Carl-Richard

I just expect a minimum standard of layout and delivery. I can appreciate a long and well-formulated post if it has actual substance to it and doesn't consist of mostly empty spaces and repeating the same points over and over.

You won't get banned, but please clean up how you communicate, or people will just give up talking to you. Don't use separate lines for every sentence, don't repeat yourself 6 times in one post, and respond to one point with one or a few points, not 12 points.

Why are you writing this in separate lines? It's one sentence. You're a pain in the ass to read.

I can't be asked with this Gish gallop brain rot. I made one simple point in a short 3-line paragraph, and you respond with 30 spaced out seizure-inducing sentences. Condense your writing.

Can you imagine parts of a song? I one time played an entire song from start to finish in my head (weed helped), and at one point, it almost felt like the sound was coming from the outside.

My first LSD trip when I was 18 was about dukkha. I had planned out a huge list of fun things to experience while on acid, and every time I tried to do something, I felt a huge void inside of me. I spent the last half of the trip lying uncomfortably in my bed staring at the ceiling while the others were having fun.

How you discover the truth of suffering is through seeing how having finite things does not fullfil you. You want the infinite thing.

I was talking about the first Noble Truth (dukkha) from which the other three are derived. It's literally the main teaching. The way you discover dukkha is by seeing how despite trying very hard to "have" things (experiences, objects, relationships, etc.), you're still left with the same persistent feeling of unfulfillment. Buddha's life as a prince is a metaphor for that.

Explain.

The story of Buddha is the lesson that "having things" does not fulfill you, and that this lack of fulfillment is what is meant by suffering. You can have all the riches in the world, even be a prince, but you'll still be suffering. The fact that Buddha lived in 500 B.C. Nepal is completely irrelevant. It's a perennial truth. Erich Fromm distinguishes between "having needs" and "being needs". Buddha's escape from the palace and turn to asceticism was when he started working on his being needs.

Why was the story of Buddha about a prince?

The options being individuals with a high IQ relative to the population? Yeah, duh. That doesn't mean the population (Jews) had to have a higher IQ compared to another population (non-Jews) for the literacy obligation to have an effect. You can have two equal populations and then end up with differences based on the different selections pressures. Again, you're mixing up individuals and populations.

"Why are you afraid of death?" No, no and nope. I would be a way greater man, but it would not be me. I will reiterate: ego dissolution is not a joke. My psychotic symptoms happened before I had discovered meditation, and they disappeared by themselves when I spent a weekend with my friends, but I was still in a highly neurotic state of mind. Then some months later, I went off weed for a week (against my will) and pursued active mindfulness meditation. The awakening occurred at the very end of that week, and the moments leading up to that, I was the most clear and lucid I had been in years. The psychotic symptoms and the mystical symptoms were inversely correlated. It was also not an escalation and then a break. It was a gradual de-escalation and a grounding.

I experience zero meaning reading anything in this thread.

He was a fucking prince bro.

*makes a compilation of people having seizures in public* "look at this new mysterious trend, must be vaccine side effect." So stupid.

You may have past life memories, but they're not you.

I "saw" a phoenix take off one time while on a microdose of LSD and a bunch of other drugs. I was sitting on a bench on a hill in a secluded place surrounded by trees and viewing an open landscape. I also felt the presence of distant family members.

It was a joke. Loosen up.

Meta-cognitive/self-reflective/articulated/conscious/explicit/declarative mind vs. perceptual/instinctive/inarticulated/unconscious/implicit/procedural mind. That's a lot of words.

The finite mind.

Not an old one, but Infinite Gods. Doesn't add anything new imo.

Few days? Wot? "I don't like #metoo" = "I like rape"

Typical bully shitting on the school fruitcake

Bipolar 1. He has never talked to me about meditation or Eastern mysticism. He usually talks about business ideas, science or philosophy. My mom says he has always been a materialist atheist, and I don't think that has changed, although when I was little, he used to play Hare Krishna CDs in the car lol. He had a friend who was actually a shaman (who sadly passed away) who I've met a couple of times. His name is Arthur Sørensen. My dad got a big shaman drum from him, and one time, he played it over my head and I felt my body vibrating which was fun. I would say he is spiritually inclined, but he is not practicing any spirituality, and I don't think he ever has. He strikes me more like a Terrence McKenna than a Sadhguru (just without the weed), i.e. basically me before I found spirituality. I keep talking about it, but I spent the last 2 years trying to force myself out of a constant state of ego dissolution. My dad is not there. His mind always on. That said, he is probably one of the more empathetic and consciously attuned people I know. I have 50% of his genes after all. At one point when I was abusing weed and my life was falling apart, I experienced precursors to a psychotic break (rapid thoughts, loose associations, concentration and memory issues, slight perceptual changes), and it was the complete opposite of the mystical experience. Likewise, when my dad is in a manic state, it does not remind me of a mystical state.