Carl-Richard

I once bought a juice when I forgot my fruit at the gym. I literally got a headache, so that's accurate. Maybe pasteurized doesn't compare to fresh (but I guess you would put that under orthorexia as well 🫢). Maybe if you smoke cigarettes and don't do regular exercise, orange juice vs kiwi, water vs whiskey, doesn't make much of a difference 😉 If I eat tons of flour-containing foods and no fruits or vegetables, I get digestion issues, headaches and brain fog.

"In my room alone". Does that sound like doing something? On a day to day basis (not while on vacation), are you working with something? Working towards something? Are you called on? Do people depend on you to show up?

Are sharp post-prandial glucose spikes better or worse than elongated ones? Says the guy who uses the word "nixtamalization" 🙈🙈🙈 I honestly think you're not grounded in reality or using concepts in an incredibly autistic way if you can say with a straight face "food doesn't determine energy status". I used to have problems with digestion, fatigue, headaches, irritable bowel, nausea, energy fluctuations. When I made changes in my diet, the problems disappeared. Maybe that's not a problem for you, but it's perfectly possible to live with these things in denial that food can be the cause.

My field, mindfulness meditation.

It deals with notions like "excessive".

If you're doing nothing in particular, of course you will feel disconnected and lost.

Self-fund research.

You're treating fiber reductionistically like it's this one ingredient in a recipe, like one Lego brick in the Lego tower. No, it literally changes how the nutrients in the food are absorbed. And it's not just about the fiber, it's about the fruit as a whole. In the kiwi, all the nutrients are in a matrix of a living organism. In the orange juice, you've extracted the liquid from that matrix. Merely the geometry of the fruit alone, as a whole (on its surface) and in its holarchical structure, probably has a huge impact on how it's digested. And we don't have to mention the impact of chewing something before you swallow it. Imagine putting a human in a fruit press, extracting the juices (mostly blood and other bodily fluids) and discarding the "pulp", and saying "the rest is just fiber — tissue and bone — no big deal". Again with this hyper-reductionistic thinking.

It also depends on how much of that ego was repressed and if the awakening itself lead to a reaction that caused repression (which is in fact likely). To uncover repression requires actually digging into what your ego is doing, what is its fears, its desires, its insecurities, and allowing them to come to the surface and meeting them with compassion. Which is something you can do in meditation or in therapy.

Feelings of hollowness and emptiness after awakenings are common. But it's one thing to react to that egoically and another to accept it and keep moving forward.

Brain rewires by changing behavior. What are you currently doing on a day to day basis?

Spirituality is the finger trying to point at itself. And when a spiritual teacher points, they are really just giving you the finger. — if Eric Weinstein was into spirituality.

Second most affluent part of the second biggest city in Norway. Yes.

I'll also add that after having observed my friend group that I used to smoke weed with 6-7 years ago from a sober point of view many times (while they were high and sometimes when not), I'm struck by the level of impulsivity in conversation (seemingly not thinking much before you speak, talking over each other), short attention span (jumping from topic to topic, rarely building much on what somebody else has said), and maybe consequentially the lack of depth and coherence in the conversation, and also just the lack of precision and carefulness. I'm avoiding perjoratives, but juvenile and immature obviously comes to mind.

Wh-what? I swear I just yesterday read a bit of your old thread from 2022. And now I saw this thread. What a synchronicity. Or coincidence? Conscilience? Escaping a cult is an invaluable lesson in epistemology, the nature of beliefs and self-deception. Speaking from experience 🙂 (and out of respect for the topic, I'm not going to vaguepost about it: I was in Rali's spiritual community from 2017-2018).

Posting this one here as well: "Marihuana is the drug of illusion". Maya-uana 😆

Having something to live for (meaning) and believing things can get better (growth mindset). Suicidality is tightly correlated with hopelessness. Hopelessness is a pattern of thinking that can be challenged.

F**k. I tried to find something Schizophonia-esque to say, but I guess that works.

😂 And while we're at it, we should have regular hearings for new forum guidelines and slap a judicial branch on top of all of it too 🙈

That was not the important question I wanted you to answer: have you tried therapy? Trying to solve a problem of your mind from inside your mind when the problem affects your mind, do you see how that can be difficult? You're like in a room full of mirrors and trying to find the exit. Sometimes all it takes is someone to guide you out. Going to therapy is the ultimate expression of context & construct awareness, awareness of self-deception mechanisms and epistemic humility. It shows that you accept that you don't know everything and that other people might see things you cannot see (and they definitely do).

You will be reborn and have to deal with women again, so I suggest get used to it. But seriously, have you tried therapy? Have you only tried solving your issues on your own?

Try eating a vegan diet vs an omnivore one... oh wait.

Try eating a kiwi (with skin) for breakfast instead of having a glass of orange juice and see what feels better.

That doesn't matter when the gut literally has its own nervous system which communicates with the brain.

I know all about it and I also thought NAL had a quirky definition. Nevertheless, when I took large doses of strong antibiotics to treat a scalp infection (and I was otherwise feeling well, no fever or anything), I didn't feel like myself. Nuking something that lives in your gut and communicates with your brain, either with antibiotics or severe lack of fiber, not a good idea.