Carl-Richard

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.

Egoic desires fill your mind with noise. Psychics need a still mind.

Yes. Step 1: Don't want psychic powers. Step 2: Do spiritual practice. Step 3: Don't want psychic powers.

Interesting how marines always talk an octave below their resting vocal range.

Can you be aware of not being aware?

It's one illustration of how language fails to encapsulate the intelligence of reality.

It's formally defined as "the species problem": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_concept The books and lecturers would vaguely refer to it from time to time. I was most struck by it when we were trying to identify different types of butterfly and moth in pictures. To the untrained eye, some of them would look identical and somehow be a separate species, and some relatively different-looking ones would be the same species and just a different sub-species. Looking at the morphology is only one way to define a species, but it's central to identifying insects, and the defining characteristics are often completely arbitrary.

Saying that pro-life is a moralistic position is a descriptive statement not a normative statement. This is basic metaethics from the 18th century. You don't have to invoke non-duality to arrive at a moral relativist position either.

Where is the pro-abortion argument? Abortion is also survival. It's also self-bias.

@Meta-Man I only took 1 year of biology in college, but from the little amount I did learn, I feel that species is such a dodgy concept (I can't imagine what kind of conceptual breakdowns the professors have to deal with ). It can mean so many different things when you zoom out and look across different taxonomies. so that list tells me very little. I just didn't vibe with zoological systematics in general. There are so many grey areas, weird exceptions and other peculiarities, and passing the course was essentially just about memorizing random details. Evolutionary theory was more my thing, much more intuitive and less random.

4chan doesn't exactly have these guidelines

So a large percentage of us will die off?

Like I said, there is a bookmark function that essentially works like a favorite function, atleast for me. You're not talking about upvotes right?

When did this happen?

You can't boil language acquisition down to memorization or separate it from problem solving. There are many factors at play, although it's true that memory is a central part of it, but that's true for chess aswell. Magnus Carlsen is known to have memorized all the moves of every single game he has ever played. Don't you think that has an impact on his performance? I'll again point out the difference between a reductive (exclusive) view of mind and an inclusive view. "Brain power" or whatever term you want to throw at it (problem solving, critical thinking etc.) is just one aspect of mind; albeit a central aspect of mind, I agree; but my point is there is more than that. What is language but a collection of symbols? What is symbolic thinking without language? Be mindful of the framing here. You're invoking a rather narrow slice of developmental psychology ("lines of development" I'm assuming refers to SDi). I'm not limiting myself to that framework when talking about the mind. As I said, knowing different languages opens you up to different cultures and a larger view of life. A larger perspective is synonymous with higher consciousness and a more flexible mind.

Omg

Virtually all Green people are leftists but not all leftists are Green. Posting videos like these and asking "has PC culture gone too far?" is the biggest meme on the internet. We've already seen what happens there. Nothing good comes out of it. All stages in Tier 1 are essentially dogmatic. It's not endemic to Blue.