Uploaded March 2018 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
The questions, posed by thinklikethe1percent:
"Hey Sage you know I love your work and I’m a huge fan of yours!! But I feel like you’re being Intellectually dishonest in a part of this video around the 11:20 mark. You start to rag on positive thinking/New Age philosophies when it comes to controlling reality with positive thoughts. I could be wrong but it seems like your viewpoints on these points are coming from a negative egotistical desire to bash those particular philosophies. Which really boggles my mind because positive thinking would seem like from my point of view to go directly hand-in-hand with your philosophies on Solipsism. The reason I say that is because if you believe consciousness is within one’s on mine you should be able to directly control the physical world based off of your focus (because in reality the physical world is simply thoughts or in other words a focus state of being). I don’t understand how New Age thinking/positive thinking and solecism can contradict each other and you seem to be saying they do.. very confusing. If awareness/consciousness is the base fundamental building block of this reality, how you focus your consciousness would seem to be the way for an individual to have reality mirror ones owns desire. I have noticed in all of your videos where you talk about consciousness and ego you like to steer away people from thinking that they can control reality... which you never really explain why... Which makes me believe that you’re infusing your personal believes as opposed to given people the real truth on the fundamental based reality rules of consciousness/awareness. Because if all things being equal and solipsism is true one should be able to have the ability to focus one’s attention on one’s desires and manifest it accordingly. My question for you is how do these contradict and are you infuse your own egotistical viewpoints on solipsism? which I think you are because it makes solipsism seem more spiritual for lack of a better word. Which I hope I’m wrong because It would really make me sad that my favorite teacher would have his own alternative motive."
"Wow Sage you're starting to sound like a materialist... you're honestly the last person on the face of the planet that I would have ever thought would type the words "Thoughts don’t manifest miracles.". What about the placebo effect, double splits experiment/observer effect, as well as unexplained coincidence and people that have precognitive psychic dreams which I definitely have experienced personally. And I'm sure you are aware of all of these things as well, so maybe I'm conflating the words thoughts, consciousness and awareness. So from my definitional understanding thoughts would be the process of one's mental focus on the material realm, consciousness would be the recognition of one's thoughts and awareness would be the baseline unfiltered reality of existence and what we truly are. But to me all three of those things would seem to go hand-in-hand and you would need all three components for any type of sentient being to operate in any type of framework. I say all of that to tie back into my original point that an individual does have the ability to control reality based off their focus. You seem to be putting restrictions on something that is restriction less."
Transcript: sagebodisattva.tumblr.com/post/171683433244/meta-q-a-part-ii-mystic-gumbo-and-new-age
The questions, posed by thinklikethe1percent:
"Hey Sage you know I love your work and I’m a huge fan of yours!! But I feel like you’re being Intellectually dishonest in a part of this video around the 11:20 mark. You start to rag on positive thinking/New Age philosophies when it comes to controlling reality with positive thoughts. I could be wrong but it seems like your viewpoints on these points are coming from a negative egotistical desire to bash those particular philosophies. Which really boggles my mind because positive thinking would seem like from my point of view to go directly hand-in-hand with your philosophies on Solipsism. The reason I say that is because if you believe consciousness is within one’s on mine you should be able to directly control the physical world based off of your focus (because in reality the physical world is simply thoughts or in other words a focus state of being). I don’t understand how New Age thinking/positive thinking and solecism can contradict each other and you seem to be saying they do.. very confusing. If awareness/consciousness is the base fundamental building block of this reality, how you focus your consciousness would seem to be the way for an individual to have reality mirror ones owns desire. I have noticed in all of your videos where you talk about consciousness and ego you like to steer away people from thinking that they can control reality... which you never really explain why... Which makes me believe that you’re infusing your personal believes as opposed to given people the real truth on the fundamental based reality rules of consciousness/awareness. Because if all things being equal and solipsism is true one should be able to have the ability to focus one’s attention on one’s desires and manifest it accordingly. My question for you is how do these contradict and are you infuse your own egotistical viewpoints on solipsism? which I think you are because it makes solipsism seem more spiritual for lack of a better word. Which I hope I’m wrong because It would really make me sad that my favorite teacher would have his own alternative motive."
"Wow Sage you're starting to sound like a materialist... you're honestly the last person on the face of the planet that I would have ever thought would type the words "Thoughts don’t manifest miracles.". What about the placebo effect, double splits experiment/observer effect, as well as unexplained coincidence and people that have precognitive psychic dreams which I definitely have experienced personally. And I'm sure you are aware of all of these things as well, so maybe I'm conflating the words thoughts, consciousness and awareness. So from my definitional understanding thoughts would be the process of one's mental focus on the material realm, consciousness would be the recognition of one's thoughts and awareness would be the baseline unfiltered reality of existence and what we truly are. But to me all three of those things would seem to go hand-in-hand and you would need all three components for any type of sentient being to operate in any type of framework. I say all of that to tie back into my original point that an individual does have the ability to control reality based off their focus. You seem to be putting restrictions on something that is restriction less."
Transcript: sagebodisattva.tumblr.com/post/171683433244/meta-q-a-part-ii-mystic-gumbo-and-new-age
