Thread: Solipsism

Yes, I personally like the Matrix metaphor. It's probably the simplest way of explaining it.

Similar is described in the Castaneda series about gaining energy to 'see'. I've never met anyone who has done this. Theoretically I suppose it's possible.

there is the all, I am but a piece of, yet I too am the all

If I am blind I see nothing, yet I feel and it hurts to run into things.

If I have lost the ability to touch do I feel nothing, indeed I hear nothing.

when the smell of apple pie is no more, I lose my apatite.

without the sense to perceive surroundings there is only all.

Tolka, I suppose you would have to remap the boundaries of Logic. The astral isn't logic, especially if a person can fly or change shape. Yet, perhaps it is only a higher logic or a separate logic or perhaps we have limited the definition of Logic? Personally I believe 'magick' is just a higher form of Logic, such as why it may be referred to as "divine genius".

Yes, a chair is concentrated energy within the laws of this plane. What is behind the set then?

I do agree it is all within Science, or moreso, it is all within Nature, within the Universe as a Whole. I have a rather pantheistic view of it.

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
Eleanor Roosevelt

Mind over matter really works, in my opinion. For a very long time I've considered imagination a divine aspect of any being with such. We can imagine limitless things in a seemingly limited universe, and why is that? I think it is something to meditate upon.

I think a master mage has the ability to live life without having the environment or outside perceptions influence peaceful thought and appreciation. It is difficult for me to put in words. I haven't reached that level, lol.....but, it usually only takes one insult or rudeness to change a person's day, but to be able to be so willful as to not even consider it, would be amazing. Not the same as ignoring it, or pretending like they just didn't insult you, but to actually realize the truth of something greater always.

I've been spending a great deal of my personal study around meditation and the astral. I think that imagination is an aspect of the astral since it can be modified to whatever we want it to be and because of that I agree with Knight, imagination is a divine aspect hid in everything with a consciousness.

Originally Posted by Tanemis

I've been spending a great deal of my personal study around meditation and the astral. I think that imagination is an aspect of the astral since it can be modified to whatever we want it to be and because of that I agree with Knight, imagination is a divine aspect hid in everything with a consciousness.

Wouldn't this question remain anyway: is the astral only part of your mind too?

Maybe, but thats where a Wiccan (no I'm not one but I like the maxim) "As above, so below" comes in. As the universe is, so it is in my mind.