Carl-Richard

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  1. Do you guys really think that a boomer like Joe Rogan even understands the concept of shitposting? Where are his other shitposts?
  2. It's a reactionary meme based on a quote from a postapocalyptic novel by some nobody.
  3. Wilber has been criticized for having a stick up his ass regarding Green. I don't see why he has all this compassion for stages under Green, treating ethnocentricism and religious dogma as a natural part of evolution, but when it comes to gender bending and exclusive inclusivity, suddenly everything becomes so serious.
  4. Jan Esmann has insanely transmissible energy. That is what he is known for. Gareth Duignam I don't have experience with.
  5. @Migue Lonas That's an intrapsychic-phenomenological model on par with Freud. It's not at all a comprehensive description of God. You can't describe infinite complexity.
  6. Your words are merely a key that fits into my cultural machinery. Don't you see? You are teaching! 5-MeO is also a teacher.
  7. But that's rare – Ramana Maharshi rare. Discovery and confusion is a part of the path, something which you are actively contributing to as a pointer-giver Besides, don't discount the value of the guru-student relationship. Not all communication is conceptual/verbal. Transmission is a real thing. An awakened guru's presence can facilitate beingness just as much as an any other environmental factor (sun, river, air). Being is shared – impression is unavoidable. Frame this on a wall ?
  8. But do you not know of any other teachers? Was it really the sun, the mountain and morning mist alone? Using pointers to get to a stage where pointers are no longer necessary does not negate the necessity of pointers. That's called retrograde amnesia.
  9. Note: claims about prehistorical events are highly speculative. I was reading about prehistoric civilizations and started to think about the origins of the Yogic tradition. The claims about Adiyogi/Shiva, "the first Yogi", stem from Vedic religion with roots in ancient Indian culture of the early mesolithic period (~15000 years ago). You could probably dig and find a more specific origin. Regardless, I found an interesting connection between Vedic culture and Greek culture: The Temple of Apollo at Delphi. The Seven Sages in Vedic culture (the Saptarishis). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saptarishi Sadhguru's description of the Vedic mytho-history of Adiyogi's transmission of enlightenment to the Seven Sages: https://isha.sadhguru.org/yoga/history-of-yoga/the-first-yogi-adiyogi/ The Seven Sages in Greek culture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Sages_of_Greece Three of the Delphic maxims of the Seven Sages at The Temple of Apollo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Apollo_(Delphi) "Know thyself", "Nothing in excess" and "Surety brings ruin" surely sounds like something a mystic would say, no? Maybe the Seven Sages at The Temple of Apollo were indeed the Saptharisis? (Does it really matter? Not really ) If anyone likes digging, I would be really interested in finding out more about the specific origins of Yogic culture (e.g. exact/early civilizations)
  10. Unattachment has been thoroughly explored for thousands of years. Leo is doing his own thing.
  11. @Godhead Looks like the guy who killed Combo
  12. I remember you talked about being sensitive to the transmission aspect. What do you think about Jan Esmann?
  13. ...time to unpack the old classic :
  14. There is no bigger energy drain than regret. Free your mind.
  15. This was me. However, after my first meditation-induced awakening, I went from smoking weed every day for 2 years to quitting for a month straight. When I finally went back to weed, it was initially not on my own supply, because my experience of the high was completely altered. I actually didn't like it anymore, because I no longer got a nice body high or a barrage of interesting thoughts. Still, I somehow forced myself to get back into old habits (because hey, habits are safe). Took another 2 years to quit it altogether. Not coincidentally, the same effect happened with things like junk food. I stopped getting that insane reward signal. Discovering the permanent ground of consciousness makes you more aware of the impermanence of sensory phenomena. All experience gets an empty quality. My priorities shifted from chasing hedonistic content to elevating the quality of my consciousness. Today I can get a qualitatively better body high from simply sitting down after a workout than I ever did from weed.
  16. What kind of carpet dust are you smoking? Cannabis nukes your circadian rhythm, albeit over extended long-term use.
  17. Some people like food more than others. It's very much a genetic thing. You just have to work a bit harder to get food down the chute. Me and my brother are polar opposites on this. I probably eat twice as much as him (granted I'm also a gym rat while he is a gamer rat ).
  18. @UnbornTao That picture works on so many levels lol
  19. So cessation or void or samadhi is when it's all 1 (or 0). No on and off: only on (or off) No differentiation of form, no information, no vibration.
  20. How "scientifically accurate" are cliché New Age statements like "raising your frequency" or "everything is energy"? You'd be surprised. As the frequency of tone/pitch can be described as rhythm, harmony can be described as polyrhythm. A tone is just a rhythm that is sped up. They're just different orders of magnitude of the same thing, connected in a fractal relationship. Actually try to notice this while listening to the video clip. It's quite remarkable. Similarly, our different sense modalities essentially detect the same thing: different energy levels of rhythm, vibration or waves (frequencies): Haircells in the ear canal: frequencies of acoustic/material vibration. Photoreceptors in the eye: frequencies of electromagnetic vibration. Heat receptors in the skin: frequencies of thermodynamic vibration. A vibration is the simplest representation of information: up-down, on-off, 1-0. Higher frequency means higher information density (higher energy levels of vibration). Not coincidentally, "raising your frequency" relates to how receptive you are to different energies of vibration, i.e. how much information you can take in and process. Distributed across different formats, this produces different phenomenological states (e.g. internal and external experiences). As sensation relates to external stimuli, perception and cognition relates to the internal representation and processing of sensory information. Seeing or hearing an internal picture or sound is you recreating the same information, albeit in a different format. Here the informational/computational analogy also applies: you can have different sound formats: mp3, wav, midi etc., but they all fundamentally represent the same information. To summarize, life is a diverse collection of vibrations in different energy levels and formats. To paraphrase a comment under the youtube video from above: "as life is a collection of rhythms, tones and harmonies, life is a symphony." So maybe New Age slogans are not so vacuous after all
  21. Did humans only start hunting 10000 years ago?
  22. All of it.