Carl-Richard

Authenticity happens between thoughts.

I don't think anybody is denying that microorganisms exist. It's more about what they're doing.

"You're blind sheep getting drunk on the collective viral kool-aid"

Try to find a world outside your own.

That is a great analogy LOL

Yes. The cases where you're actually inclined to break the law or hurt somebody if you just let your emotions go, that would be a valid case for emotional repression. Learning appropiate emotional repression is therefore a part of emotional mastery.

I actually do express it outwardly in a pretty violent fashion for how short it usually lasts, but that descripition is of course pretty relative. Anger usually only lasts for long periods of time if it's constantly re-ignited by repetitive thoughts. On average, the less thoughts you have, the less anger you have. That is why so-called angry people are often low consciousness. They are addicted to spinning self-serving narratives.

LOL

I don't often feel anger, only for a couple of seconds at most. However, I used to repress my emotions a lot in the past, but I've been consciously working on that problem for a while now. Right now as it stands, I don't see how I could be repressing my anger to any serious extent. I've learned to become aware of on a bodily level when I'm holding on to an emotion and how to release it. I did a lot of crying meditation back when I used to be a total mess in this respect and that helped me a lot. I really recommend it if you feel like a numbed out disembodied zombie (even that is often very hard to realize just out of the blue).

But is it a sign of emotional mastery?

I think it's mostly a personality thing, although I used to get angry more often before I started meditating. Then again, I was also a teenager, so who knows

According to my friends, I never get angry. I guess that's atleast something.

@Mason Riggle That's what I was trying to say, but I just couldn't find the words

But have you tried 5-MeO-DMT?

The word you're looking for is "potency" . LSD is far more potent than 5-MeO-DMT, but the effects from an effective dose are not at all comparable.

Not necessarily. It can also be applied to "theory vs. actuality" in materialistic science. You can technically still be a materialist and appreciate this distinction (an example I would assume is Daniel Dennett). A materialist wouldn't want to call actuality direct experience: he would call it the physical world. The problem there is that "the physical world" is still a loaded/biased theory-based term, but the distinction can be made nonetheless, because it's in a sense only a nickname for reality or the unknown. Then of course, most materialists don't see the distinction between theory and actuality in any shape or form. There are degrees of epistemological ignorance.

You said "it isn't as bad as you think", and I said it's much worse than you're ever able to think. I never said it isn't getting better.

I go into spontaneous ego death if I walk past people smoking weed.

All maps are territory -> infinite maps -> the territory is infinite

Ooooh that's a good one.

Beware of concessions made to absolutistic viewpoints for explanatory reasons. In the analogy of the map and the territory, the "territory" is a concession to the self-proclaimed absolute perspective of a person (often a materialist's adherence to materalism/realism). When all perspectives are seen to be relative, in a sense, there are only maps OR territories.

It might seem like a contradiction (it was for me), but pursuing a life purpose is still important even when purpose is understood to be an illusion. You need to be able to distinguish between the absolute and the relative realm. In a relative sense, you're a finite human being with finite human needs that wants to survive. Purpose is important for your life: it gives it direction, structure and meaning. In an absolute sense, there is no purpose: you're Infinite Consciousness.

This is an interesting dynamic and a funny video: Green-centered rationalist-materalist reacts to Green post-rationalism/spirituality. This shows the nuances within Green: Notice how often Vaush commits the pre/trans fallacy, mistaking post-rationalist beliefs (hyper-green) for pre-rationalist beliefs (blue). It happens at 12:23, 13:08, 17:40, 23:20, 24:45, 29:50, 33:50, 34:50, 40:15, 42:47, 50:56 etc.. Essentially, Vaush has built up a wide array of cognitive schemas that link paranormal/irrational beliefs to conservatives, which is a result of years of ideological vitriol towards right-wingers. That could be an example of the lack of self-awareness and the self-deception mechanisms of Tier 1.

It is infinitely more problematic than you could ever imagine. Statistics doesn't capture it. There are countless individual perspectives that contain experiences that are absolutely horrible. The thing is though, aside from acknowledging your own relative privilege, why go around thinking about it?