What Happens When Your Brain Says You Don't Exist

Re:What Happens When Your Brain Says You Don't Exist by 7erb on Friday July 31, 2015 @04:34PM (#9984286)

Everything that defines the self such as experiences, thoughts, and even our physical appearance is ephemeral and intangible. There is no particular thing to hold on to. It's all in a state of flux.

That may seem obvious, but to conceptual thinkers like myself, experiencing non-duality (no-self) and "Thusness" (as Alan Watts calls it) is difficult. It's why I designed subliminal posters for meditating: http://zission.com

Here is a specific poster for nonduality http://zission.com/product/words-inside-outside/

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Re:What Happens When Your Brain Says You Don't Exist by colordrops on Friday July 31, 2015 @05:24PM (#9984605)

The text on the poster is unreadable, at least on my Galaxy S4.

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Re:What Happens When Your Brain Says You Don't Exist by 7erb on Friday July 31, 2015 @05:29PM (#9984634)

The words are almost transparent for a reason. When the words are hard to read, the conscious mind becomes preoccupied with the image and the message imprints directly to the unconscious. It's a technique known as Critical Factor Bypass.

EDIT: This comment is becoming transparent too. Your conscious mind will ignore them because they are hard to read, but your subconscious mind is about to make a choice... about deepening your meditation... and feeling a growing sense of confidence... about buying my posters...

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Re:What Happens When Your Brain Says You Don't Exist by pavel_lishin on Friday July 31, 2015 @05:40PM (#9984695)

[citation needed], preferably in a format both my conscious and unconscious mind can parse.

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Re:What Happens When Your Brain Says You Don't Exist by 7erb on Friday July 31, 2015 @05:45PM (#9984722)

Critical Factor Bypass is a well known technique in hypnotherapy, and I could provide tons of links. That said, it's an experimental project and has been extremely beneficial for me. I thought I'd share.

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Re:What Happens When Your Brain Says You Don't Exist by pavel_lishin on Friday July 31, 2015 @05:53PM (#9984749)

> I could provide tons of links

Please do!

> That said, it's an experimental project and it's been beneficial for me. I thought I'd share :)

That's cool, but when you make vague claims that sound kind of like pseudo-science, you should go ahead and provide citations and links and stuff, otherwise people think you're a nutter.

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Re:What Happens When Your Brain Says You Don't Exist by 7erb on Friday July 31, 2015 @06:04PM (#9984788)

Western Journal of Medicine Oct. 2001: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071579/

Hypnotic trance—A deeply relaxed and focused state with increased suggestibility and suspension of critical faculties.

The same article then goes on to say meditation and visualization techniques are used to induce trance. Zission combines both: http://zission.com

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Re:What Happens When Your Brain Says You Don't Exist by j_camarena on Friday July 31, 2015 @08:26PM (#9985293)

"A ton of links" is not one. Just saying.

This screams pseudoscience all over the place.

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Re:What Happens When Your Brain Says You Don't Exist by pavel_lishin on Friday July 31, 2015 @08:51PM (#9985358)

> I said I could provide a ton of links. I didn't say I would.

This is exactly the kind of stuff pseudo-science wackos spew.

Books are 100% judged by their covers.

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