Carl-Richard

I used to have that view myself, but Hamilton Morris made me reconsider that position (I'm still on the fence though). He essentially doesn't believe in the hard/soft drug dichotomy. I recommend watching his latest Joe Rogan podcast appearance:

I know. My response to you was me agreeing with you.

I believe you should approach spirituality from a place of inclusion, wonder and love rather than destruction, exclusion and detachment. Go towards beauty, towards what draws you in, towards what seems the most interesting for you, towards God. Extend your consciousness, unfold yourself fully and accept all aspects of reality. The deconstruction of your ego and detachment from your wordly self will happen naturally as your seeking intensifies.

These thoughts feed on insecurity and indetermination, creating an evil spiral and self-recurring feedback loops. Recognize that those thoughts are a normal part of life, and accept them for what they are. This act of self-acceptance plants a seed that will grow and later starve the thoughts of sunlight until they dwindle away. This is primarily a solution for irrational, repetitive, non-sensical thoughts that only serve to impede your growth as a human. If you feel that these thoughts are trying to guide you towards growth, then you should try addressing them directly by creating a real-life solution rather than an internal one. You want the inside to match the outside as much as possible. The specifics of this you just have to take on intuition.

I hope so.

The mud gets fertilized and grows new life.

Notice the distinction: it's the lifestyle that is the problem; the drug is only a requirement. Either way, whether it's legal or not will not have much of an impact on whether or not somebody picks up that lifestyle. There you can make another distinction: the lifestyle is a symptom of society's dysfunctions, not the cause of those dysfunctions.

One of the world's most successful chefs ever talking about evolving from orange to green: 6:05-15:58 Mentions giving up his achievements, emotional and spiritual growth, revisiting trauma etc.. 11:44 It gets really interesting. Such moments rarely happen on talk shows.

That is a second-order construct, based on symbols, based on thought. Go to the first-order, pre-construct, pre-symbolic, pre-thought space.

The US isn't even ready for green yet.

There are an infinite amount of possible answers to a question.

This is actually my favorite clip on youtube omg

First test at keys2cognition looks like this (INTP):

Not sure if this is some sort of conspiracy theory or if it's just a case of conflating the relative and the absolute.

This is called "ostrich spirituality": sticking your head in the sand and calling yourself God. You should be totally involved in the world, just not identified with it. To quote Sadhguru:

If you want people to stop doing drugs in a free society, they must evolve to that place individually. That is the true measurement of cultural progress; bottom-up, piece by piece, not bottom-down, forcing a square peg into a round hole. Education that gives a realistic picture of how drugs work and other harm prevention measures will help in that direction. Most other cultural interventions (prohibition laws, ad campaigns, scare propaganda) only work to build a facade so we can pretend that we're dealing with the problem. Drug use is a symptom of society's pitfalls (its dysfunctions, both structurally and on the level of values), and you should try fixing those root issues if you want true change (again, bottom-up).

He does make some really sweet videos though

People don't always fit neatly into boxes, but boxes can be useful.

Reminds me of SD to be honest: the colours, the oscillation between individual and collective stages etc..

Truly inspiring life story, incredible storyteller. This guy taught Gordon Ramsay btw. 00:00 - 15:50 - Stage blue 15:50 - 24:12 - Stage orange (aspiring) 24:12 - 43:33 - Stage orange (mastery) 43:33 - 59:40 - Stage green

You said you were deepy traumatized, so I assumed that happened in the past and isn't an ongoing process. Then why do you reach out for help? Love isn't just an emotion; it's the fabric of reality. When you close yourself off from love, you close yourself off from reality. Maybe you should re-investigate what you believe love is. For me, love is what happens when you're intimately involved with any aspect of reality. It doesn't have to be flowery and sentimental, or "hippy-dippy" love. It's just truth.

That's a question, but alright.

@K Ghoul One of the coolest Pink Floyd songs imo

@Lindsay This one is legendary.