Are we all one consciousness? (1 of 2)

[assassinbbx]

You probably leave subliminal messages in your videos because I love them Darryl....or the first Darryl I meet in life. :)

[darrylsloan]

@RoyalPSI Six foot three inches, maybe four. Tall. :-)

[TheMarioface]

Just a question regarding conscientiousness. I agree with what your saying just 1 part I do not understand. You are saying conscientiousness is something inside you saying I am me: could it not be your brain functioning allowing you to believe you are you?

[AlgeKalipso]

I have a problem with 'being' in the phrase "we are spiritual beings having a human experience'. I think I get what you want to say, but that word is probably misleading: it implies yet another substance behind our consciousness. In the philosophical community, what you are saying resembles very much the "extreme claim" of personal identity proposed by Derek Parfit. He suggests we look at consciousness from a constructive reductionist perspective (as opposed to eliminitave redcutoionism).

[TheObserver2012]

maybe consciousness re-constructs these entities (are loved one's) for comfort after we the body dies...i like the way you think my friend thank you for sharing your thoughts.

[GlobalDating]

those are brilliant logical deductive points darryl. but how do you explain that many people who have NDE's report seeing their deceased loved ones during the experience in the light?

[darrylsloan]

@GlobalDating Many people claim many things. One of the principle thing that the brain does when it's not working properly is hallucinate. But I'll refrain from any firm convictions until I've researched NDEs.

[GlobalDating]

@darrylsloan type in "pam reynolds" in youtube and watch the video about her case. it's considered the best case for NDE's because her brain and heart had clinically stopped during her NDE. regarding hallucinations, psychologists NEVER address exactly WHERE the images during hallucinations come from exactly and what forms them? have you figured out the answer to that? could they be from other dimensions? when your brain is half asleep you perceive different things.

[GlobalDating]

@darrylsloan some of these NDE's occur when the brain is shut down with a flat brainline though. watch on youtube "interview with dr jeffrey long". he has studied 1300 NDE's and presents in his book 9 lines of evidence why NDE's are not hallucinations or due to oxygen deprivation. here is the link: v=um9GjWkM5kw check it out. it's very fascinating. he says that these people see their deceased loved ones during an NDE.

[Marlonfpa]

the All is Mind.

[romerieger]

He is like that jedi master from star wars! Obi wan!

[darrylsloan]

@romerieger Actually I used to have the nickname "Chewie", probably because of my height and general lazy-ass lack of shaving. :-)

[KISSAproductions]

i should say i enjoy this Irish accent x)

good topic

lots to think about

[Ilamarea]

Concept of soul came from times when our understanding of process taking place in our brain and overall body, were slightly... none.

So soul equals overall bilogical, physical, chemical etc. procceses taking place in our brain/body which after our death, flys to the heaven... read: is gone, stps its existence etc.

As too conciousness. It is altered by same process. You may alter someone unconcious and or unselfaware by damaging his/hers/its brain.

[Ilamarea]

You have male or female "soul". You see yourself as male or female. Example: "Soul of women prisoned in male body" equals transsexual.

Noones conciousness goes anywhere after death. It is not something to believe in, it is something you may lie yourself about if your afraid of death, dont like this life etc.

The way it begun, was that primitive humans did not understand the fact of death. By which i mean.. theyr beloved still "lived" in their memories. Meaby this is this whole heaven of your's.

[Ilamarea]

In description you say "You might be surprised at what you can learn about your inner self purely by logical deduction, without reference to any religious dogma."

Which means that you simple lie straight into our eye's. The terms "spirit" "soul" etc, is acctaully religious and dogmatic.

Just how did you come up with "soul" throught logicall deduction?

You can not seperate "soul", self awereness, conciousness, body. They all consist on who you are, with "soul", conciousnes and mind being one.

[Nacluw]

Well, soul is not necessarily a religious word. I see soul and consciousness, awareness meaning the same thing. I know of myself. There is your definition for soul. I know myself. I know I am. Can you explain that with brain chemistry? What has happened is religions have hijacked the word soul, and use it to control people. "Do this or ur soul is gonna burn etc." And whereever in our society we hear word soul it's got mostly something to do with religion while it actually has nothing at all.

[OmegaChaos90]

@Nacluw True indeed.

I once asked on google what atheists believed in.And I was thinking "Man this is stupid I already know".Turns up on Yahoo Answer two atheists said they believed and witnessed the soul but didn't believe in god.At the time that was striking because the mainstream atheistic community had set up this zealous image of not believing in the soul.Thats one of the main reasons I see atheism as a religion.They got too carnied away with contrasting themselves that it went the othr way

[Nacluw]

@OmegaChaos90 Hi my answer was 6 months ago I've grown spiritually alot (not religiously) since then. I recognize this that looks trough my eyes as spirit itself. And I got so far when meditating that I could feel my body is like a vehicle I control. I don't look at my body trough the mirror alot anymore. I don't have to worry about what people say anymore and defend my world view cuz I see it myself now:) It's quite nice freedom.

[mUniChCDN]

where is ur accent from?

[darrylsloan]

Northern Ireland

[hellchaser11]

What is it exactly you said what happens after you die? You don't save your gender but save memories or something like spiritual experience and just float away?

I think, death is not good and not bad. You don't see any blackness in your eyes, you are not scared you don't have needs, you don't have body to be scared or to feel anything so there is just nothing after you die. If you saved your conciousness there would be no point for you to exist with no body anyway.

[leobody]

I would suggest you to do smaller videos.

[psychedSlim]

I have heard many people think, that everyone is connected with everything even as far as one being is the same as another. What you are saying is that soul and body can be thought of as entirely separate entities. Does it really matter if we think of ourselves as soul with a body or soul-body system? How could be benefitted from thinking one way or the other?

[darrylsloan]

How you think of yourself has a great impact on your behaviour. To think of the core of yourself as body, or body-soul-combo puts "ego" to the fore, breeding such attitudes as selfishness, and the ability to disregard or condemn others. Whereas, when you understand that the core of you is deeper than your outer ego (especially when you understand we are all "one" beneath the surface), it allows for true unconditional love.

[sylentknyte]

I find all of your analogies fascinating. You seem to be a really smart guy with a lot of the thoughts you are presenting well thought out. However I would like to bring up a point you made about how our personalities are shaped by our body and not our soul.

The thing that makes me think this is untrue is one simple word, and that is choice. Why is it that when you put two people in the exact same situation they make different choices?(I will continue this in another text box)

[sylentknyte]

What makes some good and some evil? It has to be more then a primary instinct of the brain. For example I am in high school now and I pride myself on making what I think are the right choices. I stay absent of drugs, smoking, drinking etc because of the obvious harm, while my peers that are in the exact same environment as me usually cave in and give into what they think other people want. If I only followed what my instincts were then would probably be doing the same things as them.

[sylentknyte]

I know that this doesn't sound like the best argument as its hard to put my full thoughts into these little text boxes. But I think that while personality may be shaped by our environment, circumstances or instincts but I also think theirs something more in us all that would make it so that if you took two people, gave them the same environment, circumstances or instincts they would probably do something different then one another.

[darrylsloan]

I don't understand how choice has anything to do with personality. Personality may dictate behaviour, but sometimes the choices you make might be specifically because you wish to overcome certain undesirable personality traits. Personality allows for behaviour patterns to manifest - it's like automatic pilot. But choice itself comes from consciousness.

[daveparry]

Isn't personality a label for predictable behaviour?

Behaviour is an outcome from the body/mind, body/mind being a conduit for the dance of universal consciousness. Choice comes from the body/mind fused within consciousness, all as one and 'past conditioning' is why we make different choices.

[darrylsloan]

Good and evil is a misnomer. What is important is choice and the consideration of the consequences. No one is born evil. We are born with the ability to make choices and the ability to judge the consequences of those choices.

Some of our choices will help, others will harm. That's the essence of what we call good and evil.

Evil exists simply because the duality of consciousness exists.

Consider this (if you're religious): is there's no sin in heaven, how can there be free will in heaven?

[alanstarkie2001]

mind/soul combination is problematic. The mind is wrapped around the human, self awareness, knowledge, personality, feelings, sex, children, relationships, colour, temperature, temporal awareness etc. When dead - all of this is stripped away but I suspect we are left with something. I've often thought that this would be unrecogniseable from a human perspective but still something. Does anybody get what I mean?

[darrylsloan]

I get it. When you strip all those physical things away, you tend to ask, "What the hell's left of me?"

The solution is to realise that you are incorrectly identifying your sense of awareness with the "mind". You need to move your sense of self to Infinite Consciousness. Understand that you are everything that was, is and will be, limited by body and mind that allow you to experience separation from your full magnitude.

Death, then, is an expansion of awareness, not a losing out.

[bandzajus]

you are very good at explaining, even thought i have same opinion and ideas, i could never express and explain them to others

[darrylsloan]

Thanks. I've written essays about this stuff already, so that always helps to clarify things and make expression easier.

[SlashTheGuitarist]

My only problem with your ideas are that, if your personality is lost with death then does that mean that we would just be floating around as consciousness, not knowing or remembering anything, just being aware. If that's true then what's the point of life if we lose everything we knew afterward, its like being in a coma.

[darrylsloan]

The answer lies in understanding that the experience of being human and possessing a mind/brain is an experience of limitation. The brain, including the personality, are just things that allow the vast consciousness that you are to function in the five-sense physical world. When you shrug these things off at death, your consciousness will be expanded, not lessened.

I feel an attachment to my personality, too, but it's not "who I am." Under the surface, I am consciousness, infinite and eternal.

[SlashTheGuitarist]

Yeah but if I wanted to expand my consciousness, I would want to keep all the information I had ever acquired so I would have a better understanding of how life works and the universe. I just remembered another thing. If ghosts are real, (which I do believe so) then why have they held on to their memories instead of going on and leaving all that they had in life behind as well?

[darrylsloan]

Everything happens in an eternal present, which means that all of the experiences of everyone are accumulated, without the drawback of limited memory recall. But each life requires duality from all others in other to be a new experience, and so we go through each life with a blank slate.

Ghosts point to the view that there is at least one other layer of awareness beyond mind before we get to Infinite Consciousness - a discarnate soul, in others words, which will continue to experience.

[darrylsloan]

Happy to have helped. :-)

[itsabomberscope]

You might of heard of the TV analogy in relation to the brain. If you measured the electrical activity in the TV set, you may well conclude that the TV is the originator of the picture & sound. As we know the source of the picture and sound, is an external signal which is transmitted and decoded by the TV.

I wonder if its the same with the brain, we can measure it and check the activity - but how do we know if its being made in the brain or decoded.

Cheers.

[darrylsloan]

It's a great analogy. I would only differ on one point: the brain itself is all part of the "transmission," since it's part of the physical universe. We are consciousness having an experience of limitation from our totality.

[DatSkinnyWhiteGirl]

i usually agree with you ... but i feel as though animals lower than us are not self aware... so would that mean they have no soul?

so when i take other animals into consideration i can start to "break down" as you say, self awareness.. those who have the brain compacity TO be self aware and those who do not. which limits self awareness to a complex brain function.. and that is all it is.. a physical brain function that we have evolved enough to acknowledge

[raggamm]

I completely agree with you, but what you said begs a question. If self awareness is a physical, complex brain fuction we came to acknowledge through evolution - then did we fabricate a soul by the brain interacting with the spiritual realm? (Assuming self awareness is linked with the soul) OR is the soul itself something entirely different, and NOT self awareness - something we cannot even begin to fathom?

[raggamm]

In that situation, I'd have to go with the latter, that the soul is completely beyond our means of thinking we can't begin to understand it.

[fellowtuber123]

What do you believe will happen to you or your consciousness when you die?

[darrylsloan]

That question is worth a whole video to answer. :-) It's hard to answer quickly because I have a different understanding of "time" from most people. When you understand that the only that exists is NOW, it transforms your outlook on death. Gonna expand on this one in a forthcoming video. :-)

[PraiseShemp]

Stopped at 4:25.

In order to make any sense out of this video, you have to define "soul" for me -- so that it makes ANY sense to me. Hasn't happened yet. It remains the vaguest, most nebulous term possible.

The human brain is the single most complex thing as yet known in the universe. Your ASSUMPTIONS about it are as useless as mine would be.

[itsabomberscope]

The way I would define it, if "define" is the correct word, is a sense of self awareness.

What creates that property of awareness - i.e. the ability to observe our internal chatter. The awareness seems to stand before the thoughts.

For instance when you wrote your post, you had the awareness of commenting how you wanted. You could discern what to write because of the awareness of your mind.

So does the brain create that awareness?

I dont really know, but thats half the fun!

[darrylsloan]

The purpose of the video was to define "soul" by showing how it differs from "mind." I can't start out with a definition when I'm working towards a definition - especially with something as slippery as "soul", something that not everyone is convinced even exists.

[elderblackpuddin]

Everything that is physical changes, not perishes.

[darrylsloan]

True, from an energy point of view. Instead of perish I could have said "deconstructs from its present form." Either way, the end result is the same: the body & brain as we see it is gone.

[elderblackpuddin]

I disagree. Gone as we see it is not the same as gone, which I think you're implying. The sum of the parts still exists. I don't think it's fair to just dismiss that.

[darrylsloan]

Well, the point I'm sort of making is this: take a sledge hammer to a stereo, and the stereo's not going to work anymore. The "perish" I'm talking about is the deconstruction of a functioning organism (the biological human being) into a less complex set of organisms (dust).

[Riyuzakisan]

This is a very interesting topic. Very good video you make some great points from the different perspectives.

*****

-Ryuzaki

[bgrist18]

soul+human brain=mind?

[darrylsloan]

Not quite. I would say mind=brain, soul=consciousness, and consciousness uses mind/brain as a tool to experience the physical realm.

[Daniel092004]

Interesting views on the subject. I really admire your perspectives.