. Sure that "I am" Yes, very sure.
What else should I need ???? What use is fear or doubt of our ability to declare "I am" It's real ............. . On 30 June, 14:58, jp EnlightenmentGuy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 30, 9:13 am, Marcus <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Yes ............. but not quite. > > > This scientific fact does not include conscious awareness. > > > Because conscious awareness remains ineffable to science. > > Yet we all clearly enjoy its reality. > > I think you are talking about the Mind-Body > Dichotomy:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind-body_problem > > This is the BELIEF that there is something super-special, woo-woo, > humans are not just animals, we are special, I have free will, there > is "something" about a person that makes it different from all other > things in the universe, Man was created in God's image, etc, etc. > > Why was Galileo imprisoned? Because he committed heresy. What was the > horrible, blasphemous thingy he suggested? That the Earth is NOT the > center of the universe. BLASPHEMY! > > When a human-thing suggests that there is NOTHING special about humans > at all, that is BLASPHEMOUS! > > Same thing. (challenging the BELIEF that humans are NOT the center of > the universe!) > > You say that we all CLEARLY enjoy an ineffable conscious awareness. > > That is CLEAR, isn't it? > > That is THE ENTIRE POINT OF SPIRITUALITY: To question the most > fundamental assumption about yourself, and actually, totally, > completely, come to a conclusion. To KNOW, most definitely not to > BELIEVE. > > There is a belief in the mind of almost every human that has ever > lived that it is self-aware, autonomous, has free will, etc, etc. > There is a belief in almost every mind that a human *exists*. > > That is the most fundamental assumption. That IS the sense-of-self. > That "I" exist. > > And that is what all spirituality is guiding 'you' to examine -- is > this "I" that I think I am really real? > > Are you sure?
