Carl-Richard

I want to be clear that I have done very little research and that I'm just mostly going on intuition. You should be aware that this is also true for most people on here who talk about SD and systems thinking, and I'm not saying that is necessarily a bad thing, but it's something to keep in mind. These things are afterall grounded in higher intuitional domains and not necessarily bound to any explicit concepts. I think Ken Wilber is my biggest influence if we discount Leo. Of course the mandatory philosophy curriculum in university also helps (Kuhn, Feyerbend, Lakatos etc.). If we're talking about people who don't often speak about systems thinking as a concept but still embodies it, then I would mention Daniel Schmachtenberger, Rupert Sheldrake, Terrence McKenna, Noam Chomsky, sometimes Eric Weinstein.

You did elaborate in your last comment so it's alright. I just saw a pattern based on my earlier observations of how it's easy to use terms like "systemic", "integration", "construct-aware" etc. without referring to anything specific that has any relevance to systems thinking.

Videos with most views and sponsors get promoted on the front page. Not so much non-hierarchal any more than individualistic: less restrictions on the individual but still only within the confines of a meritocratic framework.

At which point does this not just become empty talk?

Don't put yourself in challenging situations. He was obviously under a lot of stress that could've easily been avoided had he not gone to that rave.

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If you live close to California, I would assume that you have a good chance of finding a kundalini teacher nearby.

That is also a danger of ignoring your body's signals. For me, it also fueled my tendencies towards repressing emotions. I was able to numb out physical pain, and that made me more able to numb out emotional pain without processing it. The way I solved that was by doing crying meditation, which is essentially you just probing for tensions in the body (primarily gut area) and trying to provoke a discharge of stuck emotional energy. You do that by facing the emotion head-on and willfully feeling all of it in its fullest form. Releasing pent-up emotions is like pouring love into your body, and it leaves you in a much more peaceful and conscious state of being. The energy from other forms of meditation will only go to waste if you put it inside a broken body, and infact it can become detrimental to your functioning in many ways.

Sadhguru interviews Wim Hof. Name a more iconic duo.

Get a good office chair with arm rests and sit in that. The foot goes under your butt. I used to sit for hours while fighting back pain due to sub-optimal posture and/or sitting conditions, despite spending 30 minutes everyday stretching every muscle in my body, despite working out 4 times a week and never eating garbage. Then I gave up sitting in stupid places and just wanted to sit as relaxed as possible, and that shot my meditation habit to a completely another level.

@Preety_India I can't look at that guy's eyes. He's too scary ?

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If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you'll run into the fear of death/non-existence. That is simply what happens when your internal narrative shuts down. When that happens, it gives you an oppurtunity to surrender to it. What you usually do is avert your eyes from the fear and contract back into the small self, and this kickstarts the internal narrative again. But you'll also feel a contradictory feeling that pulls you in towards surrender. Identify that force and follow it, but this takes more courage and trust than you've ever had in your entire life.

I wouldn't know for sure, but I doubt it.

5-MeO-DMT will make your hairs fall out regardless, that's all I'm going to say

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velomobile My dad owns a couple of them and I've tried one many times. A bit of an inconvenience factor some places.

Then watch it and comment on it again.

Did he really come off as conservative in those clips?

There is a fine line between overindulgence and repression. Balance is key.

That's atleast the vibe that I get from the people who argue in support of the cartoons.

I believe activism that willfully provokes violence is completely ineffective and inappropriate from a pragmatic standpoint and it should only be deployed if there is no other alternative. You can be an advocate for free speech without being a troll, and you're never going to change the fundamentals of Islam with some cartoons. What are we really achieving? The cartoonists know perfectly well the consequences of their actions. The hypocritical attitude of "oh look how they're killing people for some ink on paper - we don't support that!" while at the same time gleefully causing more of that to happen only comes from a childish lack of perspective. You're not exercising free speech: you're exercising stupidity. It's like saying you're exercising your freedom of movement by walking off a cliff.

More awareness of relativity doesn't makes you worse at drawing distinctions. It makes you better at it. A schizophrenic is still "different" from a non-schizophrenic person in many ways. Even though everything is imaginary, there are still different degrees of imagination, different degrees of delusion. Are there problems that arise from labelling things as a "mental disorder"? Yes. However, prejudice and stigma dissolves as people evolve. The labels can be changed but the source of the prejudice will still remain.

"All you know about me is what I've sold ya, dumb fuck I sold out long before you'd ever even heard my name I sold my soul to make a record, dipshit And then you bought one" You don't have to be tall to be a badass

Then it has less to do about history and more to do about epistemology, don't you think?