Carl-Richard

You mean sue them and take them to court? Well, you see, if you want to be really technical about it, the legal system only enforces laws. It's not really about protecting "rights." Cmon, you know very well what I mean when I use the word "right." It's something that is fundamental to human flourishing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_health:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodily_integrity

Why are you not allowed to drive drunk? Depends on the situation. I don't have a strong stance for or against mandates. I'm just pointing out the other side of the equation, and like axiom, I say "make of that what you will."

Why does the CDC exist? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_health

Do I also have the right to good health and protection against disease?

Precognition.

I didn't say you were... Are you sure you're OK?

0:00 - 2:00 Two minutes of just pure ESTP (SeTi). It's actually wild

Vitality and resilience. You're unhappy because you can't handle the truth.

I can't even jump into a pool that is slightly colder than room temperature

Tl;dr: the dichotomy between "mental" and "physical" exists only through receptor-level neuropharmacological mechanisms of dependence, not addiction. Addiction is defined neuropharmacologically at the level of networks and behaviorally by various criteria, which makes it a psychological/mental phenomena, thus there is no such thing as "physical addiction." There is mental dependence, physical dependence, and there is addiction which is mental.

I don't get which part of your post is illogical?

Depends on which type of religious person it is. Many famous psychologists have divided religiosity into two types: Gordon Allport: Intrinsic and extrinsic religion: religion as an end to itself vs. as a means to an end. Abraham Maslow: Religion based on deficit needs (safety, belonging, esteem) vs growth needs (self-actualization, self-transcendence). Erich Fromm: Authoritarian vs. humanistic religion: submission, duty, sorrow, guilt, obedience, worship vs. self-unfoldment, happiness, love, belief in oneself, the empowered human, the mystical experience.

Progress is most often not visible on the surface. It's generally slow and boring.

@Danioover9000 6:46 I distinctly remember watching this segment live a couple of years ago. I felt that Dr. K was being a bit pushy with his conclusion ("you're on a mission to save kids") and that Reckful didn't truly resonate with it. It becomes much more obvious when it's cut like that. 39:05 Man that's really fucked up. After talking about how he might have BPD and that such people specifically struggle with the fear of abandonment, he said he would stick with him, but then he changes his mind and abandons him. Yeah, this is a mess. My main takeaway is that therapy ethics is a pool of collective wisdom which has been gathered over decades of clinical practice by thousands of highly knowledgeable people, which is not something that should be taken lightly. To undermine the importance of ethics displays a lack of awareness of the complexities of human interactions, power dynamics, the illusion of control, and systems of wisdom.

I think this exemplifies the dangers of working with frameworks that go beyond one's own level of development (using DocWatts' idea of "epistemic bypassing"). Instead of organically going through life and exploring different perspectives from the bottom-up, you apply a partial, top-down understanding to bootstrap and brute-force yourself up to a perceived place of superiority. Pretend to forget everything you know and sit down and feeeeel! What do you really want? Pursue that.

I was elaborating on the fallacious thinking around reincarnation. I don't understand.

"The way I see it" is always just a frame, or a thought, shared between two individuals, i.e. communication. This has been acknowledged already, which means this is an unproductive discussion. Let me demonstrate how unproductive it really is: To present a frame without mentioning that it is in fact a frame is not a contradiction of the fact that it is a frame. To do that, you have to change the focus of the communication to the communication itself (which you did by stating that its indeed just frames), which is called meta-communication. That is all you've done. What I'm saying is that the meta-communication has already occured. If you can't acknowledge this fact and instead continue responding with "that is also just a frame", then you're stuck in an infinite regress of not meta-communication but meta-monologue. Communication is when you grant the frames that the other person is presenting, not recursively undermining their frames by presenting your own frame (a type of power game), which is not postmodern irony but postmodern hypocrisy: deconstructing the other but not oneself.

Monism - reality consists of fundamentally one substance. Ontological Idealism - this substance is mental, not physical. - reality is experience, and everything you experience is fundamentally that; experience. Pantheism - this one substance is God. - God is not separate from the world or yourself. Mysticism - you can experience God directly, independent of beliefs. - you can experience what Jesus experienced, what Buddha experienced, Muhammad PBUH, Hindu mystics, Christian mystics etc.

@lmfao Nobody reincarnates. What is thought of as reincarnation is when memories stretch beyond the current physical body. You are not your body or your memories, thus you didn't reincarnate into this body or any past bodies.

Art at its peak is flow. It silences the inner critic. However, you can't always be at your peak (unless you're enlightened), because then it's not a peak anymore

What does that even mean? Are you saying awakening to non-duality is in fact dualistic? The way I see it is that you have a mystical experience (non-dualistic), and then you construct a conceptual understanding (dualistic) of it based on your cultural symbols (symbols that were communicated to you), and then you use that to communicate your understanding.

Haha yeah, only one person went to that group ? (it's not a big class though). I think he explained it as he doesn't believe in anything supernatural, but he thinks religious traditions and practices are useful for living a good life.

Haha I'm watching the latest JRE with JBP and apparently he has done kundalini yoga every morning for 20 years now. Around the 2:05:00 mark. He mentions chakras as well

...well that's a new one ?