Alan Watts on Life...
Alan Watts on Life...
Consciousness is not objective. A science of consciousness is a contradiction in terms.
Something must be assumed as fundamental.
Consciousness is not scientific.
Not testable. Not measurable. Not falsiable.
Wake up.
What we consider objective is what two and by extension many minds can agree upon as being real and/or thus true.
This intersubjective consensus is still occuring within consciousness, not outside it.
Liked that. Greg Goode has some good stuff too along those lines but he's more metaphysical than analytical.
Greg’s credentials are extensive: having studied Philosophy at the Universität zu Köln and the University of Rochester, Greg studied Western Idealist teachings of Brand Blanshard, and the teachings of George Berkeley through the great Berkeley scholar Colin M. Turbayne. Nationally certified by the American Philosophical Practitioners Association, Greg has a private practice in New York.
Greg also studied Advaita-Vedanta through the Chinmaya Mission and with Francis Lucille; Pure Land Buddhism, and Madhyamika Buddhism through the lineage of Master Yin-Shun ( author of The Way to Buddhahood ). He also wrote the foreword to Dennis Waite’s Enlightenment: the Path through the Jungle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zr9XdUm...
This popped up in my youtube feed. ...
Apparently, the Diary of a CEO guy hosted a debate recently titled 'Atheist vs Christian vs Spiritual Thinker'
With Alex O' Connor as the athiest. Who has just recently subscribed to panpsychism, while also coming out in support of the teachings of Advaita Vedanta in it.
I recall him taking panpsychism seriously at virtually the same time Sam Harris' wife released a book on it.
At 26:33 in the Idealism x Vedanta video; Swami Ji is discussing what he liked about Kastrup's book. He points out that Bernardo points out that the materialists are the ones with the more extraordinary claim, and as a result find themselves up against the hard problem.
In light of this problem and not being able to shake off matter as the core worship, you then may get some crazy ideas that all matter is conscious i.e. Panpsychism... joking that his fridge is a little conscious...
Kastrup remarks how Sam Harris made a comment, in recent times dismissing idealism as absurd, or 'crazy to believe that the world exists is in your mind'.
The beauty of vedanta philosophy, Is that it makes the distinction between 'mind' and 'consciousness.' We use mind and consciousness interchangeably often and lack a precise definiton
Swami Ji, would say, 'the mind' (mental states, thoughts, emotions) actually is an object of awareness, not the subject of experience(who you really are!). So
Like the world, except more private, exists in ....consciousness.
Some new problems introduced alright...
It’s important to notice the insights you are sharing, which I affirm, are from the perspective of the soul.-The soul need not fear death and is loved unconditionally regardless of the decision to participate in the mission or not-The soul can remain pure by being one step removed from the messiness of the hero’s journey (through the witness)These same truths don’t apply to the
That is a thoughtful way of framing it especially the distinction between witness soul, and self.
I appreciate how you connect unconditional love with the choice to fully enter the human story.
