Jack Preston Kingthe, surprisingly quite reviled, scientific method which involves hypothesis, some predictions, an…The problem today is that science, like every reliable esoteric method of self-investigation over the centuries, for most people has become…Jun 261Jun 261
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…May 221May 221
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…May 71May 71
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…May 61May 61
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…May 21May 21
Jack Preston KingWell, mind viruses would be a pretty fitting label.You know I agree with that, SS!Apr 151Apr 151
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…Mar 311Mar 311
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…Mar 301Mar 301
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…Mar 231Mar 231
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…Dec 24, 20231Dec 24, 20231
