Proof Materialism is a Myth

In this video I show how contentless consciousness is the best evidence that the material world is a myth. That doesn't mean the myth isn't interesting, useful or even beautiful, it simply isn't fundamental to reality.

[ncrewments]

"Yes, " we as human beings necessarily "create reality" -- but it is hardly in the manner that a lot "mystics" would maintain. We "create" it as any other creature does: from the material conditions that make us what we are.
We do not "see" as a fly does because our material make up is different. Our experience with smell is going to produce a different reality from that of a dog or even a "higher primate."
Our perceptions ARE "illusions, " but hardly in the manner many would make them out to be.

[Redefinedacoustic]

I have started taking a different view towards 'Material', I used to think of it as some sort of 'stuff' that reality was made of but I've become increasingly aware that there is no stuff underlying the forms of nature but rather that it's all process in action and it shifts and changes constantly. As Alan Watts once said reality isn't made of Material that's someone's philosophical notion, reality isn't spiritual thats also someone's philosophical notion reality is *claps hands*

[timoxyz]

could you do a video on practices you personally do?

[McLKeith]

If we are dreaming this material world, why then don't we fully live in it? It seems to me that almost everyone tries to avoid living in reality by constantly daydreaming. In other words, why don't we dream a reality that we want to live in?

[mprado]

I had originally named the poem from the previous video "Ein Sof", which means "without end" in Hebrew, or "infinity" (it also has other original connotations in kabbalah). Of course something that has no end, has also no beginning,  because a beginning must be an end of something else. And something with no end and no beginning has to be everywhere, which is the same as saying nowhere, because we live in the world of beginnings and endings,  thus we cannot see it. I assume this makes absolutely no sense in our "reality", because most people can only perceive "beginnings" (future) and "endings" (past), and seem to not be able to live in the present. Yet it is in the very present where we can feel the Ein Sof, which should be all the time, and yet for most it is never. We are floating in  infinity, which is possible because infinity has "apparently" ended itself, so that the material world can be perceived. If you tap into this present moment (or Ein Sof, or the "nothing", or the "everything"), that is where creativity emanates from.  I am kind of aware his sounds like a bunch of incoherent mumble jumble, yet, I see it there when I choose it :))

[thatapuguy]

Another great one, Chris. Thanks!
I think there is materialism and the then there is pseudo-materialism. Consistently well formulated materialism is not opposed to non-duality. In fact, I find it is the easiest route to non dual realisation. The reality of matter and my personal reality has to be one. Consciousness (that which perceives) iswhere this matter and mind intersect, and hence is the ultimate or absolute reality.

[protonman]

First define what you mean by consciousness. Its meaning is not an obvious given. Next tell us how your subjective experience of "nothing" has any bearing on whether consciousness does or does not derive from the material. You have a Ph.D. in science, so you certainly know (or should know) the gradations of evidentiary value. How do you elevate and defend your own subjective states as good evidence in a circumstance where others might appraise it as solipsistic? If there is something beyond materialism, any scientist or philosopher would wish to hear far better evidence and argument than that provided in this narrative.