Monday, 11 October 2010
The Thunder And The Sunshine
Hey everyone.
This used to be the signature piece of this site. It essentially detailed a breakthrough that I'd had - perhaps my first really big breakthrough. It was about the capacity that people have (strange as it might seem) to see the reality of the absence of self.
I felt it was important to keep this up as long as possible, but I'm afraid the time has come where this piece needs some serious updating in the light of new discoveries.
The new cutting edge of the work I do has superceded the insights in this piece to a degree that is in essence total.
You can read the new cutting edge at this link here - it takes the insights from this piece, and moves them to a much clearer level. This was made possible by a lot of very brutal and painstaking testing, and I'm very happy with the result.
I haven't deleted this article - I've just put it in stasis for a while so I can edit it up properly in light of new discoveries. It was an absolute beast of a piece, easily 90+ pages of A4, so that's not something that I can just hammer out.
It might even be possible to get it properly sorted out, and release it as a full book, but we'll play that by ear.
Thank you so much for reading, and for your interest. Don't forget to sign up for updates for this site in the sidebar, so you can get notified first when this, or anything else, gets released.
Thanks again.
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Incredible!!
I've but one thing after reading this mate - Pure and Utter Respect. Pure and Utter Respect. I never knew the extent of the struggle you really went through!
Global Philosophy - Golden!
Love your work mate. Really love it.
Maverick.
Thanks for sharing all that Ciaran, really interesting and a great read.
Dan
"Cogito ergo sum" = "I think therefore I am"
"Cogitare ergo esse" = "To think therefore to be" (infinitive forms)
In latin, as in spanish, you don't use personal pronouns in ordinary sentences, the ending of the verb determines the subject. So "I think" in Spanish is "Pienso" in Latin is "Cogito".
Just wanted to let you know, because dickheads like me, who argue logic rather than look for truth will jump on this.
Now continuing to read whole thing.
I love you.
Ah, I knew that Cogito thing would bite me in the ass. I shall go back and reedit it - thanks for telling me.
Actually I'll pretend that I knew it all along. That way everyone will think that I'm really clever. Which is, when you really get down to it, the whole point. Clever. Yes. Clever, clever Ciaran.
Clever.
Woohoooo Learned how to post on blogs =D BE afraid.. Be very afraid.
And To my man Ciaran. Proud is the only word that comes to mind.
You narrowly avoided martyrdom.
We do not need another Martyr
Congrats
You've never failed to be a staggering talent as a writer! I'm hopeful that your pathological angst has passed, that you're begun to see the wisdom in pragmatism, and that you've sufficiently-enough vented your spleen (metaphorically, at least) that you'll be fun to talk to again soon!
Haha, thanks Johnny. And thanks for the words about my writing, that's really cool man. Thing is, I've always been comfortable with writing from a very young age, and so it never really meant anything to me. I was always more concerned with having something to say.
That to me was the big thing, and actually now that I say it, I kinda realise something. That I saw my ability to write as like this responsibility. If I was good at saying things in a way that got through to people, I saw it as my responsibility, actually as my duty, to find out something worth the saying.
This isn't why I did all this, but yes it is a contributing factor. I just feel that if a man can help in a certain way, he has the duty to do that.
And obviously, I also did it for the LULZ. Those two things.
Ok, fixed the cogito bit. Kinda.
So if I am just the imagination of myself, whats the point of it all then? :(
Look - every else is real. Love is real, hope is real, freedom is real. Meaning is real.
The only thing that isn't is you. And this isn't a 'step you take' into a 'new way of thinking'.
It's the truth. There really is no you. There never was.
And the crazy thing is this - it is the idea of self which poisons all things. It is self which destroys meaning, not self that makes it possible.
There is no you.
by 'you', you are referring to the ego right? I definitely know you are onto something and I have fully suppressed my ego several times on psychedelic drugs, only to find out that it's an illusion that we create to tie us into this materialistic world, and it was definitely a majestic experience then that happened.
I really enjoyed your read, however i didn't really see hope of a solution in the read. You identified the problem very well, but now what?
There is no you, there is no we, there is no I, there only is... is. So we are self created illusions dancing and meddling with real emotions and experiences? It just sounds a little dull and pointless when I think about it like that... whats the point of life if we are just self created illusions? :(
Ciaran,
Thanks for that, your honesty and generosity and inspirational courage are greatly appreciated. Great great news about your sister.
Perhaps this is just glaringly obvious, but isn't this delusion of I-ness similar to what buddhists and other meditators call 'selfing'?
Right now there's a bit of selfing going during this typing/thinking. And much of the day is lost in selfing. But it seems like there are times of clarity -- mindful moments, to use a puke-worthy phrase. Is the 'enlightenment' you're spreading enduring, in the sense of no more selfing, no more delusion, or is it basically helping folks become mindful of the crap but not necessarily abiding nondual awareness?
oh yeah, brass tacks. get down to it.
in good moments it's like looking through a rainy window. blurry, with lots of distortion and moments of clarity. is it the window or the eyes that are obstructed?
Irrelevant. It's not your window, and they're not your eyes.
there's just life...
Good. GOOD. Stay on it, see the depth of the truth. See how real the self isn't - how it never was and never could be. Look, keep looking, you're right on the edge.
aka Pyrrho ;-)
Hahahaha nice.
This is hands down the longest text I have ever read on a computer screen, my eyes are reeeed! But oh man was it worth it! Super inspirational, very very mind-blowing stuff. At few moments while reading I had weird feeling in my body, I felt lighter, calmer...so hard to explain it, I was never a really good writer plus English is my 3rd language :P Even though I will definitely look even deeper in to it I cant help to have feelings of doubt and to be honest I'm really confused and a bit scarred right now. There is just so many "truths" in the books, on the net and so on that I learned to be open minded but at the same time very cautious. I'm going through some difficult times in my life, I went through a long and severe depression which led me to open my eyes and see life from totally new perspective (didn't use any medication, didn't get any help, I helped myself which to be honest I'm very proud of). All that made me seek, didn't know for what, stil not sure, yet after reading this text I feel one big step closer (hopefully I'm right). I read fair amount of stuff about ego and came to conclusion that ego is probably our worst enemy in this world, I also read somewhere about "killing" your ego but to be honest I was put off by this idea after hearing from few people that this might have catastrophic consequences for my mental stability, so as a confused and pretty weak (mentally and physically) person I decided to not think about it much more. Is the idea of realizing that there is no ME the same as pretty much killing your ego or is it still there, and if it is, in what sense? I'm trying to figure out what would change in my life if i would finally become free of my evil side that brings regret, guilt, self destructive thoughts and so on? As I understood, enlightenment helps (does?) just that?
I'm sorry if this doesn't make much sense but first of all, I'm REALLY tired, second, there is so much in my mind after reading this that Its hard to concentrate and really take it in and analyze it good enough to fully grasp all the good points you made, third, I'm not very clever guy to be honest :P Maybe I will read it again and then post something, for now I'm leaving you a sign that you touched yet another soul few thousands kilometers away :) Happy new year ;)
Thanks, man. Oh, and the heart of all this is something a 5 year-old could grasp, so don't worry about not being 'intellectually up to it.' There's just no you. Just look. Look at life. There's no you.
CLEVER CIRIAN!!!!!!!! Just found you today. Been searching since, well, not that long I guess. Barely 2 years.
And I've got questions, but instead of asking I'm going to just LOOK
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for sharing, it is priceless.
Shazaam baby!
This post is a fucking treasure
Coincidentally I found a link to your site on the EndOfTheInter.Net.
I made it here, after skipping through the forums and finding the Q&A. You know, going for the quick and dirty, standard read and dismiss. I made it to this link and read. And paused when you first said to turn the screen off or put the paper down. I paused and I thought. I made some notes. I didn't get it. I read on. I ran into a weird bump where I started comparing the imaginary 'i' in math with the 'golden ratio' and got onto a weird tangent. Then I realized time was being wasted.
I read on.
I didn't much flow with the rage section, but understood the effectiveness. Having been (and still am) in the U.S. military, I see its effectiveness often. Anyway. I read on.
I was doing my best to use my eyes and not my head. I read on. I got to your conversation with Hans. I paused at times. I don't smoke, but I made pauses, re-read the video comment. I still didn't get it.
"CIARAN no
everything remains
everything is real
except you
the feelings are real
the life is real
the mind is real
the hope is real
the fear is real
the body is real
you
are the only fiction"
I read that. I got goosebumps on my whole body. Is there. The death of the ego. It has been my problem my whole life, but I was never really aware until recently. Only about a year and a half. But there it is. Right there. My vision tunneled. All there was was white encircling the black of the letters on my screen.
It's been touched. I just have to beat that ego to death and stop running from the truth.
Thank you, sir.
The gritty, realistic, way you portray it is part of the communication. In a world so engulfed by hate, hate must be used to communicate anything. It's there, now, as it has been, but its exposed. Exposed to the laymen.
Again, thank you.
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