Carl-Richard

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.

Visited my dad. Shamans deploy various techniques to reach altered states of consciousness, and then they get insights which they share with the tribe. Schizophrenics live outside of the tribe. I consider myself a mystic (in the technical meaning of the term), and my dad is not one. Why are they in the mental hospital and Sadhguru isn't? Psychosis may contain ego dissolution, but ego dissolution does not contain psychosis. Agree.

That's absolutely cringe, but you're entitled to your opinion. I still gave a perfect example though ("he has never kicked anyone out of here because of his way of thinking"). Not on my watch. Ridiculous to call Nahm somebody who subtracted value from the forum.

It's a huge mistake to equate psychiatric diagnoses, which are supposed to help people with what society deems to be dysfunctional behavior, with Enlightenment. Ask yourself: does Sadhguru look like he needs help? Rupert Spira? Eckhart Tolle? The list goes on. People in insane asylums are not well. That is the one common feature across all the reasons for ending up in that place. Why is this a common question? Firstly, you can thank people who know nothing about schizophrenia, who say that in the right society, they would trained to be shamans. If they had ever read anything about cross-cultural studies on schizophrenia, they would know that these people are not treated kindly in any society. Robert Sapolsky has a good lecture on that. Secondly, ego dissolution is not a joke. It's literally the end of your life. It feels exactly like going insane, but not in the usual way where you're confused and scared. There is absolute clarity and tranquility, but it's so much that it terrifies you. A person with schizophrenia has trouble with seeing things that are not there, or thinking thoughts that don't make sense. It's not that. You're seeing things exactly as they are, and everything makes perfect sense, but it's too much for you to handle. In a sense, it's actually much more serious than going insane, because at least when you're insane, you are someone. That doesn't mean you'll be dysfunctional though.

I gave you a perfect example. I don't see why you're throwing a fit. As for the way it all went down, it was just stupid. He allegedly demoted him for not changing his language, which is hypocritical considering how Leo uses the same obfuscating and confusing non-dual doublespeak all the time. "Coincidentally", all this happened at the same time as he started saying "non-duality is not God-realization" (which he explicitly talks about in the "Nahm Demoted" thread). And now, he wants to kick out people like Consilience — one of the most clear-spoken people on the forum. I think the real motivation behind removing Nahm was to denigrate traditional spirituality so he could get to call himself the most awake person in the world. And I'm mad about it. It split off maybe 70% of the best people on here.

Nahm.

Hahaha that's not true.

NoShit is where it's at. By day 14, you'll be three inches taller and you won't need to bleach your anus anymore. It also triggers reverse kundalini awakening at some point (the descending snake ?).

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Turmeric powder and black pepper.