Carl-Richard

Meditation is about accepting whatever is true in every moment. The problem is that most people are not used to not doing that, so they have to pratice, and that will of course cause some resistance. That is a normal path of growth. Try to really investigate in your direct experience what the resistance is made out of, its nature and how it functions, and then try to accept that.

The term "love" is commonly conceived as describing inclusion, and "hate" describing exclusion. The universe being Infinite Love is perfect, because it has to "include" everything that exists. Infinite Love is absolute inclusivity: it includes absolutely everything. Remember that the common conception of love and hate are limited constructs. Infinite Love is unlimited.

Totally in disbelief

@Rilles RIP

Yup. Yellow sees the relativity of concepts. Turquoise sees the relativity of mind.

I need to take my own advice more often lol :

Well I think about it everyday, so for me it couldn't ever really be a synchronicity. However, I have this very persistent synchronicity where I'm hearing a word on a video in one tab while reading that word in another tab. It happens consistently 1-3 times a day and it's profound yet normal for me now.

Haha nice! I like DMT stories that contradict materialism

Hallucinating isn't a negative though

Remember, people who don't think the psychedelic experience is real have only been told by other people what is real or not, and likewise those people were also just told by somebody else. Who was the first one who knew what is truly real? You can't be told what is real or not. Only you can know what is real.

In Norway, the newer schools and the ones that I went to are very green. The primary school that I started going to in 2003 was brand new and the architecture of the building resembles the shell of a snail. Inside there are no classrooms but instead more open structures called "bases". We also had a day in the week called "outside school" which consisted of taking a trip to a forest nearby, and it incorporated learning about the natural sciences and ecology. The school lunch program assured free food for everybody, and we also had a free after-school activities program.

@Artsu ???

Life and death, arbitrary and non-arbitrary, instinct and non-instinct; it's all relative. Survival is just a catch-all term for whatever collection of relative constructs you want to perpetuate. Of course survival is relative.

Ideologically, 70s punk rock was anti-establishment (which for that era mainly entails libertarianism/anarcism), which is a reaction to authoritarianism (blue), and stylistically they're reacting to the green elements of 60s rock: "Punk was a musical movement that reacted against the pastoral sentimentality, expressionistic excess, and superstar bloat of '60s rock with short, fast, hard, acerbic songs. It was also a subculture that scornfully rejected the political idealism and Californian flower-power silliness of hippie myth." - http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bkrev/mcneil-nyt.php. Green came back with movements like post-punk etc..

Cynic is part of a later wave of 90s progressive metal that started to incorporate elements of jazz, which is arguably the start of green-ish tendencies atleast stylistically. They also have some spiritual and psychedelic themes, and some of the band members are followers of buddhism and openly homosexual (in later years). They later moved away from metal and towards progressive rock/jazz.

Historically, lyrically, and stylistically, metal music that is based on the 80s era (the height of the genre) has been mainly orange and below. Metal borrows a lot of the orange cultural undertones of punk rock (anti-establishment, pro-individualism, self-expression), and some sub-genres dive into red as we've seen examples of here. I can't think of any examples of bands with green values from that era. I posted an example of green 80s music in the corresponding mega-thread if you want to see what it's like. It tends to be stylistically and lyrically post-modern: often ironic, blending genres, doesn't take itself too seriously, and critical of orange.

Where is that "I hate hippies" dude when you need him? Oh that's right - he got banned

Genghis Khan

@AtheisticNonduality @Artsu Look, Tool is obviously a spiritually-minded band and there is nothing to doubt there. However, the core sound that defines metal music (loudness, harshness, distortion, dissonance) is at the end of the day lower consciousness than lighter music. It's self-evident - it doesn't need explaining. Now, this does absolutely not take away from the fact that heavy music can be beautiful and entrancing, and it's certainly an artform that deserves respect. It has to be that way, because people love listening to it. It used to be the only thing I listened to for years of my life. My point is that it's possible to recognize different levels of spiritual "purity" without denying the validity of other aspects (musical complexity, authenticity, virtuosity etc.). I don't think much more needs to be said on this topic. It has been thorougly gone through in this thread once already.

Welp, down the youtube rabbit hole I go...

You probably got a little tiny injection of consciousness. When the true awakenings start to happen, you'll know exactly what is happening. That's for sure.

You were twins but now you're the older brother. You just gotta get used to it.

I had this happen to me while in a lecture back in spring. Stopped meditating since then but I still keep dying from time to time. I don't like it very much, atleast in this point of my life.

You died.