the egg changed my life.

a few years ago, i came across this cute little animation titled "the egg" by kurzgesagt that totally reshaped how i see myself and this mysterious thing called life. it unconsciously opened my eyes to seeing how interconnected we all are, beneath our surface differences.
in this video, i want to share what spoke to me so deeply about this tale. i'll explain the philosophy of "nonduality" it revealed and how realizing we're part of one shared consciousness was life-changing. i'll also share my ongoing journey to understand existence through this lens. most of all, i hope relaying my experience starts new conversations. if getting a glimpse of our connected nature even helps one person feel less alone, it will have been worth sharing my heart. so join me for some thoughtful reflection on what it means to be both individual and infinite at once.
music by ‪@stephonpiano‬ ‪@joshuastclairmusic‬
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[@studentsteph]

"for the utmost, what we have to do at first is to take care of our soul and to remember that in the entire world there is only God and the soul; and this is a thing which it is very profitable to remember" ~ st. teresa of avila, christian mystic.

[@nathandouglas624]

Thank you brother, the bro that's their/there. What's in a word? What's in a name???💜

[@tauvian]

@studentsteph What's the song at 4:26!? 😮

[@Iam590]

It's so simple it's hilarious, we are systematically conditioned from early childhood onwards to overlook what has always been thr

[@richarddeese1087]

God divided Himself into infinitely many parts so that He would never be lonely. Lazarus Long. tavi.

[@user-eo2jt3xj2i]

FOR REAL

[@empedokleff_Freybier]

Gefällt mir, die Annahme 👍🏻

[@TheDarksai]

We're all books in a grand library. And the reader relishes every story

[@pennywise5095]

Thats just pure horror to think that one creature or existence ore oneness has to experience everything..😊

[@studentsteph]

@@pennywise5095 nuh uh

[@stupidvideo101]

@thedarksai beautifully said. And somehow all the books’ stories connect to each other

[@sssnaked]

​@@pennywise5095 nah uh

[@pathmor]

I met you on PDB like 3 years ago(?) and I remember back then just reading through your comments on different pages and being so impressed with both your insight and argumentation, and now seeing you polish, refine, and make those same skills bloom here is just so surreal in the best way. You’re so incredibly humble, all of your content talks so beautifully and eloquently about connectivity, unity, and love. It’s so uplifting, really helps get me through my bipolar episodes honestly. You’re awesome, dude, I’m proud of you :]

[@studentsteph]

i have the fattest grin on my face reading this comment. ur a real one, pathmor.

[@makscee]

Thank you. I feel like my path to awakening really started from that same video of The Egg story. Even though it was many years ago now, I remember so clearly how after watching it, I couldn't shake the feeling that seeing everyone as ME just felt so natural. Like, I didn't imagine it, I didn't try it on, it just felt so real and authentic, that I started to believe more and more that every other person is actually me. Through that prism my view on the world seemed to change day by day. I stopped being angry or frustrated with people, I stopped holding grudges and resentment, it all felt like expressing absence of love towards myself. It is so amazing how a single story can actually change your life and put you on such a profound path. Stories are everything, it is the foundation of our reality and the most powerful thing there is. Thank you for telling yours.

[@angelic6931]

I saw this on recommended and it had 12 views, hopefully your channel soon blows up, loved this video

[@DanDLion222]

The trick is this piece of knowledge is hard to figure out but once you do you can spend your life doing better n treating others (or yourself) better so if you tell more ppl about it then they kno and can tell others n hopefully it keeps going but this is my favorite part is the more ppl who know it will make you more likley to hear it earlier in other lives so you can spread it longer to more ppl helping even more lives become better by treating yourselves better its rlly cool picturing the like snowball effect that I currently belive has truly began where it will accelerate into a future of it becoming known commonly thus making life like braid itself togather inevitably into something more as we no longer have to struggle against one another but togather in a common goal of improving life. Rn were our own worst enemy when in reality were the only one who has our back. Were getting there slowly but it will exponentially get better or worse very soon one way or the other.

[@crinanthethane9386]

Beautiful narration and conclusion. I am love, love is all, all is one. Blessings

[@inkplays7747]

Everyone has the 1st person pov and no can prove the other person have it or not but one thing is true that first person is the medium to experience everything ,there is no way u can be experiance without that 1st person perspective ,that 1st person perspective is same for all even all are different person ,that means we all one experience one perspective one at a time

[@tracedinspace]

The now is the thing, and the thing/now is perplexing. We fight the perplexion instead of accepting it. Great chat

[@scottscottlewis11]

Absolutely loving the Howls Moving Castle music behind your talk 😏 thought that nobody would notice, huh? 😂

[@ThebigbrAIn-ps7qd]

You are so on point with this. I now understand. This is a beautiful video and I will do everything within my power to share your message. I love kurzegtstad (spelling 😂) and their egg video has been a big part of my journey from the time I first saw it until now. It was shared to me again yesterday by a new friend and I found it even more significant but couldn't quite place why. You have just summed it up for me and just want to say Thank You 🩵✌️♾️ Synchronicities are everywhere..

[@cleancarasmr83]

It was on purpose. “I” know what “you” need. ❤

[@ThebigbrAIn-ps7qd]

This is something I wrote a few days ago on a fb post. I will definitely add in all the context you have discovered: I personally believe consciousness is fundamental to reality and it manifests itself in varying complexity as subsets of itself from the simplest of structures to the ultimate and infinite Source/God/Oneness (whatever you choose to label it) I think human experience is the mean (or average) of Infinity if you can even conceptualise that. We are the most stable balanced form of repetitive existence and intelligence with the ability for self awareness, without the ability to spiral away into meaningless existence if we had more control of and ability to create infinite versions of realitiy. I think the fact that there is existence at all is simply the result of the paradox that there cannot be nothing without something.. the concept of nothing is meaningless without there being something to conceptualise the nothingness. As a result, reality is basically Infinite fields of infinity, fluctuating between the state of nothing, everything and everywhere else in-between on infinite levels of complexity. This is seen all around us in varying ways as the dualistic nature of everything we experience (eg day/night, awake/asleep, life/death, front/back, black/white, love/hate, etc. etc..) I think all parts and combinations of parts of the human body are subsets of consciousness in their own right which are in a symbiosis to form our localised experience of being human. For example, my cardiovascular system does a great job of breathing of its own accord without any conscious involvement of my own, but if I make myself aware of my breathing, I can take control of it. I've had out of body experiences whilst meditating. I've had many profound experiences whilst under the influence of psychedelics, one noteably where I became the source of consciousness with an awareness of the timeless nature of everything. Its really difficult to pull back details from such experiences outside of space and time as we know it, possibly because we do not have the ability for such abstract levels of thinking whilst being confined to this human form in our day to day existence? These types of experiences make me think that our conscious experience is not only capable of controlling subsets within the body, it is also capable of expanding into larger or even separate subsets to what we understand to be possible. Whilst I'm not a physicist, I've always had a deep thirst for scientific knowledge. My understanding of quantum mechanics fits my version of reality in many ways, from the observer effect, to the probabilistic and wave-like nature of everything. The human mind is capable of far more than we have been led to believe by our parents/teachers/ministers and there have been many recent (but mostly ignored by mainstream media) pioneering discoveries and general research into consciousness by some very learned and intellectual individuals. Some names to check out are Alex Gomez Marin (a physicist and neuroscientist) who is researching expanded states of consciousness such as remote viewing, out of body experiences etc. Fabio Faggin (physicist and the inventor of the microprocessor) has a theory which places consciousness as fundamental to reality. The CIA were experimenting in the 80s in a classified project called The Gateway Experience, whereby they were using the works of physicist Itzhak Bentov (who believed consciousness is fundamental and in a constant state of evolution), and hemisync audio techniques from Bob Monroe of the Monroe Institute, to achieve expanded states of consciousness for espionage purposes. The project was quietly declassified in 2002 but you can still find an official document about it on the CIA website. I think rhe reason anything to do with conscious experience is given no real credibility by peer reviewed science is due to the fundamental assumptions which are part of the scientific method. One of these assumptions is that there is an objective reality that exists separate to the conscious experience. This mechanistic, materialistic approach assumes that life and consciousness emerges from the complexity of the objective natural universe. It also sways any peer review of any scientific theories towards this materialistic nature; anything which falls outside of this assumption is looked upon as pseudo-science or metaphysical. The problem with this assumption, which is the foundation of the house of cards that modern science rests upon, is that is is pure speculation. My personal experience with reality as I know it has been subjectively via my own senses. I cannot confirm or deny that there is something objectively outside of those senses, for all I know it could be a huge elaborate dream, for example. This will also be the case for every other conscious entity on the planet. Therefore the only truly objective assumption we can make is that there is a subjective conscious experience of some kind that interacts with other seemingly conscious entities and a seemingly real stage of reality. Anything outside of that is merely agreements between conscious entities. Until we scrutinise and review the fundamental assumptions of the scientific method, we will never get close to having a true and unbiased understanding of reality. Maybe this is a control thing, so that we don't realise our true potential as a species and start overriding the current societal structure which are controlled by the few whole are pulling the strings to the reality they want us to understand? Maybe it is just an ability we have lost over a period of thousands of years, through the need to build societies with governance and control to allow for an element of fairness within society. Maybe it is a combination of both? And that is reality as I see it. Each to their own, it makes sense to me 😁🩵✌️♾️

[@vohemiq]

>Maybe it is a combination of both? Matter is mind; and that's all that matters, what you put into mind. You have dropped such a beautiful work... Reading this, after seing this it's quite, quite bringing me into inspiring tears: Serene tears... >And that is reality as I see it. Each to their own, it makes sense to me 🩵 Doing our will is what matters in mind, with loving faith in the eternal shine from our single star...

[@6AxisSage]

The algo took me here, interesting to hear this advice from from the side of knowing, i used yo hear this stuff and wonder about the abstract meaning.

[@philipp176]

love love love the style of this video and the message

[@Schneebs]

Love the style, great work!

[@metaRising]

The are more animals on factory farms right now than humans who have ever lived. You are them.

[@optinoptimist]

loved the video! thanks for putting it out there, i've been trying to tell people about the egg for years, not because i'm sold on it being the 'truth', but because it's not only one of the most beautiful ideas, and most edifying ideas, but even if it isn't real in a metaphysical sense, it's a really good perspective to have access to imo. it not only creates a sense of inner well being, but it makes one feel connected to life and existence in a way that not many concepts allow us to feel. anyway, thanks for your work, one love!

[@Psyche_Up]

Oh it's real alright. If it were a mere idea or concept it wouldn't mean much

[@jamalj]

Absolutely true. Truly I am you and you are me.

[@feliperickenberg8435]

I love us existence...it has been a bliss to awake. Confusing also, the awakening has shaken my hole perception of me...i love talking and listening to me thru you. Bliss

[@user-ux6he6db1t]

i love you too, love that evangelipn scene too

[@ChrisSummers-AlienFaeRE]

The Angel's egg got me here and i feel an immense sense of gratitude and perspective change. ❤ u io

[@tamarasinspireddivineness1371]

LOVE IT! And love your personality! Your Egg video is phenomenal🙌🏻 LOVE LOVE LOVE IT🥰

[@EllaDuncan_]

My YT algorithm was my friend this evening. Really enjoyed this. TU

[@ChrisSummers-AlienFaeRE]

Me too Must be time to gather again and be merry! Must always be that time!

[@richardsnyder6413]

Gratitude 🙏

[@bugy_raid_plus]

best video on youtube.

[@addexiolover7236]

What a great vid, love🙌🏻

[@xBLOODBAFx]

This video makes my eyes smile

[@insondable6564]

Total thanks!

[@thegoblonoid]

11:12 I have been saying this too but people laugh at me! It's so obviously the true for me it's frightening. I'm not sure I like it but it just makes sense.

[@jakesawyerfilms]

This is a masterpiece!

[@abeluna9304]

What the shadow is to light is what light is to the void. Illumination is not just limited to sight.

[@gentlemanx7987]

Beautiful. The One that is the all and the all that are the One. I send thanks. I send love.

[@jennamatkowski2367]

Beautiful

[@tja2638]

Its so beautiful 😂 im so glad im able to experience this unfolding in all its expression❤ we are everything

[@balefirefury]

the egg is absolute nightmare fuel to me. It's the one thing I hope against hope isn't true. Can you imagine, being all the tortured, and all the torturers? Exist through every nonfatal car crash? Every drowning, every starvation? Go through every insanity? Perhaps I'm a pessimist, you'd experience all the love, too. But the juice doesn't worth the squeeze for me. Eternal ecstasy isn't worth experiencing all pain, especially considering in this age beings are truly fucking terrible to one another.

[@studentsteph]

i'm not gonna pull some philosophical rhetoric over your head. all i can say is it'll all be ok

[@the-absolute-light]

That’s the grace of forgetfulness. Experiencing all of that pain WOULD be terrifying, if you didn’t forget it between lives. Also, what you truly are is unmoved by what happens. It’s not really happening to you, it’s like a movie that you’re watching.

[@ChrisSummers-AlienFaeRE]

Curse you bayle!!! lol

[@ChadoDragonslayer]

Weak ass

[@katenka_ana3997]

Yeah it's scary. One can just hope for the best

[@svperuzer]

what is that first clip from?

[@windrock]

As I do love others why does my heart feel so broken and sad?

[@NowhereNonduality]

Really lovely, friend. Thank you ❤️

[@bradleyerlandson9332]

Thanks for making this

[@nadadenadax4903]

Life itself!

[@teodorhovenberg2529]

Wow. I think YOUR movie just changed MY life. 🙏✨

[@Psyche_Up]

This was good.

[@cbrophy]

great summary of the egg and what it means. what is the anime at the beginning / end?

[@vanguardianofficial6048]

Neon Genesis Evangelion :)

[@katenka_ana3997]

Last 2 episodes of neon genesis Evangelion cover this

[@U-inverse369]

Nice VIdeo. Life starts to become a deja vu

[@middleofnowhere1313]

If every person is me, then goddamn am I a rotten bastard lol.

[@studentsteph]

🙂‍↕️

[@pablo_cardenas82]

Thank you i needed to hear that to remind those unseen forces know We are here.God if you believe in god or not he loves you

[@j13more38]

NEW SUB .... THUS WAS EPIC MY NEW FRIEND ...

[@philipp176]

yeah the Hitler thought scared the shit out of me too. It helped seeing that it is only thought. All other incarnations are managed exactly where they are (nowhere in space time, and in "you"). Right now, right here, all that is, is this precious moment that is no moment :)

[@scottscottlewis11]

Consider, if you will, that the universe is infinite. This has yet to be proven or disproven, but we can assure you that there is no end to your selves, your understanding, what you would call your journey of seeking, or your perceptions of the creation. That which is infinite cannot be many, for many-ness is a finite concept. To have infinity you must identify or define the infinity as unity; otherwise, the term does not have any referent or meaning. In an infinite Creator there is only unity. You have seen simple examples of unity. You have seen the prism which shows all colors stemming from the sunlight. This is a simplistic example of unity. In truth, there is no right or wrong. There is no polarity for all will be, as you would say, reconciled at some point in your dance through the mind/body/spirit complex which you amuse yourself by distorting in various ways at this time. This distortion is not in any case necessary. It is chosen by each of you as an alternative to understanding the complete unity of thought which binds all things. You are not speaking of similar or somewhat like entities or things. You are every thing, every being, every emotion, every event, every situation. You are unity. You are infinity. You are love/light, and you are light/love. You are. This is the Law of One.

[@studentsteph]

that which is infinite can be whatever it wants to be, otherwise it ain't infinite ;)

[@scottscottlewis11]

@studentsteph all there is is being. To want to become is to miss what is because there is only what is. Anything else is separation. This can not become that because this is already that, right now. To become is to put off into the future. There is no future and there is no past. There is only this, right now. To even say "right now" kind of misses the mark because there is only what is.

[@studentsteph]

@@scottscottlewis11 yuupp! and being is infinite, and thus is whatever it is whenever it wants to be. infinite is both infinite variety and infinite unity. the most evident analogy of this is an infinite number line. all those different numbers that make up the line, yet the whole line, which is one, also creates the numbers. infinty is a paradox that cannot be this or that, neither one nor many, but both one and many, otherwise, it ain't infinite ;)

[@scottscottlewis11]

@studentsteph I felt like you missed the point, which is why I had to reply the way I did using a non-dual approach. It humors me to a great extent when you agreed but still chose the same approach. There is no choosing or wanting in this regard because, as I had explained, to choice or to want disregards the truth. There is only what is.

[@studentsteph]

@@scottscottlewis11 looks like we're just two blind men feeling different parts of the elephant :)

[@jasonvoorheestheslumpgod]

Great video man!

[@RenayEmond]

❤I LOVE YOU❤

[@Lightbringermetatron369]

Thank you 🙏👊

[@Ledhoven]

God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change courage to change the things we can and the wisdom insights and discernments to know the difference. ❤

[@AlchemicalTransfiguration]

Cool video!

[@nandicarv]

I still hate life...

[@studentsteph]

i think the fact that you commented this means you care enough to share this with me, meaning there's still hope for you to enjoy life at this moment. in short, it'll all be okay frfr

[@TheXrythmicXtongue]

You will always be free to do so, and very fortunately, to not hate it is also entirely up to you, friend.

[@VelvetRiver505]

I hate existing

[@studentsteph]

@@VelvetRiver505 and i love u

[@joshlvn7732]

🤙

[@statesofbeing888]

There is something off about this "we're all one" thing, it's not true on this human level

[@studentsteph]

u should look up unbuntu philosophy. even then, the very word "human" is itself what unites us all.

[@Nahuatlican]

🆓 …from sea to shining sea… 🇵🇸

[@richarddeese1087]

I am only an egg. Valentine Michael Smith. tavi.

[@user-wk3fc6uh1s]

Yeah thats lots of suffering and torture all at once

[@KyeColymore]

it's all for love though, just a confused output - people afraid of losing what they love, who they love. i hope you can get through to my side to see the overwhelming beauty i see:)

[@KyeColymore]

there will always be infinitely more love in the now, very difficult to see sometimes especially when i got a 9-5 of sorts but we LIVING

[@user-wk3fc6uh1s]

@@KyeColymore don't you see videos of cartels etc how they torture , imagine ourselves in their situation to whom they torture , and all slaughtering torture going on

[@studentsteph]

i had the same thought as you, which spurred me to make this video asap. the only two resolutions i came to were: 1. try your best to strive for the liberation of all beings (kinda like how they do in Buddhism) 2. keep in mind that all lives of suffering are but a blink of an eye in the great expanse of infinity. it too shall pass

[@user-wk3fc6uh1s]

@@studentsteph sufferings will never pass because it's infinite in nature , also if this egg theory is true , then after the end of universe in big rip , then we probably going to exists in every life forms , suffering in infinite ways , in all life forms , also any other sentient beings we come accross in any situation in worst pain or any other being right now ,is no one but it's our own self , probably conciousness never die only our awareness exists in multiple states in superposition in quantum state , If this egg theory is true then there exists only one being in every creature, and there is no true love but only sufferings for infinite time in infinite ways and multiple creature all at once

[@dawndid5972]

🧿

[@j13more38]

BRO....😮

[@cliftonmoore8316]

I think the belief is there is only one God and we are a part of him. God had to make us from hinself. Everything is of God and from God. So you will never see God anywhere but inside of yourself. A cell in your body will never see you. All it sees are the other cells around him. It is the same with you. You cannot see God because you are an intrinsic part of him/her. If that makes sense. .

[@raindog3075]

Don't confuse this cute and thought provoking creation myth for nonduality. It has some language in common but that's about it.

[@studentsteph]

bro thinks he has absolute authority on what nonduality is 💀

[@raindog3075]

​@@studentsteph explain any point in the story that even evokes nonduality. you're the one making the claim it was revealed. where? at what point did anyone in the story discover that there was no self? all it did was reify 2 selves discussing a creation myth they were each experiencing. even though the fetus experienced many different conciousnesses at no point did he acknowledge he wasn't a self experiencing those conciousnesses. it was all told within a dualistic framework, of two subjects having experiences. i am no expert but that is exactly what nondualism isn't.

[@raindog3075]

@@studentsteph also not a "bro" lol, but ok

[@studentsteph]

@@raindog3075 there’s more to learn for you my friend 😌 arguing will get us nowhere. you have your stance, i have mine. God bless

[@raindog3075]

@@studentsteph so which is it, there's more for me to learn? or i have my stance and arguing gets us nowhere? those are two ideas directly in conflict. thank you for at least being polite this time round tho

[@fractalflight5752]

God is alone.

[@Vt12365]

How do you stop reincarnating?

[@studentsteph]

my personal theory is that u may not stop, because ur infinite. however, i'm so open to being wrong on this. those in the east have had more direct realizations of this kind of stuff than myself, and they said that to end the cycle of samsara (endless reincarnation) you must discover the full enlightenment of your true nature.

[@JerR22]

Don't worry, this whole you are everything is just another deception, IMHO. The know it alls came up with mind tricks to keep us looping. Thing is, we're much more than a mind... This thing we are in posseses one and over whelms them and points them toward the answers all the others have found. It's all wrong, seems to wipe them and reset. 😅 You're a rearranged fractal of some original form, here, but there is the formless, of which cannot be spoken much. This one verse is caught in a FEED-back loop. You'll get out. Stay calm, turn down the offers, and don't listen to anything trying to scare or guilt you. Find home, then start heading a new direction. You'll be fine, and all this mumbo jumbo will pass soon enough. 🫡🤙

[@martinspiering5817]

What's being reborn isn't "you"--it's your (our) bad habits and therefore suffering. These habits arise from ignorance, namely, the assumption of being separated from things (and people) "out there." Cutting through this ignorance stops rebirth (of suffering)--start with a short moment when suffering is present (to understand and grok this for yourself) and then keep extending it.

[@Nakrawedzi12]

beautufl and wise video and you have such cosy, soft voice, nice to hear it, I watched once Egg video and it was nice, thanks for reminding edit: I recomend this Egg story but with real ppl, movie kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5m1mJqmobKcm6-ia love ya

[@bramblemat]

I'm Hitler...,.........your not Hitler;))

[@wadimzeller8518]

Your passionate aspirations are wonderful to witness. The desire to let this life time, your lifetime, echo through the ages and uplift consciousness is beautiful. And you've already done it! Don't you hear it echoing? You see it synchronizing and resonating. As it simultaneously lifts us all. That was you! 🤍✨☯️ 😂

[@richarddeese1087]

I am you & what I see is me. Pink Floyd - Meddle. tavi.