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Everything posted by Carl-Richard
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All I know is that the Dhyana mudra feels nice when meditating
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Carl-Richard replied to Michael Jackson's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Have you read David Hume? -
50% strength boost ?
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Carl-Richard replied to Thorsten Fuzzi's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Yes it is. Other people and you as a person = egos. Consciousness is transpersonal. -
Carl-Richard replied to bmcnicho's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Ego will be humbled either way. -
Carl-Richard replied to Thorsten Fuzzi's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Egos are not conscious. Consciousness is conscious. -
Speaking.
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Carl-Richard replied to SQAAD's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Mystics throughout history have been both skeptical and welcoming of mystical experiences that exceed the pure non-dual experience (e.g. visions and speech from God). For example, Jan Esmann is one of the most advanced non-dual teachers out there, and his most important experience involved perceptual content ("The Blue Being"). Nevertheless, it's sad to discredit other people's experiences. -
Carl-Richard replied to Danioover9000's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Fanatiq needs to shut the fuck up ? -
Biceps is nothing. It's all about deadlifts
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Carl-Richard replied to SQAAD's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
All I'm seeing is a reductionistic psychodynamic explanation of the mystical experience. I don't see how it's a pre-trans fallacy. -
Carl-Richard replied to Thorsten Fuzzi's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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Define your terms, please
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Carl-Richard replied to SQAAD's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
What did he say specifically that makes you think that? -
How so?
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Carl-Richard replied to SQAAD's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Mystical experiences are neither inherently pre- nor post-rational. Pre- and post-rationality are different value systems or levels of cognition, and mystics throughout history have had different values, but the core of the pre-perceptual mystical experience (the non-dual experience) has stayed the same. -
I would say so. Of course Will Smith himself isn't purely Red, and slapping as an act is not inherently Red, but slapping as a response to somebody joking about your wife and then repeatedly yelling "keep my wife's name out of your mouth!" is pretty Red.
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Carl-Richard replied to SQAAD's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Why do you think that? -
Carl-Richard replied to SQAAD's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
There is this woman who's name escapes me but which Rick from BATGAP often mentions in many of his interviews. She awoke at a bus stop with zero preconceived notions of what was happening to her, and she spent years trying to figure it out. Of course a mild constructivism (that thought has some effect) is always the case, because things like self-inquiry or mantra meditation work that way, but to say that thought itself is the primary factor for causing the experience is completely inconsistent. To accept the constructivist view, you cannot have had a mystical experience yourself, because then you would know without a doubt that experience comes prior to thought. I mean, the god damn state in itself is a thought-free state. Besides, even if we fully grant the constructivist view, this doesn't detract anything from the positive aspects of the experience. It's well-known in the literature that having a mystical experience will generally lead to increased functionality (relative to a society's standard of reality), which conflicts with calling it a delusion (a pathology). -
Carl-Richard replied to SQAAD's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
and depending on the tribe, sacrificing humans in the process -
Carl-Richard replied to Someone here's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
The first deliberate/focused contemplation session I ever had on a "psychedelic" (weed) was "what creates the perception of time?", and I arrived at the answer: "it's determined by how often you access your memories." This was the time right before I started meditating (I was probably 18), and I've only confirmed this insight later, but I would rephrase it like this: thoughts about self creates feelings of time. -
Carl-Richard replied to SQAAD's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Bro, almost all your posts are about poo-pooing "Western science". It's not all hyper-materialistic, logic boner stuff. Like I mentioned earlier, W. James and A. Maslow pretty much hit the bullseye ~100 years ago -
Carl-Richard replied to SQAAD's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Mystical experiences per the psychological literature can either be perceptual (visions/speech from God) or pre-perceptual in nature (the experience of being God, of no self, Oneness, samadhi etc.). Tolle had the latter. Awakening is a mystical experience. -
Carl-Richard replied to SQAAD's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
...which is why I left out most of your post from the quote Anyways, I feel your use of words is very idiosyncratic. What do you mean by "concepts", "dropping beliefs" and "restructuring perception"? -
Carl-Richard replied to SQAAD's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
This is called the constructivist view of mysticism, and it's completely inconsistent imo. For one thing, it doesn't explain spontaneous awakenings like Eckhart Tolle.