PurpleTree

Alriight got it. pew pew *gunning*

It’s interesting with the resonance that there’s no self. There still is this subtle idea of this being a better self. I since early wanted to be better or different. So i had the idea that enlightenment will make me better. Like if there’s no self there’s no reason for this to be afraid of rejection, not very social, not that confident and so on. Like with there being no self i should be a mix of James Bond, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt some cult leader and Ram Dass The women should just admire me and faint and leak. But it’s not like that seemingly. With there being no self it means there isn’t anyone who could be different, no one who could be more confident or cooler and more beloved. Just no one. No one who could be even a Nanometer different or better.

I heard Angelo Di Lullo talk about circling. As a kind of modality for some type of emotion or shadow work i guess. I wondered what it looked like and somehow this video popped up. It seems quite interesting actually like a mix of therapy and spiritual work. Anywho maybe it’s interesting for someone or nobody. They went quite deep in the session.

There isn’t anybody who could drop that, either it seemingly drops or it doesn’t. Never said anything else.

For example “i" want to be more accepting of “others” lets say. But there isnt anybody in there really who could be more accepting of others. Acceptance happens or it doesn’t. Maybe sometimes it does sometimes it doesn’t but there isnt anybody who could become a more accepting me.

I’m personally a big fan of the ignore function.

I mean there’s a resonance. And there are seemingly times with „states“ of no self. But the self hasn’t dropped.

Like Jim Newman. Nice hair, decent shirt.

Lol

I mean China has a population of 1.4 B compared to like 350 M so yeah. And the West helped make China rich and still does. Not taking away from China’s hard work and strategy. But because of the huge market many westerners got greedy and technology transfer and so on. They’re playing the long game, it’s fair. Westerners can blame themselves for being greedy. People like Mershheimer are quite pessimistic for Chinas demographics. We need some good people at the helm. Von der Leyen is crap. Get Germany away from the helm anyway. Let maybe nordics lead.

This guy seems like a propaganda channel. Look at his titles smh

That’s hogwash. The US always supported (rightwing) dictatoships and regime changed democratically elected governments who didn’t suit them. Also Saudi and Qatar etc. are close allies.

I‘m not a fan of Germany at all. But to be fair they were carpet bombed, humiliated and beaten into submission in WW2 so they never really had their own security after that. Britain kind of outsourced its stuff willingly which is cray. France is basically our only hope lol

And while Marco Rubio is saying such things. The US govt is putting all those tariffs on their allies. Great strategy.

But the economies of let‘s say US, China, Europe, Australia are insanely intertwined no? So a war would be a bit weird.

Gpt: The beautiful patterns and symbols people often report seeing during psychedelic experiences are known as form constants and entoptic phenomena. These visual effects are consistent across cultures and substances, and they have fascinated scientists, mystics, and artists for centuries. Here’s a breakdown of what people often see and why: 🔷 1. Form Constants (a term coined by Heinrich Klüver) These are recurring geometric patterns seen during altered states of consciousness, especially under psychedelics like LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, and DMT. The most common types include: Lattices (grids, honeycombs, checkerboards) Cobwebs Tunnels or spirals Vortices Mandala-like shapes Concentric circles or radiating lines These patterns can be: 2D or 3D Static or moving Multicolored or monochrome They may morph, breathe, or pulse with emotion or music. 🔶 2. Entoptic Phenomena These are visual effects that originate from within the visual system itself (not from the external world). Examples include: Phosphenes – light seen without light entering the eye (like when you rub your eyes) Floaters Geometric hallucinations from stimulation of the retina or visual cortex Under psychedelics, the visual cortex becomes hyperactive and disinhibited, amplifying these effects into complex, vivid patterns. 🌀 3. Why the Brain Generates These Patterns Neuroscientific theories suggest that: The visual cortex has an intrinsic structure and organization, particularly in V1 (the primary visual cortex), that favors certain spatial frequencies and geometries. Psychedelics reduce the filtering and predictive control of higher brain areas (like the Default Mode Network), allowing raw perceptual activity to bubble up into consciousness. The brain is effectively “seeing itself” — displaying the architecture of its own neural networks in visual form. Some researchers model these patterns using: Mathematical symmetry Fourier transforms Neural field equations (e.g. Ermentrout and Cowan models) 🧿 4. Cultural and Archetypal Layers Many report: Sacred geometry Ancient symbols (e.g., eyes, serpents, grids, fractals, mandalas) Mythological beings or scripts (especially on DMT or ayahuasca) Carl Jung might have called these archetypal images—universal motifs from the collective unconscious. Some researchers view these as the brain attempting to impose meaning or narrative on the abstract visual chaos. 🧬 5. Fractals and Recursion Psychedelic visuals often appear fractal — infinitely repeating patterns at different scales. This reflects both: Natural processes (e.g., clouds, plants, rivers) Mathematical properties of feedback and iteration, which the brain engages in under altered states If you’d like, I can show you visual representations of these types of patterns — either through generated art or historical imagery inspired by psychedelic states.

https://www.architecturendesign.net/50-mesmerizing-mosque-ceilings-that-highlight-the-wonders-of-islamic-architecture/ https://toscanasecrets.com/arte-stile/libreria-piccolomini-duomo-siena/

it can look similar to this at times and then moving and turning, but also totally different and bigger. And the symbols itself are often more elaborate imo. https://www.architecturendesign.net/50-mesmerizing-mosque-ceilings-that-highlight-the-wonders-of-islamic-architecture/

Didn‘t know if i should put this in the Israel / Palestine thread or whatever. So here’s a new thread. Turkey is quite the dark horse in terms of NATO, Global South Middle East Europe and so on.

So not really having free will implies that there’s no real responsibility. No one’s really responsible for their siblings or parents for other people’s feeling’s or their own feeling’s and anger. No one’s responsible for their needs and wants, desires and neediness. No one’s responsible for getting it or not getting it for their intelligence. No one’s really responsible for being annoying or being annoyed by others. No one is responsible for their survival and coping mechanisms. No one’s responsible for their weird, dark, „bad“ evil thoughts. No one’s responsible for rejecting or abandoning you or others. Not even Netanyahu is responsible for what he’s doing to Gaza and you’re not responsible for your feeling’s towards him. It’s just the cogwheels of the universe turning, churning, cogwheels of war churning out bodies and such.

Is this like shadow work? Or is this as buddhists say use an arrow to get rid of another arrow?

Yea you’re the first one. Here’s a cookie 🍪

Would you agree that it’s unknowable though?