Carl-Richard

I've had some recurring themes in my dreams since I was little that I would be in a place that was either very similar to a familiar place (like my house) or a combination of several places, and sometimes I could explore a completely undiscovered part of that place. For example, one very common dream is that I would be in the first house I grew up in and that the cellar would have a hidden passage behind a bookcase which lead to this vast underground hall, like a secret royal palace with a tall ceiling like in a cathedral, and it had a feeling of mystery and scariness to it, and I thought it had infinitely many rooms. Then in the second house I grew up in, I would have a similar thing where I would be in the attic and be able to see through the floor down to the kitchen below, and I could float down into the kitchen and then continue down into this vast hall again, but this time it was more of a true underground mountain hall (dark and misty), like those in LoTR or in the game Motherload. Another such dream was that my grandmother's house would be like a kind of palace again, but not as vast as the other one. It's just like a nice house with extremely many rooms, bathrooms, baths and miscellanous rooms. I think the best description would be luxurious.

You didn't happen to read about his adventures with his dad?

I've had severe addictions before. In order to quit a habit, you need to rewire every possible manifestation of it in your life, and most of the work is done in the first month, but to fully weed it out (no pun intended) takes years. The mindfulness aspect is really crucial. You need to be aware of all the moments you're used to engage in the habit, preferably before it arises (but you also have to expect to be surprised), and you have to consciously inspect and expect your emotional state when those moments happen (not just the general intensity of it, but every type of situation it happens in).

I'll post the golden oldies here:

It contains carcinogens and deteriorates your gums, and I believe it's not generally sold outside of Scandinavia. If you're concerned about health, just chew nicotine gum.

This is me with you Her Fe will be spellbound by my Fi arguments and I'll say it's vegan or something

@Artsu @thisintegrated Ok, here is a challenge for anybody who dares to type me (?): go to my profile and take ONE random post of mine from each month of this year (12 in total) and type each one of them. The one who gets the best pattern wins! ?

Because I dislike MBTI? Ok bro

Lol how many posts have you read from me?

Am I that though?

@thisintegrated The kind of thinking in this thread reminds me of something I used to do when I was 18 years old and completely obsessed with how drugs work. I would look up every drug on psychonautwiki and correlate the phenomenology with the pharmacology, and then make general inferences based on that. For example, I would think things like: "visual acuity? That's glutamate." "Physical euphoria? That's dopamine and serotonin." "Fine motor movements? That's acetylcholine." Then over time, I would look at all the overlapping receptor systems and effects and ask myself: "how meaningful are these correlations really?" I started to suspect they were extremely superficial, and of course the logical conclusion to that is to look at specific studies of statistically rigorous science and not just haphazardly correlate general descriptions. This same process happened to me with MBTI. Now, when you say "this is just because you're FiTe — you don't like to use Ti and make logical inferences", my counter to that is that I obviously know how to use Ti very well, or else I wouldn't understand your Ti arguments at all, and that I even prefer to use it quite often, or else I wouldn't be addicted to self-admitted Ti giants like Bernardo Kastrup (he finally talked about it). No, the difference between me and you is the level of conviction we have in some of our inferences, and I believe that my low level of conviction when it comes to MBTI is actually derived using logic, not merely as a blind appeal to authority "because it feels right." Anyways, enough about me ?

HAH! ENFP > ENTP ???

Playing devil's advocate can be useful, but it has a trap of insincerity to it. The odds are that there is something in spirituality that deeply resonates with you, but you just need to find out exactly what that is so you can parse out what you consider to be dogma. Read some of the different perspectives within Psychology of Religion and see how they define and understand spirituality: William James, Sigmund Freud, Abraham Maslow, Gordon Allport and Kenneth Pargament to name a few.

Keep it simple. Nature and chill music.

I would use the word "psychic" instead of "mystic" in this context. Mystics simply want to experience God. Psychics have psychic abilities, and they may achieve them through mysticism or the occult.

I had a vision of it while falling asleep (l actually kinda saw the thing). Kinda neat All natty brah!

Yeah holy shit the Te on that dude.

Yes, but it's flavors on the same theme. It's not going to be something completely different from teacher to teacher, but there is certainly a spectrum. For example, the most commercialized and Westernized conceptions of mindfulness (where you treat meditation as a sort of stress relief) will point to the compulsive mechanisms of thought as a source of suffering, and that lessening it is the path to a more peaceful mind. In this "tradition", there isn't necessarily even a recognition of such a thing as enlightenment, but it certainly moves you in that direction. Other traditions may have such a conception, but the cut-off point of where "you've got it" might be completely different from some other tradition (e.g. a transient mystical state that doesn't stick vs. one who does). What even "sticking" means can also be problematic (or you can reject the sticking notion altogether like Leo).

There is no reason to confine yourself to one absolute definition of anything. You just have to learn to think using caveats, e.g. "according to this framework of thought and this set of definitions, one can postulate (...)"

Anything in particular you don't understand?

I can't live without music.

Whenever I listen to this song while lifting 530lbs rack pulls above the knee (5 second hold x 10), I get so pumped up I want to tear down the entire gym like a mad gorilla 5:15-6:12 is the moment (but 4:49 for context and build-up).

Yep, that is pretty standard. I'm speculating here, but I think that is your unconscious perceptual structures throwing a fit. Your mind usually works to create a cohesive and fluid experience, but since these are dynamic functions that have adapted to certain habitual patterns, when you focus on something static for longer periods of time, your mind starts overcompensating and creating disturbances. It's kinda like how looking at something bright makes you see an inverted after-image when you close your eyes.