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I don't think he said the last four of those.

Yes. Google doesn't answer questions. It gives you websites. It's more like Quora.

You could test it out. Just make sure it's structured and you're actually using a timer. I found that most of my meditation gains would occur at the 45 minute mark, also at the point of the day where I'm the most alert (the window before or after dinner where my stomach is not too full or not too empty). My experience is that meditation is like an unwinding of tension, and that if you interrupt the process, the tension quickly starts building up again. So if you want to go deep, it's in a sense quality over quantity. You want to go all in for each session and see how far you can go, not spend progressively longer time in half-assed states.

Apparently, OpenAI is a blockheaded materialist who doesn't understand metaphysics. It literally doesn't understand what it's talking about : I'm going to stop with the AI posts for now

Oh, the big one:

It's well-read

That could be possible, but then they can't have their own journal in that section, but you could solve that by giving the ajournalistic people their own journal section.

Member Ajournalistic?

Hmmmm. It doesn't like very specific probability questions I tried prodding it, but it wouldn't budge. "I'm just a sowwy little robot "

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I've been looking for this for a good while. It's actually useful Much more efficient than manually scanning Google Scholar.

Shut up

Science is: a method ("the hypothetico-deductive method"): falsifying hypotheses by doing experiments/observations and interpreting data. a field of study: a set of paradigms, methodologies, theories, hypotheses, methods, measurements, conclusions, predictions, explanations, descriptions. A "logical understanding" applies to many fields of study: scientific, philosophical, spiritual, personal.

I would think so, but of course, I haven't experienced these things ? You still won't walk off a cliff. You'll still have a biological imperative (prarabdha karma) that will run itself out in this life, unless you're able to leave the body intentionally through mahasamadhi. I don't know if I would classify myself as "woke" as a child, but I started being obsessed about the concept of morality at like 7 years old, and sometimes I would go into something like a panic attack where I would start crying because I would become so aware of my own mortality (maybe it was a type of non-dual glimpse). That lasted until I was 11, and then it reignited one summer when I was 14 while stuck on a super boring vacation trip. After that, I was able to create coping mechanisms to avoid thinking about it (you sort of see the parallels with my spiritual journey some years later ☺️).

What the guy says makes sense, but to be honest, the Infinite Gods video is probably the only video of Leo I don't understand. I thought it was superfluous. "An infinity of Gods" or "one infinite God" is the same to me. Maybe I missed something.

The most annoying thing about hanging out with a group of stoned people is not just how paranoid they are about normal scenarios, but how low volume they talk

That could be wise if you're young like me That is my current strategy as well. 25. I was 19 when I started meditating and had my first sober non-dual glimpse. I've had the so-called solipsism realization of "there is only me; other people are just me", and it's of course a scary realization, because it literally feels like "there is nobody home" when you're looking at someone. But even so, I don't draw the conclusion that they're just pixels on my screen of perception and that they're not themselves having an individualized experience. Instead, what really happened is that I was the one who lost my sense of an individualized experience (or some sense of it), and therefore as a result, I can no longer recognize it in others the same way I used to. Other people still experience it, just like I did two seconds ago, and it still matters to them. You can still feel their pain and happiness, and you'll still want to interact with them in a humane way.

If you want to be very technical about it, the term "psychedelic" is reserved to the serotonergic psychedelics, but some of the effects can be experienced through other receptor systems as well, as there is sometimes significant overlap, and that certainly applies to the cannabinoid system. Think about it this way: cannabinoids are involved in regulating certain habits like eating, which means they're naturally released during these activities. Now, what happens at the dinner table with say your family? As everybody takes the first bite of their food, everybody calms down — maybe it's even quiet for a while — and after that, you're in a better mood and more talkative. So there is a calming and centering effect, and an increase in mood and a dropping of social inhibitions (a "boundary dissolving" effect). Also, eating food is a very sensual activity, so there is some sharpening of the senses going on. If you've ever tried eating while in severe cannabis withdrawal, you'll know exactly what I mean. Even if you're eating the best food in the world, it tastes, smells and looks disgusting, and eating it becomes hard work. So there is a sharpening (or maybe an "augmenting") of the senses going on, but not in a fight-or-flight kind of way, as it's happening in parallel with the calming and boundary dissolving effect. That produces something akin to a psychedelic effect.

But instead of celebrating that, you went "but have you heard about Jesus?". I'm not saying that's invalid, but it felt to me like it could've come from an unhealthy place. If that's a false assessment, then that's fine. I'm only saying that not everybody is ready to leave their life as a person behind.

I don't know Leo personally If you're active and able to follow the guildelines, that's really all you need to become a mod. Long story short, I became hooked on spirituality and meditated for 1000 hours over the course of 3 years, then this happened: Then I had to spend another 2-3 years to "undo" that (it's really more about coping than undoing anything). I've experimented a lot, but the main techniques I use today is of course not meditating, constantly distracting myself, sleeping on my stomach, eating regular and big meals (slightly overeating), sitting/standing/walking with a sub-optimal posture, and slightly tightening the left side of my abdomen. Even when I do this, it's still not fully back to normal. My everyday life is ok, but I sometimes enter no-mind in novel situations where I'm physically relaxed but have to pay attention, like in a meeting or watching a movie, which is annoying. Other than that, it has certainly had positive effects on my life.

I'm showing how personal growth leads to less suffering instead of reducing everything to spiritual growth.

@Sincerity Unless you're fully enlightened, you'll have thoughts reminding you about things you need to do. If you do those things, those particular thoughts will subside. It doesn't matter if it's taking out the trash or getting laid. The more particular thoughts you ignore, the more chaotic your mind becomes. Having not done two things instead of one is twice the load on your mind. Also, the more you do what you need to do, the more you'll actually grow. It's only when you've exhausted most of the things you need to do that seeking ego dissolution becomes the appropriate step.

As someone who has experienced this process but spent 3 years forcing myself out if it, I can give you the blue pill or the red pill. The blue pill: I'll teach you how to return to a more ordinary sense of existence. There is more suffering involved, but you'll not have to overcome your fear of death, insanity, isolation. The red pill: I'll do as Axiom here and help you close off the last subtle hiding spots your mind uses to perpetuate itself. I feel hesitant doing this as I know the seriousness of such a decision.

If it's growth, some of it will never pass. He won't ever have the thought of "I'm a loser virgin" ever again.