Metahuman

The only way to break the spell is to reverse the normal explanation of how things work. By this I mean putting the experience first. The normal explanation is to put things first, which makes common sense.

Existence is divided between things we do and things that take care of themselves. Therefore, some part of you is already living without making choices.

A secular, scientific culture not only takes pride in rationality, it worships rationality with a faith as absolute as the religious dogmas Kant wanted humanity to escape.

Pain has been known to suddenly give way to a detached nonjudgmental state, known as “witnessing.”

Of all the candidates for an eternal something that has no beginning or end, consciousness is the most viable. In the new creation story, there are no gods or God, no wind-up universe running like a finely tuned watch, and no birth pangs in the big bang. Without them, there isn’t even a story in the usual sense. There is only consciousness doing it

As a specific species of consciousness, Homo sapiens constructed its version of reality from everyday experiences and built everything up from there. We humanized virtual reality according to our experiences.

From a neutral standpoint, the ego is limiting. Having chosen to travel through life with “I” as your most intimate companion, you have silently agreed to filter, censor, and judge your experiences. That’s the primary use of consciousness in most people’s lives, and it’s like using a powerful computer just for emails. To limit your personal reality

Everything acquires its “realness” from the mode of consciousness applied to it.

Virtual reality stands for every mind-made limitation that needs to be undone. As long as we believe in virtual reality, metareality lies beyond our grasp. Everything must be done in the name of freedom, which rescues reality and ourselves at the same time.