Elshaddai
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Elshaddai started following Do we have free will?
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Am I a biological robot acting out a large chain of cause effect reactions or do I make conscious choices freely as I see fit? I think i'm agree with the notion that there's no free will but I want to hear other opinions on the topic
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@Yarco this is very good advice, thank you. Like you said i think the reason it's a problem for me is because it does interfere with the present and creates rumination and emotional turmoil. I use often set goals that are too much for me but i work with a life coach that helps me set realistic goals so thankfully that's not an issue.
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Elshaddai started following How to overcome a guilty conscience?
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I often guilt myself often for not meeting the goals and deadlines i set for myself, Especially personal development wise. My mind tells me that i'm not good enough or that i should do more tasks, make more time for study, get back to reading books, exercise more etc This happens even when I'm having a relatively productive day. Now granted I'm not the most productive person and i slack off and procrastinate alot, but i feel that guilting myself isn't the most helpful thing to do about this. I hope you can help me with this.
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Elshaddai started following What is the importance of silence in the spiritual path?
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Elshaddai replied to OneIntoOne's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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Elshaddai started following Your most effective method for 'not believing the mind'
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Replying to this 3 months later so i'm not going to reply to everyone's comments but i'll adress some of the points people brought up. First of all, I never claimed to be an antinatalist, of course the are many amazing and beautiful things in life, my point was to emphesize that there is also tremendous and undeniable amounts of suffering and pain that all living beings experience on some level. care to explain why? I completely agree with this sentiment, no matter how rich or powerful and healthy a person is, suffering is guaranteed to come his way.
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I should preface this by saying that I don't condone mixing and using drugs of any kind. In my psychedelic journeys so far, I sometimes smoke cannabis at the end of trips to help me relax from the "blissful madness" and help me sleep after using something like LSD, but if i'm honest, i've been addicted to smoking weed for a very along time and even though I see the benefits of just smoking cannabis, being addicted to anything doesn't help with personal growth. does anyone have any advice or positive and life changing experiences to share from combining psychedelics and other drugs together?
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This is something I've been thinking about for a very long time. Ever since I came across a philosophy known as antinatalism, which in a nutshell states that life is full of suffering and pain and it's better for people not to be in order to spare them life's suffering. I have to admit i really sympathize with this attitude and doubt if i should have kids. I mean what's the point of it all right? Death is guaranteed anyways so why create new life at all if it just leads to nonexistence? Isn't it better to prevent this futile prossess called life and keep possible infants in a state of blissful nonexistence?
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Elshaddai started following Is it truly wise and good to bring children into existence?
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Iv'e dabbled in the mystical writings of various religious traditions and many accounts of the ancient mystics from the past and I wonder is it possible that one can be both extremely religious and pious, if not fanatical to one's traditional faith and be fully enlightened? Someone like John of the cross comes to mind. Reading accounts of his life he seems to have lead a very intense contepmlative life but was also loyal to the Catholic church. So are religious traditions a viable path for full enlightenment?
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Title says it all really. There is quarantine where I live so I decided to trip on acid with the intention to understand my fears. The trip itself was amazing and filled with bliss and ecstacy like i've rarely experienced before in my life, but as I remembred I need to contemplate on what fear is I thought that by doing that I'll just ruminate and I didn't want to go into that thought loop and didn't see much value in doing that. also I feel that I didn't get much insight from the trip since I was too overwhelmed with the feeling of bliss and ecstacy. So for my next time, how does one contemplate effectively? should I just go with the flow of the trip and let insights come naturally or should I just sit, ruminate and think things through proactively as much as I can?
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I was struggling for a long time with my belief in the biblical version of god and my jewish faith in said god yet I've always had my doubts. After reflecting on traditional religion vs science and reason I realized religion to be false and science correct because you cannot escape the emperical evidence behind scientific claims.
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This is very similar to schopenhauer's teaching on the will to live which I think is spot on. You really can't escape evolution and humans are in a constant state of ceaseless striving, which creates suffering. The trick is to embrace it I guess.