Comments by "" (@HigherPlanes) on "Physics of Consciousness | Frank Wilczek and Lex Fridman" video.

It's not crazy it makes complete sense. I've read dozens of books on consciousness including some ancient scriptures, and I think Vedanta, based on Hinduism makes the most sense. They say experience requires an experiencer, but if you want to get an idea of what happens after death, think about Nirvana, which in Vedanta means annihilation. There's a poem in one of the Hindu scriptures, and it goes something like this, "There's a candle that's lit with a flame, the light gets blown out, there's no more you, but you don't even know it."
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@zyrrhos I AM THAT has been on my reading list for quite some time, I am familiar with his work only by hearing Stephen Wolinsky talk about him extensively. Huxley is another great, for sure. I really don't like debating man, you can never win. It's a case of I've made my mind up don't confuse me with facts. I just try to spread knowledge if someone is willing to listen. As the saying goes, some people are just not ready to accept the teaching.
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I want to preface this by saying that I'm not religious so as not to scare anyone away, but the Torah (the Hebrew bible) is said to be divine. Meaning it wasn't written by man. There is a man by the name of Stan Tenen that can elaborate on this, but he explains that it's a universal artifact, so any intelligent civilization in the universe (if we're not the only one) will have the common langue of the Torah. The actual Torah was written in the Hebrew Alphabet, which came from another dimension, as silly as that sounds. And this guy Stan Tenen demonstrates exactly how this is possible, and it has to do with the Torus (in geometry the Donut shape). The whole teaching has to do with a vessel, and in order to get into this vessel, you have to respect the vessel, we have to be part of it, and then it can open up, and what's inside is worth even more. If you're religious this might sound familiar. But they're talking about consciousness here.
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@georgeholliday1071 I think there are some scientists out there who see the value in knowledge ancient scriptures like the upanishads. IMO it's only a matter of time before science and "religion" merge.
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@georgeholliday1071 I'm not sure man, but there's a book by Alfred North Whitehead called process and reality that talks about how science was born out of religion and philosophy, and at one point in time they all had a lot of interplay. I think we're getting back to that. Not necessarily the Christian religion, but definitely Eastern mysticism, which is very scientific in some regards.
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@zyrrhos Great minds think alike, my dude. I will forever remember a quote of one of my favorite authors, Terence McKenna, who said something along the lines of "nothing beats personal experience when trying to make sense of it all."
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@rick15666 Thanks man. If you care to know where I got my username, at one point in my life I practiced astral projection, which I thought was complete nonsense until I picked up a book by Robert Monroe, did the exercises and after several months of trying I was successful, and then came up with my username. There are several planes of existence that reside below and above us, the lower planes are dark, and the higher planes are full of light. Which leads me to your question..To be honest, my dude, my view of reality is in a constant state of transformation because I learn something new everyday, and all of the things that I learned, I picked up here and there, from this book or that video, from speaking to friends, from my own exploration through meditation, AP, and psychedelic journeys, etc... The best advice I can give you is to explore your own mind, because therein are all the answers, and cheesy as that sounds, I find it to be completely true. One of my favorite authors, Terence McKenna always used to say, "The most richly organized material in the universe is the human cerebral cortex, and the densest and richest experience in the universe is the experience you are having right now. That is the primary datum"
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