and you will experience that by your souls desire to move backwards, like that you have a body inside another body that wants to move out by pushing you out from the body backward. This is something you have to figure out by yourselv when you are in this stage. Now I said your consciousness fell down into the heart region, so when you are seperating yourself backward you will escape your self through your heart, while doing so you will experience light, the more you seperate from your body, the more light you will experience, the universe feels like it shrinks, and you will feel like you're getting bigger, until you feel like the universe has a size of a sand corn and you are a gaient made of pure spiritual, conscious light. The feeling by seperating is like you vibrating out from the universe, it feels like you're going through trillions of trillions of small vibrating unseen particles and at the same time you are melting into like a big sun and you also become the sun at the end, and there or no vibrations anylonger, only pure spiritual light. In this stage you won't feel if you're big or small cause you left the universe, you don't have anything to relate with, you are only one with the light, and there are no past or future, only now, only a constant now that is constatnly refreshing itself. This spiritual light is amazing, you got the most happy feeling, your consciousness is like you know everything, knowing unlimited things at same time. It's hard to tell, because our brain can't imagin this state, you have to go through this process to experience by yourself. I have much to say about it. I felt like I became God, because of this unlimited knowledge, this absolute awakeness, total happiness, eternity, ect. The only thing you can't do is to do something, you can only BE... nothing more, only to BE and experience all these wonderful things that is going on at same time in the present of NOW. As soon your soul, or self wanna do something you will be throwen out from this Super Conscious State into this material universe. That what happen to me when I desired to do something. In this Brahman light there is no place for doings, doings is for material world. So when you feel to do something you will be throwen out in an eye blink, it feels like you are jumping into a sea of mud, from being in a water of pure water you are thrown back into a water of dirty mud, you are going through this trillions dense of vibration until you are back into the dark quietness of your body, and from there you have to desire to raise your consciousness up to your brain to shut on the machinery so you can start with your inner dialoge, to access your memories and stuff like that:
I just wanted to tell :) Do it and you will experience the exactly the same thing. It can take time, but if you practice and are very determint to achieve this, you'll get it. The way is easy to understand, but to do it can be tricky, the brain doesn't want you to stop thinking and trying to capture your attention on various things, just focus on the point in the middle of your eyes, when you have nearly all conscious collected to thins point you will have to power of your brain, you will be the commander, if you wanna shut down all the processes in your brain like stop talking to yourselv you will be doing that in a second. Just a tip.
Wish the scientist could go through this process too, this will be a intressting peace to include in there equations.
Happy journey.
A lot of grammer mistakes and spellings. I just wrote this down as fast as I could without going through the text. English is not my mother language. But atleast I tried to explain the process of becoming one with Brahman. Now you can call Brahman what ever, because there is no name in Brahman. I would call the material world to have a low quality energy, and brahman a high quality energy. Some may wanna describe it as material energy and spiritual energy, but anyways... all these are all about energies, what ever the name you give it.
Max Planck 1944: “All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.”
At 34:43 Speaker says " ..we are the universes way of recognizing, that there is only consciousness.." I would suggest that this idea should be lovingly observed and taken to even deeper understanding.
We live in multiple words at the same time.
Sages and saint's spoke of these truths thousands of years ago and modern science is just beginning to understand.
Really superb!!!!!!! very brilliantly told!
नमस्ते सर मेरी इंग्लिश थोड़ी कमजोर है इसलिए आपसे पूछ रहा हूं क्या ये लोग आत्मा के बारे में बात कर रहे हैं और आत्मा के अस्तित्व को स्वीकार रहें हैं ?
@saniyagamer-xd2oq I don't think so exactly, or maybe what you are calling soul they would call consciousness, at its essence, without ego or assumptions.. then yes, there is an intelligence to everything- there is information- being- maybe even an aware essence to all, and that exist inherently in everything. What do you mean when you say the word "soul"? Maybe that should be my first question!
Every word was introduced to humanity.... How did we speak like this? and understand and be amazingingly like this???
There's no reason to believe that a desk isn't conscious. But a desk, not being a brain, is certainly conscious of something different than thoughts, sights and sounds.
G4R84G3F4C3 The activity within consciousness isn’t conscious, only consciousness is aware or conscious.
I think of it like the spirit uses the body and all it’s parts to be aware of it’s experience on earth or where ever
Extensions of source we are...and we are this "presence"
This is "consciousness"
Absolutely Awesome !!!
Interesting lecture, good presentation and easy for the layman to understand. Thank you.
Is the 'mind' even in the brain?
Perhaps the brain is merely equipment that helps us connect to consciousness
@Free Speech You might not be conscious, but I definitely am.
The world is built upon theories. When you do not seek to know (or theorise) then you see it as it decides to reveal itself ...
@Free Speech Like you know what reality is. That's the most delusional position of all. Go ahead, define it, in front of the whole class.
@Free Speech er...thanks
@Free Speech Put the bong away now
We are all conscious now and that is the truth. Forces oppose that is a fact. We may never get to what ever the one true answer is but we also may already be there... We are metaphysically growing back towards the earth ,not up inbonding
It is like visiting a confluence of two religions: Science as the West understands it and the East that has been constantly saying about it from the Vedanta point of view. That the modern Scientists have come round to accept the Non Dual theory of Shankar is very much welcome. Thanks to the illuminating speaker.
Egocentricity, too many thoughts create confusion and counteract cosciousness. We are spirit having a human experience, until we allow self awareness and understand what drives us subconsciously we can only limit ourselves to what we think we are. Yes, it is what it is and acheiving stillness to be present in the now is the only way to original thought and authentic self. Expand consciousness by allowing yourself to experience outside whatever perception you have from your belief system. Connect with each other and create awareness through the knowing of instinct as spirit not human. This is how we understand the reason why we are here, doing what we are doing as flesh and blood, pain and pleasure. When we free ourselves from the restaint of ideas that limit us to thinking that is all we are, we have expanded consciousness. Acheiving true joy and only then having the awareness to understand. We are made of the same stuff as the universe, the patterns are there to see clearly. We are working parts of something bigger just as the bacteria inside our bodies are necessary for our funnctionality. Consciousness is being aware that we are all the same, hate and negativity cannot exist when we understand this. Be in love energy and it's easy to know what our journey means. 💖
The earth is our home. Save the earth, save the world.
Wow!! Great, wonderful research. Thanks for sharing💐💐💐
I am the here, there,everywhere
the in, out, up and down
I am now here and no where
I am you, he, she, we
Let us now live as ME
Peter is the bomb!
Consciousness is the stillness in the momentum of now.
The centre of , hot - cold , inside - outside and so on, the division that separates decision, the awareness of being .
McLovinYaMam What is "NOW"?
Is now the reaction of the observable?
My consciousness or the part of me that is in now ,is always that fragment ahead of my "realtime" experience.
This I think is the purpose of existence , to work this out ,certainly we all feel it.
It is at the cusp of all beliefs, What is it?
A universal reaction taking place in the initial moment of momentum?
A virtual program?
A moment cannot be measured, yet it can be anticipated.
I don't even pretend to know the answer to this , as it is just ahead of what I think is the real me , like the dragon eating it's own tail , it cannot consume itself entirely.
*Infinite Consciousness* ✨
Absolutely love this.
Mary Balfanz
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@@andrewsnowmon2586 dont talk to my girl
Universal conciousness permeates everything and individual counciuosness is just a part of the bigger one. Individual conciousness is a parallel on, happening there where the attention is.
For example: Just because you can see a tree on the other side of the planet it does not mean it does not exist, but in fact it does exist because of its own part in the Universal conciousness.
Its like a constant interconection of manifestation through this massive and no measurable consciousness that comprehends the all...At least, not measurable from a smaller portion of conciuosness.
The nature of reality isn't about atoms or pieces of the whole it's about the entire whole. The fact that we can't even see the pieces reinforces the idea of looking for answers by looking at the whole.
consciousness gives meaning to the phenomena we experience.
Goodness! The time is yours... Enjoy your day!
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In answer to the question at the end as to how can we prove consciousness, I remember a lecture on Vedanta on the seer and the seen...The eyes see the book and the eyes are the seer, the mind knows what the eyes see and the mind is the knower, our conscious/awareness experiences the mind so consciousness is the seer and the mind is the seen. when it gets to consciousness they are strategically silent about being able to observe consciousness. Not that it is unknowable but that it is more than known, form Swami Vivekananda," The self is never an object of knowledge". This consciousness is the self.
Any ideas and concepts conducive for our growth whether materialistic or spiritual should be followed and practiced unless proved otherwise.Knowing the infinite through our finite mind limited by time and space!
materialists scientists often refer to consciousness as the hard problem. but you know what, it's only a hard problem if you hold to the belief in materialism, which is just that, a belief. there's simply no way to prove that all that exists is matter and the re-arrangements of it and that there's nothing beyond that. so these scientists are as religious as religious people. their epistemological foundation is completely made up of unprovable beliefs.
Jonathan Yeo Excellent!
When someome says it’s all just matter, what are they saying really? What do they mean by ‘matter’, exactly? Sometimes you’ll get an answer to that in terms of protons and quarks and stuff, but that’s essentially just defining things in terms of other undefined things.
All those concepts like matter and electrons and quarks are very useful in the sense that they quite well model how reality appears to behave, and predict what we’re likely to experience in what circumstances. But by no means whatsoever does it explain WHAT IT IS. 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Dream stuff. Imaginability. It all seems to be imaginings. And some of them are capable of becoming very dense and longer lasting than others. But it's all continuum. Infinity making partitions of itself, while still essentially being infinity, or call it PlayDough. It's all the same suchness, transforming into resistances that hold together against other resistances, though it's all the same suchness.
Yes, Consciousness becomes what it has as its object.
35:35 Question " It's an interesting idea but how can I determine if it's true or not." By applying the the scientific method. Start with the conjecture (hypothesis), derive predictions as logical consequences, and then carry out experiments or empirical observations based on those predictions. To do so one needs to first thoroughly wrap ones brain around the hypothesis that consciousness is primary and then make some predictions that follow from that and could be tested.
What a sentence to end the talk - "Time, whatever it is - calls"
high quality and high volume data transfer, self shaping through some mechanism, in us repetition of similar data transfers, sensory inputs of some kind, and a set of flexible inbuilt goals. There is not a doubt in my mind that consciousness can arise from the combination of these things. We simply haven't done so yet out of technical difficulty.
Much of this is not unlike the basic arguments of the 19th century philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer's THE WORLD AS WILL AND REPRESENTATION. All good!
really fantastic dear
Consciousness can't exist without the universe, universe can't exist without consciousness.
The universe needs to be observed in order to exist. I believe consciousness & universe is twined and feeds off each other
So before sentient beings who could observe, the universe didn't exist? Sorry, science disproves that argument
All i need to know is that I have no knowledge of the universe before I was born, I've only ever heard 2 hand accounts. From my perspective the universe is there to be observed, the more you observe and appreciate the more it gives. Nothing is created for no reason, including life. We are all one cog in an enormous wheel that I don't think anyone can explain imo
You're speaking of subjective, not objective experience. My point is that if humans were extinct tomorrow, the moon would still be there, taking the occasional meteor impact. It's real regardless.
perfect talk...just meditate!
Very interesting talk! Thanks for uploading!
34.38 "i see it as part of an evolutionary unfolding" me too...
"Does the harmony which human intelligence thinks it discovers in Nature exist apart from such intelligence? Assuredly no. A reality completely independent of the spirit that conceives it, sees it or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so external as that, even if it existed, would be for ever inaccessible to us. What we call "objective reality" is, strictly speaking, that which is common to several thinking beings and might be common to all; this common part, we shall see, can only be the harmony expressed by mathematical laws." - Poincare' The Value of Science
Nothing is more sad nor more dangerous than an omniscient and therefore ultimately bored God.
To Steve Gilliam what you said maybe is was and will be everything.
Interesting - I think the speaker just verbalized the panpsychism argument a bit better than I've heard done before - he motivated quite well how you just can't draw that line. But I still just can't quite by into the idea. I don't know if I'll get this point across well, but it somehow it feels like that panpsychism requires us to solve the problem twice. That is, the laws of physics have to cause all the itty bits to go together in a way that makes the physical world, and simultaneously with that those same fundamental entities have to combine "one bit consciousness" in just the right way to make complex minds. If the "laws of physics" and the "laws of consciousness" are that similar, then I would lean heavily toward there only being one thing from the jump.
Based on that, I think idealism is a better answer. Consciousness is fundamental. Maybe it starts simple and builds up, or maybe different complexity conscious entities just exist to start with. But that's all there is at the fundamental level. The physical world then is a manifestation of the interactions of conscious beings. It feels simpler to me.
Brilliant!!!
Very interesting.
Manana Chikvanaia 🤔
Spiritual scientists are the most reliable scientists :) The popular science as we know it is merely knowledge limited to what we observe.
Also disappointing to know that this consciousness theory was the point of basically all religions but the followers failed to acknowledge this and turned it into something completely different.
+anityy I take it you failed Science.
+avarmauk Better yet, I dropped out of school at 4.
Jk. Anyway, what point are you trying to get across? That everything we observe is the only reality there is?
anityy I seriously doubt you made it that far.
avarmauk Maybe start doubting your open mindedness and own intelligence. You seem rather bigoted. If you actually believe that everything revolves around the human and is limited to our observation, that is quite funny.
anityy I'm open to evidence. Seeing as this is void of any it simply a load of unsubstantiated claims. Like I said, you don't understand Science and probably never will. It's a shame really
Brilliant! l can't say l understand most of this. But, at the same time, it makes sense.
"The sole purpose of creation is for the soul to enjoy the infinite state of the Oversoul consciously. Although the soul eternally exists in and with the Oversoul in an inviolable unity, it cannot be conscious of this unity independently of creation, which is within the limitations of time. It must therefore evolve consciousness before it can realize its true status and nature as being identical with the infinite Oversoul, which is one without a second. The evolution of consciousness requires the duality of subject and object - the center of consciousness and the environment (that is, the world of forms)."
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"How does the soul get caught up in Illusion? How did the formless, infinite, and eternal Soul come to experience itself as having form and as being finite and destructible? How did Purusha, or the supreme Spirit, come to think of itself as prakriti, or the world of nature? In other words, what is the cause of the cosmic Illusion in which the individualized soul finds itself? To realize the true status of the Oversoul - which is one, indivisible, real, and infinite - the soul needs consciousness. The soul does get consciousness; however this consciousness is not of God but of the universe, not of the Oversoul but of its shadow, not of the One but of many, not of the Infinite but of the finite, not of the Eternal but of the transitory. Thus the soul, instead of realizing the Oversoul, gets involved in cosmic Illusion; and hence, though really infinite, it comes to experience itself as finite. In other words, when the soul develops consciousness, it does not become conscious of its own true nature but of the phenomenal world, which is its own shadow."
Meher Baba
The oversouls have individualized units of consciousness like you and me , we have many simultaneous incarnations all experiencing and feeding back to the oversoul.. The Seth books and matrix books are awesome...
It is the universe itself that is alive.
Thank you sir
Very interesting!
Well said Stephen.
Love the comments here. People sure do get worked up over consciousness. "Woowoo Science" is my favorite term. We so lack the words to discuss these experiences, language devolves into childish terms. Lets begin with Dr. Greyson's talk "Is Consciousness Produced by the Brain?" (on youtube) He cites medical cases where the brain was not functioning, could not function and yet people see, hear and remember experiences they shouldn't have. People with severe alzheimers who suddenly regain all their consciousness and memories moments, hours, or days prior to death - but autopsies show their brains should not have been able to do so. As if the "filters" that prevent us from accessing this information have been shut down. Thousands of cases of people having near death experiences with the same hallmarks - some who were blind since birth, and yet accurately described colors they saw in the operating room. (Sam Parnia's "The Awareness Project") So let's begin there. Consciousness in not, cannot only be produced by the brain. Then follow the accounts of people who claim consistently that they've visited other "realms" that they describe as "home" or "where we all return after death." (I've filmed 26 sessions of people doing so, I chose subjects for their skepticism, backgrounds in science, and the results have been consistent throughout). I offer transcripts from these sessions and cite a number of scientists in "It's a Wonderful Afterlife". Near death experiencers, people under deep hypnosis, people in comas, some out of body experiencers report the same basic hallmarks of this "realm that's not here" where they claim to have conscious memories, not only of past lives, but a life and journey between lives. It's not philosophy or belief - or woowoo science - it's just reporting what thousands have said consistently. It's only data. We shouldn't dislike or fear data - but examine it to see how we can apply it to the world in front of us. If its true what these people are consistently saying about consciousness, then we do choose to come to this planet, we choose our parents, and our fields of endeavor for specifice reasons. And if that's true, then doesn't it make sense to leave behind a planet that has fresh air, water and land? But don't take my word for it, examine the reports for yourself. ("Flipside" or "Its a Wonderful Afterlife" talks available on youtube at MartiniProds).
The perplexing thing to me is this. If matter is consciousness taking form, then each atom in my brain is conscious. Why is it that when I open my eyes I am conscious of a WHOLE wide picture - a whole group of conscious atoms (retina, nerves, brain etc) working together to display a whole image to this 'consciousness' that simultaneously is aware of multiple atoms (and yet not those outside of my body), rather than each individual atom being conscious of receiving a single photon etc. Presumably consciousness is existing in multiple viewpoints/levels everywhere in my body, so my thumb is also conscious. The puzzling thing is that all these individual cells and atoms each conscious in themselves all somehow feed into a meta consciousness that watches and feels the whole 'picture' of what is going on in the brain and receiving multiple inputs from each separate receptor and transmitter. How do multiple conscious manifestations also join together to form a 'traveling' conscious manifestation that enjoys awareness from multiple places (body parts, cells etc) all at once?
complicated isnt it?
In the ancient Indian system , consciousness is not just a brain phenomenon but a happening in entire body .
OK, so I have a question. If it's all in the mind, why is it that, lets say a wall is built, that animals will avoid the wall, plants will grow around or on the wall, etc.. The wall is there physically, and not in the mind of the human.
Granted, I haven't watched the entire video yet, but this hit me right off the bat at about 10 minutes in.
There is a green, since we simply give a word to a physical frequency. It’s not important what we call it, or if others see the same “hue” for that same frequency. One can show predictable interactions with the green frequency, and it will behave the same way each time. Thus, our experience of the frequency is neither important, nor a denial of its existence.
Also, any duality of wave and particle is not consciousness or experience, but simply the outcome for the particular interaction that occurs in the type of measurement done.
Isn't it funny how so much has been done to hide from view the only thing we are certain of? I mean, I will never be sure if the sofa I am lying on really exists, but I'm sure of my sharing pf consciousness. Yet, if you listen to what most people would think, you would find that so many would swear on the existence of the sofa and be uncertain about the existence of consciousness... What a weird world we live in!
Thank you!!!!!!!
So clear!!!!!🙏🥀
It is the universe itself that is conscious.
Outstanding video!
That was refreshing 😌
Love this.
I know we do :)
amazing, it's true.
In the Pottapada sutta of the Digha nikaya the Buddha expounds on 14 unanswerable/undetermined metaphysical issues. When asked why these remain undetermined by him, he answers:
“Because, Potthapada, this is not connected to a purpose, nor is it connected to virtue, nor is it connected with the life of purity, nor does it lead to humility, nor to dispassion, nor to cessation, nor to tranquility, nor to superior understanding, nor to supreme awakening, nor to nirvana. Therefore, I have not determined.”
“What then, venerable sir, has the Lord determined?”
“I have determined that this is discontent, this is the cause of discontent, this is the cessation of discontent, and this is the path leading to the cessation of discontent.” (DN ix.28)
The Buddhas, on manifesting themselves in the world, seized dung-shovels to rid themselves of all such rubbish as books containing metaphysics and sophistry. - Huang Po
makes me wonder whether the reason consciousness has not yet been detected in the human brain is simply because we're looking in the wrong place. And the universe itself consciousness.
This all was explained millions of years ago in Vedas and yoga sutras... The West was caught in false releageon and is learning it now... Ancient Indian wisdom..
Duality is about the formal mind observing a substance reality, you can entertain nihilistic ideas about the nature of reality but frankly no one human is all that fundamental to anything, human consciousness is a puddle in the rain, circumstances conducive to it, statistic probability. The universe continues without us, we are merely capable of the concept of continuation.
We are here to add to the sum total of information. To achieve that is to achieve full consciousness.
What's matter never mind,what's mind ...never matter.