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KEY POINT There isn’t “real” and “unreal” in your hologram. Everything in your hologram is unreal. Everything is just a belief.

Robert Scheinfeld • Busting Loose From the Money Game

Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself. This is the direct method, whereas all other methods are done only by retaining the ego.

Ramana Maharshi • Be As You Are: The spiritual teachings and wisdom of Sri Ramana Maharshi (Arkana)

the real place that is the internet

Alex Dobrenko • 2 cards

In recent years we’ve gotten tied up in this infantile vision of “the metaverse” where we port over our physical embodiments onto screens. It’s a vision based on a 20th century imagination of what computers would do.

What’s actually happening is even more incredible: the internet is a mesa verse. It’s concerned with what’s within ( mesa = ~within).... See more

Yancey Strickler • The Dark Forest and the Post-Individual

descriverei come un palco aperto a tutti, una vetrina per l’intelligenza e la stupidità, un mare di realtà e finzione che non si distinguono. Il posto dove tutto è niente e niente è tutto. Le distanze si riducono al minimo. È il nostro nuovo modo di vivere e di rappresentare la nostra esistenza.

AA.VV., • Testi espliciti. Nuovi stili di censura (Italian Edition)

In real life we are embodied, biological beings. On the internet we are digital entities that we can speak into existence.

Among the Spiritual Psychotics: Social media users trying to magically ‘manifest’ their desires are running into the hard limits of reality Katherine Dee 1.25.2023

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Reality is all that matters. The gap between where we are and where we want to be, which is the goal, does not go away by itself. We have to close that gap. And we have to deal with gaps that, sometimes, are difficult to face but motivating. People need to be free of toxic relational stress in order to have their brains available to solve problems

Henry Cloud • Boundaries for Leaders

Second definition: Something is real if it’s not just in our minds. A mirage is only in our minds, so it’s not real. A tree falling in the forest happens outside our minds, so it’s real. The internet isn’t all in our minds. Websites still exist while we sleep.

David Chalmers • Our Virtual Lives Are Real Lives

Reality is constructed in real time through emotions, assumptions, timing, fear, bias, memory, noise, and ego.

Reality isn’t a fact. It’s a negotiation. It's a mirror. Everyone sees their own reflection. And everyone is convinced that their reflection is the actual room.