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We've learned in school that reality is made of atoms, microscopic building blocks of nature
that supposedly exist fundamentally outside mind; outside subjective experience.
These atoms lack color, taste, smell, and any of the qualities of subjective experience.
Because experience - that is, our entire lives as far as we can ever know - is supposedly
generated by our brains. The prevailing materialist dogma would have you believe that everything
you experience happens entirely within your head, in the form of electrochemical activity
in and across your neurons. When you look up to see the stars at night, your real skull
is supposedly beyond the stars you see.
This is the most extraordinary metaphysical abstraction in the entire history of human
thought. And, it is absurd.
The greenness of grass, the texture of leaves, the warmth of sunlight on your skin, are the
real reality - the only reality - not brain-generated copies within your skull.
Reality is the currents and ripples of the ocean of mind itself; the medium of all subjective
experience. The laws of nature represent the regularities of the tapestry of mind, not
those of an abstract universe outside mind.
This is obvious to any child before language and culture do their work.
That the patterns of brain activity are tightly correlated with subjective experience should
come as no surprise: The brain does not generate the mind, but it is the image of a process
of self-localization of mind, in the same way that a whirlpool is the image of a process
of self-localization of water.
To say that the brain generates mind is as absurd as to say that a whirlpool generates
water!
There is nothing to a whirlpool but water, yet one can point at it and say: "There is
a whirlpool!" Analogously, there is nothing to the brain but mind, yet one can point at
it and say: "There's a brain!"
Our bodies are merely the image of a mental process; a process of self-localization. We
emerge out of the matrix of mind as vortices that, because of self-localization, have lost
the awareness of the whole. It is our bodies that are in our minds, not our minds in our
bodies!
We're verbs, rather than nouns. Life is the dance of localization. And death, the ultimate
expansion of consciousness.