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The Human Experience Yesterday I was lying in my bed and had an epiphany. Some while ago I saw a video on this forum that talked about the human experience and how we are machines designed for "Fitness" aka survival. Our experience of this world is determined by this our vision smell everything. For example when you see a desktop of a computer you see a visual representation of what is stored within your computer. You see a map and a browser icon and such. This is a display designed for you to be able to navigate this complex machine called a computer you don't see the actual bits and bytes but you see a beautiful interface. The same goes for our experience, its made for us to be able to navigate this word. This is what I will call the normal human experience. The Infinite I drew a little picture on the left here to make it a bit more clear >>> So we have our normal human experience. But that is map we take it as reality. Outside out map we have the Infinite. The Infinite is just as real as our human experience but now were actually looking at the mechanism behind our experience aka we're looking inside the computer at the bits and bytes. Whenever we step outside this normal human experience we say that it is a hallucination or some other phenomenon and not reality. Now what I'm saying is that it is reality just not our normal human experience. Accessing The Infinite So I also drew some arrows to represent a journey outside our human experience. One arrow is labeled "Chemical Imbalances" with this I mean taking psychedelics (Psychonaut) or your body being off tilt creating some sort of chemical imbalance. The other arrow is labeled glitches with this I mean some things like lucid dreaming or astral projection when you go into a different state but you can snap back quite quickly. As a Psychonaut somebody who ventures out of normal human experience to explore the infinite. We most of the time find our way back to our normal human experiences, but some get lost and don't find their way back. They sink into psychosis or however you want to label it. A young body gets off of kilter faster and has more chance of this happening. Thank you for reading my philosophical article Please tell me if I am making any sense lol. Here is the video I mentioned:

No probably not. Commit to your current course of action. I always distract myself like that and you get a lot of unfinished business that way.

@Leo Gura Shit, I think he's on to me....... *Try's to get away but fails miserably*

@AleksMThanks brother will watch it ASAP

@Leo Gura @AleksM How do I wrap my mind around altered states like the one's you have when taking psychedelics? (with normal human experience I meant normal human state)

I was thinking about this too lately. I think I would enjoy it but don't know where to start.

I don't give a fuck what any of ya'll think, I'm becoming the best damn Documentary/Informational Film Maker in the world because that's my God-given mission in this life, and I won't let anyone stop me! Now give me all the advice and techniques you know for how to do it. I don't care how difficult the technique is, I will master it if it helps me reach my goal. And if you don't have any techniques to give me, I will find them myself anyway! And if no techniques exist, I will invent my own.

Visualisation, Affirmations and the book: Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz Maltz found that his plastic surgery patients often had expectations that were not satisfied by the surgery, so he pursued a means of helping them set the goal of a positive outcome through visualization of that positive outcome.[3] Maltz became interested in why setting goals works. He learned that the power of self-affirmation and mental visualization techniques used the connection between the mind and the body. He specified techniques to develop a positive inner goal as a means of developing a positive outer goal. This concentration on inner attitudes is essential to his approach, as a person's outer success can never rise above the one visualized internally.

Hey what kind of products do you sell? liking your journal, easy to read

This book by Ken Wilber also goes deep into this topic, I read it it's quite facinating: Integral Meditation: Mindfulness as a Way to Grow Up, Wake Up, and Show Up in Your Life, 2016, ISBN 9781611802986 You could also search on the graves model it's the same thing (I did not read these books but they seem like their about this topic): Levels of Human Existence by Claire W. Graves Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership and Change by Don Edward Beck I totally agree the people who think their in level Yellow are actually orange. I know for a fact that I'm still 80% Orange.

Fuck School I just want to quit school and go for my film making stuff full time gosh.. Realized that it is key to first do your art and then do any other stuff you have to do like marketing for your business otherwise you will never come around to the art. You will be constantly distracting yourself with "Important stuff" and not making art. When you make the barrier to entry low your more prone to start. So I did this:

I got a funny one, stole it from RSD if you know them guys. Whenever you see yourself going for that comfortable thing and not doing the emotionally hard thing, narrate yourself in 3rd person like this: "Ho, look at Michael in his third world country. No he can't go under the cold shower. Ach Michael needs some extra care, can you call his mommy? Michael needs his mommy. ETC." *In your most annoying inner voice * Then I jump in that cold shower real quick. It's not the healthiest thing to do it like this tho.

Does anyone have the same experience? When I'm meditating and I focus on a specific point after a while my visions starts doing weird things. Like I see colors and everything gets outlined in a weird way. So then I get distracted and move my focus away from my focus point and start irritating myself with trying to get the right spot for my eyes. Any solutions for this problem other than just accepting it and going on.

Look into the future. With this knowledge you now have it is either: Do what you want to do. Get a feeling of satisfaction and a knowing that you did what you had to do. Do not do that. Remain in a constant battle in your mind of why I should do it but why I cant and waist your fucking life living a life that is not worth living.... you will die. My fears where being a weirdo who makes weird video's. Thinking that he is somebody while he's not. ETC........ What happened, I said fuck it I did it and all I heard was the chirping of crickets... Then you will realize that you just started and need your 10,000 hours because what you make at the moment is shit. You realize that to make your dreams reality is not just getting of the hump but facing the fact that you can't make the thing you want to make yet because you don't have the skill. So it's a constant fight always for me.

@Caterpillar @ElenaO Well that is not completely true. Empathy benefits you in social situations and because we live in social groups it has a real danger to it. When you are thrown out of a group you will have to survive on your own as a human that was nearly impossible. Empathy is hardwired in our brain when you look at apes they have empathy too. children that are just past age one show emphatic behavior and they don't know anything about a society at that time. When a family member suddenly cries the baby and even pets like dogs and cats will try to calm him or her down by putting a head on his or her lap or some other way. I do have to agree with you that empathy in this society is overrated. People hold as way more important than it actually is and in that sense people pleasers avoid rudeness at all cost while rudeness does have it's benefits.

@beastmode Yhea thought about that too, really a lot of possibility's for art creation on that medium.

@Leo Gura I think Brasil,

@beastmode Nice! Don't rush the rest of the course think about it deeply. I rushed it a bit and it takes away a whole lot of goodness. I use Adobe products: Illustrator, After Effects and Premiere. What medium do you have in mind?

@beastmode Yes, I'm currently focusing on animation. The topic of my video's are.... yhea you guessed it self-help. If you want an impression of what I make click here. I'm still at the very beginning, animation takes up a lot of time, time that I don't really have with a fulltime internship. But I manage to set two hours aside daily.

Concentration Of Focus Started a new book, How to think like Leonardo Da Vinci. Really inspiring how one guy can do so much groundbreaking action in different fields. Then I just thought I could be able to do both film and programming. But quickly had to get myself out of that shit. It is always when I start thinking like that that I fall off one or the other. Currently on my free time only need to focus on film. 8 hours a day I already do programming that's enough if I would start making blog posts about that and stuff I would have way too little time. Now a days there is so much information and so much free time that a lot of fields are over-saturated. You can't be groundbreaking in everything in today's world. You have to concentrate your focus to blink out of the masses. Now that I have more experience with my own trick I know how it works better so I know where I am doomed too fail. Try to take on too much, can't do it all and then fall of and do nothing.

A nice little animation on how to focus.

Well I'm in exactly the same place currently. I think it is important to focus on a domain of mastery to block out the other options to distract you, otherwise you will never get on the path and hop from one skill to another. As for choosing a skill for mastery (I'm currently in-between Film and Programming.) It is wise to pick one thing and see where it takes you. Then again you always have the chance to do something else. It's not that when you choose your stuck with it foreveeeer. Which one to pick? Follow your intuition, you currently can't see where they will bring you. In the end it is about transcending your habit of looking at other things and thinking that the grass is greener on that side. No in the end you will have to work. It is either this or that but in the end there will be periods where you are grinding it out. And you will be thinking, is this really the thing I am supposed to be doing. You will have to be able to see that yes this is it and that if I chose the other thing I would also have these periods of grinding. Be able to love the process. I'm currently going for film, that's where my heart is. Although I will finish my collage in computer-science to play it smart. All my spare time goes to film. Good luck on your journey

Internship - Making software for funeral directors. So they can reserve a spot on the graveyard.

Re-read mastery Key 1: Teachers. When starting out teacher's help a lot. A self-thought individuals runs the possibility of reinventing the wheel and learning bad habits. When choosing a teacher hold these rules in mind: Look at credentials Look at the amount of positive and negative feedback Look at his patience with beginners To master the teaching of slow learners is to master the thinh that your teaching to the minute detail. Key2: the master of any game, is a master of practice. He eats practice for breakfast, lunch and dinner and he loves it. You need to learn to love your practice. Then you get better and this in turn makes you love it even more. Key3: surrender to the path. Sometimes you need to surrender your hard won proficiencys to go to the next level. There are no experts there are only learners. its a journey, when you could see the end you won't even start. Key4: intentionality, vision fuels a master on his jouney. Key5: the edge, the hard thing is not just to push the envelope but also to walk the fine line of endless goalless practice and achieving your goals.

Not Knowing Wow almost done reading the book of not knowing and the exercises in it are just simply said Mind Blowing. He has a guide on contemplation which is quite amazing. Also a note to self is when actually writing down or articulating a concept to yourself or to somebody else it really really forces you to understand it yourself. So actually writing about the thinks I read really helps articulate it in my own words and I remember it way better and clearer. When you just assume you got it, you don't really got it bro.