Hello, my friends.
So today I want to share
my ideas with you on
whether it really matters
that what we call
matter is not matter
and whether
it really matters
if everyday
reality is an illusion.
I think it does.
And I'll explore this with you.
But before I do that, I want to share with you
something that cropped up
on my Google alert,
which I think you'll find amusing.
And also
perhaps
interesting.
So this is a news item
that I picked up.
It says Rationalist
seeks Action on Deepak Chopra
for Endorsing Midbrain
Activation Scam author and Dr.
Deepak Chopra shared a video that
claimed that a couple of teens
were able to see while blindfolded
a controversial pseudoscientific claim
that has been debunked many times.
Noted rationalist Narendra Nayak
has written to
the American Medical Association, A.M.A.,
asking them to initiate action
against author and medical doctor
Deepak Chopra for promoting quackery
by endorsing the midbrain
activation scam.
Narendra Nayak, who is president
of the Federation
of Indian Rationalist Associations,
has pointed to a video
published by Deepak Chopra
on his social media handles
in which he is seen interacting
with two blindfolded teens.
In the video, Deepak
Chopra makes a few gestures with
the first teen imitates while blindfolded.
He is later seen writing some text on a notepad
And it is shown that the second teen
is supposedly able to read it
while blindfolded.
"I wanted to share this beautiful video
demonstrating the extraordinary
capabilities of the students
of Brighterminds, a special intuition
and cognitive development program at Kanha
Shanit Vanam," Deepak Chopra said.
Narendra Nayak, who has been working
against this technique...
How do you work against the technique?
Which used to be called "midbrain Activation'
has asked AMA to question Deepak Chopra
for the ‘unethical
conduct’." Okay.
So and it goes on and on.
So, first of all, you know,
I find it very amusing that this guy, Narendra
Nayak, and his associates have
self-appointed themselves as
vigilantes for this
suppression of curiosity.
The fact is, I did
see blindfolded people
that were able to see
and that were able to imitate gestures
from a distance and also
that were able to read.
Now, I also believe that there's
an explanation for everything
if you look deeply into it.
And the simplest explanation for this
ability is
what is well known as
as synesthesia,
where one sense
can actually
possess qualities that are usually associated
with another sense.
So seeing is usually associated
with the optic apparatus,
which of course is derived from the neuro
ectoderm, as is the skin,
as is the olfactory apparatus.
So I know many synesthetes,
and they actually have
these abilities to ...
experience
the perceptual mechanism, the same experience.
So you can hear colors
and smell tastes
and see things with
other
aspects of the neuro ectoderm.
In any case, whatever this ability
is, it's what.
Okay. ...
good word for a species-specific,
observed event in consciousness.
What we call
empirical facts are actually species-specific
spacetime events in consciousness.
I don't expect Narendra
Nayak to
perhaps fully understand this,
but I wish him
good luck in his campaign to convince everyone
that rational thought
is the only way to understand
reality.
There's intuition, which is a
form of intelligence
that is contextual, relational, holistic,
and doesn't rely on
empirical facts,
but is a deeper understanding.
And then there's creativity.
There's a higher consciousness.
There's transcendence ...
one mode of knowing.
So good luck, Mr.
Narendra Nayak, in your campaign
to censure me and I look forward
to any more interesting insights
from you as well.
I just wanted to mention that because
today I wanted to discuss
with you something very important.
Is there...
and this is actually to do...
it triggered this.
This news item triggered
a little bit of this thinking
is matter material?
or is matter a human construct
for perceptual activity that we call the mind?
Because we don't actually experience
a substance called, "matter".
We experience our own perceptual
and cognitive activities which are
modified forms of consciousness
as mind, intellect, ego,
feelings, thoughts,
images, sensations,
sense perceptions,
ideas and so on.
And therefore what we call matter,
physical matter
is a combination
of you might even say an alchemy of different
sensations, given a word called "matter".
The combination.
So I can, you know, take this,
you can call it a "stand",
for my iPhone,
which and it's material
but actually the more deeper
underestanding this is sensations:
touch, sound, taste, smell
and this alchemy of sensation.
sound, taste, sight, taste and smell
in a particular combination
is the
construct, of matter.
And so is this.
A construct of matter.
A construct is mental.
So everything that we call the physical world
is actually a mental projection.
That's all it is.
And furthermore,
by the time
you experience a material object,
it doesn't actually exist.
There's a little lag between your perceptual
recognition and
and the experience of perceptual lag.
So by that time, I,
I hear something.
By the time you hear my words, they don't exist.
And by the time you perceive
something that which you perceive
that activity has already moved on
is now slightly different, of course.
If I look at this, look elsewhere,
look at this looks the same.
But over time
this is subject
to laws of entropy
and change and everything
changes everything that you experience changes.
Just so everything that
you experience changes and is changing
all the time, ceaselessly.
And that's right.
It's an illusion.
It doesn't matter that
what you see is the illusion
from my ...
or what you see as the star or galaxy
is an illusion.
Some million to the year
light years ago, or a billion light years.
Whatever you experience has already happened.
Therefore, it's a dream.
It's a dream, it's an illusion
and it's a mind, it's the changing mind, Now,
is this does knowing
this, that everyday reality is an illusion,
that matter is not material,
that we are the creators of both
what we call mind, matter,
physical body and the universe.
How does it matter
if you're embedded in an
illusion, is real?
Okay, so from that perspective,
even if it's illusion, it's a magical trick.
Whatever.
If you're experiencing it,
and then for you it's real.
Just like
when I was experiencing last night's dream,
it was real.
Only when I woke up this morning,
it was not so real.
Okay?
So first of all, is this good?
If you were God and you were
to design the universe,
would you design it this way?
And I think I would, because, you know,
who wants to be stuck with the same body,
same mind, same personality,
or return to the universe?
It's good that evolution
guarantees that we evolve in mind.
We evolve in consciousness,
and we evolve in the experience
of what we call the physical world.
Otherwise, you know,
reality would be would be a frozen
anatomical structure, which it isn't,
even though that model is also you.
So you know that objects are frozen
anatomical structures, and the human body
is an anatomical structure.
So that would be very limiting, right?
If your mind didn't
evolve, if your personality
doesn't evolve,
if your emotions didn't evolve,
if your body didn't evolve and you'd be stuck
then with a baby's body or an adult body
or a young adult body or an older
child, in fact, the
totality of the scheme of creation
is so exquisitely,
so exquisitely beautiful
that there's no other way
anyone would want to design it.
The way the universe is structured
as a perceptual cognitive activity
in consciousness ...
mind, and the world all go together
so that we all are
experiencing each other as real.
And yet we are dream characters, fictional
characters in a collective dreamscape.
What is the advantage of knowing this?
The advantage of knowing this is that
when you reflect, when you meditate,
when you ask yourself questions,
when you engage
in introspection, then
who or
what is having that internal dialog?
Are atoms and molecules
and force fields and
genes and neural networks
actually
creating this experience?
Or are they recording this experience?
Because there's a big difference.
If they're creating this experience,
then everything
in this dreamscape is
impermanent, temporary,
and whatever is born, dies.
That's how I experience, right?
But if you take that as a real reality,
then we are left with conundrums,
you know, what is the difference
between reality and illusion?
Why do we grasp and cling to an experience
that is ephemeral, transient,
impermanent?
Why do we also recall
from this experience?
Why does mistaking our Self
for our self image
create so much anxiety?
And then there is, of course,
the fear of death.
All comes
from confusing illusion
with reality.
If reality is not
physical, if reality is not even mental,
if reality is timeless, irreducible,
fundamental spaceless in infinite and formless.
And if you are that,
then that gives you the freedom
to not only wake up from the illusion,
but actually enjoy the illusion, help
create the illusion,
and never mind
the criticisms of Narendra
Nayak and so-called rationalists
who have bamboozled themselves
with the idea of matter
as the ontological, primitive.
Then all is entertainment,
all is play
and all is creativity.
And there is nothing more enjoyable than play
that's what children do, play.
And there's a beautiful poem
by Tagore while wars are going on,
and people are engaging
in strife and
arguments and all these
silly things that we do in the name
of being human and rational
then we have lost the essential point
of existence, which is play,
curiosity, wonder, and they're questioning
what we call everyday reality.
Only by that
questioning and going deeper beyond
the rational world can we explore
our potentials
and these potentials are non-local potentials.
I saw these kids
doing extraordinary things,
and I'm not going to dismiss it.
I'm going to find out what is happening
in the deeper domains.
And if these kids have these
non-local dormant potentials,
I want to know and I want to experience them
and I want them to explore them. And
whatever the outcome is
that is true skepticism.
But it is not cynicism.
This guy Narendra Nayak is a self-appointed
vigilante, I think,
for the suppression of curiosity
in the name of rationality
and is stuck with that old fashioned,
outdated materialist
idea of what is rational and what is not.
But there's a place
for people like him as well,
because unless we engage
in these conversations
with open minded skepticism,
not cynicism, then there will be no progress.
So my goal at this time
in my life is to question everything.
Question the idea of physical existence.
Question the idea of mortality
based on false constructs.
Question whether the world is
mental, physical
or neither..
the world, ultimately, is awareness,
and therefore the world is spiritual,
however you frame it.
And that spirit, that
consciousness, that awareness,
for that
there are no reasons,
there's no reason for existence,
there's no reason for awareness of existence.
But once we start engaging
with our awareness of existence,
it is very liberating
because ultimately these ideas
and these explorations beyond
systems of thought,
actually allow us
to explore the real reality
without which the perceptual reality
would not be an experience.
So by knowing the world of illusion,
we could actually not only upgrade
the illusion, including the quality
of the illusion of the body mind,
but we can also go beyond
constructs like permanence,
the physical world,
and know ourselves as timeless.
Immortal,
eternal, non-physical and even non-mental
beings, consciousness, knowing itself
as the world of objects
relationships, me,
the other and the total universe.
Aham Brahmasmi.
Give me some feedback on this, including Mr.
Narendra Nayak
and his
his latest attempt to report me
to the American Medical Association.
Okay, my friends, bye.