The stigma with the whole "God" problem turns into a neurotisim, because people look at history and proclaim how the believers in God were...
I think the binders are unavoidable in a way, in part because as many philosopher's have pointed out, we have to process reality through a...
This all depends on if your worldview involves denying the first-person reality of experiential awareness or if you have an authoritative...
And, typically those "principles" involve studying reality solely from the third-person point of view. It gets caught up in the "the only thing...
It's not about theism or secularism, its about the actual nature of reality. If you're stuck on a belief system, well you need to move past...
The point in the mystical literature is to understand that concepts and understanding can't be made into st I think Nagarjuna covered this point...
The ultimate nature of reality is pure awareness. It's not a belief you have to conceptually accept like a religion. It's your own basic cognizant...
All that is true, but there is a deeper truth as well, ultimate reality...if I am allowed to even talk about it, is nonconceptual, ever-present,...
I think you are dead wrong. Reality has a nature that is definable through meditative or contemplative excursions that releases What is...
The "realm of science" can only see reality from a third-person "it " perspective. Looking at reality from this pespective is fine but it can'...
Is there a difference from the first-person perspective of subjective reality as compared to the third-person conceptual perspective? This is not...
I never asserted a creator, I am pointing to the actual nature of reality, past a conceptual framework. Any theories of the universe have to take...
Can we replace "God" with ever-present awareness? This ground of awareness is aware of itself, so it's not never "detected" by the conceptual...
Exactly right, and the experiment IS a meditative or contemplative practice. Take zen, for example, meditate and look directly into awareness to...
Each stages "truth" is interpreted through their stage of psychological development. The mind has no other choice but to interpret through it's...
Are you denying the fact that you have a 1st-person experiential perspective that is separate from the 3rd-person conceptual perspective of science?
its not pretentious because it's not contrived or fabricated by mind or belief, it's realizing the actual reality of ever-present pure awareness,...
"God" is directly realizable. You just notice "it's" always there. I do agree that it's nature is nonconceptual, the mind can't understand it...
I think there's a whole spectrum of Christian belief, it really depends on the stage of psychological development that a Christian has to...
"Back up" as in what? Point you back to your own source? Breakdown conceptual boundaries for instant recognition of pure awareness? The absolute...
I say use the scientific method yourself. Do the experiment of observing the observer. Become aware of your own point-blank awareness. When...
"God" is unborn and unceasing, has no causes and conditions. Any super-impositions made turn into religion, which is fine, but is conceptual....
There is a sub-group of theists (and non-theists) that don't ponder as much to the start of the universe as much as realizing and acknowledging...
What is "evidence" to you? An object? Something physical that we can both observe with our eyes?
Can you go into evidence of how you feel about this? Can you objectively show me how you disagree with this, because i don't see any objective...
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