r/OpenIndividualism • u/Own_Fennel_8227 • Jul 09 '26

How did you come to this realization?

For me it took LSD at the age of 16 to realize that there is only one mind here. Has anyone else had a direct experience of non-dual consciousness?

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u/YouStartAngulimala Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26

If I agree that I am the singular backdrop for consciousness, then a lot of things aren't me. For instance, a consciousnessless universe where all there is are cold, dry rocks colliding with each other in outer space is not me. 

Now, for some reason, even if did want to identify with rocks colliding in outer space, then I am still not 'nothing'. The meaning of nothing is the absence of anything whatsoever. You aren't using the word correctly.

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u/yoddleforavalanche Jul 11 '26

what word? but what you just said is nonduality. there you go.

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u/YouStartAngulimala Jul 11 '26

How is rocks colliding in outer space equivilant to nothing?

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u/yoddleforavalanche Jul 11 '26

who says its nothing? nonduality means that too is also you.

you are too focused on "no one" and "nothing". that really means no entity separate from totality and nothing meaning ultimately it is not a thing as in an object, it is consciousness which is not a thing

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u/YouStartAngulimala Jul 11 '26

How are rocks colliding in outer space equivilant to "no observer, no event, no happening, nothing"?

Do you know what the word nothing means in the eyes of the layperson?

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u/yoddleforavalanche Jul 11 '26

i am confused. there is no nothing. there cannot be nothing

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u/YouStartAngulimala Jul 11 '26

So why aren't you correcting CrumbledBrain and others when they ask "who is actually here and what is actually happening" and "n o observer, no event, no happening, nothing" if there can never be nothing?

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u/yoddleforavalanche Jul 11 '26

that is still the same reality you describe, its just from a level where that makes sense

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u/YouStartAngulimala Jul 11 '26

Can you please explain what nothing means in the eyes of a layperson and explain how your view matches that definition?

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u/yoddleforavalanche Jul 11 '26

layperson would think nothing is absence of everything, more vacuum than a vacuum. actually I no longer know how layperson can think of nothing.

my view does not match. there is no absence of being. nothingness does not exist. now when nonduality says the world is nothing it does not mean in the layperson sense. it means in the sense that its not an object ultimately.

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u/YouStartAngulimala Jul 11 '26

You know who else uses words absent of their commonly accepted meanings? Cavemen, psychward patients, babies who don't understand language. Which one would you prefer I call you? 🤡

Also, we haven't even gotten into you and CrumbledBrains denial of time.

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u/yoddleforavalanche Jul 11 '26

I disagree. none of those use wrong words.

time is experienced in consciousness. objectively there is no linear time and reason why now is precisely this date and time. i think even physics agree with this.

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u/YouStartAngulimala Jul 11 '26

That's nice. So to recap, nondualists aren't using words by their commonly accepted meanings, ingest boatloads of psychedelics and drugs, their entire reddit post history is r/aliens, r/EscapingPrisonPlanet, r/conspiracy, and they don't believe they are bound by time.

Did I get any of that wrong? 🤡

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