I experience a similar sensation during meditation when I focus on the sense of "I am." It brings about a profound sense of being alive in my body. It provides a sense of relief from my identity as a person, although there is still a limited perception of existence. As I continue to explore this state, the sense of being expands and becomes more effortless, like a spaciousness that encompasses everything. It ultimately leads me to a state of nothingness, where there is no awareness of my existence, a complete absence of any sense of being or awareness.
By definition, it is impossible to ever experience a _complete_ absence of any sense of being or awareness. It’s a contradiction in terms. I think I understand what you’re trying to describe, but the sense of awareness had to still be present, otherwise you would (by definition) not have been aware to experience this episode at all. And then you would not be able to recall it now, since you wouldn’t have experienced it in the first place.
I spent all night imagining various forms of some bread that I intend to make today, all while being aware that in sleep it would not be possible to bake bread. A sense of Peace descended because I was okay with being in this dream, awaiting the morning.
What a dream we created as Infinite Being. The more i awake the more i realize the absurdity, beauty, humurous, profoundity and simplicity of this dream. Hello Me!
I considered myself a reductionist physicalist, then recently I read a book that made me lean decidedly towards a form of oriental idealism called nonduality, it's called The Direct Experience the way of non-duality by the author Alessandro Sanna, a masterpiece
@@innerlight617 Yes, Bernardo Kastrup is my intellectual hero, I have read all his books. However, this Sanna seems like a step forward to me, he develops a series of notable arguments that I wasn't aware of.
My boy is looking good with a beard! But otherwise another great video. Sometimes, during meditations that I feel I'm abiding the most in my own being, I feel expanded but not like our friend in the video. I feel expanded but also feeling that, as Rupert said, being is contained in my body, kind of feeling like a giant let's say. Until now I always found weird that I had this different perception, but I'm now thinking that I this might be just natural and part of the whole thing. Have anyone ever experienced something like what I described as well?
Visualise it this way: A box vibrating consciousness (the only thing that exists). The vibrating consciousness inside the box is unaware that it is vibrating. The vibrating consciousness forms PoVs for it to view itself through. When the vibrating consciousness views itself through its human PoVs, it sees itself as separate objects in space and time (aka the universe). But in reality it is all just the one vibrating consciousness.
I'm a bit confused as to how one seemingly "regresses" to the initial state of Being while still obviously being confined within the limitations of the dream character. Perhaps a bit of clarification is all that's required here, but if we grant this then the distinction between the Infinite and Finite seems effectively nonexistent save for a difference in quantity as opposed to quality. Death itself seems a rather moot point from this POV, no more significant than our expectation of journeying from so-called "waking life" into a lucid dream.
@@joajoajb Look, if you don't have an actual answer then you don't need to waste time typing a bunch of vague word salad nigh completely bereft of actual substance. I don't say any of that to beat you over the head, but as a recognition of Rupert's influence. Lots of people take what he says very seriously (not unjustly, mind you) - and I don't think it unjustified to have a critical eye. I'm all for being contemplative. So let's do just that - but let's be serious and talk like we're actually trying to solve a problem.
@joajoajb Well obvsly this comment got thru, so the idea that you're being singled out doesn't seem quite right. I myself have raised objections with Rupert (several times, mind you) - and to the best of my knowledge, all of my comments have gone up w/o issue. If your replies were being taken down, perhaps you might inquire with the channel to see what the rationale might've been. I think that a better avenue than simply presuming outright malice.
@ryanashfre Being is always...just being. We seem to "regress" between two states, the 2 states of body recognition or separateness and being with no bounds of the material. If all is from consciousness, then we are just movement within the consciousness, birth and death a movement. It appears as a "regress" between states. Sit in being, be it movement or sleep, death or birth. 😊
@@zoomby4380 Just saying that that's what it is isn't an explanation though. I hear that all the time from Bernardo Kastrup - and as much as I like the man, I reject that kind of simplistic handwave. Infinite Consciousness isn't *just* moving within itself. You and I are here right now having this discussion as two discrete entities. We're not just a bundle of activity. To indulge that kind of rhetoric inevitably ends up w/ you assigning the same kind of relational fundamentals to the World itself; a position which I wholeheartedly reject. To me that's a clear affront to the idea of Will and Telos. Within this particular dream, there are characters meditating and claiming to reach a certain mental state that is still obviously its own individual self and yet 'expands' back to a far more fundamental state of Being at the same time, begging the question as to why the physical death of the body would change anything at all. That's my inquiry. From this POV, Death seems perfectly arbitrary. I don't see any obvious reason why it should affect any substantial change in the essential existence of the dream character. It's not as if God itself has woken up or anything.
@@ryanashfyre464 I feel like you are over complicating the matter: if someone is angry they might say a word to express that anger. The activity of that word is merely a reference to what exists, which is the anger. The word therefore is devoid of any real substance, the substance is in the emotion. It is the same with awareness and the world. The world is devoid of any real substance because if you investigate _what_ it is, you will find it is awareness.
