Recent content by Vasu Devan

I sometimes think these kind of experiences are what led Man to start believing in an afterlife/past lives and so on.

Welcome DrAllaire. I've never had an NDE but respect it as an alternate experience of reality. I did have one experience of nondual being and that drastically changed me from agnostic to spiritual but not religious. I connected more with philosophies like advaita/daoism/buddhism. I am still...

Ah well, with no experiential we can only interpret based on secondary sources. We have to experience to know. I can agree the body gets erased on death. We don't yet know what happens to awareness/consciousness when the body dies. Some people who have died spoke of another reality being...

That is not the limit of our knowledge. Our knowledge has a much wider scope of domains. Your brain has interpreted what it experienced and selected boundaries for what it defines as knowledge. Admittedly, that is fine by me because I think certainty of knowledge can only come from experience...

I am curious. Is your belief in Advaita coming from intellectual basis? or experiential ? Because the brain does not, by default, tend to perceive this reality as nondual. And consciousness itself could be a fundamental interaction of this reality. The brain may just be a finite organ for...

Ah. If you dislike the misanthropy, then Straw Dogs may not appeal much. I've already read Chapter 1 for 7 Types Of Atheism and he seems milder in that read. I found dealing with his hate for humanism more palatable when seen as an humorously extreme version of dislike. Midgley is a much less...

I can agree with that @Thomas That is why I used the term 'vocal atheists' in my post. I was referring specifically to the kind like Dawkins and other online ones for whom scientistic thinking has become a truth and the only truth. Much like organized religions pushed their religion as the only...

Most vocal atheists use the same line of attack. The ones who believe in atheism as their own set of dogma. And I believe the Bible is setup to fail if taken in whole cos the god of the OT is prolly the polar opposite of god of the NT. And the church really needed its Holy Trinity to link the...

Yes, the student was looking anywhere for a framework definition of God that would work for him. Maybe he has seen enough mystical frameworks fail for him that he hoped a "science guy's" concept of higher purpose could be one he could use. Otherwise, I don't see any reason asking a non-believer...

That Christian guy sounds like collapse of faith is imminent and he's looking anywhere for proof of god.....even an atheist! Seems turning to even a famous rationalist's perception of any higher power is his last hope.....and he didn't get the answer he was looking for. 😢 Ah well. The planets...

I would rather say the conditioned 'brain' causes suffering in the aware mind. I'm still not sure myself if awareness is caused by the brain alone. We are aware during waking, dreaming and deep sleeping. The content changes but knowledge that awareness existed is possible always. When we wake...

In fairness, change as constant, means it is happening for many religions all over. The West has enjoyed an infusion of Eastern philosophy while now, as I know from experience, Christianity is enjoying growth in India. It's still a minority religion and prolly always will be here but in...

well it was raw pressery cold coffee and sugarcane to be exact. wanted to try them out. my last meal before it had been 12:30 the previous day and it was 6:00 when i took it. mix that mush of caffeine and sugar with the anticonvulsants and antipsychotics I take and prolly a tug of war happens...

Thanks @wil. My fault for drinking 2 cups of sweet milky coffee and a cup of sugarcane juice on an empty stomach. Crashed fast, crashed hard. Right as rain now and learned my lesson.

True enough @wil . But too much of the same spoutings by all of us in this world, would kill the novelty that keeps our brains excited.