Wow. I see others have shared their solipsism-related experiences too, and I'll do the same. For me it was 2 weeks after a very serious (but positive) psychedelic experience. I was meditating, and at a point I felt like I could just "switch off" this world by concentrating at a single point. And I actually got to a point where everything started to blur out, like nothing was even there. At that point, such sheer, utter terror overwhelmed me that I had to dress up and walk the streets for hours until I at last regained some sense of calm. After that I was in a really bad state for weeks, constantly being on the watch for spotting some kind of incosistency or strangeness in reality that would make it all crumble down around me. The feeling subsided after a while, but it remained in the back of my mind. It was not solved, only pushed down, and it came back at times. I actually made myself an essay about why solipsism must be wrong, looking at the issue from various aspects and explaining it away, but still, it stayed with me. Then, one day I was in a very bad mood, and felt very alone, and then the thoughts came back once again. At that point I realised that explaining it away analytically will never solve the problem. This problem cannot be solved analytically and logically, because thinking itself is taking place at a plane of reality that cannot explain the origin of reality. I realised I will never be able to have any certainty in this issue. And at that point, instead of simply going on with the meditation, I just let myself mentally cry out for help. I opened up my heart, and let myself feel my desperation fully; I let go of my pride and mentally pleaded for help, from anyone or anything. At that moment, I didn't hear a voice, but I felt something fill up my entire body. It was a warm, loving, encouraging presence, which made my hairs stand up; like a mother's embrace of a helpless child. It filled me with an emotion that could be translated into words as something like "do not fear. You are not alone and will never be." At that moment I knew that there are simply things that cannot be answered from our logical, analytical framework by which we try to understand the phenomena of the physical world. We have to stay humble and accept our limitations, and that some answers are, at least at our current stage of evolution, are out of reach. And as you said, Curt, I too realised that I should be more engaged with the world on an emotional and spiritual level. I shouldn't consider thinking to be the sole and highest arbiter of truth - this is not really different from, say, considering only your eyes to be the only true provider of experience. No, thinking and analysis are just one faculty we have, and is in no way more or less true than all the other faculties, like the senses, or our emotions. The full picture and truth cannot be grasped by thinking alone.

@stephanscharf5524

Жыл бұрын

This experience of a warm loving presence inside me was my turning point to spirituality and god. It was happening in the same kind of opening, letting go of my intellectual pride and asking for help to show me the way to reality and instantly I got this response from an unknown source. I have heard the term of lamento to describe this situation and this was the most powerful thing I have done so far in my life. I had no teacher then to show me how to do that then but it just came intuitively from my heart I would say. From that I know that help and guidance is always there if you really are asking for it.

@caseygrace9363

10 ай бұрын

Beautiful! Thank you for sharing your story. Greetings and LOVE, Brothers and Sisters.

I am so happy. I want to live in a world where people are trying to learn how to use their brain, their mind, feel their heart, advance spiritually and psychically. I want to live in a world where people have the freedom to explore their talents and develop spiritual healing abilities. This is a diamond age for humanity.

@tdarons

2 жыл бұрын

@ wulphstein you are already in and of that world. Surround yourself with like-minded people with highest purest intentions. Let them find you! Keep learning!

I am a coward because I am afraid of what could be true. Bro I have NEVER felt a statement more deeply than this.

I wasn’t familiar with Almaas, so thank you for the wonderful introduction, Curt. I appreciated Almaas’ embrace of both the spiritual and scientific. I think that balance is critical. I couldn’t help but think of Sri Aurobindo while watching Almaas. Thanks again Curt, I really enjoyed this video!

Kurt, I´ve had that same experience of terror when I was a kid and during my teenager days. "Solipsism" is the result of being stuck in the middle of the bridge, gazing at what lies on the other side while still carrying the frame of mind of the mundane. Probably it has been your first encounter with Absolute Consciousness, which is our deepest nature, without previous grounding, spiritual work. The problem comes when the mind tries to transfer what it knows, that is, the mundane stage (many individual selves) onto the transcendental one, and attempts to understand the new situation with old codes. Then it looks around, sees no other "selves", and panics because it mistakes Absolute Subjectivity, which transcends objectivity, which transcends numerality, with absolute aloneness, with "one object alone". But this is just an intermediate stage. It will go and it is good news that the fight is starting in order to throw down the government of mental chat. Which of course has its place. It is just that its role is not, and never will be, become a "subject".

@MarvinMonroe

2 жыл бұрын

I used to experience this feeling while dancing on LSD (or MDMA) at Phish shows back in late 90s. I had taken LSD plenty of times before at home and at friends houses and it never happened. We'd always get bored and then be like "let's go do X or play Y video game" and then get bored again 10 minutes later. Or else just trip out. Dancing was the only time I ever got had the feeling of "this is exactly what I should be doing right now" And my mind and everything would slow down. I called it "hyper awareness". I'd have thoughts as normal,but there was a difference. I was just observing them. I quit seeing Phish in 2003 and a few times in 2009 I got into that "hyper aware, Flow zone" while on 10 mile runs. In 2011 I got into Ramana Maharshi and started trying to meditate. But always got so bored and had zero success. Then in 2013 I was stuck in traffic and just kind of daydreaming and randomly asked myself "to whom do my thoughts occur" obviously I answered "to me" and then as soon as I asked "well, what is that 'me' then?" It was like BOOM! I was instantly back into that hyper aware state. And I stayed in it much longer than the 30 seconds that would happen rarely while running. Soon after that I started watching Swami Sarvapriyananda vids about the Upanishads. His popular vid titled "Who am I" was the first I watched and it all made perfect sense and was super easy to understand. Went back and watch Ramana Maharshi stuff and now it all made perfect sense. Edit: oh and also, I busted out laughing while I was stuck in traffic and had the Realization. It was like "this? This is it? This is the most obvious thing ever. I've known this thing all my life!" Th best analogy I've come up with to describe the feeling of Self Realization is to imagine there are two fish, deep sea fish. One somehow got caught in a net and pulled up above the surface. That fish is trying to describe Water to his friend who has never left the water The fish keeps saying stuff like "it's all around us" and it just sounds like new age mumbo jumbo. But when the other fish finally realizes Water he will be like "oh my gosh! This?! It's so obvious! Now I'll never unsee this" I'm not comparing Consciousness/Awareness to Water. Although that works on some levels. I'm simply comparing the feeling one has when they realize the Self. It's just so obvious and the big thing is they realize that it always been here TLDR: glad I never got and feeling of terror in regards to realizing Pure Awareness and our true nature and whatnot

@efektswiadomosci5399

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. That sense of self, or ego, acts like sponge and it steals The insight :)

@fouad4172

2 жыл бұрын

Great comment, this helped me. Thank you!

@larsonfamilyhouse

2 жыл бұрын

@@MarvinMonroe oh wow, thanks

@ksoccer32

2 жыл бұрын

@@MarvinMonroe hey I’m just trying to have a better understanding of this, so my first time I tried acid I was laying down and I started to really analysis my thought process it first started out with who am? Am I this body? Am I the brain? Am I the cells? Then I must be these energy particles? Wait that’s the same thing as the plants that I’m laying on!!! Holy shit we are all the same! Then I had a really weird feeling that I was this energy in this dumb ape body that I’m trapped in. Everything. I felt I was looking into the world as if we were all just ants in this weird simulated reality. Kind of realizing that what’s real is outside of this reality and I’ve been wrong this whole time. I was feeling very alienated towards this realization. Felt like I was being tricked my whole life. So my question is…. Is your experience similar to this or something different?

Blessings to you and you family’s this easter. Faith in God is all I have left. I lost my job as a social worker because I declined the vaccine. I declined due to my pre existing health condition (Lupus) and heart disease. I’m on a bunch of medications including blood thinners. I’m so ashamed and embarrassed over my situation. I was denied my medical/religious exemption from Forsyth hospital. I fell like every month me and the boys are facing homelessness. Every month is a struggle. I can’t be on the streets with two young children. I’m so depressed. Especially as easter is approaching. My husband passed away three years ago. I miss him dearly. I’m still coping with his death. I’m a single mother with two sons both are autistic, and non verbal. I am so overwhelmed at this point in time, it’s so hard on me. I am all alone no family nor friends to help me durning my time of need. But it’s my faith in God that will carry me through. Please keep me and my children in your prayers thank you. God bless.

@grunntalll

2 жыл бұрын

praying for you

@chrisatteridge

2 жыл бұрын

i'm praying for you bless you mousey

@neuroblossom

2 жыл бұрын

praying for you right now

@Septurez

2 жыл бұрын

get the vaxx dummy save ur kids

@ToriKo_

2 жыл бұрын

This is extremely difficult, I’m wishing you the best

Curt, I'm glad you didn't edit out your terror-attacks and that it also elicited from Almass that he too has also had them as well and that they are sometimes part of the process to move from one place of understanding to another. I thought Almass made a great distinction between "acceptance" as not "just accepting something" but more of "non-rejection". In other words you don't have to "just accept something" but rather see it plainly, fully, so that you can do whatever you want with it. Maybe it's not for you. But if you "reject it" you are running away from it. And now it has power of over you (because it may rear its ugly head again!) So "see it", "observe it" and then decide what you want to do with it.

"My role is to not have realizations"... to what does this statement amount if not to a realization. Gratitude for an interview with integrity. It is refreshing to actually hear someone interview Almaas who does not purport to know about spirituality and/or his work. Your knowing that you do not know [which Socrates would label a gem of wisdom] brought a whole new facet of Amaas's diamond to light.

Loving this episode. As someone who suffered depersonalisation and is on the nondual path, I think three things are important to remember to prevent this path from turning into terror and disassociation: 1) Leave some of the high theory to experience alone. Some of the higher claims about what reality is can’t be put into words, and if you only use words to comprehend it, the mind will make conclusions about those words with no reference point of experience, and those conclusions are usually nihilistic or scary. I think this is why some ancients made parts of the teaching ‘sacred’ and not to be talked about, because the mind will take those points and twist them from what it’s about. 2) Add some heart into it - I think the teaching can get dry and too open to our current frustrations and emotions if it isn’t connected to genuinely seeking something deeper - a love of life, truth, or wanting to be connected closer to the world. If it’s just a thought game, we miss that our brains probably can’t grasp the whole picture, and from there trust our brains too much in its usually negative conclusions. Some openness and trust goes a long way. 3) Fear seems to inevitably pop up when you go deep enough into being early on, as it’s a fear of losing one’s identity. It’s nothing to be ashamed of. I also don’t think it has anything to do with bravery for any person that crossed over. It can just be a matter of time, and eventually enough frustration to go “screw it, you win” and to let go and see what’s on the other side. After all, people seeking awakening are trying to change the way they see reality from the status quo version of separation. If you really hated what’s on the other side of that fear, you’d simply be doing the same thing - trying to change how you see reality again! So don’t try to beat fear, I can’t either and am not actualised, but I’ve learned a lot from just trying to begrudgingly take a peak and see for myself if it’s horrible or not. And in the moments I’ve been able to actually rest in my being, there’s just this feeling that you’d drop everything to be there more, and it’s more familiar and home-y then it is some crazy trippy experience. Keep up the great vids Curt!

@grantgaylord9490

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheVeganVicar I can understand this perspective, especially because meta-ethics is what we act out in the real world. My push back would be that I think resting in being (experientially, not just believing it with thoughts) critically informs meta ethics by connecting you closer with the world and thus bringing forth compassion. For even people that act righteously can do it for selfish reasons like validation (I’ve had that problem in my life all the time, and bet many others have too), which has pushed me further to study this path that way I can better develop a grounding to why I want to be compassionate beyond adhering to principles or trying to be seen as ‘good’.

@novaterra777

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheVeganVicar While the holy grail of current 'democracy' is something i would prefer to do away with yesterday, the only example of a 'less-free' system yielding better results in recent history is the 'enlightened despotism' of the mid 18th century. Not only does this only work at the graces of impeccable character of said 'despot', it was also vigorously opposed and undermined by the 'elites' of that time. Government of whatever kind is not in a position to allow or disallow its citizens anything without very high standards of its own, yet here we are where psychopathy is all but a guarantee for 'success within the system'. Anarchy of course is not the same as chaos either but i digress; logistically difficult in the face of current technological standards. I got a sense of what you are saying here but your last sentence implies the possibility of an objective moral system which i could argue is (at least) philosophically impossible. Now lets assume for a moment i agree with Michael Huemer's ethical intuitionism, except for him spelling out the words themselves it very strongly suggests that psychopaths can not be a part of any functioning society, yet estimates are 1 to 5% of humanity fall firmly in that category, how would you fix that problem? (doing nothing is not an option)

Without wishing to question the sincerity of Almaas, this woolly blanket of philosophy is not what I need to sleep comfortably.

Thankyou Curt. I'm only 40 mins in and hoping it goes on for hours. From my personal perspective,this is your best guest so far. I'm not sure if I should be feeling suspicious of my bias subconcious,hearing nothing but music to my ears. Big Love

Thank you Curt for the wonderful guest and interview, and thank you for leaving in the personal segment regarding the terrifying experience. I had a highly unusual experience a few weeks ago that should have been terrifying, but I have been a meditator and student of consciousness for a long time now; because of that, I was able to simply observe or witness the experience without fear.

Having meditated 60+ something years, I had come to experience certain things that only Almaas articulated in his latest two books. It is truly liberating, the endless discovery and the myriad ways reality expresses itself.

@HansenFT

Жыл бұрын

@@kelsto811 you probably have a gift. Continue forward! Some spend decades, and get nothing like that

Physiology of the Spiritual (Quick Guide) -The pleasurable “chills” or “goosebumps” (aka frisson) experienced when listening to music, watching movies, viewing art, dancing etc. are the beginning of the sensation of what is called the “soul” in western civilization. Generally, this begins on the arms, back, or neck when a person feels profound emotions. It is most likely you have already experienced it to some degree. -If you pursue this sensation within yourself by attempting to feel it as much as possible (all day, every day if you are able), it builds in strength significantly over time to the point where it becomes a full body sensation with the pinnacle being at the crown of the skull. It is sustainable with practice. You must become your own experiment as each individual’s set of beliefs and emotional reactions are unique. -It is the sensation needed to enter higher states of consciousness known as the Jhanas as well as to self-induce out of body experiences from a meditative state (visualization techniques are also required for OBEs). -One fundamental key to the sensation is to achieve states of genuine, positive emotions such as love, gratitude, inspiration, courage, joy, unity etc. (Therefore, anything that enables you to feel these emotions will work. Conversely, anything that prevents these, will prevent your sensation.) Control of thought is the key. -You will be required to be honest with yourself. This cannot be emphasized enough. Simply saying you feel love or gratitude, does not mean that you actually feel those emotions. This is why stimuli is extremely helpful such as music, movies, etc. to provoke those emotions in a genuine and real sense. -Be patient and be understanding of yourself if you think you are struggling. Trust your feelings and intuitions. This is a progression and it will take some time to strengthen as your brain reforms its pathways via neuroplasticity. (Weeks to many months depending on commitment.) Love yourself unconditionally for the greatest success. -Your sensation will inevitably grow in strength with persistence and you will begin to feel it more easily to a broader range of stimuli. You will eventually realize it is not the stimuli at all, but only your emotional state and control of your mind/thoughts that matter. -It is this same sensation that monks attempt to achieve during meditation and chanting. (The chants or mantras are to create vibrations in the chest which can stimulate the sensation as well as to keep one’s focus single pointed) -It is the same sensation that “spirit runners” or indigenous long-distance runners attempt to achieve. (Also called “runner’s high” in the west.) -The current scientific term for the sensation is “Frisson” and it remains relatively unexplained in the public sector being reduced simply to a release of endorphins. -Other names include: Chakra Energy, Kundalini Energy, Prana, Mana, Qi, Chi, Holy Spirit, life force, vibration among others depending on your cultural lens. (Google “CIA Gateway Process” for a consciousness study from US Gov’t. www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5.pdf )

Very beautiful... a sort of explicitly spiritual Bernado Kastrup! There were many times when Almaas hinted at things related to human psychology that are made brilliantly explicit by Hanzi Frienacht's Metamodernism - applying wisdom to the current situation ("Cultural Code/Symbol Stages"), stages of spiritual experience ("Subjective experience of States and Depth"), multiple levels of cognitive capacity ("Model of Hierarchical Complexity")

This is why Curts Channel is a must have. Everyone needs to subscribe to his channel. Some of this material and collaborations are simply mind blowing. 💯💯❤

Curt, I applaud you for your choice to explore the TOE. With regard to your terror experience, there are two things you may find helpful to consider. One, is to recognize that we are culturally conditioned to label emotions as good or bad/positive or negative. I'd encourage you to consider your terror experience as evidence of progress along your great adventure. You are breaking new ground! Discomfort is something we mere mortals have when we come upon uncharted territory (or terror-tory one might say :-) The second, is a reminder to detach from any idea that there is an end goal to your adventure. The joy lies within the process which is and will continue to be, ongoing. It would be a shame to have fear hold you back from continuing this amazing journey. Fear does not come from Love. The Soul is Love. You are on this journey because your Soul guided you step onto this magnificent path of greater and deeper understanding. Thank you for the contributions you are making with your work. Many are benefitting!

@seforaportela4997

2 жыл бұрын

I think Curt experience was different because he heard a voice saying to him tô stay grounded. For sure his experience was stronger as he had direct spiritual guidance. Only a handfull of those who go through this can have a direct contact with the sobrenatural like listenning to a voice as he did. I have been dealing with a lot of people who had this. From my experience the voice he heard is the most important part of the whole experience. As far I understand from the people I'm dealing with, when there is a voice and we focus on the guidance of the voice, those find a path and this path is very different from the one those people where in. Most of people I have been dealing with have been healed after going to same sacred places. There they change their path. .the sacred place where I see most changes is in Bósnia Herzegovina. A small village called Medjugorje. People come back filled with peace. The Things they experiênce while there are the most amazing I have heard in my life. The peace and feeling whole they attain in Medjugorje is something they cannot describe. That place does have a strong sobrenatural power to heal the soul. I think the voice Curt heard was his guardian angel. What a beautiful and direct command. In my perspective and experience what he was seeking is not the right path for him.

This was truly in all senses of what we could describe as "timely", timely for me. I've recognized on this journey in human form, the process of questioning... the inquisition of self, life, purpose, divinity, love, language, reality, physics, etc when you're driven for truth as long as you're aware of every moment you live there is a clue or signs to recognize keeps me sane. Thank you for sharing your podcast with Dr. Almaas and revealing a moment in which you dealt with your own experience discovering who you are and searching for God.

Curt, maybe it would help you if you thought of that experience as a form of energy, not as a state. When your brain opens up to a new dimension, the energy changes. Its a new physical experience, and to accept it is like riding a bicycle for the first time and your Dad lets go of the bicycle. In order to continue learning to ride a bicycle, you learn to not resist that 'rush' that you felt when you were let go, you relax and accept it and it becomes normal and not scary the more you practice.

I could relate to your experience at 54:00, however my thoughts were proceeded by my "overdosing" on edibles. I can't allow myself to start thinking this world I'm experiencing is all in my head as it spirals me down towards terror and madness. And thank you for introducing me to A.H. Almaas.

This was such a wonderful interview and discussion. So grateful to see individuals like Almaas who are so deeply knowledgeable of both Eastern and Western philosophies and wisdom traditions share their knowledge and understanding that is so disregarded from within the dominant Western philosophy and scientific acceptance claimed reality. Also, thank you Curt for your courage to publicly share your recent experience. While I admit I can't say with certainty, I feel confident the experience was a necessary evolution on your own journey, and provided a great deal of humility on my part to stay open to all of the journey, including the frightening paths.

Curt please for the love of Christ please try and get Swami Sarvapriyananda on the show

Curt what you felt is well discussed by st John of the cross. He called it "the dark night of the soul ". There is a book called the dark night of the soul. The catholics cherish it although over 90% of catholics don't grabe those concepts and those experiences. If you heard the voice that gave the path. It will pass. It takes time. Many saints of the catholic church had it. St teresa of calcuta lived her whole life having this every single night. Those experiences of extreme fear are a real for those who are real seekers. As far as I understand when you heard the voice to be grounded I understand it means to assume your human condition; not to deny that you are an eternal soul who got some gifts and and shall use those gifts well grounded and open minded... perhaps what you seek is easier than you think.

Curt, you are very brave to share your existential crisis with us. You made me aware of the crises of consciousness in my own life that I have suppressed or dismissed as unpleasantness to be suppressed.

Kurt , I love your patience in inquiry. I also love the way you have everything on the table. Nothing is thrown out with out proper inquest. Good for you God Bless you

I had a very similar Experience, Three times. I fear this meditation now. I intend to go back to it again in the future but I must admit to having three profound experiences in one night. So real so different. It gave me the chills to listen to this. Thank-you for Sharing Curt.

@mechannel7046

2 жыл бұрын

Can you share what type of meditation you did to have those experiences?

PS: my first step to consciousness was questioning "my" reflection in a mirror...when I asked myself, 'how do "I" know this is "me"?' at about age 10, it is said there is only about 10 animals that can "recognize themselves" as a reflection in a mirror...

From a Western perspective, I think that most of us 'New Age' spiritualists realize that once we awake, we have to go down a path that gives us the most growth or the path that attracts us most strongly, on way to achieving the wisdom state. Some people jump into the pond of traditions until they find what suits them, while others walk around the pond dipping their toes in the water to 'test' if it is right for them. As your esteemed guest said, it's answering and understanding who you are, and there is no 'wrong' answer. Part of that journey I think also is learning that you can say no to any and every path or tradition, only you, by listening to yourself, will know what has the potential to work for you. There will never be a TOE for consciousness or spirituality because it IS based on the individuals state of understanding, experience, and goals. We are here merely for this experience as a way to enhance or solidify our souls, like burnishing jewels until they shine. Allow yourself the right to decide what is good for you. No one else can tell you, there are no shoulds, but you DO know in your heart soul what is the way to go forward if you listen or ask that voice for help.

I very much appreciated your discussion on fear. I've felt that quite intensely with my study of non-duality. One of the reasons I studied mathematics was because of the beauty of its certainty; that certainty is very challenged in my spiritual studies. Re: solipsism -- my teacher, Francis Lucille, asks a good question about solipsism -- "if you don't think I exist, why are you talking to me?" which to me, points to solipsism being a product of the fear of the thinking mind, not of true reality.

Lovely interview Curt, had not listened to Almass before. So refreshing to hear a spiritual teacher not just declaring consciousness is the ground of being and instead talk about the heart. Have bought his book Live unveiled and it speaks to my heart. I was brought up Catholic but only through reading the book do I understand that Catholicism in its essence is all about the heart.

He makes an excellent point that people tend to see according to their own views. That is the wilderness. In which true voices are lost, trees fall unheard separated from listeners. As Jung said, “when facts are few, theories tend to reflect the individual psychologies of the theorists.” That’s why I went into psychology as an undergraduate. To make sure I knew myself well enough to detect that. Because I could see though the cultural patterns humans cling to like branches of a primordial tree, for existential respite. And to define themselves socially in the context of their short lives. The reason these theories proliferate is because we are not separate, and so people can feel without annunciation that civilization is headed SOMEWHERE. Like cosmic grail knights, they don’t understand how to interpret these messages from beyond. They latch onto a symbolic process and say everything is like that! So this is what my toe offers-an epistemological map of the meaning of the textbook universe, so we can navigate these pitfalls which have repeatedly damned and deceived humanity by the conflict of those who are so sure they are “right”. That’s why it’s so frustrating when all these people discover something and hold it up as everything. Which it never can be. Because they don’t understand the symbolic universe. They are right to be triumphant in their insights, but they don’t understand their feelings and why. My second book will teach humans to read the universe. I describe how to read everything from eyes, hearts cells, processes in nature, trees, bees, ants-all the way to the suns revolving extremely rapidly in high concentration around black holes. These things speak clearly about who and what we are. There are a few keys to unlock the meaning. That’s what my new book is about. Laws of information and meaning. An invisible dimension and sensorium in a way. How to see and understand god. Or source, or creator. The universe was written. It’s a story. One with a definite purpose, where power is given by understanding-which is why I say “Textbook” but the universe had foreshadowing like a novel too. The reason these literary devices work is because they are things built into reality. Love is an actual force in the universe related to truth and meaning. I have written that there is no love without truth. There is no Justice either. Truth-real, objective truth, is necessary for so many things that you could say it is the foundation of everything good. One thing that may help you is that you need to not stop at any one theory. I think your KZread channel and personal quest reflects this larger pattern. What I offer is not so much a theory of everything but to show where all theories come from and why. By showing you what a human actually is apart from our prejudices from being a particular one. There is universal being and grandeur to existence in every single life. Only I know that every atom is alive. I know what they actually are. The increasing concentration of suns toward the gravity well of the galactic center is like the proliferation of toe’s and the exponential increase in knowledge. We have a semantic map in the universe from particles to galactic center that fits together just one way. Like evolutionary theory organized all life through time. My theory is not a physics theory per se. But it will allow physics to advance beyond current concepts for sure….. anyway, Thanks for this it really helped me be clear in speaking, as well as being extremely interesting in itself. I love this ❤️‍🔥👍🏻🙏🏻 and I have to say that I can help you because I love you. The reason I even wanted to go into all my studies is because of the pain of history and in people I love in the now. I want humans to become what they were meant to become. To transcend glimpses of the bridge beyond the blinders which have driven men and civilizations mad and thrust nations into war. I bring the end of war forever. Just like the periodic table organized chemistry so we don’t argue anymore, we just know. We just do. The power of chemistry was glimpsed by alchemists, and made real in modern chemistry. This is why I came here to this planet. To champion the cause of god. To destroy deception. To send the demons at the corners of your eye fleeing from this world, dying by the light and sword of truth, that’s why I was born. I’m just a person who loves deeply the beauty unseen by most. Like Michaelangelo I see the beauty inside the stones. I can show you by my work. I am also a sculptor artist and poet. Thanks 🙏🏻 Every single theorist, every experimentalist, is a warrior not against each other or against other nations, but against the only common enemy humanity ever had. CHAOS, and the forms it assumes. Because it exists under pressure in other dimensions and we experience it as deception, fear, misunderstanding, and conflict. I am the destroyer of that chaos, like Wonder Woman in that awesome movie… destroyed the cause of war. lol… love it. So many synchronistic things like the creators suns circling the table of unity in the creation. The singularity of Kurzweil and the toes come from the same gravity well. That’s where I live. With the creator of universes. In my heart. Yes. It sounds poetic, but so did the alchemist and the parables of old. Approximations come from beyond, the whispers of the life to come, the promise of beauty. Wow, I do love poetry. ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

This is the talk I'd have liked 25 years ago when I was teacher jumping. Wish I followed this man when I read his book.

Hey Curt, I just want to say I think you’re a wonderful person and the way you express your views/experiences with humility is really inspiring to me.

The terror: I wonder why only some of us - me included - seem to get swallowed by the truly terrifying notion/feeling of thinking or believing we are losing our minds in the face of reality? Just over two years ago, a colleague at work mentioned as a very normal small-talk aside if anyone had heard about the recent suicide of a famous Japanese actress (I am living in Japan). It was such a normal thing to ask given that at that time a few other famous Japanese celebs had also committed suicide. But for some absolute inexplicable reason, my colleague's question sent me in an instant into a cold sweat, heart racing, head pounding mode of derealisation. It was like that moment in Michael Jackson's Thriller video where the camera zooms in or out, I can't remember, but it's the moment of realisation that his girlfriend is dating a werewolf. Since then, I have been grappling with all kinds of meta notions of the solipsistic kind Curt refers to as being terrifying, yet still haven't found a satisfying answer as to why such deep thinking in the spiritual realm leads some of us into the chasms of hell. If, after all, we are supposed to be beings searching for enlightenment, awakened, realisation of oneness, then why does it feel the total opposite to bliss? Anyway, these past couple of years I have been slowly crawling my way back to a semblance of my old, very happy go lucky self, but I really do bear the scars of that electrifyingly scary moment. I have learned how to accept that we have no control of the thoughts that spring up in our minds; that our minds are vulnerable to all kinds of ridiculous notions that seem to come out of nowhere. The trick to keeping sane is knowing that a seeking mind must traverse landscapes that from time to time lead us down into dark valleys, but that every dark valley leads out into a glorious mountain peak. It just takes a lot of determination and effort to climb back up and see the world once more in all its physical glory and realise that we are part and parcel of it - not separate from it. Good luck to all my fellow travellers. Stay safe, hardy and alert and you will make it back. I did.

@MarvinMonroe

2 жыл бұрын

"then why does it feel the total opposite to bliss?" What do you mean by "it"? I guess you mean "deep thinking in the spiritual realm" Well there's all varieties of deep thinking and I'm sorry but it doesn't really seem like you're in the "self realization" area. Are you into Ramana Maharshi and the Upanishads? Check out Swami Sarvapriyananda if you want a modern day, real deal, non creeper. Do you observe your mind? Yes or no. If yes, then what does that mean? Observer can't observe itself

@girlplanetboy

2 жыл бұрын

@@MarvinMonroe Yeah, love of bit of New York Swami - he is the real deal. Re whether I am into the 'self-realisation area' - I would certainly count myself among those of us who venture inwards to get an answer or two.

@MarvinMonroe

2 жыл бұрын

@@girlplanetboy you'll get there. Or more precisely, you will realize you are already there and have always been there. That's why "realization" is such a great word for it. And also, the fact that we are even interested in this stuff and have found Vedanta is proof we have good karma

@girlplanetboy

2 жыл бұрын

@@MarvinMonroe Well, to be honest, I wasn't looking to find good karma, it sort of found me! (joke)

@MarvinMonroe

2 жыл бұрын

@@girlplanetboy me too :) we are very fortunate

The act of throwing, gave rise to awareness, us and them.

I just listened for a second time and tried to be critical,because it felt like I must have been driven by positive bias yesterday. I found it even better the second time around and also found a few hidden gems that I hadn't had time to consider and process. If I had to find a point that differs with my opinion. At a struggle his individual perspective about psychedelics was based on his own limited experiences when he was still a very young man. He still shared some pretty good advice on that subject,just that he lacked personal experience of extreme ends of this particular polarity.

Another wonderful conversation! Thanks for sharing!

I am just listening to Almaas with curt. I am so happy that curt discovered Almass. I am a ken Wilber follower of his meta-theory which I still find the best as a map of the nature of reality. Ken has been recommended Alsmass and his Diamont approach, for at least 25 years, as the best method for Westerners. And I sure do agree with Ken. Thanks, Curt to make him known to a greater audience. Or a younger audience.

Appreciate you sharing your experience. This was a great discussion. Your guest was very impressive also. 🙂💯🙏

It sounds like being afraid from solipsism is being afraid to be alone. Nonetheless the experience is the same: so choose to enjoy the experience of consciousness and life you're having; it's a mystery anyway, no matter how it turns out to be fundamentally

This is one of the most enjoyable and insightful TOE episodes I have seen so far and now its one of my favorites. Also I was not aware about the guest before this. His ideas and approach resonate a lot with me and are similar to the approach I have been tending towards in my journey.

Omphaloskepsis. I've experienced this as well. I had no idea of this brilliant man. Thank you, Curt!

This Channel is something different Curt! Thanks for doing what you do.

Great interview! Both Buddhists and Hindú philosophers say “there are 3 truths: the world is an illusion, all there is is God (or True Self), and God (or our True Self) is the world. The 3rd truth ties it all together (along with connecting the world views of East and West 😉).

Listening to the podcast…. His synthesis of experience, Buddhism & Christianity chimed with me as a Quaker

Curt I just wanted to say that I've been confronting some scary moments like a few you've shared, and I'm so thankful to have that point of reference to add to my own. Makes me feel less alone, and less crazy. Life is weird. I can't say this is a rule, but in my experience...if you decide you've had enough and stop seeking, then it tends to stop or at least taper down.

Thank you very much for this channel. It's pure gold :) I also experienced a very strong fear of derealization for several months and came to the conclusion that it is best to keep the feeling between real and not real. Like Yin Yang.... I try to be on the "Middle Way" :)

"The thinker is now the being in whom the impulse to truth and those life-preserving errors wage their first conflict, now that the impulse to truth has also proved itself to be a life-preserving power. In comparison with the importance of this conflict everything else is indifferent; the final question concerning the conditions of life is here raised, and the first attempt is here made to answer it by experiment. How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? - that is the question, that is the experiment." - Nietzsche, GS § 110

Been listening to Almaas since 2012, great have u including him as guest

Some of my first students, and several since, had their mind-training and their Awakening-to-the-Path with Almaas' school. His work has a nice clean directness and simplicity, which has made my work significantly easier with those students than those who got that training from less competent sources. So this interview was a great treat, thanks Kurt! Lovely fellow. I like him even more after this :) in joke: Q "How many Diamond Approach students does it take to change a lightbulb?" A, guessing "x". Q "Thank you. How many Diamond Approach students does it take to change a lightbulb?"

Curt, this was fascinating, and I appreciate your humility to share your meditative terror experience. I do find these "wise" interviews to be more satisfying than the ones that are sort of mental battering rams. Thank you for doing them. I had mentioned a Dr. Heiser in the past re: a religious scholarly perspective re: UFOs/Aliens, and wanted to mention it again, as he's working through pancreatic cancer. If there is any interest in speaking with him, sooner might be better 😕

Glad I caught this!

@jimmybolton8473

2 жыл бұрын

Same

One of the hidden gems I found,was getting a little window into your perspective Curt. I thought I was the only 55 year old man living in a forrest and using entheogens as my tools lol. I shall not bore you with my toe Curt but I do think I could help you understand the problems you've been experiencing. Feel free to get in touch. Great work and Big Love

What I appreciate so much about this is how it transcends TOE. For me, it illustrates how both "halves" of the civilized world have much more in common, than they do not. I think that's important, even for TOE. I'm sure somewhere, someone has published some research or information; but I'm not part of the Science Community, so it's not immediately obvious to me where to look. But I really wish there could be more discussion of quantum physics with an assumed denial of wave-particle duality. I have some ideas about that, and would really like to hear how an academic might characterize such a branch.

In my opinion beyond all the millions of gods in Hinduism, indian philosophy is really the study of consciousness, advita vedanta and the levels/states of samadhi is fascinating to me as I think I experienced a state of samadhi just for a few seconds after extreme stress and heart ache I endured for years, it was a separation of my mind and consciousness, it happened when i completely surrenderd and gave up, ever since then I've been learning all I can about eastern philosophy.

Curt when you said about the branches from the same root it was exactly what Jesus said. "I am the tree and you are the branches ".

Wise man with a balanced mature spiritual perspective.

Thanks for this Curt - I have followed Almaas for years and now glad to follow your channel as well

@TheoriesofEverything

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard. Hopefully you enjoy some of the other podcasts on the channel as well.

Curt. You and your channel are a dream come true! Thank you thank you thank you

@TheoriesofEverything

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you. I'm glad you're enjoying them!

Interesting man! Great you are exploring the Eastern approach as well.

29;50 "consciousness is a reality" Consciousness IS Reality The Reality of being in my body The Reality of perceiving the world outside my body The Reality of perceiving my feelings. Feelings for the people I know Feelings for the things I pursue I need to pursue for myself and others

Wow, awesome stuff. Thx Curt. I really identified with a lot of what both you and Almass said. *So I’m not crazy then…. ;)

Kurt, I enjoy your quest for the truth. Go at it!

45:07 - There's a lot of mindless self-indulgence that passes itself off as being part of spirituality, but in reality it's people's social-climbing and making social-climbing games as they have since time immemorial. I really think if people have profound perspective they should be doing something with it though and leading by example if they can. This is part of why I don't think I could ever bring myself to be a 'guru', not only because I have my own fair share of long-range problems but because I realize that people are living under financial and sometimes even the physical duress of others, coercion is almost a universal state, living under duress is a large part of why so many people seem benighted, abuse of power generally isn't a problem that words from on high alone solve for very well, and you have to be able to break free of being electrified in place by social and economic coercion (thinking if things like Naval Ravikant's plan for separating himself from extraneous bonds in the outside world) before you can even do much to make the world significantly better for others, otherwise the world around you will be more than happy to waste your time and point your energies toward things that mean very little.

what a beautiful soul,

Thanks Curt. TOE is hidden in oneness of every thing and non-thing. To make your quest of truth any meaningful, consistent and legitimate in first place, accept you have a creator else you are stretching the bow in dark. God is the light of earth and heavens.

Curt Jaimungal, you're getting closer... don't stray

On Curt's terrifying experience (my wild speculation). A Course In Miracles (ACIM) talks about a "mad thought" that created the illusion of separation (our world, where our collective soul, or "child of god" feels separated from God and we feel separate from each other). At least one Interpretation of ACIM says that the thought was similar to "Can I play outside, on my own?" (I frame it as "is there anything outside God?"). Basically this was the cause of fear, of all evils of the world. ACIM also says that the question was answered before it was even stated in God's "reality", but in our perception we are living in the answer to that question, living through an illusion of separation; when it ends (I believe it's wrapping up) we will be back to God's reality, though we haven't really left. Perhaps Curt's experience is a miniature version of the above - it's an experience of an attempt to reject the reality you're part of (part of the "mind at large" as BK would say), replacing it with an illusion of a world you are a sole creator/owner of. The voice you've heard is a some sort of "divine intervention" (perhaps there are some "protective mechanisms" that guard you from getting stuck in the illusion). Wishing you all the best, Curt. I hope you can safely integrate this experience and it will only make you a stronger soul. Peace!

Thanks, one of the ones that iluminate mine mind and Soul, thanks, thanks, thanks

Thank you so much for saying that about the truth! It’s always seemed so scary! Recently I heard the question do you want to know the truth or just what you want the truth to be? And I was like …obviously what I want it to be if I’m being honest, idk! Years ago I kept thinking YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH lol and idk maybe I can’t? Nothing is even real really? Love is real. This already all happened and because of love we get to relive it. So far that’s the truth I’ve found which is the opposite of scary so…I try not being mad at reality not being real, not being mad my stupid thoughts create my stupid reality. I spent a lot of time being mad and years stuck in an existential crisis that nothing mattered because it was already all decided by your past experiences and that there’s no free will. Finally I figured out that I was basically being mad at the sky for being blue (which I know it’s technically not so maybe that’s a hint freewill is a little real somehow, maybe it becomes accessible once enlightened idk lol). Look up spiritual superiority, it relates to what you were saying and is a great concept and funny too lol:)

“The experience of truth is love!” Yes!!!!!!! Heart is All …”I am that I am”.

Beautiful interview🙏

Wow Curt! Your terrifying experience (and the commanding voice’s message) was a metaphysical breakthrough. Bless you brother - I send you waves and waves of pure love… if you ever want to converse “off camera” (unrecorded) I may be able to offer a sustainable solution to “depersonalization” and “derealization” (along with anxiety/panic attacks), as I began experiencing these in early childhood and was forced to ongoingly reintegrate myself, moment-by-moment. Only at age ~20 did I *seriously* recognize the necessity of a metaphysical context for genuine psychological health.

I've never known many people, and certainly none of them have seen me "as I am". I was surprised to hear him imply that this is even possible.

How fascinating. An Amazon search reveals this guy has written many books, most over 600 pages! Can anyone recommend which one is best for the new reader

@bloomascension3327

Жыл бұрын

Diamond Heart Book 1 is a great start 🙏🏼

..what was scary for me, is how could something always "be", or "exist" to realize that "it" didn't come from anywhere, it "always was" it made me feel the loneliness of such an existence...maybe we are feeling a little piece of God...

The story about the water and the well and the guy drinking the water "because he couldn't handle it" reminds me of the Taoist wisdom from Zhuang Zi that the wisest is the person that doesn't know: which I read as different from an ignorant person because *he knew but he decided to act like he doesn't know anymore or consciously just not know it anymore* because that is wisdom; as it doesn't make any difference to life itself

Curt, you podcasts don’t have time constraints yet you used this reason at the moment Almaas got to you personally. I do hope you can accept the experience you had and explore it further personally with less fear. Almaas is a heavy weight, must he hard to be unmoved when interviewing him. Thanks for the interview!

Doing psilocybin truffles was life-changing but when people ask if I recommend it then I remember Matrix 1 when Neo visits Oracle: "Temet nosce"/"Know thyself" As Almaas said: doing it just isn't in my mind anymore.

Oh, A.H. Almaas... I remember reading "Luminous night´s journey" and being speechless at how he was describing my own experience, step by step.

When I was about 17 years old I had a solipsistic experience. It is terrible. I hope no one even thinks about it. But the random things that happen (some of which we dislike) can disprove solipsism. If you experience it in a very extreme way the only one who can save you is God or else you have to be ignorant about it which is almost inescapably impossible.

I've come to understand more and more that my path depends on my perceptions and beliefs, and is therefore different from everyone else's. This extends into the afterlife, where I believe that we see what we expect to see so that our reality is very much related to what we feel and on what constitutes our inner landscape. The more spiritual we are the higher we go, and the less the lower. Not my own thoughts, surely, but what I've read and heard that resonates with me. Spirit assists in this by gifting me with paranormal experiences which have served to keep me on a certain path. For the average human mind, however, much of it is still too complex to understand.

Hi Curt, just wanna say firstly that I love your content, and that these podcasts have opened my eyes to where I am today in my philosophical inquiry. I have had a similar experience to the one you mention. There admittedly was not as much fear as you describe but I did feel extremely unsettled at first. Absolute Idealism, or non duality, or whatever you want to call it is what I firmly feel aligned with and I feel that that is what is going on (if that’s an accurate way to put things haha.) Through more thinking about this, when the fear had subsided and I was more just thinking about this analytically, I came to a bit of a realisation about what I had to fear within this - and it was somewhat comforting, I don’t know if it will be the same to you. Solipsism has been misunderstood probably since Descartes or before. The apparent absurdity in the position is one that stems from misunderstanding of it. It is often thought that solipsism rejects the external reality of the outside world, and says that all that is real is ones own personal mind. There is an abstract sense in which we must agree that this is the truth. In the sense that all reality has ever been, is this, appearing in this now, this one source. But to mistake this one source for You, is certainly a mistake. You are not the holder of this consciousness, and You aren’t all alone in a world filled with zombies. You are an idea, an experiential appearance deriving from the same source as all things. Experience - now. So you aren’t all alone, surrounded by zombies. In a certain sense - this ‘You’ that we speak of is a zombie as well. They are of the same kind. They are part of the same story. The meaning that is felt in that story is not isolated in a ‘You’ Curt, completely separate and cut off from ‘others’ and the ‘outside world’. It is uniformly derived from all of this. You are not all alone, because there is no one there to be all alone. There is this, and that is as real as it could ever be

woah!! I've followed your channel since finding your conversation with Jonathan Blow… but for years before that I've been following Almaas & the Enneagram as an alchemical / mystical tool… the Enneagram got me into theoretical physics / astronomy / biology / mathematics… wild to see these things uniting in the mainstream. my life's goal is to be a bit of an Almaas spinoff actually

Would love to hear you talk with Francis Lucille. 😎🌸🙏

Curt I think I’ve had the horrible experience similar to yours only it was when I took Christianity seriously, as in the explicit and literal version people interpret today. I don’t think I slept for 5 days straight, or ate much I was so terrified. That was an awful time I wouldn’t wish on anyone and it took months for that feeling to go away.

@michaelmolinaro3054

2 жыл бұрын

I also had this happen after loosing my brother and best friend within a year. Neither were Christian. I couldn't cope with the thought of them in Hell. However God revealed himself to me in such a profound way I could never deny Him. Deep stuff.

@45:00 being condescending to ppl not yet awake etc. is a great way to turn them off to anything having to do with enlightenment/awakening. I definitely agree with you there:) Ps I do view being enlightened as a higher state of being but I’ve never once thought of it as being above others. Even when you were talking about it I was thinking I kind of view it like actually up high but it’s not in a context with relevance to anything else. Kind of like how ppl view God as being in the sky maybe. But if I think about it for more than just a split second concept I’d say it’s like being regular right where you are but with added light, similar to in the movies when someone sees the light of God. Maybe a better analogy would be you can climb a mountain to get a better view but your feet are still on the ground just like everyone else’s. My mind has also been so open my brains fell out, I think that’s what is supposed to happen (I hope lol) but along with you I have also experienced tons of terrifying things spiritually. Sometimes I say stuff out loud that I think I sound sooo crazy and I understand most all the ppl other ppl say are crazy. I also used to be atheist and then I saw the light…and still didn’t understand for the longest time what had happened and spent all day then night trying to figure out what was happening and kept finding practically next to nothing, hardly any of these resources existed then. I kept wanting everything to end and go back to normal because I was so lost and didn’t understand and everyone was so mean because I was so dumb. Then one day things switched from good to bad, I’ll never forget the day, it was the worst ever. Also let your brain have those crazy thoughts because if you try stopping them your brain will break and be similar to having thought Tourette’s is how I describe it, it’s also really bad. It’s all super hard still but things like your podcasts help me continue to understand, thank you.

@tdarons

2 жыл бұрын

Nods… “before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water….after enlightenment chop wood, carry water”. Staying grounded with our feet planted on our earth is key.

Curt has been openminded enough to explore TOE in areas other than mainstream academics. I wonder what if TOE can be expressed as fiction? If it can be it has to be really short short story encompassing the whole, analogus to a mathematical equation. But even both, how would they relate to our perception of our own being and our place in the world? It can be expected from TOE that it should give some technology or intellectual means which can, sort of open our mind to a wider reality; or what underlies this reality; without that even if there is TOE what relevance it will have to us? Or is it that mathematico-physico versions of TOE would generate technologies which would make these questions or seeking understanding of something itself redundant; and not in bad way like today's social media is doing.

We dont think Ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

Batting average is impeccable

@Broznon

2 жыл бұрын

I believe!

1:03:15 - Something you have to admit to yourself, and it sounds like you have to a degree, is that at the end of the day your mind and your emotions have to keep homeostasis and there are some ideas so jarring, especially if taken in a profound way rather than a distant or intellectual way, where they break the circuit. It seems like the only thing you can do with with those ideas is build counteracting defense and coping mechanisms that might allow you to wear them again at a later date and still keep homeostasis. The times when I've been push to the edge I felt like my mind or my consciousness was in a kind of bowl, and if I energetically got pushed too far up the side of the bowl and rolled out that I wouldn't be 'free' or spiritually enlightened, rather I'd end up like some of the guys I know who alternate between mystical visions, ET visits, and open symptoms of schizophrenia. While that could have not been the case the risk of letting myself get amplified out of that sling wasn't worth the reward and the odds of simply falling out of the sling into a less optimal state seemed too high. At the end of the day your first duty - to yourself - is guardian / custodian, and you have to take those risks seriously. That could very well be how slow but steady progress happens - ie. you meet something terrifying, live with it in your memory for years, circle back to it at some later date, and find yourself in a completely different place with it the next time around because your mind has already identified and resolve the most threatening aspects of that experience.

Thank you. Love his teachings.

I went to another dimension when I saw the price of a TOE cup 😫

The Diamond Approach changed my life. What is wonderful about Hameed's work is that it is not only profound on all levels but it is practical. Having a Diamond teacher and joining a group is life affirming on so many levels.

@TheoriesofEverything

2 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad

@eukaren

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheoriesofEverything thank you for the work you do. You are so authentic, brave and passionate with your questions. You stand out in your humility and intense, intelligent curiosity. I really admire you!

@TheoriesofEverything

2 жыл бұрын

@@eukaren I'm glad you enjoy them and gain from them Karen! Hopefully even half of what you wrote is true. Thank you.

Wisdom is the true realization of our mortality.

Excellent 👍 thank you very much.

Have you ever read Erich Fromm? Three books I recommend are 'The Sane Society', 'The Pathology of Normalcy', and 'To Have or to Be'.

Ramana Maharshi, the great Indian sage of the last century used to ask this question to some who visited him. Are you in the world of is the world in you? To most of us it's is obvious that it is the former. It is because to us it is obvious that the world is physically real and we are somehow conscious. Most also believe that it's the brain that makes us conscious. The fact that Ramana ask the question means that his answers the latter because his worldview is different. What most don't quite grasp is that the sages like Ramana don't see or regard or experience this entire world as physically real. It's real but as an appearance in consciousness. Not consciousness in the brain as the brain and the body are part of the world and all are an appearance. The source of the consciousness cannot be found in the world that appears. It's similar to the dream analogy in which the dreamer himself cannot be found in the dream since everything in the dream is dream stuff. The source of consciousness in which the entire waking world appears seems to emanate from a central singularity. This worldview is very very difficult for most of us to grasp because we will inevitably project our physically real world view onto whatever the sages are saying. The sages gotten this not from reading or rationalising or studying sacred texts of sciences. They have this experience when they managed to reach the stage of pure awareness of perfect stillness of the mind. When that happens, the real nature of the mind will reveal itself. The idea that most of us have that I am this body will also disappear. This is the loss of the ego. And along with this, the belief that the world is physically real will also disappear.

Omg I love this guy. I love the enneagram. I love Roger Penrose 😍

What about when the Terror, the transition, is a result of the action of another? Removed from any choice of one’s own? External force? Does the Terror precede insight or does insight precede terror?