Only You Exist (& Science Can’t Disprove it)

[00:00:00]The most profound thing that science cannot ever prove and will never prove is the existence of consciousness.

[00:00:13]And this is so beautiful because consciousness is the very fabric of our experience. The only thing we actually experience is consciousness.

[00:00:25]But science can't prove it actually exists.

[00:00:28]Now, what does that actually mean? It means that in order for science, right, material science to prove something exists, it means it has to stand out from something.

[00:00:38]So, it means it must have a measurable quality.

[00:00:42]Because that's how you prove something exists, right? If I say there's a pink elephant, the proof you'll want is to be able to see the elephant. You'll want to know its size, its shape, its form, its color, its texture. You'll want to understand, you know, if it's not just a mirage, you'll want to be able to touch it, you see? You'll want to be able to uh obviously see it, but I was going to say taste it, but that just doesn't sound right. You want to be able to prove it exists, right? Let's put it that way.

[00:01:07]Science is operates the same, right?

[00:01:09]Science wants to prove what exists, what doesn't exist, what does exist, what is reality.

[00:01:13]Science can't prove consciousness exists.

[00:01:16]There's no way you can prove it. Prove it objectively. So, like a scientist can't say, "I have proof consciousness exists. Here it is."

[00:01:27]Right? You can't lay it all out on the table because consciousness is completely subjective. So, you can't prove consciousness exists objectively because it's not an object. So, this is just such a beautiful realization. And when I when I One of the most profound experiences in my life is when I first heard about this from a friend. We were 12 or something. We were walking through the the city, uh like probably going shopping, and he said to me, he said, "You know, and the most craziest thing of all, science doesn't know what consciousness is.

[00:02:00]And I was like, "What?" I said, "Doesn't science know everything?"

[00:02:03]Shouldn't scientists know what consciousness is? That just seems such a normal thing to know about, right? That seems I was like, "Wow." And I had this feeling of like how mysterious consciousness was for the first time ever.

[00:02:16]How mysterious it was to to to have this fascination of that consciousness it it's like there, but it isn't there.

[00:02:24]So, the interesting thing about how um the fact that science can't prove that consciousness exists is because it then shows you just how far and limited science is to discover anything.

[00:02:37]Because the only thing that we can truly discover about reality is our self. Because or our at least our mind, because anything we observe in reality is going to be influenced by our mind. So, we can never really know what we're looking at unless we know what's looking at it.

[00:02:53]Because for all we know, whatever we discover in the world is filtered and influenced by the limitations of our own mind. Because that's what we're using to observe the world. No one observes the world with a telescope. No one observes the world with a microscope. No one observes the world with tools. We observe the world with our mind.

[00:03:13]Your mind right now, when you're observing the screen of your phone or your computer is literally rendering the experience.

[00:03:22]You're not actually experiencing a phone. You're experiencing colors.

[00:03:26]Colors is what you are experiencing.

[00:03:29]When you touch your phone, you're not experiencing a phone, right? A phone is a concept modulated on top of a simple sensation. So, we have to draw back, right? This is what I call perceptual seeing not conceptual seeing.

[00:03:45]Conceptual seeing is I'm touching a phone. Perceptual seeing, what it what that means is experiential seeing, is to experience not the phone, but the sensation that we are labeling phone.

[00:03:57]So, we want to be able to learn to go directly to what it is we're actually experiencing. It's a very um it's a very underrated way of seeing the world. It's actually a more accurate way of seeing the world than adding concepts to it.

[00:04:10]So, we want to be able to experience the raw experiences that we're experiencing, like we don't experience weight, we experience a raw sensation. You don't experience the weight of your body.

[00:04:20]Weight is a concept applied to the experience of your body.

[00:04:24]So, what we find is that everything we experience in the world, it's all made of these ideas that aren't actually there.

[00:04:34]What's actually there is very different to of what the ideas we have of of what is there. So, what we say is there is the phone, but what we experience is color.

[00:04:43]What we say is our body, what we experience is sensation. Nothing objective actually exists. We cannot ever ever prove or find the objective thing we seem to experience. And this is the fascinating thing about science, not even science can.

[00:05:00]The name science gives to what it thinks is there, but isn't actually there, but should be there because something is there, is called matter. Matter is the word the the scientific word for I have no idea.

[00:05:12]It's a beautiful thing to realize matter is the scientific word for I have no idea.

[00:05:19]And when we look at where matter, where the thing is that's meant to exist, like the thing that the thing that matter's meant to be, the thing that should be there, it isn't actually there. And every time we look closely into something, the thing breaks down into nothing, literally. That's why science says 99% of everything is empty space.

[00:05:39]And that 1% is the matter. No, the 1% isn't there either.

[00:05:43]They think it's there because something must be making the other 99% appear to be there, right? But every time we look, we can't find it. Why is that? Could it be because the only thing we haven't looked at is the very thing that's looking?

[00:06:00]Once we see the thing that's looking at the things is actually consciousness, and everything we look at is fabricated with consciousness. So, you can In other words, you can't see something and not be conscious of it.

[00:06:15]But you can be conscious without seeing.

[00:06:18]This is the craziest thing. Experience is fabricated with consciousness. Even if there was an infinite god in the sky, that god's experience would have to be either that the god doesn't have an experience at all, which would be a very limited god, right? Have no experience. It may as well not exist.

[00:06:36]Or it would be having an experience. And if it's having an experience, well, it's got to be conscious of the experience.

[00:06:43]So, what we find is that no matter Here we go. We could dream. We could dream a dream of a dream. We could trip a trip of a trip. We could die and be reborn.

[00:06:50]We could go wherever we want. Do whatever we want. Be some type of intergalactic alien that has like 20,000 senses.

[00:06:58]Each of those senses, in order to have an experience, must be aware of something.

[00:07:02]So, what we find is that experience always comes back to being fabricated on awareness.

[00:07:06]Awareness, awareness, awareness is the fundamental substratum of any possible experience. Now, why do we put so much importance on experience, right?

[00:07:14]Experience is very subjective.

[00:07:16]Experience isn't an objective. If you want to know something real, we should be talking about objective truths, right? But here's the thing.

[00:07:23]Find me an objective truth, then we'll talk about it.

[00:07:27]You can't find one. There's no objective truth. So, what this means is that there's no object that we can claim actually exists that stands outside the capacity and limitations of our mind.

[00:07:41]Nothing is outside that. Find me something that is outside consciousness that is objective and not influenced by the capacity of our mind. Then we'll start talking about objective truth. But until we find that, which by the way, we still are yet to find, >> [laughter] >> why are we talking about it? What would be the point, right? Because if there is a reality at all, it must it must be included in this experience.

[00:08:06]Why would it is imagine that reality is infinite and it's it's it's reality is, but not in this one. Not in this reality. This reality that we're experiencing, reality is not actually there. It's in the one that's outside experience.

[00:08:20]That makes no sense whatsoever.

[00:08:23]If reality exists, which it obviously does because you are listening to the sound of my voice, it is a self-validating that existence is, whatever it might be, even if we don't know what it is. We know that it is. So, if we know that it is, we are in the seat of existence. In other words, if we can question if we can question it and know know about it, we are in the top priority we are we we are in the the highest degree to be able to explore it, right? Because beyond that, you wouldn't care about it and under that, you wouldn't think about it. You see?

[00:08:58]So, we're in the priority seat. We're in the VIP zone. We are in the absolute university of discovering reality because we have the only parameters in which you need and would require and that would even be and that would even make you interested enough to explore it.

[00:09:19]So, now we've got that out of the way, it's interesting to see that what we tend to do with our mind, this isn't just science, this is just human nature, we try to verify truth objectively. We try to look for some kind of objective experience that verifies reality, verifies the nature of reality.

[00:09:39]This tendency has to be let go of because it's like predicating a science experiment on something that doesn't actually exist and that you can't actually experience.

[00:09:50]So, we all have to kind of get to the same playing field on this path. We have to let go of the way we used to think we learned. We have to let go of the old paradigm of discovery, adventure, exploration and start to base things on what we're actually experiencing. But the problem is is that when you go there, I mean it's not really a problem, but scientifically the problem is you're not talking about objective truth anymore.

[00:10:12]So, what you find is that the deeper you go into discovering objective truth the deeper you go into finding subjective truth and that you realize the only truth that you could ever possibly find is subjective.

[00:10:23]So, you kind of have to treat this investigation as though nobody else is the authority on truth other than you.

[00:10:31]Because you the only one you can discover is subjective. I could say yes, this is an objective truth, but if you can't experience that for yourself, it means nothing.

[00:10:40]So, there's a stage of maturity in philosophy, in science, in just understanding life in general where you must put yourself as the leading authority and if you don't feel an authority, you must find that within yourself. You must understand how your intellect works, how reason, logic and understanding work so that you can start fabricating your own investigations on your own direct experience.

[00:11:05]What we want is less outsourcing our intelligence to more intelligent people, which is a complete load of nonsense.

[00:11:12]There's no one more intelligent. There's just people who've been conditioned in different ways so that we find that intelligence within our self.

[00:11:21]And what we find is that our mind opens up when we stop limiting our intellect, limiting our intelligence on outsourcing it to somebody else.

[00:11:31]Our own thinking capacity awakens. Our own capacity to explore awakens. And what we find is that you can't keep exploring something that seems to be objective. You can only explore how your subjective influences the objective. In other words, how your subjective mind, how the filters of your mind influence what we appear to see in the world. And what we find is that ultimately, there's nothing we experience objective. All of our experience is purely a subjective experience because all the concepts that we have of the world aren't real. The concepts themselves are illusory. The experience of your body is illusory.

[00:12:12]It's illusory in the sense that something is there, that's correct, but your body is is filtered through the dimension of seeing. When you look at a body, a body is filtered through the dimension of seeing. For example, what you see isn't what you feel. There's been so many experiments done where people have been blind and there's a sphere and there's a square or a cube and a sphere.

[00:12:33]And they feel the cube, they say, "This is the This is the cube. Can you feel those edges, those really sharp edges?

[00:12:39]This is what a cube is, right?" When they were still blind. And this is a sphere. Do you feel how smooth it is?

[00:12:44]They say, "Yes, it's very smooth. I understand."

[00:12:47]And then all of a sudden, they take the Take the blindfold off. They They They get their eyesight healed and they say, "Right, now here's the experiment. Which one's the cube and which one's the sphere?" And they have no idea. What they see isn't relevant to what they feel. This goes for all experience.

[00:13:02]So, our senses conspire, right? Like an optical illusion, to make sense of one whole thing.

[00:13:11]But individually, they don't correspond.

[00:13:13]We think they correspond because this is how the ego works, the ego structure that develops a continuation of experience, that develops a continuation of reality, is structured in such a way that everything makes sense. Everything appears to be moving through time.

[00:13:30]Right? This is why it makes sense that when I when I look around right now, I don't get overwhelmingly shocked that I just randomly appeared at a beach because I go, "Ah, no, I got here because I went to the cafe and before the cafe, I was at my flat, then I was here, then I was there."

[00:13:43]We have this memory structure built on concepts that overlay the actual thing we're experiencing. And what is the actual thing we're experiencing? Well, tell me, what's the only what's the one requirement that would require you to have an experience?

[00:13:59]Awareness. Consciousness. The one thing science cannot understand.

[00:14:04]The only thing that experiences, the only thing that understands, and the only thing required in order to actually have an experience.

[00:14:13]So, if anything, I hope this video makes you more curious and interested and passionate about understanding subjective reality as a means of exploring objective reality. Because what's true, what's fundamentally true for us, if we discover fundamental truth for ourselves, we then in turn naturally discover fundamental truth for everything else.

[00:14:35]Because if it's if it's ultimately true from one point of view, it's true from all points of view. Otherwise, it's not truth.

[00:14:42]So, instead of looking outwardly to try and discover reality, to try and find a state of mind, look inwardly and understand what is it that's actually observing experience to begin with. What is it that's filtering experience? What is the What is What is actually fabricating my mind? When I experience the world, what what is color? What is sensation? What is smell, touching, hearing? What are these things experienced as? Not the scientific definitions that are filled with concepts, the actual minute-to-minute experience that you are currently having. Discover it yourself. Don't outsource it to someone else. Unless it's provisional outsourcing. Unless it's getting guidance to then point you back. This is what this video is about right now.

[00:15:24]You're getting guidance, but the guidance is taking it back to you, putting you back in the seat of existence, putting you back as the source of authority on your direct experience. This is something that has to be discovered within yourself. It's not something that can be discovered in the world. If you'd like to go deeper on these topics and actually understand a bit more, I've got some videos that I'll put put up on the screen. And I've also got a free community where I can give you um live calls and feedback on your explorations. The link for that is in the description.

[00:15:54]Have an amazing day. Take care. Bye.