Carl-Richard

Relying on highly addictive meds to function is a dangerous path. I would seriously reconsider it if I were you. Besides, are you getting these prescribed from somewhere?

I've gotten obsessed by Meshuggah's album "Catch Thirty Three". It's such an original piece of music, so ambitious, so technically intricate, so tight, so well-produced, so-so heavy. It's arguably the heaviest album ever made. If you just want to hear the climax, skip to 39:10

True. So many people think enlightenment is about them. They couldn't be more wrong.

It's perfect.

Only if you're not ready for it. Transcending the ego does not mean removing the ego.

@StarStruck ?

People have to seriously stop with this solipsism bullshit.

@axiom Genius ?

The difference is that your friend can hear himself talking to you. Sounds like Terrence McKenna. It's just a fancy way of saying what has already been said.

Stress doesn't invariably cause resilience. It depends on the situation and the person.

Some things feel more meaningful than others. That is not made up. Your job is to find what is most meaningful for you.

You can have a cessation where all of that disappears and all that remains is Consciousness.

Being young is like being on psychedelics. It's amazing, intense and terrifying, but it's short-lasting. It's possible to return to that state though. You just have to do the right work. But do you dare?

Ok, Andrew Tate Why does mental impairment exist but not mental illness? Both are labels you use to describe some sort of dysfunction.

Because you are not the body, you are not the mind, you are not the person. You are Consciousness.

The main implicit criteria is that you're having problems with functioning in society. That is what makes it a disorder. When it comes to schizophrenia, the problems tend to be associated with symptoms like disorganized thinking, hearing voices or seeing things that other people don't see, delusions, apathy, flat affect, etc. It should not be conflated with mystical experiences, although people with schizophrenia can certainly have mystical experiences just like people without schizophrenia.

I had a spontaneous compulsion to contemplate the question "what creates the perception of time?", and I thought really long, and I landed on the answer of "it's how often you connect to your memories", which is pretty accurate.

My direct experience tells me other people are like me.

I'm just expressing how I feel about your opinion.

I'm fine with projecting my disgust of people wanting to kill babies.

Is that why you want to kill babies now? Yikes.

This is giving me strong feelings of disgust.

True. It is comformist, it is safe, not very extreme, not very sexy, not very appealing to testosterone-filled young men. Evolution works by fitness of the entire genome, not just the mutations. Mutations are often deleterious. There again you see holism at play.

I'm not limiting it to science, no. Also, finding a higher order synthesis is also about taking pluralism and deducing some basic underlying principles. It's just that some syntheses are more summarizing while some are more innovative, but you often have a bit of both (integration vs. emergence, "include" vs. "transcend").

And what is that?