
Norbert Somogyi
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Norbert Somogyi replied to Leo Gura's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
COVID Vaccine “Safe and Effective” Narrative Collapses on Camera I've had my suspicions for a while, but it still makes my stomach twist. Here is also a collaborative post-vaccine recovery protocol (that prioritizes and aids natural immunity) to aid healthcare professionals dealing with patients suffering from long-covid. It is intended for healthcare professionals, but some first-line therapies can be embarked on solo responsibly (at least in the suggested doses). It has a robust scientific background in terms of hundreds of references. -
Scienfitic debate and ethical conduct aside, a vegan diet is not exactly a sustainable practice in all parts of the world. I've been thinking about how the biosphere can be affected by the large-scale transportation of plant-based food to locations where crops don't grow throughout the year (EU and the US for example). However, I instead asked DeepSeek to provide numerous effects, because I was certain I couldn't account for them all. Allow me to copy & paste it These are second and third-order effects which are understandably beyond the scope of individual sensitivity, and of course this accounts for the transportation of animal products as well. The only way I can think of where you can sustainably detach yourself from the supply chain and still provide yourself the conditions to maintain your vegan diet - is to grow your own food with regenerative practices at places with climates that allow you to grow plants throughout the year. Not an easy feat for most. This is where the synergy of the Mind and the Heart is required, so that you can evaluate the extended and long-term effects of your individual choices. Beyond what you are sensitive to when you are heart-centered. P.S: I don't agree with all of the solutions suggested by the AI, nor am I growing my own food - but that's another topic.
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Norbert Somogyi replied to Nate0098's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
A pointer the size of a planck-length compared to infinity Everything that has ever happened, been imagined // is happening, being imagined // will happen, can be imagined and the reverse of everything said before, happening infinite times simultaneously in every single moment of the past, present and future. All of this in every single one of infinite timelines, universes, from the perspective of every single particle infinitely smaller than planck length and their infinitely diverse combinations. It's like every single atom is watching a Mandelbrot zoom from the beginning to the end of the universe, which perhaps has no beginning nor end due to a potentially cyclical nature - we will see eh? -
I guess this is why Ken Wilber emphasizes the multi-dimensionality of development (in his book Finding Radical Wholeness), meaning Waking up (Awakening), Growing up (Personal Development), Cleaning up (reintegrating the Shadow), Showing up (referring to his 4Q model and how the Quadrants all co-exist and influence one another) and Opening up (to the various facets of intelligence one can develop). Furthermore how focusing solely on Waking up could result in various even disastrous effects. I have yet to read the book, but got curious about it after reading this Reddit post.
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Norbert Somogyi replied to AION's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Thank you for the clear and valuable response! I believe there is a small misunderstanding, as I didn't mean to imply that I envision enlightenment as detachment from worldy affairs. I view some traditional paths leaning in that direction, and I view such detachment with caution. It reeks with selfishness and escapism to me, but perhaps I am not aware of methods that benefit the collective without being involved with worldy affairs. I also consider the possibility that the misunderstanding stems from a completely different mindset, given how those paths of detachment were born in a completely different time period and place. I also don't resonate with the arrogance awakening is often presented with here. I just don't see how frequently interacting in this (sub)forum and explaining what is time and time again could be a path anyone awake would choose over others. How this path could be the most ideal when it comes to caring about and sharing truth. It is possible I just have yet to comprehend the utter careless awakening could produce, meaning everything inherently having the same value. It just stings, perhaps this is why I am not involving myself with it at the moment. -
Norbert Somogyi replied to AION's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Thank you! This resonates much more with me. I agree with your TL:DR, but that's not the feeling I am getting when I am reading this sub-forum. To me it feels like endless parroting for the majority (not everything, I've read some incredibly deep posts here), but I could be wrong of course.:) -
Norbert Somogyi replied to AION's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I don't doubt the logic, it intellectually makes sense. However, it doesn't contradict my point. Awakening doesn't give someone omniscience let alone omnipotence, you still need to learn how to navigate the world as a human. It sounds even more difficult since you may need to re-learn a lot of stuff. Stuff like self-actualization, empathy, love, understanding women, meaning of your life etc. Petty human shit does not go away when you awaken. In my head someone who is awakened would not waste their energies in petty human debates. They wouldn't have spiritual egos that seek validation. They would not waste their time trying to enforce their views on anyone on such a niche platform. Instead they either bask in the magnificence of what is, or trying to cultivate the same Absolute love they experience in anyone they meet. Other times just spend their time being human, with everything it entails. My keypoint here is authenticity, if nothing else. If awakening is not that - then no thanks, I guess -
Norbert Somogyi replied to AION's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Yeah, it's kinda hilarious (no offense to serious seekers). Feels similar to mining bedrock in Minecraft, you can randomly glitch through it and experience the void (which is but another perspective), but you still don't understand a large part of the game (like redstone mechanisms or villager trade as a comparison). -
Norbert Somogyi replied to Riccurdo's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
This is hilarious and made me laugh out loud, yet so insightful. Never put a cap on your creativity ever again! -
Norbert Somogyi replied to Hardkill's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Fair points! Allow me to share my own view on this. You could make the case that psychology can't exist without biology, but biology can exist without psychology. The situation however is more nuanced in our case, since we have both at our disposal. The examination of their relationship instead, is an interesting and fruitful endeavor. I believe this is rather a matter of perspective and context. Our brains seemingly have evolved for us to be social, because this increased the likelihood of our survival the most. They are unusually large in proportion to our body size, which is not often seen in the animal kingdom. Cooperation, language, abstract thinking, socialization are consequential frameworks that required the additional brain matter to form. The default mode is to be social (except in a select few), and the loneliness epidemic may be a symptom of us distancing ourselves from each other at least in developed countries (especially in urban areas, where people are paradoxically living the closest to each other). I'd also tie Maslow into this, especially the basic needs on the pyramid. Without water, food, warmth, a roof above your head (physical safety) and even sex (which appears on the whole pyramid in different flavors), I wouldn't think socialization would be a top priority in one's mind. They are interdependent and when biological meets are met, then the social needs arise. On the other hand, communities facilitate frameworks that ensure people's biological needs are consistently met. Anorexia is a special case, and I'm not an expert on it. It really appears to be overriding biology. From my perspective, I think of it as biology seeking equilibrium - resulting in the self-perpetuation of this image - accompanied with a low body and emotional awareness. I'd consider people suffering from this to be truly head-centered, with feelings/sensations suppressed or misinterpeted. When it comes to sexuality and attraction, you do have a great point that overlaps with my personal experience. Its fascinating how we have some sort of sixth sense to sense out and attract certain people with familiar (or needed) dynamics without even having spoken a word to them. Does biology play a role in this? Most likely. Perhaps there is a biological system in our bodies and/or the brain from which this sense is born and fine-tuned. Psychology can help someone change the state of this sense (changing our attachment patterns from any type of dysfunctional to safe - through emotional&trauma work and maybe meditation). Biological factors definitely play a role especially in the phase of attraction - hormones for example. Relationships and their maintenance seemingly require more from the side of psychology than biology. Finally, in my personal experience, modifying my hardware bore me bigger fruits than psychology ever did. You could say my years spent with inner work, in therapy, retreats, spirituality were the nutrients to the soil from which the fruits of my work could bore and grow. You could also say that without a faulty or low-energy hardware, all the time someone spends in therapy could be running in circles with seldom breakthroughs and step-ups. In my case both are valid. Since I've been experimenting with supplements (that definitely override some of my physiology given my drastic improvements and consistently elevated state of mental well-being, as well as the unfilteredness between me and my emotions). It's like I've reached a point in my self-development which I thought were years of work away, but here I am opening up to myself and to the world. Curious to read your thoughts! -
Do you really want to smoke, or is it just your friends pressuring you directly or indirectly to do it? A good question to contemplate. Regardless, inhaling right after is how it makes you feel the buzz.
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Norbert Somogyi replied to Riccurdo's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I agree with @Flowerfaeiry, everyone have their reasons and motivations to get into this work. My reason was pretty similar. Lately I've been thinking that spiritual work is not exactly ideal for everyone at any point of their lives. In case it feels like a grind to you, it is an invitation to contemplate whether it is what you truly desire or not. Furthermore, whether the way you do it feels closest to you, or not, and why. My spiritual phase helped me appreciate the simple things and the wonders of life and the world around us. It kept me positive and optimist even at my worst moments. I've sort of distanced myself from it for a while however, currently I participate more in grounding, earthly matters -
Norbert Somogyi replied to The Crocodile's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
This is hilarious, was my first thought too! Somehow, Popelatine has returned, and switched sides again? -
Moving onto the topic of balance, I've been contemplating on it. Is it always ideal to seek balance, aren't there states from which it is better to step out? Things like low-energy and low-conscious states (more like phases, because as states they can appear anytime). I understand they are inherently less compatible and less likely to facilite a search for balance - but this is where I would consider spiritual bypassing to rise. Which in my opinion is a misguided search for balance, or at least ill-timed - given how much emotional baggage can be swept under the rug and kept there for an unnecessarily long time - instead of letting them rise to the surface and allowing them to be expressed. How does someone balance the various motivations and desires that are pulling our psyches around as we interact with the world? How does one balance perspectives when one of them is pulling so hard you can barely resist. Is it better to resist, or is it better to let things happen as they need to and live out the perspectives before coming back to the earth? Meaning, is it always better to strive to learn from others' mistakes, or are there situations where it is best to just jump into? How does someone even determine when it is better to seek balance and when it is better to just jump into the chaos and let the flow take over? Is it necessary to determine beforehand? I've got so many questions to ponder on, one more being Should Thanos win? As I am contemplating and pondering on these, I'm forming a visual model or representation of basically all the above in my head. I will share later on, as it matures.
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Take a look around the world, and look where the extreme has brought us. War, famine, sickness, pandemics, genocides. Deforestation, melting icecaps, extinct species, decaying coral reefs, oceanic dead-zones, desertification of certain lands, depleted soil, PFAs contaminated rainwater, microplastics, plastic islands on the ocean, contaminated fish. Dying cultures and eroding languages. Addictions, cancer, mental disorders, obesity, diabetes, heart-attack, existential crises, families torn apart, traumas everywhere (granted we just started to learn how they work like 150 years ago), critically low attention-spans due to dependence on technology, thinking and survival skills forgotten. This is just the tip of the iceberg. To be honest I find it incredibly fascinating how much our body is capable of enduring. Therefore I wouldn't say, that balance is a lie. I apologize for the derailing rant, just wanted to put this one out.
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Yeah, good point. There goes my bias
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That's hilarious haha! I got surprised at the hungarian title, thought youtube automatically translated it for me. Now I wonder if it auto-translates to English for you.
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I haven't experienced the acne phase as a teenager, perhaps once or twice in small parts. I wonder to this day to what I can thank this for. I also wouldn't be sure that all teenagers go through this, perhaps a modern phenomena in developed countries. The first thing that came to mind was vitamin D, which you included. There are topical forms of vitamin D you can use, which may even be better than oral forms. The dosage will likely need to be increased for the effect to be seen.
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Nice to see you found your ideal frequency, but even more so to read how emotionally intense and real experiences you are having! I spent like 8 years of my life as well, dabbling in semen retention through nofap. I've had my ups and downs, short and long-streak periods, the latter making me feel normal and outgoing. I definitely felt the primal in me in a similar way you did, and often times the excessive sexual energy made me irritable, angry, and sometimes insomniac. I used to be a heavy addict, though the addiction is not gone even now, regardless of my numerous long streaks. I even visited a yogi's tantric workshop once, where we got a theoretical foundation connected with a few practical movements/postures. Stuff about non-ejaculatory orgasms, the divine connection between man and woman through making love, the transmutation of sexual energy to fuel personal development and spiritual awakening. I was interested because I was on a long streak of almost a month, and wanted some guidance how to control and transmute this energy without causing me trouble like it did in the past. I could feel the potential in some of those things, just didn't resonate with me too much at the moment. My current experience since I have been taking supplements is that I consistently feel almost as comfortable in my skin as on long streaks, and in some ways even better. Jacking off has little effect on me (the crashes were heavy in the past), and I suppose this feeling is what I was looking for through nofap. I have yet to experience a long streak in this state, but it's a little hard because a large portion of the motivation is gone. Did I find the antidote? Something like that at least for me, but I'd be too simplistic to say nofap and semen retention has no longer any potential for me. What I am most happy about is the shame being reduced to near zero (through inner work and now the supplements upregulating my health and my brain's neuroplasticity), and this consistent good feeling of opening up to and even loving life!
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Nice to see Hungary finding a place on your blog. That girl was stunning in her performance! I imagine it must be quite painful to have the silk wrapped around and drop around so frequently, yet she did it with seemingly little to no exhaustion. Simply incredible. The lack of a safe falling place was appalling, though.
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Norbert Somogyi replied to Davino's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Another big hit: 150 meters of cable has been stolen (which according to the train company is overkill for financial gain, sabotage is a more likely scenario) at four different locations, trapping people on high-speed rail trains between Madrid and the region of Andalusia. This is the second (seemingly separate) hit within 2 weeks after Spain has halted a controversial arms contract with Israel (PM acted in response to internal pressure). Curious, to be honest. Things don't look good. -
Norbert Somogyi replied to ExploringReality's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
This appears to be an especially tricky question when it comes to awakening, for multiple reasons. There is no satisfactory answer for everyone. If you were to claim to not be awake, there is at least a sense of authenticity conveyed (determined by the wording). The whole message can lose its' power because it can be interpreted as an admission of parroting (depending on how you word it). Perhaps when it comes to people that are not receptive to it who choose to instead look for cherries to pick that suits their agenda and skepticism, it does not matter much either way. If you were to claim you are awake, it often can appear as arrogance and an inflated (spiritual) ego depending on the wording and context. If you are dodging the question or outright ignoring it, it is likely to be suspicious. Depending on your level of awakening (from what I read and think), it becomes disingenous to claim 'I am awake'. Beyond a certain threshold the I (ego) loses its' grip and ceases to be the main character of the show. The I can not awaken because it would mean total destruction (and reformation) of it that is no longer easily conveyable to humans. I guess authenticity goes all the way, be it harsh or soft. People however seem to resonate more with a message coming from love (which can be tough), than anything else. -
1. You may want to read this critique and debunk of the study you provided - made with Perplexity Lung cancer statistics show a steady decline of occurence over the years since regulations have been strengthened over time across the globe (circa 1975-). Here's a link Your study seems to cherry-pick the cognitive-enhancing effects of nicotine, but there are some problems with it. Smoking involves a lot of chemicals when inhaled (70 out of them are known and classified as carcinogenic), and nicotine is also addictive. You can get nicotine gums or patches if you want to focus on that. However. there are other numerous cognitive-enhancement methods you can do without these chemicals and the risk of addiction. Sleep, healthy diet, exercise, hydration, Omega-3, Vitamin D, other supplements and nootropics potentially. Vitamin D seems to be play a crucial part here, too. The body uses it to heal the inflammation and other damage caused by frequent smoking, however most people are already deficient and this increases the risk for cancer. Higher vitamin D levels can off-set some of the damage and drastically reduce the risk of cancer, whike Omega-3 also seems to play a beneficial role here too (reducing inflammation, improving cognition and depression and even the urge to smoke). Personal note: I quit smoking 3 weeks ago or so, 3 months after embarking on a supplementation journey, and 4-5 weeks after including Omega-3 (smoked for 2 years between 3-30 cigs a day - managed a week without it once last year, but fell back). Phlegm is still coming up my throat, most likely healing. Here's an overview you can take a look at Ever since I quit, here's what I acquired: Cognition improved even further, just like clarity. I have a greater sense of self-control, energy and sharper attention. My taste buds and nose are stronger too, as well as whiter teeth. Finally, the Tobacco Industry did not shy away from funding scientific research that helped their case, induced confusion and delayed necessary regulations.
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Norbert Somogyi replied to Davino's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Not exactly, if the aforementioned solar flare is strong enough to strip off the atmosphere. This is likely what happened to Mars, and we are lucky thanks to our naturally strong electromagnetic field. -
The relationship between the gut and the brain is pretty established by this point. Depression, mood disorders and many other things related to mental well-being can be positively influenced by dietary changes (and/or supplements). I notice the effect sometimes even before I finish, so maybe I am more sensitive than usual. It just makes me feel groggy, like what I put into my body is especially trash. Some awareness can help others notice it too.