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Steve Vai was heavily into spirituality when he made his magnum opus "Passion and Warfare", and his most popular song "For the Love of God" was recorded on the 4th day of his semiannual fast, a decision which arguably produced one of the most spectacular pieces of work on the guitar ever: "Steve Vai: How a 10-Day Fast Influenced Me While Recording 'For the Love of God'": https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/steve_vai_how_a_10-day_fast_influenced_me_while_recording_for_the_love_of_god.html

You can point out similarities, but I wouldn't ascribe some historical relationship or continuity between the two. I don't think emo/goth "lead to" incels, but they can be based on the same insecurities and needs either way.

Historically, hippies arrived before emos and goths, so no.

I haven't given Ralston a try yet haha. I have a tendency to go more in depth than in breadth

What you're talking about is survival. When the organism feels threatened by its environment, it starts building walls to protect itself, and it's based on fear (Trump's whole campaign summed up in one sentence). This is a natural response, and when the organism gets out of that environment, it will take work to unwind those old patterns. I also suffered with this for a long time (still do to some extent), essentially distancing myself from my emotions and not wanting to feel them, and that made me numb and unable to truly connect with people and things that I used to love. The way I started to untangle this problem was that I revamped my meditation habit. I started trying to provoke stuck emotional energies by focusing on a particular area in my body (primarily the stomach area) and trying to probe for tensions and "let go", cry, breathe, relax, forgive, surrender. Don't be afraid to feel vulnerable - welcome it, it's the point. After doing this for a while, things started to change for me, and I realized the thing that lies at the core of all that bodily tension; it's the impulse of survival, and ultimately the fear of death; the ultimate threat of the small self (the last "wall"). I still struggle with that one. The more you let go of tensions, the more you unwind these cyclical energy patterns, the more you let go of control, and the more you open up yourself up and get in touch with your emotional vulnerability again and your true authentic self. If your purpose is to seek what is true for you, try this simple practice.

The pendulum always swings back. That's such an universal rule. Who needs Newton?

Tbh, if we want some proof of concept (lol), the best pointer I've ever come across is "you're creating everything in your experience", and I've never heard that being said by anybody else than Leo, so

Been playing guitar for 10+ years and I've never felt like practicing. That's all.

@K Ghoul You have a fascination with dangerous men, I see

There are bad people in the world - big surprise. Does that de-legitimize what BLM and Antifa stands for?

You want to distinguish good from bad. God has no distinctions.

@arlin That isn't awareness.

LOL

Be careful not to equate all forms of transgression with stage red. Tier 1 in general can get very nasty at times.

Because it's death.

Firstly, there is not really a market for Datura anyway. Secondly, "krokodil" (desomorphine) isn't technically "worse" than any other opiate. The perception of krokodil being a type of corrosive venom stems from unclean and unprofessional synthesis practices, contamination and impurities, not the active compound itself. It's very easy to synthesize it from codeine at home (using a lot of toxic chemicals), and that's why you see so many side effects related to the drug.

Alcohol is more lethal than cocaine and same as methamphetamine if you measure the active/lethal dose ratio:

Alcohol is one of them.

The main premise of having a developmental model is that the stages are passed through in a predictable/chronological order. Therefore, you shouldn't be able to skip stages, but regression is another question. It may or may not be possible depending on the model.

Looks like a bunch of nothing tbh

You can make this argument for any drug really. People tend to do a lot of the drug once they have it, sure, but what about binge drinking? It's a staple of college culture. In the grand scheme of things, it's not a particular drug that kills you: it's a particular lifestyle. The people you see on the street aren't just doing one drug. They're multi-drug users, desperate, poor, broken, and not least malnourished (big factor in their health), and they will take anything they get their hands on; be it alcohol, heroin, coke, xanax etc.. If you listen to this man's life story (eloquent man), you'll get the point: That is an assumption, but it's also not really relevant. Believe it or not, many people do all kinds of drugs without getting addicted, ending up on the streets and dying before they're 30. Hamilton Morris has probably done more types of drugs than you even know existed, and he is still a highly functional human being: 1:07:00 Interesting talk about amphetamine vs methamphetamine (he has tried both). None of this is true. If you do one shot too much, you can enter a coma, stop breathing, or have a heart attack or seizure. The strongest poisons in the world are also found in fruits. The naturalist argument is not a strong one. Same with any other drug. That is why doctors can prescribe you things like morphine and amphetamine, even though you can overdose on those aswell.

Sure, atleast in some sense, many hippies are also conformist and conventional when it comes to mental structure, despite anti-establishment content. However, there are certainly different degrees of this, and also, young people are more susceptible to it. You should also take into account the SD lens to this matter. Hippies are stage green, and that stage is called the "post-conventional" stage for a reason. You're much more likely to find diversity of behaviour, thought and expression, odd pecularities and idiosyncrasies there compared to a group from a lower stage. Despite there being commonalities within the group, their mental structure is relatively more fluid compared to other groups. Concepts like being a free spirit, freethinker, free love are much more open to interpretation than say the puritanian "fuck the establishment" mentality of punk rock. All in all, structure vs content is an important distinction, but so is content vs content.