Metahuman

Contrary to Hamlet, “To be, or not to be” isn’t the question. “To be” is the question, all by itself. If you ask it every day, your true self will hear and then present fascinating, ever-changing answers. Engaged in finding out what it means to be here, you transform your mind from its old conditioning into a vehicle that can reach the beyond.

Experience is how we know anything.

All experience happens in the now. Even to remember the past or anticipate the future is a present-moment event.

If time is a construct, the same is true for the other things we consider essential to the universe. Our experience of matter and energy is quite species-specific.

We automatically block out how things really look in perspective, and through an act of mind we adjust the data.

For our entire lives, all of us have been taught how to live in the state of practical mortality. Everything is gauged according to how it fits in between birth and death. People who squeeze the most pleasure out of life, master many skills, work hard and play hard, travel to many places, amass money and possessions—they are the winners in the sche

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

A human being, Einstein said, experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison…

Consumer society promotes neediness as normal—there is always something new to buy that will at last put a satisfied smile on your face. Thus, a normal life is actually a life of lack desperately and constantly trying to fill a black hole that will never be filled. When you are needy, fulfillment is unattainable.