Once there lived a blind man in a small town. He always carried a lighted lamp in his hand whenever he went out at night. On one dark night he was going with his lighted lamp in his hand. A group of men were passing that way. They saw the blind man and made fun of him. They said," O Blind man why do you carry the lighted lamp. You are blind and cannot see anything? The blind man politely said, "This lamp is not for me, but for you people who have eyes. You may not see a blind man coming and push him. They felt ashamed and begged pardon.
Many zen buddhists would likely agree with the idea that nirvana may be impermanent. Or the idea that good, bad; down, up; short, long only exist in relationship to each other. Or the idea that ascending vs descending is equally meaningless. "There is no definitive goal. There is no ending point. There was no real beginning point. It ultimately doesn't matter what you do, so you might as well enjoy the moment." Sounds a good deal like something a zen teacher might shout. Discovered your channel by stumbling across your post debate discussion. Seems like a lot of great content. Particularly excited by your occult playlist. Haven't found too many people who can speak on this subject without losing me. Your ideas seem clearly formed and easy to understand. Find myself nodding in agreement. Thanks for posting.
kleinbottled79 i am aware that several schools believe an enlightened one can (willingly?) re descend to our world to enlighten others. i am not sure how this fits with the apparent erasure of personal existence in nirvana.
Great video. Styx. Thanks for having so many out there. Even though some of them are a bit dated (the political ones for instance) I still really enjoy watching them. I wish I had found this stuff earlier, but thankful to Razorfist for letting me know you were out here.
I've been to the fabled "Thousand Petal Lotus" - it's a location in space-time, and every point in this universe is adjacent to it. We all can access it, if we are capable. What happens there is that the universe is created and destroyed over and over and over - forever, as near as I could tell. It is simultaneously the most beautiful place imaginable, and also the most terrifying. This ties into your idea of scalar cycles. I agree with you - I think it is infinite in scalar dimensions, but in that sense, the size of anything which is infinite is also exactly and precisely...one. If a thing is all that is, then it's size is ONE, and within it, an infinity exists.
I thought I was an original thinker but Styx just showed me that all of thoughts I’ve had have already been thought of before. Ironically, it just makes me want to think even more.
Your understanding of Buddhism, and Vedic philosophy is not quite accurate. Or maybe incomplete I should say, but interesting video nonetheless . Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Sri Yukteswar stated that there is a 24,000 year cycle of Kali, Dwapara, Treta, and Satya yugas. He said we are currently 300 years into an ascending Dwapara yuga. The pyramids of Egypt were built about 10,000 years ago in the last Satya yuga. Meditate on that, Styx.
Fascinating video as usual. If I'm understanding what you are saying, it would seem to me that this concept of time really supports the idea that the fundamental nature of our universe is (inescapably) one of duality. In the sense you are talking about most broadly: duality between the spiritual and the material universe or self. I have maybe a similar issue with both Buddhism and Satanism (though I have not read NEARLY as much as you). The former encourages progress toward complete spirituality, ego death, etc. while the latter encourages the exact opposite if I understand it properly: complete materialism and celebration of the ego. Yet I find them saying very similar things in other ways in the sense that they view light and dark not as good and bad, but as the nature inherent in all things at all levels. So it's odd to me that either philosophy encourages progression ultimately away from duality and balance. This comment is going to be way too long I can tell already. Oh well, maybe we'll find out the length of the longest Mayan long count with it or something by the time anyone finishes reading it. I also think your idea of time makes sense in the way that all things are actually vibrations. For example, molecules are always vibrating. The bonds are always moving. Even in a very cold solid, there is never the cessation of that oscillating motion. So very fast oscillations that would seem like a steady line on a macroscopic level, are in fact still fundamentally waves. Likewise, the arc of a curve on an inconceivably large scale seems straight, but is still observable as a wave when you shift scales. Your example of many waves of different amplitudes, wavelengths and directions influencing once another even corresponds to the molecular level since bond vibrational frequencies are influenced by their environment (heat, light, interactions with other matter, also waves/particles). I guess what I mean is that I see a reflection of your model of time in the material world on the molecular level, which sort of reminds me of a phrase I read "as above so below, as below so above" or something to that effect. All of which has me wondering: in a hypothetical universe where the fundamental nature of everything is non-duality, what would time look like? It's hard to imagine it because literally everything we experience is on a creation/destruction cycle. Everything we know is cyclic and oscillatory.
Kill Kitty Not duality- infinity, with the infinite between both poles of the dual. But when I hear buddhists say the goal is to liberate the self from all physicality, all desire and emotion, that just seems like they're choosing the other side of a duality while pretending to want to go past duality. When I realized this I had an "aha" moment and saw that it was as always the journey, not the end of the journey, that matters; what is better than a never ending story? Nothing is.
Buddhists recognize this though (at least certain sects), Some teach that the material (duality) and oneness (nonduality) are basically two sides of the same coin, which lies beyond the bounds of dual or nondaul. Zen Master Huang Po - "It is only this One Mind that is Buddha; there is no distinction between Buddhas and sentient beings. However, sentient beings are attached to characteristics and seek outside themselves. Seek- ing it, they lose it even more." How do you feel on the matter as of late?
@@Styxhexenhammer666 I appreciate the way you explain these topics in an intellectualy honest manner without disrespecting and yet not being obsequious to any of the teachings.
I call bullshit. There's a possibility that there were related plants in other continents that had gone extinct since then. As a comparison take a look at some of the animals that had existed in various continents that went extinct shortly before recorded history, that nowadays seem unlikely and outlandish. Camels in north and central america, horses in north america, jaguars/leopards inhabiting the entirety of temperate and tropical regions of north and south america, eurasia and africa, etc etc. Cannabis, tobacco and coca plants ancestors certainly were intercontinental, they had to develop, evolve, and travel from area to area. Use your imagination. I however can't speak as to whether or not you pulled that comment out of your ass, or if you were using a credible source. Who knows.
Eggplant contains nicotine. If the Pharaoh, the local god king, likes the ancient Egyptian equivalent of moussaka, baba ghanoush, or imam bayildi and enough is never enough ... well then. LOL, just had eggplant parm for lunch and I'm still hungry. It does have much less nicotine than tobacco, but the Egyptians would have had a source. Cocaine is another matter.The people of Khem gave us alchemy. I don't know if they had the reagents of which 200% SMUG spoke. For all that I know, they might have synthesized the drug from local sources. More likely, I think, it's all nineteenth century contamination.
I like the Howe-Strauss Generational Theory. It describes basically the same thing that Styx is in this video, except over the course of ~80 years or 4 generations.
absolutely. fucking. brilliant. especially, about tying it all back to a sense (of the larger extrapolations, you could say) of the laveyan satanism type thing.
I believe time and matter are a fractal and one day we may actually determine the algorithm. Which means we will be able to predict the future with full clearity. That would be beautiful because you have mathematics becoming fully aware of itself in a recursive pattern that can forsee it's own destiny yet that was always predetermined by its own nature to be the outcome.
Code Slinger this fits well with the idea in chaos theory of infinite complexity from finite conditions. also with the fact that we already are pretty sure free will does not and cannot exist.
Thinking about the nature of the universe, I tended towards feeling that consciousness desired multiplicity. You just reminded me of that fledgling idea--thanks.
Pure Chaos is the Father. Infinite Void is the Mother. Everything is their offspring, the planets and stars our older siblings. We are blessed by them and annointed, given the chalice and crowned with cosmic destiny. They await us, up there.
I would say that the "ultimate" answer lies in the transcending of time itself, thus going beyond all cyclical traps by definition. Think of it as the opposite end of a quantum event, which can be viewed as taking no time at all. Of course, an awareness that goes entirely beyond the temporal is not really describable (or even fully conceivable) from our current perspective.
Sounds like Asimov's "The Final Question". Then there is the biocentric theory of quantum mechanics. In which consciousness is the creator of the physical universe in an evolving continuum. Like the Mayans believed.
Time being an illusion of sorts is being explored in quantum physics in that the present can in fact affect the past but not in a grandfather paradox sense. The intention of a past event can be changed by the present. Microtubules within the neurons in the brain may be connected to the vast net that is quantum reality. Consciousness being the building block of matter, not a result of it.
"Siddartha made an effort to listen better. The image of his father, his own image, the image of his son merged, Kamala's image also appeared and was dispersed, and the image of Govinda, and other images, and they merged with each other, turned all into the river, headed all, being the river, for the goal, longing, desiring, suffering, and the river's voie sounded full of yearning, full of burning woe, full of unsatisfiable desire. For the goal, the river was heading, Siddartha saw it hurrying, the river, which consisted of him and his loved ones and of all people, he had ever seen, all of these waves and waters were hurrying, suffering, towards goals, many goals, the waterfall, the lake, the rapids, the sea, and all goals were reached, and every goal was followed by a new one, and the water turned into vapour and rose to the sky, turned into rain and poured down from the sky, turned into a source, a stream, a river, headed forward once again, flowed on once again. But the longing voice had changed. It still resounded, full of suffering, searching, but other voices joined it, voices of joy and of suffering, good and bad voices, laughing and sad ones, a hundred voices, a thousand voices. Siddartha listened. He was now nothing but a listener, completely concentrated on listening, completely empty, he felt, that he had now finished learning to listen. Often before, he had heard all this, these many voices in the river, today it sounded new. Already, he could no longer tell the many voices apart, not the happy ones from the weeping ones, not the ones of children from those of men, they all belonged together, the lamentation of yearning and the laughter of the knowledgeable one, the scream of rage and the moaning of the dying ones, everything was one, everything was intertwined and connected, entangled a thousand times. And everything together, all voices, all goals, all yearning, all suffering, all pleasure, all that was good and evil, all of this together was the world. All of it together was the flow of events, was the music of life. And when Siddhartha was listening attentively to this river, this song of a thousand voices, when he neither listened to the suffering nor the laughter, when he did not tie his soul to any particular voice and submerged his self into it, but when he heard them all, perceived the whole, the oneness, then the great song of the thousand voices consisted of a single word, which was Om: the perfection." Herman Hesse, Siddhartha If the river represents time, and the voices represent the events that exist within it, it sounds like this description of enlightenment is not freedom from those vicissitudes, but consciousness of all of them at once. Being able to see the many gears in the machine you described. What that means for temporality or permanence, I don't know. But if it is possible to be aware of all of it at once; of the river's source, stream, and mouth all at the same time, then I think that suggests time is not a linear phenomenon, and therefore temporality and permanence may not apply.
Very interesting Styx. I could get into this pretty seriously. I say that in part because when I was about your age I went to Mexico to see Chichen Itza. It was when I got to the Observatory and was standing there near one of the walls alone, I had an unusual experience. I just absolutely knew I had been there before, but I had not, not in this life. But I knew this was not a new place for me, and even more weird than deja vu, I was no longer a woman, I knew I was a man. I was freaking out trying to figure what was happening to me when my sister found me and we left. This experience has always puzzled me and I have never had anything like that before. I don't have a strong opinion about reincarnation, but I have always said that if there was such a thing, in my past life I was a Mayan man and possibly an astronomer. Coincidentally I have most of my life had a very strong interest in Cosmology.
Blimey- is there no topic that this gent doesn't have an in depth knowledge of?! I consider myself fairly intelligent but without meaning to sound like I'm kissing ass, I find myself feeling pretty stupid when watching the videos (only recently came across the channel) as some of the topic matter ends up going way over my head.
He sticks to what he’s passionate about. He’s not really into standup comedy or martial arts. I bet he would sound like a newbie if you pushed him to discuss that.
I think that essence that remains after you die that you are referring to ties in with the scientific concept of energy. In physics the fundamental law of energy is that it can not be created or destroyed. When the universe began, energy slowly evolved into matter, and in billions, maybe trillions of years time if and when the universe ends, and when all matter decays, all that will be left will be pure energy once again, and a new universal cycle would begin. Energy is infinite.
OMFG, an octopus testicle! It is worth understanding the most major cycles, ostensibly. You could get a rough idea of how things are going to be. But at least for me, a big key is acceptance. I find that if I try not to try - to just be an observer, things flow more easily, even when I am completely alone. Taoism has some value. There is something more to it than just a good way to be.
I got trapped in pseudo-Hindu/pseudo-Buddhist beliefs for a number of years because of the accuracy of the Yuga concept (kinda ruined my life, too). This re-affirms my recent casting-off of them knowing that the concept wasn't original to Hinduism and was adopted from older Vedic teachings.
Longer periods of time cannot be accurately discerned without basic knowledge of the 20 days and 36 decans. The Zodiac of Dendera and the Aztec sunstone were designed by the same people. They are 2 stones of a single teaching. One is female, one is male, one east, one west, one square, one circular. They fit perfectly together physically, geometrically, and thematically.
Age of Pioneering requires a solid system connection Age of Commerce requires an adaptive system connection Age of Affluence requires a broad system connection Age of Example requires a repairable system connection Age of Decadence requires a substitutable system connection Age of Intellect requires a fun system connection. Age of Conquest requires an ϴniversal system connection.
It's funny - I was watching a previous video of yours on the End of the World being inevitable (an obvious conclusion really), and I was thinking: "Understanding linear time is unimportant - understanding cyclical time is very important." Then it auto-advanced to this video. The universe appears to be composed of scalar systems within scalar systems. Time seems be organized in the same way - cycles within cycles. Each day is a cycle. Logically, there would therefore be alignments where cycles of various scales align perfectly.
Do not forget that 1200s saw the rise of the Mongol hordes and the murders and plagues spread by such. The 800s saw the complete economic and social breakdown of Iraq as rebellions ripped apart the Abbasid Caliphate.
The concept you know as random is just a component of the cosmic structure. As is the concept of a machine. The vedic tradition also explains the deterministic force the western world is now vaguely familiar with known as karma. The deeper nuances of karma are the micro gears you're referring to. The over arching macro gear is not the cycle of the yugas but the point where the force of shiva unravels the universe. Until then allowing the other godly forces/aspects to respin the universe after loosely translated ''doomsday'. Hindu astrology - which is inextricably linked to these two gears - also explains many of the other gears on the scale, bringing vedic culture much closer to the mayans than the western mind would like to let on. The difference being, that the western mind has failed to wipe out the vedic tradition in its entirety. The random that sits inbetween these vast cycles is the process of enlightenment. Karma is able to be burnt and transmuted by the very substance it's composed of which breaks the chain of the determined timeline. This actually can also be accounted for however within a larger cycle that transcends time. A physical being beyond the mind and beyond the cycles of karma realises how to form themselves into cycleless energy and thus opens the opportunity to become enlightened
Hi Styx, Really like this message on a 90% front!.. but what if "Do what thou Wilt" also defined as 'service to self', has the Karmic result we have to learn to avoid time and time again? like to hear your feedback
Entry level knowledge of time is simple. The worlds most important visible cycle, is the 20 days. Learn those. Then the 36 decans of the solar year. The 20 days directly and precisely correlate with the first 20 hexagrams of the I-Ching. The 36 decans precisely correlate with the 21 - 56 hexagrams of the I-Ching, and the 36 decans of Parasara from the Hindu, and the 36 views of Mt Fuji by Hokusai, and the chapters of Genesis and Numbers. The shapes of the glyphs and drawings undeniably correlate also. That is how to tell time. Shape is unavoidable and every artist repeats patterns according to the day they were born. The product of society is therefore easy to track, thus time is discernible and easily illustrated. We are in the physical time of the first dean of Aquarius, Vulture. This is easily discerned by the satellites and flying craft. We are in the spiritual time of the cube, having just moved on from the cross. These two are the twelfth and thirteenth days of the 20. Aqabal is the Quiche Maya word and Qaba is the word in the ME.
I would love to remember where I read this, but there is a theory that, given a long enough period of time, the universe will have begun and ended so many times that statistically it is inevitable it will repeat itself both perfectly and with slight alterations. And, somehow they gave an actual number for this theory and it was something like 10^10^10^10^10^75 years.
Interesting thoughts, regarding dimensions Mayans were great, except for their human sacrifice. ^^ Have you seen Randall Carlson's work about cyclical, periodic catastrophic events.
Hmm you might want to look a bit more deeply in Buddhism. Essentially the whole point is once you reach "nirvana" you return to help all beings attain the same state, this factors in the Bhumi on the Bodhisattva path known as emanations.
I wonder about your opinion (or anyone elses) on whether the cosmic essence/true selves of who we and others are is limited. Meaning that there are many humans on the planet posessing the same true self at the same time, and depending on how limited it is, how often you would come into contact with another human of your true self.
I'm unclear: you refer to the yuga cycle involving 40 million years, and saying that no humans lived then; --- did you mean 4.32million? There were human species then.
Time is fundamentally a misapprehension of reality. Everything which has ever existed or shall exist is right here in this moment. For humans to see this would be maddening, so we organized an alternate view. But in reality there is no past or future; we invented them as abstractions..
The ego is a product of the material world, absence of any material world to which to relate to there cannot exist an ego, that's my conclusion at least.
Kali Yuga is the degenerative age. To moral dualists that must mean that it's a 'bad' time to live in, but I consider that to be as naive as saying death = bad and life = good. Looking at how fast structures are erected and how even faster they collapse, I'd say it's a good characterization. The exoteric look at Kali Yuga ( i.e. Hinduism ) does not do justice to this chronology, like most exoteric teachings. Also, how do you feel about the model of time in Thelema with its Aeons?
you are a fucking idiot, really ? Mexicans, so when you see spanish words you automatically think of the country Mexico, nevermind the fact Spanish is from Spain and is of the romance languages developed in europe.
contraband100 Phew, haha. Vastly different. Like most religions nowadays, people forgot the real reasons behind doing things. Anyway, before I put my personal opinions ahead, I'll just get to what I intended to say. I know the term Vedic refers to the scriptures of the Vedas and teachings within. I think it was originally called Sanatana Dharma. Hinduism was just a word used by invaders to refer to the local people. After Islamic and British invasion and influence, it seems that the "religion" changed, and became what it is today. The Upanishads were also a set of scriptures that were implemented, though I'm not sure if they count as Vedas, as they were written far later.
What if you could find the biggest gears with the most influence on the system as a whole and use the state of those gears as quantifiable predictors of the outcome? Welcome to machine learning.
You totally got that Buddhist idea wrong. The Buddhist view is: there is an endless cycle of universes collapsing and expanding. And everytime at the beginning, all the beings (or except maybe for some denizens of the deepest hells who may persist there for eons) start out in this high spiritual state and then descend to grosser forms etc. "Enlightenment", or "bodhi", or the individual end of samsara, is not a return to this "original state" of bliss and so on. It is a total escape from this fucking cycle.
Read Mastering the core teachings of the Buddha by Daniel M. Ingram.He is in agreement with a lot of your thoughts and philosophy but also goes against the grain
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Once there lived a blind man in a small town. He always carried a lighted lamp in his hand whenever he went out at night.
On one dark night he was going with his lighted lamp in his hand. A group of men were passing that way.
They saw the blind man and made fun of him. They said," O Blind man why do you carry the lighted lamp. You are blind and cannot see anything?
The blind man politely said, "This lamp is not for me, but for you people who have eyes. You may not see a blind man coming and push him. They felt ashamed and begged pardon.
"Intergalactic fuck fest". Half the reason I watch these videos is your way with words.
love that you never spit nonsense styx, loved the video.. went to india and immersed myself in vedic teachings very interesting
I've been thinking along similar lines for the past 25 years Styx, as I get older I become more sure that a lot of what you say is right
Alan Moore's Promethea series explores the idea of a peaceful fall from grace.
Wow, you have changed, all for the better, your content is superb, delivery excellent, fantastic sense of humor. Thank you.
Can agree here in 2022
Many zen buddhists would likely agree with the idea that nirvana may be impermanent. Or the idea that good, bad; down, up; short, long only exist in relationship to each other. Or the idea that ascending vs descending is equally meaningless. "There is no definitive goal. There is no ending point. There was no real beginning point. It ultimately doesn't matter what you do, so you might as well enjoy the moment." Sounds a good deal like something a zen teacher might shout.
Discovered your channel by stumbling across your post debate discussion. Seems like a lot of great content. Particularly excited by your occult playlist. Haven't found too many people who can speak on this subject without losing me. Your ideas seem clearly formed and easy to understand. Find myself nodding in agreement. Thanks for posting.
kleinbottled79 i am aware that several schools believe an enlightened one can (willingly?) re descend to our world to enlighten others. i am not sure how this fits with the apparent erasure of personal existence in nirvana.
Whelp, that was a perspective overload.
23:52 makes me happy to know where he is now. A man who dedicates to hs craft, doesn't skip any steps and has intergrity. Good stuff stix
I sorta miss the garage videos. Nothing wrong with the clanking coffee. just a different vibe in the old videos
The Athiest: a segment. The Abrahamic: a ray. Vedic and others: a wave.
Thanks for you content, by the way.
Great video. Styx. Thanks for having so many out there. Even though some of them are a bit dated (the political ones for instance) I still really enjoy watching them. I wish I had found this stuff earlier, but thankful to Razorfist for letting me know you were out here.
i'm not used to seeing styx without glasses.
In an infinite universe there is no true death.
I've been to the fabled "Thousand Petal Lotus" - it's a location in space-time, and every point in this universe is adjacent to it. We all can access it, if we are capable. What happens there is that the universe is created and destroyed over and over and over - forever, as near as I could tell. It is simultaneously the most beautiful place imaginable, and also the most terrifying. This ties into your idea of scalar cycles. I agree with you - I think it is infinite in scalar dimensions, but in that sense, the size of anything which is infinite is also exactly and precisely...one. If a thing is all that is, then it's size is ONE, and within it, an infinity exists.
Be vigilant,guard your mind against negative thoughts
I've thought about the randomness issue as well. The quantum computer itself is a clue that quantum behaviour itself is not even random.
Densely thought provoking, I feel clearer.
Densely thought provoking, I feel clever.
I thought I was an original thinker but Styx just showed me that all of thoughts I’ve had have already been thought of before. Ironically, it just makes me want to think even more.
Your understanding of Buddhism, and Vedic philosophy is not quite accurate. Or maybe incomplete I should say, but interesting video nonetheless . Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Getting into some old school hex 7 years later!!!
Sri Yukteswar stated that there is a 24,000 year cycle of Kali, Dwapara, Treta, and Satya yugas. He said we are currently 300 years into an ascending Dwapara yuga. The pyramids of Egypt were built about 10,000 years ago in the last Satya yuga. Meditate on that, Styx.
Fascinating video as usual. If I'm understanding what you are saying, it would seem to me that this concept of time really supports the idea that the fundamental nature of our universe is (inescapably) one of duality. In the sense you are talking about most broadly: duality between the spiritual and the material universe or self. I have maybe a similar issue with both Buddhism and Satanism (though I have not read NEARLY as much as you). The former encourages progress toward complete spirituality, ego death, etc. while the latter encourages the exact opposite if I understand it properly: complete materialism and celebration of the ego. Yet I find them saying very similar things in other ways in the sense that they view light and dark not as good and bad, but as the nature inherent in all things at all levels. So it's odd to me that either philosophy encourages progression ultimately away from duality and balance. This comment is going to be way too long I can tell already. Oh well, maybe we'll find out the length of the longest Mayan long count with it or something by the time anyone finishes reading it.
I also think your idea of time makes sense in the way that all things are actually vibrations. For example, molecules are always vibrating. The bonds are always moving. Even in a very cold solid, there is never the cessation of that oscillating motion. So very fast oscillations that would seem like a steady line on a macroscopic level, are in fact still fundamentally waves. Likewise, the arc of a curve on an inconceivably large scale seems straight, but is still observable as a wave when you shift scales. Your example of many waves of different amplitudes, wavelengths and directions influencing once another even corresponds to the molecular level since bond vibrational frequencies are influenced by their environment (heat, light, interactions with other matter, also waves/particles). I guess what I mean is that I see a reflection of your model of time in the material world on the molecular level, which sort of reminds me of a phrase I read "as above so below, as below so above" or something to that effect.
All of which has me wondering: in a hypothetical universe where the fundamental nature of everything is non-duality, what would time look like? It's hard to imagine it because literally everything we experience is on a creation/destruction cycle. Everything we know is cyclic and oscillatory.
Kill Kitty Not duality- infinity, with the infinite between both poles of the dual.
But when I hear buddhists say the goal is to liberate the self from all physicality, all desire and emotion, that just seems like they're choosing the other side of a duality while pretending to want to go past duality. When I realized this I had an "aha" moment and saw that it was as always the journey, not the end of the journey, that matters; what is better than a never ending story? Nothing is.
Mad Hatter look up "circular scale"
Buddhists recognize this though (at least certain sects), Some teach that the material (duality) and oneness (nonduality) are basically two sides of the same coin, which lies beyond the bounds of dual or nondaul. Zen Master Huang Po - "It is only this One Mind that is Buddha; there is no distinction
between Buddhas and sentient beings. However, sentient beings
are attached to characteristics and seek outside themselves. Seek-
ing it, they lose it even more." How do you feel on the matter as of late?
@@Styxhexenhammer666 I appreciate the way you explain these topics in an intellectualy honest manner without disrespecting and yet not being obsequious to any of the teachings.
They found cocaine and tobacco in Egyptian tombs. these civilizations had some contact with each other for sure.
Where the bitches be?
I call bullshit. There's a possibility that there were related plants in other continents that had gone extinct since then. As a comparison take a look at some of the animals that had existed in various continents that went extinct shortly before recorded history, that nowadays seem unlikely and outlandish. Camels in north and central america, horses in north america, jaguars/leopards inhabiting the entirety of temperate and tropical regions of north and south america, eurasia and africa, etc etc. Cannabis, tobacco and coca plants ancestors certainly were intercontinental, they had to develop, evolve, and travel from area to area. Use your imagination. I however can't speak as to whether or not you pulled that comment out of your ass, or if you were using a credible source. Who knows.
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Tobacco I could see, but the Egyptians didnt have access to the reagents needed to extracg cocaine from the coca plant.
Eggplant contains nicotine. If the Pharaoh, the local god king, likes the ancient Egyptian equivalent of moussaka, baba ghanoush, or imam bayildi and enough is never enough ... well then. LOL, just had eggplant parm for lunch and I'm still hungry. It does have much less nicotine than tobacco, but the Egyptians would have had a source. Cocaine is another matter.The people of Khem gave us alchemy. I don't know if they had the reagents of which 200% SMUG spoke. For all that I know, they might have synthesized the drug from local sources. More likely, I think, it's all nineteenth century contamination.
"Spikes of positive in negative cycles and spikes of negative in positive cycles." Sounds a lot like the Taoist teaching of yin and yang!
Your old house looked comfy in a way.
Great video.
I like the Howe-Strauss Generational Theory. It describes basically the same thing that Styx is in this video, except over the course of ~80 years or 4 generations.
absolutely. fucking. brilliant. especially, about tying it all back to a sense (of the larger extrapolations, you could say) of the laveyan satanism type thing.
I believe time and matter are a fractal and one day we may actually determine the algorithm. Which means we will be able to predict the future with full clearity. That would be beautiful because you have mathematics becoming fully aware of itself in a recursive pattern that can forsee it's own destiny yet that was always predetermined by its own nature to be the outcome.
Code Slinger this fits well with the idea in chaos theory of infinite complexity from finite conditions. also with the fact that we already are pretty sure free will does not and cannot exist.
Thinking about the nature of the universe, I tended towards feeling that consciousness desired multiplicity. You just reminded me of that fledgling idea--thanks.
Pure Chaos is the Father. Infinite Void is the Mother. Everything is their offspring, the planets and stars our older siblings. We are blessed by them and annointed, given the chalice and crowned with cosmic destiny. They await us, up there.
this guy w/o the glasses mmh 10/10
I would say that the "ultimate" answer lies in the transcending of time itself, thus going beyond all cyclical traps by definition. Think of it as the opposite end of a quantum event, which can be viewed as taking no time at all. Of course, an awareness that goes entirely beyond the temporal is not really describable (or even fully conceivable) from our current perspective.
+Bookhermit How can you transcend time within time?
If you transcend time, within or without becomes irrelevant.
My understanding of existence and time seems to always change
The subject of astrotheology points to a lot of clues on the origins and influences of these cycles...Santos Bonacci has a good talk on it.
Sounds like Asimov's "The Final Question". Then there is the biocentric theory of quantum mechanics. In which consciousness is the creator of the physical universe in an evolving continuum. Like the Mayans believed.
Time being an illusion of sorts is being explored in quantum physics in that the present can in fact affect the past but not in a grandfather paradox sense. The intention of a past event can be changed by the present. Microtubules within the neurons in the brain may be connected to the vast net that is quantum reality. Consciousness being the building block of matter, not a result of it.
Ever made a post about the medieval plague before for this would be cool...
Whiteboard for Christmas got it
"Siddartha made an effort to listen better. The image of his father, his own image, the image of his son merged, Kamala's image also appeared and was dispersed, and the image of Govinda, and other images, and they merged with each other, turned all into the river, headed all, being the river, for the goal, longing, desiring, suffering, and the river's voie sounded full of yearning, full of burning woe, full of unsatisfiable desire. For the goal, the river was heading, Siddartha saw it hurrying, the river, which consisted of him and his loved ones and of all people, he had ever seen, all of these waves and waters were hurrying, suffering, towards goals, many goals, the waterfall, the lake, the rapids, the sea, and all goals were reached, and every goal was followed by a new one, and the water turned into vapour and rose to the sky, turned into rain and poured down from the sky, turned into a source, a stream, a river, headed forward once again, flowed on once again. But the longing voice had changed. It still resounded, full of suffering, searching, but other voices joined it, voices of joy and of suffering, good and bad voices, laughing and sad ones, a hundred voices, a thousand voices.
Siddartha listened. He was now nothing but a listener, completely concentrated on listening, completely empty, he felt, that he had now finished learning to listen. Often before, he had heard all this, these many voices in the river, today it sounded new. Already, he could no longer tell the many voices apart, not the happy ones from the weeping ones, not the ones of children from those of men, they all belonged together, the lamentation of yearning and the laughter of the knowledgeable one, the scream of rage and the moaning of the dying ones, everything was one, everything was intertwined and connected, entangled a thousand times. And everything together, all voices, all goals, all yearning, all suffering, all pleasure, all that was good and evil, all of this together was the world. All of it together was the flow of events, was the music of life. And when Siddhartha was listening attentively to this river, this song of a thousand voices, when he neither listened to the suffering nor the laughter, when he did not tie his soul to any particular voice and submerged his self into it, but when he heard them all, perceived the whole, the oneness, then the great song of the thousand voices consisted of a single word, which was Om: the perfection."
Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
If the river represents time, and the voices represent the events that exist within it, it sounds like this description of enlightenment is not freedom from those vicissitudes, but consciousness of all of them at once. Being able to see the many gears in the machine you described. What that means for temporality or permanence, I don't know. But if it is possible to be aware of all of it at once; of the river's source, stream, and mouth all at the same time, then I think that suggests time is not a linear phenomenon, and therefore temporality and permanence may not apply.
Beautiful. Great comment.
“The river tells no lies, though standing on the shore the dishonest man still hears them.” Oma Desala, Stargate SG1
Excelente, Baby!
This intergalactic fuckfest sounds rad.
Very interesting Styx. I could get into this pretty seriously. I say that in part because when I was about your age I went to Mexico to see Chichen Itza. It was when I got to the Observatory and was standing there near one of the walls alone, I had an unusual experience. I just absolutely knew I had been there before, but I had not, not in this life. But I knew this was not a new place for me, and even more weird than deja vu, I was no longer a woman, I knew I was a man. I was freaking out trying to figure what was happening to me when my sister found me and we left. This experience has always puzzled me and I have never had anything like that before. I don't have a strong opinion about reincarnation, but I have always said that if there was such a thing, in my past life I was a Mayan man and possibly an astronomer. Coincidentally I have most of my life had a very strong interest in Cosmology.
Blimey- is there no topic that this gent doesn't have an in depth knowledge of?! I consider myself fairly intelligent but without meaning to sound like I'm kissing ass, I find myself feeling pretty stupid when watching the videos (only recently came across the channel) as some of the topic matter ends up going way over my head.
BoxingBadBoy77 He's a 468 year old Warlock. He's been around some.
He has learned to tune into the universal consciousness, it is open to everybody and it will guide you. The universal mind.
Styx is fueling his existance by tapping into his subscriber base for energy. He gains both Life force and knowledge from his subscribers.
He sticks to what he’s passionate about. He’s not really into standup comedy or martial arts. I bet he would sound like a newbie if you pushed him to discuss that.
I think that essence that remains after you die that you are referring to ties in with the scientific concept of energy. In physics the fundamental law of energy is that it can not be created or destroyed. When the universe began, energy slowly evolved into matter, and in billions, maybe trillions of years time if and when the universe ends, and when all matter decays, all that will be left will be pure energy once again, and a new universal cycle would begin. Energy is infinite.
OMFG, an octopus testicle! It is worth understanding the most major cycles, ostensibly. You could get a rough idea of how things are going to be. But at least for me, a big key is acceptance. I find that if I try not to try - to just be an observer, things flow more easily, even when I am completely alone. Taoism has some value. There is something more to it than just a good way to be.
I got trapped in pseudo-Hindu/pseudo-Buddhist beliefs for a number of years because of the accuracy of the Yuga concept (kinda ruined my life, too). This re-affirms my recent casting-off of them knowing that the concept wasn't original to Hinduism and was adopted from older Vedic teachings.
Longer periods of time cannot be accurately discerned without basic knowledge of the 20 days and 36 decans. The Zodiac of Dendera and the Aztec sunstone were designed by the same people. They are 2 stones of a single teaching. One is female, one is male, one east, one west, one square, one circular. They fit perfectly together physically, geometrically, and thematically.
The purpose of Alchemy is the Transmutation of the Soul.
Age of Pioneering requires a solid system connection
Age of Commerce requires an adaptive system connection
Age of Affluence requires a broad system connection
Age of Example requires a repairable system connection
Age of Decadence requires a substitutable system connection
Age of Intellect requires a fun system connection.
Age of Conquest requires an ϴniversal system connection.
It's funny - I was watching a previous video of yours on the End of the World being inevitable (an obvious conclusion really), and I was thinking: "Understanding linear time is unimportant - understanding cyclical time is very important." Then it auto-advanced to this video. The universe appears to be composed of scalar systems within scalar systems. Time seems be organized in the same way - cycles within cycles. Each day is a cycle. Logically, there would therefore be alignments where cycles of various scales align perfectly.
What do you think of Terence McKenna's Timewave Zero theory?
Try:Tom Campbell Bruce Lipton interview.
~Namaste~
Do not forget that 1200s saw the rise of the Mongol hordes and the murders and plagues spread by such. The 800s saw the complete economic and social breakdown of Iraq as rebellions ripped apart the Abbasid Caliphate.
As someone who dabbles in multiple spiritual systems, how do you feel about the Hindu system of Advaita Vedanta?
The concept you know as random is just a component of the cosmic structure. As is the concept of a machine.
The vedic tradition also explains the deterministic force the western world is now vaguely familiar with known as karma. The deeper nuances of karma are the micro gears you're referring to.
The over arching macro gear is not the cycle of the yugas but the point where the force of shiva unravels the universe. Until then allowing the other godly forces/aspects to respin the universe after loosely translated ''doomsday'.
Hindu astrology - which is inextricably linked to these two gears - also explains many of the other gears on the scale, bringing vedic culture much closer to the mayans than the western mind would like to let on. The difference being, that the western mind has failed to wipe out the vedic tradition in its entirety.
The random that sits inbetween these vast cycles is the process of enlightenment. Karma is able to be burnt and transmuted by the very substance it's composed of which breaks the chain of the determined timeline. This actually can also be accounted for however within a larger cycle that transcends time.
A physical being beyond the mind and beyond the cycles of karma realises how to form themselves into cycleless energy and thus opens the opportunity to become enlightened
Hi Styx, Really like this message on a 90% front!.. but what if "Do what thou Wilt" also defined as 'service to self', has the Karmic result we have to learn to avoid time and time again? like to hear your feedback
Entry level knowledge of time is simple. The worlds most important visible cycle, is the 20 days. Learn those. Then the 36 decans of the solar year. The 20 days directly and precisely correlate with the first 20 hexagrams of the I-Ching. The 36 decans precisely correlate with the 21 - 56 hexagrams of the I-Ching, and the 36 decans of Parasara from the Hindu, and the 36 views of Mt Fuji by Hokusai, and the chapters of Genesis and Numbers. The shapes of the glyphs and drawings undeniably correlate also. That is how to tell time. Shape is unavoidable and every artist repeats patterns according to the day they were born. The product of society is therefore easy to track, thus time is discernible and easily illustrated. We are in the physical time of the first dean of Aquarius, Vulture. This is easily discerned by the satellites and flying craft. We are in the spiritual time of the cube, having just moved on from the cross. These two are the twelfth and thirteenth days of the 20. Aqabal is the Quiche Maya word and Qaba is the word in the ME.
Time will always exist as long as the material universe continues to exist. Time does not exist in the spirit realms.
I would love to remember where I read this, but there is a theory that, given a long enough period of time, the universe will have begun and ended so many times that statistically it is inevitable it will repeat itself both perfectly and with slight alterations. And, somehow they gave an actual number for this theory and it was something like 10^10^10^10^10^75 years.
Interesting thoughts, regarding dimensions
Mayans were great, except for their human sacrifice. ^^
Have you seen Randall Carlson's work about cyclical, periodic catastrophic events.
4th part name in Kali yuga
its
1 satya yuga
2. treta yuga
3. dwapar yuga
4. kali yuga
its kali yuga NOW
collapsing while simultaneousky expanding....
Hmm you might want to look a bit more deeply in Buddhism. Essentially the whole point is once you reach "nirvana" you return to help all beings attain the same state, this factors in the Bhumi on the Bodhisattva path known as emanations.
26000 years is my marker
Can you make a video on Shintoism?
Hi Styx, Terrance Mckenna zero wave theory vs David Wilcocks Cycles of mankinds needing to reincarnate to repeat teach?
I wonder about your opinion (or anyone elses) on whether the cosmic essence/true selves of who we and others are is limited. Meaning that there are many humans on the planet posessing the same true self at the same time, and depending on how limited it is, how often you would come into contact with another human of your true self.
I'm unclear: you refer to the yuga cycle involving 40 million years, and saying that no humans lived then; --- did you mean 4.32million? There were human species then.
Just curious, if maybe you would give your opinion on Asatru?
Time is fundamentally a misapprehension of reality. Everything which has ever existed or shall exist is right here in this moment. For humans to see this would be maddening, so we organized an alternate view. But in reality there is no past or future; we invented them as abstractions..
holy styx without glasses wtf
Have your heard of the Laplace Demon?
The ego is a product of the material world, absence of any material world to which to relate to there cannot exist an ego, that's my conclusion at least.
Kali Yuga is the degenerative age. To moral dualists that must mean that it's a 'bad' time to live in, but I consider that to be as naive as saying death = bad and life = good. Looking at how fast structures are erected and how even faster they collapse, I'd say it's a good characterization. The exoteric look at Kali Yuga ( i.e. Hinduism ) does not do justice to this chronology, like most exoteric teachings.
Also, how do you feel about the model of time in Thelema with its Aeons?
The Mexicans figured all this out when they invented the word man~ana. (excuse the tilde..cant figure how to make it)
you are a fucking idiot, really ? Mexicans, so when you see spanish words you automatically think of the country Mexico, nevermind the fact Spanish is from Spain and is of the romance languages developed in europe.
This is genius. I love you Styx (no homo (ok slightly homo))
I'm a male lesbian.. still trying to figure where I fit in all this.
"Intergalactic fuck-fest," Lmao.
I thought this said “uploaded 5 hours ago” not “5 years ago.”
The integrals are very involve and complicated using these function.
Styx, are you a fan of Terence McKenna?
No Fate.
I have a friend who talks like this but it takes a twelve page of Keystone.
18:26 lol
fucking lol man
Also, I could have sworn that Hinduism is a "modern" iteration of the Vedic religions.
contraband100 Phew, haha. Vastly different. Like most religions nowadays, people forgot the real reasons behind doing things. Anyway, before I put my personal opinions ahead, I'll just get to what I intended to say.
I know the term Vedic refers to the scriptures of the Vedas and teachings within. I think it was originally called Sanatana Dharma. Hinduism was just a word used by invaders to refer to the local people. After Islamic and British invasion and influence, it seems that the "religion" changed, and became what it is today. The Upanishads were also a set of scriptures that were implemented, though I'm not sure if they count as Vedas, as they were written far later.
You forgot the 1500 the renaissance
What if you could find the biggest gears with the most influence on the system as a whole and use the state of those gears as quantifiable predictors of the outcome? Welcome to machine learning.
The Wheels of Lull.
I really want time (aka 3D) to end.
Time is a tool of the mind used to interpret existence.
Tachyon
penultimate = the one before the ultimate
enlightening video,
its pronounced as 'veydic'
You totally got that Buddhist idea wrong.
The Buddhist view is: there is an endless cycle of universes collapsing and expanding. And everytime at the beginning, all the beings (or except maybe for some denizens of the deepest hells who may persist there for eons) start out in this high spiritual state and then descend to grosser forms etc.
"Enlightenment", or "bodhi", or the individual end of samsara, is not a return to this
"original state" of bliss and so on. It is a total escape from this fucking cycle.
I love your videos, but I wish you'd probably mic yourself.
Like with gain staging.
Read Mastering the core teachings of the Buddha by Daniel M. Ingram.He is in agreement with a lot of your thoughts and philosophy but also goes against the grain
Dont throw- OUT the Baby with the bath water,U got IT ----,,ITS Still KALI YUGA,,,,
There is no such thing as time , there is only physical changes in the universe .
There is, time will slightly slow down if you move fast and far enough.
+Civilians You're still talking about motion.
Motion proves time
Time is the dust created when length breadth and depth travel through space
How tall is styx?
You're assuming vedics and mayans are referencing humans in their golden ages.