Carl-Richard

Cuz colonization.

Anybody else simply playing it for fun? I would tend to agree with @EnlightenmentBlog regarding the type of strategic thinking you're developing. Even if it was highly generalizable, I think most people already have enough step-by-step linear logic anyway. Working on your intuition will supercharge your strategic thinking, which will be the kind of strategic thinking that takes you into Tier 2 territory: solid left-brain base with intuitive augmentations. There is nothing more strategic than letting God do the thinking for you

Yes. I did one game on Chess.com where I didn't have any mistakes or blunders and only 1 inaccuracy (the rest were primarily best moves), but other than that, I'm pretty noob

What?

If we assume reality to be everything that exists, ask to be shown what it is that limits reality, and ask if that limit isn't a part of reality as well.

What time period after taking it are we talking? All psychedelics disrupt sleep for some time.

This is the natural talent fallacy. If you look at anyone in any field who excel at something, they have all invested thousands of hours of practice into getting to that point. The only thing that is rare is to do zero practice and become a master. Most gurus had to do a lot of practice to get to where they are.

Yes, but usually at the cost of others. That is why Blue arose, because of the need for higher-order collective organization. It's not that Red cannot be ordered at all, but "higher-order" is order connected to a higher structuring principle or purpose above the individual. Yes, but realize what that really means. It's not like Red has no motivation to do anything. They have a strong drive and desire to do stuff, but it's limited to egocentric impulses. The highest principle is the individual self. With Blue order and structure, your drive becomes streamlined towards a higher purpose than yourself: the transcendent, the collective, the divine, the good. Behavior becomes more intelligent, thoughtful, considerate: "is this in alignment with my values?". Red doesn't have to think about that. It always knows what it wants, and it wants it NOW. Discipline and work ethic is not the source of your motivation and energy. Those things are simply the purposeful structuring of your work output. They are infact restrictions on your natural energy (your immediate impulses, short-term desires). This increases the ability to think long-term, to invest, plan, scheme.

That's not a nice belief to have.

...yes. I'm asking your limited mind about what it believes. Now you're unironically being the brown bear from the Advaita trap video

Man the grace is too strong

Thank you! For sure.

OMFG I forgot how good this one is ?

Ah... the Neo-Advaita trap. Such a feeling of nostalgia

I had this experience at the exact same date as you last year. My problem is I fear it too much. I still do.

Us unenlightened folks only have our best guess, but I believe having 0 self-referential thoughts (except when hypoglycemic) qualifies as a non-dual baseline state of awareness a.k.a enlightenement. Are there deeper levels? Sure. "It only keeps unfolding in more and more spectacular ways" as Gary Weber would've put it (paraphrasing). If Gary is "definitely not enlightened", what is your requirement for considering somebody enlightened? Btw, at 16:47 he goes into how he stopped experiencing thoughts.

@LastThursday Ah that's so cool! So essentially it's classical conditioning combined with reconsolidation. I have always played around with mental tricks like this in some form or another. For example, when I struggled with substance addiction, I would reprogram my initial response to addictive thoughts (which I would describe as anguish and hopelessness) with optimism and motivation. I took the mental pain as a sign of mental progress, much like the pain from lifting weights is a sign of physical progress. I like the quote "pain is weakness leaving your body" In this case, the mechanism is classical conditioning (one thought being associated with another), but meditation was a significant part of me being able to catch these thoughts and not let them overwhelm me so I could actually employ the technique. Addiction is especially tricky because it's like a personality in the way that it expresses itself consistently across different situations. It's actually very fitting to call it demonic possession, because it's a very intelligent personality with sneaky manipulation tactics, clever arguments, rationalizations and emotional harassment. The addictive thoughts will be associated with a vast collection of different outlets, and it takes time to eliminate them all. When you're no longer maintaining the rewarding stimuli through these outlets, the "addiction network" is progressively weakened, but this requires a lot of determination, clever techniques, luck and ideally a transcendent goal as a driving force (in my case meditation itself). I say luck because I also found a particular strain of spirituality which said "drugs no-no!" (although I always knew it was interfering with my meditation) . There are of course parallells between substance addiction and addiction to thoughts/experiences/sensations in general, which is why so many people find it so hard to keep a consistent spiritual practice.

LOL how so? He said he suddenly stopped experiencing self-referential thoughts after 20000 hours of spiritual practice. That is very advanced. You seem to have this idea that enlightenment somehow puts more limits on yourself. It's exactly the opposite: limitations will only be lifted. It's not an animal-like existence at all. You'll be more capable of being human.

I hope you're not mixing up acceleration with velocity, but it's true that the Earth is infact accelerating on its journey around the Sun due to the eliptical shape of the orbit and Kepler's laws of planetary motion. However, the type of acceleration you experience in a gravitational field is not equal to the type of acceleration you experience in an accelerating car. Imagine jumping off a cliff and into a lake. When you're in the air, it simply feels like you're floating, but you're somehow accelerating at a rate of 9.81 m/s^2 towards the lake. It feels nothing like sitting in a car. The acceleration of the earth around the sun is like that: you're in free fall, falling extremely fast, but you don't actually feel it. Exactly how gravity is different from the type of acceleration you experience in normal everyday situations on Earth requires a comprehensive technical grasp of General Relativity which I don't possess. You'll have to read some physicist's explanation of it on Quora or something or make yourself content with my analogies

This a belief. This dude got enlightened and continued running a quarter billion dollar research project with 1000 people working for him like nothing happened: 16:47 He goes into how he stopped experiencing thoughts.

It's without a doubt important to distinguish between direct experience and fabrications, but don't forget that your sense organs are also a type of instrument, in the sense that they're bound by certain mechanical limitations and that they're treated as data collecting devices in a scientific context. Whether or not the data stems from a mechanical or biological instrument, the scientist's job is to find the correct data interpreting instrument, which appears as an abstract pattern in the scientists' own mind. Here is where you'll find the usual critique of science and its arrogant tendencies, in the idea that these abstract interpretative instruments are somehow not subject to the same level of limitations as the "physical" instruments, and that this instrument is somehow something more than a part of the scientist's own limited mind. Here the distinction between direct experience and abstractions becomes important, because the abstract interpretative instruments themselves do not infact exist in direct experience, but instead they're derived and "abstracted out" from it. When it comes to creating a science based on less bad assumptions and that is more in alignment with the actuality of direct experience, that would of course involve deconstructing these discontinued materialistic frameworks and look to alternative ones where maybe pure insights into consciousness take center stage in front of physical instruments. However, once the frameworks have been established, you would still rely on various data collecting instruments to actually do science. Just as much as some theory has to supersede observation, other aspects of theory and observation exist in a dialectical relationship where changes are made along the way.

(Bumping and changing the title to increase the value in the market of attention ).

Are intellectual abstractions meaningless? Doesn't that make your words meaningless? Be careful to not throw the baby out with the bathwater . By describing water as H2O, you can make some predictions that can be validated in your direct experience. For example, you can know something about what makes you experience it as a liquid, a solid or a gas, or how much water your body exhales by burning x amount of sugar, or why it is able to dissolve polar substances like table salt and not non-polar substances like butter etc. Does that mean that science has unlocked "the truth" about water? Absolutely not, but again, there are a few things you can say about water by using the models provided by chemistry, and these things can absolutely be meaningful to your life in a multitude of ways. Being critical of the limits of science is fine as long you know the limits of your criticism

Enlightenment isn't like that. It doesn't make you special. Now go get a job

Be genuinely motivated by what you love, not what you fear.