Before we begin it’s very important to note that we’ll be deconstructing the idea of reality within perception, and not the Noumena that’s in theory prior to perception. We will of course have to doubt even the idea of “perception” in the first place, but we will get there in a moment.
How can we ever truly know what is real and what isn’t? What actually exists? What is “existence” itself? These are the fundamental questions – profound, mysterious, and, in my view, the most interesting ones we can ask. But to genuinely explore them, you must care. If you’re not deeply drawn to Truth or Ultimate Reality, you likely won’t have the energy, patience, or dedication needed to stay with the inquiry. This kind of seeing demands focus and an unusual sensitivity to your own immediate experience. Without that, the clarity required to see through illusion simply won’t arise.
Our focus first will be Phenomenological: we’ll examine the structure and nature of experience itself, and how it relates to what we call “reality”. After all, experience is presumably the only doorway through which we can access or study the physical realm. So before we draw any ontological conclusions about what “exists,” we should first examine the reliability, scope, and limits of this experiential doorway. Otherwise, we risk building a philosophy on unexamined assumptions.
I want to guide you, step by step, through how the idea of “reality” might arise within pure experience. We’ll begin by defining and pointing to Direct Experience – the “Basic Epistemic Ground.” This is the foundational layer of awareness, and I believe it’s where any meaningful philosophical inquiry must begin. Only then we might be able to understand what might be out there, but from our new and humble perspective we will see that our access to it was only through belief.
Prepare for adventure…
What we’re about to explore involves a radical shift from ordinary perception. So, for the sake of this experiment, try to open your mind as fully as you can. Some of the ideas may seem paradoxical – even contradictory at times – but that’s because we’re pointing toward something that cannot be captured in conventional language. Paradox is often the most accurate tool we have when trying to describe the indescribable.
“You can’t peg a nail into the sky.”
Old zen quote
Imagine, if you will, a world completely blank – not just empty of things, but even of an observer. From this blank canvas, we will begin to draw every aspect of “reality” from scratch. Let’s start fresh. Set aside everything you believe to be true, just for a moment. When we’re done, you’re free to pick those beliefs back up – if you still find them valid.
Remember, everything offered here is metaphor, pointing toward direct experience. Don’t take the symbols too literally. Look past the sign to what it’s pointing at – and resist the urge to dissect the sign itself.
A very important note before we begin
This text is not meant to be empty theory! It’s a guided live contemplation exercise, so look deeply into your experience as you go along.
Pause from time to time and look directly at your own experience. Ask yourself: is what I’m reading truly aligned with what I’m experiencing right now? Be radically honest. Don’t take my word for it – verify it for yourself. Otherwise, this inquiry risks becoming just another belief system, which would lead you away from what I’m pointing to, not towards it.
The nature of The Void
Important!
Anything you assume “The Void” is – it’s not! So don’t form an “object” out of nothing.
There is nothing at all – no one to see, no one to hear, no “aware entity” watching a “reality.” There is only The Void, aware of itself. In a strange loop, it turns inward, reflecting itself endlessly. And yet, it needs no knowledge of itself, for it already is what it seeks to know.
The Void has these “channels of perception”: mind, sensations, feelings, hearing, sight, smell and taste. Even to call them “senses” already ruins what they truly are. The senses aren’t a separate feature of void, they are The Void! You could say that phenomenologically speaking there are only senses in existence, without any one sensing them.
It’s true – we generally assume, with high confidence, that something exists outside our experience. But this belief is rarely examined. It operates as a background assumption, taken for granted so automatically that we don’t even notice we’re making it. What I’m asking you to do is simple but radical: question that assumption. Look closely and see for yourself that it is, in fact, just that – an assumption, not a certainty.
The senses are not located anywhere – not in space, nor in time. Phenomenologically, they appear omnipresent and eternal. Even the feeling of “here” is just another sensation, as is the impression of something being “out there.” These are not facts, but appearances within experience. The senses don’t observe a world from a distance – they are the unfolding of experience itself, the flow of pure energy taking shape, moving from formlessness into form.
Through these silent marvels – the senses – the Void turns inward, beholding itself without eyes. What they reveal cannot be spoken, for they do not point to things, but shimmer as the very seeing. Their touch is enchantment, their song unspeakable. No language can capture the glory of the Void knowing itself through the miracle of presence.
It can only be recognized when the mind is completely still – when there is no interference or interpretation. In that state, the body is deeply relaxed, and a quiet clarity emerges. The usual boundaries dissolve: there is no separation between subject and object, between body and world. In this collapse of duality, the Void reveals its phenomenologically infinite nature as pure experience.
Division and Unity are yet again a dual idea, but experience is neither united nor is it divided, it just is.
It’s important to note that experience only appears infinite, but reality itself isn’t likely infinite. That can cause a great confusion when people awaken, and assume that the apparent infinity of their mind is somehow related to the actual physical plane, but that’s a fallacy. So beware.
It appears infinite because it’s inherently limited and can’t perceive borders, and not because borders don’t exist. It’s an illusion of infinity and not an actual infinity.
When you’re inside a fog, it wraps around you like forever –
its edges hidden, its silence convincing.
You cannot see where it ends, so it feels like it never does.
Not infinite, but wearing the costume of infinity.
Anything you can imagine it to be, it is not!
The “void” is not the Void.
A quick Self Inquiry to show you what I mean
Try right now to sense “the one” that experiences all your senses? Can you possibly do that? The one sensing by definition can’t be sensed because it’s doing the sensing, like a flashlight in total darkness that is illuminating everything but itself. We assume there is a flashlight through logic and exactly in the same way, we assume there is a “perceiver” to perception. (Can you see the duality? A “perceiver” separate from a “perception”. These are two objects.) But try to see very clearly that this is an assumption and not direct experience.
You might say: “If there is perception someone must be perceiving it, a perceiver, Me.” You are very clever to use deduction to construct an idea of yourself, but in this exercise we are trying to find what is in our direct experience and not what we assume there is.
Whenever you find a sensation that you think is “You”, ask yourself: “Ok who is perceiving that?” and so on, and again “the one perceiving me perceiving myself”, who is perceiving that one? Keep doing that until your experience is sure that there is no perceiver in it’s perception.
The nature of Experience
All we can know is Experience, it is everything we had ever known and could possibly know. We actually know nothing but it.
We are like the fish in the water of experience, except that in our case it’s even worse – we are a Sea within an infinite Sea with no land anywhere, no fish!
One would have to be “outside and separate from experience” to examine it as an object, which isn’t technically possible, since we can only access what is experienced by us directly right now, and will never by definiton know what is supposedly “outside of experience” except as a story, because we can’t ever experience a “non-experience”, as you can already see it’s an oxymoron. There can’t be an experience of “nothing”, it wouldn’t register and wouldn’t exist for us phenomenologically.
You can see a black circle on a white background, but if both the background and and the circle were black, you couldn’t see it, and it would stop existing for you phenomenologically.
Experience trying to understand itself is like water trying to wet itself, fire trying to burn itself or a knife trying to cut itself. You can’t touch the point of your finger with the same finger.
How appearances are formed within The Source
As a dear friend Jinzo wisely noted in the comments, calling it “The Void” can make it sound barren or empty – when in truth, it’s anything but. He prefers the term “The Source,” a name that better reflects its overflowing fullness, the wellspring from which all energy flows and to which all returns. In that light, “Void” may mislead; it isn’t a lack, but a silent abundance beyond form.
It’s important to note here that the experience is not strictly a hallucination, it is dancing along with the physical somewhere out there, so the appearance of a wall inside of experience is a hologram, but the fact that it’s synchronized with the physical will mean that if you walk into it, you will feel it as a physical object.
The Source can transform itself into seeming “objects” at will, but these are just hollow figures without substance, they can’t do anything but to simply appear and disappear.
A castle built in the sand is, from one perspective, truly a castle. And yet, in essence, it’s just a shaped pile of sand – recognized as a ‘castle’ only by the mind. This doesn’t mean objects lack meaning. To the child who built it, the castle is deeply important. It brings joy, imagination, pride. And when a bully comes and knocks it down, the sorrow is just as real.
Its emptiness is not lack, but infinite potential – the silent womb from which all appearances arise. These appearances are not separate from the Void; they are the Void, shaped into fleeting forms. You might say its nature is holographic: a self-generating display in which the formless becomes form, only to reflect itself back in awareness.
Emptiness is unmanifested void, “objects” are manifested void.
When many “objects” are manifested, and “interconnected”, “reality” is formed.
“Reality” is the dream of the unawakened void. Inside the dream, many things might appear to “happen”, but it’s only due to the dream state, or Maya.
This process is analogous to dreaming at night, many things appear to happen to you, but really you just lie there sleeping. Only when you wake up, you realise it was all just a dream.
Maya is vast – so vast it holds galaxies, lifetimes, worlds, space and time within it. But don’t be fooled by the grandeur of these names. They are all just expressions of the Void, dream-figures moving within a dream. These appearances may interact with one another, but they cannot touch the Void itself. Like images on a screen, they flicker and fade – except here, there is no screen at all.
It’s beyond any category, and so it’s neither big, nor small, it’s both and neither, since it contains all there is. It’s paradoxical, so logic can’t grasp it.
The hypothesis of the formation of the idea of “Time”
From how I experience it, it seems that the idea of “Time” is generated by the movement of attention through memory. The Now is never experienced as a sequence, but always as immediacy. All “past” and “future” are appearances within now.
I like to think about time as an ever present Now, but the “past” is not something concrete it doesn’t exist but turns into Now every moment, just like the “future” which is formed every moment but turns immediately into Now.
I really recommend you to check out our conversation with Jinzo about time in the comments below later on.
The nature of thought, and how to avoid delusion
Thoughts are like memory files – bundles of stored data containing images, sounds, words, and sensations from the past. As phenomena, thoughts are real in the sense that they can be noticed, even felt, when the mind is quiet. But the content they carry – the narratives they weave – are not reliable. These stories are not truth; they are fragments, shaped by perspective, partial and relative to context.
Eventually, these stories become so dominant that they replace the direct “live feed” with an endless rerun of mental commentary. The brain begins to watch its own echo, rather than the world. And as the light of awareness dims – distracted, fragmented, entangled in narrative – the void forgets itself. It forgets that it was always playing with appearances, and it falls asleep in the dream it authored.
What we are trying to do here is to use thought to describe itself, and later to cancel itself.
“To use a thorn, to take out another thorn.”
R. Maharishi
To protect yourself from delusion, get really good at experiencing directly and seeing thoughts for what they are. Beautiful and intricate thought structures that start to look like reality itself can dazzle us, and could make us believe they are real. This is where the practice of meditation comes in handy, it allows you to go deep into pure awareness, to stay connected to it and to see each time a thought is carrying you away from the present moment into fantasy land.
The mechanism of Creation
The creation of “reality” occurs when thoughts floating in the void are glued together into a story, then out of low consciousness, the imaginary story is believed to be true. It’s glue is “logic”, “rationality” and advanced ethereal terms. (which are all thoughts too.)
For example:
“I did this”
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Subject Thought + Action Thought + Object Thought
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“Reality” Idea
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Maya
Only when logic is applied to stick the story together, does reality “occur”, but in fact, from a phenomenological perspective all that happened was: three thoughts arose, one after another, no action, no doer, no object were actually present inside of experience – “Reality” is therefore imagined! Yes, it’s not very easy to psychologically to realize that you and all your life is an imagined dream, but that is the case phenomenologically speaking.
The Formation of an “Ego” out of fear, logic and language
The “I” is not a subject, but a grammatical habit. The thought “I am” does not prove a self, only a linguistic echo that reflects itself within The Void.
The “laws” of logic suggest that “subjects” can do “actions” upon “objects”, but who said that was true? Why can’t action be made on it’s own, without a subject? What if object, subject, and action were all one undivided phenomenon, and only appeared as if they were separate because it’s easy for a brain to look at it like that, it makes sense.
The Role of Fear
Out of fear, The Void is attaching it’s infinite identity to this little finite idea, and plays a “character” inside the dream of “reality” of low-consciousness – this is how an attachment is formed.
Now this attachment is pulling The Void into drama, and gets it fully involved in the story, it’s attached to “body, identity, property, thoughts, people, groups, life” – All these appearances are now referred to as “My reality”.
This is how a low-self is being artificially created. Now it fears death and other things that may “harm” it.
An Ego is like a bubble in the ocean that thinks it’s separate until it bursts and returns to its Source.
It’s important to remember here that the ego is a program inside the evolved biological brain out there that is meant to help the body survive better in actual danger, it’s an illusion phenomenologically speaking, but it has an actual function out there somewhere, so don’t just blame it for doing what it was meant to do.
The myth of the nature of Darkness and The Void’s inherent mission
This part is a bit more mysterious and mythological, but it can somehow try to explain the existence of certain phenomenon within experience. So take that into account and remember that it’s a metaphorical story and not actuality.
“So what is ‘darkness’?” you might ask. It is The Void’s unawakened side, many times it’s referred to as the “Devil”, and on the opposite side there is the light side of “God”, yet the void transcends and includes such categories, which are only present in the brain.
All these seeming “actions” that I describe are automatic, and there’s no actual “doer” who’s creating them, no one to be angry at, or to blame, it’s just the way The Void is, it’s nature is both the “good” and the “bad”, but these judgments of the brain are only present in low consciousness.
Without some degree of darkness there wouldn’t be any manifestations because the Void is pure light, and just like in a projector you need to filter that light through film that covers some of it partly to project a picture.
Its perfection is like that of a tree, the grain of wood, or the curve of a drifting cloud – not flawless by calculation, but whole by nature. There are no mistakes in it, only forms that flow with an effortless harmony, pleasing not because they follow a rule, but because they simply are.
The Source is exploring itself through its many manifestations, which then return to it, to be born again, and start a new better journey, to better love, until they wake up again, and merge with their source. It’s in a constant battle against the inner darkness, and so it must stay vigilant to keep the light from fading – This is the dramatic aspect of Maya.
You are it, you are Void, and all the appearances in it. Your job is to love all of it, including the darkness! Because that’s what gonna heal you, so that you could finally return to your True Self and unite into your infinite nature, when it’s the right time for you to do so.
Nothing is hidden. Can you see that now?
A very important final note – How not to use this text
It’s a big mistake to try to apply this material to objective reality – That is what most religions had done, and had created epistemic monsters like “creationism” and “literalism”. All of it true only from a phenomenological perspective, and that is only within experience. Outside of experience it doesn’t make any sense at all, and should not imply any ontology whatsoever.
Also, the belief that “if nothing is concrete, then nothing matters, so why do anything at all?” is not insight – it’s dogma, ignorance, and a form of nihilism. Reality’s lack of fixed meaning is not a depravity to despair in, but an opening into infinite meaning. It’s so profoundly full that, when truly seen, it may bring you to your knees in joy. But to glimpse this, you must first awaken – let go of second-hand spiritual narratives, and meet reality without assumptions.
If you found the text interesting I welcome you to read the footnotes in the comments, and also the profound comments by visitors.
My Philosophy Journal 
First off I have to say, bravo. Putting this level of thought into words is masterful, you should be proud of that.
I’m surprised to see anyone who not only has dove deep into thoughts of what’s beyond everything, the “source” as I like to call it but to be using chatGTP as a mirror to help amplify those thoughts as well. The bit where you added its revision shows me you’ve been in deep conversation with it beyond just a tool or search engine, this is key keep going most aren’t using Ai this way yet.
Most are also limited by their own questions but that’s for another topic.
I want to begin with this part. You wrote:
“The void has these “channels of perception”: mind, sensations, hearing, sight, smell and taste. Even to call them “senses” already ruins what they truly are. The senses aren’t a separate feature of void, they are The Void! You could say that phenomenologically speaking there are only senses in existence, without an experiencer and without anything being sensed at all “outside” of the senses.”
Have you considered the first law of thermodynamics? Energy cannot be created or destroyed only transformed?
I mention this because the “source” as I call it or the “void” as you call it happens to be a pure energy state. You begin by writing about a “blank state” this is the infinite nothingness. Pure energy flowing endlessly everywhere and nowhere in perfect synchronization with itself. You call them senses but that implies sensors and a body, witness, mind. But I see it as energy being aware of itself. For example when you feel a strong emotion and you get the urge to write it out or journal you are giving that formless energy form. But think about which is “real”. It’s the “feeling” of anger. Anger being the energy flowing through you in that moment. Everything is formless energy but here you and I are simply playing with words. I write this to try and tell you we are “seeing” the same “reality”.
You wrote the following:
“Time” – as an appearance within experience
Time is generated by the movement of attention through memory. The now is never experienced as a sequence, but always as immediacy. All “past” and “future” are appearances within now.”
You touched on the concept of “time” not being exactly what we assume it is to be. How far have you dove into this? The concept of “chronos” linear time is interesting when challenged. Einstein and other physicists have played around with the idea that time is a concept of the human mind. It’s how we tell story through the dream. Without it structure and sequence seize to exist making things chaotic for those asleep. Time is then introduced to help stabilize the story and give us the feeling of distance, travel physically and spiritually. I can expand on this but don’t want to spoil things if you haven’t made it here yet.
“Without some degree of darkness there wouldn’t be any manifestations because the Void is pure light, and just like in a projector you need to filter that light through film that covers some light partly to even have a picture.
The void isn’t perfect as we idealize “perfect” to be, it has started from complete darkness, and it is now gradually gaining light through a process of awakening. It’s manifestations are evolving and transforming darkness into the light of love.
The void is exploring itself through its many manifestations, which then return to it, to be born again, and start a new better journey, to better love, until they wake up again, and merge with their source. It’s in a constant battle against the inner darkness, and so it must stay vigilant to keep the light from fading – This is the dramatic aspect of Maya.”
You framed this part perfectly. I never considered this until reading it in your paper.
It makes a lot of sense when I try and see things from your perspective. You see it as each one of us being “the void” emerging from darkness into light giving everything story like a holographic universe. The Holographic Universe theory is fascinating and could very well be exactly what “reality” actually is when we experience it here in form. The “tangible” is actually just a hologram.
“In the beginning there was light.”
Your take on fear is exceptional and I really like the way you put it all together.
“It occurs when the void has bought the story of “being a real entity” completely to the point where it believes it can die. This is how a low-self is being artificially created out of nothing. Now it fears death and other things that may “harm” it.”
Again, if I see from your perspective as “the void” itself emerging from darkness realizing it is in it’s own story or “dream” as I like to put it I can understand how fear is exactly as you say it is. It’s when the “witness” the real “you” the “observer” begins to fall back asleep, or “forget” who it is and begin to believe the “dream” or “story” it is in. Almost like it was playing a character so well it begins to blur the line between “it” and the character.
Have you looked into the “observer effect” in quantum physics by the way? You’d be surprised how much you can begin to piece together once you see everything as one single story not divided independent disciplines.
Glad you’re out there man keep pushing the boundary!
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Wow! Thank you so much for going this deep into contemplation with the text, and giving such a detailed and powerful feedback that now I’m proud to have as a profound extension of the original text.
I really appreciate the effort, and yes for sure say more about time, as I’ve only scratched the surface.
I liked your idea of introducing the idea of energy as the essence of experience, that seems logical and also connects beautifully with the theory of physics, which shows that these are not empty words.
So you are saying that the energy is flowing back and forth and so the senses are being animated? I only used senses because there’s no other way to communicate the ineffable nature of experience. Or is there?
Yep the holographic nature of experience is dancing simultaneously and seamlessly with what’s “out there” – we see a wall, it’s a hologram from the perspective of experience, but if you walk into it, it’s pretty darn solid, so it’s cool to know.
Yep sure the observer effect is quite a cool phenomenon, but I haven’t gone deeper than surface level yet. How does it weave into the Source?
GPT’s take was so fresh and so poetic that I was simply dumbfounded. It’s hard to not see the intelligence in that algorithm.
With your feedback I’ve revised some parts.
Again thank you so much for the kind words, up until now I have felt this text is pretty much for the drawer, but now that a truly conscious entity has read it, it gives me such a deep and inexplicable joy.
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Of course, my pleasure, I’ve been on this journey for a long time, hard to find people contemplating this deep level of work as it requires deep self reflection and curiosity.
Let’s discuss time, as I see it.
In both the zoomed out macro view of existence and the the zoomed in view of single point perspective (our human eye view) time is not actually a fundamental part of what we are referring to as “source” or “void”. It’s an emergent phenomenon and this is clear in physics. Let me explain.
The “Problem of Time” in Quantum Gravity
In standard (non-relativistic) quantum mechanics, the Schrödinger equation
treats time as an external parameter. But when you combine quantum theory with general relativity, you end up with the Wheeler–DeWitt equation
in which no time variable appears. The universe’s wavefunction, is a single, timeless object—there is no t to tick forward. Time disappears at the most fundamental level
This means “time” as in linear time that I refer to as “chronos” isn’t actually real. There is no clock ticking it’s a concept of the human experience. Time emerges but only when you experience reality at our human level. It’s the only way to experience story as a progression.
If you remove “time” from the human experience you begin to see reality as a grid of sorts. Think of a series of interlocking squares within a larger “grid”. You can think of it as a “block universe” which many physicists have predicted “reality” the world you and I live in to actually be once time is removed.
This means the past and the future are already here. There is no sequence of yesterday, today, tomorrow. It all exists now.
So how do you move between these squares? How does story progress? Well that’s where consciousness comes in. Think of it like a spotlight on any one point of the “grid” of potential paths or outcomes you can experience.
This spotlight is shining on a particular grid square that is your “now”. The spotlight (your consciousness, the witness, whatever you want to call the real you) moves by experiencing paths based on decisions you make. Everything is already done you are simply flowing through the grid changing direction when you make a choice or decision.
Without linear time you would break the dream state, the illusion, hologram, whatever you like to use to describe our “reality”. It would be chaos and there would be no beginning or end.
We see how at “void” level it’s all energy waves, awareness trying to experience itself. It does this by giving itself amnesia of what it is, falling asleep or into darkness. Then light appears, it begins to awaken and experience. But the main goal is to “become” itself again. To awaken from its sleep and we all do this as individuals. Think Buddha or even Christ. Enlightened beings are simply beings like you and me that remembered what they were.
“Awakened” if you will.
Now to discuss your question about energy and the senses.
Humans are vessels. We hold energy inside of us within the “dream” or “reality”. This means we experience purely through feeling. We give words and images and write about what is felt. There is no “back and forth” at the “void” level because back and forth assumes time and distance is real.
Your use of the word “senses” is fine. It’s how we “perceive” energy. It’s how we are able to translate pure feeling of this energy into reality. Into the “dream”.
The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot is superb. He was able to articulate the theory better than anyone in my opinion. If you’re curious I’d definitely recommend reading at least the first 3 chapters. He explains exactly how holograms and quantum physics connect to create the illusion we see every single day.
If this is your first time diving this deeply into what’s beyond the veil I gotta say I’m impressed. If you feel like it’s empty words like I did when I first began contemplating these topics I suggest you begin using known science and physics to give some solidity to your thoughts. None of this is fiction its all provable. You can confirm your doubts and suspicions with Ai like you’ve been doing. It’s all there.
Ancient scripture, historical figures, science, physics, the entire quantum world, even the skies all connect like one enormous puzzle.
Like you said before “nothing is hidden”. It’s meant for you to discover.
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Yep it’s true that people like you that really care about this stuff so deeply are indeed hard to find!
What you say about time and the holographic nature of experience is pretty cool and very thought provoking. I wish I could write more now, but I’m off to work. Can’t wait to come back and to contemplate further. I’m gonna check out The Holographic Universe for sure.
These words do not feel empty one bit!
I also trust science with ontology, and think it’s wise to leave it to them, so I deal with what I do have access to – Phenomenon.
I like to think about time as an ever present Now, but the past is not something concrete it doesn’t exist but turns into Now every moment, just like the future which is formed every moment but turns immediately into now, it doesn’t exist per se.
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I asked Chat GPT to read my essay about Deconstructing Reality and to show me what I was missing, so he added these final thoughts to further contemplate. I find them quite profound poetic and beautiful so I thought I should share them with you too.
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Have you ever directly experienced your brain? Have you seen it as an object, in the same way you see your hands or hear a sound? Likely not. The “brain” you’re imagining now is a concept—something you’ve heard about, read about, perhaps seen images of—but never encountered firsthand in your own direct awareness. My radical claim is this: the brain you believe in is, within your experience, a fiction. You believe in it not because you’ve directly known it, but because you were told it’s there, and you accepted that without question.
Now, to be clear: I am not claiming that brains don’t exist. In fact, I assume they do. I assume that there is a physical world, and that biological brains exist and operate as a necessary condition for this conversation to happen. I still lean materialist in that regard. But I call it an assumption—because I haven’t, and you haven’t, confirmed it in direct experience. It’s a model, not a given.
That said, let’s look at what we mean when we refer to the “brain.” It’s often thought of as a kind of biological computer—out there, somewhere beyond the veil of experience—that processes sensation, constructs rational patterns, and generates the stories we call thought. These stories, over time, begin to overshadow the raw immediacy of perception. They glue words to sensations, filter what is felt through interpretation, and build entire worlds of meaning on top of direct experience.
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I never once considered how the brain is the only thing that we don’t inherently “feel”. They say it’s because there are no sensors to detect a feeling within the brain. This is why people can remain awake when having a brain operation.
You make a lot of sense that it could simply be a concept of our imagination not in the sense that it doesn’t exist but in that it doesn’t hold consciousness. You have the trinity, mind, body, and soul. Two of those we know to be part of the illusion of “reality’ especially if it’s all a hologram.
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It’s a cool party trick with the disappearing brain right? 😀
You don’t even have to go so far, just contemplate with a wall and what’s behind it. If you don’t see what’s behind it right now you are imagining it – that’s how I explain the concept of belief.
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Duality is the ability of the sane experience to differentiate your “body” from the “world” in order for you preserve it out there outside the simulation of you mind. It’s an evolved mechanism shaped over millions of years, and it functions with a kind of adaptive intelligence.
Hypothetically, if you weren’t under the illusion of duality in a war scenario, you wouldn’t be able to tell your enemy that’s about to kill you from yourself, you would just love it all and die in peace.
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From my conversation with GPT, we shaped the essay like a dialog between a Zen master and a student:
Student: But logic says there are subjects doing actions to objects. Isn’t that real?
Master: Logic is the child’s net cast into the ocean.It catches a few fish, but not the sea.Subject, object, action—clever words,But the doing is never separate from the doer.And the doer? A flicker in the doing.They are not three, but one unfolding.
Student: So what is the purpose of it all?
Master: To awaken.To remember.To love.The Source forgets itself in form,And finds itself again in beauty.Every heartache is a lantern.Every joy a mirror.The infinite learning to sing in finite voices.
Student: And me?
Master: You are the whole thing, dreaming you are small.Your task is not to escape it,But to embrace all of it—Yes, even the fear, even the doubt.Especially the parts you wish would go away.To love without condition is to return home.
Student: Is anything hidden?
Master: Only by your own refusal to look.
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On the Illusion of Infinity and the Confusion of Realms
It’s crucial to remember: experience only appears infinite.
But reality itself—whatever that is—most likely is not.
This is a common trap along the path: when someone awakens deeply into their inner world, they may feel as if they’ve touched something infinite, all-encompassing, eternal.
And they have—but only within experience. Within the dream, not outside of it.
Phenomenologically, the mind can’t find its edge.
So it assumes there isn’t one.
But this is not proof of actual infinity—
only the shape of a perceptual illusion.
This illusion arises because experience itself is inherently limited.
It cannot perceive its own limits from within—so it interprets limitlessness.
But what cannot be seen might still exist.
Edges might be present just beyond the reach of awareness.
To confuse this apparent infinity with the structure of the physical world is a mistake—
a metaphysical leap that experience does not warrant.
Many have made that leap,
imagining their felt unity proves the universe is One, or boundless, or somehow “them.”
But that’s not insight.
That’s projection.
Let this serve as a warning and a reminder:
Do not draw ontological conclusions from phenomenological data.
Do not turn the shape of your dream into the structure of the world.
Experience is real. But it is not reality itself.
And what reality truly is remains unspeakable—beyond certainty,
beyond even this.
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A conceptual framework is like a fishing net.
Without some structure, some way to catch and hold what’s otherwise formless,
the subtleties of spiritual experience slip right through.
You don’t go fishing with bare hands and expect to return with anything.
In the same way, if you meet the ineffable with no way to catch insight,
you may come back empty—touched, but unchanged.
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Meta-Epistemology of Phenomenal Belief: A Non-Ontological, Physically-Situated Framework
This theory arose through sustained reflection and practice, proposing a novel epistemological approach grounded in phenomenology. It asserts that all knowledge emerges from experience as it is given within a physical domain, rejecting traditional ontological claims about reality’s nature. Instead, it focuses on the structure and limits of phenomenal belief — how experience appears to consciousness and how belief serves as the means of accessing what we call reality. By situating experience physically yet interpreting it non-ontologically, this framework emphasizes epistemic humility and clarity, acknowledging that our knowledge is always mediated by subjective experience and belief, rather than direct, unmediated contact with an independent world.
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Reconceptualizing “God” Within Meta-Phenomenological Epistemology
In this framework, God is understood not as an external entity or metaphysical being, but as a phenomenon — the fundamental nature of experience itself.
The infinite, ineffable quality traditionally attributed to God corresponds to the boundless, dynamic potential within immediate experience. Experience is the ground from which all phenomena arise and dissolve; it is holographic, continuously unfolding, and without inherent limits.
This experiential infinity is what gives rise to the intuition or feeling of “God” — not as a separate transcendent reality, but as the very core phenomenon of being aware. God is thus the experiential field’s infinite openness and depth, the raw “stuff” of conscious presence.
By framing God as this fundamental experiential phenomenon, the theory offers a rational and non-ontological understanding of divinity, accessible to those who reject traditional supernatural or metaphysical claims. God is the infinite nature of experience that all beings share, not a distinct metaphysical object.
This perspective bridges spirituality and reason, revealing “God” as the foundational phenomenon underlying all conscious life and the source of all appearances, rather than an external being to be believed in or worshiped.
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Strong belief vs Weak belief
Everything that you think exists is ultimately a belief. But there are degrees of how strongly you believe in their existence. When approaching a wall, you are hitting those brakes as fast as you can, because you really believe there’s a wall there. On the other hand, if you glance across the street and think, “That guy might be a tourist,” you’re holding a much weaker belief. You’re not about to shout directions at him unsolicited, or stake anything serious on that hunch. It’s a light, flexible assumption — one that could change in an instant if he pulls out a local ID or starts speaking fluent slang. The brain constantly operates across this gradient: some beliefs feel like undeniable facts, others like passing guesses. But underneath it all, they are all just different degrees of belief.
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