Can you find a flaw with my meaning of self and existence?
Whoever can find a flaw will receive best answer. It is a simple philosophy, yet much too complex to prove to you in the space provided. Please read before answering. Thank you all.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/113485088/Notes-on-Metaphysics-The-Meaning-of-Life-and-Existence
(For those who may have read it before, please read it again, it has been updated to provide more insight)
If you have understanding of this philosophy and you wish to know how to achieve oneness, one must share this with rest of existence.
@cat "We feel hot/cold and other things differently because we are physically different."
There is no physical only thought.
That is the essence of the whole. One can figure out the whole, as that is all that really exists. The whole must be something, and the only thing one can prove is thought, so the whole must be thought.
One must share this with others, because to keep it to one's self is self perceiving itself as separate from existence. Sharing it with others, is really sharing it with yourself, thus making self achieve oneness.
@Godequals3 - A dream is a thought....that is precisely the same reality as being awake, just different levels of awareness.
@cat, the whole is infinite, thus it can only be one thing. There cannot be two infinites, otherwise they would encompass each other being as one. The only thing we know of to exist is thought, therefore this infinite whole must be a thought...read the whole thing please.
@ EP "states of awareness of self" means how self perceives self. Self is one infinite, thus it can perceive itself in infinite ways, these are the levels of awareness that I speak of.
^Regarding above:
Since one can perceive self in infinite ways, one can also perceive self as finite which is exactly what self does during this finite life.
@EP "Self is one infinite' is exactly what I'm talking about. It's a conclusion you've already reached and doesn't include the map to how you got there."
Re-read the 2nd paragraph. The universe as a whole is infinite, thus it can only be one thing. There cannot be two infinites, otherwise they would encompass each other being as one. The only thing we know of to exist is thought, therefore this infinite whole must be a thought...You cannot deny that you are a thought, for the very act of doing so requires a thought. "I am not a thought" <-- Is a thought. Thus thought, or consciousness, or perception, or self, whatever you want to call it, is infinite.
@Jesere
"the symbolic staff of a herald; specifically: a representation of a staff with two entwined snakes and two wings at the top"
Yes, it holds symbolic meaning to the truth, just as everything does. Self is perceiving self as one. Two snakes represent self (ego), the staff symbolizes their unity, it is the same as DNA, and all the symbols of the world's religions / all perceptions of the world (Judaism - two triangles as one, Christianity- a cross connected at the middle, Taosim- ying and yang as one, even the Mayan symbol for God - an eagle with a snake in its mouth, your very symmetrical body, etc)
The fact you perceive yourself as psychic, is your perception of self. It is real. This is because you are perceiving yourself connected to all in some way, congrats :D
@Zap - "This is false. Dreaming is based upon memory and memory is based upon reality as experienced through sensory perception."
All existence exists as a thought. A memory is the same as any other experience. They are 2 different thoughts entirely. This is why a memory is never exactly the same as a previous experience. This is why a dream is never the same as a memory or any other experience. No two thoughts are alike. All thoughts build upon each other. That is how a memory is conceived, or any other experience. All conceivable thoughts are one in the present. Reality is one as a whole.
Physics says time is an illusion...there cannot be a past or future...no memory of a past event.
^Regarding above - You cannot deny that a memory is a thought, as memories are perceived through the mind. You cannot have more than one thought at once. Its impossible. Rather one thought is infinitely quick, thus the illusion of time is created, with a finite perception. A memory is a thought perceiving another thought. That is exactly the conclusion of this philosophy. Self is perceiving self.
@zap - " "All existence exists as a thought." This is your hypothesis but it is not established fact."
Read the 2nd paragraph...The universe as a whole is infinite, thus it can only be one thing. There cannot be two infinites, otherwise they would encompass each other being as one. We know the universe is infinite because numbers are infinite, if you sit here and count every number, you must exist forever. You cannot tell me that the universe stops this set of infinite numbers somewhere out in space. The only thing we know of to exist is thought, therefore this infinite whole must be a thought...You cannot deny that you are a thought, for the very act of doing so requires a thought. "I am not a thought" <-- Is a thought. Thus thought, or consciousness, or perception, or self, whatever you want to call it, is infinite.
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"Physics says time is an illusion". This is not correct either. Physics says that time is the 4th dimension which qu
@U- In order 4 anything 2 xist it has 2 b perceived otherwise it nvr xists. If 1 is infinite 1 is all things so 1 must b perceiving self, there is nothin else existin.