"there is a far-end of the continuum of human consciousness and well-being" this is absolutely my experience. a completely secular and unreligious *experience* of reality and selfhood/selflessness.
Oh shit I was there. I remember this in NYC. He was supposed to release this as part of some waking up DVD or program or something and then he realized it wasnt a great idea.
AA third step is about giving your will and your life to a ''higher power'' as you see it. There is no religion in AA. In fact, it is discouraged to talk about religion and politics. It is mentioned at the beginning or every meeting.
Mr Harris makes a couple assumptions that I disagree with. 1) human brings are capable of being unified under any spiritual philosophy, and he proposes secular mysticism. I disagree because many people just need good but albeit easy answers to their existence and their deaths. 2) Religion is a fundamental cause of division and resulting violence. Hurt feelings, loss of trust and less than stellar human beings are the cause division and violence. I just think he is another cog in the machine of human churning of humanity trying really hard to be happy. But Jesus nailed it, wide is the path to destruction but straight and narrow the path to life, and few who find it. And I think this will always be true.
You either misunderstand Sam and the content of this lecture or misunderstand the term fascist. Probably spent too long in click-bait / dunking echochambers
Lately, “woke” is an adjective used with disdain by right wing, conservative, Christian nationalists to describe any perspective remotely associated with liberal, progressive ideology.
@@Williamwilliam1531 That means it is very likely and predated quantum events. We could say that what emerges with quantum events in contrast is elemental.
@@ALavin-en1kr the (potentially temporary) failure of physical processes to exhaustively explain the existence of conscious experiences is deeply inadequate to conclude that consciousness precedes quantum events. That’s like saying - because no description of the atmosphere today can tell you whether or not it will be raining here on this day ten years from now, weather patterns are fundamental and must precede quantum events. No one could ever prove you wrong in either case, and if you were right it would change nothing about our mechanistic understanding of the world, nor would the revelation be able to make predictions about the future. So believe that if you like, but it’s an untestable, predictively inert hypothesis that seriously lacks good evidence for its truth
Waking up would likely mean not seeing the elements and forces as not fundamental to reality, just to physical reality. In physical reality could be included anything that is elemental and that likely would include mind; all forces; all elements. It would be whatever emerged with quantum events. What did not emerge with quantum events but predated them would be fundamental. The only thing that would fit that description would be consciousness. As it cannot be reduced or measured, is not elemental, or owes any debt to the elemental it must predate it. The elemental creating the non-elemental would not make sense, out of what would it create it?
Sam Harris has apparently never studied with legitimate qi gong masters. It is indeed possible to develop awareness of organs. Makes some great points though.
@@cymatti We know it can go as far as the heart, possibly lungs, possibly others. There was that great study done with the monks who were put in a freezer (willingly, obviously), and were able to literally raise their body temperature in order to keep themselves comfortable. They used thermal imaging cameras and (I believe) traditional thermometers. However, even being able to do this at all, is absolutely remarkable. So, personally, it seems less far-fetched. I think that line about the pancreas was just a funny bit of rhetorical work, because for the general person, it holds true. But with enough focus? We are only just starting to scratch the surface of what is possible.
hehe hi proto.. It’s from those ancient 2016 Twitch streams. I did ask you at the time if it was OK I downloaded them and you said yes But if you want it taken down just let me know
I will tell you how to do it. I will look up It's exact location and you can do it every single time and you can even hop off your broom and jump through it. But that 1 takes patience.
I know how to get underneath the map too. I just challenged people to find out how that looks like you already know. But there might be more than one way
