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I love Danny Carrey's drumming on this so much. It's perfect.

Self-transcendence does not come through a weakening of the organism. It comes through the mastery of all domains of life.

You're not removing anything.

You're in luck, my friend

@Jodistrict You're getting hung up on normative interpretations of the models through metrics like "progress", "harmony with nature" and "consciousness". This isn't necessary. You don't have to assert anything in advance about what development is (other than its basic phenomenal nature; change, growth etc.) in order to appreciate the descriptive and predictive utility of these models. Development isn't good or bad unless you say so. Structural stage models merely choose a domain of study, e.g. cognition, and then they try to observe development through a lens of stages. What happens to be universal across these observations is the movement from simplicity to complexity, but that is simply a descriptive statement. Complexity isn't better than simplicity unless you say so. Complexity is arguably more messy and chaotic than simplicity, which could explain some of your reactions to it imo.

They show me what I lack. I don't believe Leo is an INTJ though. The first INTJ that comes to mind is Eric Weinstein. The way he talks is so impenetrable and unapologetic. Talk about Fe blindspot lol.

We're kinda talking about the same thing here.

Beliefs are building blocks of the mind, meaning the universe. They literally construct the contents of your experience.

I fear and admire INTJs

Is a snake in the jungle more conscious than a fat lady at the candy store?

I didn't feel that, maybe because I was busy agreeing with him. I've listened to their previous talks, and I cringe every time. There are particularly two points that they get stuck on constantly because Greg doesn't know what to say: 1. "Porn is drugs, psychedelics are not." 2. "I'm not religious, guys!" Here is my solution: 1. Psychedelics are "atypical drugs". They do not work like other "hedonic drugs" (cocaine, heroin etc.). The experience is emotionally complex and unpredictable, the mechanism of action is vastly different (the weirdness of the 5HT2A receptor and just the serotonin system in general), the anti-addictive effect, the extremely fast tolerance build-up; it's nothing like these other drugs. In that sense, porn is arguably more similar to these drugs than psychedelics are. 2. "Spiritual" or "religious" is just semantics, and both are inaccurate. Greg is talking about "the mystical experience" and how it impacts your relationship to things like environmentalism, feelings of meaning, the desire to be "pure" (abstaining from porn etc.). Like Mr. Girl and Destiny are saying, you can arrive at these things through other means, but Greg is talking about a particular way that you arrive at them, namely through an intrinsically motivated, post-rational, being/feeling/intuition-oriented approach, i.e. mysticism, and this approach is important. You could just tell that Destiny was having flashback when Greg started saying "but you don't exist!"

I learn better on off-days, because I'm less exhausted, but if I skip one day of training, I definitely notice it.

I do it first thing in the morning every other day.

@mostly harmless I lift weights regularly.

2:41:52 Max sums up exactly what I feel about Greg.

To use the river, you have to be in a tribe in the first place. You can't live on your own. Same with Walmart. You're living in society. So I can't use the river, but I can use Walmart.

One difference is that essentially anybody is welcome at Walmart. Am I welcome in any Purple tribe? It's easy to forget about the radical inclusivity of a multiplistic society compared to an isolated tribe in the Amazon.

It's never a win in the eye of public opinion, at least in the immediate sense. When Deepak Chopra arranged all these meetups between materialists and idealists over a decade ago... well, we got the infamous figure of Deepak Chopra and not much else. That said, one of the participants, skeptic Michael Shermer, was genuinely impacted by these meetings, and today he has reconnected with one of the people from those meetups (Bernardo Kastrup) and is seriously considering idealism.

Glink is such a nooob ?

You missed the movement part.

I've been taking a steroid nasal spray for my sinuses, but I think I'll stop today. My ears are still clogged af, but it doesn't really hurt anymore. It is affecting me though. I can't really think straight and my energy is lower than usual. The hearing loss is so severe that I have to be careful when walking outside, and listening to music sucks because of the pitch change. I heard it takes weeks or months to see any improvements, and that's really not fun, especially right before exams.

A sequence can be anything. "Linear" means it goes in one direction, and when it comes to growth, it's from lower to higher. Structural stage theory 101: development is the movement from lower to higher complexity.

I'm a Big 5 guy. People treat MBTI like a fun hobby, like solving crosswords, not like a science.

He did something once and now you're questioning his personality? Type theory is so ridiculous.

Structural stage models are linear. There does exist good critiques of stage models (e.g. Barbara Rogoff), but I still think they're useful.