Carl-Richard

No problem. By the way, even if you're adequately rested, meditating at the right time of the day is also crucial. If you meditate straight after a big meal, you'll be consistently more sleepy and unfocused. Let your stomach be atleast half-empty. You'll usually have one point during the day where you mind and body is at peak perfomance (for me it's around 2 hrs after my first or second meal), and even though you might be busy during that time, you should try meditating atleast once to see the difference.

This is false.

The thing about sleep is that it's a more gross type of rest that has a higher priority than meditation. Meditation is a subtler form of rest that only happens when you're otherwise fully rested. Meditating when you're sleepy is like trying to build a house of cards during an earthquake. Establish a firm base, a stable ground of wakefulness that naturally supports the meditative states of awareness. That way you don't have to inflict yourself with pain in order to stay awake. Besides, sitting comfortably in a wakeful state will only deepen your meditation. Then again, pain can be a very good tool for training your concentration.

Who do you personally think embodies those higher stages? Any examples?

If it's very cushy to the point where your spine is not resting "on itself", I think that might be one factor. If it's more firm and your back is more or less straight, I believe it could still work if you sit with one leg under your butt like this: By the way, I recommend this chair . Perfectly comfortable, firm, upright. https://www.ikea.com/ma/en/p/markus-office-chair-glose-black-40103100/

Falling asleep is a sign that you haven't slept enough . I'm being totally serious. Also what kind of chair is it? Do you sit in an upright position or are you leaning back? Slouching posture might increase sleepiness.

Just based on the changes in consciousness I've had sober and the different nuances and flavors that correlates with different emotional/psychological/physical states, the huge diversity of experience that could potentially exist just blows my mind to pieces. We don't even have to talk about these extreme states of consciousness; just normal states of consciousness and the diversity that exists there is enough to make your head go around. I mean, the difference between how you experienced the world 10 years ago and now is extremely different in itself. Now imagine that you're given a completely new body, a new mind, and you've have also lived another lifetime ?

We're kinda limited to one lifetime here in a way...

I really want him to call Sam Seder

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Go outside.

Your other comments.

My advice from me to you, man to man, would be to be aware of the underlying implications of dichotomization, separation, and distancing that happens while immersing yourself in PUA theory. The idea that only men are able to know how to get women does have a degrading aspect to it. You can say whatever you want about the truth value of that concept, but you cannot attract women without knowing what they want, and to assume that only a man can figure that out through rational methodology and cognitive inversions is almost narcissistic.

If you have no way to microdose weed in a controlled fashion, you should generally stay away from it while microdosing LSD.

This is dogmatic thinking. I could drop any other platitude like "in order to catch a prey, you must think like a prey" to support the opposite. Also, you can't do advertising without having any knowledge of what the customer wants, and asking them is one way to do it. A lot of advertising is based on qualitative studies in consumer psychology that involves surveys and interviews with individual costumers as data collection methods (third-person observation is only one part). It's only after qualitative studies and subsequent modelling that you can establish a framework where you can start to gather quantitative data (which is more like your idea of PUA). The point is that it doesn't hurt to know what the costumers think they want, infact it's often necessary. Of course there are self-deception mechanisms, but it doesn't negate all of the value of asking women for advice, because then it would also negate the value of asking anybody (unless you believe there is something particularily wrong with women).

Falsification is relative.

Do you smoke weed everyday?

I never said I was a pure Lakatosian ;). I just noticed the similarities of your ideas and Lakatosian research programmes. Of course the hard cores are ultimately false. Science becomes merely a pragmatic endevour for post-Kuhnians, and Lakatos takes a mid-position between that and rationalism. Feyerabend (post-Kuhnian) likewise criticized him for his attachment to rationalism. He is a better example of the Tier 2 values of relativity and holism.

From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imre_Lakatos#Research_programmes

Smoking weed on a microdose will throw you into a full-blown psychedelic trip.

Why are you constantly posting negative posts?

Is this an example of the dynamics of Lakatos' methodology of scientific research programme (MSRP) or am I missing any nuances?