Leo Gura

Speaking of Blue music, they've been perfecting that shit for centuries: P.S. Epic mindfuck when you realize these crusty old white guys are singing about Moses smoking DMT, LOL.

You can snort anything. It's just a question of how much sting you can handle.

How silly. There is no freedom without the security of your life and health. The whole point of a lockdown is to increase freedom. People don't get how counter-intuitive freedom is.

You got it backwards.

I still meditate. It's just like ice skating uphill.

Oooff! That's rough.

No You definitely need to get past that to meditate seriously. If you love your own thoughts, you won't be able to meditate.

An intellectually empty mind. A mind that doesn't feel a need to think. Lots of people go through life without thinking much about anything. They are like animals. It's real easy for a cat to meditate. Thinking is both a blessing and a curse.

Notice that science never tells you who's in control. So it's not like this question has ever been answered by mankind. What if no one is in control? After all, who controls the rain?

Good, but do you realize that the brain is a thought? That's a tricky one to swallow. Try it.

Just remember, Ra is a projection of your own mind

Well... people's notion of life-transforming is of course highly subjective. Those who are well-suited to it will get a lot more juice out of it. Exponentially more. Like 100x more. So that can explain that. Personally I'm not well-suited to it. My mind is hyper creative non-stop. Meditation is best for people with weak minds

A problem is only a problem if the mind says its a problem. This gives the mind a near-magical ability to create and erase problems in the blink of an eye.

1% is a more realistic mortality rate, IMO.

The reason you feel that way is because for meditation to be life-transforming it must be done with extreme rigor. If you half-ass meditation, it is 100x weaker than if you do it rigorously. Most people in the West are not taught to do serious meditation. They are taught meditation for newbies. It took me a lot of trial and error just to learn this. And I'm by no means a great mediator. But I understand what makes it powerful or life-transforming. Also, not all people are equally suited for it. To really appreciate meditation it must be done as a hardcore monk, virtually full-time. But almost no one is willing to pay that cost. With consciousness work you get what you are willing to put into it.

The mind is beautiful thing. Like a spider's web.

Well, I never said growing is easy

LOL, so Green it makes you want to vomit

In ordinary life, yes. But the point of these political and philosophical discussions to question certain held "facts". For example, it's an legit question to wonder whether such a thing as "a man" and "a women" really exists, or if it's just a socially constructed "fact" which we use because it's convenient. All human knowledge works this way. First we over-simplify reality, then we discover that our over-simplifications aren't nuanced enough to deal with complex edge-cases like trans people. And so we have to re-evaluate our simplistic ideas. But lots of people are resistant to doing so because they have taken on those oversimplifications as "facts", and they get outraged when they find you denying their "facts". Point me to a fact in the world which says, "That is man, and that is woman." You will not find such a fact within biology.

But there's the rub: facts aren't facts. They have no clue how deep relativity runs.

The real test for progressives is if someone like Bernie wins the presidency and then starts doing evil things. Will progressives have enough integrity and impartiality to call him out on it? Many won't because they will justify it in their minds as, "Well, he's still better than any neoliberal." That's exactly what Republicans do with Trump.

Yes, but that is also easy for them to do now because they are not in a position of power yet. It serves the progressive survival agenda to rip apart neoliberals because the neoliberals are in power. But once progressives get into positions of power they will start to use double-standards to excuse away their selfish behaviors. The real test of your integrity is when you have serious power. It's easy to act noble and righteous when you are powerless.

Of course. This is what I refer to as self-bias, where one's own position is held as privileged and sacrosanct. The lower down the Spiral, the more self-bias there is. The mind uses double-standards, confirmation bias, projection, denial, and justification to enforce its self-bias.