Does Quantum Theory Prove Heaven & Hell Are Real? 

Quantum theory does prove hell is real. Just ask anyone doing quantum mechanics homework in grad school.

At the end of the Harry Potter saga the protagonist has a vision where he sees a dead character. When it is time to wake up they have this beautiful exchange: "Is this all real? or is it just happening inside my head?" "Of course it is happening inside your head, harry, but why on earth should that mean it is not real?"

To be fair, Johnny Samadhi is a genius moniker.

Ziggy is barking at the invisible demons that only dogs can see (or hear, or smell). Just because you and I can't perceive them doesn't mean they're not there.

I wonder if there's a world out there where Veggetta and his brother Goku fight world saving bouts .

Another amazing talk! 👍👏🏿😊

Good talk! “Experientially” is the key to sorting this out…or as Jimi asked “Ah! But are you experienced? Have you ever been experienced? Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful...”

Jhanny Samadhi here 😂 First, I enjoy your talks and you seem like a great guy. I can now see how you were trying to appease said viewers, and I apologize for being harsh. By “for your own good” i meant that at least from a Theravada perspective spreading wrong view is very hefty kamma, especially if you have right view. So it’s important to stand up for the points that Shakyamuni laid out for right view. Buddhism makes no sense without kamma, rebirth and the 31 planes. The framework falls apart without these very integral screws. Everything you said sounds spot on to me. It is about “psychological” states, the essence of how one feels, and how stable that essence is. The realms are supporting environments for how one feels at death, and according to the Pali canon are actually created by mindstreams of beings from the preceding world system. Then eventually there are beings with enough similarities that they just pop into realms with the same “frequency” that already exist. So yes, none of it is actually real aside from individual experience, and that’s where the suffering is that we’re trying to prevent with right view. I think you handled this very well and am happy to see you’re no longer concerned with appeasing your less experienced viewers. A lot of people want to believe, they just don’t want to be perceived as dummies by others, so you’re in a great position to nudge them toward liberation and out of samsara’s endless tangles-a major one being the extremely mind closing materialism. There are many peer reviewed academic studies of rebirth and NDE’s that are very convincing. NDE studies are on people who had no brain wave activity for up to several minutes making hallucination not possible. And the majority strongly resemble what’s found in most Buddhist traditions, especially Tibetan. Your viewers could benefit greatly from exposure to such things. In honor of the Buddha and for the sake of liberating all beings, don’t shy away from spreading right view, even if everyone points and laughs 😂 I wish you well, keep up the good work.

Awesome video Brad, I really resonated with what you said here and I think you really hit it spot on by questioning whether THIS realm is even "real" or not. I think that is touching upon an important point for people to get when speculating about heavens and hells and such.

Fun thought; to Ziggy, you're just barking at nothing. You think you're talking into a camera, but Ziggy just sees Brad barking. So if Brad's gonna bark, Ziggy might as well bark 😂

All experience is neurological projection, whether it is a dream experience or a waking experience. "Spiritual" awakening seems to be about our relationship to our experience. Our experience being what we call reality.

Whenever he mentions his age, it’s always a mindfuck. He looks mid-forties at the latest, or like a really hard-living 28-year-old 🎸

Funny, Max Derrat just posted an analysis of Enter the Void (Gaspar Noe's film about this very subject). Paging Dr. Jung. Also great to see your home is protected by ADT ( A Dog's Territory) VIVA ZIGGY!😁

Before you uploaded this I was leafing thru Dancing with Wu Li Masters and he uses the point quantum begins when Newtonian breaks down. I kinda like that simplification. I think people get lost in duality vs dialectics

I think, Brad have to repeat the LSD experiment, because good books are worth to be read twice, when you are young enough and when you are old enough :)

"Those destined for heaven go to heaven, those destined for hell go to hell". It says so in the Book of Revelation. So much for free will! Nevertheless, one would do well in this lifetime to cultivate positive qualities, as this, apparently, has a great influence on where we wind up (ie. In realms of suffering or realms devoid of suffering). Perhaps, after all, the Bodhisattva attitude is the best: "May I be reborn wherever I can do the most to ease the suffering of sentient beings." Can there be a more noble aspiration?

A monk asked Jōshū, “Has a dog the Buddha Nature?” Jōshū answered, “Mu.” As for Ziggy, can I ask you if you think your dog has Buddha Nature? 😇

How esoteric!

I am most into Theravada teachings as expounded by people like Ajahn Brahm, Ajahn Sona, Thanissaro Bhikkhu, and other internet monks. They are much more traditional, of course. But I've never heard any of those senior Theravada monks complain that denying or being ambivalent about the existence of Buddhist heaven and hell realms is wrong view. Right view has always seemed much more specifically a description of the belief the Four Noble Truths and (recursively) the Noble Eightfold Path are the path to liberation. And those being basic tenets of (some say all) Buddhist paths, it's more just like, "If you don't believe this, you may not be a Buddhist, but it's ok". Ajahn Brahm indeed said that he didn't believe in the supernatural stuff in his early years as a Theravada monk. I don't think this kind of fundamentalist talk is really respected as right speech by these otherwise fairly traditional monks, and for good reason.

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The eternal now

I frequently have horrific aeon-long nightmares any time i take a perception-changing drug (lsd, acid, cough syrup?) theres similarity enough between all the experiences that they must be real

since i practice sazen regulary. nearly all of my dreams are lucid...😮

No........Next!!

As Aron Ra once said, faith is pretending to know stuff you don't know.

If this moment is the enlightened state. then hell is also enlightened state

I'm mainly in Zen Practice now but, I'm at Heart still a Chaos Magic guy (As if they conflict in any real way). What I've noticed in my Practice is that we make Distinctions about pretty Needless Stuff just to feel in some form of control over our lives and the world, when Ultimately we have none. The Idea of Heavens and Hells is part of this, in that at the Root, we can say to ourselves "I can Avoid Hell by doing X and not Y" and/or "I can go to Heaven by doing X and not Y" but really we're both Ignorant and have no real Agency in the Matter. Civilians in a War Zone didn't Ask to be in that War Zone and People in Peacetime don't ask to be there. Also, a lot of things we think we Choose consciously with Thought, is actually just a part of a Chain of Events that lead to making that Decision and its Result. Weirdly, as Deterministic as I made that sound, I still feel there is Room for Free Will somehow I can't explain.

Tbh, that Jhanny Samadhi dude is pretty weird. He believes that all Buddhists should live like monks, like the monks of the Theravada tradition and such.

Wrongview! - The original "mis-, mal- and dis-information."

I studied this stuff. It’s amazing how much I really could care less about the subject matter. What always happens is that there’s a jahnny samadhi out there. Who cares? Who cares what any of us think on this crap anyway? Why did I watch the video? Why am I making a comment? Insanity! Viva Ziggy!

doubt it....those are imaginary places

i don't think existence is material reality, i wouldn't even go so far as to say that material reality exists the nonsense of philosophy, theology and religion is way too concerned with compartmentalization that's the opinion of this boltzmann brain

Re Christianity, you are leaving out purgatory.

Gassho