“Ultimate Reality" Course

@joaquincaputomonsalves8786 Ай бұрын

Hi John! I have been following you for a long time, Ever since I discovered the awakening from the meaning crisis playlist (I was around 18 at the time). And I just wanted to say that I'm so thankful for you and your work/legacy to the world. I really hope I can get to meet you one day :) Lots of love from Chile. I wish you a great life, see you soon !!

@ReverendDr.Thomas Ай бұрын

🐟 02. A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF “LIFE”: Everything, both perceptible and imperceptible - that is, any gross or subtle OBJECT within the material universe that can possibly be perceived with the cognitive faculties, plus the SUBJECT (i.e. the observer of all phenomena) - is unknowingly to what most persons typically refer when they use the term “God”, since they usually conceive of Ultimate Reality as being the Perfect Person, and “God” is a personal epithet of the Impersonal Absolute. However, this anthropomorphized conception of The Monad is a fictional character of divers mythologies. According to most every fully-enlightened sage in the history of the human species, Ultimate Reality is, far more plausibly, consubstantially and simultaneously, Absolutely NOTHING and Absolutely EVERYTHING - otherwise called “The Tao”, “The Great Spirit”, “(Param) Brahman”, “Cosmic Consciousness”, “Eternal Awareness”, “Independent Existence”, “Unconditioned Truth”, “Uncaused Nature”, “The Universal Self”, “The Ground of All Being”, “The Undifferentiated Substratum of Reality”, “The Unified Field”, et cetera - yet, as alluded to above, inaccurately referred to as a personal deity by the masses (e.g. “God”, “Allah”, “Yahweh”, “Bhagavan”, etc.). Subsequent chapters expand on this axiom. In other words, rather than the Supreme Truth being a separate, Blissful, Supra-Conscious Being (i.e. The Godhead Himself, or The Goddess), Ultimate Reality is Eternal-Existence Limitless-Awareness Unconditional-Peace ITSELF (or, even more parsimoniously, Pure Being/Essence). That which can be perceived, can not be perceiving! This understanding can be factually realized by practicing one or more of the four systems of religion, especially the systematic method of introspection known as “gnosticism”, or “the yoga of knowledge” (“jñāna yogaḥ”, in Sanskrit). Because the Unmanifested Absolute (i.e. NO-THING, or Pure Subjectivity) is infinite creative potentiality, “It” perpetually actualizes as the manifest creation (i.e. EVERY-THING, or the sum total of all possible objects), in the form of ephemeral, cyclical universes/multiverses. In the case of our particular universe, we reside in a cosmos consisting of space-time, matter and energy, and because phenomenal existence is dualistic, there cannot be a single object without at least one subject. Recently, this Monistic haecceity has been termed the “Transjective”. Just as a knife cannot cut itself, nor the mind comprehend itself, nor the eyes see themselves, The Absolute cannot know Itself (or at least objectively EXPERIENCE Itself), and so, has manifested this phenomenal universe within Itself for the purpose of experiencing Itself, particularly through the lives of self-aware beings, such as we sophisticated humans. Therefore, this world of duality is really just a play of consciousness within Consciousness, in the same way that a dream is a person’s sleeping narrative, set within the life-story of an “awakened” individual. PURPORTEDLY, this universe, composed of “mind and matter”, was created from the initial event (the so-called “Big Bang”), which started, supposedly, as a minute, slightly uneven ball of immeasurably-dense light, which in turn, was ultimately instigated by Extra-Temporal Supra-Conscious Bliss. From that primal event, every motion or action that has ever occurred, has been a direct or indirect result of that expansion. Just as all the extant energy in the universe was once contained within the inchoate singularity, Infinite Consciousness was NECESSARILY present at the beginning of the universe, and is, in no way, an epiphenomenon of a neural network. Discrete consciousness, on the other hand, is entirely dependent on the neurological faculty of individual animals (the more highly-evolved the species, the greater its cognitive abilities). “Sarvam khalvidam brahma” (a Sanskrit maxim from the “Chandogya Upanishad”, meaning, “all this is indeed Brahman”, or “everything is the Universal Self alone”). There is NAUGHT but Eternal Being, Conscious Awareness, Causeless Peace - and you are, quintessentially, that! This “Theory of Everything” can be more succinctly expressed by the mathematical equation: E=A͚ (Everything equates to Infinite Awareness). HUMANS are, essentially, this Eternally-Aware-Bliss, acting through an extraordinarily-complex biological organism, comprised of the eight rudimentary elements - pseudo-ego (the assumed sense of self), intellect, mind, solids, liquids, gases, heat (fire), and ether (three-dimensional space). When one peers into a mirror, one doesn’t normally mistake the reflected image to be one’s real self, yet that is how we humans conventionally view our ever-mutating forms. We are, rather, in a fundamental sense, that which witnesses all transitory phenomena. Everything that can presently be perceived, both tangible and immaterial, including we human beings, is a culmination of the primary manifestation. That is the most accurate and rational explanation for “karma” - everything was preordained from the initial spark, and every subsequent action has unfolded as it was predestined in ETERNITY, via an ever-forward-moving trajectory. The notion of retributive (“tit-for-tat”) karma, is just that - an unverified notion. Likewise, the idea of a distinct, reincarnating “soul”, or “spirit”, is largely a fallacious belief. As a consequence of residing within this dualistic universe, we experience a lifelong series of fluctuating, transient pleasures and pains, which can take the form of physical, emotional, and/or financial pleasure or pain. Surprisingly to most, suffering and pain are NOT synonymous. Suffering is due to a false sense of personal agency - the belief that one is a separate, independent author of one’s thoughts, emotions, and deeds, and that, likewise, other persons are autonomous agents, with complete volition to act, think, and feel as they desire. Another way of stating the same concept is as follows: suffering is due to the intellect being unwilling to accept life as it manifests moment by moment. Cont...

@Packacone420 Ай бұрын

I will pray more people can resonate towards you. I appreciate you and the work you're doing :)

@ReverendDr.Thomas Ай бұрын

Pray to whom, and why do you want more persons to "RESONATE" with John?

@ryanl6482 Ай бұрын

Lit. If there wasn’t a schedule conflict with my job I’d definitely do the participatory option. I didn’t even know about this separate Beyond Nihilism course. I’m definitely gonna make it a point to invest in these courses. Much love yo! Your work has been absolutely integral in unifying the realms of religion/spirituality, philosophy, and science in my world view. And I’ve been able to harmonize the dissonance of those worlds in other people because of that internal unity. Lookin’ forward to pushing humanity forward along side you! 🙏

@MindNeb Ай бұрын

Will PDF versions of the books be provided? Thanks

@Flynn-hl7ug Ай бұрын

John could you consider doing an interview with Rupert Spira or Eckhart Tolle?

@royaebrahim2449 Ай бұрын

❤❤

@cameronidk2 Ай бұрын

Iain McGilchrist believes everything is relational ... "The Master and His Emissary" goes into it a bit ... i have yet to read "the Matter with things" is there an installment plan for your course?

@garethf5131 Ай бұрын

John; it would be absolutely fantastic, to hear a conversation between your fine self and Don Hoffman. Is that a possibility in your busy schedule?

@Hyumanity Ай бұрын

I'm overall a beginner in philosophy but I'm very interested in this course, especially after reading Filler's paper on the Ground of Being as Pure Relations. I can't say I fully understand the paper but something like reality seems to be interconnectedness all the way down is something I've been chewing on. The thing is I haven't read any philosophy books and most if not all of what I've learned is from YT videos. I'm afraid that I may not be able to contribute to discussions but would love to be a part of this course and have the option to participate. Based on what I've shared, would it be better for me to enroll in the Self-study or Fellowship?

@johnvervaeke Ай бұрын

I would welcome you in discussion. And learning from your fellow students as well as me can be very helpful.

@colorfulbookmark Ай бұрын

If I may participate these reply admiration, please present lectures with applause and have good time with ^^

@lukastimmler1682 Ай бұрын

Sounds extrmely interesting. However even the self study option is far from affordable to me

@mellonglass Ай бұрын

A silo is a place where safety is assured, and contradiction (learning) is less likely. Contra dictates. When this ‘god’ enters any conversation, it goes off topic. OMG is an expression of ‘I don’t understand’. ‘So god help me’ is further not understanding. How then is going off topic, bringing greater understanding? Patriarchy just prunes, snips and arrests ‘wonder’ to domesticate without caring to a shared ego. The conversation bit is good, have a great conversation, it’s the only thing that begins communing. Endless lecture and endless reference is with no gestalt in presence, the future (child) will only hear babble and complexity, of no certain terms, the ‘adult was an industrial invention/convenience to set the stage theory of divisions

@cameronidk2 Ай бұрын

well its a bit late now.. i guess getting behind on rent wouldn't be wise... don't have to take a class to understand that .. but 2 weeks is rather short notice

@damiantrollope211 Ай бұрын

Would you ever have a dia-logos with David Bentley Hart?

@ElijahLogozar Ай бұрын

"beyond God" (beyond the language of...?

@F1ct10n17 Ай бұрын

God is always at the present until the end of your life. Dreams,hope,faith, happiness, sadness and etc, it is always there. The ultimate reality is you are the one who making it. I dont understand a single thing but im making sure that there is a meaning in it. 😄

@ReverendDr.Thomas Ай бұрын

For what reason(s) do you BELIEVE in God?

@F1ct10n17 Ай бұрын

@@ReverendDr.Thomas I don't know and I never want know.

@ReverendDr.Thomas Ай бұрын

@@F1ct10n17, that response is even MORE inane than I expected.

@F1ct10n17 Ай бұрын

@@ReverendDr.Thomas legendary response + ignore= entertainment

@ReverendDr.Thomas Ай бұрын

@@F1ct10n17, kindly repeat that in ENGLISH, Miss.☝️ Incidentally, Slave, are you VEGAN? 🌱

@sajid279 Ай бұрын

Non-dual God is not conscious but conciousness(blank conciousness,void ego, mindless&thoughtless observer in present) itself or the process of particles that bring the sense of being in the brain.... This philosophy can't answer how this non-dual God creates anything if he has no will and other than he follows a predefined set of laws unknowingly... That provides a probability that something created even him.. Brahman=Brahmand(Universe) Non dual God is not infinite since he is blank conciousness or existence(or universe)... And for him there is no mind no knowledge and no past future... But in order to dream one need prior knowledge of something.... How can one imagine or dream an object which he has never seen or known before, when nothing existed... Only one argument could work that brahman(non dual god) is matter which follows physical laws already set to create things unknowingly... This opens a probability of an existence greater than him... God can't be separate from his knowledge as our existence or the sense of I and you re too result of our being and our minds.... We as finite minds should not trust our minds completely.... To not fall in self deception... And think it only a useful enough tool to live. The mind may be an illusion for humans becs thought/ knowledge/assumptions of past and future does not exist except in the mind... But not for God becs he is time himself so for him everything is reality... And not illusion and he knows all...

@ReverendDr.Thomas Ай бұрын

🐟 02. A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF “LIFE”: Everything, both perceptible and imperceptible - that is, any gross or subtle OBJECT within the material universe that can possibly be perceived with the cognitive faculties, plus the SUBJECT (i.e. the observer of all phenomena) - is unknowingly to what most persons typically refer when they use the term “God”, since they usually conceive of Ultimate Reality as being the Perfect Person, and “God” is a personal epithet of the Impersonal Absolute. However, this anthropomorphized conception of The Monad is a fictional character of divers mythologies. According to most every fully-enlightened sage in the history of the human species, Ultimate Reality is, far more plausibly, consubstantially and simultaneously, Absolutely NOTHING and Absolutely EVERYTHING - otherwise called “The Tao”, “The Great Spirit”, “(Param) Brahman”, “Cosmic Consciousness”, “Eternal Awareness”, “Independent Existence”, “Unconditioned Truth”, “Uncaused Nature”, “The Universal Self”, “The Ground of All Being”, “The Undifferentiated Substratum of Reality”, “The Unified Field”, et cetera - yet, as alluded to above, inaccurately referred to as a personal deity by the masses (e.g. “God”, “Allah”, “Yahweh”, “Bhagavan”, etc.). Subsequent chapters expand on this axiom. In other words, rather than the Supreme Truth being a separate, Blissful, Supra-Conscious Being (i.e. The Godhead Himself, or The Goddess), Ultimate Reality is Eternal-Existence Limitless-Awareness Unconditional-Peace ITSELF (or, even more parsimoniously, Pure Being/Essence). That which can be perceived, can not be perceiving! This understanding can be factually realized by practicing one or more of the four systems of religion, especially the systematic method of introspection known as “gnosticism”, or “the yoga of knowledge” (“jñāna yogaḥ”, in Sanskrit). Because the Unmanifested Absolute (i.e. NO-THING, or Pure Subjectivity) is infinite creative potentiality, “It” perpetually actualizes as the manifest creation (i.e. EVERY-THING, or the sum total of all possible objects), in the form of ephemeral, cyclical universes/multiverses. In the case of our particular universe, we reside in a cosmos consisting of space-time, matter and energy, and because phenomenal existence is dualistic, there cannot be a single object without at least one subject. Recently, this Monistic haecceity has been termed the “Transjective”. Just as a knife cannot cut itself, nor the mind comprehend itself, nor the eyes see themselves, The Absolute cannot know Itself (or at least objectively EXPERIENCE Itself), and so, has manifested this phenomenal universe within Itself for the purpose of experiencing Itself, particularly through the lives of self-aware beings, such as we sophisticated humans. Therefore, this world of duality is really just a play of consciousness within Consciousness, in the same way that a dream is a person’s sleeping narrative, set within the life-story of an “awakened” individual. PURPORTEDLY, this universe, composed of “mind and matter”, was created from the initial event (the so-called “Big Bang”), which started, supposedly, as a minute, slightly uneven ball of immeasurably-dense light, which in turn, was ultimately instigated by Extra-Temporal Supra-Conscious Bliss. From that primal event, every motion or action that has ever occurred, has been a direct or indirect result of that expansion. Just as all the extant energy in the universe was once contained within the inchoate singularity, Infinite Consciousness was NECESSARILY present at the beginning of the universe, and is, in no way, an epiphenomenon of a neural network. Discrete consciousness, on the other hand, is entirely dependent on the neurological faculty of individual animals (the more highly-evolved the species, the greater its cognitive abilities). “Sarvam khalvidam brahma” (a Sanskrit maxim from the “Chandogya Upanishad”, meaning, “all this is indeed Brahman”, or “everything is the Universal Self alone”). There is NAUGHT but Eternal Being, Conscious Awareness, Causeless Peace - and you are, quintessentially, that! This “Theory of Everything” can be more succinctly expressed by the mathematical equation: E=A͚ (Everything equates to Infinite Awareness). HUMANS are, essentially, this Eternally-Aware-Bliss, acting through an extraordinarily-complex biological organism, comprised of the eight rudimentary elements - pseudo-ego (the assumed sense of self), intellect, mind, solids, liquids, gases, heat (fire), and ether (three-dimensional space). When one peers into a mirror, one doesn’t normally mistake the reflected image to be one’s real self, yet that is how we humans conventionally view our ever-mutating forms. We are, rather, in a fundamental sense, that which witnesses all transitory phenomena. Everything that can presently be perceived, both tangible and immaterial, including we human beings, is a culmination of the primary manifestation. That is the most accurate and rational explanation for “karma” - everything was preordained from the initial spark, and every subsequent action has unfolded as it was predestined in ETERNITY, via an ever-forward-moving trajectory. The notion of retributive (“tit-for-tat”) karma, is just that - an unverified notion. Likewise, the idea of a distinct, reincarnating “soul”, or “spirit”, is largely a fallacious belief. As a consequence of residing within this dualistic universe, we experience a lifelong series of fluctuating, transient pleasures and pains, which can take the form of physical, emotional, and/or financial pleasure or pain. Surprisingly to most, suffering and pain are NOT synonymous. Suffering is due to a false sense of personal agency - the belief that one is a separate, independent author of one’s thoughts, emotions, and deeds, and that, likewise, other persons are autonomous agents, with complete volition to act, think, and feel as they desire. Another way of stating the same concept is as follows: suffering is due to the intellect being unwilling to accept life as it manifests moment by moment. Cont...

@bobvillanueva712 Ай бұрын

The Ultimate Reality right now is fear, if you want SATAN to go away get rid of GOD, if you don't want to go to HELL then get rid of HEAVEN, yea? Look at what's going on with the three major Abrahamic religions, it's a three-headed GOD, this is the major problem to the meaning crisis, yea?... GANDHI: "I am a HUMAN; I only understand relative truth". So, my understanding of truth can change from day to day, and my commitment must be to truth rather than to consistency", yea?... "EVERY WISH FULFILLED" E.T. .............................................

@sajid279 Ай бұрын

Indian philosophy has created idols and many gods to tame the laymen hindu population by characters of Ramayana and Mahabharata by making them ideals like children copy superheroes.. In reality they all didn't exist but still they re worshipped and considered to exist... This is not sincerity to truth..

@user-pc9nv8jt5l Ай бұрын

I wish this course was free 🫠🫠

@ReverendDr.Thomas Ай бұрын

There is a free series of KZbin videos on the channel of Jagadguru Svami Vegananda. Simply copy the above name and paste it into the KZbin search facility.

@ahmaditani8168 Ай бұрын

same!

@mindsindialogue Ай бұрын

Capitalism realism allows one to escape reality but only if one pays $99.99 and yet still one will be stuck in a dying world.