According to the Mandukya Upanishad, and I have confirmed its findings, there are three states of consciousness.
This doesn’t take lysergic acid diethylamide to see. The three states of consciousness are waking, dreaming, and deep sleeping.
As the power of three is infinitely divisible by the power of three, one could say the waking dream has three states too.
There is the original inheritance of avidya, its slow deconstruction by the satguru, and sudden jivanmukta.
If one were an LED light bulb, the I Am would be the subtle filament of light-emitting diodes
Spreading the fire spirit of consciousness to the inner and outer bodies of the bulb.
Consequently one is not the bulb, but neither is one the filament—
One is the power of universal consciousness (saguna brahman)
Manifesting from the absolute source (nirguna brahman) That I Am.
Consciousness (cicchaya) is the manifestation of awareness (pure consciousness) as dreams are manifestations of the mind.
In a dream, nothing really happens to the dreamer. Similarly in maya, nothing happens to brahman.
Let me say this once again—it’s not the what I dream at night but the simple fact that I am dreaming.
The only true interpretation of a dream is I am dreaming. Don’t overthink things. Dreams aren’t Hamlet. That's entertainment.
As the natural is this world of illusion always changing,
the supernatural is that immutable beyond illusion.
In other words, supernatural doesn’t mean a higher form of natural.
The supernatural is the substrate upon which the natural is superimposed.
Maybe the word, supernatural, is a little misleading
but the word, subnatural, would certainly be worse.
Instead of supernatural, one could call it ultranatural or metanatural
or just change one’s own definition of supernatural instead.
Obviously, whatever changes isn’t real—it’s here today and gone tomorrow.
Thus the first rule of reality is immutability.
Brahman is the immutable substrate of the outer objective world.
Atman is the immutable substrate of the inner subjective self.
The glorious revelation of the upanishads is—atman is brahman.
Or ayam atma brahma, aham brahma asmi, prajnanam brahma, tat tvam asi.
Deliberately doing is rajas. Deliberately not doing is tamas. This is avidya.
Surrendering to nondoing is sattva. This is maya.
Saguna brahman is brahman with the qualities of sattva, rajas, and tamas.
Nirguna brahman is brahman without qualities.
Seeing through avidya is one thing. Living with maya is another.
This is the way of the jivanmukta. It's in the world but not of the world.
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Open head, insert universe.
Be all the ouroboros you can be.
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No consciousness, no mind nor body, no nothing.
I’ve seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by neuroscientific materialism.
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It’s not what you dream but that you dream—this is the meaning of all dreaming.
It’s true that god is dreaming you. That you are god is the little lower layer.
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Neuroscientific materialism is that pseudo-science attempting to prove consciousness is a product of the material world.
It's an impossible task of course but at least the money's good. It's one of the highest priorities of the material empire.
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In the reflexive universe of Isvara, everything but realization is an illusion.
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Consciousness, like light, is completely free. The speed of light is beyond space and time.
In the nuclear world, there’s wave and particle, neither of which is completely free. Apres tao, la yin and le yang.
The atomic world is one of identity. There’s a periodic table of the elements arranged in rows and columns by a periodic law.
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The molecular world has zero freedom. Not only does classical physics reside here, but dna makes its appearance in the seventh substage.
(Interestingly enough, dna requires cells that appear in the next stage of Young's universe. In other words, each stage is dependent on the next stage. Every stage has its satguru.)
Further, in the fourth substage of the fourth stage is the great turn of functional compounds, organic chemicals, and sex hormones.
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In the vegetable world, there is growth, organization, reproduction, and flowers.
In the animal world, there is mobility, action, nervous systems, and animal souls. Like birds in flight and the great queen bee.
In the human world, there is the inner soul of atman, and the outer soul of brahman, and the mahavakya—ayam atma brahma. Self-realization!
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In conclusion, light (nuclear, atomic, molecular, vegetable, animal, human) light.
In the absolute nirguna brahman point of vew, pure awareness is not aware of itself. For it’s not an it—just the pure subjective self.
Yet being omniscient, parabrahman is of course self-aware. This is the saguna brahman point of view.
Because nirguna brahman is immutable, saguna brahman can’t be real. It’s reflexive universe is an illusion. But its realization isn’t.
Thus nirguna brahman and saguna brahman share a common brahman. It’s called self-awareness.
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Disidentifying with individual consciousness
and identifying with universal consciousness
is one’s natural religion of consciousness.
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Stand there—there's nowhere else to go—
not only is there no doer—there’s no door
—the door is conditioned consciousness.
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There’s only universal consciousness.
I am god the universal child appearing in
the mother of all brahman—parabrahman.
