Carl-Richard

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.

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 ?

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.

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)

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Unattachment has been thoroughly explored for thousands of years. Leo is doing his own thing.

@Godhead Looks like the guy who killed Combo

I remember you talked about being sensitive to the transmission aspect. What do you think about Jan Esmann?

...time to unpack the old classic :

Do you hate children?

Should we drop Spiral Dynamics then?

There is no bigger energy drain than regret. Free your mind.

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.

What kind of carpet dust are you smoking? Cannabis nukes your circadian rhythm, albeit over extended long-term use.

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 ).

@UnbornTao That picture works on so many levels lol

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.

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

Did humans only start hunting 10000 years ago?

All of it.

Nuance, brother.

That was your idea. Most people don't think like that. You're making it very hard to not be facetious about this You can't save people from their own stupidity. When I was younger, I used the saying "live in the moment" to justify not investing in my future

Then you also have to factor in that there exists actual connections, be it metaphorical or metaphysical, that get filtered and watered down through the strainer of pop culture. You start with the clear streams of scientifically literate mystics in the upper echelons of academia and end up with the sewagey bong water of some socially privileged teenage stoner . It's the same with pop science: carefully formulated statements reduced down to absolutistic troop signals.

@Bernardo Carleial Beige

Gratitude is a practice in context awareness. You tend to get habituated to stable external conditions, and when you're constantly fixed on your own contracted personal perspective, it invokes a feeling of stagnation. If you take a look outside your own immediate conditions and contrast it to some other perspective, you can temporarily unveil this sense of stagnation and regain a sense of direction.