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Medical and Spiritual Qigong (Chi Kung)
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Home › Forum Online Discussion › Philosophy › Alan Watts: Dream Your Life, while pretending you are Not God
Watts is a talented philospher, even though he died young from alcohol and hated the imposed discipline of alchemical Taoism. – m
BEST “GOD”—> 66% Worldwide, Best Loved / First Born ONLY
“The World Factbook gives the population as 7,095,217,980 (July 2013 est.) and the distribution of religions as Christian 31.50%, Muslim 22.74%, Hindu 13.8%, Buddhist 6.77%, Sikh 0.35%, Jewish 0.22%, Baha’i 0.11%, other religions 10.95%, non-religious 9.66%, atheists 2.01% (2010 est.)”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Binding_of_Isaac_(video_game)
http://https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f6/The_Binding_of_Isaac_screens
BEST “GOD”—> 66% Worldwide, Best Loved / First Born ONLY
“The World Factbook gives the population as 7,095,217,980 (July 2013 est.) and the distribution of religions as Christian 31.50%, Muslim 22.74%, Hindu 13.8%, Buddhist 6.77%, Sikh 0.35%, Jewish 0.22%, Baha’i 0.11%, other religions 10.95%, non-religious 9.66%, atheists 2.01% (2010 est.)”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Binding_of_Isaac_(video_game)
http://https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f6/The_Binding_of_Isaac_screens
Nice theory.
Except that it sort of considers things from the perspective that only the self is real and other individuals in the world are merely parts of your own dream. It’s very narcissistic to assume that only you–the self–is the only real soul.
Unless every other individual just happens to be having and sharing the same dream and having the same playing field (but what are the odds of that happening?) . . . but then–if true–this means that we are all in The Matrix, perhaps by choice.
Did you read “The Enlightenment” book I posted on this Philosophy forum previously?
S
It’s very narcissistic to assume that ONLY you are the real soul.
And it is also very narcissistic to assume that YOU are the real soul.
Especially as the perennial wisdom is that YOU are false, until a great transformation occurs in you; your death leads to the awakening of the soul … resurrection. Most people these days skip this part.