Carl-Richard

"Just google it" ?

Sociology is literally why feminism exists. But it's ok, I won't disturb your fantasy any longer.

You keep answering "yes" without going into the details. I'm not interested in posturing. Answer my point about sociology.

@TheDao Do you read anything from scratch or do you just follow reactionary movements (red pill, MRA etc.)? I think I understand now why you couldn't elaborate on why sociology is supposedly not a science. If you had actually read something about sociology, you would not give this idea of "oppressor" so much moral weight. Sociology deals with people at the group level, and you cannot generalize from the group to the individual. It's not so much that each individual male is intentionally oppressing every female in their life, but rather it's a way of describing a complex, historical, systemic, multi-layered, interactionist equation at the group level.

Realizing relativity doesn't cage you in. It sets you free. Why would you be down and depressed when you're light as a feather? You can't truly be nihilistic when you're radiating love.

I've had some thoughts recently about why I might fear awakening (other than the obvious stuff like attachment). I had this vision of me just walking out in nature with somebody I love and just melting away. I feel that under those conditions, something would just click, like on a deep level, where underlying all the fear of the unknown, there is a deep sense of belonging and groundedness.

In some alternative universe not far from here, JP became famous as a spiritual guru and not a grumpy psychology dad. In many ways he always had that potential imo.

How to stop what?

Listen to his interview with Rupert Spira to see where that conversation would go.

That's such a weird thing to say lol.

Have you seen how Stage Orange people react to that approach? "He is saying a bunch of nothing, talking in riddles, woo-woo spiritual bullshit". There is a reason many people even on this forum don't vibe with people like Sadhguru (and he's not even the worst offender in this field!). I think the "L-mode" approach is not such a strategical mishap as you portray it to be. I think quite to the contrary. Well, we certainly agree there, but wasn't that the main reason for doing the interview in the first place? I remember some people saying that discussions will add depth and nuance to what has already been presented in the 2hr monologues, but 1. that is certainly not the case for first-time interviews (and frankly just the interview format in general), and 2. especially not if you want newbies to follow what is being said.

Seems like this adds to my hypothesis from 2 months ago :

Haha Seems accurate though.

Yes

Tell me about cancer. I have no idea.

"Dark side" gives the image of a dichotomous 50/50 split. I think it's more accurate to call it a dark corner, but every movement has that.

You can close your eyes and pretend you're not seeing it, yes. I've done that every day for the past year.

Maybe, but then you should have an even better reason to investigate why your mind is filled with those thoughts. That's what meditation is about after all

Those things can be confused with authenticity and confidence.

I can enter non-duality without even meditating. How many stars should I put up?

I've been transparent about the fact that the only reason I came to the forum was to distract myself from unwanted awakening experiences, so duh Even so, this post really says more about your own insecurities than anybody else. Maybe you should go outside more, focus on your life purpose etc. and maybe then you'll not have these concerns popping up in your head all the time

Btw, a good way to notice the language gamey nature of psychology is to open up a book on personality disorders and see how often the author refers to the problems of so-called artificial comorbidity, overlapping diagnostic criteria and other grey areas.

Just look at how many languages there are. Which one is the best one? See how it's kinda the wrong question? When you choose a language, you're given certain rules that you must follow in order to make sense (grammar, logic). However, what you're saying only makes sense relative those rules (Spanish only makes sense to Spanish speakers). The meaning is confined within that framework. That is what is meant by relative truth. It's true relative to that framework. Psychology isn't exactly a language by any strict definition (I'm using it as an analogy), but it's a language game: it uses symbols and rules for sorting them together. Also, all of this happens through the conceptual thoughts of humans. However, spirituality is about going beyond thought, concepts, symbols, rules, language, relativity; to discover what is true independent of anything else (not relatively true but absolutely true). So there is no problem with doing psychology while being spiritual (I'm in fact a psychology student). But just know that when spiritual people speak about "Truth", they mean something else than what you can learn conceptually (any "-ology"). It must at the end of the day be learned experientially. Also, being aware of the fact that psychology is a language game makes you a much more sober psychologist.

It's not true in the same sense that Spanish isn't true. It's a language. This is essentially the relative/absolute conflation. Psychology deals with relative truths. When you speak the language and other people can understand you (it "makes sense"), that's relative truth. Spirituality deals with the Absolute. It's true regardless of which language you speak.

Just reading and God ?