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Convoy opening scene
"Arizona, noon, on the 7th of June, when they highballed over the pass.
Bulldog Mack, with a can on back, and a Jaguar haulin' ass."
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Drifting and Dreaming of You by Valerie Carter
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Valerie Carter (1953-2017) sings Drifting and Dreaming of You from the 1975 film, White Line Fever. According to Wikipedia, Steve Winwood's song "Valerie" was reportedly about her, as was Jackson Browne's song "That Girl Could Sing." I've never been a big fan of country music, but have always loved this song since first seeing White Line Fever on TV around 1976 or '77.
Franklin Merrell-Wolff's enlightenment, in his own words
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Franklin Merrell-Wolff (1887-1985) was a Stanford- and Harvard-educated mathematician and philosopher who, in 1936, had two mystical realizations a little over a month apart. The first realization came after over 20 years of deep engagement with Sufi and Hindu traditions, especially the works of 8th Century Advaita Vedanta sage Shankara. Wolff considered this first realization to have been ever...
Two naturalistic afterlife ideas
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This is a reading of my short essay of the same title, which, along with other short essays on related topics, can be found at: sites.google.com/view/ponderingsofsomeguy/home Thumbnail pic is AI generated. #death #naturalism #consciousness #philosophy #psychology #neuroscience #afterlife #samharris #tomclark
Fuel tanker trucker at work
Просмотров 612Год назад
Click " *...more* " below *↘* for full explanatory text. Scenes from the loading, transport and unloading of fuel. Recorded summer 2010 and originally posted to RUclips in September of that year, in a slightly longer version with different music. The first segment (0:00 to 1:30) is at the fuel loading facility, known as a "loading rack." This segment shows just the first parts of the loading pr...
Diana Canova - "My Cup Runneth Over" (1978)
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Diana Canova (Soap, Fantasy Island) performs "My Cup Runneth Over" on the TV special Perry Como's Early American Christmas (1978).
Sam Harris on a secular form of immortality (Generic Subjective Continuity)
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In this excerpt of a talk from his Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris discusses how the purely subjective aspect of consciousness has a continuity that elides any gaps in experience, including - quite possibly - the gap of death. To illustrate this, he quotes extensively from philosopher Tom Clark's essay "Death, Nothingness, and Subjectivity" (naturalism.org/philosophy/death/death-nothingness-an...
Sam Harris & Jim Newman wrestle with the paradox of no-self (excerpt)
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Is neo-Advaita a valid expression of nondual truth or a psychological trap and semantic minefield? From Sam Harris's conversation with Jim Newman. The full 100 minute discussion can be found via subscription to Sam's Making Sense podcast (samharris.org/podcast/). It's one of his Waking Up dialogues and is called Wrestling the Paradox. After the release of the full dialogue, Sam added an introdu...
Sam Harris & Adyashanti discuss self-inquiry & awareness (excerpt)
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Adya details some of the strategies and methods he uses to guide people toward insight. Sam, drawing on his insights from Dzogchen practice, brings up some of the frustrations that are commonly encountered in that exploration. They discuss the importance of discerning the content of awareness from the context of awareness. The full conversation can be found via subscription to Sam's Making Sens...
Mariel Hemingway interviews Jerry Wennstrom
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“In 1979, Jerry Wennstrom, a rising star in the New York art world, destroyed his paintings, gave away his possessions and money, and began consciously to empty himself of his identity. By letting go resistance to whatever life would bring, he was led to the heart of the miraculous.” (Blurb from the back cover of his book, The Inspired Heart: An Artist's Journey of Transformation, which is disc...
Willies by Phil Heywood * acoustic fingerstyle guitar
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From the book/CD Winfield Winners: The National Fingerpicking Champions 1979 - 1994. Phil Heywood was the annual contest's first prize winner in 1986.
Timberline by Charles David Alexander * acoustic fingerstyle guitar
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From the book/CD Winfield Winners: The National Fingerpicking Champions 1979 - 1994. Charles David Alexander was the annual contest's first prize winner in 1992.
Nostalgia by Werner Drexler - solo piano
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Slow, moody piano piece played by Werner Drexler. Vaguely reminiscent of Erik Satie and Frédéric Chopin, as well as Thomas de Hartmann. From a German piano compilation titled Piano Impressions.
Sam Harris & Rupert Spira debate the primacy of consciousness (excerpt)
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Does epistemological primacy equate to ontological primacy? That is, does the fact that consciousness is the most immediate and foundational basis of knowledge mean that consciousness creates reality? That's what's discussed in this clip. The full 90 minute interview is available with a subscription to Sam Harris's Making Sense podcast at samharris.org/. That will give you access to all of his ...
Willa (1979) female trucker movie
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Low key, made for TV movie from 1979, starring Deborah Raffin as a waitress and single mother who pursues her dream of becoming a truck driver. This is actually one of the more realistic films with a trucking theme, and one of my personal favorites. Also stars John Amos, Cloris Leachman, Clu Gulager, Diane Ladd, Nancy Marchand, Mary Wickes, and a 7 year old Corey Feldman in one of his first rol...
J Michael Donaldson Psychic Party, Houston Texas July 28, 1992
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J Michael Donaldson Psychic Party, Houston Texas July 28, 1992
Once I found Osho I had recognition. Once I found Rupert I knew Sam was lost 👁️
Sam made Rupert look like an idiot here
OM-en.
Antinatalists saying that it's better to not exist need to listen to this. It proves that idea false.
I wouldn't say it "proves" anything. Sam is certainly persuasive and makes an excellent case for the validity of GSC. And as I've said here and elsewhere, I'm certain it's true - albeit from having stumbled into the insight on my own over 20 years ago. But it's not like there's a formal proof the way there is in mathematics. Regarding the "better to not exist" idea being false, for me the whole asymmetry thing is academic precisely because of my certainty that's it's not possible to opt out of existence, however much one might wish it were. I actually just went back and re-listened to Sam's two-hour conversation with David Benatar. As is often the case in my experience, I found myself seeing validity in both sides of the argument, although this time I found myself leaning slightly more in favor of Sam's view, specifically around the antinatalist position giving disproportionate weight to suffering. On the other hand, I don't think that considering it "better" to not exist requires there to be someone for whom not existing is better. Yes, it's clear that many people tend to reify non-existence as either a state of deprivation (if they're afraid of it) or rest/peace (if they look forward to it), but a preference for not existing doesn't _automatically_ or _necessarily_ entail reification in order to have some validity, even if it's also true that many who embrace it do harbor such a reified view. (For the record, I don't think Benatar himself is committing the fallacy of reifying.) The reason I say that can be illustrated with an analogy I've come to on my own, but which Sam also uses (in the same context) in his conversation with Benatar: when I'm exhausted and achy after a long, hard day of work, I look forward to the oblivion of deep, dreamless sleep. I don't need the promise of waking up refreshed in the morning to goad me into sleep, or to make going to sleep seem more attractive. Nor do I need the promise that I will feel some relief happening in real time while asleep. Rather, _oblivion itself_ - i.e., the complete absence of "me" or any form of subjective experience - is actually what's sought. The fact that I will very probably wake up at some point more refreshed, as has happened countless times before, is perfectly fine with me, but is beside the point in this case - because the point is effectively to vanish, however temporarily. I think this can be extrapolated to wishing for oblivion at death, even if the principle of GSC suggests that any such oblivion (i.e., of personal identity and history) won't be what so many folk either hope for or fear.
@@_PL_ I don't see how not existing can offer anything if all life is what's desired to be avoided, but GSC doesn't allow for any life to be avoided. Remember that Benatar is saying that all life in general is "bad" and not worth it. So if no life can be avoided, then his AA is thawrted.
@@naturalisted1714 _"I don't see how not existing can offer anything if all life is what's desired to be avoided"_ The point is that for someone who believes in the unicorn of non-existence, the total absence of experience is the goal. The fact that the person who's presently desiring non-existence won't exist to know or enjoy their own non-existence is exactly the point and the goal for them, even if you and I agree that it's impossible (or, to state it more conservatively, highly unlikely). _"Remember that Benatar is saying that all life in general is 'bad' and not worth it."_ I know, and that's why I said previously that I sided with Sam in disagreeing with that sentiment. _"So if no life can be avoided, then his AA is thawrted."_ I think we might be talking at cross-purposes. It's already been established that you and I agree that experience can't be avoided, which I would say (and I suspect you would agree) renders his asymmetry argument moot. But for someone who doesn't see validity in what GSC is pointing to - that is, for someone who truly believes there is no subjective continuity and that absolute non-being is a real possibility - Benatar's asymmetry argument would not necessarily be invalid.
@@_PL_ That's the flaw in their thinking that they need to accept - if they're naturalists... But no matter their worldview, GSC would mean that not being born also makes life unavoidable. Are you suggesting that I shouldn't introduce them to GSC, so they can continue to believe in the unicorn of non-existence? Based on what I hear from most Benatarian antinatalists, they believe not existing is somehow peaceful or an unending perpetual lack of experience. So they're asserting things that aren't true, and spreading this delusional take. Benatar doesn't know it, but to say it's better to not exist is also saying that not existing is peaceful. I don't think they want what you say they want. They have been clear that the goal is absolutely no experience whatsoever. Many have conceded that reincarnation would make their version of antinatalism pointless. I have asked many antinatalists if they could have been/were born as anyone or anything else in the universe, would that be ok? They always say that, no, no life will do... Not even the best life in the world, since it too contains some suffering. They're being completely consistent with Benatar.
@naturalisted1714 _"Are you suggesting that I shouldn't introduce them to GSC, so they can continue to believe in the unicorn of non-existence?"_ Not at all. If that's what you think my replies were about, I'm afraid you've completely misunderstood me. I tried to be clear that my main point of divergence from you is this: _"...to say it's better to not exist is also saying that not existing is peaceful."_ I've listened to Benatar closely, and read a bit of him as well, and I never got the impression that his argument should readily lend itself to an interpretation that not existing is peaceful, or anything else in the realm of experience. If that's what people you interact with take away from the idea, that's due to their own failure of comprehension, perhaps coupled with wishful thinking. His analogy about how nobody feels bad about the lack of life on other planets should make it clear that a complete absence of something isn't the same an an experiencing of lack or voidness or whatever. So, in short, by all means keep plugging away at disabusing people of their confused reification of nothingness. My only pushback is about how you seem to think such reifying *directly follows from the asymmetry argument,* which I think is false for the reasons I've elaborated both immediately above and multiple times upthread. Moving on, you seem to be saying two contradictory things here: _"Based on what I hear from most Benatarian antinatalists, they believe not existing is somehow peaceful or an unending perpetual lack of experience."_ and here: _"I don't think they want what you say they want. They have been clear that the goal is absolutely no experience whatsoever."_ The latter is exactly what I was saying in both of my previous replies. Go back and carefully reread them. The former is the reified version of not existing that I've also acknowledged many believe in. I other words, some people want to vanish completely, and others want peace or rest. Incidentally, your most recent comment that I'm responding to now doesn't show up under the video or in the original thread we've got going here. It seems YT might have shadowbanned it (not the first time they've done that with one of your comments here). I'm only able to see it in my YT Studio. All the previous comments of yours in this thread show up as they should under the video and in my alerts. Weird.
That was a pretty good flick
When challenged by Harris, Spira refers to scientists as dishonest and lacking integrity. This is pretty pathetic and shows that he's unsure of his own teachings.
Rebuttal to Sam's last question. The nothing (no-thing) state of consciousness induced by anesthesia is the ground of consciousness, a non being state. There is no being to be or to have an experience. They have been put to dreamless sleep. Total Consciousness is a non experience. It's a 0. Any experience that can be perceived or remembered can only be had/experienced in the presence of something which imposes a being or to be-in something which is a form and by definition a limit of consciousness, an imposed self awareness of consciousness. it's a 1. This is the great paradox that is consciousness. The identification with being is the limitation that distorts the non-being which is true unperturbed consciousness. Hindus call this Brahman(unknowable/ transcendent consciousness)and Atman(obtainable from within). This is non dual. They are both the same.
This is a great and touching movie. I love the storyline and the classic trucks in it. There's just one thing that gets me and throws me off at the end. I looked at the muffler behind the sleeper on the Yellow and Black KW (nice rig too) at 1:34:40, and it threw me off about some. Is it in the middle or on the passenger side? I can't really tell that well because of the angle and the distance in that shot. Sorry for sounding rude and nosy, I'm just curious and interested. Still love the movie. And again, is the muffler behind the sleeper on the Yellow Kenworth at 1:34:40 in the middle or on the passenger side? please leave you opinion or answer. If you don't know, I'll understand. Please, Thank you and Keep On Trucking. 👍
I agree with Sam and disagree with Spira. There is no Lord over us. No father over us.
Great movie 70s.🎉
Master and pupil. Can you imagine Sam in conversation/ debating with BERNARDO KASTRUP?
moral of the story, from a bystanders perspective, both arguments at first glance can be equally plausible. The real question is, which perspective and model for life and existence brings more harmony, love, and joy to our life and the lives of others around us? By experience, it certainly isnt the materialist world view. From a bystanders perspective, is it not interesting to explore an alternative that has so much benefit as opposed to the clearly distorted, unexplainable and unclear concept of matter that by nature causes separation and suffering in ones life? I mean.. What is there to lose by exploring the alternative? There's only unconditional happiness to gain and empty ideas to lose. How curious. How intriguing. Just a thought.
I see 2 business men Nothing more
Nice try, but uneven. Just a loong, booring ad for women's lib
Simple version of the whole thing: 1.) observer and the observed are separate 2.) "i observe my mind" 3.) so what is that "i" then? i always assumed it was part of my mind
Fabulous work! Diana has achieved the honorable. A wonderfully well-rounded entertainer.
It's this reason I took care of my grandkids for God daughter when dead beat dads would help; I praise God God daughter woke up.
One of my greatest influences, and one of the few "heavy weights" among the modern, especially western realizers.
Sam at 18:40 for the win
I enjoyed the experience 🦜. There is a bond forged between members of the same occupation. Truckers, military, law enforcement, etc. share hardship which develop into a feeling of belonging as in a family relationship. 🦜
Do the raindrops look at the hurricane and say there is a small hurricane in each raindrop?
Ten four, Rubber Ducky! 🦆
The comments here are so incredibly dogmatic and pretentious. As if it's such a preposterous idea that the material world preceded consciousness. Perhaps consciousness is simply a mechanism organisms developed so as to provide a stake in their own survival. OH NO HOW NARROW-MINDED! OH NO SAM HARRIS NEEDS TO WAKE UP! OH NO ROBERT IS SUCH A ZEN MASTER PHILOSOPHICAL NINJA!
Perhabs, but there is no evidence that anything exists outside consciousness.
You’re still assuming there’s a material world outside of consciousness, that’s your assumption.😂😂
@@scienceisthekey-bs2184 Ah, I see you are yet another random guy who has it all figured out
I don’t think either of these guys are as good as me at discussing this fecal matter
Neither can be proved
One can, you have never experienced anything outside of consciousness, that is a fact
Gorgeous voice!
Notice that "mad hatter harris" steers very clear of Bernardo Kastrup. Lol... How 1 of the 4 horseman lost his horse. Book title there Sam. Numb nuts.
Logic vs. being. Linear vs. non-linear. Content vs. context.
Why do you have to call yourself something “Adyshanti”. Rhinestone glasses.
I think Sam is just being extra careful about the topic. This is not to say that Rupert’s argument isn’t clean, but I can understand and respect Sam’s carefulness to jump the gun on certain metaphysical claims as an established neuroscientist. No matter how attractive this brand of idealism seems, we have to admit that belief in it changes our understanding of everything in drastic ways. Very interesting!
The universe wakes up when consciousness does, until that point it does not exist, because consciousness is existence. It is born with consciousness and dies with consciousness, because only the mind generates time and space to know form. All time and space is contained in the eternal present, it collapses into that vertical point, while the illusions of mind imagine that it is occurring as a sequence of time-steps. This is the ego projecting itself, imagining it has continuity over time. Even if all humans died consciousness would not be interrupted, as it would immediately continue when the next species or alien life form wakes up, even if it were seen as billions of years in the material world(only as understood by the conscious entities after the fact by analyzing the form).
The curse of knowledge. Until your being has reached a certain level your mind cannot comprehend at that level. It's an awful truth.
Disheartening that the conversation is beyond a paywall
sam is a hypocrite... makes claims like he knows something all the time... does here as well... love how he makes up new english words though!
I’ve been meditating now for two years, and while I understand much of what Jim is saying, I hope my own unknowing never leads me to talk like this. Words still have meaning, as imperfect and imprecise as they are.
Sam, when 10 bazillion people see the same thing in often in unique ways, the idea this is just speculation is specious. And frankly highly ignorant thinking on your part. Was Rumi speculating? Was Kabir? Was Ramana Maharshi? Nisargaattada? Come on. Really.
Is this real or AI?
I made a post here or comment that I need to redress. I agree with everybody here that Sam Harris is a dimwit. Kind of like Jordan Peterson when he had a discussion/debate with Matt Dillahunty. Having said that though I have known and looked into the philosophy of non-duality and listened to Rupert Spira for several years now among others and I find that such philosophy is in the end just some kind of philosophical illusion, just a sort of mental abstraction in the end that people convince themselves of. It is a mental mirage.
"I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness." Max Planck
We are one eternal consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no death, life is a dream in which we are imagination of ourselves. Bill hicks
Embarrassing 😬
Understanding open individualism makes it easier to understand GSC
I watched this with my parents and my brothers in 1978.
While it is true what Jim is saying, recall the old Zen saying, mountains were mountains etc., and I get the sense that Jim is missing the final step along this trajectory, he’s still on the stage of mountains are no longer mountains; otherwise there would be no difficulty in playfully engaging with Sam’s discourse rather than opposing it, and there is a very clear sense of opposition here (contradicting the very premise of non-duality).
Sam needs to do a long dry fast alone in the forest.. This is life..he is like a little kid cuddling his ego..a waist of time
Adyashanti is the best teacher out there. Imo.
this dude sounds like tries to recite tony parsons teaching
Don't cry Harrassment.. Just fix the problem. Lol.
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How can one point with words to what is beyond words. This is some stunning verbal acrobatics, especially by Sam, but Rupert clearly has a greater depth of understanding.