Tao Ming says:

You are not your mind. The truth has been revealed. Visit *Truthcontest•com*
and open the present. The truth is stranger than fiction. 

Pete Sehgal says:

*Science And Spirituality*; Oneness We Are!
*Please watch this short Tedx Talk video, only 14 minutes.*
*The cosmic definition of God:*
Boundaried, divided, separate from you, there is no God. Simply because
everything is God. God is another name for all there is.

Are gods of religions smaller than that?

flavio lujan says:

This is literally what I just finished writing in my memos as I began to
have a wave of spiritual thoughts pour over me, after smoking some sweet
third eye opening Sativa. Every religion has been trying to pin-point the
iffy “Experience” of what it means to be spiritually enlightened. Iffy
because it’s an experience literally beyond words. “infinite oneness” is
literally what it feels like. I believe psychedelics to be like a spiritual
magnifying glass, because most people work through their problems
(relieving their suffering) and become overwhelmed with a sense of being
one with the universe. It makes sense that many people who “reach” this
state preach peace, love, and forgiveness. Its essential to be as objective
as possible with yourself to come to the realizations that you are not an
organism meant to suffer, but to thrive and prosper. You literally ARE your
thoughts, and so meditation is not only used to quiet the random streams of
dialogue, but to tame the dialogue and use it to your unique advantage.
When the dialogue is tamed, the ego vanishes, and all that remains is an
empty vessel. Enlightenment is realizing that the present is both the past
and the future, and that every moment can be crafted specifically to your
liking, having mastered your thoughts. The present is all there ever is and
will be. Learn to ride the wave, not go against it. There is nothing to
fear in the present, only lessons to learn. Namaste.

Anja Tanja says:

Imagine a bottle. Now put everything into that bottl, that you think makes
you. For example: I love dancing, I like video games, I am religious, all,
short, I am impatient, anxcious….. Now. being that is looking at that
bottle, that is you.

Wells says:

Having had this experience first hand, I can say that I have not seen how
this brings an end to suffering. It may end all of those specific types of
suffering he listed, but in the end, we are faced with a terrible
consequence of this truth: We are completely and utterly alone. There is
nothing other than us. Conversations with “other people” are basically us
just talking to ourself. Albeit a piece that has had a different experience
and perspective, but still ourself none the less. Even sex becomes an
elaborate form of masturbation. At the same time it completely justifies
any and all heinous actions we may feel compelled to take against “others”,
as the only one that could possibly be hurt is ourself, which is completely
within our rights.

Many people might say the purpose of life is for us to better know ourself,
and interacting with “others” is a way to better understand the self, but
what is the point if there is no *actual* other to share it with? I have
not been able to find the answer to this question, and I suffer for it.
This realization has actually made me unable to maintain any kind of
meaningful relationship with anyone, be they friend, family or lover, as
all interactions I have with them leave me feeling completely hollow. Now I
avoid interacting with “others” whenever possible, as I feel more alone in
a room of people than I do at my desk on my own.

The irony is before I had this experience, I actually felt fulfilled and
happy. Now there’s a gaping void in my soul that nothing can fill.

Mike Zorzan says:

I’m a big fan of seeing, reading and listening to things that can make me
think critically or ask questions. Even if I disagree, or don’t share the
same views. Jeff brought up some great things in this talk and it was very
interesting. I’m not writing to say he’s wrong, in fact I think he may be
very right, or in the right direction for his ideas. But the whole idea of
pure science comes to mind, the idea that we’re all just cells, energy etc.
And if we pursue this “pure science” we do eliminate what we know as our
humanity. It’s a work of fiction but the idea that pure science has no
place on earth has been touched on before in Alan Moore’s comic The
Watchmen: with Dr. Manhattan. We’re irrational beings trying to strive to
understand the rational and scientific equations that break down everything
and reduce it all to numbers or energy, cells etc. I guess part of my
comment is what came to mind while watching this and part trying to wrap my
head around what Jeff said. 

Patti K says:

*Science and Spirituality*

“Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we
live. Those who mostly identify with their material and transitory form,
with their appearance, bank account, job remain prisoners of those
restrictions imposed on us by the space-time continuum. However, if we
switch to a new consciousness, a consciousness for higher frequencies, we
experience the non transitory, the abiding. Time therefore is real and
exists in the material world; however, it is an illusion on the spiritual
level. Both realities are real. We ourselves decide according to which of
these realities we want to shape our lives.”
— Albert Einstein

*(For those who can understand German, here are Einstein’s actual words:)*

“Zeit und Raum geben uns nicht nur die Umstände vor, in denen wir leben,
sondern ganz besonders die Art, wie wir denken. Denken wir anders, leben
wir auch anders. Jene, die sich vornehmlich mit ihrer stofflichen und
vergänglichen Form identifizieren, mit ihrem Aussehen, Bankkonto, Beruf
bleiben Gefangene jener Einschränkungen, die uns das Raum-Zeit-Kontinuum
auferlegt. Schalten wir jedoch um auf ein neues Bewusstsein, ein
Bewusstsein für höhere Frequenzen, erfahren wir das Unvergängliche,
Beständige. Daher ist Zeit real und existiert in der Welt der Materie. Aber
sie ist eine Illusion auf spiritueller Ebene. Beide Wirklichkeiten sind
wirklich. Wir entscheiden selbst, nach welcher dieser Realitäten wir unser
Leben gestalten wollen.”

Lily Prazsky says:

◊◊◊◊ The book *The Present* on *TruthContest•com* explains this more
clearly and expands on this. ◊◊◊◊

Jon Wright says:

We all accept the parameters of the human condition and in doing so we
create a separation from accepting that we are pure energy and that we are
all one.

Mia Me says:

*I am excited to share this amazing TED Talk with all of you!* *You can use
subtitles and translate them in your language using “Tools” on the video,
in case English is not your mother tongue.*

*This man, Jeff Lieberman, speaks about who we are in a Scientific way, and
gives a great perspective on the Energy Theory, which in my mind is not a
theory but a fact!*

*He asks us to challenge our perception of what we are, our relationship to
the universe, and our relationship to one another. Our minds are
“thought-generating machines.” What would happen if we could turn off the
machine? If we could transcend our individual experience of the world?”*

*Please take a moment and watch. You won’t be sorry. Thank you!* *<3*

John Furr says:

I really enjoyed this video. Than you Jeff for giving the talk.

To the critics…
Maybe you should try meditation for a spell, who knows it might quite down
that over active ego mind that is so skeptical.

eL3ctr1c4L says:

We are here to experience the separation, to have fun and more importantly
to learn, it was our own choice. There is no escaping it as long as we are
alive. “Upstairs” all is one, everybody knows everyone else’s thoughts ,
there are no secrets, so in essence I think it’s more enjoyable here than
“there”, otherwise why come here, right ?

janraj cj says:

This has been mentioned in Vedas and Gita …Are you trying to claim its
your idea ? You should have mention where from you got the basics ?

Slav Bruner says:

As much as he started off great, later on he came to conclusions he should
not have gotten to. Lots of people agree with him here cause he
romanticized and spoke truth, but then combined it with false claims.
It’s true, we are energy and matter (not just energy). He assumed you can
look back and back again out of the fact that you can notice yourself
noticing, or hearing a voice only generated in your brain in a subjective
way. The conclusion from there is not that we are all one, also he assumed
that we HAVE a brain and not that we ARE a brain. He talks about a field of
science not yet tested and little is understood about, that means he
doesn’t get to state claims about it. Sure, he can play with it
philosophically, but the claims that religions tried to teach that to us
from the beginning is lame and wrong. In most religions there are souls
that are a separate thing from the body (like a driver in a car). Obviously
I don’t agree with that.

I do believe that there are different levels of conscientious, I don’t
believe, however, that it’s separate from the body, or that the
conscientious has nothing to do with matter. Like I said, matter and energy
co-exist. There universe is not made from one thing and that’s it. 

Skot Ward says:

We are energy.

Vironika Tugaleva says:

Wow, this talk surprised me at first in how many of his metaphors and words
match my own. But then, why wouldn’t they? There is no “I” that is separate
from “Him” or “You”. Why wouldn’t we find the same truths and use the same
words to describe them?

I do think that, because he is presenting himself, for this moment, as a
scientist, his work is incredibly important and powerful. The scientific
community, with this awareness, could do wonders for the human experience.
This talk excites me about the future of science, the future of humanity.

What do you think of this talk? Have you experienced yourself as energy,
like he say? How has that helped alleviate your suffering?

Science and spirituality: Jeff Lieberman at TEDxCambridge 2011 

Karma Action says:

I believe we need to change our minds.

“We are All One”

The unified field theory.
The measurement problem.
The infinite fluctuation of energy.
Are just some science that support religion and philosophy.

We are God as on consciousness not the illusion of the Id ego self.

Science and spirituality: Jeff Lieberman at TEDxCambridge 2011

Jane Albright says:

my question is how to really let go of our thoughts about this.
I think we are like the fish and we don’t know we are in the water.Jane