The information of the Universe is already in us

[Swami]

In this discussion, I wanted to provide scientific evidence for the view that we are all omniscient but don't "realize" it. Under my worldview, the world is just a dream. It is constructed and maintained by our mind. If the Universe is a mental construct, then all of the information contained in it is already in the mind. This is precisely what science is pointing to. In the articles I will post, the researchers openly admit that 'savant' level abilities may lie dormant in all of us and that is because of the condition known as acquired savant syndrome.

What is acquired savant syndrome?

Acquired Savant Syndrome refers to cases in which savant-level skills emerge after a brain injury or disease in previously healthy individuals where no such prodigious skills were evident beforehand.

https://smartdrugsmarts.com/episodes/ac ... -syndrome/

What are some of the known savant-level skills?

Considering all the abilities in the human repertoire, it is interesting that savant skills generally narrow to five general categories: music, usually performance, most often piano, with perfect pitch, although composing in the absence of performing has been reported as has been playing multiple instruments (as many as 22); art, usually drawing, painting or sculpting; calendar calculating (curiously an obscure skill in most persons); mathematics, including lightning calculating or the ability to compute prime numbers, for example, in the absence of other simple arithmetic abilities; and mechanical or spatial skills, including the capacity to measure distances precisely without benefit of instruments, the ability to construct complex models or structures with painstaking accuracy or the mastery of map making and direction finding.

Other skills have been reported less often, including: prodigious language (poly-glot) facility; unusual sensory discrimination in smell, touch or vision including synaesthesia; perfect appreciation of passing time without benefit of a clock; and outstanding knowledge in specific fields such as neurophysiology, statistics or navigation.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2677584/

For Discussion..
1. What is your experience or understanding of this ability? Do you accept that it proves that we are omniscient?

I'll answer first.

I've already explained how this fits into my worldview but let me also explain experiences of omniscience and how to acquire it. I know when many have meditated on a deity, that they had momentary experiences of omniscience. All that they thought on - the information or answers for it would just rush in naturally. But then it would not last long and some of the information is not remembered. However, where some would say the information was not "remembered", I would rather say the information is no longer "realized". This is because the person is no longer in the meditative state that allows access to omniscience.

Let me explain further for the skeptics. All of the information of your life experience is contained in your memory even if you can't recall it. What is not readily accepted is that your memory or mind also contains all of the information and experiences contained in the Universe and not just that of your own experiences. As I hinted to earlier, meditation can be used to access this level of our memory or mind. Science already proves that meditation can expand your field of consciousness when it makes you more aware of the unconscious level of your mind. And we also see here that scientists already accept that an omniscient mind exists, but they are not yet open on using meditation to unlock it.

Do you see why I believe that Western materialist science is holding back mankind from their real potential?

[Swami]

This "meditation" is nothing more than overactive imagination. Or it is simply replaying an event in your mind so that your memory is triggered by what you remember. And that is the best case scenario.

Any knowledge that does come from "meditation" the act of clearing your mind would come from demonic spirits that will eventually drag your soul to hell, to put it in Carmon's terms.



Any knowledge acquired through meditation will be acquired because of one of those two reasons.

I will offer my perspective but I will not respond with anything more unless you are willing to experience for yourself.

Meditation is an objective method.
- It's a method or practice that anyone can use to experiment with. It's also repeatable.
- It removes the mind and senses out of the picture when their inputs are cleared and silenced so there is little to no room for mind and senses to cause distortions.
- Meditation allows for 'direct experience' of anything. While in your pure conscious state you can merge with an object and become it. This allows you to experience something as it is. As analogy, consider how your consciousness is merged with your body and mind and how you have a direct experience of both.

Western science can not give you this type of knowledge because it is limited by the mind and senses. This will become more apparent in the next section.

Meditation leads to objective knowledge
- Knowledge of consciousness. Since meditation leads to 'direct experience' of consciousness, in that you experience it as it is (without filter of the mind and senses), then you gain knowledge from the experience. You experience yourself as boundless, formless, and pure awareness.
- Knowledge of anything else in the Universe. Having direct experience of anything beyond yourself, like a rock, also reveals knowledge. When you become the rock you experience awareness, solidity, being heavy, no thoughts, no feelings, etc.. All of these things are involved in the experience.
- Knowledge of ultimate reality (which goes with 1st point). Once you have a direct experience of everything, you realize a pattern and that is that awareness is always involved. Therefore, everything is conscious. When you begin to experience that you aren't limited to the rock or your body, then you realize consciousness transcends all matter. It is primary. You can make that rock move just as you make your body move.

The biggest error of Western materialists is not knowing the place of consciousness in nature. You can only know this once you understand the nature of consciousness which is going to take more than just understanding its "correlations'. You need a direct experience of it!