The neuroscience understanding of the nondual state I think offers some ideas about enlightenment I know John Hopkins University is looking into this.
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What Is This Thing Called Enlightenment?
by Brokeback Watchtower ini've been doing personal research on this for quite some time.
what do mystical experiences have to do with it.
what is this thing they call liberation?.
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Jehovah's Limp Witnesses Pointed Me to JW.org When I Was Willing to Talk
by steve2 inseveral months ago i approached a nice young couple who were standing by a jw literature stand in my local community.
they were pleasant and polite but incredibly stilted when it came to answering my "innocent" questions about their beliefs.
this was the occasion of jws featuring the article headlined "is religion dying?".
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Brokeback Watchtower
I think they were just following instructions as mindless drones for the printing corporation.
I think this is a tactic that is Governing Body inspired. The GB don't want their people engaging in too much conversation with people who come to the carts unless the person shows some genuine interest in the publications and prospects of become a slave to the corporation. They are probably told just direct a person interest toward the web site to get information. This will keep their exposure to information the WT don't want JWs to hear down to a minimum.
The new corporation motto must be: let the publications and the WT website do the talking,, which in turn will make cart service easier and not expose the mindless drones to too much cognitive dissonance and possibly leave the grip of the organization or worse infect other mindless drones and a mass exodus occur in that area.
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What Is This Thing Called Enlightenment?
by Brokeback Watchtower ini've been doing personal research on this for quite some time.
what do mystical experiences have to do with it.
what is this thing they call liberation?.
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I tried meditation about 50 years ago to try probe my mind but since gave up around the age 17. But as a child of the 60s (born 1953 so 7 to 17) I did my share of psychedelics and wound up in the JWs at 19 under the spell of the WT programing formerly a Catholic.
My journey toward enlightenment was interrupted from 1971 to around 2000 a total of 29 years. My awakening from the coma inducing propaganda of the WT has caused me to resume my search and looking for the easiest way to follow my what seems to be an obsession of finding some type sense to what I am and what mind is which is quite natural since I live in it 24 hours a day (never ending journey).
Ego death is from what I gather shutting down the Default Mode Network ie no more sense of the self or us:
The Default Mode Network predominates the brain and from what I gather is the source of mental construction self and other(separation). What happens when it shuts down and one experiences oneness? Does a different reality emerge with a higher processing power of the brain a result with more neurons firing in different patterns(a good thing) while not under control of the restrictive DFN. Is that a moment of clarity full of insights?
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What Is This Thing Called Enlightenment?
by Brokeback Watchtower ini've been doing personal research on this for quite some time.
what do mystical experiences have to do with it.
what is this thing they call liberation?.
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Here's a discussion by people claiming to be enlightened;
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What Is This Thing Called Enlightenment?
by Brokeback Watchtower ini've been doing personal research on this for quite some time.
what do mystical experiences have to do with it.
what is this thing they call liberation?.
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Thanks Scratch,
I'm thinking self-realization has to do will realizing everything is the Self . It would have to be a very intuitive knowing as facts are not available to prove such things in my estimation.
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What Is This Thing Called Enlightenment?
by Brokeback Watchtower ini've been doing personal research on this for quite some time.
what do mystical experiences have to do with it.
what is this thing they call liberation?.
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I got Alan Watts and these two talking about it but that I find hard to wrap my mind around.
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What Is This Thing Called Enlightenment?
by Brokeback Watchtower ini've been doing personal research on this for quite some time.
what do mystical experiences have to do with it.
what is this thing they call liberation?.
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No I tried it but I prefer the chemical route with perhaps some meditation to augment it. I'm mostly interested in neuroscience, and so quite naturally the brain and what happens to it with mystical experiences, and liberation from ego/default mode network.
End of all suffering seems possible through such practices depending on the effects that such experiences bring about in the way the brain processes information due to neuroplasticity brought on by such pratices.
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What Is This Thing Called Enlightenment?
by Brokeback Watchtower ini've been doing personal research on this for quite some time.
what do mystical experiences have to do with it.
what is this thing they call liberation?.
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I've been doing personal research on this for quite some time. What do mystical experiences have to do with it. What is this thing they call liberation?
To me it is the ability to see the world ego-less having the mind shut down the default mode network and the experience of total infinite oneness with no separation of a you and other like the big bang where everything that is, is a non demensional point with infinite density.
Kant had a few words to say on the subject.
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"Just around the corner." The dumbest song that I have ever heard..
by DATA-DOG ini'm at my quasi-thanksgiving dinner with relatives.
i hear a haunting sound from another room.
"is that a children's song?
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That song needs to be dedicated to all those elderly that were forced to leave Bethel to keep the cost low for the corporation, that should make them feel real good about the years they wasted at Bethel.
They are playing on the most gullible without any pity at all. These fucking dumb ass songs prove it Listen Obey be Blessed on down.
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Press Release: Jehovah Witnesses and abuse. An aspect unknown in Spanish society. (#AbusosTJ)
by sp74bb inpress release, colectivo #abusostj.
barcelona, nov. 24, 2016 .
jehovah witnesses and abuse.
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Wishing you good luck!
This is not a war against Jehovah Witnesses. On the contrary, our struggle as a group is that, in 2016, anyone is free to believe, and by extension, also change their religious views and ideology without fear or coercion of any kind.
I would love to see that happen in one country after another it would put these guys out of business of praying on the poor gullible.