Have you ever had an epiphany (either Big-E or Small-E)?

@taylorwestmore4664

Жыл бұрын

I had an unusual experience at age 18. I can only compare it to descriptions of people who have had a stroke, and people that experience "Kundalini Shakti", the power of the coiled serpent in Yoga Kundalini. It felt as if my head and spine opened up, and liquid electricity began to flow through my whole body. Felt the dissolution of ego and separateness between the internal and external world. This lasted several months. I learned a lot about the connection between body and mind. When the experience ceased, I felt drained or burnt out. I learned from instruction in Kundalini Yoga that I had opened up that energy pathway without any of the foundational work to properly cool the flow of energy, and as a result overheated from a faster metabolism. My sympathetic nervous system was hyper-active, while my parasympathetic nervous system was underactive. Since then I have been slowly learning the foundational techniques of realization, through learning meditation and pranayama yoga/breathing practices, Taoist spiritual alchemy, did a lot of reading on biology and the relationship between the endocrine system and the nervous system. Diet and hydration is also foundational to health. The biology of whatever people report as Kundalini awakening is poorly understood, but I like to believe there is a deep metabolic reason for these sort of awakening experiences that has to do with strong feedback in the nervous system and endocrine system. In the book, "I am a strange loop", Douglas Hofstadterchaos argues that chaos theory can explain the persistence of self-consciousness; all chaotic systems exhibit self-referential dynamics that lead to the kind of sense of self which is both sensate or receptive to the state of the environment, as well as proprioceptive or aware of the internal state of itself. The question that is more difficult to answer is: what is it that is aware of the outside and inside? The brain and body are surely the interface which is aware of the world, and itself. But the distinction between the inside and outside isn't very solid. Hofstader describes a tornado as a good example of a type of primitive self awareness in physical processes that resembles life. The tornado has no mind, but it has inputs and outputs that causes it to steer towards and feed off heated air, it can merge or split like cellular division, it grows and then dies, it's organized toroidal flow of wind energy dissipating into the background heat of the air. I think biological life is very similar. A circular or toroidal flow of water and Oxygen and chemical energy and everything else that our body moves around. It has inputs and outputs, it lives and reproduces and dies wherever there is the energy in the environment to do so. The big mystery to me at the bottom of all these ideas about how biology supports consciousness will always be "does consciousness continue after death"? Maybe but I'm skeptical. The Taoist idea of immortality is, to me, somewhat like Christian idea of Resurrection, in the former you must cultivate an immortal spiritual body in life through virtue and spiritual alchemy (transforming your food and breath, and therefore your bodily substance and energy, into spiritual energy given form), and in the latter that cultivating a relationship with God and accepting the offer of salvation through repentance allows one to partake in immortality by Grace. Both traditions seem to state quite clearly that the truth must be apprehended directly through experience here and now, not necessarily after death. As it is written, "Behold! The Kingdom of God is within you!".

@onesixright7068

Жыл бұрын

Only while watching Wall-E

@anxiouscucumber9

Жыл бұрын

First ever DMT experience (pharmahuasca) - i *think* it was Big-E.. (but could have been like a medium ē or something.. 🤔)

@Footprints1111

Жыл бұрын

Yes…I’ve had both. Life-changing to say the least. 🥰🦋🌈✨

@tecoreo

Жыл бұрын

Oh, man - I can't pass up the opportunity to reply here! YES! Big E when I was 16 and on acid for the first time. I saw "myself" as the All - The Everything - the I AM That! :) I was looking out from the center of all things and knew myself as every blade of grass, every bird, every planet, every person, etc, etc, etc... :) The experience in consciousness was of being those things, not just seeing them, so knowing the details of all creation from the inside out. My first thought upon returning to my small self was to rip off my clothes and run down the street shouting, "It's just us - it's all love - there's just love!" My best friend was sitting for me at the time and calmer heads prevailed, but I have always felt like I'm one heartbeat away from some next-level, naked-love-run-evangelism :) Thank you for such a cool video and such a cool channel!

I've found that all of us have moments of enlightenment. The tough part is staying enlightened.

@romazone101

Жыл бұрын

So well said! Concise yet so profound. A little 'e' epiphany?

@JAbelH

Жыл бұрын

Yes, and I think that is because our practical/survival brain (aka EGO) has to take control back to run our lives,

@vasiframazanli4416

Жыл бұрын

That part is very hard

@ichabod1370

Жыл бұрын

I don't think you can "stay enlightened", or that we're meant to (that is, constructed to hold onto that state, with our busy minds and fizzing bodies). I've noticed that the few experiences I've had of contact with another person that was warm, beautiful, and completely trusting for both have been more and more elusive as time passed, and that the best way to keep these moments alive in memory was to let them go, to *not* clutch at them or try to recreate the experience in my mind. They were transitory by their nature, at least for me in whatever spiritual state I was then and am now. Maybe more experienced souls, Older souls in terms of lives lived, slide more easily into that kind of state, and I'm still too "Young". I don't know, and here toward the end of this lifetime (I've entered the low 80s), I don't feel any urgency about it. So I meditate every evening, and expect nothing, and that contents me.

@Sandra-sr1wk

Жыл бұрын

Wonderfully put! It's a seemingly small but vital distinction that's easy to miss. Nothing is permanent, not even enlightenment. It has to be won over and over. A verb rather than a noun. Makes me think of that BoJack Horseman quote: "Everyday it gets a little easier. But you gotta do it every day. That's the hard part."

We don't see the world as it is. But through a lens of biases and cognitive filters that make up who we are

@The-Well

Жыл бұрын

It's very true--and it is necessary. There's far more information that is coming into our senses than we can process. kzread.info/dash/bejne/i5-N1LOLaNesqs4.html

@tedmoyses2942

Жыл бұрын

@@The-Well even though in many cases this information that is coming in is poor, our brains do an amazing job of filtering and enhancing it

@ilianamarisolromero7816

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, most of our experiences are ways of conditioning that takes place in our minds, I think they become forms of beliefs and our filters to see. The mind tends to patterns. So to understand who we are we can take a look at our thinking, and if we’re honest we can observe all our fears and hatred, as well as our most sublime thoughts of bliss

@Bigbrodonateddollarsthroughsup

Жыл бұрын

these mental and cognitive biases literally alter your senses over time

@Joshua-mt2kb

Жыл бұрын

Very true. It should be everyone’s mission to strive towards the “primal nature,” as Lao Tzu termed it. A mind liberated from attachments and conditioned ways of being.

Our brain is so complicated as we go through enlightenment. It is incredible the amount of drugs it produces and how quickly it can turn them on and shut them off according to our fear or acceptance of the experience. It is incredible, and I've only scratched the surface.

I'm 36, after 10 years of yoga and 2 years of almost daily mediation. After readings on philosophy, Taoism, Buddhism and the Koran as well as the Bible. I had this wonderful experience one afternoon sitting on my couch. My soul and my heart have been filled with gratitude ever since and I have opened my eyes to a new world. We must stop the ego and radiate love. Peace and love for all❤

Reading "The Denial of Death" by Ernest Becker permanently changed the way I look at my fellow humans. It was enlightening in that it solved an existential question I'd had, mostly subconsciously, for many years, and I felt unburdened. A wonderful experience.

@ichabod1370

Жыл бұрын

Wonderful book.

@angeloselarja

9 ай бұрын

Irvin Yalom's books about death anxiety are powerful too

First big E: Taking LSD for the first time Second big E: 3 months after my chronic pain started, the moment I realised that pain is inevitable but suffering is a choice... my depression hasn't returned since.

@jeff_forsythe

25 күн бұрын

Suffering is not a choice, it is black karma being scraped from your soul. Falun Dafa can show you the Way

People who have an awakening often go through great pain amd tragedy. It is through those traumatic events do you finally see and feel everything all at once

@Footprints1111

Жыл бұрын

Yes that is most certainly the case. 🙃

@lionelt.9124

Жыл бұрын

Yep, it can make the obvious... obvious. 😢

@ilianamarisolromero7816

Жыл бұрын

I have wondered and thought about this, and can conclude that for us humans, for the most part we see enlightenment as growing up, maturing, because I know a lot of people that don’t get bothered or hurt by whatever is going on in the families, friends circle, community and society at large, and I think, as I once read in a metaphysical book, for us, peace is the closest to enlightenment, or the most sublime of the mental states, which is the love spectrum

@Justfor2day10

2 ай бұрын

I had a nervous breakdown 8 years ago and started meditating every day and now I don’t have any anxiety, depression and very little thinking. I no longer identify my thoughts as me. I still have days or weeks where feel this heavy load but it’s ok I let it stay as long as it wants. I literally didn’t my life stuck in my mind and controlled by my mind. I feel free now

@BigBadMF43

Ай бұрын

yes, i have lived a life of hell and have come to the conclusion that all this spiritual stuff is great in theory but on planet earth i just sex, money and life of leisure. that is what makes my soul and heart sing. My spirit wants to enjoy life not be a slave ; 0

Enlightenment is the key to heaven ❤

Brilliant. He just stated that in the most clear and concise way that I have ever witnessed. Thank you.

@The-Well

11 ай бұрын

You're very welcome!

Impressive authenticity and open-mindedness in the quest for understanding the nature of our relationship to reality. Thank you.

His book, the Rabbi’s Brain, is really compelling stuff. Glad to see him getting some more shine!

The Well of Learning ✨

Mine was a Big-E. I hurt my crush really bad. I felt so guilty how I did her. I found the reason, and looked up at other things of what's wrong. I ate a marijuana infused cookie. I wasn't expecting it to be so intense. I started looking back at how my relationships are present, then seeing what was wrong from the past. That's when I had my epiphany. It's still too early to tell if it has changed. But I must say, it really opened my eyes, and I'm trying to work towards my goal now.

That happened to me the one the sort of changes you. It changed me for the better. I was in my backyard playing my guitar and singing and all of a sudden I had an amazing beautiful encounter with "GOD".

It’s like spacial awareness is a somatic sense that works with our vision both external sight and internal dimension of thought. This perception is a travelling and dynamic energy that can stagnate on unresolved mental tasks. Waking up the limbic system and engaging with the parietal lobe is a really interesting point but I think this is as turbulent as it is because it’s the natural occurrence thus far like drug use etc. Feng shui is really cool for understanding this perception.

You have thought me so much Dr Andrew Newberg I have learned much wisdom from you

Incredible content, thank you.

Thanks.

Enlightening Trauma definitely has a big E and T.

@The-Well

Жыл бұрын

That's very interesting. Is it possible for this to happen through trauma, or could trauma cause a kind of inverse of this experience--a negative epiphany?

@matthewatwood207

Жыл бұрын

@@The-Well it depends. It's more like conditioning, but conditioning works for a reason. Like when you keep getting sick when you drink from a water source, so you use another, or when you're conditioned by your bosses, parents, teachers, rulers, and clergy to be very skeptical of those who seek out authority, because the most celebrated ones almost exclusively do so for the ability to abuse that authority.

I guess this answers the question about "can a person really change?" The answer perhaps then is yes, a person can change. But you have to get there, you have to have the big E or little e moments.

Spot on! Love this, and yes, have had Big E experiences, and open for more!

Very good end credit music as always & with good content.thank you @The Well

@The-Well

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, really appreciate it!

Yeah, Spring of 2001 in my 29th year. The serotonin dump, the dull headache, We Are All One, the perpetually unfolding lotus motif is the best visual metaphor for the continuous unfolding of logical consequence as separated bits of information in your noggin are somehow linked up and with a ferocity that continually reveals "well, if that's true then..." The first moment of its full manifestation was an effortless shift in the seat of "I" that resulted in finding myself in a larger interior space than I had ever discovered, before. And it was like I was looking down on the geometry of my mind. The sweetest moment was on the morning of the last day. I knew it was on its way out, and I was living alone, making coffee, when that Pearl Jam song 'In Hiding' came on, and at about the time I realized that this thing was hiding in plain sight, there was a sensation behind my eyes like an orgasm but on a much, much more intense level. Tears fairly squirted out of my eyes and my knees buckled and I was a weeping, ecstatic, grateful mess. It didn't come from nowhere, I had been a seeker and I was sincere. And before it arrived I knew something was coming. There were sparks. I am an atheist, and my approach, depending on your discipline, would be naturalist, physicalist or materialist. Frankly, I believe the whole experience is biological, it's a peek behind the curtain of language in that the I-Thou distinction doesn't fall away, but is joined by a concurrent or parallel understanding of language that is more fitting of a superorganism talking to itself. Seated in a restaurant during a busy lunch, I could overhear nearby conversations and I wasn't trying. It was that I was both the subject and the object. This thing, what ever it is, does not control the harvest. It is not outside of the brain. It exists in language, and because most people are bound in language naively, such that the world for them is only what is language-mediated, those people will project a kind of god-power onto it. Dangerous error. Others, even after having been given a glimpse and a knowledge that is privileged and certain, that no one is above them in any way, will still try to wring an enhanced social status from it. Ick. We are nodes in a distributed intelligence. It only exists within us as potential, thresholds, and feedback loops. We evolved not to see it. Rather, we evolved with pluralistic, irreducible moral impulses that ensure the species is always locked in conflict. It's not a bug. It's a feature (competition=computation). The Inner Narrator evolved to soothe the psyche and to sell oneself, socially. It is completely full of shit and untrustworthy, lol. We are to imagine ourselves separate and apart on purpose. It's a default setting in the meat, so to speak. Apparently this Awareness bit has some measure of control, but not in the hands of any one individual. We have an OS that runs on narrative as code. You'll notice, however, that language is a shared object. Hmm. For the reader who is an atheist like me, consider seriously why it might be that the only real magic left in the world is Reader Response. What is going on there? That's a rhetorical question. I don't expect a monotonic answer will do.

@KuroYagi124

9 ай бұрын

Lol is this how you always talk? Using long long sentences and fancy words doesn't make you look or sound smarter just annoying

@peaceofmind9104

9 ай бұрын

I could read a whole Sci-Fi book about it. Great narrative, thanks for sharing. I’ve only recently started studying AI as PhD student, despite not having any computer science background but only humanities, and the philosophical and somewhat spiritual references are astonishing.

@jeff_forsythe

25 күн бұрын

You are lost. Falun Dafa can show you the Way

I knew this as the Dark night of the soul. It happened to me just recently and I have the hard feeling it's about growing up change of stages and I also believe this re-arrange could happen multiple times and a lot more to talk about.

Thank you! Some visual ques in your break down of the brain will really help lamen understand

@jeff_forsythe

25 күн бұрын

The soul thinks, not the brain. Falun Dafa can show you the Way

This was actually pretty good. Too many of these short lectures on this topic start with too many questionable premises. His last thought is akin to the question of 'is water wet or dry?" Hydrogen and oxygen are not wet at a molecular level so when does this transition occur? When does consciousness/ thought experience occur? Etc. I find a lot of this kind of philosophy becomes a desperate attempt to validate religion/spirituality with our deep-seeded fears of the unknown after death. Altering your consciousness with pschadelic drugs has been going on for centuries but all it changes is your perception of it. Reality itself should remain constant.

@squamish4244

6 ай бұрын

Psychedelic drugs have a huge role to play in the future of enightenment. They don't change the ground of being and of course they cant change 'reality' (whatever that is), but what they can do is manifold. They can shake people out of their sense of complacency. They can open doors and provide insights that even many years of meditation can fail to do, and in effect move your practice up a level. They also drastically increase neuroplasticity, so your brain can respond much more easily to effort in meditation, yoga or whatever other method you apply. What's wrong with validating spirituality? What if it is true? I've seen evidence of, and experienced directly, all sorts of stuff in my life that cannot be explained by recourse to the brain alone.

I think Nirvana and Enlightenment experiences are an immune response, possibly some sort of biochemical cascade involving the endocrine, nervous and immune systems, in response to psychological or physical crisis. My organic chemistry lecturer at university did research into the tears of joy and sadness and their effect on the immune system.

@AndrewLoui

3 ай бұрын

So nirvana is a healthy response or not?

@Yogi-Koala-Bear

3 ай бұрын

Overall, yes, although nirvana sets up another conundrum which has to be accepted, that of the eternal mystery of the universe. This can be a real downer because it quells ambition and hope. So, nirvana has positive and negative impacts. Another example - my organic chemistry teacher at uni did research into the tears of joy and tears of sadness and their effects on immunity and found happiness, bliss, etc, keeps you healthy. I plan to to do some youtube vids this year describing all this stuff.

@AndrewLoui

3 ай бұрын

@@Yogi-Koala-Bear Thank you and subscribed.

@jeff_forsythe

25 күн бұрын

Like most of us, you are lost. Falun Dafa can show you the Way

It's seems Like the farther we go into enlightenment the more complex our brain becomes

Is it possible that being in an enlightened state could equate to high levels of activity in the frontal cortex? If so, can you activate the frontal cortex more often with a combination of deep focus, deep breathing and radical acceptance?

There is no monopoly of any tradition or culture that own the posibility to enlihtment, the posibility is everyehre and in everybody, inside everybody. The absolute, the infinity, canot be here and not there, is just everywhere and in everyone.

Fasting - pure nutrition/water - long runs - ocean waves - meditation - organic caffeine with L-Theanine (Proper Wild). An ET of lightness is how the author of "Supercharged Self Healing" described me when we 1st met.

6:50. "What if." That's not a scientific thought, but one common to belief, not even established religion, but the kind usual in conspiracy theories. *Assuming* that taking mind-altering substances could allow someone to experience reality better, and comparing that to eyeglasses, is not logical. How do we know it isn't? Optics is measurable, you know exactly what you are going to get when you get a new pair of glasses, you don't upgrade your vision, but go from deficiency to normalcy. Assuming that the drug-caused experience is " reality normalcy" would require two things, that there were "normal" people: people who could live their lives in that state permanently and function adequately, and two, that all people who have drug-induced "illumination" experiences could give similar accounts of that "better experienced" reality. People who put on glasses don't see different things or different worlds, they just see the same world everyone sees, clearly. It's interesting that the neuroscientist supports his "what if" with the views of religions. Scientific research that requires mysticism to work, is scientific? Putting shamans as example is misleading: when you have a broken bone, Covid or myopia, do you go to a shaman for help? Does the neuroscientist here? Same as he says that drugs can give people a way to experience "reality" as it supposedly really is, we, who have known people whose lives were damaged or destroyed in the seeking of transcendent realities through drugs, and have watched them rambling, hurting themselves, making fools of themselves, we can testify that their "reality" is an intoxicated brain misfiring, and often getting irreparably damaged. Thinking, prayer and meditation can get you illumination if you wish that and try hard enough; drugs will give you addictions, disease and death without the guarantee of any kind of illumination.

@John76125

Жыл бұрын

Yes meditation which is really a non doing, just an understanding can give you the experiance easily. You just have to understand it and it happens in an instant. By being in a state of acceptance, non choosing. Allowing the mind. If angry etc allow, is stressed, if sick etc and you will notice a detatchment between you and your mind. Between you and the experiance the mind is generating and you will experiance enlightenment

Take heart; seek joy, love and peace and then you will understand the world through these perspectives.

@jeff_forsythe

25 күн бұрын

Words are cheap. Falun Dafa can show you the Way

@Callummullans

25 күн бұрын

@@jeff_forsythe Jesus Christ is my teacher

@jeff_forsythe

25 күн бұрын

@@Callummullans First there was the Ten Commandments, then Jesus and now a new Gospel, do not be like the Jews of old and be afraid of the Truth.

@Callummullans

25 күн бұрын

@@jeff_forsythe there is no new Gospel. There is the word of God. My faith is in Jesus Christ and not the men of this world.

@Callummullans

25 күн бұрын

@@jeff_forsythe Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the light.

Enlighten if we look at the word it breaks down to fill with light. What does it mean when we tell people to lighten up? It means to not be too serious and not focus on the negative.

Thought occurs as a concentration of those nerves firing, IMO.

Lots of confusion and blurriness in this video, so it can be dangerously misleading. Real enlightenment is not to be mistaken with an experience of enlightenment, as the latter can also be an effect of WRONG realizations, that lead to the same great feeling of enlightenment but actually orients one to fundamentally wrong perception and evaluation of things. So chasing the feeling of enlightenment is NOT the way to go; instead, striving for detailed, thorough understanding of everything is the way to go for much more positive results in the long run. Not to mention that really understanding something (rather than just feeling so) will also automatically cause experiences of enlightenment, small or big, doesn't really count. Which explains why the scientific way of thorough examination from all possible perspectives without prejudice or hopes for certain outcomes has always been and remains the best way to go for real enlightenment (rather than chasing any kind of feeling of state of mind). The last part about collective consciousness is also wrong in how/where it seeks consciousness. Consciousness, just like a mere human hand, is a higher level entity that simply does not exist on the level of its building blocks (e.g. on atomic or even cellular level). So trying to find it WITHIN the cellular or subatomic interactions is pointless. On the level of cells, there is no such thing as a hand; but a collection of cells through their interactions can form a higher level entity: tissues. And the collection of tissues, through their interactions can form even higher level entities: muscles and bones. And similarly, those together can form the higher level entity that we call a hand. Consciousness is a similar higher level effect of such lower level building blocks. (And a Universe-level collective consciousness does not make any sense until we can actually define consciousness. But people's subjective "experiences" about such a thing are most likely illusions/misinterpretations as ONLY those, who have previously learnt about such concept -- thus having their brains predirected to such conclusions -- have reported such experiences.)

@OneOfUs0000

8 ай бұрын

@@ILikeLanguages What kind of references would help you?

@alena-qu9vj

4 ай бұрын

One can only wonder how Buddha has reached his enlightenment without a proper scientific aproach 😳

My everyday life for a few years. That is who we really are. Changing l peoples lives for the better ❤️💓❤️

1:25 Limbic Centre, Emotional centre Hippocampus #empathy amygdala fear centre Feeling of connectedness

Great information!

@The-Well

3 ай бұрын

Glad you think so! Thanks for watching!

@martinskov5155

3 ай бұрын

@@The-Well I really enjoyed it! I had an awakening in 2017 at a ayahuasca retreat. So really interesting to look at 'enlightenment' with the science-glasses on. Keep up the good work!

Truly understanding evolution's implications is big-big-E. Most vocabulary becomes useless

I think rupert spira would disagree that enlightenment is an extraordinary experience, but rather the end of suffering. If the suffering was previously very intense, the end of suffering is shortly felt as an enormous liberation, that will however come to an end as any emotion does. The persuit of enlightenment is the last stage of resistance towards life, where the searcher has already understood that happiness is less a matter of circumstances and more a matter of the right attitude, which is often described as humility or dignity. When the longing for happiness and the search for enlightenment finally end after sufficient failure, the last resistance towards life, the resistance towards unhappiness, also ends. And happiness is finally found.

@jeff_forsythe

25 күн бұрын

Like everyone else, you need a great teacher. Falun Dafa can show you the Way

Why no presentations ?!

Aoum 🙏🏽 Aoum 🙏🏽

When you are enlightened, nature see's you because nature lives in the stream most never see

Mother Theresa's PR campaign was a success, since many people seem to think she was kind, humble, and of a higher consciousness.

You state,unusal,what do you mean?

Nickel please

It happened to me during the solar eclipse. I sound insane. My bday is 11/11 1:11. I continue to ignore it because its crazy. Idk

Hi . Thank you for your videos. I love your videos. I want to recommend this book The secret door by Antonio Serna. está en descarga libre hoy y mañana. He talks about the state of awakening and proposes how to achieve it. It's very short and revealing, and you'll like it. Greetings!

Is it only me or does he look like the guy in Tarzan???

Just one piece of advice as a practitioner of Nichiren Buddhism: if you decide to achieve enlightenment, which is not a fixed state since you have to do your homework, daily, to achieve it, take into account that true enlightenment includes helping others become happy, or at least support them in any way you can to relieve their suffering even if yourself are suffering. If one expects to achieve this noble state of life through drugs or participating in exciting events only, all one is achieving is a fleeting state of enjoyment and satisfaction of the senses. Nothing bad about these as long as they don’t mean you’re going to have to risk your life or the lives of others. But know that this is all superficial and doesn’t leave a lasting positive impression or change in your brain, in fact, in your life at large.

LSD was very enlightening.

I met and fell in love with Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Noble Savage a noble boundlessly loving creature who always laughed always smiled and never lied showering on me unconditional love - love, not religion for me I study it I don’t practice it. Read and experiment Ivan Turgenev’s First Love novel I won’t hold my breath reality is full of fucking savages and to reveal anymore is to cast pearls before swine Gospel of Matthew .👑🌎

the question of where consciousness exists, and where does knowledge and understanding come from, is the big question 2600 years ago the Buddha came to realize there is only one life form on Earth, and that life cannot be separated from the inanimate planets and stars and the space between them, because our physical bodies are made of elements that were fused from hydrogen and helium in the core of stars into oxygen and carbon... from which DNA is composed we know today that life is a continuation, the life that is in you is the same life that was in your parents, living cells that combined and divided and make copies of themselves - not a separate different new life - one life going back billions of years How did Buddha come to understand all this just by sitting under a tree and meditating? We understand it today because we know what DNA looks like, what it is, how it divides and replaces its own molecules, how it evolves and changes. We know how oxygen is formed by fusion in the core of a star. But how did Buddha come to understand all this, without the science to reveal the secrets of the nature of the physical universe? Is the answer supernatural? The Buddha did not need to understand the details of chemistry and biology and evolution and physics to understand that we are all one with each other, and with the entire universe, but how did he reach the same correct conclusion? If we now understand it intellectually, from 500 years of successive science building that understanding, then do we need to be enlightened, emotionally - do we need to have that awaking experience to understand that we are the self aware consciousness of the Universe? Is enlightenment simply the left side of our brain being allowed to peer into the raw data collection of the right side of our brain, and seeing for the first time that vast collection of information, images, sounds, experiences that our physical brain has been collecting and storing since the day of our conception in the womb?

Did you just say "when you know you know your brain works better? You might iike to talk to me. I think I can explain some of your questions

The video fails to answer the question it asks in the title.

Spiriituality can never be explained by science.. Spirituality begins where science ends.. Spirituality is the journey of the Atman to reach the Brahman.. Or in other words.. Dissolution of ego.. To realize the effulgent Self through Sadhana or continuous meditation.. It is beyond brain , mind or time or space... One has to contemplate on the Self to realize the Self.. No academic explanation suffices..

What actually is Enlightenment? - kzread.info/dash/bejne/noOtmKebZdPRqbw.html

6:49 me everytime I get high

Orgasm is Enlightenment. Humans find purpose of existence through it. Evolutionary necessity.

My experience began with watching a few videos about meditation. I dove deeper and almost could hold the idea in my head for longer than a moment. Then I did mushrooms. I spent the biggest part of a day dissolving into nothing. ‘I’m’ a different person now.

@The-Well

Жыл бұрын

It's quite amazing how doing mushrooms - even once - can be a life changing experience. See also: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z4hkrs-bh7W1e7w.html

the irony is palpable

Whatever the definition Dr. Newberg gives to enlightenment here it is not at all what asian spiritual traditions mean. For example, in the buddhist teachings there's a clear difference between being enlightened and having an experience of some sort. So in buddhism, it makes no sense at all in saying "enlightenment experience". If it is an experience, it is not enlightenment. Along the path, a practitioner will have many experiences before actually seeing what can't be seen, or seeing without seeing. There's nothing to see in enlightenment, and at the same time, all is seen. Words cannot describe it and brain activity will also never be able to describe or explain it. That said, his research seems very nice and enriching to our world and lives. We just need to be careful and not think that scientists who are not practitioners themselves will ever understand what enlightenment is.

@user-we6rk2ys3e

9 ай бұрын

Complete Physiological change means a complete enlightenment it's change is brain chemistry,some may have complete neurological change and may be it called complete enlightenment.Some very less so called half . But one thing is clear that every difference we have are just neurological, cognitive difference

@squamish4244

6 ай бұрын

The Asian traditions, and the Buddhist tradition itself, and even _within_ the Buddhist traditions, have many different models of the stages to 'full' enlightenment. Enlightenment can absolutely be a temporary experience or direct knowing of Reality, even if it doesn't stick. The effect of these experiences can be enormously important, because they can remove skeptical doubt, the greatest hindrance to a dedicated spiritual path, and they can tremendously relieve anxiety, another huge hindrance, besides anxiety just being an awful thing to endure. And getting rid of anxiety, depression, anger etc., all the negative emotions, is universally agreed-upon to be the goal of enlightenment. It just progresses in stages. In Zen, there are four. In Tibetan Buddhism, there are 5, 12 or 16, depending on what you mean and who's counting. In Tibetan and Southeast Asian, there are also eight stages of concentration and then eight stages of insight, but they don't count as 'enlightenment', even though they are very beneficial for you, and neither are they considered essential for enlightenment. It's all very confusing, which is why we need neuroscience to sort all this stuff out from an objective perspective. I also foresee AI teachers that have been programmed with all the information ever to exist in Buddhism and all the information ever to exist in Western psychology combined to tailor-make a Buddhist path for every specific individual, in a way no one person could ever come remotely close to matching. Trial-and-error over millennia has resulted in a tiny fraction of the world population at any one time getting enlightened, and that's not going to work for the future of humanity when we face so many challenges. We only have two or so decades, if that, so we had better get to work.

Все эти объяснения о Просветлении не имеют никакого смысла, потому что это говорит человек, не понимающий ничего о Просветлении. О Просветлении может говорить только просветленный, или книга, написанная просветленным учителем.

Templeton? You are not serious

@marcelozerbini5411

Жыл бұрын

@@deardaughter they are a religious foundation that uses a scientific speech.

@enterthevoidIi

Жыл бұрын

Focus on the substance, not on the form

@marcelozerbini5411

Жыл бұрын

@@enterthevoidIi What a stupid advice. The form is extremely important, from wine glasses to text fonts. Not only that but form has nothing to do with this discussion. My statement is that Templeton has a baseline agenda: truth is second to them

@enterthevoidIi

Жыл бұрын

@@marcelozerbini5411 And my point is that you're focusing on form or rather who's speaking instead of focusing on what they're saying. Is there something wrong with what this person is saying? If yes, what?

@marcelozerbini5411

Жыл бұрын

@@enterthevoidIi again, your point has nothing to do with my statement. I didn't refer to "what this person is saying", I stated that the forum in which that person is speaking is untrustworthy. Do keep up

Psychedelics do that. Every time you take them. 🍄🥴💨

@John76125

Жыл бұрын

Not for me. However acceptance does that for me. Acceptance is the way of Buddhism/ zen.

this is the mind body problem.

Enlightenment can come in various ways - it can come as a mind-blowing experience which immediately transforms our perception of the SOURCE of BEING and our previous intellectual understanding of the world. Or - through persistent study of the Christ Letters, A Course In Miracles and A Course Of Love, little moments of extraordinary insight, little times of illumining shafts of LIGHT will enter our mind which will shift the focus of our inner sight - or clear the lens through which we see the world and judge the validity of all its opinions and beliefs. But True Enlightenment is the inflow of Universal Consciousness (God) into our human consciousness which we will never lose and which permanently transforms our attitudes to the Creator and life generally. Gradually, we shed the illusions which previously blinded us and we find ourselves gaining mastery of our mind and actions, leading to wholeness in every aspect of our individual being. Walking the CHRIST WAY - as set out in the Christ Letters, A Course In Miracles and A Course Of Love - is a lifetime work leading directly to freedom from anxiety and want. As we read, we will find in them the Presence of Jesus and the Love of Jesus.

@GooglePlusPages

10 ай бұрын

Happily Jewish here. No need for Jesus to see the light. Thanks though.

@edgarmorales4476

10 ай бұрын

Religious teachers do not know when spiritual insight and progress is taking place in the minds of those who may appear to be very humble and of no account socially. Religious teachers must cease their criticism of the founders of other religions because they do not know the heights of spiritual knowledge, insight and enlightenment they may have attained. Religious teachers must realize that they, themselves, are only as spiritually advanced as is their personal perception of Reality. If we have no perception of what lies beyond the veil of the material world - we may be a believer or a scientist, but we do not have a spiritual consciousness. This is the true ideal, the true aspiration, the highest goal - to understand and experience the Reality behind and within all things giving them their individual being. We may call the Reality - "God," "Allah," "Jehovah," "Infinite Intelligence," "Divine Mind," "Divine Consciousness" or "Universal Consciousness," or the "Tao" - etc. All these names mean the SOURCE of BEING - the CREATIVE ORIGINS. WE CAN HAVE NO HIGHER ASPIRATION THAN THIS - to understand and experience the Reality behind and within all things - giving, maintaining and sustaining all individual beings. This was the goal presented to us by Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha, Krishna, Confucius, Lao-Tzu - etc. They all shared the same vision, the same realization and the same understanding. Such teachers were held in high esteem, but few of their followers misnderstood what they were being taught. Each follower placed their own interpretation on the words of their teacher. Each interpretation arose out of the personal conditioning and bias of the follower.

Hmm…an enlightenment pill? Hey big pharm lol

Wrong. Completely. Enlightenment is not what you think it is. It’s Immortality. When one transforms their body into its perfected form. You become an angel by living not dying. Die and you reincarnate. You escape samsara by living not dying. Most people don’t understand enlightened and yet speak as if they do

Boring