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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J there is actually nothing new, promising or exciting about it at all.

I think you're essentially right on all counts, and that's actually why I find it more interesting than anything 'exciting' or 'promising' or 'new'. Things like that tend to be distracting and limited temporally. I prefer simple, self-evident, and timeless...

I've always felt that Reality or 'truth' ought to be rather boring - like that old saying 'nothing new under the sun'.

however, I think that exciting and new things will still come out of scientific inquiry under the influence of nondualism, as scientists begin to devise experiments and devices to examine the world as inseparble from the scientists themselves. I don't think any of us here are knowledgeable or insightful enough to know what those experiments will be and what exciting new things would come, but I think it is fairly obvious that there exists plenty of uncharted scientific territory in this area, more specifically related to consciousness.

Now another question is whether these 'new' and 'exciting' things are 'important' or just another distraction keeping us from appreciating the world for what it really is

Last edited by nefardec on Oct-28-2009 at 06:43