Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
So from that started my own deconstruction, but I never saw the
no self after reading Jed McKenna, it took a little while later. So
once I looked at that question directly, is it really a self and I
started to doubt everything I knew. And then of course it showed
up, of course there is no self, what are you people talking about,
and how come I never ever actually questioned that, that seems
really, really strange. So that is the question, is there really a self,
a self behind the word self, yeah.
WIZARD: So the I-thought is just a belief.
ILONA CIUNATE: Yes.
WIZARD: Yes.
ILONA CIUNATE: So we never look… I'm sorry, yeah.
WIZARD: So there's not a who we are, the who is an imaginary
belief, just an insentient thought.
ILONA CIUNATE: Exactly.
TRIP: Well I wanted to thank you for putting something up on
your website there that blew my mind, and Paul, you'll find this
interesting if you go and check this out. There was a neuroscience
and freewill video that you put up there, and you talked about, you
called it the judge, remember?
ILONA CIUNATE: Yes.
TRIP: You go ahead. If you want to speak a minute about this
judging self that we all have, and then if you want to also about
that video. But anything that you forget to say I'll say because that
thing blew me away.
ILONA CIUNATE: Okay. Well, it's really difficult for me to
remember now a year later, how it really was to live in that,
judging all the time. But I still can remember and I still see that
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