Hey Kim,

Thanks for commenting and clapping for the story.

Yep, I am aware of the Buddhist concept of anatta.

I have read Hoffman's book and I am aware of Lex Fridman through his podcast. I'll check out 'reality. & illusion.'

Someone else that I would mention is Jim Newman. Not many out there (IMHO) are communicating the radical, ultra-Dzogchen message like Jim. Sam Harris's interview with him is simply astonishing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnZAnkg5RQ8

The other guy that has really grabbed my attention recently is Bernado Kastrup.

If you aren't aware of him, I'd give him a look. He has lots of free stuff; including a 6-hour course, that is great!

Very much like this quote from him:

"I argue that past and future exist solely in the present and that the present moment is infinitely small, a singularity. Therefore, there is a fundamental sense in which everything exists in nothing, for the present moment, being infinitely small, is a kind of nothing."

https://www.bernardokastrup.com/

Love the comment that theoretical physicists are saying space & time are doomed.

I suppose one of the areas that I am poking into is once the illusory nature of time & space is seen - which I believe comes about when one first sees the primary illusion of I Am i.e. the sense of existing - what then?

Do we then 'return' to space & time (as it seems we do to the illusory sense of I Am,) now seen as illusion, as Leila, as a creative playful field?

I think that was one of the things that I was trying to communicate in my story, that once self & world are RE-cognised as illusory that doesn't necessarily stop their arising (even Ramana Maharshi turned his head when someone said his name!).

I have started calling them "liberated illusions" once seen through which allow 'one' to spontaneously participate in a field of creative play.

Maybe ... I am still pondering it all.

Cheers,

Matt

p.s. two quotes have guided me primarily in my investigations

1) "Anything outside the state of deep dreamless sleep is unreal" - Ramana Maharshi

2) "Meditate on the sense I Am until it reveals itself to be illusory" - Nisargadatta Maharaj