Carl-Richard

Anesthesia impacts wakefulness, not awareness.

Sure, that could also work, particularily when we're dealing with activity within the brain. I was just borrowing terms from perceptual systems where the different "leveledness" is more apparent. After all, the majority of the body's external sensory receptors are situated at a lower elevation compared to the brain. Part-whole/receptor-brain/one-many are also valid descriptions.

@Husseinisdoingfine Damn he was so close!

Purple and blue are also collectivist stages.

We're talking about selling a view of how the world works on the most fundamental level. In that context, Stage Orange people won't listen to anyone who talks about God, questions the existence of matter, criticizes science etc.. It doesn't matter if you're wearing a suit or monk robes. Even so, if the robes are enough to scare you away, then there is no chance you'll be open to the idea that you might be imagining your entire existence. Sadhguru is actually very direct in his speech imo.

I don't use TikTok enough to care about what pops up

There has never been a tighter band in history:

My for you page is just assss (and I never click like on anything ).

TikTok is the Snapchatification of YouTube.

That is how drama youtubers survive. They're not incentivized to properly investigate what they're covering, because the majority of their audience is completely ignorant, and any person who tries to call them out gets drowned in the noise. Survival and ignorance is two sides of the same coin.

We already know everything but somehow we don't

He who does not acknowledge his blindspots is doomed to eternal darkness (could be a quote).

Bro I love that

Ice is actually a rock. I had to go see for myself, so I looked up the definition of a rock, then the definition of a mineral, and then the properties of H2O, and it's correct Really good example of the relativity of language and how accustomed we are to certain everyday words and labels.

He is still working on embodiment. Teachers have varying degrees of embodiment and different types of energy. Jan Esmann is known to have an especially strong shakti that is very contagious: Though you also want to be aware of various self-bias mechanisms and the power of suggestion and expectation.

See what happens if you meditate during the prep and while you're being put under.

You have to be aware of the context it's being said in. Is he talking to teenagers or is he talking to well-functioning adults? Is he contrasting it with something else (x is more ugly than y)? What does he mean by duty and responsibility? What does he mean by "ugly"? Aren't some ugly things necessary? Should I not have the responsibility of not dumping raw sewage in the streets?

I have so many synchronicites everyday that you wouldn't believe.

Why not try to teach a 3 year old algebra?

Hedonism debunked

Truth is too simple for people to understand.

What is the point of living if you're alive?

No matter how many exceptions you got in your hat, memorization is actually a type of problem solving strategy, and you can't solve problems without using your memory either If mind is reducible to problem solving, then let's throw out the entire field of cognitive science, neuroscience and psychology and call it problemology. There is virtually an infinite amount of different conceptual lenses that you can use to investigate the mind that you're disregarding. The system itself doesn't have to be based on language, but every description or representation of a system is based on language, and language is based on symbols. You can't talk about something or represent something without using symbols. However, I'm not going to say that language "is nothing but symbols" (that would again be reductive - I was being somewhat hyperbolic earlier). "Perspective training" is not a straightforward concept. You can't separate perspective from content. Training your perspective also involves accumulating content which can be contrasted with other content. In other words, the muscle of perspective needs food in order to grow. A perspective cannot be expressed before it's manifested in something concrete, and the particular language you learn can be a part of that. You could say that how large your perspective is depends on the way you compare and contrast different content, and as the amount of content increases, the amount of potential connections, combinations, comparisons and contrasts increase exponentially. This is why it's important to balance theory and spiritual practice, because they compliment eachother. Spiritual practice flexes the perspective muscle and theory feeds the muscle.