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Old 29-11-2021, 06:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Still_Waters
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There are some non-dualist mystics such as Shankara who clearly realized the "wholeness" (no opposites or separation) but were able to engage "occult powers" just as easily as an aware lucid dreamer can perform them in a lucid dream. The analogy should serve as a reasonable supporting point.
I do not relate the occult with Shankara, nor will I call the powers he had, occult, supernatural or paranormal in nature at all.

Shankara founded the advaita school of vedanta philosophy.Shankara's philosophy is called advaita—or nonduality, because it strives to ascribe all reality to a single dynamic, unitary source, which means that there are no opposites and separation. The physical and the spiritual are part of the same whole reality.

I don't think that the dream analogy is a good example, because dreams, lucid or not, may be a way people focus on and are conscious of their memory, beliefs, thoughts etc etc. This is the reason why I am skeptical of dreams being absolute/a part of the whole.
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