Carl-Richard

Can I have one snippet of the part of the book that you're the most proud of?

That microtonal vocal line she keeps doing has been stuck inside my mind all day

It would increase the sensitivity if you use it enough times to become dependent on it, where your brain starts increasing the endogenous activity to counteract the decrease in activity by the antagonist substance. But only when you stop taking the substance, you'll start having an increase in sensitivity, as you go into "withdrawal" of the antagonist substance. The downsides of course are that you have to first get anti-high on the anti-psychotics (which feels like shit) and risk your health (because they're generally not good for you), and only then, when you stop taking the anti-psychotics and let the anti-high wear off, you can get very high by taking the right substances. This also assumes that the anti-psychotic is selective enough for the drug you want to get high on, i.e. it needs the right binding affinities for the right types of sub-receptors, especially 5HT2A and 5HT1A when it comes to classical psychedelics in general.

Anti-psychotics are not to be messed with.

https://www.bernardokastrup.com/2019/10/the-many-in-our-dreams.html

I know there is difference between resisting and letting go.

The personal mind is Consciousness reducing itself down to a seemingly limited perspective.

It can be a practice, but it's really just about stopping resisting. That action is more in your control that you might think.

The thing that is asking.

Because it's not occuring in your personal mind.

When it comes to INTP vs INTJ, the amount of Te vs Ti is mainly a question about degrees and whether it's mainly driven by personal affiliation or rationality. Destiny read up on the specific facts on the specific case because that is highly relevant to the topic, while Daniel mostly drew upon a wide range of different topics that are familiar to him. He didn't even know who the "policewoman" was.

"Only my life purpose is valid" ?

@trenton One of my closest friends since childhood is definitely on the spectrum and he is the smartest and sweetest guy I know.

It's the vast richness of what your mind and body is capable of, in terms of intelligence, in terms of self-deception, in terms of mechanical perfection. There is so much there.

You do follow instructions, but meditation is mainly something you do on your own. The technique doesn't catapult you to awakening. It's the intensity of your investigation into your own being.

Where do you draw the line though?

What makes a life purpose valid to you? The mastery and the states of flow you can get from these things, and sharing it with others, seems like a valid life purpose to me.

Did you ever play any sports as a kid?

I think there exists a trap in looking for the "perfect" method, or looking too much at results, or really just looking outside yourself when approaching something like meditation. Meditation for me has always been something extremely personal and not something I was taught. It's a learning by doing, constantly learning new things about yourself, about how your body works, how your mind works, how attention works, intention, lack of intention, etc. You get small insights along the way that makes you go deeper, in every tiny movement, every breath, every shift in posture. Looking inward is what the practice is about at the end of the day. That said, use every tool you've got. Whatever it takes to discover yourself, it's worth it.

Pushing the limits of your abilities, whatever it may be, is what is life is about. Everybody is different: some are spiritual, some are intellectual, some are artists, some are athletes. Be the best you can be

Wow

@Danioover9000 He is referring to the guy who made the video who didn't know Leo was talking about SD.

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Either a spiritual high or growing spiritually. You tend to build up a lot of human drama and emotional impressions throughout the day, and meditating for a while can unwind some of that and cause a "high" for the rest of the day. Spiritual growth is just the gradual process of that over one's lifetime. Times where spiritual growth becomes particularly evident is when you untie particular knots that cause greater resistance (e.g. healing a traumatic wound, or letting go of a big attachment). In a sense, this is the real measure of growth. The highs may help untie the knots, but the highs are somewhat limited in themselves.

Lol. I might add that when I had surrendered to trying to stop the refreshing motion from happening, I realized that the refreshing motion wasn't because of my inability to perceive the thing, but more that it was the inherent nature of the thing from my current perspective. It was as if I had zoomed in so closely that I could see the pixels on my screen of perception. Every "pixel" in this case was an oscillating, circular, morphing piece of "smudge", kinda like an actual refreshing icon: So imagine your visual field consisting of many refreshing icons like this closely next to each other (only the refreshing is maybe 0.5x speed, and it's made out of the things you're looking at): That was essentially what I discovered. And before you say "it's the 5HT2A agonism from the LSD and the weed though": our brains literally run on 5HT2A activity at baseline. I can still see the refreshing happening completely sober if I just focus for a moment, it's only very subtle. The way I got to have the insight may be due to the LSD, etc., but I can never unsee that.