Does the Brain Produce the Mind?

A metaphor is used to illustrate the Consciousness-only model to a man who thinks the brain causes thoughts.

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[aa]

I've watched this three times and I think my head is going to explode. Love Rupert.

[markgaley]

Can't be fully comprehended by the analytical brain mind, but leads to a direct experience upon contemplation and openness to pure Awareness and pure Being.

[anduinxbym]

This should have far more views. The model that is being proposed here is logically superior to the reigning physcialist paradigm. Occam's Razor sides with the fundamentality of mind.

[johnatkinson]

I think this is one off the clearest understanding of pure consciousness that Rupert has made it really makes sense, the reason I say this is because when you dream objects do feel solid etc, just like they do in the waking state so as he has explained before..matter is just a way of experiencing, not a outside separated thing..brilliant

[jnorfleet]

Work with mentally ill patients who have Dementia or Parkinson's. In trying to comprehend their sanity, you will start to question your own, and in doing so this all becomes clear.

[coenterhaar]

What is that, that is looking at your phone right now? Just stop, for a Whatever that is, that is what is experiencing everything.... It's beyond description and it's a mystery....You are not who you think you are....You are not your come and Realise that you are this unexplainable stillness and presence! There is nothing to understand....It just needs to be realised. 😊

[anchalbansal]

The guy's understanding of the things and making it into the model made it more clear than rupert's eloquent speech.

[quantumhealingtools]

So beautiful to see these two reflections of one another create clarity from confusion.

[gregjustsitting]

this was enough to drive me back to zen

[TheAltruismActivist]

Put briefly, ‘subjective/1st-person experience is mind while objective/2nd-person experience is matter’

[PaulMcDonagh-rvvc]

For myself, this revelation of the unfolding of existence into ever-revealing jewels seems to jog a very deep seated memory/knowing within me. Its as if I've definitively experienced this knowledge before from my ever expansive eternal viewpoint. It made me go light headed and seemed to be deeply moving, as if a truth of myself was spoken.

I often get a light vertigo when hearing certain truths. Its beautiful.

I don't understand why this is considered a "model" though. After all, many sages have direct experience of this so called model. In my perspective it is a direct knowing, as demonstrated by Ramana Maharshi and others.

Love to the one xx

[pettiprue]

I enjoyed the playing with first and second person perspectives. A pointer I love is 'The witness is seperate from what it sees, however what is seen is not seperate from the witness'.

[emilymay]

Beautiful 💞 "Jewel within a jewel within a jewel"

[gitaarmanad]

Where consciousness is realizing ''I am'' and directly after this ''I am and there is nothing else'', consciousness can decide to comprehend what 'nothingness' really is, by describing everything that it is not, in great detail. Doing so, creation emerges.
From our perspective, 'nothingness' has come to a point where it starts to ask questions about itself. That's us.

[sunilkamesh]

@Rupert Spira...All of this will be etched crystal clear for anyone who experiences zero person PoV i.e. dimensionless consciousness...even if that experience is for a few seconds...it will drive home the point.Period.

[Pindi]

What wonderful wisdom from Rupert. Thank you for the marvellous insights.

[bannistg]

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
ACT 5 SCENE 1 - THESEUS:
"And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name."

[olivierjasko]

I love Rupert's teaching, I can't stand Mary & Jane anymore though haha

[glynemartin]

My head hurts...it's too much...gotta watch this about 15 more times...bookmarked.

[Elazar]

All sensate experience, is a "tool" of navigation within duality. The brain and it's attributes, are not a seat of Consciousness, but rather a processing unit (CPU) though which consciousness may be expressed. As such, duality in the first instance, is an expression of Singularity. The key is, whether one believes consciousness emerges from matter, or knows, matter to be an expression of consciousness.