The Non-dual Misconception 

Yea but I don't know if it is right to base our understanding of reality on mystical experiences. I have had experiences of oneness and love but I question myself when I try to paint whole of reality with the few experiences I had it seems like iam just forcing myself to make sense.

@@viktorvaughn1079 yet you believe all the other crap your mind tells you everyday

it is not oneness, oneness implies a number. It is an experience of non-separation. If you want a number, it is more like 0 or infiniteness.

@@Tasmanaut I wouldn’t get hung up on words. There are no words that can come close to adequately describing the experience. It’s the transformative experience itself that’s beyond words that counts. I use oneness because in the west the most popular tradition is Christianity and Jesus said; “I and the father are one.” Just another way of saying that we are reality itself.

@@TrojansFirst you are right brother, I don't know why I wrote this comment, I shouldn't have. There was a need to be a smart-ass and correct you. I am sorry about this. You are 100% correct on all accounts, you've got it brother :)

I have read Kastrup. He believes what he believes. The arguments came later. The results of reasoning are not facts but opinions backed up by logic.

you cant get beyond consciousness. or else its unconscious haha

@@mikelisteral7863consciousness is an illusion?

@user-yo2ki7vu7d Perhaps the ego is not to be transcended but simply relinquished as the nothing that it is (?)

the only thnig that exists is consciousness which is non dual

I have spoken about this a lot, John. Since you are aware of my channel now, check out some of the earlier stuff. Briefly, suffering (psychologically) is the feeling that something needs to happen or that something needs to change. Be well.

Carey, despite the claims of "spiritual" teachers, ego is not "illusionary." It is what is meant every time one utters words such as "I" or "me." That is about as real as it gets.

@@RobertSaltzman , it seems that Seeing, Hearing, and Thoughts arising requires no effort. No “me or I” doing it, no mini-me inside my head. Looking for the Seer or Thinker, I find No One, Robert. Still, I claim no Truth, except perhaps curiosity. Lol. Perhaps I am equating self and ego as synonyms. Also, I appreciate your videos, book, and commentary.

Who is it that wants to reduce suffering?

@@RobertSaltzman , (in response) back to the illusionary self/ego that has convinced the Mind that it is real. Every interaction, thought, memory is experienced in Consciousness. The sense of self or ego is another thought/ story arising from our minds, and presented in our consciousness. Awareness is aware of itself, not as a self but awareness. I’m not committed to this. Lol. Just trying to understand the dis-ease of the human condition.

Understood. For me, the words "experienced in Consciousness" are problematical. As I see it, "Consciousness," particularly with a capital "C" is not a "thing" like a container in which experience takes place. Experience is all that we have to go on and what you all calling consciousness IS experience. There is no separation. They are one and the same. What you are calling consciousness is nothing more than experiences of all kinds, which keep arising in different aspects unless you become unconscious, which means no experiences are arising. Without experiences, there iS no consciousness. Any split between experience and myself or between experience and consciousness is purely conceptual Awareness being aware of itself is a strange idea, as I see it. One may have that as a concept, but not in fact. Myself IS experience. No experience, no myself. Awareness is just another name for all that, in my view. Myself is one experience after another. What can possibly stand outside of all that being aware of that? If you say something does, how do you know that? In order to know that, you would have to be AWARE of it, so then you require awareness being aware of awareness being aware, and after that, it's turtles all the way down. I highly recommend you read Douglas Hofstadter's book, I Am a Strange Loop. If you can. let's have this conversation in the Depending On No-thing Facebook group where other minds can chime in.

There is no evidence for it and a mountain of evidence for evolution by natural selection.

intelligence doesnt exist. only eternal patterns eternally changing

@@RobertSaltzman evolution just means gradual change. but gradual change of what and by what? there is no evidence for matter

@@mikelisteral7863 Nonsensical.

@@eskede4733 relative to what? your brainwashing?