Metahuman

Adult life is a compromise between getting what you want and going along with social norms, between an all-consuming “I” as the center of the universe and a muted “I” that’s a small cog in the vast machinery of society. The balance isn’t easy to live with, and countless people fall into the trap of feeling insignificant, while a few are allowed to

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.

The key is identification—once you identify with the simulation, you are embedded in it. You are part of the whole setup, playing a passive role. If your involvement changes, so does your experience.

Freedom is boundless awareness, the very definition of metahuman. When anything is possible, we are most ourselves. When only some things are possible, we are all too human.

“Self” is a convenient fiction, lumping together a jumble of beliefs, experiences, old conditioning, and secondhand opinions.

Clock time is just a quality of daily life, like other qualities we know as colors, tastes, smells, and so on. Without human beings to experience these qualities, they don’t exist.

Theory of mind is a term from philosophy and psychology about knowing someone else’s mental state without being told.

At its most universal, enlightenment is simply expanded self-awareness. We go beyond stories, beyond fixed boundaries, beyond the rickety construct of “I,” and, in doing so, awareness effortlessly expands. It expands naturally, of its own accord, because stories, boundaries, and limitations were artificial to begin with.

The now, the place where we all live, can be described as: the junction point where the timeless is converted into time the only “real” time we know in the waking state a totally unpredictable phenomenon a totally elusive phenomenon