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Seems most likely, but why is there anything at all to begin with? .. a feeling deep in the pit of my stomach. Does anyone else sometimes get these "intuitive

Seems most likely, but why is there anything at all to begin with? .. a feeling deep in the pit of my stomach. Does anyone else sometimes get these "intuitive flashes of insight" - like your brain configures itself in a pattern that "lifts the veil". I've been thinking of starting meditating to stabilise or cultivate this state if possible because i've feel like i've been losing this slightly psychedelic ability since i was a kid. Most often i get it in the hypno/hypopompic phases, sudden flashes of eureka that disappears just as fast, like a loud echo of "wow this is existance", "time is unbelievably deep", "demensions and perspective are bizarre in essence", "is this just a fraction of a shared dream" etc.

mentos 3y ago
My thought is that ‘things just exist’ and the problem is the dimension we experience things in. Does that make any sense?
a13o 3y ago
If you wanna get really lost, consider how the 'aha' feeling could itself be illusory and indicative of nothing at all. Similar to how everything in a dream is convincingly real. Or how ideas sound better when you're high. 'Aha' is not a reliable narrator. My challenge to people chasing 'aha', is to see how long you can stay in the present moment.
a_cardboard_box 3y ago
Why shouldn't stuff be allowed to spontaneously come into existence? Why should there be any rules at all to begin with? If there is truly nothing, then there isn't any rule to force the nothing to stay nothing. So the question becomes "how was the universe chosen to be this way, rather than some other way?". The choice must be made, but there is no objective reason to prefer any option over any other. "Nothing exists" is a simple answer, but simplicity is not objectively preferred. I think the presence of this subjective choice forces a subjective experience into existence with the free will to decide it. Though I haven't a clue how the characteristics of the experience are chosen - that's also a subjective choice. It's subjective choices all the way down.

mentos 3y ago

My thought is that ‘things just exist’ and the problem is the dimension we experience things in. Does that make any sense?

a13o 3y ago

If you wanna get really lost, consider how the 'aha' feeling could itself be illusory and indicative of nothing at all. Similar to how everything in a dream is convincingly real. Or how ideas sound better when you're high. 'Aha' is not a reliable narrator. My challenge to people chasing 'aha', is to see how long you can stay in the present moment.

a_cardboard_box 3y ago

Why shouldn't stuff be allowed to spontaneously come into existence? Why should there be any rules at all to begin with? If there is truly nothing, then there isn't any rule to force the nothing to stay nothing. So the question becomes "how was the universe chosen to be this way, rather than some other way?". The choice must be made, but there is no objective reason to prefer any option over any other. "Nothing exists" is a simple answer, but simplicity is not objectively preferred. I think the presence of this subjective choice forces a subjective experience into existence with the free will to decide it. Though I haven't a clue how the characteristics of the experience are chosen - that's also a subjective choice. It's subjective choices all the way down.