Jack Preston Kingnaturalism/materialism/physicalismI agree 100% with the concept of naturalistic idealism. The model that there is Nature over here and something else (the supernatural) over…1 min read·May 22, 2024--1--1
Jack Preston KingSimply speaking, it gives complete satisfaction to what we yearn the most, and, conversely…Perhaps I am already enlightened, then, because I love my life and can't remember the last time I felt a "desperate yearning." Certainly…2 min read·May 7, 2024--1--1
Jack Preston KingHere's a good questions, SS:You will see that you are but also are not. You will recognize that there’s no actual substance to anything, yet the world’s causality…1 min read·May 6, 2024--1--1
Jack Preston KingThere's a conversation in Castaneda's A Separate reality about shields.Don Juan says a man must always maintain a full array of shields so as not to be destroyed by the very power he is seeking. Ordinary folk…2 min read·May 2, 2024--1--1
Jack Preston KingWell, mind viruses would be a pretty fitting label.You know I agree with that, SS!1 min read·Apr 15, 2024--1--1
Jack Preston Kingone seeks escape, eventually, not quite knowing from what, but then while on the way out you can’t…That's a perfect description of what I call "Stage Two Awakening." When our experience of ourselves and the world has shocked us into…3 min read·Mar 31, 2024--1--1
Jack Preston Kingmaybe I’m not even real and only one of you truly exists,, or I am the real one as I cannot refute…I think the way to avoid solipsism in all of this is to realize that waking experience is a dream just like nighttime dreams, and that you…2 min read·Mar 30, 2024--1--1
Jack Preston Kingwhile many animals are self-aware, we are also aware that we are self-aware.I am not convinced the evolutionary "advance" from animal cognition to human meta-cognition was an advance at all. At least not in the way…1 min read·Mar 23, 2024--1--1
Jack Preston KingOr is it free as you can stop the world for a momentFor when you stop the world you discover that the world is also a ghost, and physicalism and idealism are descriptions that fall away…1 min read·Dec 24, 2023--1--1
