Carl-Richard

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  1. How many hours exactly have you been awake when trying to sleep? If you've been awake for more than 24 hrs, many of your body's endocrine systems will think it's daytime, so you'll most likely feel less tired than say 6 hrs earlier.
  2. I used to have anxiety all the time. Nowadays, generally speaking, the only times I get anxiety is if I'm not doing what I'm supposed to be doing. When I look back, I think the anxiety had a lot to do with exactly that, or more specifically I didn't know what I was supposed to be doing. In one sense, that question was never definitely answered, but I chose to establish some certainty by picking a path and sticking to it. It's not just about the grand things like life purpose. It's about every moment of your life, both big and small decisions. The tricky thing is that the anxiety doesn't want you to establish certainty. It wants you to stick around and never make a final decision. It's an evil circle of uncertainty breeding thoughts -> thoughts breeding anxiety -> anxiety breeding more uncertainty etc. At some point, adding more thoughts is no good and you have to decide by some other means. So if not by thought, by what means do you decide? Intuition.
  3. The highest consciousness people don't need teaching. You teach the people with lower consciousness so they can raise their consciousness. When you deny the lower aspects of self-development, you close yourself off to the higher aspects. If you want more people to become spiritual, you start by fixing the socially awkward incels.
  4. Weed, energy drinks, soda, potato chips, chocolate, junk food. I haven't bought any of these things for the last 3 years (unless there were no other alternatives). My body consumes food and water when it needs to
  5. Russia is Russia. It links most of the world's continents together.
  6. Your knowledge of absolute reality is the knowledge of God's nature; the knowing of yourself as God. Since God is absolutely infinite, there is nothing outside of God, and thus there is no separation between you and God. Any apparent separation (of form; body, mind, soul) is merely secondary. God as The Absolute is not separate, not-two: One.
  7. It's Orange on crack.
  8. @mememe I'm having trouble distilling the point you're trying to make
  9. Pretty sure 99% of famous musical artists never intended to become famous. They were simply chosen. It's a bit of a funny story. I went to the same high school as Alan Walker (born in 1997) and Aurora Aksnes (1996), and both are now super famous artists. I took the same music classes as Aurora (only one year older than me), I had played guitar every day for 6 years, but I never sat down to make a song. Both Alan and Aurora had become famous by the end of high school (at around 18 years old). I've thought many times: "what if I had bought some recording equipment, took all the best of my guitar riff ideas that I had recorded at the time (maybe 500 recordings) and just made them all into songs. Maybe I would've become famous as well?". Then again, maybe I didn't have that musical vision like Alan Walker or raw talent like Aurora. There are also thousands of other factors at play. After all, my friend in music class had his own studio in his garage, and the only times his songs have been played was at his own parties
  10. Do anything. Just don't sit in your basement and smoke weed for a year
  11. Literally just live your life.
  12. It's different flavors of the same thing: a contracted worldview.
  13. For Western atheists, this looks ridiculous, but this is exactly how an atheist TV show host would talk to a mystic. "You're not making any convincing points" "You're using big woo-woo terms" "You need psychiatric evaluation".
  14. Spliffs are probably more habit forming than any other drug combo.
  15. I'll take that as a yes. I don't see there is much left to say.
  16. Do you have some interesting information about that? I've always wondered what polyphenols are capable of.
  17. Drink every time he says "LOGIC"
  18. Where is my body when I dream?
  19. Transpersonal experiences exist on a continuum and do not protect you from delusion.
  20. "In mental health recovery" would be sufficient ?