Beyond the head: An experiment on the location of thoughts

Have you ever stopped to notice, where your thoughts occur? Are they really in your head? In this video, we will experiment with our senses and explore through direct experience where thoughts actually take place.
00:00 Introduction
00:36 Common belief
01:16 Thoughts can only be of senses
02:05 The experiment - introduction
02:52 The book, "The Direct Path"
03:17 Smell
04:04 Taste
04:43 Touch
05:31 Sight
06:29 Sound
07:46 Conclusions

[@itsnotokgolf]

so basically this is why when I eat shooms I feel at one with everything

[@laservius]

Ha, ha! Mushrooms are really interesting. There is research that shows that when people are on psychedelics, it actually quiets areas of the brain. They are the areas of the brain that have to do with a sense of self. So, yeah, that part of the brain that has the beliefs that we are separate is quieted and then what we experience, with the mushrooms' help, is our natural, unified existence.

[@elonmusk4490]

Thank you for another excellent video! I enjoy the way you focus on a narrow subject and crush it. These aren't easy concepts to convey and you convey your perspective very precisely. Have you considered a longer video with all the concepts?

[@laservius]

Thanks! I try to make the topics as easy to understand as possible. A longer video with all the concepts? Generally, I try to chop up a topic into shorter, easier to understand parts. What concepts would you like to see together in a longer video?

[@elonmusk4490]

@@laservius I'd like to eventually see a video of your comprehensive worldview. Basically, how each video subject is related.

[@laservius]

@@elonmusk4490 Whoa, that's a big topic. Actually, I couldn't even answer that now. I have ideas, but there is still much I want to explore. That'll probably be something that will have to wait for a while. The closest idea for a video that I have is to do a meditation/thought experiment on, "What would you do if you were God?" This is something that Alan Watts talked about, but didn't go into detail. I've thought about going into this step-by-step. The only thing that has kept me from doing that is the length. To do it well, it would probably be over 30 minutes long.

[@elonmusk4490]

@@laservius I'm happy to hear it's something you thought of. I'm generally the opposite type of writer you are. I've written broad outlines of convoluted interconnected ideas. You've inspired me recently to write short thoughts with complete detail. Funny, I have a thought process I call "ideal without constraints" where I look at objects, situations, etc with a God's perspective. How would God do this? With no obstacles. I'm eager to watch your video on "what would you do as God". I'm eager to see all your videos.

[@laservius]

@@elonmusk4490 That's great that you are writing in a different style that you are accustomed to. What topics are you writing about? You've given me some ideas for future videos. I did write a kind of world view 6 years ago. For about 2 weeks, I just constantly wrote. One of the things that I wrote about was trying to think of how the universe came in to existence. Instead of a material Big Ban, I was thinking of how consciousness brought forth the first life and first thought. It was interesting, but I eventually ran out of steam for that idea.In total, I wrote about 30 pages. I have used many of things that I wrote there in my videos, including the two videos on change. The next video that I have made, and will post this weekend, looks at the previous videos that I've made where I deconstructed reality, and asks, "Now what?"

[@Isakaadland]

Cool video! Though isn't there a difference between defining where thoughts actually are and where we feel like they are experienced?

[@laservius]

Thanks. It's important to separate our beliefs from what we actually experience. And when I say "beliefs," that includes things that we would normally say that we "know." When we start focusing on our experience, we will be surprised by how many things that we thought we knew about our experience, is not actually the case.

[@lgroves336]

Thought is omnipresent/ ALL IS ONE All there is is consciousness. Only thing going on here is the Universe experiencing itself. The End

[@laservius]

Yes, I agree that all there is is consciousness. I just want to get rid of the beliefs that seem to hide that fact.

[@holgerjrgensen2166]

We have always been Here, our Consciousness too, Here and Now, our Day-Consciousness Never sleep, it is our window to reality, it just moves in Circuits, Day/Night, and Larger. Rainbow picture our Eternal Over-Consciousness, as hold the Under-Consciousness, Colors, = Day.Consciousness and Night-Consciousness. Instinc, Gravity, Feeling, Intelligence, Intuition, Memory. Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo. Our physical body, is a Gravity-Body,, at night We move our Day-Consciousness to the Night-Bodies, (Deep-Sleep) one by one, via our Coupling-Body, (REM) During Day/Night-Circuit, bodies correspond with the Organ-Circuit, in our physical body, maintenance, hormons.