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Good thread. This belief in collective consciousness raising being somehow automatically materially transformative for the world is Ayn Rand style silliness for the woo crowd. I encountered and developed a permanent-eye-roll 🙄 response to both around 1989 in high school.
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I want to talk about why I'm so bone-deep hostile to the "consciousness movement" while being a life-long meditator. First, an appropriate soundtrack for this little bit of thinking youtube.com/watch?v=CNnKau Thread on.
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Morality is orthogonal to what Vinay is talking about. “Everybody meditate and all problems will vanish” is not a moral project. Moral effects are part of the wishful magical thinking about the expected impacts. Spiritual striving doesn’t necessarily induce any useful morality.
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That sort of misunderstood nondualism replaces the duality of materialism with a meta-duality between "nondual experience" and various dualities that are conveniently excluded so that the teaching is legible.
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I think nondualism-all-the-way-down gets more to a form of naturalistic idealism in which individuated stuff is there to be related to and encountered, rather than escaped from or dismissed.