Sam Harris
Appearances
Candace
ENOUGH! It’s Time For Jordan Peterson To Clean His Own Room | Candace Ep 181
What I fear about the way you talk about religion is that at the end of all these conversations, I'm still not sure what you believe on that point, frankly. And if I'm not sure, no one out there is.
Candace
ENOUGH! It’s Time For Jordan Peterson To Clean His Own Room | Candace Ep 181
But how about a best guess?
Candace
ENOUGH! It’s Time For Jordan Peterson To Clean His Own Room | Candace Ep 181
What did you do? What did you switch to? Or what did you eat rather?
Candace
WOAH! Shannon Sharpe Names His ‘Jane Doe’ Accuser. Is This The End Of #Metoo? | Candace Ep 180
But I want to start with the intervention you attempted to perform on our mutual friend Joe. I hope he's still a mutual friend. That remains to be seen, I guess. Yeah. And his sidekick, Dave Smith, over on the podcast. Because I thought what you attempted there was fantastic and much needed. I mean, this was a kind of moral intervention, which I thought was very important to do.
Candace
WOAH! Shannon Sharpe Names His ‘Jane Doe’ Accuser. Is This The End Of #Metoo? | Candace Ep 180
I've been attempting my version of it, not directly in dialogue with Joe, but I certainly would do that as well. But what, you know, it was, I thought... What she said was quite brilliant and important, and I think there are probably a few crucial points that were misunderstood.
Candace
BREAKING NEWS: Justin Bieber Is Exposing Hollywood. | Candace Ep 127
So this email came in on December 31st at 1042 a.m. That is Tuesday. He said, in case I do not make it to my decision point or onto the Mexico border, I am sending this now. Please do not release this until 1 January and keep my identity private until then. First off, I am not under duress or hostile influence or control. My first car was a 2006 black Ford Mustang V6 for verification.
Candace
BREAKING NEWS: Justin Bieber Is Exposing Hollywood. | Candace Ep 127
What we have been seeing with drones, he puts that in quotes, he says, drones is the operational use of gravitic propulsion systems powered aircraft by most recently China and the East Coast, but throughout history, the US. Only we in China have this capability. Our OPSEN, that's operation center, our OPSEN location for this activity is in the box below.
Candace
BREAKING NEWS: Justin Bieber Is Exposing Hollywood. | Candace Ep 127
China has been launching them from the Atlantic from submarines for years, but this activity recently has picked up. As of now, it is just a show of force and they are using it similar to how they use the balloon for SIGINT and ISR, which are also part of the integrated comm system. There are dozens of those balloons in the air at any given time.
Candace
BREAKING NEWS: Justin Bieber Is Exposing Hollywood. | Candace Ep 127
The so what is because of the speed and stealth of these unmanned aircraft. They are the most dangerous threat to national security that has ever existed. They basically have an unlimited payload capacity and can park it over the White House if they wanted. It's checkmate. U.S.
Candace
BREAKING NEWS: Justin Bieber Is Exposing Hollywood. | Candace Ep 127
government needs to give the history of this, how we are employing it and weaponizing it, how China is employing them and what the way forward is. China is poised to attack anywhere in the East Coast.
Candace
BREAKING NEWS: Justin Bieber Is Exposing Hollywood. | Candace Ep 127
I've been followed for over a week now from likely Homeland or FBI, and they are looking to move on me and are unlikely going to let me cross into Mexico, but won't because they know I am armed and I have a massive VBID. Let me pause right there for a second. So he says a massive V-bid. When I was talking to the FBI yesterday, they didn't know what a V-bid was.
Candace
BREAKING NEWS: Justin Bieber Is Exposing Hollywood. | Candace Ep 127
I had to explain what that acronym meant, literally. You f***ing dead serious. I said it twice and he goes, you said that.
Know Thyself
E142 - Merging Science & Ancient Wisdom “We're All One Consciousness” (Compilation)
The conventional sense of self that people are walking around with is an illusion. Virtually everyone feels like they are a thinker of thoughts, an experiencer of experience, looking out at a world that is not them.
Know Thyself
E142 - Merging Science & Ancient Wisdom “We're All One Consciousness” (Compilation)
There's a few things I believe that are, that I believe pretty firmly here. One is that The conventional sense of self that people are walking around with is an illusion which can be discovered to be such. So you can inspect it to the point where you no longer feel that way in the same sense. And it's not to say that you would never use the word self again or that you find yourself –
Know Thyself
E142 - Merging Science & Ancient Wisdom “We're All One Consciousness” (Compilation)
to be the same as other people or you can't differentiate yourself from the world. I mean there are things that don't happen but it's important to just say at the outset that this is worth looking into because psychologically it's incredibly helpful and I think ultimately ethically it's incredibly helpful to come to some understanding that what you take yourself to be subjectively
Know Thyself
E142 - Merging Science & Ancient Wisdom “We're All One Consciousness” (Compilation)
moment to moment matters and can be the linchpin of really all of your unnecessary suffering, right? So it's worth looking into. So the feeling of self that I think most people are walking around with by default is the sense that there's a subject interior to the body that is the thinker and doer and true agent of conscious life. So it's not that people feel identical to their bodies.
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E142 - Merging Science & Ancient Wisdom “We're All One Consciousness” (Compilation)
They feel almost like passengers in their bodies. They feel like they have bodies. Now, I think there's a lot of rational people who don't believe that to be true. If you tell a scientist that he doesn't feel identical to his body, he might object because he knows himself to be conceptually identical to his body.
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E142 - Merging Science & Ancient Wisdom “We're All One Consciousness” (Compilation)
He knows that if he doesn't believe in an immortal soul that can be separated from the body, well, then he believes that he's identical to his brain and the totality of what it's doing neurologically in his body. But as a matter of experience... nevertheless, most people, whatever they believe, they feel that they're not quite identical to their whole body. They have hands.
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E142 - Merging Science & Ancient Wisdom “We're All One Consciousness” (Compilation)
They can imagine being without hands. And that sense of dualism extends really to everything they can notice about their physical bodies. And I think most people would imagine that Even if they're materialists, what they are as conscious agents is a matter of what the brain is doing.
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E142 - Merging Science & Ancient Wisdom “We're All One Consciousness” (Compilation)
And if you could have a brain transplant, you would expect to go with the brain and not remain with the body, right? So if you took my brain and put it in another body, I would expect to move over there. At minimum, people feel like they are their brains, but... experience doesn't give us any evidence of even having brains, right?
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E142 - Merging Science & Ancient Wisdom “We're All One Consciousness” (Compilation)
Much less that the brain is relevant to the nature of consciousness or the nature of what our minds are doing. So it's worth differentiating what people conceptually know about the biology and the mind's dependency on the brain and what they feel subjectively and just phenomenologically how they move through life.
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E142 - Merging Science & Ancient Wisdom “We're All One Consciousness” (Compilation)
And there I think virtually everyone feels like they are a thinker of thoughts, an experiencer of experience, a subject very likely in the head behind their eyes, looking out at a world that is not them, that is separate from what they are as conscious agents. And in some sense, that world includes the body. And the body can malfunction. You've got a pain in your knee.
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E142 - Merging Science & Ancient Wisdom “We're All One Consciousness” (Compilation)
And you feel as the subject, not identical to that pain, but in relation to it. And you're resisting it from a point outside the pain. You are receiving pain. the pain as a kind of locus of consciousness. You can pay attention to it. You can try to be distracted from it. And then the pain can draw you back. And yet you are up here somehow as a subject.
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E142 - Merging Science & Ancient Wisdom “We're All One Consciousness” (Compilation)
And if you do a practice like meditation or something like mindfulness and you inspect that feeling of dualism where there's a sense of a subject that can pay attention
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E142 - Merging Science & Ancient Wisdom “We're All One Consciousness” (Compilation)
to experience and then get distracted by thought and then come back and pay attention to experience, that sense that there's a place from which you can focus and then be, that's the meditator, that's you now trying to meditate, that dualism gets maintained even in our spiritual efforts to recognize something about the illusoriness of the self.
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E142 - Merging Science & Ancient Wisdom “We're All One Consciousness” (Compilation)
I mean, there are many people who are practicing meditation even quite diligently and even going on retreats, silent retreats for 10 days at a stretch or more. And yet still they feel like they are the observer of experience now. They're the one being mindful or struggling to be mindful. They're the one who gets concentrated on the breath or on a mantra or it can be any practice really.
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E142 - Merging Science & Ancient Wisdom “We're All One Consciousness” (Compilation)
And yet there's still this dualism of... Consciousness feels like it's a kind of spotlight of attention that you can aim from a place in the head at experience. And ultimately... that's an illusion. Ultimately, if you pay close enough attention, you recognize that there's only experience as a matter of subjectivity. I'm not making any claims about
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E142 - Merging Science & Ancient Wisdom “We're All One Consciousness” (Compilation)
how consciousness relates to the universe, or that it was here before the Big Bang, or that there's no physical world. We can leave all that aside for the moment. I'm happy to talk about that. But I'm just talking about what is available to experience if you're really paying attention, if you really notice what is happening moment to moment.
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E142 - Merging Science & Ancient Wisdom “We're All One Consciousness” (Compilation)
And the crucial difference between dualism and not, and ultimately suffering and not, is at bottom... identification with the stream of thought that's arising in consciousness. So it's just a fact about us that we're thinking basically every moment of the day. We're having a conversation with ourselves. We're remembering the past. We're anticipating the future.
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E142 - Merging Science & Ancient Wisdom “We're All One Consciousness” (Compilation)
We're subtly or grossly failing to make actual contact with the present moment because Everything is being conceptualized and rehearsed and reiterated and reacted to, judged, et cetera. And it's through this sort of scrim of thought that everything is perceived.
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E142 - Merging Science & Ancient Wisdom “We're All One Consciousness” (Compilation)
And even one's initial efforts to meditate and break through to something non-conceptual gets bent and conformed to this pattern of thinking. Now you're thinking that you're being mindful. Now you're thinking... Oh, now I need to pay closer attention to the breath. And oh, why did I get distracted?
Know Thyself
E142 - Merging Science & Ancient Wisdom “We're All One Consciousness” (Compilation)
But that sense of self that seems to persist even as you notice thoughts arise and then you come back to the object of meditation and you notice thoughts arise. There's still this undercurrent of thinking that's not being fully inspected and fully released. And so ultimately, it was a very long-winded way of answering your question.
Know Thyself
E142 - Merging Science & Ancient Wisdom “We're All One Consciousness” (Compilation)
Ultimately, the sense of self that I think most people are experiencing moment to moment, and that is really the string upon which all of their states of psychological suffering are strung, is identification with thought, with conceptual thought.