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Michael W. Taft
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Michael W. Taft

@OortCloudAtlas

🦇 Sentient comet 💫 Meditation freak 🙏🏻 Teacher 🍄 Author 🎙Podcaster 📚 SF nerd 🤖 Serial comma enthusiast 🌏 Raised by wolves 🐺 Bad influence 🧝🏻‍♂️

Oakland, CA
deconstructingyourself.com
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    Michael W. Taft‏ @OortCloudAtlas Apr 8

    Oh, nothing, just a Universal Theory of Awakening. My latest rant. http://deconstructingyourself.com/a-universal-theory-of-awakening.html …pic.twitter.com/tsvXiQSzLC

    12:32 PM - 8 Apr 2018
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      2. ChristZen‏ @christ_zen Apr 9
        Replying to @OortCloudAtlas

        Brilliant clarity, thank you.

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      3. Michael W. Taft‏ @OortCloudAtlas Apr 9
        Replying to @christ_zen

        Glad you liked it. Thanks.

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      2. Joogipupu‏ @joogipupu Apr 9
        Replying to @OortCloudAtlas

        It is nice when one can put these things in neat little boxes which feels like clarity in some sense. While I appreciate the effort, I find at least a half of this highly questionable. Sadly, there are no rational arguments that I could present for you; just the vast open sky.

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      3. Michael W. Taft‏ @OortCloudAtlas Apr 9
        Replying to @joogipupu

        I like the open sky. 😀

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      2. Surfer1002‏ @surfer1002 Apr 8
        Replying to @OortCloudAtlas

        Would not add or delete word! "...everything you experience is a brain-generated virtual representation arising in working memory." Yup!

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      3. Michael W. Taft‏ @OortCloudAtlas Apr 9
        Replying to @surfer1002

        Thanks!

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      2. Mi'sen‏ @misen__ Apr 9
        Replying to @OortCloudAtlas

        "....the result of narrowing the scope of working memory to such a small area of sensory experience that its representational construction becomes obvious" - so for insight into not-self & cessation, is single sense-gate preferable to an all inclusive/panoramic practice?

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      3. Michael W. Taft‏ @OortCloudAtlas Apr 9
        Replying to @misen__

        Not necessarily for not-self. I actually find that multi-sensory practice leads to a quicker insight there. For cessation, probably a single sense gate is preferable.

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      4. Mi'sen‏ @misen__ Apr 9
        Replying to @OortCloudAtlas

        Thanks for the clarification

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      2. jms‏ @fuzzylogic8250 Apr 9
        Replying to @OortCloudAtlas

        Do you know what the The Homunculus problem is?

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      3. Michael W. Taft‏ @OortCloudAtlas Apr 9
        Replying to @fuzzylogic8250

        Of course.

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      4. jms‏ @fuzzylogic8250 Apr 9
        Replying to @OortCloudAtlas

        Okay. Just checking 🤓

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      2. Euvie Ivanova‏ @euvieivanova Apr 9
        Replying to @OortCloudAtlas

        1. This is super interesting! I did a bunch of psychedelics when I was younger, so the realization that we are essentially living in VR that is generated in our mind, and that in a way nothing is real, was a realization I had back then.

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      3. Euvie Ivanova‏ @euvieivanova Apr 9
        Replying to @euvieivanova @OortCloudAtlas

        2. But I didn't have the realization that there is no self either until I did a lot of meditation. That was the really earth-shattering part for me, and it just added to my existing realization that what we perceive as reality is just a projection.

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      4. Euvie Ivanova‏ @euvieivanova Apr 9
        Replying to @euvieivanova @OortCloudAtlas

        3. It's funny seeing my own bias here. Because I had the first realization when I was quite young, and not as a result of meditation, I kind of dismissed it as less important.

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      1. Mrs. Yelena L  📚 💻 🌠‏ @SupernormalMind Apr 10
        Replying to @OortCloudAtlas

        But then again, by practicing metacognition - awareness of one's awareness which is possible due to the brain's ability to create 'maps of maps' - we can awaken to the true nature of self and world.

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