Post by OldSamVimes on Dec 30, 2019 13:40:08 GMT
If you have all your basic needs met (food, shelter, clothing), and you're not more or less in a state of perpetual awe at the mystery of existence itself, you're unconscious. If you have no sense of wonder anymore, and the Universe ceases to be a source of mystery and magic, you're unconscious.
Not believing everything is 'real' doesn't mean I'm not susceptible to feeling nerve impulses while I'm trapped in this biological organism. That said, my dentist has at least two clients that decline all freezing when getting painful dental procedures done. He says they meditate a lot and one is a Buddhist.
Maybe they'd let you go hit them in the face with a hammer?
Feeling physical pain doesn't necessitate the belief that 'the suffering is indeed real'. You feel pain in a dream when you're getting hurt, the pain feels real and the dream environment can feel as real as this one.. but then you wake up. If you're not the body, then any pains that happen to the body are temporary and do not happen to you.
The point is that if a "belief" like "nothing is real" doesn't pay rent to live in your head in the form of anticipating your experiences or affecting your decisions, then what's the point of believing it at all? It's just on par with "we're a brain in a vat" or "the universe is a simulation" and other unfalsifiable notions that serve no purpose beyond mental masturbation.
You can do a quick google search into what 'Spiritual consciousness' is if you're curious.
I agree, if your worldview doesn't do service to your mental health then it's time to become curious and step out of your comfort zone and broaden your perspective.
You can still engage in the game and think the game is worthwhile while being conscious that it's a game. I think of being human as 'playing the human game'.
One thing for sure, people who take things seriously invariably suffer.