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    On 21/09/2020 at 6:42 AM, bejapuskas said:

    @Adam M  This is an interesting suggestion, just throwing out this question for anyone to answer: do you think one can be coached on how to be creative? I mean, creativity means, that you create something new, if there is intervention from someone else, then what is supposed to be creativity becomes reinventing, don't you think? Do you think that the best way to be a 'creativity coach' is to just be an artist and inspire without pushing anything? 

    The mechanics of creativity can be taught, however, the unique ways in which one does it cannot.

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    1 hour ago, Carl-Richard said:

    Sadhguru is a walking god. I don't understand what people are talking about. Just take some time just watching him move, speak, breathe. It's truly marvelous what he is capable of and the Being that he radiates.

    Agreed. I saw him live, he seems to have some level of energy and infectiousness difficult to convey.

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    On 19/09/2020 at 8:19 PM, australia1 said:

    Hey Everyone,

    I'm an undergrad studying psychology. Despite disagreeing with a few philosophies I am taught, I love my degree. I have a strong pull to helping people and society through therapy, and to help fix some of the issues that I see in therapy. In my experience (in Australia), psychology and psychiatry are pretty hopeless. I've paid $250 to a psychiatrist for them to tell me to stay on antidepressants for the rest of my life - luckily I didn't listen and weaned off them, feeling better than ever. 

    There's too much to go into here, but I'm very excited and passionate about this path for a number of reasons.

    I'm deciding whether to go on to be a clinical psychologist or complete a doctor of medicine and go on to become a psychiatrist. I love psychology, however I know psychiatrists are qualified to administer all types of therapy, and this flexibility of resources appeals to me a lot. I am also vaguely interested in the possibility of psychedelic therapy, however this is not an essential avenue for me to go down.

    I am worried though that psychiatrists end up solely focusing on prescribing medication, which is really not what I want to do.

    Are there any psychologists/psychiatrists or people with insight into this matter that could share their perspective?

    Thanks a lot :)

    Great to hear you are pursuing a career in psychology. Lots to learn there. I also am about to graduate with a degree in psychology in Australia. Great to meet a fellow student haha.

    You raise a point I resonate with. There are many limitations in the field of psychology, namely its dogmatic paradigm shift into science and materialistic assumptions.

    Psychiatry itself is heavily strong armed by the medical model and for a large part so too is psychology and these are the foundations of the present paradigm. This is extremely problematic as the problems in psychological health stem far deeper than the assumed material neurochemical instabilities.

    Our current system maintains a demonstrable reliance on pharmaceutical intervention for existential problems of the mind. No pill will ever solve this. All it can do is simply mitigate the symptomology precipitated from it.

    If you wish to pursue this field, you could consider looking into the counselling/psychoanalytic field within psychology opposed to the clinical. The clinical are inherently saturated by the medical model. Of recent years I’ve developed a deep passion for counselling and really see its value. It’s far more epistemological, philosophical and conversational rather than rigid, categorical and diagnostic.

    Or even consider research as well. There’s plenty of areas in research that require advancing. If you are passionate about medicine maybe consider areas of study which explore how it can be used as instructive tool instead of a diagnostic liability.

    I think that’s lots of opportunities in this field. Be open and see what how could contribute something advancing.

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    On 14/09/2020 at 3:03 AM, Galyna said:

    Guys, I want to share with you what has happened the other day. Because I was chasing the understanding for about five years, now I got it!

    In order to understand Oneness, one has to receive the experience of being Nothing. As soon as you pass through the experience of being nothing, this thought about others vs. me would never occur in your mind.

    The only difficulties on my way to understanding and grasping that everything is one was in fact the belief in the so-called POV.

    Once you become raw experience - literally become a raw experience where "being" (hearing, seeing, feeling, and perceiving) just happens - you would not experience such a thing as POV. At that particular time, you will lose the sense of self and you will become nothing. When you become nothing you would not have any registration whatsoever of the particular moment of time. You literally become a raw experience. When this happens, you can only recognize that when experience has already taken place, but not when you are fully in it, because there is no one to register that experience. When you retrospect about losing yourself, you see that you literally became nothing - there was no one behind the scenes, just raw experience. Raw experience does not hold ownership, therefore there is no such things as others or me. There is only this experience. Which feels like never happened when you think about it. Call it a dream if you want. But it never happened.

    So, in order to understand if others exist or not, get rid of your current POV. And the way to do it is to become awareness that is not aware of itself and relax and go with the flow. Once you pass through this experience and you literally become nothing, the question about "me vs. other" will resolve on its own. All you need to do is to change the paradigm, not in your mind, but rather, you're getting rid of your POV here, which is on your way to a bigger understanding.

    Being aware of being aware is the first, initial, and important step to become nothing. The second step will be full relaxation where you are not aware anymore of the observer, you just become what you are observing. Once you're there, it will lead you to the experience of becoming nothing. When you become nothing, you would understand that there is no such thing as others. The topic about solipsism will be closed forever. Please don't be too strict about my works -- I'm using a linguistic language to frame this concept.

     

    become nothing.jpg

    Indeed. Solipsism is a quite an easy paradigm to relinquish. Recognise reality contains no self. Thus, there can be no conceivable self-constructed reality without a self to construct it.

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    5 hours ago, Danioover9000 said:

    @Jacobsrw

       This somewhat contradicts contemplation. If you're relentlessly thinking thoughts that have negative features, then yes that is taxing for the mind, but what about positive thinking? Or the Kuon practices done in Zen temples, aimed at exausting the mind till enlightenment occur?

    Positive thinking can be good, however, it must be balanced. Overthinking is debilitating irrespective of the content being thought about. Overthinking can lead to overstimulation and the inability to sit still or organise ones mental activity in a competent manner. 

    The problem is not thinking but the continual attachment to thinking. Also, as a side note, from my understanding contemplation is not a practice of relentless thinking but rather one of deriving insight from allowing information to naturally surface. This is somewhat an intuitive practice which is facilitated by thoughts in order to convey the insights. As such, thoughts are not the prime directive in contemplation but rather the insight that comes forth after using them.

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    22 hours ago, benmitchell2812 said:

    Elliott recently shed light on this about meditation (what are your guy's thoughts?) :

    "It started when one of my successful friends winced at the mention of meditation.

     

    He told me:

    I can't do that stuff anymore, it makes your mind blank.

    He told me he'd been meditating a lot. So much that his mind was completely blank. Like a desert. Tumbleweeds and all.

    And obviously this has big implications for an entrepreneur, or any man on his hero's journey.

    I didn't know at the time that my friend was referring to meditation sickness.

    Yes, meditation can make you sick.

    And no, it's not some woo-woo phenomenon. Most of the eastern religions have recognized meditation sickness as a normal occurrence.

    Recently, I heard about one from a psychologist who “meditated so hard” she began tossing and turning in her sleep, became supremely anxious, had shortness of breath, and became overwhelmingly emotional.

    In another more serious case, meditation apparently triggered a suicide."

    Buddhists, Hindus, and other eastern religions have been aware of “meditation sickness” for hundreds of years.

    The root cause of this strange ailment is a disconnection from the outside world and letting the mind go blank.

    And that's the main reason why I no longer meditate - Letting the mind go blank alone is dangerous.

    It’s like preparing the soil in the garden without planting anything.

    Weeds will almost certainly infest your garden.

    The same goes for the mind.

    If you wipe it clean with meditation and leave it blank, you’re leaving your mind vulnerable to outside forces - demons, spirits, and negative beta thoughts.

    You need to install new alpha software, add new files, and occupy that empty space with constructive thoughts to become a better man.

    This is a a complete misunderstanding of meditation. When done with the right integration work, it is one of the most powerful tools available.

    This is the sort of misconceptions that get spun by naive meditators who fail to see its purpose. Threatening suppressed baggage surfaces and they panic as if this is a bug in the system. Quite the contrary. The only reason one contracts following meditation, is because the underpinnings of their inner demons are being exposed. This provides the very opportunity to not only deal with them but also develop the capacity to deal with challenge much more competently in the future.

    A entrepreneur or heavily pragmatic individual could only benefit from experiencing such “mind-blankness”. It allows space for awareness, clarity, reorganisation and creativity. One who relentlessly thinks, is doing no more good than a car driven on tyres that never get replaced. 
    Using the mind till exhaustion can quickly become a disease.

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    On 24/08/2020 at 4:54 AM, Elshaddai said:

    Why can't it be love, rainbows, butterflies and sunshine and free candy forever mannnnnn:P

    But on a serious note, I've been thinking about this question alot. Why can't survival be an easy and pleasurable affair as opposed to being hard and grueling?

    Because whatever ever is finite and limited will always be faced with some degree of struggle. That is the function of being limited, things will threaten you. Only that which is beyond limitation can be free of struggle.

    Survival would be much easier if their was no self which one identifies with on behalf of it. It would then just be a pure activity of consciousness.

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    14 hours ago, AlwaysJoggin said:

    I noticed that when ever i go on meditation streaks like doin it daily it leads to i like to call it mental brakedown i start getting depressed and i can get panic attack more easily and often. Other than that personally  I usually get like couple panic attacks a year last time was a month ago where i went to the emergency room I thought I was going to die. Now I don’t meditate daily cuz I don’t want to get depressed at the same time i do want to do it cuz i know its wonderful  benefits.  

    This is likely due to purging. In other words, negative suppressed feelings, thoughts and/or emotions coming to the surface that are yet to be dealt with. This is actually a positive in the long run.

    Attempt shorter mediations, 2-5 minutes and focus on a particular stimulus. Such as focusing on you breath of sensations in your feet.

    Also consider experimenting with therapists. They can help as you move through challenging experiences.

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    4 hours ago, Javfly33 said:

    We are have heard "Past times were always better" but I think this goes deeper than the usual idealization of the past.

    Since some time ago sometimes memories of the past arise and I feel every moment I've experienced until now it's actually been totally perfect.

    For example memories of times were I would complain or suffer a lot, anxious times. Now I remember them and I have this sense that those times were just as "cool" as any other moment . It seems when I lived them a sense of "this present moment is not worthy/is not enough", was creating the suffering, and now remembering them I can see clearly those moments were grandiose. They were created by Reality. Those weren't "lesser moments" that those of fun, happiness or relaxation.

    What is this?

    I was just discussing this with a friend not long ago.

    Two of the central reasons are context and relativity.

    1. Context - the self always yearns to be wherever it is not. This is the primary function of the self. Hence, it’s incessant need to always imagine.

    “Over there” always seems more fascinating simply because it is not being presently experienced, as such, it can be imagined however one desire it. And usually the self twists and contorts imagined memories to suit how it wishes to feel at the time it imagines.

    2. Relativity - you can only know one thing having experienced something else opposite to it and this allows for deeper more meaningful comparisons. You only know hot from know cold, high from experiencing low, exciting from experiencing depressing etc. For example, you cannot appreciate being warm without first being cold.

    These contrasting experiences provide you a point of reference for which you interpret each experience you have. The act as an underlying guide so to speak. It’s easier to see value in something once it is has something you can compare it to.

     

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    On 15/08/2020 at 11:56 AM, Lindsay said:

    Just when I thought I had a grasp of reality, I connect something and become hyper paranoid. I’m calmer now compared to last year when this boiled up inside me and I start believing in out eagles conspiracy theories. Especially with the elite family conspiracy theories and the child trafficking business ect... the masons. The career politicians. I’m calm on the outside. Last year I started to think this and i got hysterically paranoid and had to be hospitalized. But right now I’m calm but concerned. Does anyone have some analysis that can put my paranoia at ease? Please tell me The elite are not drinking Children’s blood and stuff. Please tell me we are not systemically enslaved by capitalism. Please at least convince me it’s just metaphors And it’s not as Literally gruesome as these conspiracies are leading. 

    Although some of them may be pointing to a particular issue almost none of them do a good job comprehensively explaining the immense complexity of society nor government. Conspiracy theories are far too oriented in self- aggrandising and projectionist mentalities. No self-responsibility is taken whatsoever.

    The issue is egoic self defence mechanisms. The best thing you can do is explore your fears. Conspiracy theories are “ego friendly”. They hide the egos fears and discomforts. See what’s happening there.

    Almost always, people in these positions have much deeper layers of instability lurking beneath the surface that they insist ignoring. Explore the depth of what elicits fear opposed to finding convenient solutions to repress it. You will be become far more conscious this way.

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    On 17/08/2020 at 0:56 AM, Adam M said:

    Y'know what's even better than intuition? Complex understanding of meta-topics like politics, epistemology, self-bias, cult psychology, awakening, corruption, and especially spiral dynamics. Then, you can use intuition.

    These conspiracy theorists are quick to point out that trump is saving the world from elite corruption while conveniently failing to mention Bernie Sanders basically ever. This is a clear-as-day indicator that these ideologically charged, Tier 1 thinkers have no clue what they're talking about.

     

    I very much agree.

    Yes this is a problem. The main issue I see is the ceaseless need for some individuals to use a theory as a mechanism of defence to their own insecurities and inadequacies. And because of the sheer magnitude it takes to admit responsibility, each insecure civilian would rather locate an antagonist in which to blame such that it displaces their responsibility

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    On 17/08/2020 at 0:56 AM, Parththakkar12 said:

    It's not simple. The best arbiter of whether you're using intuition or not is your emotions. How do your beliefs make you feel? Do they make you feel passionate, high-energy, anxious, fearful? How hard are you willing to fight to defend them? Or do they make you feel calm, stable and peaceful?

    The more heated someone gets in defending their beliefs, the less they're operating from intuition. People who are operating from intuition will not feel insecure and defensive about their position.

    Well, emotions are even trickier. They are implicit and have to be first fed through the filters of the mind. If you are maintaining a mental position such of frustration you are likely to conceive of strong energetic surges in the body as anger. The mind misconceives emotions endlessly to aggrandise it’s own beliefs. Because fundamentally the mind is only worries about two things (1) categorising it’s experience (2) survival. No function can be fully trusted but awareness. It is the primary function from which you exist.

    But yes, I agree. The more defensive one is the less likely they are operating from intuition. Intuition requires no defence.

     

     

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    On 16/08/2020 at 5:47 PM, Parththakkar12 said:

    Your intuition will tell you where you're being biased and where you're headed in the right direction. The closer you are to the truth, the more peaceful and at ease you will feel about it because the Absolute Truth is peace.

    The problem is bias functions in such a way that it obscures intuition. Intuition really can only be aided through awareness. And again, if one is deluded how would they know they are operating from intuition? They wouldn’t because the presumption that they are using intuition could be itself a bias. One who is deluded has already self-affirmed they are not, and this, further deluded them. It’s much trickier than it first appears.

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    10 hours ago, DocWatts said:

    I have a friend of mine who's fallen down a right wing conspiracy theory rabbit hole: everything from Plandemic, to Black Lives Matter being a conspiracy funded by George Soros to install a Bolshevik style government in America. This is someone who wasn't really overtly political a few years ago, and who I consider to be a decent guy overall. I guess my question is has anyone found a healthy way of engaging with someone who's fallen into a Conspiracy Theory rabbit hole, in a way where they won't get immediately defensive when the subject is broached? I realize there are healthy and unhealthy manifestations of different political views, and I see what my friend has fallen into as very toxic (and not to mention really off putting to other people).

    I'm very well aware of Spiral Dynamics, but there's a difference between understanding a model on an intellectual level, and actualizing it in a way where you can employ it successfully in day to day interactions. I know the answer here is probably that he needs to move from an unhealthy and toxic version of Red to stage Blue, but what would that look like on a practical level? Has anyone found successful examples of what that would look like in their own lives?

    Invite a friendly discussion that goes beyond merely conspiracy theories. You must first learn about what’s underlying ones operating position before you can meaningfully discuss it.

    Almost always, people refrain from critiquing their own position, so instead do it from the other end. Ask about what they value what their parents believe, what they have believed in the past, what the fear and what they cherish. Understanding these facets can explain many underlying processes that governs ones worldview. Inquire into what led them into such positions before the adopted them. Many peopel rarely know to begin with. 

    You should already be doing these types of inquiries into you own beliefs as well.

    Not all conspiracy theories, but many of them are used to export responsibility and defend ones ego. Very few conspiracy theories value self responsibility for an issue. It’s always an outside entity at fault.

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    9 hours ago, Parththakkar12 said:

    @DocWatts You're not gonna like my answer. The answer is to look at your resistance to conspiracy theories. Why are you so scared of them? What is it about the theories themselves (or the people who believe them) that terrifies you so much?

    Then the next step would be to consider them with an open mind. As Leo said in his last video on openmindedness, consider them with an open mind without having to fully believe them. If you really want to honestly conclude that they are indeed BS, you will have to consider the possibility that they could be right first. Then you can do an honest investigation to figure out what's what. A lot of the judgement and hatred comes from the fear 'What if they're right?'.

    If you're able to prove them wrong, you will not be scared of them anymore. However, if you're proven wrong by them, well..... that's a potential consequence you'll have to be prepared for before you do the investigation.

    This is great, however, you may be undermining confirmation bias.

    In any case, this is how an adequate inquiry should begin. But since we are a biased by default just from the very fact we have pre-existing positions, this will inevitable corrode the investigative process. To truly be impartial you must be un-programmed. Otherwise how do you exactly know the information you have selected to examine is not fraught with an underlying prejudice? You don’t. Every action is biased. The question is to what level of integrity does the bias operate? That question is almost always answered with bias. So you must tread very carefully when seeking to deduce certain areas of exploration.

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    21 hours ago, Someone here said:

    There is a lot of suffering that one can experience in this life. Some people are lucky they experience less suffering and some people are just fated to be in the middle of some extreme shit like starving kids in Africa etc.   Suffering exists so let's not waste time arguing about whether it exists or not.. My question is there a salvation? A permanent end to all forms of suffering?  If so what it is?  Because I don't think there is such a way except permanent annihilation. 

    Please make your response non - classical and nuanced because it's so easy to deconstruct woo woo unrealistic answers. Thanks 

     

    Collapse your attached sense of identification to the self and suffering collapses. In other words, undo all your conditioning.

    You want a simple answer that rectifies all the calamities your ego has accosted you. This is not going to work. You cannot simply use your ego to deconstruct ego, this is just more ego fooling itself. You must move beyond ego to dissolve its suffering.

    Spend a week straight observing your silent experience with no singular distraction. This will do more for your suffering than likely any other method.

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    10 hours ago, Red-White-Light said:

    You can clearly see the Muslim man say at 12:30 that it's impossible for universe to come into being from Nothing. He has totally shot himself in the foot. That's what the miracle of Allah is! Coming into being from Nothing! He tries to use mathematics to validate his claim claiming 0+0+0 cannot = 3. This is dualistic nonsense. Absolute Nothing doesn't contain dualism, thus does 0=3. There is no separation from form and formless. 

    Lawerence was far more unconvincing in this dialogue. I watched this a few years ago and I feel Hamza is quite an intelligent guy, he just slips up by using science and philosophy to disingenuously substantiate his religion. 

    His argument regarding the universe cannot come from nothing is one based on duality. He assumes creation is seperate from its creator, from this point of view he is correct. However, if he was to consider reality as an indivisible and absolute whole, his argument would completely collapse.

    Unfortunately, religious fanatics are just as materialistically inclined as atheists. They believe in a subject/object reality.  Both Lawrence and Hamza require more nuance thinking beyond merely the minds ability to conceptualise. They fail to grasp that all this debating is just mental fixations.

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    18 hours ago, loub said:

    In his recent newsletter Peter Ralston was asked about psychedelics.

    Question (roughly):  how come you promote states like clarity, openness and presence as necessary prerequisites for fruitful contemplation yet dismiss psychedelics as useless when it comes to consciousness work stating they are just states and not direct consciousness. Can psychedelic states not also be used to enhance contemplation, not to do it for you but help do it for yourself?

    I am interested in what this forum thinks about his answer. Keep in mind though that he is deeply awake and also did have his fair share of psychedelic experiences.

    Ralston:

    I disagree with your argument. I hear the logic, but the truth in this case is different from the logic. The first thing we should notice is that the drugs are not of your own making, they are chemically induced. Whereas creating a state of focus and presence is an activity you generate. This is significant.

    There are many states you can generate that are not at all helpful to pursuing consciousness, even ones that seem like they are. You could have a state of anger or distraction, which probably don't help much. You could also have a state of feeling one with the universe, and that doesn't help either, but you could easily think it does. So, it is with psychedelic states. You might think they help or produce some beneficial state because you experience something awesome or unusual. But that doesn't help at all. Like I have said, you can become directly conscious while being angry or on drugs, but I'm also saying the anger or drugs have nothing to do with it. People fool themselves into thinking drugs can help. A mistaken notion. I lived in the late 60's in Berkeley, California in an era of a great deal of drug taking. It was probably the beginning of the whole psychedelic attempt to become more conscious. We even called them "consciousness raising drugs." I did more than my share for a while. So, I tell you from a personal experience of both drugs and consciousness, the drugs don't help.

    That isn't their purpose, and I think those using them to attain enlightenment are mistaken or lazy, wanting something else to do it for them or help them. This is nonsense because "direct" means only YOU can do it, nothing else. As for states that help in contemplation, they do so simply because they support your intent and efforts to contemplate. Drugs don't. And you are the one generating the states. Drugs aren't generated by you. States helpful in contemplation aren't random they are simply what creates the activity of contemplation. Without focus and openness you really can't contemplate. They are simply part of that effort.

    The contemplation itself is an activity, it is not enlightenment. It is simply more likely for you to become directly conscious if you intend to do so, and you give it your all. Drugs just provide a different experience by altering the chemicals in your brain. Neither chemicals or brain activity has anything to do with enlightenment. You can do them if you want, I am simply asserting there is a flaw in your logic—it doesn't work that way. You seem to be trying to convince yourself by getting me to go along with your beliefs. Sorry to disappoint, but I won't. Even if I had no counter logic to offer, I'd still say no. Simply because I know the truth directly. Peter

    Although I am both an advocate and user of psychedelics I think Ralston is making some valid points that should be considered. Psychedelics are not a get quick enlightenment avenue and I feel his rhetoric reflects this. One must walk the path them self at some point and not export their reliance to transient states derivative of the consciousness they exist as. 

    Humans are premature in their ability to really understand what a psychedelic state is, thus, must tread carefully assuming they know how to best utilise it. Although some of his points may be flawed, Ralston is speaking on behalf of conscientiousness, I feel that deserves listening to. He achieved enlightenment without psychedelics, why would he vouch for a supplementary method that many already abuse?

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    On 30/07/2020 at 5:56 AM, TDW1995 said:

    Recently, I have realized that I consider sight as the most primary of all the five senses. Without sight, I feel like I wouldn't be able to name "things" within reality. For example, when I close my eyes I can feel my "body", but does what I call the "body" exist while my eyes are closed? If not, then I rely on sight to attach names to "objects" within reality. And, when I think of the "body", an image comes to mind, not a feeling, hearing, smelling, or tasting sensation.

    Consider that sight is the most deceptive modality in your human experience, as it is the most saturating to the mind. The mind is easily persuaded by what it perceives since it interprets through image and links it to concept. Begin inquiring into distinction and start to see they are completely arbitrary. All perceptions singular and only become divided once they are associated to a given concept.

    A good practice to break down the dogma of physicality is to observe an object un-movingly for an extended period of time while minimising your blinking. I call this “concentration stillness”. In which, you observe to a point you get lost in the perception and can no longer catergoise it. Your perception becomes fluid and un-stratified. The mind becomes suspended since it requires constant change in order to function and while you stare your static perception it begins to appear very different to you. Very rarely do we observe something for an extended period of time. I invite you to experiment with this.

     

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    On 13/06/2020 at 3:04 PM, assx95 said:

    I don't know if it belongs here, apologies if it doesn't. I have a page which posts insights from "the Midnight Gospel" on Instagram, and 40+ posts later, the engagement levels aren't that high. I maintain a familiar format, engage with people. And i try to use maximum and relevant hashtags. But the growth is limited. Any instagrammers here who could pitch in to give some guidance? 

    Two main metrics. 
     

    1) Post a ton. Like at least once a day, preferably more. The Instagram algorithm rewards regularity.

    2) Post immensely valuable content. Don’t ask for anything in return, but rather share content that will instill value in people. Share it in a unique way. Be sure to use the image feature to its epitome. Instagram is all about posting high quality images. Use high resolution images with high quality creative output. 

    Instagram is about standing out from the crowd but doing it in a creative manner. People are seeking value and uniqueness. Do not just copy every large scale page, since half of them already have a skewed advantage from having already established notoriety.

    Disclaimer: be weary not to get hooked. Many people get hooked on the dopamine hit that likes and follows elicit. Do not allow this. Use Instagram purely for creative purposes or a pragmatic business strategy. As soon as you sense addiction put it aside for sometime.

  24. Posted · Edited by Jacobsrw

    Hey everyone,

    So I’m working on a new product which essentially will be a self purifying drink bottle, integrating a jet system, mineral stone filtration and UV light.

    Its a complex design in which I am presently working with engineers to begin.

    So in light of this I made a quick little survey to gain some further feedback on the validity of this product. I’ve already done some extensive research for this idea and found there is a target market. However, it would be good to get this insight more broadly. Hence why I am heading to a forum of actualisers.

    I have made a link to my survey below if you could so kindly complete it, that would be much appreciated. It’s 10 question a and takes roughly 3 minutes to complete.

    Thank you in advance! ? 

    https://survey.sogosurvey.com/r/l1beN6

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    On 28/07/2020 at 7:15 AM, Adodd said:

    Any thoughts on modern science getting more interested in topics like this? How much will science be able to do in this field?

    I am interested to see where it goes.

     

    http://awarenessact.com/some-science-now-believe-that-the-universe-itself-is-conscious-science-universe/

     

    The premise of science struggles with consciousness work since the very foundations of it is built on materialistic dualism.

    Really, science needs to dive more into metaphysics if it has any hope in making huge leaps and bounds. Not to mention the scientists them selves are often full of delusion and quite low on the spiral, that being stage orange usually. However, there is hope. Some anomalies out there involving open minded scientists that are willing to explore uncharted terrain. Psychedelics will need to be integrated along with radical mystic practices if science wants to expanding in this area.