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GliderGuider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 12:33 PM
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33. Here's something derived from a "different way of knowing" - not sure if it meets your criteria
Edited on Tue Nov-15-11 12:35 PM by GliderGuider
Many people who have meditated have discovered two things through their meditation:

The "self" as we normally understand it is not real, but an illusion.
There is no difference between the observer, the observed and the act of observing.

People who have encountered these ideas during meditation "know" them to be true. These are certainly not objectively derivable truths, but they form part of the knowledge base of people who investigate subjective reality through deep meditation. This knowledge cuts across cultural, racial, gender, age, political and socio-economic lines, so it has at least some degree of universality.

What sayest thou?
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