Carl-Richard

It's probably extremely hard to get your hands on and therefore not a practical tool. If nobody knows about it, then the probability that there are any chemists who have the ability to make it, sell it and profit from it is very low. Oh, you're changing physical reality right now as we speak: you're turning oxygen and glucose into water and carbon dioxide Have you ever tried reading somebody's mind?

I've meditated for 3 years everyday in all kinds of positions, and my advice is that you should find the most comfortable position that naturally promotes an erect spine (you shouldn't have to "force" your spine to be erect). Lotus can help with that, but it can also detract from the goal, which is to sit in a relaxed and geometrically efficient position. I stopped sitting on the floor and started using my office chair instead because I sometimes tense up parts of my body. I tend to sit with my arms resting on the arm rests (doesn't matter where you position your hands) and with one leg tucked under my butt (the way Sadhguru tends to sit during interviews). You should have your chair back support setting (if you have any) placed on the "firm" setting so that you're sitting upright in a rested position without the chair leaning back if you try to lean back. Just remember that there is no point in having an erect spine if you don't feel relaxed or comfortable (but don't turn it into a perfectionism thing either haha).

Yeah, but then you have people like David Letterman where flirting is synonymous with being creepy most of the time

Raw talent

True, but you gotta admit when looking at all his interviews, he is absolutely dominating the room.

@LfcCharlie4 Yup I was recommended some Russel Brand videos along side this one haha

@Serotoninluv That's really interesting . When you talked about hearing vs. imagination, it reminded me of one time many years ago when I was walking down a road after smoking weed and I didn't have any headphones to listen to music with, so I started to intentionally "play" the song in my head just for the sake of curiosity. It might be because I'm musically inclined, but when I really tried to focus in on the "sounds", it almost started to feel like I was actually listening to the song. It was kinda freaky, and when I look back in hindsight, that was sort of a clue that reality actually IS imagination and that I'm creating it. I guess that potential for immersion and creativity is so much larger than I could've ever "imagined" back then LOL.

It's surprising yes, but why post it here?

@Nak Khid Dude what are you doing?

Mike Tyson.

@Nak Khid What Leo said reminded me of that meme. That's all.

I love the transparency at the end there hahahaha

Reminds me of this one hahahaha:

@Serotoninluv So in other words, I just need to develop a vivid sense of imagination in order to simulate an experience that is free from my own limited identity? Is this what empaths do?

Freedom... hmm... reminds me of these memes:

No offense, but I feel you're being overtly contrarian and digging for "gotcha's" in the words people use. Are you genuinely interested in what love is or is this just a lol-fest for you?

@Serotoninluv I sometimes doubt that I've really explored green to its fullest. I feel like I understand green concerns on an intellectual level, but I don't know if I've actually "felt" it thoroughly like you've pointed out. Then again, I'm an ex-pothead who lives in the greener parts of Europe haha. Is there something I can do about that?

If you look at this carefully, violence or aggression isn't "inherent" to any particular stage, but rather they're symptoms of certain values being played out in different scenarios. A stage red warlord or a stage blue king isn't aggressive all the time, but they're more likely to display aggression in certain situations, say if their authority is being threatened. Likewise, a stage green person would likely feel aggression when faced with deep unjustice. It's highly dependent on which values are being challenged in which situations.

That's orange thinking.

Hahaha no keep it. It's just a funny thought I had

@Someone here Just on a wild tangent, your profile picture reminds me of one of the recurring phases of my childhood night terrors

From what I can remember, there wasn't any single thought that caused the shift in awareness. It was just a gradual sense of my muscles becoming more relaxed, the colours behind my eyelids started to form ocean-like cyan waves, and my sense of hearing became very sharp. It all just culminated in me opening my eyes for no reason and feeling like I was floating about one foot above my head, like I was a hidden camera on the wall behind me, and my visual field was very widened. I was also kind of staring into the grainy texture of the brick wall in above the fireplace, and the particles seemed to be moving, kinda like on LSD, but just very very fine-grained. Then gradually it felt like I was ascending up towards what felt like a higher existence (it distinctly felt like I was looking up at the windows of a church from the inside), which quickly was followed by the recognition that I was about to disappear forever if I didn't stop it, and that is when I stood up and walked out on the porch just staring at the ground in disbelief while my ears were ringing and making ocean-like swishing-noises. Then I sat down and just felt like watching a movie, first A Scanner Darkly (freaked me out, thought I was going insane), and then Arrival.

@JayG84 I just did some very standard vipassana meditation (following the breath). I also had a nondual glimpse during my 3rd successful meditation (it made me get up in fear), and I think that was really what changed my baseline frequency of thoughts.

My dad has bipolar 1 disorder and I've taken 100-200 µg LSD 4 times, and I'm still fine 5 years later. However, back when I used to abuse weed and compulsively think about philosophy all the time, I slowly turned into this sort of semi-dysfunctional weirdo where I was a bit stuck inside my own mind, but I didn't really have any true symptoms of psychosis. Then I discovered meditation and my mind became silent