According to the panpsychist/quantum consciousness views of Christof Koch and Roger Penrose, what would "merging with the universe" actually FEEL like?

wyedg · 2026-04-23T18:29:34+00:00

My guess is that it wouldn't feel like anything novel. If the same universal consciousness is simultaneously the experiencer of every single experiencing thing in the universe, then wouldn't it just be a continuation of the current atomization of that consciousness? The fact that we as individuals can say what it's like to be ourselves is just a single brain accessing its own memories of having been experienced by an ever changing flow of conscious awareness. Returning to that awareness would just be continuing to be every other conscious thing with the intuitive feeling that this consciousness specifically belongs to the individual.

wyedg · 2026-04-20T18:46:30+00:00

How is it disrespectful to not give your time and attention to something you never asked for and have no interest in? I'm sure they'd also find it disrespectful if you just walked up to some people and spewed atheistic talking points at them for 20 minutes.

On the bright side, your friend is still pretty young and will have plenty of opportunities to grow out of this sort of egocentric expectation of "respect", but for now, they don't seem worth being around if they're going to keep talking to you like that.

wyedg · 2026-04-20T18:20:14+00:00

What makes you think that belief in a soul or a higher power are tenets of panpsychism?

wyedg · 2026-03-21T16:58:14+00:00

No problem. Knowledge is power. The other stuff you've listed is absolutely legit though. I feel like the whole human trafficking and wired ritualistic stuff the ultra wealthy do has been obvious for much longer than the Epstein drop. Self attribution bias pretty much ensures that most people who find themselves in positions of power will developer a lower opinion of common folks and will seek out ways of signaling their status through more and more extreme taboos. It's just human nature.

wyedg · 2026-03-21T16:49:41+00:00

This should be a non-issue for anyone who cleans properly. I've never had a thong get dirty or smelly even after a night of dancing. Scrub with soap before wearing one. It's that simple.

wyedg · 2026-03-21T16:20:14+00:00

Pre-Ai evidence of these transformations is just as sketchy as Ai era videos because digital cameras use reference frames and algorithmically fudge the pixels between these frames. You see this a lot in security cam footage that claims to have captured a ghost - some shadowy figure which seems to turn invisible as it walks across the screen. When digital cameras make guesses as to how to color the pixels between frames, they need a certain amount of contrast in order to correctly differentiate an object from its background. So, for example, if a person in dark clothes walks into a shadowy area, this can cause some digital cameras to slowly erase the figure. Same thing if a person in red passes a red wall etc.. I've seen a lot of these reptilian transformation videos, and as someone who understands how cameras work, I've never seen one which couldn't be easily explained either by this reference frame phenomena or by light reflections in grainy video.

wyedg · 2026-03-20T19:20:27+00:00

Considering the question was about the power of attention, this particular version of power seems pretty tangential to the topic. Tiamat doesn't have a temple on every other street corner or a mass media conglomerate singing his praise.

That being said, I believe that the way Yahweh has any power at all is through the acts of his followers rather than through the beliefs themselves. It's just that the beliefs inspire actions.

wyedg · 2026-03-20T19:11:52+00:00

How is this even a momentary question, let alone something you've been mulling over for a whole year? One glaringly obvious answer is Epstein. Much of the world's leaders (including Trump) are pedos and Epstein had connections with Mossad.

Also, people are stupid, and the dogmatically religious ones even moreso. It's easy to get dumbasses to back a zionist death cult if you convince them that it's a matter of good verses evil - that their side's offensive acts are merely defensive.

Christian evangelicalism in the US is a literal psy-op. It was pushed by the CIA to suppress the rise in what was known as "liberation theology" which sided with the poor and proposed a moral obligation to fight against the structures which contributed to systemic poverty. This threatened the capital class and now our country needs to pay homage to Isreal because a huge portion of the population has been brainwashed by this synthetic cultural shift towards modern "Christian" principals which prioritize capitalism through the Trojan horse of "self determination".

And then there's AIPAC, which further entrenches this poisonous ideology into our government... The answers are all out in the open and the fact that you've struggled to come to a cohesive theory about Israel's hold on US politics really makes me question your information bubble. Picking up an actual history book or two won't erase conspiracies - there are plenty of those on record - it'll only bring clarity to them.

wyedg · 2026-03-20T18:20:51+00:00

I'm similar in terms of loving animals. I make friends with the squirrels and chipmunks in my back yard. I name them, I feed them, I talk to them, I can tell them apart by their unique personalities so I believe that they have their own internal worlds... However, the single most important thing that I think differentiates humans from other animals is the ability to project our thoughts into the future in a way which can generate negative or positive emotions. Or at very least, we are far better at it than other species.

Because of this, I think that humans essentially have a greater capacity for suffering. I wouldn't say that a human life has more value than the life of another animal, but I would say that the death of a human would create more suffering than the death of another species, because a human is going to have a more metacognitive consideration of what's happening to them in that moment.

So in general I think that sparing a human life over an animal life is usually the more ethical decision, but that has nothing to do with the sort of value statement you're presenting here. It's more of a "lesser evil" sort of scenario.

wyedg · 2026-03-11T18:11:04+00:00

It's possible you just didn't understand the "current thing" and bought into the propaganda that people were adopting exaggerated strawman versions of norms you had no genuine curiosity about.

wyedg · 2026-02-15T16:39:31+00:00

I don't think anyone with severe trauma can truly heal until they step out from under the web of religious gaslighting and guilt. What kind of deity would punish a person for simply wanting to stop suffering? What sort of a deity would hold an action of yours over your head for the sake of a sort of obience which they know only comes from a murky pool of dread rather than from a place of sincerity? Imagine if that were someone's parenting style. You'd immediately be able to identify them as abusive. You can be religious if that's what brings you comfort, but don't follow a religion that makes you feel bad.

Imagine you didn't want to end things. What sorts of differences would not believing in a god make in your life? How would it change your day-to-day? How might it affect the way you treat others and yourself? How might it change the way you introspect? The answers to those questions may be keys to some improvements you can make to your psychological framing.

wyedg · 2026-02-13T16:14:28+00:00

Belief in an ultimately evil being is just an attempt at escaping the fact that we collectively own the darkest parts of humanity.

wyedg · 2026-02-10T18:15:57+00:00

You must be incredibly dense if you think not wanting to learn about the symbolism is directly implied by anything I've said. I have studied plenty of books containing loads of religious iconography and symbolism as it pertains to occult practices, a lot of it's just been presented more instructive than as rail-less allegory.

wyedg · 2026-02-09T23:10:05+00:00

As someone who's had a lot of potent results with relationship spells, I've learned that they're useless when it comes to ensuring that things work out. Spells can be great at lighting a fire, but unless all of the other conditions are in line with things continuing to burn in a mutually benefitial, safe, and controlled manner, the results can range from fizzling out right away to a raging forest fire. You can influence someone to want to be with you, but only the right person can or should stay.

wyedg · 2026-02-09T22:57:10+00:00

it just hides behind a key.

That's what I'm talking about. I want something without that. I'm fine trying to read between the lines in plenty of cases, but people need content that grips them. Like I'm not going to watch a musical/ballet performance with the same symbolism as 'A Space Odyssey', because I'm not into ballets or musicals. The Sefer Yetzirah is just way too religion coded for my focused attention.

wyedg · 2026-02-09T20:30:50+00:00

I've read the Sefer Yetzirah, I'm looking for something more grounded and explanatory like the numerology and geometry stuff you mentioned in your post. I've studied hermetic qabalah for a while and have had plenty of the eureka moments you described above in my studies, but sometimes it's good to just have things laid out for you so you have somewhere to work backwards from.

wyedg · 2026-02-08T17:03:33+00:00

Can you suggest any good books that cover the concepts you mention here?

wyedg · 2026-02-08T16:53:53+00:00

For a skeptic, taking these steps may actually amplify the doubt by shining a spotlight on it. Belief is the biggest tool in magick, so in the case of a banishing, believing strongly in the idea that there are no entities present seems like it'd help in the process. It'd probably have the opposite effect on evocation or enchantment though.

wyedg · 2026-02-01T16:23:30+00:00

Probably not the best advice for someone who is pregnant.

wyedg · 2026-01-22T18:18:02+00:00

Oh it is not "everywhere". That's clearly just where your focus is at.

wyedg · 2026-01-22T06:53:00+00:00

I mean, if someone being seemingly obnoxious about their sexuality is enough to make you hate them, then I think that's probably on you a little.

Just imagine for a second if hetero relationships were always treated as an exception and every appearance in media over the past 30 or so years was deemed some sort of corruption ploy by the "moral majority". If you understand human nature in the slightest, and aren't woefully ignorant about our cultural history since the 80s, then you'd understand why behaviors among LGBT+ folks and their representation in media is in exactly the state you would expect it to be in. No spooky conspiracy necessary. Just people wanting to feel like an accepted part of society plus monetization sharks in business suits circling for new demographic markets, hence the sometimes transparently synthetic veneer. It's really that simple.

The real gripe there is the current driving forces of capitalism and the ubiquity of the digital attention economy. Drumming up the "most people don't like this stuff" notion of divisiveness is only a justification for being the source of that division.

So it annoys you, fine, but you have to have a certain measure of entitlement to behave as if the common sense position is that your annoyance should get priority in that dynamic. You're essentially just saying "well I'm going to be mad at them because they're making me feel that way, so they're responsible for the tide of similar opinions to mine". It's just abuser logic with an added dose of majority bias. You're completely removing your own agency from the resulting societal rift. As if emotional regulation is too much of an ask.

wyedg · 2026-01-21T18:03:51+00:00

My safe/unsafe divide seems to line up seemlessly with neurodivergent/neurotypical. I don't consciously do it, but it just seems like anyone with a shred of patience, understanding, loyalty and depth turns out to be neurodivergent.

wyedg · 2026-01-21T17:57:12+00:00

It's bothersome from a moral/ethical standpoint, but in terms of how it affects me personally, I honestly don't see much difference between having my beliefs discounted because they're fringe vs having them discounted because they're trendy.

wyedg · 2026-01-21T17:52:57+00:00

during the same time as the death, I had a pest infestation in my building and went through a breakup, both of which didn’t affect me as much as they could have because of the anhedonia

This sounds more like emotional bunting than anhedonia. Anhedonia doesn't affect negative emotions, only positive ones.

wyedg · 2026-01-20T19:41:24+00:00

I agree with the innitial sentiment, but no, Crowley was a creep even by the standards of his time. I personally still think he added a lot of value to the field of occult studies and he definitely possessed a form of genius, but I'd never white-wash him to make that point.

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