Cocolove

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    I think of all the political sentiments environmentalism resonates with me the most.

    However, I've heard good arguments that climate change is natural and that it isn't. It seems to be that republicans claim it is natural and democrats that it is man made. Both sides claim to have science on their side. From the research I've done it seems science really isn't on either side, and my best guess is that we really don't know.

    So it surprises me that all politicians talk about is climate change. It seems that they should be more concerned with upset of ecological systems through other means than climate change such as pollution, deforestation, world population, greedy capitalism, oil, etc.

    The democratic side seems so focused on the damned climate change and the republicans make some good points against it but have nothing to say against the other things, which they don't care about due to spiral development.

    Am I wrong. Can someone enlighten me as to what's going on here?

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    @flume I have near no experience.

    @Girzo What about like just growing a few things and selling some to get basic necessities for living. I'm looking at this as a way to support a really really simple lifestyle. I'm not claiming that I do know a method of doing this but that's what I plan on researching. What about monks and shit, like the stereotypical ones that live in a cave and everything close to that. I'm not looking to make a lot of money or anything just to literally survive.

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    Mastering the core teaching of the buddha is great all around.

    1000 has some very good models of awakening however I think the book is too poetic and way to autobiographical.

    I third the book of not knowing.

    I liked Ken Wilber's integral psychology, also but less integral spirituality. He has some very good insights in application of systems thinking if you can stand the dense repitition.

    What kind of books are you looking for?

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    Elliot released a 5 part series on fasting and how to get into it, he talks about spiritual and physical benefits. If you sort the wheat from the chaff he aint all bad. 

    Elliot has always been like this with politics. Back in the day, over 5 years ago he was a big Alex Jones fan. He hasn't exactly changed on this front. I think some of his political points are valid, but they are all so painfully partial. He is certainly teir 1

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    Freud had some revolutionary ideas that people don't give him credit for since they've been molded into our society. On the other hand he was full of shit. Psycho-dynamic theory is pure gold if you study the right people, like Jung. And from the absolute perspective their is no unconscious but relatively it's true and very useful. Just like the physical world is. You can use ideas of the physical world to cure cancer or fly planes and shit and you can use the relative truths of the unconscious. 

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    9 hours ago, Gili Trawangan said:

    I don't understand, this happened to you and you are saying you didn't get any results? What else did you expect?!

    I meant that I didn't seem to get results from the vipassana, but come to think of it you can't really separate the two, I'm sure being on the retreat & vipassana put the kriya on steroids.

     

    Yea I think I'll try another technique. I have a solid foundation with self-inquiry(which involves awareness of awareness at least how I do it) and do-nothing

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    I just got back from my 10 day meditation retreat. I signed up for the vippasana ones but got declined the past two years because I'm under 18. I got my mom to let me stay at her cabin for the retreat although I had to text my parents daily. I sat 6 hours a day. 4 hours vippasana 2 hours kriya yoga. I did this because I was sleeping a lot, cooking my own meals, and I wanted time to just sit informally. No fap no distractions so it was a legit retreat. It was a sick location, saw lots of wildlife.

    The first few days were super hard emotionally but that passed and the rest were brutal too. Halfway through the first day I was just planning when I would leave early.

    At the end of the second day I was doing kriya yoga and my body was pulsing with energy, at the top of the breath on kriya pranayama. I left my body and just felt a singularity of energy, and saw spinning red fractals. This happened again about half a dozen times. 

    On the 6th day this happened and I think I entered some kind of state of cessation or some altered state. I came back to my body falling to the floor in a state of sheer confusion. It took me a while to figure out who I was or what I was doing. I think this was a result of the cessation of the narrative of the ego because I couldn't remember thinking or experiencing anything in that time. This state emerged after seeing the fractals and feeling the buzzing, and hearing alien clicking I might add, it felt before it like I was going through a  tunnel.

    I also felt extremely, distractingly creative for some times, and experienced some pure joy for a while towards the second half of the retreat.

    The vippasana felt like a failure. I know it wasn't because I worked through the resistance that lingered through it. Regardless I never got into many deep meditative states from it because of all the emotional resistance physical pain, restless energy. My Question is whether this was a result of the low amount of the technique or if this is all fine and good for a first retreat, i.e. was this an error or part of the process.

     

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    My ideal lifestyle would be living alone on a small farm where I have minimal work, live frugally, and grow most of my own food and sell some things for what I need. If you are familiar with Joel salatin's visionlogic farming that's what I'm going for but on a smaller scale. Anyone have any ideas on this? where do i start researching?