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Carl-Richard replied to TheSpiritualBunny's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
I have an alternative way of describing the relationship between these two worlds: the materialist's arrogance stems from adopting the neopositivists' wish of eliminating metaphysics while simultaneously sneaking in the metaphysics of science-friendly philosophers (Popper etc.). It's similar to how philosophical theology (Scholasticism) were slowly bred out by dogmatic theology (Lutherianism etc.) during the middle ages. Essentially, what they both have in common is "don't question my metaphysics!" True, but unfortunately it most often does. -
Carl-Richard replied to TheSpiritualBunny's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
LOL. Fortunately, I didn't start posting here regularly since last year. Infact, today it's been exactly one year since I made my first topic EDIT: That means I've been posting 8.2 posts a day. Damn ? -
Carl-Richard replied to TheSpiritualBunny's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
I used to be like that. I cringe every time I run into my old YouTube comments. -
Carl-Richard replied to Someone here's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Someone here Is your name actually Socrates? -
Carl-Richard replied to Lyubov's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Red admires itself. To admire Orange, you must be so Blue you're sick of it. -
It takes a genius to nudge a discipline away from seductive reductionism, although his Language Acquisition Device model isn't as popular nowadays. The behaviorists were like "this is what actually exists" while the cognitive revolutionists were like "but your models suck". This is one reason why it takes a degree of system awareness to not misunderstand cognitive models, because the behaviorist tendency of wanting to view everything as real/physical is still running strong in people's minds. For example, psychology students will often conflate a cognitive model with a model of the brain. There is an impulse of wanting to assign a physical slot for everything. And of course, nobody understands what a brain model really is either (that is the deeper problem) . When the teacher mentions in passing "remember, we're talking about "neural correlates", it mostly falls on deaf ears.
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Carl-Richard replied to Natasha's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Yo ego so fat it's like Buddha before he became a yogi. (kill me now ) -
I believe SD comes in handy here. I'm mainly mentioning psychoanalysis as it laid the groundwork for therapy as a concept (although CBT is a popular and separate tradition). Freud established psychoanalysis within a very Blue framework. His entire intrapsychic structural model of id-ego-supergo is centered around taming egocentric impulses (id — beige-red) by training your ego to mediate between that and your sociocultural conscience (superego — blue). With that as a foundation, therapy was a means for making people well-behaved citizens. The goal was not to make people more happy or self-actualized (happened later with A. Maslow and C. Rogers). This thinking is still a common pathology within the mainstream, although there is hope. We're moving more and more towards an integration with Eastern knowledge (mindfulness etc.), and if anything, my work will be to steer it in that direction (locally of course ).
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Carl-Richard replied to BipolarGrowth's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Is there a goal from an absolute perspective? No. Then what would your goal be as a spiritual teacher; maybe help people to get in contact with the absolute? Well, how does a disregard for human needs help with that? Morality is all about satisfying human needs. Satisfying lower needs directs your attention towards higher needs. Therefore, morality does not contradict the goal of raising consciousness. -
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True, but that is not what I was asking about
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...I'm studying psychology in university
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Carl-Richard replied to Boethius's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
If you can't rely on yourself to make that judgement, are there really any other options? It's in some ways easier to pinpoint what stage someone else is at than yourself. You don't have to be told it directly, but you can take a hint. -
What do you mean exactly?
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Psychopaths and pedophiles existed before they were formally defined by any psychiatric diagnostic manual, and society dealt with them accordingly, albeit with less understanding and compassion. It's also not a crime to be any of those things unless you do something to break the law. Psychologists don't catch predators — the law does
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That was going on way before psychology existed My exact thoughts. This is why spirituality exists and why it's a separate field. When a celebrated clinical psychologist has been suffering with depression, anxiety and existential dread all his life, it makes you question the value of the field.
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Carl-Richard replied to Boethius's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
People will tell you. -
Carl-Richard replied to Phyllis Wagner's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
It's not about you. It's about the question you're asking . Clarifying what experiences you've had can help give more insight into the question. -
Carl-Richard replied to Phyllis Wagner's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
"Weird" experiences? Not "oh my god I'm fucking dying" experiences? -
Carl-Richard replied to Phyllis Wagner's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
If you treat it as such, then that will be how you feel. Have you established a daily spiritual practice? -
Carl-Richard replied to Phyllis Wagner's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I'm not telling you not to question it. I'm just telling what I feel. -
Carl-Richard replied to Flyboy's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Impermanence is a concept that refers to the impermanence of objects. Impermanence itself is not an object. Same with radical skepticism. It's not the object of its own criticism in the same way as what it's critiquing. -
Carl-Richard replied to Phyllis Wagner's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
It should sound too good to be true because it is. -
Carl-Richard replied to Ellenier's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Don't bother wasting your time with YouTube debunk heroes. It's all just bunk. -
Carl-Richard replied to Phyllis Wagner's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I had this fear until I meditated and literally lost my mind. There is nothing you can say to make me have that fear ever again. My main fear now is actually from the fact that it's way too real.