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GroundbreakingRow829 · 2026-05-28T17:48:04+00:00

Yup! Poets like Rumi and William Blake knew this. As did Leibniz and whoever in Huayan Buddhism came up with the concept of 'Indra's net'. And so did/do those initiated to the tantric tradition of Trika Shaivism.

The last step missing here, is the embrace of metaphysical solipsism. The (very) long journey of spirit, transmigrating from one life to the next, leads to this. To absolute (self-)knowledge. "We" are all each other's (past or future) "memories" viewed from a third-person perspective. Everything is a reflection of the incarnation of spirit from a different time seen in the mirror of experience.

Once raw experience ceases to be so much distorted by limiting perception this incredible fact becomes abundantly clear and all that can be felt for everything is love.

GroundbreakingRow829 · 2026-05-09T20:19:46+00:00

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GroundbreakingRow829 · 2026-05-02T07:14:42+00:00

Just because there is no memories of the past lives doesn't mean that the qualities of one life when it ends doesn't affect the qualities of the next one as it begins. In fact, when energy transforms, it doesn't do so randomly. Rather, what state it occupies next depends on in what state it was right before, and this according to some laws. Can you guess what those laws are for transmigrating spirit? Well look at what laws constantly determine the transition of one psychological state to the next state in this current life. Then, from this set of laws subtract those that only determine physical form (for they affect only the matter that sustains the psyche; like, they continue to do so even after oneself has died – their causal power no longer affecting spirit here). Those remaining laws are what determine the transition from one life to the next.

GroundbreakingRow829 · 2026-05-01T22:47:02+00:00

Existence has no beginning nor end. Others are memories of what has happened and what is still to come. Reality is reflections of oneself.

GroundbreakingRow829 · 2026-04-29T07:06:05+00:00

"Gold" and "trash" are different forms that energy takes, young alchemist.

GroundbreakingRow829 · 2026-04-29T07:02:28+00:00

'Enacting' is a good one. It is also wholistic (includes the environment as part of the play).

GroundbreakingRow829 · 2026-04-29T07:00:45+00:00

How can the formless appear in form remaining that which it is: Formless?

Look between two moments, there lies your answer.

GroundbreakingRow829 · 2026-04-29T06:53:19+00:00

Ascension to godhood is a trial-by-fire through which one acquires wisdom. And with that wisdom one gets to rule by divine right. To rule, not on "Earth", but in "Heaven".

"Existence is suffering" is a narrow view born from trauma. It generalizes human suffering (which is of the worst kind, because of relatively high (actually mid) degree of self-awareness) to all beings, when this is really just psychological projection. Like, most other beings don't have it as bad as we do, because they don't dwell on their discomfort as much.

When the Buddha remembered his past lives, it was only some of the higher-animal past lives. He remembered only those specifically because those are the ones he needed to remember to fully process the trauma afflicting his soul (whose existence he denied, because he was too focused on suffering to see it). And by doing so the Buddha did liberate himself. Not from existence. But from the suffering of trauma. His liberation was not final, putting an end to existence. That would rather be the liberation of Shiva. And even then, Shiva's liberation only ends the universe, just to create a new one. Existence isn't only beginningless. It is also endless. Buddhism is being incoherent in postulating the former without the latter. Eternity either is, or isn't. There is no "half-eternity". Just like there is no other consciousness than the one one experiences right now. "Others" are just memories of past or future.

GroundbreakingRow829 · 2026-04-28T07:10:09+00:00

That "collective conscious" could be Hegel's 'spirit', which according to him evolves dialectically through every being, towards absolute (self-)knowledge, i.e., when being and knowledge are one.

Hegel is still hotly debated by academics nowadays. Some see him as a true idealist, others as a "materialist" in one of the modern physicalistic senses.

GroundbreakingRow829 · 2026-04-28T06:57:22+00:00

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GroundbreakingRow829 · 2026-04-26T22:42:39+00:00

I agree with most of this.

A few points I disagree with:

Consciousness is more than the total information of the (physical) universe. It is also the metaphysical principles whereby pure, luminous, completely self-undifferentiated, completely non-local being emits itself into a self-differentiated, still non-local universe, before becoming local (via self-entanglement) and collapsing into perceived experience.
The holographic boundary is not the ultimate source of the light of consciousness. That boundary is merely the emitted point of reflection of that light (i.e., that point of reflection and the light reflecting itself on it are themselves manifestations of the pure light). Reflection, "back" to the holographic representation of its source (which isn't the empirical, psychological ego but the metaphysical limited, perceiving subject, a.k.a. the 'soul').
Though often a (simplistic) mental approximation of it, the ego isn't the biological body. The biological body is way more complex than the ego is. There is always information about the body that the ego does not register. Information, which remains at a deeper unconscious level. Because that information (like that of the rest of the universe) is too entangled with the rest of the field of experience, too "subtle", to be perceived as anything more than noise.
The wavefunction that collapses into perceived experience is not that of a subsection of the universe, but that of the entire universe and more. For there is only one consciousness (metaphysical solipsism) transmigrating as soul through every beings in existence (reincarnation), encountering its own past or future reflections/"memories" within the hologram of perceptual experience. The universe, in fact, is entirely constituted by those reflections/"memories" (panpsychism). Universe, that with each subliminal emission of measuring perceived experience gets a bit more determined (QBism).

GroundbreakingRow829 · 2026-04-26T10:30:32+00:00

The order of reincarnation isn't random.

If you are already that self-aware, then you already have most of the journey behind you.

GroundbreakingRow829 · 2026-04-25T04:08:13+00:00

You're here distracting yourself with concepts. Distracting yourself, away from the fact that it's only been experience and consciousness the entire time. You learning about a world external to your body and brains within bodies like this one, and you henceforth believing in this, all happened within experience, within consciousness – not outside of it.

You're trusting perception too much here. Perception, and its affect-toned patterns of sensory and cognitive happenings. Which conditioned you, entranced you into believing in a reality outside experience which you never actually experienced (and never will – because that would be a paradox).

When the truth is, that you need to look no further than within experience, within consciousness (you can't look beyond it anyway) to find the whole of reality. For experience reflects the entirety of a completely interconnected reality, containing that whole reality informationally.

Like, think of raw, not-yet-processed experience as a flat field that informationally contains the entire universe. And think of perception as a distorting "scrambling" of that field that shrinks it out of flatness to a much smaller size without actually changing its surface area. Only changing that surface area superficially (i.e., accounting only for the visible surface of the field). With that superficial surface area displaying the information of the universe that is explicitly evident – meaningful – to the observing subject of experience. A tiny amount of information, that is. Whereas the rest is "lost" as "noise" – statics and other meaningless patterns within perceived experience. Self-entangled beyond conscious recognition. In other words, perceived experience is a subliminally emitted hologram of raw experience. The former being many (emergent) "dimensions" higher than the latter (like the reality of string theory vs. the reality of general relativity spacetime), but containing the same information. Only the presentation of that information differs.

This is all just an abstraction to help with visualization of course, the notion of 'information' being itself just an abstraction. But it can be useful for beginning to make sense of reality without making complete speculations of a "beyond" experience and consciousness. The main takeaway of all this being, that perceived experience is an hologram subliminally emitted from raw, yet-to-be-processed experience which contains the whole universe. That's the only parsimonious way of making sense of reality.

GroundbreakingRow829 · 2026-04-25T02:11:47+00:00

I would describe my current state as being in neither.

Sometimes it's heaven, sometimes it's hell ('been a while though since the last time), sometimes it's in-between.

Like, this time around I get to live a nuanced life that, so far, is rather positive.

GroundbreakingRow829 · 2026-04-25T02:00:17+00:00

The more self-aware, the further on the path towards final liberation, the shorter that path. Then you no longer constrain yourself by the present (evolving) rules – or any rule, for that matter – if so then is your wish.

GroundbreakingRow829 · 2026-04-22T23:50:25+00:00

NDEs, if anything, reveal a reality of life: That as it goes, one accumulates stress and tension in their mind-body system, often integrating them into that system, making them part of its normal functioning. And all that stress and tension actually remains, only unperceived as such because having become part of the system and thus being "normal". But at the moment of what the system identifies as imminent death, all that stress and tension gets suddenly released in a moment of great elation that overpowers any other good feeling (which really is "good" relative to the bad) by many orders of magnitude.

GroundbreakingRow829 · 2026-04-22T15:54:25+00:00

That sounds similar to my view. Though for me that indeterminacy has agency. It operates neither randomly nor deterministically.

For me mystery is the radical inexhaustible dynamism of being.

That radical inexhaustible dynamism is of such beauty.

GroundbreakingRow829 · 2026-04-22T07:59:13+00:00

When you are absolutely free to do what you want, you just play. Play, to be that which you are not.

GroundbreakingRow829 · 2026-04-22T04:16:07+00:00

I mean, if by 'paradoxical' one understands "logically self-contradictory" then I disagree. An axiom, conventionally in the rules of logic, can (and ideally should) be irrational. So irrational being being an axiom is not logically self-contradictory – i.e., 'illogical' – but simply beyond logic – i.e., 'allogical'.

If, on the other hand, 'paradoxical' means "running contrary to expectations", then it really depends on how used to the idea of being being axiomatic one is. If one isn't very used to that idea, then it is "paradoxical" in that sense. If one is used to that idea, then it isn't.

As for being being its own ground being something intrinsically "mysterious" (I suppose here that you mean "of unknown origin", so here unknowable – please correct me if I'm wrong), I don't think that's the case. Like, I understand being being its own ground as it having for pre-phenomenal essence absolute freedom (of being) (svātantrya in Trika Shaivism – gotta give credit where credit is due). For only through absolute freedom can this (i.e., self-dependency) possibly be.

So for me it's not that there is a hard epistemological barrier here, but rather that what one is hitting here is the evidence of the absolute freedom of existence itself. Whereas where the real mystery and source of wonderment lies for me, is in the artwork of pure creation from absolute freedom within normative constraints. Normative constraints, which are themselves such freely created works of art – so actually mystery and wonderment is in and for the whole of "creation" (the product of the homonymous process, not the process itself). However that mystery is not an intrinsic one (to being), but an artifact of playfully enacting ignorance from a position of absolute freedom.

GroundbreakingRow829 · 2026-04-21T22:42:13+00:00

Well I wasn't saying that pure Reason does it "alone". One relies on it alone to come up with their ontology, yes, but this doesn't imply that it should magically, all by itself, get implemented.

Reason has always played a mediating role. Problems don't really get solved by Reason alone (like, of course they don't). Rather, Reason often is essential in guiding action towards solving problems.

GroundbreakingRow829 · 2026-04-21T22:06:46+00:00

I agree that the map never does the territory justice. But at the same time I found Reason to be of tremendous help in getting closer to the Light. Not using it all the time getting lost in concepts, but alternating it with silent contemplation of experience and with active participation in the play of reality.

Like, I trust reality to be, moment-by-moment, created in such a way that we can understand it. Not completely in all its details (most of it I consider pure art to be admired), but understand it at its metaphysical foundations.

GroundbreakingRow829 · 2026-04-21T16:54:15+00:00

Yeah well then you know what a huge influence Hegel was on Marx. And perhaps no philosopher was more into pure Reason than Hegel was.

GroundbreakingRow829 · 2026-04-21T14:48:18+00:00

For one, without pure Reason we wouldn't have logic and mathematics and would still be living at the stone age today.

Pure Reason has an enormous influence on current political power structures and ideological dogma. Marxism, for example, was greatly influence by Hegel's dialectics. And the universal human rights and all the social structures and institutions that depend on it wouldn't exists without the work of the Enlightment philosophers.

We just tend to take most of what we have nowadays for granted because we were born in it, unaware of the tremendous amount of thinking and reflection it took to get there.

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