SoothedByRain

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  1. I know @pluto I know . . . But we can still save this thread. All we need is Kerry and her jocular compassion.
  2. @voxun Low fat, high carb plant based diet for the win
  3. @pluto @Solace I read your comments whilst eating a watermelon A full belly from a nutritous source . . . and I got me a free hat for afterwards
  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Jsojw5leM&t=01
  5. I simply thought I'd share I would love a Spiritual Rap Response. 10.000 More Years of Spiritually Conscious Monkeys and such.
  6. Just a short passage from Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari that made me smile so I thought I'd share it. In most habitats, Sapiens bands fed themselves in an elastic and opportunistic fashion. They scrounged for termites, picked berries, dug for roots, stalked rabbits and hunted bison and mammoth. Notwithstanding the popular image of ‘man the hunter’, gathering was Sapiens’ main activity, and it provided most of their calories, as well as raw materials such as flint, wood and bamboo. Sapiens did not forage only for food and materials. They foraged for knowledge as well. To survive, they needed a detailed mental map of their territory. To maximise the efficiency of their daily search for food, they required information about the growth patterns of each plant and the habits of each animal. They needed to know which foods were nourishing, which made you sick, and how to use others as cures. They needed to know the progress of the seasons and what warning signs preceded a thunderstorm or a dry spell. They studied every stream, every walnut tree, every bear cave, and every flint-stone deposit in their vicinity. Each individual had to understand how to make a stone knife, how to mend a torn cloak, how to lay a rabbit trap, and how to face avalanches, snakebites or hungry lions. Mastery of each of these many skills required years of apprenticeship and practice. The average ancient forager could turn a flint stone into a spear point within minutes. When we try to imitate this feat, we usually fail miserably. Most of us lack expert knowledge of the flaking properties of flint and basalt and the fine motor skills needed to work them precisely. In other words, the average forager had wider, deeper and more varied knowledge of her immediate surroundings than most of her modern descendants. Today, most people in industrial societies don’t need to know much about the natural world in order to survive. What do you really need to know in order to get by as a computer engineer, an insurance agent, a history teacher or a factory worker? You need to know a lot about your own tiny field of expertise, but for the vast majority of life’s necessities you rely blindly on the help of other experts, whose own knowledge is also limited to a tiny field of expertise. The human collective knows far more today than did the ancient bands. But at the individual level, ancient foragers were the most knowledgeable and skilful people in history. There is some evidence that the size of the average Sapiens brain has actually decreased since the age of foraging. Survival in that era required superb mental abilities from everyone. When agriculture and industry came along people could increasingly rely on the skills of others for survival, and new ‘niches for imbeciles’ were opened up. You could survive and pass your unremarkable genes to the next generation by working as a water carrier or an assembly-line worker. Foragers mastered not only the surrounding world of animals, plants and objects, but also the internal world of their own bodies and senses. They listened to the slightest movement in the grass to learn whether a snake might be lurking there. They carefully observed the foliage of trees in order to discover fruits, beehives and bird nests. They moved with a minimum of effort and noise, and knew how to sit, walk and run in the most agile and efficient manner. Varied and constant use of their bodies made them as fit as marathon runners. They had physical dexterity that people today are unable to achieve even after years of practising yoga or t’ai chi. - p54 I wonder what certain Human awareness and levels of consciousness would have been like 20.000 - 15.000 years ago. Anyone have any good book recommendations on the topic of Anthropology and Spirituality?
  7. I remember you said somewhere that you never watched any of Leo's videos so I thought I'd chuck you a link to this one
  8. This but with Leo's head photoshopped on. "Heeeeeeeey, this is Leo"
  9. I am only on chapter 6 of Thinking fast and slow and I can already say "Fuck Yes!" Cheers for your suggestions @Erlend K Does anyone else here have any opinion on Thinking fast and slow - Daniel Kahneman? Would love to hear others thoughts. This is a review quote from the back of Thinking fast and slow. - "As Copernicus removed the Earth from the centre of the universe and Darwin knocked humans off their biological perch, Mr. Kahneman has shown that we are not the paragons of reason we assume ourselves to be" I don't normally go for the writing on the back of books but that one made me smile
  10. @Zweistein Just to note: I am a noob, I've never tripped and I'm far from comprehension or enlightenment. I also speak from a Materialist view. (Materialism is all I know from exp) Beige is basic and automatic but in a lizard/primal sense. Not in an empathetic/loving Human/Buddha/Turquoise sense. We don't want to skip stages, one can't anyhow, we can only travel up through the stages, learning and developing as we go. Each stage being vital to gaining the knowledge acquired to transcend itself and go up. I don't think it is a full circle / strange loop back to Beige. Back Down to Beige. Ultimately one is Awake the whole time as they learn and move upwards, but only by the latter stages do we become conscious of this. I see it as one becomes more conscious as they go up through the stages (gaining knowledge is becoming more conscious/aware of the workings of everything) Leo spoke of killing the knowledge graph to see/find the truth of reality. But one doesn't want to destroy/lose all their knowledge . . . Like @Nahm said Spiral Dynamics is just a model to understand the patterns of human consciousness growth allowing one to guide themselves through their journey. Monkey language is extremely limited and one can't comprehend reality with such limited knowledge, which is what science and philosophy attempt. Most insights are a Feeling/Knowing. Feeling is knowing. Labels don't and can't do reality justice. One cannot count to God because God isn't a number. I think one can learn to Be and be at peace by not understanding, by lacking knowledge. But one needs knowledge to get to the stages of true comprehension. We are conceptual creatures and to transcend that we have to use concepts . . right? I think it is probably rare for one to go into Being without first reading or hearing about it somewhere. I haven't done any psychedelics so I unno From my materialist view point I see it as important not to simply Be Enlightened and stuck at a stage. Otherwise one isn't going to be able to grow and help other sentient beings with their suffering. Yellow and eventually Turquoise is the goal for Intelligent Life on Earth. I'm pretty sure Turquoise would be labelled as Full on Buddha Bro Anyone wants to school me . . please do @CharlotteYeeeeeaah Girl
  11. Marcus was a Bro. I have a mini sized pocket edition I accidentally bought instead of a normal book. Unintentionally more practical I still haven't purchased Epictetus. I've read lots of him, Seneca also . . but don't have a physical copy. That needs to change asap.
  12. I'm not even over the first quarter mark. Helps to put things in perspective.
  13. @Ether Bahhh. “Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly." - Marcus Aurelius.
  14. @Outer 90% of humanity don't even meditate, let alone even comprehend enlightenment. Bald Yoda and his videos are very valuable, that is why he makes them. Humanity has to start somewhere.
  15. “He who belies his talent, the born painter who sells stockings instead, the intelligent man who lives a stupid life, the man who sees the truth and keeps his mouth shut, the coward who gives up his manliness, all these people perceive in a deep way that they have done wrong to themselves and despise themselves for it. Out of this self-punishment may come only neurosis, but there may equally come renewed courage, righteous indignation, increased self-respect, because of thereafter doing the right thing; in a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.” (Abraham Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being)
  16. Mind in body, body on cushion. He is my second Bald Yoda. Good old Mingyur He is great at easing noobies into sitting and letting go.
  17. Not this forums typical content and it doesn't follow nor discuss consciousness work as Actualized.org and you lot do. But I bet it will prick up some of your ears nonetheless. I have nothing to say / add since I have yet to read his work other than Watchmen. Simply thought I'd share. Jerusalem definitely sounds interesting though.
  18. @tsuki Yeah man . . . This is why I followed you yesterday, you have a way with words my friend. Your realization lays barren as long as you are not capable of expressing it. You do not practice your craft to earn, but to yield. Sometimes your craft is giving death like in Moore's case. I agree, the definite nature of whatever one views as reality can never fully be expressed with simple monkey labels, no matter how well one can mould them into an explanation. Nonetheless they express something that otherwise wouldn't be shared and therefore potentially not realised by the listener. Perhaps no new insight being gained at all, but solely a smile given and received. Keep doing your thing.
  19. Dermatillomania or Excoriation Disorder. I'm not sure if lips fall under this category. I'm sure it does. I can't answer the cause of your unconscious actions but I thought I'd share the term in case it is new to you. Some people really damage themselves and end up going through therapy etc to deal with it all. I learnt the term by chatting with a woman who had been picking at her skin since her early teens.
  20. "What is the real essence of life. You cannot find it in the books. You are the book. You gotta open up and begin to read and be conscious of what you have inside." —Wim Hof
  21. I'm a noob. I'll put that upfront. The Wim Hof method puts the body in a fight or flight response. Think of how your senses would work whilst running from a bear. Like a Lizard. Highly focused. I've been doing the Wim Hof method everyday this week and then either sitting or doing some form of walking meditation. Focusing on breath, vision and my feet. (Do Nothing Method) It shuts down your brain noise, all the chatter and leaves you with nothing but clear laser vision and complete ability to focus. I plan on doing a Metronome Access Concentration session asap after doing a short WH breathing session and seeing how much I improve on my usual ability to concentrate. I'll leave these two video links below, in order. Try it out for yourself and you'll see what I mean by Reptilian Focus. Intense viper focus. Anyone else been doing the WH Method? I'm a noob. I'll put that at the end.