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DP'd on South wrote while it for a

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question for Bernardo while I do love

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full-blown idealism I think we know what

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he means it does fail to get to grips

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with the whole range of unusual human

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experience

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reincarnation etc it's one thing to say

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that consciousness is fundamental it's

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another thing to say ok what does that

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mean for these extended consciousness

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realms that we keep bumping into and how

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do though how does that ontological

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shift allow us to better explain what we

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seem to be observing there I will answer

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this directly but can you give me like

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10 seconds just to make an observation

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before I sink my teeth into the question

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I think you know before we even get to

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extraordinary experiences and and and

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the paranormal there is a challenge here

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to explain to normal the ordinary

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because the ordinary in the normal are

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not explained under mainstream physical

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is more mainstream materialism there is

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no explanation for why we feel the

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qualities of experience why we see red

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why we feel warmth why we feel

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disappointment there is nothing about

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mass momentum a charged spin in terms of

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which we could deduce phenomenal

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properties what we experienced in

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consciousness so there is an enormous

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gap for explaining the normal that's why

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I focus on the normal since the

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paranormal is the next step we haven't

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explained even a normal yet if you look

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at the extraordinary things that are

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mentioning the list and the ease spirits

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I think with the exception perhaps of

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aliens they all have one thing in common

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which is that consciousness doesn't stop

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upon physic

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Oh death the death of the body and that

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is something that is inherent indeed to

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idealism if consciousness is fundamental

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if it's not just an epiphenomenon or

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something generated or constituted by

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particular arrangements of matter in the

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form of a brain and if those

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arrangements then dissolve the

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consciousness dissolves as well if

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instead consciousness is fundamental

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then it cannot disappear because it's

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what there is it has nowhere to go it

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has nowhere to disappear into its death

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out of which everything arises so

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consciousness itself cannot disappear

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but then the question becomes but what

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is the form of that consciousness

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because clearly my own personal

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consciousness is not all-encompassing

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and not aware of what's going on on the

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other side of the galaxy I'm not aware

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even of your thoughts just across the

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globe I'm not aware of what my

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girlfriend's thinking downstairs and I

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know what the neighbors are watching on

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television so clearly my personal

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consciousness is very restricted and yet

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I'm saying that consciousness is the

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ground of all existence so I think

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what's important for people to

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understand is that idealism is not

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solipsism the claim is not that all

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nature happens as my own personal dream

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the claim is that nature itself unfolds

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in consciousness but consciousness is

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transpersonal it extends beyond my

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personal consciousness and my or yours

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personal consciousness is a dissociated

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complex of universal consciousness and

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if we could call it that way and if life

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is what these dissociated complexes of

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universal consciousness look like what

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is death death would be at the end of

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the dissociation it would be the

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reintegration of what we consider to be

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our personal consciousness into a

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broader more basic matrix of experience

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that corresponds to the universe at

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large and in that sense what I am

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positing here does support the idea that

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consciousness continues to what degree

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of dissociation it continues as it's

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still personal

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nests is it's individualized in some

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form I don't know perhaps if it is then

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there is grounds to talk about what

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people refer to as spirits but in one