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hi my talk is the subject science of

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subjectivity key to understanding the

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nature of reality our scientists can

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easily become involved in timid projects

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which always succeed but never advance

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the best part of science derives from

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the imagination and creativity which

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contribute to it no less than to the

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arts certainly we'll have no new

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knowledge at all unless we continue to

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foster ideas which shake present beliefs

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Dewey told us that every great advance

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of science has issued from a new

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audacity of imagination these quotes are

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from dr. Ian Stevenson a revered

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co-founder of SSE who himself had the

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audacity to study phenomena such as

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reincarnation

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the first quote speaks to what might be

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called ordinary science which typically

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fosters an objective only approach to

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the scientific quest for knowledge the

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second and third quotes represent those

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I'm Stein type genius aha moments that

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are the hallmark and basis of

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breakthrough science the kind that

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shakes present beliefs and can result in

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new knowledge this type of science since

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it depends on imagination and creativity

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is rooted in insight and intuition the

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basis of which is well a kind of

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high-level subjectivity about which

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relatively little is known in Western

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science such genius aha moments are seen

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as rare unpredictable and uncontrollable

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occurrences of some brain function

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that's simply not yet understood what's

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the scientists to do to help to clear

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the way for more great advances in

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science objectivity and subjectivity are

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in separate from the perception of

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reality as is obvious in their

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definitions objective being something

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that's in the realm of sensible

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experience independent of individual

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thought perceptible to all observers and

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subjective a characteristic belonging to

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reality as perceived rather than as

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independent of mine how much of visual

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perception is about what's outside your

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head and how much is about what's inside

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your head contemporary neuroscience

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researchers reflecting on about a

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half-century of an enormous amount of

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investigation into visual perception

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can't understand why so relatively

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little progress has been made some such

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as Bruno Olhausen of UC Berkeley

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concluded that the model emphasizing the

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study of the external visual stimulus

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solely or primarily is problematic and

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that's something more than was ever

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suspected must be coming from inside the

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person in the form of not only memory

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but if some seemingly learned

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pre-existing information but from where

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many contemporary neuroscientists

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believe that there's a need not so much

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for more data in this case in this study

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of pattern analysis but for better

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theories that might help advanced visual

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perception research to this and oles

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housen and his colleagues have

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hypothesized that the cortex essentially

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contains a probabilistic causal model of

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the environment and that sensory

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information is interpreted and

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represented in terms of this model ron

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research is in areas such as spatial

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perception and visual attention and in a

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recent interview in New Scientist rn6

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states in sensory perception especially

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vision what you're experiencing is

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largely the product of what's inside

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through your eyes but it's not directly

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reflecting it Graham Lawton the author

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of the new scientists article states

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given the basic features of your visual

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system it couldn't be any other way

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between blinking about every five

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seconds and the rapid eye movements or

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cicadas that go on in the waking state

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to compose images of our external

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objective reality we don't actually see

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anything for about four hours a day our

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conscious attention is not focused

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externally we don't visually perceive

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anything for hours in our normal normal

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waking state and we don't even notice

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that so where are we during that time we

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as physical brain are still there but

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what if subjective we what are we as the

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conscious being doing then considering I

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blink alone closing the eye produces

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changes in brain wave state and some

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evidence exists that the greater the

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number of eye blinks the higher the

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dopamine level and the higher the

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dopamine level in turn corresponds to

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higher states of consciousness

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Melchior and Colby state that a basic

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question in cognition is now how visual

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can produce a stable continuous percept

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perception begins anew with each visual

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after a saccade while it's not known how

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the brain takes these millions of

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them a leading theory is that the brain

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makes a prediction and then the eyes

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psychotic movements are being made in

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order to verify it Ren sync notes we

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create something internally and then we

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perception even though we pretty much

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believe that we see everything that

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enough we'll see our objective world

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clearly accurately reproducibly every

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time or so states the definition of

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objectivity but contemporary

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something else so what is perception and

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Lawton states in an overview sensory

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figment of your imagination it seems

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stimulus doesn't simply interact with

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light and register its image in our

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brain even though we do think this is

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how we're doing it we create according

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to neuroscientist so much internally

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representation of the world we

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basis while awake essentially

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visual perception but we're certainly

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not aware of it so we're in the state

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where the aha moments originate are not

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conscious of it and yet are using this

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inspiration or intuition that results in

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breakthrough scientific discoveries but

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specialness and greatness of so rare of

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such a discovery so being in the aha

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awareness of it that's rare in short

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possible states involved from a

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different perspective let's look briefly

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at a particularly elegant Eastern

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century called Kashmir Shaivism

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Kashmir Shaivism is rich in theory about

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the nature of ultimate reality and is

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also known as a psychology of absolute

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consciousness a brief overview would

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include its model of manifestation of

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the universe and a human being the model

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to be the Gateway to Kashmir Shaivism

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bottom the physical world is the brain

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mental realm and the realm of the

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limited individual perceiver here the

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mind is located and from here down to

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top box in the top box is described and

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reality where manifestation begins in

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imminent aspect of ultimate reality or

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one-time creation but instead an ongoing

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rolling out of the absolute as the

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universe the absolute becomes the

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universe yet remains transcendent so

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everything is consciousness and

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ultimately subjectivity

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Kashmir Shaivism could also be called a

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science of subjectivity yet higher in

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the in the scheme of Kashmir Shaivism is

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the transcendent aspect of the absolute

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this supreme subject is both

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transcendent and imminent at the same

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time the description of ultimate reality

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at the imminent level just before the

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process of manifestation begins sounds

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somewhat familiar like the description

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of the ultimate cosmic singularity that

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gave rise to the Big Bang according to

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general relativity the initial state of

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the universe at the beginning of the Big

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Bang was a singularity here matters of

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an infinite density all forces are

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united and infinite time space and

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natural laws do not exist the

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implications are rather mind-boggling

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giving new meaning to the phrase human

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potential and a powerful slant on the

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goal of human evolution comparing the

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definitions of Kashmir Shaivism in

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Western science both the universe and

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human beings are in their essential

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nature cosmic singularities but

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conscious one's hearing is also all

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knowledge all power and we are there a

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lot of the time this is the real source

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of the aha moments Kashmir Shaivism

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seems to suggest a profound answer to

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the scientists question of what else is

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in there in your head contributing to

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visual perception none other than a

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cosmic singularity the Kashmir Shaivism

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scholar dr. bian pandit states and

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experienced at that first moment of

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perception is just a simple reflection

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of an object as it is in itself it is

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not at all touched by any mental idea or

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any word image it's the mind of an

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experiencer that imposes on it the ideas

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of name and form in the next moment this

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experience is a knowing accompanied by

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the ideas of a definite name and form

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and pandered further notes the ordinary

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mental calculations of a person are

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based on past impressions and constitute

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people are not ordinarily aware of the

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absolute unity of the self existing at

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the moment of the beginning of a direct

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for most of us our conscious awareness

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is typically in the realm of the mind

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and on down and the individual limited

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perceiver the objective world including

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thoughts as objects is what we're aware

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of most of the time it's said that one

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of the many ways to eventually realize

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the aha state within ourselves is

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through simple perception catching hold

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of the first moment of any perception

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staying there and following that impulse

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that creates the perception back to its

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source remaining in a thought free state

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while experiencing a simple perception

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direct perception that's one way to

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develop conscious awareness of the state

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said to be our birthright a renowned

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change of another Eastern tradition

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vedanta said that eventually all of

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humanity will live in this state but we

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can get there now through yoga practices

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and he didn't just mean the physical

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exercises that we have all these studios

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for in the West this that source is

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actually a natural place to be when you

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write talks or books and you feel

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yourself reaching up inside somewhere

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for that next piece or idea that's just

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out of reach chances are that's where

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you're reaching then after you get the

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insight that direct perception in an

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instant it can take you an hour to hang

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on to it and write it out before you

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fall back out of it anybody ever have

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that happen usually by some distraction

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some random irrelevant intrusive thought

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or by objects in the environment like a

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growling stomach or a hungry pet sports

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practitioners are there when they're in

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the zone and there are other examples

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so in conclusion ironically one way to

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move objective science forward is to

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study in a profoundly subjective science

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and develop an awareness that is in the

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states of intuition and creativity a

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Western scientist and a Great Eastern

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sage once had this conversation

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scientist the Western scientific notion

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is that the scientists must never let

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his feelings be a part of the experiment

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because of this the scientists never

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permits himself to seek an experience of

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his own mind his unconsciousness Eastern

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sage it is necessary for scientists to

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experience their own reality through

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meditation

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and other spiritual practices once we

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experience inner truth directly through

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meditation it becomes easy for us to

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perceive the truth in the outer world

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and to understand nature's secrets and

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mysteries perhaps then with such an

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understanding will experience an

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increase in the audacity of imagination

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that will lead to a more vigorous

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shaking of present beliefs and produce

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volumes of that new knowledge so highly

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valued by dr. Ian Stevenson thank you we

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thank you Mary oh that was terrific as

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you were speaking I was reminded of

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something I've been reading about lately

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which is the practice of William James

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that in the 19th century he and his and

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a few of his colleagues would regularly

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anesthetize themselves go deep into a

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state of etherized unconsciousness and

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then experience as they came out of that

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unconsciousness exactly what you're

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describing that first perception that

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brand-new that whole that oneness and

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his enthusiasm about being in that state

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drives him all the way through all the

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literature and the psychological of

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philosophical traditions that you know

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that we understand him to be a

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contributor to and what he was doing

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primarily as a direct experience er was

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making him hell itself go to that single

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singularity and then return to the

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multiplicity of the world thank you

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there was a line at the bottom of one of

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your charge that basically said that the

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conscious mind and subjectivity is

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embedded in the universe in other words

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the universe arises out of subjectivity

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or it is subjective

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I'll make a proposal that the conscious

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mind through a process that I call

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coherence becomes form space and time

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and this is where I think objectivity or

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the appearance of jacobi arises below it

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is the consciousness your comments I

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think there are fortunately a lot of

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for me Kashmir Shaivism

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I've studied a lot of Eastern traditions

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and a lot of Western science and it

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holds one of the most complete

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explanations and I'm not sure exactly

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what your question my if there's a

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question about it but as far as your

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comments I think it's important to have

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many different ways of looking at things

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it's certainly not the only way I mean

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even in in to the point of people who

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become realized beings there are many

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many many paths that people can follow

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to become that and in fact one of the

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Eastern Swami's of the Eastern tradition

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states that it's more the the students

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effort almost then it is what it is that

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the student is studying and as long as

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that effort is there and that creativity

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about it I think speaks to what dick was

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saying to it will get you places in in

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with ideas in the world that that one

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didn't even imagine before I guess the

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question embedded in my comment was do

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you see a way that objectivity could

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arise out of the subjectivity of

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experience instead of dumping all of the

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universe in as a subjective experience

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how does objectivity arise

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I proposed a method that that could

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happen okay yes I don't disagree with