Carl-Richard

Do you fear losing contact with the "Inner Being"?

Isn't this exactly what you do when you try to understand something?

All the Jan Esmann interviews haha. That guy has some crazy stories

If you find it interesting, go for it. Just remember that science makes predictions based on models, and models are like maps: they can be useful for going certain places, but the map is not the terrain. Once you learn to see the limitations of science, it'll steer you towards the absolute.

@Evil Raccoon Behold the father of Death Metal, Chuck Shuldiner: Man, he seems like such an evil person!

@The observer I think the yellow approach lies in recognizing how survival and expansion aren't necessarily mutually exclusive but at the same time different concepts indeed.

@Inliytened1 I love twisting it around so it says "I am, therefore I think" hahaha

@The observer Does an ant think about how it's taking care of its survival needs? What is the desire to expand but a survival strategy? I don't see this definition of survival as cynical one: I see it as a very inclusive one, infact quite the opposite of what you've been projecting here

@The observer Survival is about perpetuating a particular pattern. It's not merely about having food in your belly or a roof over your head. Survival is happening on all levels of the pyramid.

On a more trivial note, it's actually possible to have a bit of admiration for believing in flat earth if you're a strict follower of the principle of radical empiricism: if you've not seen it with your own eyes, it's not true. But of course that's only an admiration of somebody being logical consistent rather than actually being wise

@Meta-Man I tried to convey that fact aswell somewhere in there (I don't know if I did so successfully though) : Hallais

I would recommend using the word "useful" instead of "true" when talking about relative truths. Some frameworks are more "useful" than others for achieving a certain goal, but the measurement of progress and the choice of goal is subjective. In other words, if you can identify somebody's goals and ideas of what constitutes progress, you could say that they're going about it the wrong way if you think there is a better way to achieve that goal. For instance, the climate scientist and the climate change denier both have a common goal (atleast implictly): to survive on this planet. Denying climate change based on a few internet searches is arguably not a better strategy to achieve that goal than having a worldwide team of scientists actively working on it. However, convincing somebody that way is not so easy, because they may believe that denying climate change IS the measurement of progress.

@Verdesbird ?

What does this mean?

@The observer No problem

@The observer That's why I called it "physical" pleasure. You tapped into what I would define as spiritual pleasure, which is unconditional and absolute, and that arises from surrendering like you said, rather than chasing some temporary state of pleasure. Even so, you said that it took a lot of suffering to get there. Only through immense suffering and tension, you were able to reach peace.

@assx95 Try masturbating every 10 minutes and see how that source of pleasure quickly fades. Try eating cake for every meal for a week. Conversely, try sitting in a sauna until your skin starts burning and then take a cold shower, and compare that to taking a cold shower without being warm. The world is experienced through opposites. Unlike hedonism, real spirituality isn't about maximizing physical pleasure, but it's about accepting the ever-changing nature of life; to beautifully walk the line between the opposites. That is why spirituality leads to growth and resilience to life's challenges while hedonism leads to stagnation.

Keep going to that space, investigate it further, but be careful: you might die.

@Serotoninluv Flow scares me.

@assx95 Look to the real world: The external conditions have been getting better and better, but our mental health has been getting worse and worse. Buddha only pursued enlightenment because he had everything he could ever want as a prince, but he was still miserable. Psychatrists will tell you that being rich and successful will not protect you against suffering. Neuroscience will tell you that your brain gets adapted to repeated stimuli and overtime lessens its effect. Physical pleasure is only experienced relative to physical pain, therefore hedonism is bound to fail. That is why spirituality exists.

I read somewhere that a guy cured his depersonalization by doing intense and prolonged biking cardio exercise. I have no idea though.

@Etherial Cat "Trolls are people too"

@SoothedByRain Lateralus is also a turquoise concept album

The dream state is used as an analogy. You've interpreted it as an equivalence. It's similar to a dream in the way that it's made out of mind, not matter. However, you could infact argue that the reset mechanism is also analogous, only across different lifetimes (if you believe in reincarnation).

@Someone here Yes. Reality unfolds in a certain way, but that doesn't mean it's made out of matter. A dream can seem to follow rules in the way how it unfolds, but to say that this means that the dream is made out of matter is a red herring. The conception of time being linear and absolute is directly tied to the idea that reality is a physical universe consisting of matter suspended in space, and that's why you say it's illogical. I would also argue that the idea of a first cause is a weasely concept unless you're willing to concede that this "first cause" is infact infinite, because you cannot escape the problem of infinite regression. Though like I said, something having an infinite causal chain is the same as something being caused by nothing, because you cannot actually find an ultimate first cause.