Carl-Richard

Exactly.

Spirituality is not in the business of surpressing your personal desires or killing the ego. It's about elevating the expression of yourself to such heights that you transcend it all. Embrace life to its fullest and spiral out, my friend

Hmm that's a good one.

Valerian can knock you the fuck out if you try hard enough

I'm literally creating everything.

My point is you can have post-rational views in one domain (regarding the nature of God) and still fall into the trap of criticizing Green from below. You can't be a master in all areas. I mean, Ramaji and Ananda Devi voted for Trump...

On another note, would it be correct to say that meditation strengthens sensor functions in a way? I used to be immersed in wild ideas 24/7 but nowadays I can barely think a thought even if my life depended on it. My internal world is off most of the time, but I like to believe that the content of my thoughts have remained basically the same (probably mostly Ne). At the same time, being more aware of my surroundings does have an effect on the content aswell.

@mmKay Or you can look at it from the perspective of being a Stage Purple construct. The name is given to you by the tribe as a way of establishing your relationship to the tribe. Only other people can call your name. Language is a social construct, which means that your name (tribal identity) can only ever arise inside a tribe in the first place. Having a name is therefore as much a collective function as an individual function. You don't need a name if you're alone.

Are all the videos here talking about awakening experiences and psychedelic trips actually just irrelevant then? All his Jungian talk, his book Maps of Meaning that integrates the shared values of all the different religious traditions (east and west) with western psychology and neuroscience, does all of that not have a slight tinge of holism in it? His idea of God isn't merely pre-rational/traditionalist Christianity. He is more a religious pluralist with an affinity for Christianity (he is more like Rupert Sheldrake in that sense). There is a reason why rationalists get so uneasy when he starts talking about God and why they don't know if they should place him in the William Lane Craig theologian box or the Deepak Chopra woo-woo box. He is post-rational in that respect (and obviously lacking in other areas).

I'm still just not ok with MBTI in general. Nothing really makes sense to me.

What do you mean by that?

JP has had awakening experiences.

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

10:27

Go outside.