advaita

I took the red pill and the blue pill and now I'm stuck in the matrix but I know it's not real.. oops!

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am i stuck in an infinite recursive time loop???

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secrets

you’ll never know what you’ll never find out

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i am the darkness and i am the shadow

hide from me and my influence grows

face me and you will be rewarded

knowledge is contained in the darkness

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what goes up must come down and what leaves the source must go back to the source.. eventually 

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the only thing I desire is non-desire.

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"What is not PERMANENT is not worth striving for."

but what is permanent has already been achieved and always has been, we just forgot for a while

so what is worth striving for?

[love-personal]

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they're so cute!! ahh I love cute things perfectly designed to trigger that part of my brain that causes me to care about something.. amazing

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What defines real?

If it is what we feel and see and sense, then “real” is just electrical signals interpreted by our brain.  That “real” can easily change at the mercy of our physical environment - drugs, psychosis... that reality is delicate and transient.

Real can only be defined as something eternal and unchanging.  Something that exists, like an object, thought, or person, certainly exists, but due to their temporary nature cannot be truly real.  Sure, they are temporarily real, but soon enough, they won’t be anymore.

Perhaps the only real thing is existence. 

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remember to check your identity card so you know who you should be today!!

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The source creates everything; thus, it creates both good and evil.

And good and evil exist simultaneously inside us all.

After seeing through the ego we must start to integrate the shadow to truly know ourselves.

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Like a video game, reality starts rendering only when there is an observer, a player in the game.

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“Reality” is nothing more than a collective hallucination, a dream, a hologram.  And like a dream, the longer we believe in it, the longer we will have to suffer in the belief that we have no control over it.  

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All beauty ultimately arises from nature.

Nature itself is awe-inspiring and wonderful.  Humans and animals all arise from nature.  Art often imitates nature, and when it doesn’t, it still comes from a human mind, a creation of nature.  Mathematics and science are the attempt to understand and model nature, and they too are beautiful.

Why is nature so beautiful?  And why is there even beauty in this world?

Maybe it’s because nature wants us to pay attention to her.  So we remember where we came from.  Beauty is here to keep us alive and to keep us working towards something.

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the end of the universe

Science tells us that the universe will end in heat death; the universe will continue expanding and the energy will keep diffusing such that there will be not enough energy concentrated anywhere in the universe for anything to happen, and the entire universe’s temperature approaches absolute zero.

I can believe this, as bleak as it sounds.  But let’s consider the other component of the universe - consciousness. 

The universe cannot exist without consciousness.  It’s like that old saying about the tree in the forest.  If it falls but nowhere is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

Well, no, because sound is defined as a vibration entering an organism’s ears and being transformed to the experience of sound inside their brain.

Similarly, if there is no one to experience the universe, it can’t be said that it exists.  The external and the internal are one and the same.

At the end of the universe, there will not be enough energy (effort from the universe) for anything to happen. Entropy reaches a maximum. And with no change occurring, time stops - what can it be measured against at that point?

At the end of the universe, where time stands still, the universal awareness stops as well.  It enters the moment of eternal bliss, feeling the now, sensing itself, forever, never to exit.  

And this has already been achieved.  And that’s why we are here and why we only experience one moment at a time. The end is here. The end is what we were but we forgot and it triggered the process of remembering.

But of course, existence is cyclical, and in the process of getting to the end, this universe would likely have spawned another universe.  I’ll talk about simulation theory in another post.

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where the hell is technology headed?

Technology is more prevalent than ever.  We have the internet at our fingertips.  We can have information about any topic on our screens within seconds.  We have calculators, computers, and robots to do both our thinking and our doing for us.  Technology should be making our lives easier.  How come it’s not?

Robots have overtaken humans at many jobs.  They are simply better than us at certain tasks.  No room for human factors.  Wonderful, right?  Now those workers are free to.. not have jobs, I suppose.  

Consider the fact that technology is getting better at an ever-increasing rate.  At some point, we will have computers/robots to do everything we would ever need to do, and they will be able to do it better and faster than we ever could.

The job market will be shot. Humans will be left thinking, what now?  We are useless.  We have designed something to do anything we would ever need to do.  So what do we do?

We need a paradigm shift.  And sooner than at that point.  We need to realize that we are stressing ourselves out for no reason.  We designed technology to help us, not steal our lives (right?)

Consider the fact that not only is technology getting more effective, but it will be getting faster.  Processing speed for a task will eventually approach zero.  Computer will be doing what we need them to be doing for us in effectively zero time.  At that point, we should be living in a state of eternal bliss, as we will not need to spent any effort to achieve a goal, and we will achieve it instantaneously.

A constant rush of achievement at every moment.  

But eventually, we will become the computer.  And we will, ourselves, feel it.  Not just look at the computer and feel it, but our souls will feel it.

Perhaps we are already that computer.

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conformity, creativity, insanity, progress, evolution

People have a drive to conform.  To be normal.  To be accepted by others.  I do too.  As a child, I wanted the same toys as my peers.  As an adult,  I want the same clothes and lifestyle and.. thoughts, perhaps? 

Why?  I suppose it serves a purpose.  Gain social acceptance and you’ll have people to help you out in times of need.  Humans want to feel wanted and appreciated, and to have social connections, so on and so forth.

But to conform to normalcy is to hide who you really are, a unique individual. We hide away our weaknesses and our feelings lest we be seen as vulnerable. 

Conformity, while natural, is dangerous to evolution. Evolution arises from something unique and different rising above the rest of the population due to its benefits in regards to the environment. As humans we are essentially shaping our environment. To become like everyone else is to erase your uniqueness. 

But If everyone erases their uniqueness human evolution will end. Many of the greatest minds (scientists, philosophers, artists, writers, and more) were eccentric and strange and most likely "mentally ill" by today's standards. What if we locked them up in a psych ward for their strange new ideas we didn’t understand?

To be insane is to be completely not accepted and understood by the normal folk.  Yet all ideas come from that spark of insanity that resides, perhaps, in all of us.  That spark of creativity.  Of uniqueness.  Of progress.  Of genius.

 Humans are all so intelligent yet we hide it away by staring at screens and caring about social media and celebrities and icons who were designed for us to pay attention to. We are all creative in some capacity so why do we continue hide it?  Conforming mentally is dumbing yourself down and hiding who you are.

 Creativity is the future, it's progress, yet we've designed a society that's afraid of it.

Let’s stop hiding.  Let’s stop pretending to be just like everyone else.  Because we’re not.  And no one is.  The idea of normalcy is just that, an idea.  Another trick of the brain.

We are all artists.  But to stop creating art is to stop your own personal progress, and thus our collective progress.  And I don’t mean just visual art (although I quite enjoy it) but anything that gets your creative gears going.  Science, philosophy, mathematics, building, gardening, cooking, anything you enjoy is art.

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me, you, the universe, and computers

I’m an engineering student.  My whole life I have loved science and math and abstract concepts and knowledge just for the sake of knowledge.

Knowledge is everything.  Science is an attempt to understand our collective reality.  Spirituality is an attempt to understand our subjective reality.  But they are one and the same.

The brain is essentially a complex information processor, like a computer.  Consciousness arises, in the brain, from the “feeling” of information being processed in a certain way.  I am not saying that consciousness only exists in the brain.  The brain is more of a receiver of consciousness and of information that exists everywhere throughout the universe.  The universe itself is conscious, as it itself contains multitudes (perhaps infinite) amounts of information, which is constantly and eternally being processed.  Like a huge brain.

But as with any information processor, there is no separation between the information being processed and the processor itself.  The processor feeds of the information it is given, and without the processor, the information is useless as it is not processed.  Thus the processor would “feel” no separation between itself and what it perceives / receives.  

But our brains are more than just a processor.  They have been designed over time, shaped by our earthly environment, to help us survive and reproduce on this planet.  The brain creates an illusion of separation to help us survive.  Without this illusion, our cavepeople ancestors would have been struck by the immense beauty of every moment and forgotten to get food or gotten eaten by a bear.  (Of course this applies to all animals and living cells).  So perhaps the illusion is useful.

But we’re not cavepeople anymore. Instead we live in a society where we can go on the internet and browse Facebook and watch TV or whatever else you feel like doing.  In our new environments, filled with technology and luxuries, the biggest threats to our lives are our own anxieties.

If you see past the illusion that your brain wants you so desperately to see, you will find that every moment is filled with information.  Lovely information, that which allows us to even be here.  How beautiful!  Pay attention to every little detail you can sense and you will find it to be a work of art.