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It is a shame that he was talking to a room of what I guess to be other researchers in the field who followed the jargon more closely. As a simple zoologist I only followed a portion of what he said (on my first viewing). It is interesting to see a worker in this field with this type of realization or self awareness. I wonder to what extent the ability to achieve this is hard wired into practitioners.
Really interesting stuff. I love how science is revealing what's happening in the brain in relation to different states of consciousness. This is the merging of science with mysticism.
Fascinating topic. Thanks a lot for sharing this! Anyone has experience with consumer-type EEG devices like the Muse for meditation? Seems promising on paper and after reading reviews. Feedback welcome.
This is one of your best talks I think I’ve ever heard Paul, but anytime I hear one of your talks that I haven’t heard, I often times think that. I don’t want to be nothing and no thing. That’s the dilemma tho right?
Our emotional pain is the best psychedelic. I wonder how could we get out of our bodies without dying. I have physical pain on different parts of my body, it makes me need to leave my body but I don’t want to die.
I think a lot about the colors of things, the way photons split and bounce around to make colors...I suppose perceived by me eventually. I notice birds, insects, other things in the present moment much of the time.
I've had dreams where something in the dream genuinely surprised me, like it was completely unpredictable. How can my own thought surprise me if I'm coming up with it?
Yes ! When he gave instruction to close eyes and observe your thoughts, I had a flash of tintin and the incas, where this sound is played. I hadn't realized but reading your comment, it probably came from the video... The intro sound gives me strong shivers btw
I did Ayahuasca 2 years ago nearly now I went from Belfast to Preu it was a scary experience but amazing I also did dmt and I felt like I was in heaven ❤ looking for my dad who committed suicide
I love how the brain doesn't lie .... I think it may be just about the only thing lol... but what about Psychedelics and sex lol... Sounds like a real trip 😂😂😂😂
Same. I’ve had tinnitus for several year’s following a massive seizure that perforated the ear drum. In moments it’s been quite irritating. I’m sorry your action figure has that. It “can be” if I allow it to be seriously annoying. At least you seem to know it’s not happening “to” anyone and rather that it’s just occurring and you are what notices it and or forgets it’s there. I’ve seen you on other non-dual talks and channels. I believe we’ve conversed here before too. Anyway, see you around brother
Paul used the tinnitus sound example. Same here. So, sit in a quiet space, listen internally to the ringing in your ears. It'll be 'inside your head'. It'll be a ringing arising (or happening) in a space inside, like a field of hearing. Now, inside, what's noticing that? ? ?. Just experientially 'feel into' the field of what's doing the hearing.... There ya go. That's it. That's You. That's the You that hears but can't be heard, that experiences but can't be experienced.
I thought that thoughts will always be there, just that one can break identification with them. Apparently, according to Gary, and many others I now realize, they can disappear.. Interesting.
no need to do anything if you feel that you are not suffering. but if you feel the need to improve on your regretful reactions that you put forth to external/internal stimuli, sit still everyday for a few minutes and make all effort to not let this default mode network take over your mental functioning. make efforts to shut it down whenever it arises.......sit down and see if you can see this DMN operate and takeover instead of the real task oriented problem solving network function unhindered........... problem identified is half the problem solved........
I wish people would be more detailed and specific about what they mean by “blah blah” and in the now. Or what “thoughts” are or inner dialogue? People act like everyone knows what it means but to be honest I have no idea what they are talking about. When I take LSD, AYAHUASCA, Psilocybin etc. I have an expansion of consciousness into spacetime and feel more normal. My sense of meaning similarly expands to include things with less survival relevance, but I have never hallucinated. I took MDMA and it was the pure crystal stuff people were raving about (literally, lol) and it just felt like a more intense version of how I NORMALLY FEEL. that feeling to me is more important to enlightenment than the LSD alone. When I do LSD the main effect is that my here and now ideas about the present are what fall away and I become timeless. Like I perceive back to the beginning of time. Once with Ayahuasca causality reverses and I saw the causes in the future and it was logically linked to past occurrences. This still happens if I pay attention and am calm. The way I see it is in synchronicities on a large scale. That’s the only way to describe it. However, I have never had an experience of the normal narrative of blah blah near as I can tell. However I did have an event that happened when I was just over 1 year old-when the self is forming. I almost died from lack of oxygen. My parents had the new neighbors escort them to the hospital emergency room. However I experienced it as an NDE ! I was floating 30 feet or more above the cars and watched them turn into the hospital. So I always felt like an alien, and I literally could not stand to be around normal people because of how they acted. It was like they were insane just acting in the way normal kids act I now know. But the more I learn about nonduality, the more I realize that I think I was at the 10,000 hour yogi level when I was 4 years old. Not even joking. I made up a mantra to clear my mind not of an inner narrative but to try to stop the unity of myself with others which scared me and stressed me out so much because I thought if anyone realized what I was like and what I was doing they might hate or even kill me. This was when I was 4 years old. My mantra was “that there:there that” and what I did by saying that was go underground. I had a fantasy underground world I lived in too. Anyway I used to think that I was an alien left on Earth by accident. I saw a different world than most people. I didn’t see a division between myself and others and what was painful was seeing and feeling all the pain and darkness around me. I used to have blinding migraines where I would throw up when I was a little kid. My brothers didn’t see. I was totally alone, but I brought home dogs and animals until my mom kept making me get rid of them. One day I caught a bunch of snakes and brought them home all proud and to me they were so cute and wonderful but my mom lost her mind and screamed like she was dying and chased me out of the house. I loved all the animals and she screamed again when I brought home a field mouse, but it was so cute I couldn’t believe she did that. Then I brought home eggs left behind in a field they mowed by the house and that she let me keep. I hatched them and they were mallard ducks! We raised them and taught them to fly. Anyway, I have always had an affinity for animals too and they do unusual things around me. So if anyone has any info or ideas about NDE or OBE effects on this stuff please let me know. I have never thought in words, and it just sounds strange. How can you even think using words?? I go over what I am going to say because I am so different and I used to think this is what people meant by the inner dialogue but when people give examples I am just bewildered because I have never done that. As an undergrad I once told my professor that I didn’t have an ego because I didn’t have a personal self/important combativeness I always found painful in others... before I knew about any of this stuff. Seriously I am a mutant. Not even kidding. Any info or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Blah blah are insults, condemnations, claims. You are definitely too much in your head, probably not doing much. Try to do more activities, stop live in your past (see some esoteric practices for that), and learn how to enjoy whatever you doing. Best of all
@@davidsaintjohn4248 yes. This is the year I come out. I am posting a video about my papers from 20 years ago so that you can see what I predicted. Obviously the direction I speak of back then, the process, and all the researchers working on my stuff now, is ongoing. Prediction 1) we will discover that we are inside of or a projection through a black hole computational process. Is that enough? There’s more... 2) Everything is symbolic and can be read like a book. Been trying to tell people that for 25 years... but it’s finally going to catch on. 3) Symbols are natural law-based structures in an information universe. Again, in all my papers and books from 20 years ago. 4) Humans are an integral part of the universe. And we are not at all separate. 5) The universe is very obviously a teaching machine which is structured beyond the one-way causality we tend to live our immediate lives in. -we are going to discover all these things this year. Because I am going to show you. Starting with my video I am posting this evening of a paper I wrote on the experimental methodology I invented to gather real data on these predictions. I used to teach experimental methodology at Emory university, so I made a hybrid method which you could statistically analyze. This is going to change how you think about the world forever, just so you can be ready. If you don’t want that, don’t listen. Thanks for your comments ❤️🥰
I disagree with the “I” constantly changing. My personality and expression changes. Such as if I am talking to a child versus work. But my I is solid. I always have the same sense of self. Perhaps I am misunderstanding what you are saying? Thanks
I think his definition of sense of self was a bit vague and confusing; I think what he means is you are less constantly worried about yourself and more focused on the experiences around you by shifting perspectives.. or something like that
