Carl-Richard

@This Oh yeah I've also thought about that before. This is a naive interpretation in multiple ways. Leo has already given a good explanation for this specifically earlier in the thread. "A well-respected scientist" would never dare to risk their career by seriously studying paranormal phenomena. Look at what happened to Rupert Sheldrake. He used to do regular science and now he is labeled as a kook. @Forestluv I couldn't have asked for a better way to concretize my points. Amazing

I dropped that aswell.

I truly learned what meditation is. I'm not stagnating at all. Infact, my progress scares me.

Just like any normal person's relationship to an apple.

I've taken large doses of ecstasy while blasting music and doing group hugs, completely melting my face off. None of that comes anywhere close to melting into awareness while completely sober. It's so good it's terrifying. There is nothing more terrifying than being killed by love.

What is really funny is that my baseline skyrocketed when I stopped meditating and stopped pursuing enlightenment

What should be the enlightened person's relationship to an apple?

How can it be infinite if it doesn't contain all of it?

Mushrooms only take 1-2 weeks to grow once you have grown your mycelium (takes 3-4 weeks, one-time thing) compared to 3-5 months for an indoor weed plant. You'll have a lifetime supply in 6 months.

Naaah I'm fine

They're not there. You were given a 16 GB file but you only had 1MB storage. Btw, hallaisen ??

Don't have to conjure up a belief when you've actually experienced for yourself

These are thoughts, yes? How does that contradict the first statement?

Whatever you can think about, infinity contains all that. If you start to get unsure about infinity, try to imagine the edge of the universe. What is outside of that edge? Nothing? What is nothing but an infinite nothingness? What is infinite nothingness but infinite potential? What is infinite potential but infinite actuality?

My point was about why they won't rake in the million dollars . Anyways, levitation may be a little different (or not). I was mainly talking about more subtle things like seeing the future etc..

Not very vivid, but I have these faint images pop up from time to time that I can't explain where they're coming from. They have a strong feeling of nostalgia to them and kind of a surreal feeling.

Pure hedonism cannot be practiced. You must always have something else to drag you out of that endless hole of chasing something you cannot have

Please do tell more . I remember when I was living with my mom, there was many times when she was coming home from work where I could just feel that she was about to come home, and everytime when I felt it, she would come through the door within 5 minutes. The day my old boss died (he drowned), I was asleep and I had one of those nightmares where I woke up while gasping (I was being chased by some ominous, female spirit). I usually never have nightmares and I didn't know he had died before the day after. Some years ago, my brother's friend died (he died in his sleep), and the morning after, I had this weird feeling that something was not right. I distinctly labelled it as there being a weird energy in the air (he lived around our neighbourhood). This was before my brother told me about it. One time at a party, one girl suddenly reported that she couldn't find her phone. We spent like 30 minutes looking for it in this tiny apartment with no luck. It was weird because there was only like 10-15 people there who all knew eachother, and she had never left the property that night, and the house was kinda secluded from the town. I remember saying out loud "there must have been some kind of anomaly, the phone must be somewhere far outside of this place, not here". It turns out she had dropped her phone outside while going for a smoke and some kids had picked it up and ran away with it (we verified this the day after). This one is kinda weird and maybe unrelated: Back in the beginning of high school, I was unsure whether to pursue the subjects required for engineering or if I should just "follow my interest". I thought "ah maybe I should take biology and psychology instead of chemistry and physics". Don't get me wrong, I was very interested in all of these things (the choice was really about what I wanted to pursue as a career). I ended up taking the latter (physics and chemistry). Now 8 years later, it turns out that I never wanted to become an engineer, and somehow I actually ended up taking a year of biology in university, and now I'm doing psychology haha. The way I'm interpreting this is that my heart (or intuition or whatever) was showing me who I really am and where I was actually going to end up, and that me listening to my mind was just a detour (but at the same time that's not completely true, because my chem/phys knowledge made me who I am today and helped me tremendously).

I partially blacked out on the peak of two of my LSD trips. They weren't even that high of a dose (but I was mixing it with weed). Seems to be a normal thing when your self starts to disintegrate. You enter these highly energetic states which are too semantically dense for your mind to retain in your memory.

Yup which is why when Rupert Sheldrake actually tries to do research on these things that he gets shut down immediately because he is a proponent of non-materialistic "woo-woo" theories

Yeah. I was using the word subtle in comparison to the more gross mental phenomena that everyday people experience. I personally believe that many people have varying levels of access to these levels of existence but that they're just generally unaware of it.

Conditional pleasure is when pleasure is dependent on a condition in order to arise. Unconditional pleasure is when it's not. Step 1: Place a Buddhist monk in silence for 10 minutes. Step 2: Place a TikTok addicted zoomer in silence for 10 minutes. Do I have to say more? Let's say you're a hedonist who likes food. You think food brings you pleasure, so you keep eating more and more food until you vomit. The hedonist doesn't realize that more food (condition) doesn't necessarily produce more pleasure (response), infact it can produce the opposite of pleasure. But if you eat a certain type of food, in a certain amount, at a certain time, in a certain way, you've discovered a way of maximizing pleasure. If you were to eat your food that way, you're following a transcendent principle; a structure, an order, something "above" just having more; something transcendent. Now, the ultimate transcendent principle is God, because then it's not about maximizing the outcome of just one condition (eating), but instead it's about maximizing the outcomes of all conditions. This requires you to align yourself with the natural pulse of universe; the way it breathes, the way it flows. You start going with reality rather than against it. Aligning yourself with all conditions is the same as being unconditional.

You can't maintain pleasure by pursuing pleasureable conditions (hedonic adaptation). If you're a smart hedonist, you have to cultivate your ability to feel unconditional pleasure, and that requires aligning yourself with a transcendent, ordered principle. The highest principle is God. By realizing your true nature as God, you'll come to terms with the everchanging nature of reality, and you won't need to chase conditional pleasures.

Wut?