Great to see that Andrew is finally releasing content here. Such a profound thinker and teacher, thank you 🙏🌼

@andrewholecek

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you - more to come!

@antoinette17

3 жыл бұрын

@@andrewholecek that will be great! I only came across your work very recently, that was with the recent shift network summit, your talk on lucid dreaming which I found very inspiring. Will you be uploading more on lucid dreaming?

This guy is very articlate, enthusiastic and wise. I discovered him in the Kastrup interview. He hasnt a big following mind. This is the state we are in

I believe in yogachara or chittamatra. The reason it dropped off the planet is because talking about this subject makes people feel so uncomfortable. The Dzogchen truth of “nobody is doing nothing.” was too threatening to persist. Thank you for your bravery!

Hi, Andrew, I just read The Case Against Reality, after first seeing it here, and the interface theory makes a lof of sense, and it has an uncanny similarity to the views of tibetan buddhism, I wanted to thank you for sharing your thoughts and knowledge on this topics, you're a great inspiration.

@andrewholecek

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your kind words - I'm glad you find this valuable!

Great video - and dukkha is the deep and correct sense that something is very wrong. We assign the ideas that we ourselves (all of our selves) and the conditions for them are somehow wrong or not worthy somehow. The mistake of course is that mind tricks us into thinking that one or all of these selves actually exist.

Thanks Andrew!

Thank you Andrew!

Thank you, Andrew, keep teaching! I like how you remind that we are constantly repeating our habitual dualistic view and that repetition is what we need to counter our own unconscious repetition.

This was not only interesting and helpful but hilarious! Thank you.

Great video! I've been reading your work and love it. Lol didn't know you were so funny too 😂

@andrewholecek

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!! 😁 Glad you enjoyed the video!

Love it! This is why I don't resonate with metaphysical views like astral realms and so on. Waking life and dreaming and bardo are simply experiences of different states of mind. As Don Miguel Ruiz says, each mind is a universe. There is no objective universe. Just like each dewdrop reflects an image of a whole environment, each mind contains a whole subjective universe. If I dream of you and you dream of me, or if I meet you in waking life, we don't really meet in an objective reality, be it conceptualized as physical, dream, astral, etc. Then how or why do we meet? Karmic entanglement where we both appear as dream characters in each other's illusory experiences. This 'world' that we all seem to share with each other is simply that we are karmically are dreaming similar a seemingly similar dream reality that we reinforce for each other. I suppose that the most accurate metaphysical analogy would be Indra's net of jewels where one jewel appears in all the other jewels and all the jewels appear in one jewel. The one in many and the many in one. I believe I uploaded a video to my channel describing the parable. On one hand it seems like solipsism, but that is simply that there is only one jewel. On the other hand that one jewel appears in all the other jewels so that it transcends solipsism, but includes it. Phenomenology at its finest and confirmed by dream yoga. Here is the link to Indra's net. kzread.info/dash/bejne/c4uEqsuOadKygco.html

@andrewholecek

3 жыл бұрын

Appreciate the kind words! That's a great quote.

@mackroscopik

3 жыл бұрын

More Panpsychism than solipsism for sure. I've come to realize that some bardos are shared, like our physical waking reality. Does that mean that objective realities are a delusion created in bardos that are shared or overlapped? Generates POV of seeing subjective self over there rather than here(ie as an "other").

@thehiddenyogi8557

3 жыл бұрын

@@mackroscopik I am not exactly clear on what you are saying exactly but I get the jist of it. All we ever know and experience is our own subjective sensory and mental experience. Any 'way it is' is inferred conceptually on top of that. If we must figure out the'way it is'' our conceptualizations be kept to a minimum and always point back to our direct experience of our minds. These theories should never be taken as a literal description of reality, but only as helpful and useful pointers. If experiences are shared, it is quite a leap in the wrong direction to take that as proof in an objective 'out there' out there. Much simpler to say that our minds are related.

@thehiddenyogi8557

3 жыл бұрын

@@mackroscopik oh now I understand your question. I think that yes, objective reality is a delusion. I imagine that a Buddha experiences his mind as a sphere surrounding him, like a floating soap bubble, on the surface of which appears the whole dreamlike display of his pureland, all pervaded by his awareness. I believe that my environment I percieve is much like this analogy. But of course I am thinking too much about it. The purpose is to deconstruct my belief in an out there out there, not to replace it with another conceptualization.

Excellent practice Andrew, thanks! On the theme of science and consciousness, have you heard of Tom Campbell's "My Big TOE" (Theory of Everything)? He is a physicist that has explored consciousness for many years and has developed a scientific theory that describes this life experience as a virtual reality (i.e. an "illusion") with consciousness as the computer. He also founded the Center for the Unification of Science And Consciousness (CUSAC) where they are currently working on quantum physics experiments to give evidence to his theory. Sounds like you would really enjoy it!

@mackroscopik

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the reference. If you haven't, check out Robert Lanza's Biocentrism concept. Lanza is a top scientist and the first to clone an endangered species. His theory is the same with lots to back it up also!

So it's kind of like toddlers are more correct when they don't have object permanence.

Doesn't this lead to solipsism? Like do other people exist if you aren't perceiving them? If they do exist, then do animals also exist when not being perceived by you... what about grass and bacteria etc.? If bacteria exist when not being perceived by you, then the bacteria on your bookshelf for example should have been perceiving and creating the bookshelf before you turned around. If that's not the case and people don't exist when you are not perceiving them, then that is solipsism right... it means that you're the only real person in existence. That raises a bunch of other questions... like why were you born as you and not someone else... seems pretty strange and highly random.

@TotalGAMIX

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I really can't see how it's possible😓

@AtypicalPaul

2 жыл бұрын

It's more that they don't exist to you and in your reality. Something is there that is a representation of what you see when you look but what you see isn't fundamental. You're seeing energy that is projecting light and your brain turns those waves into images and you create your own reality that no one else sees the same. We don't know what reality truly is only what images our brains create from the stimulus we receive through our senses. You could also incorporate consciousness into this conversation where all living things are part of one consciousness so there is no you or me or that dog in the room. We are all one consciousness being represented/expressed in a visually different way to us. We create separation in our brain. I see the world like this our brains are inside of a void. The brain cannot see anything really it is inside our skull and in total darkness. Our eyes, nose, skin, ears etc give us information that our brain uses to create sounds, smells, sense of balance, visual imagery, etc and no other animal human or otherwise senses the world exactly like you do. Going further down you are a part of a larger consciousness that permeates the universe. Think of consciousness as the ocean and a cup of water scooped from the ocean is a human. The water inside the cup is the human consciousness, the glass a temporary vessel for part of the consciousness that was taken from the whole. Once your vessel dies your part of consciousness goes back into the ocean. You were never truly apart from the whole of consciousness the glass was merely an illusion. The human body isn't solid like many think it is a collection of energy bound by invisible forces for a limited time. While your part of consciousness is stuck inside this vessel you create "individualism" due to your limited availability of information. It is difficult to describe it all in a comment. Hopefully this makes some sense. Basically something is there (energy/consciousness) energy gets bound in place like all the energy trapped inside of a star. Once you die the star expodes and all those elements (your consciousness) gets spread back out into the universe. All those elements (consciousness) were never truly separate from the universe on a fundamental level just from a perceived one due to the limitations of our senses which create our own individual reality when we look. When we do not look nothing is there as far as it is concerned to the "individual " Yes something is there but not what we see through our senses. Only pure energy/consciousness truly exists and that isn't something you can see.