Rizwan Virk | The Simulation Hypothesis | Talks at Google

2019 marks the 20th anniversary of what is arguably one of the best Science fiction movies ever made – The Matrix. It popularized an ancient idea that the world we live in may not be real. In other words, our world is just an illusion, a simulation — a video game. So, Are we really living in a video game? Game industry veteran Rizwan (Riz) Virk believes this could be true. Rizwan (“Riz”) Virk is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, bestselling author, video game industry pioneer, and indie film producer. Virk currently runs Play Labs @ MIT (www.playlabs.tv) a startup accelerator for playful technologies held on campus at the MIT Game Lab and Bayview Labs (www.bayviewlabs.com). Virk’s books include: Startup Myths and Models: Secrets They Don’t Teach You at Stanford Business School, from Columbia University Press (2020), Zen Entrepreneurship: Walking the Path of the Career Warrior (2013), and Treasure Hunt: Follow Your Inner Clues to Find True Success (2017). Virk’s video games have been played by millions, including Tap Fish, and games based on TV shows like Penny Dreadful and Grimm. Virk has been an investor in many video game companies, including Telltale Games (creator of narrative games based on The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones), Disruptor Beam (creator of Star Trek: Timelines game), Pocket Gems, Tapjoy, Sliver.tv, and Discord.

PAPAJI – Look within yourself and you will find that You Are God

The first 9 and half minutes of this amazing satsang from the 12th of February 1993 are in silence. Papaji speaks about Consciousness: “You are already free, and this freedom is consciousness. You think that contact with the objects of the senses gives you happiness, therefore everybody is involved with the objects of the senses. Whenever there is pleasure, it is from the Self, of the Self, of the consciousness; not of any objects. Objects are temporary. It is the Self that is bliss. Once you know it and you are one with it, then whosoever you will meet, you will meet from the Self and you will not find any difference between you and other objects. Your love will be forever; not with the name, not with the form, but of the Self, to the Self, of the Self, within the Self.” Highlights of this satsang are: *Riya: “All doubts have been removed. All that was ‘I’ has disappeared into stillness. Who is free? It isn’t ‘I’ because ‘I’ isn’t there.” Papaji quotes Kabir: “Let the body be still, and let the mind be still, and let the intellect be still. That’s all you have got to do, and then this stillness will attract what is called enlightenment, freedom, emancipation, emptiness. They will follow behind.” Papaji gives her the name Aruna. He speaks about no need for any sadhana, and asks her to explain her experience. Aruna: “I realized that there was no ‘I.’ It was like the ‘I’ was absolutely a thought and had nothing to do with anything else. It was fiction. And when I realized that it was fiction everything else disappeared. And every thought that came, I asked to whom is this thought addressed? And I got nothing. It disappeared.” *Sambuddha: “I get hooked wanting to open my heart more to deepen my understanding.” Papaji: “This ‘I’ is a hook, and you are being fished. Around that ‘I’ some meat is there and everybody goes there. So, wiser are the fish who don’t touch it. This net is samsara, slowly moving. Get out of it any time.” *Angelica: “Please talk to me about love.” Papaji: “Love can be only of the Self. All the rest is lusting about. If you want to see what is love, direct your mind not to any person but to the source of the mind. Love is so pure, immaculate and there’s no demand, no command. Love is to give away without any kind of interest, to give yourself up. Nothing in exchange. Only that person can be happy who loves That.” *Jerry: “I am consciousness.” Papaji: “You are that which has no limitations, and no time, and no space also. Everything is included into this consciousness because there are no limits. We construct a veil between emptiness and ourself, therefore we get into trouble. And emptiness, consciousness can never be touched. Look within yourself and you will find that you are God.” *Sammy: “In a flash I experience that the Self is everyone, everywhere, everything; that the Self manifests in whatever form, or as whatever experience is needed to lead one back to the Self. Sometimes I see a bright white dot in front of my eyes. Is there any, any significance to this?” Papaji: “All lights are still subtle mind. You have become seer to see the lights, then light has become object.Let your mind not abide anywhere, let it be anything, gross or subtle, light or darkness. You go on going, go on going, without abiding anywhere, and then you will continuously go on going.” This is the official YouTube channel of H.W.L. Poonja, well known as Papaji, run by the Avadhuta Foundation, a non-profit organization supported by donations and grants. To donate (thank you) to help this channel continue and keep all content accessible for everyone, visit http://avadhuta.com/donate To learn more about Papaji and his teachings, visit http://avadhuta.com To buy physical copies in India of Papaji videos, books and audio CDs, see http://satsangbhavan.net

Multi-Dimensional Origins of Human Species from Edgar Cayce’s Perspective

Cayce expert John Van Auken talks about his new book, 𝐸𝑑𝑔𝑎𝑟 𝐶𝑎𝑦𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝐹𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟. He shares how Edgar Cayce’s spiritiual concepts and methods complement the lessons in the classical Chinese book, 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝐹𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟: 𝐴 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝐵𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝐿𝑖𝑓𝑒. Both teach that we may be personalities in material bodies surrounded by a world of activity and relationships, but we are also celestial beings, sparks of life, only temporarily incarnating. This episode was previously live-streamed on our Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E. Facebook page.

Not Two (Part 3)- Death is an illusion [Non Duality Meeting]-Kenneth Madden

This meeting was held in July 2022 Music by Kenneth Madden-

In this non-duality meeting recorded in 2022, Kenneth Madden looks directly at the fear of death and finds that what we dread losing — a separate self — was never there to begin with. An unflinching session in the plain-spoken Irish non-dual style.

You Do Not Have a Life – Eckhart Tolle Explains

https://youtu.be/Dok_LJaqeLU

Our true identity is revealed in Eckhart’s lecture, and how we, rather than having a life, are actually life itself.

Eckhart Tolle undoes the phrase we use without thinking: you do not have a life, you are life. The apparent possession of a separate existence dissolves the moment presence replaces the mental narrative of self.

The Art of Life

A documentary about the art of living outside of conventions, in deep integrity with one’s essence.

A meditation on living as a creative act rather than a problem to be solved — the shift from managing existence to participating in it. Drawn from the perennial teaching that life is played, not won.

I Am (2010) Documentary by Tom Shadyac

Director Tom Shadyac speaks with intellectual and spiritual leaders about what’s wrong with our world and how we can improve both it and the way we live in it. Stars: Tim Allen, Morgan Freeman, Steve Carell, Jim Carrey, The Dalai Lama, Jennifer Aniston, Danny DeVito, Michael Douglas, Courteney Cox, Brad Dourif, Noam Chomsky, Daniel Quinn, Desmond Tutu, Ray Anderson, John Francis, Thom Hartmann, Chris Jordan, Howard Zinn, Dean Radin, Karo

Here’s a link to the full movie:

https://fmovies.wtf/movie/i-am-n3qxn/1-full

PAPAJI – Call Off The Search (Full Documentary)

This documentary, shot and produced in Lucknow in 1993, includes interviews with Papaji along with rare footage of Sri Ramana Maharshi. There are also testimonials from some of the many people who have attained freedom through Papaji’s presence and grace. Call off the Search captures Papaji beautifully, as he discusses the nature of enlightenment and the impediments, which seem to obscure it. His message is clear, “We already are That for which we are seeking.” This is the official YouTube channel of H.W.L. Poonja, well known as Papaji, run by the Avadhuta Foundation, a non-profit organization supported by donations and grants. To donate (thank you) to help this channel continue and keep all content accessible for everyone, visit http://avadhuta.com/donate To learn more about Papaji and his teachings, visit http://avadhuta.com To buy physical copies in India of Papaji videos, books and audio CDs, see http://satsangbhavan.net

Staya Erusa-The Book of Knowledge

A Dutch documentary that weaves near-death experiences, reincarnation research, and the untapped capacities of the brain into a single question: does consciousness survive the body? Its answer points toward a universe in which mind, not matter, keeps the records.

Whitley Strieber Unveils Life-Changing Secrets Given to Him by a Mysterious Being!

I had the honor of speaking to renowned and New York Times best-selling author Whitley Strieber. He began his writing career with a pair of modern-Gothic horror novels, The Wolfen (1981) and The Hunger (1983), which was turned into a feature film by the late great filmmaker Tony Scott.

He is perhaps best known for the third phase of his career, which began with Communion (1989), an autobiographical account of his experiences with strange alien “visitors” who he says came to his cabin in the New York countryside. This #1 New York Times Non-Fiction Bestseller (on the list for 15 weeks) was also turned into a film starring Christopher Walken.

Whitley has written several other thrillers, and two novels about environmental apocalypse, Nature’s End and The Coming Global Superstorm. Superstorm served as an inspiration for Fox’s The Day After Tomorrow (2004), and Strieber later penned the novelization of that film.

“Hate is like coal, it burns out. Love is like heat, it doesn’t.” – The Master of the Key

In this episode, we will be discussing one of Whitley’s most profound books, The Key: A True Encounter.

At two-thirty in the morning of June 6, 1998, Whitley Streiber was awakened by somebody knocking on his hotel room door. A man came in, and everything he said was life-altering.

This is the unsettling and ultimately enlightening narrative of what happened that night. Strieber was never really sure who this strange and knowing visitor was–a “Master of Wisdom”? A figure from a different realm of consciousness? A preternaturally intelligent being? He called him the Master of the Key. The one thing of which Strieber was certain is that both the man and the encounter were real.

The main concern of the Master of the Key is to save each of us from self-imprisonment. “Mankind is trapped,” the stranger tells Strieber. “I want to help you spring the trap.” In a sweeping exchange between Strieber and the stranger–which takes the form of a classical student- teacher dialogue in pursuit of inner understanding–the unknown man presents a lesson in human potential, esoteric psychology, and man’s fate. He illuminates why man has been caught in a cycle of repeat violence and self-destruction–and the slender, but very real, possibility for release.

In its breadth and intimacy, The Key is on par with contemporary metaphysical traditions, such as A Course in Miracles, or even with the dialogues of modern wisdom teachers, such as D.T. Suzuki and Carl Jung.

It was a pleasure speaking to Whitley. Enjoy!