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Materialism & Nonduality: Worldview in Addiction & Recovery - Rupert Spira and Bernardo Kastrup

Mar 14, 2024
Exploring the link between materialism, addiction, and nature alienation through non-duality. Insights on living a fulfilled life. Delve into realization beyond sensory perception. Embrace a view of life as a service to nature. Unveil the damaging effects of materialistic culture. Embrace solitude for inner peace. Discern between nature and ego. Align with nature for a well-lived life.
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INSIGHT

One Infinite Consciousness

  • Reality appears as a diverse material world but is fundamentally one infinite consciousness.
  • Our finite minds localize this consciousness, causing the illusion of separation.
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Reality as a Dream Analogy

  • Our experience of separateness is like a character in a dream unaware of the dream's true nature.
  • The world is the mind's activity viewed from a limited perspective, similar to dreaming.
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Mind Dissociation Explains Separateness

  • The world beyond individual minds is experiential and objective from our perspective but subjective from its own.
  • Dissociation in mind explains perceived separateness, mirroring psychiatric phenomena like dissociative identity disorder.
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