Carl-Richard

Because the environments and lifestyles created by the post-industrial age are far removed from our phylogenetic roots. Modern people have about 60 000 thoughts per day, meanwhile pre-modern tribal people have about 1 000 - 10 000 thoughts a day.

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Hehe np!

Systematic =/= systemic Leo seems to like this one : There I make the distinction between analytical and systems thinking. Systematic thinking is more analogous to analytical thinking (and its Cartesian roots).

So I just came back from a vacation with my mom and my little brother skiing in the mountains (like Norwegians do ). The first few days, my brother had to work, and me and my mom stayed at our cabin with our grandmother and her partner. Over the years, my grandmother has gotten slightly less pleasant to be around at times (she has a rather demanding personality), and my mom has started to think about how it's threatening her relationship with her partner (who is now showing signs of dementia), among other things. My grandmother has bad legs, so she can't join the daily skiing trips with me and my mom. My mom has always found deep peace in nature, and over the course of the last few years, I've come to be in the same boat. I felt that the contrast between the moments we spent in the mountains together just me and her, and the moments we spent in the cabin with my grandmother, made her start to really think about what caused my spiritual development (because that was also a strong contrast to my prior self), and how that is in fact what my grandmother is lacking. At least that is what I've come to realize after she asked me about it and we had a long conversation in the car ride home. I've always held back talking about these matters to her, but for the first time, I was given the opportunity to share my deepest self with her (though in an introductory fashion). Another thing that I think sparked this conversation was that she has been aware of meditation for quite a while (and practicing somewhat infrequently), and that not too long ago, when she asked whether I know someone at school who also meditates (while talking about a paper I was writing on the mystical experience), I mentioned in passing and a bit jokingly that I know about a few people, but that they're treating it as a "symptomatic treatment" and not as a "way to find God". I think it made her think about her own approach to meditation and how it differed from mine, and how the two produced drastically different results. The way our conversation went made me think that she has, if not a genuine desire, at least a curiosity towards the spiritual path, and that in the future, when she finally gets tired of her job, of finding a new husband, of upholding whatever social or financial status that doesn't fulfill her, then maybe she will start asking more questions. So if it happens, I think it'll be at least a couple of years into the future. I'll most likely rewrite this tomorrow when I'm not half-asleep, but I felt like sharing this now so that when I wake up tomorrow, I can maybe hear if any of you have some similar stories

There is no rush. You were just born

BAHAHAHA consciousness scares me

That's his thing: taking small amounts of data and drawing huge conclusions (inside joke) @thisintegrated Just kidding bro ?

That is my intuition as well, but I also think that we can't know for sure how deep it goes (until we get to hear from say a trans or ex-trans spiritual teacher).

He is talking about spiritual development.

He heard you talking about biology, so he assumed that you meant that consciousness is caused by biology.

The conventional solipsist believes in separation. That is what he is saying.

100-200 years ago, Green only existed at the cutting edge of academia. You have to wait for the developmental Overton window to shift before it manifests in the general population.

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Yes. One of my formative awakenings happened while I was listening to Martin Ball's "The Fractal of Being" while sitting on an airplane ?

Your perceptual system is based on approximations, and your cognitive system evolved out of your perceptual system. There is no getting around it. To live without assumptions requires infinite knowledge. You can't survive with that as a finite being.

To become a resource and not a liability, in all domains.

Thinking.

Mysticism and ontological idealism are useful for determining the structure of mind. Psychology is a science and delves into the content of mind and how it behaves.

The Norwegian prime minister in the blue shirt and grey hair. The Pride parade in Oslo, 2019.

How long have you meditated for and when was your first awakening experience?

You'd be surprised. It's basically why I started posting regularly on the forum (to purposely distract myself from spontaneous ego death). It's been 2 years and 1 month today.

I did back when I thought I wanted enlightenment I like to whip up some Sadhguru or Spira from time to time, but I also like to keep up with current events

It's more accurate to say I watch Destiny and Mr. Girl and those who talk to them I seldom watch the Majority Report and David Pakman. I no longer watch Vaush and Hasan. I feel they're too ideological.

and given a coherent framework