One can plot all the neural correlates of a brain experience, but phenomenological insight (what it is like to feel the thing) is necessary to explain the qualitative feeling that corresponds to the correlates
Love this! I hear so many young people saying "the universe" led me, I am giving this to the Universe, what does the Universe have for me, etc. Sounds like God to me. I love Joseph Campbell's quote, "God is a metaphor for a mystery that absolutely transcends all human categories of thought."
thank you, thank you, thank you!!! This was exactly I wanted to hear. Actually, I was thinking of messaging you about this similar question that had been pestering me recently. Lots of love brother. Respect.
Yogananda's antenna metaphor really struck a nerve. We are tuning our antenna so that we can communicate with the Divine. Yes. Yes. Thank you teacher for these glorious clarifications!❤ You are such a gift to us all.
Thank you Forrest! We have talked about This subject multiple times. It’s something I’ve struggled with since I started following your teachings some years ago. I still struggle reconciling God and what I now know about the brain, nervous system, and mediation. Thank you for reframing it as an essential part of the process. That helps.
Lately I've been telling people I'm closer to atheism than ever before, simultaneously I feel God now accessible than ever. 😄 He's just really quiet. Thank you for the video its echoed many of my thoughts and concerns
The immortal Divine created, everything visible and invisible, known and unnown, real and unreal by itself, through itself and from itself. Basically that means God is evrything including scince. God is not just at the bottom of the glass, but He’s the glass, the liquid, the air and you! 🙏🙏🙏🕉🕉🕉📿📿📿
wonderful comment!!! yes the divine is the entire process and the method, and we only think they're separate things from a limited perspective. thank you for this 🙏
Yes I did love this Forrest. You have such a fabulous way of explaining things and make life so simple. The word "God" seems to carry such a weight to it. If I use the terms "Creator" or "Higher Power" it seems to soften conversations and allow for more acceptance. You have taken the mystery out of meditation and for me that is so big. Thank you so much.
How beautifully and ethereally explained, thank you Guruji. It is wonderful you keep us on the path with these regular precious precise teachings. Namaste 🙏
Super nuanced topic, eh? I really like the way Joseph Campbell approached it when saying that our mythic terms should be transparent to transcendence, meaning no word can define an ultimate and perennial reality because it is beyond all concepts and categories of thinking. He quoted Meister Eckhart, which suggested we should let go of any preconceived notion of God to go to God. I love the quotes you used in this videos, btw. Thanks for sharing, Forrest. Blessings and blissings!
Ohhhhhh goodness my guruji!!!! this is an excellent and needed reconciliation for many people i am sure. i have learned so much from you teaching the scientific way, as i had been perhaps the opposite of many scientific atheists, where i considered that science wouldn't be able to truly figure anything out, but i have seen that there isn't just one way to science haha. so there is for me the manifestation these bodies but not as bodies and so it has been hard to accept that anything about the brain could truly explain my conscious experience of the all-pervasive divine. but i have learned that within the manifestation there is indeed a science which can be utilized to throw us into this perception of the all-pervasive divine and that is certainly just fantastic. for me it isn't about the material brain, because for me it isn't such a thing as this, but there is the appearance as a result of the divine consciousness playing, and from the "outside" this localization of the divine consciousness looks like a brain. so it all works and it is all very good. but it certainly isn't "just the brain" for me even with this because it implies the brain has a separate and solid material existence which i simply cannot see to hold water from direct experience, so for me it's all the divine, even this appearance of a brain is simply a result of the divine play. i am only speaking all of my experience like this to show how much i have matured in this regard, because for two years straight I'd completely deny even the existence of a brain! hahaha, but now i know there slightly more depth but it still fits within the same experiential framework that I've gathered and that is excellent.
Exactly dear guru ji, I was doing all the meditation techniques correctly, which initially benefitted me, but after some time due to my own bad karma nothing was working for me, i used to feel very low. But after the prayers which my guru/meditation teacher did for me😂🙏❤,my life and meditation slowly improved, i became a devotee of divine mother. Though even now sometimes the path of spirituality feels painful and full of failures,but still i trust the kriya yoga gurus and divine. I hope I will be a kriya yogi one day. I bow down to you Forrest guru ji.Thank you🕉❤
Hey Forrest, I’ve noticed that when I enter deep states of mediation, whether I’m chanting a mantra or just breathing silently, I tilt my head to the right, idk why this is but for me to enter deep states of meditation, my head needs to tilt a little bit to the right, is this something you’ve heard of before?
Happens with me as well. But not always. Cos every meditation is a different experience. Even the impulses in the forehead are a bit skewed towards right rather than the centre.
Everyone is in their personal process. Nothing is ever wrong. We all are perfect in our imperfections because we need to learn. It's ok and I love and support you always.
I just checked out Todd Murphy on your advice and watched one of his presentations about enlightenment and the brain. On the face of it it’s easy to say oh, all spiritual states are just a brain phenomena after all. But then something didn’t sit well with me and I realized it’s like talking to someone on FaceTime and saying it’s just a phone phenomenon or looking at pictures on a computer and chalk the pictures up to the computer generating images. there is a programmer, there is a real person on the other side. God just built mechanisms into our brain, just like he built mechanisms in all of nature, so that we can reach him directly. And your video confirms that as well so thank you!
Hi Forest, I have a query : I started with maha mudra last week and i can fell my stomatch burning inside after that . I am fat and not much flexible so i can say I’m not doing muda fully the way yogis do. Is heat sensation is because of that ? Please answer 🙏
Hello Guru Knutson.. This is just the answer I was looking for. I read a recommended book by you Sacred Pathways by Todd Murphy and read about the God Helmet experiments. And for a week or so I was sad nd dejected.. Tat God can be created in a lab setting. But then I came out of this. And ur video has just been an icing on the cake. Thanks once again.
Just a thought, what if science is just a way of explaining how God works and that at the end of the day everything is still the divine? Great video Forrest, what is that book behind your right shoulder which looks like it has Lahiri Mahasaya on the binding?
Nice video, I needed to hear this today, I recently lost my job and im unemployed and I started to lose faith in God. Although it does seem I have very poor karma.....but that can hopefully be worked out, somehow.
That's actually the perfect time to lean on the Higher Self. Because by ourselves we will have a very hard time to accomplish anything, but when we reach up and ask for assistance we can find great help to get back on track. Also when you think that you have Bad Karma please go ahead and OM into it in your chakras. This will help to wipe it out. 🤗🌹🙏🌹
How long can you hold in kechari mudra? Can you stay 1 hour in kechari mudra? I would like to know because when I pass my tongue behind the uvula, I can only stay 20 seconds because it pulls in my neck and in my neck. ☯️⛩🙏⛩☯️
Yes, I can hold it without getting that sensation. So there's a little more stretching for you to accomplish to allow the tongue to stretch out all the way inside of the nasal pharynx.🌹🙏
from my understanding, it's not that there is nothing. it's that the entire whole is nonseparate. there is no single thing that arises in our awareness that is permanently isolated and non-changing. that awareness itself is the nonchanging thing. but that awareness is "empty" inherently, in that any content can arise in it, any experience can arise in it.
its funny how can sleepy people look at existence and not think that it all came out of God, the Infinite Intelligence lying in every detail of reality, everything being absolutly balanced to perfection, and still not seeing traces of Him, it always surprise me ^^ love your videos my friend! have a great day!
William Blake wrote that he "saw" God in what he called "the Minute Particular." And another wise man is rumored to have said, "You have eyes, but do not truly see." These quotes indicate that we're all living/moving a bit too fast . . . for real Seeing. A fine message today, Forrest! Meanwhile, FYI, I'm just waiting, waiting with imposed patience, to re-join the Sangha.
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One can plot all the neural correlates of a brain experience, but phenomenological insight (what it is like to feel the thing) is necessary to explain the qualitative feeling that corresponds to the correlates
Simple and yet so powerful sir..❤🙏
Thank you Vimala! 🤩🙏🌹
Forrest, I have thought about this very thing the last few days, and then this video popped up. Thank you. Spot on and what a gift.
That's so perfect 🤩🙏
beautiful. I feel the pranic flow that is God's expression flowing through IT ALL. Thank you Forest.
That's perfect 🤩🙏🌹
This is probably one of the most important clarifications or explanations of why I meditate !! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! 🙏
Wonderful Bettina! 🌹 🙏
thank you very much, i was wondering this same question a time ago.
Love this! I hear so many young people saying "the universe" led me, I am giving this to the Universe, what does the Universe have for me, etc. Sounds like God to me. I love Joseph Campbell's quote, "God is a metaphor for a mystery that absolutely transcends all human categories of thought."
Jeff I love that quote! Yes you are so right!🤩🤩🙏🙏
That’s a great video Forest!
Love it!
thank you, thank you, thank you!!! This was exactly I wanted to hear. Actually, I was thinking of messaging you about this similar question that had been pestering me recently. Lots of love brother. Respect.
Beautiful brother, I'm so glad this was synchronous 🤗🙏🤩🌹
@@ForrestKnutson make mi cry...i prostrate myself to THAT GREAT BEAUTY , LOVE AND POWER, again and again! LOVE IN GOD and GURUS!
Yogananda's antenna metaphor really struck a nerve. We are tuning our antenna so that we can communicate with the Divine. Yes. Yes. Thank you teacher for these glorious clarifications!❤ You are such a gift to us all.
Isn't that perfect? Thank you so much 🤩 🙏 🌹
Thank you Forrest! We have talked about This subject multiple times. It’s something I’ve struggled with since I started following your teachings some years ago. I still struggle reconciling God and what I now know about the brain, nervous system, and mediation. Thank you for reframing it as an essential part of the process. That helps.
Beautiful Scott, yes exactly 🤩 🤗🙏🌹
This is so important Forrest!
Don't know who to credit for this: Life is a Mystery to be lived; not a problem to be solved!
That thou art
Beautiful Fred! Exactly! 🤗🙏
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Lately I've been telling people I'm closer to atheism than ever before, simultaneously I feel God now accessible than ever. 😄
He's just really quiet.
Thank you for the video its echoed many of my thoughts and concerns
Find him in the stillness @ first… then reach out to Christ ❤ your on the journey this is how my spiritualism happened to me! He’s real He LOVES you.
Great clarification, thank you for what you are doing Forrest!
Thank you Ainslie! 🤩 🙏
As always Beautifully explained...🌹🙏
Thank you Sai! 🤩 🙏🌹
Great video thanks Forrest 🙏❤️🩹🕉️🪷
Thank you 🤩🙏🌹
The immortal Divine created, everything visible and invisible, known and unnown, real and unreal by itself, through itself and from itself. Basically that means God is evrything including scince. God is not just at the bottom of the glass, but He’s the glass, the liquid, the air and you! 🙏🙏🙏🕉🕉🕉📿📿📿
wonderful comment!!! yes the divine is the entire process and the method, and we only think they're separate things from a limited perspective. thank you for this 🙏
Perfectly put Victor! 🤗🙏🌹🌟🙏🌹
Yes
Yes I did love this Forrest. You have such a fabulous way of explaining things and make life so simple. The word "God" seems to carry such a weight to it. If I use the terms "Creator" or "Higher Power" it seems to soften conversations and allow for more acceptance. You have taken the mystery out of meditation and for me that is so big. Thank you so much.
Linda that is soooo perfect 🤗🤩🙏🌹🙏🌹
"God" bless you !
How beautifully and ethereally explained, thank you Guruji. It is wonderful you keep us on the path with these regular precious precise teachings. Namaste 🙏
Thank you so much Subha! So great to hear from you! 🤗🤩🙏🌹 Namaste 🙏
Super nuanced topic, eh? I really like the way Joseph Campbell approached it when saying that our mythic terms should be transparent to transcendence, meaning no word can define an ultimate and perennial reality because it is beyond all concepts and categories of thinking. He quoted Meister Eckhart, which suggested we should let go of any preconceived notion of God to go to God. I love the quotes you used in this videos, btw. Thanks for sharing, Forrest. Blessings and blissings!
Exactly! And that opening to Transcendence helps enable that transition into Absorption! Thank you Mauricio! 🤩 🥰🙏🌹🌟
@@ForrestKnutson Thank you for your work! 😁🤙🔥
Well stated!!! ♥🙏
All the love Forrest
Thank you for this beautiful explanations and the wise quotes from Heisenberg 🙏🏻🙏🏻
You are so welcome 🤩🙏
Yes, so cool to know Heisenberg's uncertainty principal is rooted in the presence of the divine. It makes me smile and feel love.
Atma namaste sir heartfelt gratitude God bless much love 🙏🙏🙏❤
Atma namaste Vimala! Blessings and blissings to you and your family! 🌹🤩🙏🌹🌹
Ohhhhhh goodness my guruji!!!! this is an excellent and needed reconciliation for many people i am sure. i have learned so much from you teaching the scientific way, as i had been perhaps the opposite of many scientific atheists, where i considered that science wouldn't be able to truly figure anything out, but i have seen that there isn't just one way to science haha. so there is for me the manifestation these bodies but not as bodies and so it has been hard to accept that anything about the brain could truly explain my conscious experience of the all-pervasive divine. but i have learned that within the manifestation there is indeed a science which can be utilized to throw us into this perception of the all-pervasive divine and that is certainly just fantastic. for me it isn't about the material brain, because for me it isn't such a thing as this, but there is the appearance as a result of the divine consciousness playing, and from the "outside" this localization of the divine consciousness looks like a brain. so it all works and it is all very good. but it certainly isn't "just the brain" for me even with this because it implies the brain has a separate and solid material existence which i simply cannot see to hold water from direct experience, so for me it's all the divine, even this appearance of a brain is simply a result of the divine play. i am only speaking all of my experience like this to show how much i have matured in this regard, because for two years straight I'd completely deny even the existence of a brain! hahaha, but now i know there slightly more depth but it still fits within the same experiential framework that I've gathered and that is excellent.
Wonderful Amber 🌹 🤩🙏
Thank you Forrest! It's magical and loved the explanation. Science is somehow catching up on brain but who made that brain is beyond brain. wow 🙏🙏🌹🌹
the best explaination.
Thank you so much 🤩 🙏
Exactly dear guru ji, I was doing all the meditation techniques correctly, which initially benefitted me, but after some time due to my own bad karma nothing was working for me, i used to feel very low. But after the prayers which my guru/meditation teacher did for me😂🙏❤,my life and meditation slowly improved, i became a devotee of divine mother. Though even now sometimes the path of spirituality feels painful and full of failures,but still i trust the kriya yoga gurus and divine. I hope I will be a kriya yogi one day. I bow down to you Forrest guru ji.Thank you🕉❤
Very true, the practice has to be alive or our hearts will fall out of it. Wonderful testimony 🙏 🙌
Hey Forrest, I’ve noticed that when I enter deep states of mediation, whether I’m chanting a mantra or just breathing silently, I tilt my head to the right, idk why this is but for me to enter deep states of meditation, my head needs to tilt a little bit to the right, is this something you’ve heard of before?
Happens with me as well. But not always. Cos every meditation is a different experience. Even the impulses in the forehead are a bit skewed towards right rather than the centre.
I will often feel the right side of the brain expanding as it gets activated. It's a delicious feeling.
Everyone is in their personal process. Nothing is ever wrong. We all are perfect in our imperfections because we need to learn. It's ok and I love and support you always.
Oh yes, everybody in their own time.
I just checked out Todd Murphy on your advice and watched one of his presentations about enlightenment and the brain. On the face of it it’s easy to say oh, all spiritual states are just a brain phenomena after all. But then something didn’t sit well with me and I realized it’s like talking to someone on FaceTime and saying it’s just a phone phenomenon or looking at pictures on a computer and chalk the pictures up to the computer generating images. there is a programmer, there is a real person on the other side. God just built mechanisms into our brain, just like he built mechanisms in all of nature, so that we can reach him directly. And your video confirms that as well so thank you!
That's perfect 🤩🙏
Hi Forest,
I have a query :
I started with maha mudra last week and i can fell my stomatch burning inside after that .
I am fat and not much flexible so i can say I’m not doing muda fully the way yogis do.
Is heat sensation is because of that ?
Please answer 🙏
Awesome video
Hello Guru Knutson.. This is just the answer I was looking for. I read a recommended book by you Sacred Pathways by Todd Murphy and read about the God Helmet experiments. And for a week or so I was sad nd dejected.. Tat God can be created in a lab setting. But then I came out of this. And ur video has just been an icing on the cake. Thanks once again.
That's amazing 🥰🙏
Just a thought, what if science is just a way of explaining how God works and that at the end of the day everything is still the divine?
Great video Forrest, what is that book behind your right shoulder which looks like it has Lahiri Mahasaya on the binding?
Yes exactly. That's a book that one of my students put together for me.🤗🙏🌹
Nice video, I needed to hear this today, I recently lost my job and im unemployed and I started to lose faith in God. Although it does seem I have very poor karma.....but that can hopefully be worked out, somehow.
That's actually the perfect time to lean on the Higher Self. Because by ourselves we will have a very hard time to accomplish anything, but when we reach up and ask for assistance we can find great help to get back on track. Also when you think that you have Bad Karma please go ahead and OM into it in your chakras. This will help to wipe it out. 🤗🌹🙏🌹
@@ForrestKnutson Thanks for your answer! Appreciate it. I hope things will work out.
How long can you hold in kechari mudra?
Can you stay 1 hour in kechari mudra?
I would like to know because when I pass my tongue behind the uvula, I can only stay 20 seconds because it pulls in my neck and in my neck.
☯️⛩🙏⛩☯️
Yes, I can hold it without getting that sensation. So there's a little more stretching for you to accomplish to allow the tongue to stretch out all the way inside of the nasal pharynx.🌹🙏
@@ForrestKnutson Alright, thanks for taking the time to answer my question.
☯️⛩🙏⛩☯️
Dear Yogi, can you make a video on yogi harbhajan singh?
Thank you sir, can you explain the Buddhist point of view in this? Why do they say there is nothing at the bottom of the glass?
from my understanding, it's not that there is nothing. it's that the entire whole is nonseparate. there is no single thing that arises in our awareness that is permanently isolated and non-changing.
that awareness itself is the nonchanging thing. but that awareness is "empty" inherently, in that any content can arise in it, any experience can arise in it.
its funny how can sleepy people look at existence and not think that it all came out of God, the Infinite Intelligence lying in every detail of reality, everything being absolutly balanced to perfection, and still not seeing traces of Him, it always surprise me ^^ love your videos my friend! have a great day!
Beautiful! Yes, exactly, but many have been fed wrong ideas or misconceptions and so they miss that beautiful relationship. 🤗🙏
That’s it😀
William Blake wrote that he "saw" God in what he called "the Minute Particular." And another wise man is rumored to have said, "You have eyes, but do not truly see." These quotes indicate that we're all living/moving a bit too fast . . . for real Seeing.
A fine message today, Forrest! Meanwhile, FYI, I'm just waiting, waiting with imposed patience, to re-join the Sangha.
Beautiful Walt! Yes exactly! My goodness are you still waiting? Please text me and I'll send you more of the links until it comes. 🤗🤩🙏🌹🌟
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No vehicle is put into motion without a spark.
That's brilliant and simple! 🤩🤩🙏🙏
So true 😂👌🦋🇸🇪🌍🙏✨♥️🥰✨♥️🙏✨♥️
The scientists should find who is pushing the tectonic plates?
These scientists need a crazy Zen master.
😅 True!