MBT Fireside Chats

Time stamps for this session:

0:00:30 Consciousness, thoughts and universal language
0:10:10 Noam Chomsky & how babies learn language
0:15:50 Learning foreign languages - video from 9 year old philosopher on the meaning of life
0:18:00 Senses in NPMR - are they different from our regular 5 senses?
0:22:20 Senses as an intake of information but also as a limitation
0:26:15 Learning to interprete NPMR reality through experience
0:31:25 Learning in NPMR (or a dream) to avoid painful experiences in PMR
0:35:10 NPMR experiences as training, taking our imagination more seriously
0:38:55 Can we learn more easily in PMR than in NPMR
0:40:35 Why do highly evolved beings come to our PMR?
0:43:25 When is a healing somebody else beneficial, when is it interference
0:56:30 Providing help to unfortunate individuals, becoming involved
1:06:25 Children becoming humble from meeting less fortunate people
1:09:20 Are violent negative experiences a necessary part of our life
1:22:35 Learning by reading, learning is more than an intellectual process
1:28:20 Taking on jobs in NPMR - Can we sign up for them?
1:31:55 Becoming more "awake" during meditation - processing NPMR experiences
1:39:10 Lucid dreams & OBEs - Why did they stop happening to me?
1:43:50 Can we learn to have OBEs at will?
1:45:45 Group-imagination experiments, undervaluing imagination
2:02:10 Making easy experiences difficult, different forms of imagination
2:07:35 End of session

PMR = non-physical-matter reality
PMR = physical-matter reality
OBE = out-of-body experience