
Episode 52: Oxford Psychedelics Society
Rupert Spira Podcast
Awareness Localizes as Non-Sentient Matter
Materialists believe there is something outside of awareness and prior to awareness that materialists call it matter. When you have a dream at night, you fall asleep in Oxford, you dream that you're walking on the streets of Paris. From your localized perspective within the dream, it seems that the streets are made out of stuff that's outside of your own mind and you call that matter. There is no matter in your dream. It just looks like matter from the localized perspective of a separate subject of experience within your dream. So there is no stuff called matter. This here, this is not matter. This is all the activity of consciousness. The idea that there is being in the absence of awareness
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