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  1. Posted

    hi,

    after watching the video on how psychedelics work, I started wondering how does reading work considering that books are conciousness

    some of the points I wish to be discussed on the video are:

    - what are books existentially?

    - how does reading books transform, grow and change conciousness?

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    10 hours ago, eskwire said:

    This is a great question. I do not have a hard and fast answer for you, but the key may be in how screens affect brainwave states (gamma, beta, alpha, theta, delta, infra-low). The results you get may be dependent on physiological effects rather than lifestyle preferences.

    Do some Google searching about brainwaves and screens. 

    PS I prefer paper. Screens bum me out. #science :D

    you understood my question and I'm asking this with the hope of finding someone deeper into this that can save me the time of finding this by myself.

    because you really only can drag a conclusion for this after lets say 100 books read in each of the two ways (something that I don't want to have to test my myself)

    on the internet, I've only found answers in terms of price, comfortability, space ...

  11. Posted

    science is good, no doubt about that but the problem comes in when people forget what scientific thinking is or take it for something else, as Leo points out in his video and that is taking it as a lense through which one sees and understands life. that's not playing by what our nature is, by what a human is. science is done with thought and we all know what thought is. we use scientific thinking to bring things around us to our understanding but reality doesn't work by the "thought system", this is the reason science doesn't have a theory of everything yet and even if it will someday, that will still be a "map of the territory".

     

  12. Posted

    I am a sorta "follower" of athene. I recommend you all to check his story and charity and scientific projects he's been working on (very inspiring) and

    he's written a small book also.

    I too was curious about the relation betwen his work and personal development but I, as Leo said in his reply to this post, think that it's still science, it's still the map of the territory, it's still knowing/understanding of being and not actually being, it's still ego illusion no matter how accurate.

    personal development is not to be approached with the scientific mindset because science is understanding, mapping, calculating not being. on the other hand, science is not to be approached with a being approach. a yogi can't get you the math to get to the moon, he will tell you that he is the moon lol.

    this Leo's video explains my point

     

  18. Posted · Edited by actualized1

    religions steal things from what we are and what life is, most commonly being spirituality, working with the subconscious (praying) and how to deal with others and they overwrite/modify and nest those things with supernatural stories, illogical rules and trash of all kinds and there you have it, a new religion.

    now go and convince everyone you can reach that they must live by it and that doing those things without this filter will get them in hell forever :D

    people who get into religion and never get into personal development will actually think that religion holds all those things. both religion and personal development are guides, they don't hold anything.

    all jokes aside, for your growth it's better to do brute personal development. there are good life advices and teachings in religious books that were good at their time but in 2016 with all that we know and all the material we have, religion fails drastically in offering wisdom and teachings to base your psychology and way of life on.

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    I'm asking this because Leo said that he tried kindle and that he wasn't getting the results he was expecting and that physical copies of the books is the way to do this. So I'm wondering how much better can it be, because I don't have many books for now and I'd want to know which route to take cause it would make my life so much easier getting them in digital format.

    On the internet all I see people say is that it's a matter of preference but if Leo said so...