Carl-Richard

Unironically, I think my master's advisor wants me to work for him after my master's not for my scientific skills but for my marketing skills

If you have low cardiovascular function, you essentially have vascular dementia, because blood can't get to your brain. So no cardio means dementia. If you have low muscle mass, you essentially have diabetes, because glucose can't get out of your bloodstream (skeletal muscle is responsible for about 80 to 90% of insulin-meditated glucose clearance), and high blood glucose leads to inflammation. So no lifting weights means diabetes, which leads to chronic inflammation, which is also associated with dementia. So the answer is "stay hard"

So there is no such thing as vascular dementia. Great, thank you.

You say the dumbest shit sometimes I don't know how else to put it 😂

We're obviously talking about sub-clinical "diabetes" in quotation marks here. If you didn't have dementia, you would understand this 😂 (jking). And if you simply eat less (which skinny people tend to do), glucose obviously becomes less of a problem. Nevertheless, spiking your blood sugar with cola and fast food will cause inflammation, even if you're able to clear it from your blood eventually and you don't have chronic elevation and severe dysfunction of insulin as in real diabetes.

I had some severely decent earwax buildup from sleeping with earplugs for over 5 years and not getting my ears emptied out. It was pretty bad because I often had trouble hearing what people were saying if there was a lot of environmental noise. And music always sounded a bit muffled (not to mention one ear more than the other), so that alone was a good reason to get them cleaned out. I initially bought some DIY ear cleaning device from Temu which broke after 3 days — who would have thought that could happen? — and I made some decent progress in cleaning (but I don't recommend it because you can easily hurt yourself), but I eventually got them cleaned out by a doctor (my mom lol) by flushing them. It only took 10 minutes from entering the office and doctor preparing everything and removing all of it. Here is the before and after hearing test using an app on my phone: Before: After: (It seems like I registered O dB according to the chart at 2000 Hz on the after test. Maybe I hallucinated that one, or maybe not). I highly recommend it. Music is so amazing now and I can actually hear people talking to me and things outside when walking.

Why is meditation so controversial? Why doesn't it work for some people but for others it explodes? Some people approach meditation like a technique only, a practice, a thing you must do with great focus, without deviation, without error, like following your breath, or "doing nothing", or watching your thoughts. This forms a central aspect of meditation, of cultivating awareness, attention, single-pointedness of mind. However, it is not the whole story. If meditation is supposed to transform your very relationship to reality, the very way you interface with life, your meditation must reflect this. Such a thing is not simple. It's a complex equation that involves unwinding patterns of your mind, of beliefs, attachments, desires, drives, reactions, responses, habits, notions. In short, it involves deconstruction. In meditation, you have to deconstruct the notion that you are a person sitting with your eyes closed that there is a world outside with things happening and things needing to be done that tomorrow or today or right now there are things needing to be done that you fundamentally care about what happens today, tomorrow or at any time that you have a life with goals and places you want to be and places you don't want to be that you are in control of your bodily movements that your bodily sensations correspond to a notion which you call your physical head or face that you have a head or face that you are sitting somewhere that you are sitting that you are breathing that you are awake that you have eyes that are looking at an empty space behind your eyelids that the feelings under your butt or feelings all around in your body correspond to the notion of a body that exists in physical space the list goes on... You want to identify and go underneath all the notions that you project onto reality, consciously and unconsciously. For example, when identifying the notion that you are sitting on your butt and that your feelings under your butt reflect this, drop the notion and focus on the feelings. Feel them for what they are in themselves. Harvest all your effort and attention and try to feel exactly what they are. Then contrast the feeling with the notion you previously connected to them, the notion of a butt sitting on some surface, and see how vacuous that notion was. The notion created an imaginary object in your mind that the feelings were slotted into. But when investigating the feelings themselves, the object was nowhere to be found. The feeling in themselves are like vaguely scattered pins and needles and feelings of pressure with no definite location or structure. But this is only one trivial notion out of hundreds and maybe thousands that you have to sort through before your consciousness lightens to the point where it can uphold states of Enlightenment. For every notion you investigate and drop, your consciousness becomes a little more fluid, a little more clear, a little lighter. Additionally, meditation is fundamentally experimental. There is no set recipe for what to tackle first or for how long to tackle each thing or in what way. It's whatever your mind throws at you, and you attend to that with all your abilities. There are so many different moods, states, headspaces and bodily configurations (breathing, posture, feeling into energetic movements, devotion, sensuality, vulnerability) that you are capable of inducing and that can be conducive to deepening the meditation, and they must all be tested. Harvesting the power of your intuition and imagination and fundamentally trusting yourself and trusting the process is the only process. All in all, your full energy and attention should be on how you can crack this nut of existence and dissolving the patterns that keep you stuck, harvesting your imagination, intuition and reason to uncover the techniques and hacks on how to do that, while releasing all blockages on all levels (bodily, emotionally, psychologically). It's the biggest project that you can embark on and requires all of your intellectual capacities, all of your intelligence, all of your devotion and passion. And in the end, you have to willing to give up everything for knowing the truth of existence and merging with Divine Love and Consciousness.

I can see how some of my parents decisions moved me in a certain way that could've made more life either more easy or difficult. But whichever way, I'm privileged to say that these things were also in their own way a gift.

Let go of your attachments — don't hurt yourself, just let go of yourself. Let go of not wanting to be here. Let go of not wanting to be in this body. Let go of not wanting to be in this story. Let go of not wanting to be this identity — sexless, aging, suicidal, burnt out, writing endlessly into a void. Let go of being that identity. In general, whatever thought that arises in your mind, tell yourself "whatever happens, I will be ok". Once your identity, your "oughts", die down, you will see your identity as that which existed before you were born and which will exist after death. But the odds are that once you experience this, you will want to not go all the way and instead pursue those things that you're repressing in the world. You want sex, you want connection, you want things. But it does not hurt to go there. In fact, it might be the only way, other than getting help the other ways you mentioned.

I am the Zen stick.

Am I right in saying taking 5-MeO-DMT but not letting go of your attachments is fake spirituality, or is that too radical? 😗

Are you are able to just sit, for 1 hour, 2 hours, maybe even 6 hours? If not, why? Is it because of your thoughts? Let go of the thoughts. Is it because of something you have to do? Let go of it. If you are unable to let go of these things, why? 1. Is your attention seemingly drifting outside your awareness, back to thoughts, back to things you have to do? Focus your attention on an object (the breath counts). 2. Does your physical body hurt when sitting for that long? Learn to sit better (fix your posture, fix your seat, fix your legs, fix your breathing). Does it still hurt? Take a break; rest is important. 3. Are your thoughts sticky and associated with unresolved emotions, problems, scenarios? Fix the source, either by solving the problem or planning how you will pursue solving the problem, or drop it, give it up. To give it up, when the thoughts arise, tell yourself that whatever happens, you will be ok. Here you go, I just derived meditation for you.

Let's not forget that "fake spirituality" in this case does not equal to "untrue factual claims". That's an easy but mistaken implication here. I challenge anyone to actually disprove the factual claims of "New Age BS". And if not disprove, explain exactly why they're unlikely hypotheses.

Most "New Age BS" haven't been categorically proven to be untrue. You just assume based on some preconceived (and often not well thought through) notion that it's highly unlikely. But if anything, thinking you can turn yourself into an alien live on camera (and your followers being like "oh really? Tell me more!") 😜🤫

Translation for non-French people: "When I'm hungry, I crave cardiac arrest" 🤣.

Reason and human imagination grants the ability of conceiving of an unknown separate from what is immediately known (Being), which allows you to postulate something outside of what is right here, right now, which makes Being only absolute with respect to the known. But that is not in itself to argue in favor of any particular unknown more than any other. The unknown could be anything. Being could be limited and outside of it rests a pink elephant, but you can't argue for that absolutely; it might as well be green, or yellow, or a bird. And if that is the case, why bother with it?

We're living in a more dark and twisted version of the movie Wall-E.

I look at small kids today the same way I look at the cockroaches you poured energy drinks on for fun when you were a dumb teenager. They're like small Frankenstein monsters wired out of their minds.

You just described stereotypical New Age. New Age in general is the individualistic "assemble your own spirituality" (which you in reality just got pre-packaged from some YouTube guru, hence how different from religion is it really?). What I described as "stereotypical New Age" (presumably "false spirituality"; I didn't watch the video), seems to fall under the two first categories below, while the "true spirituality" New Age falls under the last category: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Age

AI therapists, AI porn, AI-generated educational videos. We're screwed.

Think of it this way: do you think your own IQ would decrease if you went to church and sang songs every Sunday instead of raking your brain over the same TikTok brainrot you usually do? Fun fact: singing in a group is actually a powerful meditative tool (and meditation, believe it or not, is associated with higher IQ). See how I have to paint everything with a New Age brush for you to swallow it? It's almost like you're religious...

What's the point of being Enlightened?

Or genetic freaks who just sit down and suddenly hours pass without them noticing.

I haven't tried it yet myself. What you got? Oh that's right, you don't eat vegan food.