How do we know what is and isn't real?

Mushrooms only provide a momentary relief, a glimpse. The foreign installation is still there, waiting for you to come down.

All your numerology, bible stuff, musical connections, thats all the workings of the foreign installation, keeping us turning and twisting, regurgitating, ungulating.

They feed off all extreme emotions. The highs and the lows. Ecstasy and sorrow. Elation and depression. Excitement and boredom

You can't use intelligence or clever insight to get out of this cage. The lock is too strong.



Practice mind of no mind and the middle way.

 

Stand at the Center

 

As I was about to edit my last post my computer crashed., what do you know? an omen

 

It has been happening to me. I get to a point and nothing will enter it is like the statement was complete.

 

pay attention to all the story lines, all that you hear will be urging you, that means in your home as well.

 

I just gleaned that this is a metamorphosis just like if we were beginning to pupate. I always wondered what kind of evolutionary chain would account for the existence of metamorphic insects that are worm in one moment and butter fly in the next.

 

Forty Six & 2 - Tool: http://youtu.be/Tja6_h4lT6A

 

There is Descartes' First Principle, 'I think, therefore I am,' I think it should be followed by a Second Principle, I am here in time, therefore it is now.'

The first principle, of course, implies that the only thing we can truly know to be true is that, I am because I think (i.e. I am conscious). The implication of the second one is that the only point in time that we can truly know to physically exist is the now. These two principles together reflect Kant's philosophy in regards to what is a priori---self awareness (I think), space (I am here), and time (it is now). Everything else belonging to objective reality is a posteriori. (a priori is that which requires no precedent, it comes before experience or knowledge, and does not require experience, knowledge, or any other precedent to perceive. a posteriori is the opposite. For example, every objective thing that we perceive as an existent is located in space and time. Space and time are therefore precedents or prerequisites for such things to exist.)

This is the existential (or human experience) of the potential illusion of physical reality. It also philosophically leads to a holographic universe. Because if we conclude that only the briefest moment of Now exists, then now is defined by a single matrix of photons spread across the universe. This is because time takes place at the speed of light (hence it is a zero-time particle, and the only constant in the universe). A photon ahead of it is a moment into the past, a photon behind it is a moment into the future, and so forth.

But if only the Now exists, then in terms of physicality those other photons do not exist. Consider this--this moment of Now is the same now cleat across the universe. 400 Million Light years away, there is a moment of Now at this same instant. 400 Million Light years away, a photon is being absorbed into a star. At the same time, there is a photon leaving that same star headed for earth. It is the same Now, but it will be 400 Million years before we would perceive that photon leaving that star at this moment. We can know that there is a photon starting out its 400 Million year journey, because we can see that star and assume that even though the light we are seeing is 400 million years old, it may still exist today. But there is no way to detect that photon that is leaving the star today. In fact, there is no way to detect that same photon even when it is only 3 feet away----we will not perceive it until it is absorbed into a photo-receptive cell within our eyes---until it is seen----therefore, until that moment it is in our future, imperceptible, and thus does not exist in a physical sense.

It is a holograph because the light we see provides a 3-Dimensional view of reality around us. Anything we touch and hear is also a sensory awareness of the now, but these things too are, based on one of the latest theories in physics, the result of light, as all mass is created by light energy--what makes mass different than light itself, is the zero-point energy field which creates the inertia which gives mass its qualities (i.e. causes photons to manifest as physical particles.

However this implies that anything outside of our now---such as a table 3 feet away from me, or my computer existing as everything beyond the touch of my fingers on the keyboard does not exist as I see it---because that table and that computer are not the photons being absorbed in my eyes at that moment of Now, nor the mass of the keys I feel on my fingertips at that same moment of now. The photons leaving that table and this computer are moments into my future and therefore I cannot know that they exist because only the Now exists.

What would they be in such a holographic universe? They would be Kant's ding an sich (the thing in itself), the thing qua thing----they would exist as form, as described by Plato and Aristotle, and almost every other philosopher until a century or two ago. They only manifest as mass in the actual Now---which is when we perceive it as mass. Kant would explain that we could never see the actual thing in itself---we can only see what we perceive in our own minds.

Is this how reality really is, it's hard to say----but in the purely physical sense---we can only know that I think therefore I am, and that only the Now truly exists.

 

By the time one realizes it's "now" it has already passed.

 

You are claiming dualism...

 

That is very true---but this is because time is also a construct of consciousness, because consciousness is transcendent of the now. But then again maybe the past and future do physically exist----we just have no way of knowing if it does.

This is another aspect of mind being transcendent of time, or the now---we always experience it a moment after it is past. The implication here is that if only the Now exists---then cosciousness itself is just as nonphysical and out of time as light and form.

 

An integration of the environmental cues by the brain, followed by the subsequent responsive formulation of thought or moreover, action of speaking or typing, can also explain the staggered experience of the now being thought of residing in the past.

 

Yes--the moment of Now would be so short that the time it takes (or should I say the new moments of Now) for our brain to receive the sensory stimulus of now means that it will always experience the past.

 

Kind of...

If I understand you correctly, Ultimate Consciousness is not bound by time, time is a construction and constriction of individual consciousness. That makes sense when describing conscious beings, however what happens when we consider space rocks, debris, inanimate objects and other celestial phenomena that does not appear to be conscious, yet is still bound by time?


Eventhough it is relative, time appears like an actuality to me for everything moving slower than the speed of light. I'm not sure if that is entirely satisfactory for many but if you look at nature, it's pretty impressive how different organisms utilize relative time. I.E. For the 2 years that spiders live, they seem to do what they can with it such as building complex webs and what not, and for an animal that sleeps up to 3/4 of it's day, cats have been pretty successful. Of course we have done well as a species too and I think it's no coincidence that the significant strides in many scientific and technological fields came about as life spans got extended.

 

no I'm not I'm claiming the communal elements of coming to know which are visible functions of the human being these things are not in opposition they cooperate with one another additionally I say that the human being has five senses which obviously observable that the five senses combined with the two communal elements of coming to know represent the entire experience of a human being

 

Wtf?

 

It's best if you don't think about it. =]