Carl-Richard

If you feel like you are a person making choices, moving this body, saying these words, writing these sentences, that you have a past or future, that you are not literally as much the chair you are looking at as the thing supposedly centered in this body, if you have not been trembling in the face of your own death and broken through to the other side, if you have not been crying in bliss and amazement at the fact that you are this thing that has existed forever and will never stop existing, chances are you are not there.

That's the problem: they don't. When you overly control everything, you make yourself weaker. You reduce the energy output during the exercise (this is a tautology: control is about holding yourself back. We can also go into the neuroscientific details of inhibitory signalling, etc.). You get less neurotransmitter recruitment, less hormonal recruitment, you feel like a sissy. Try horsing tremendous weight and compare how you feel then vs anally controlling some pencilneck weight. The results might be closely the same if you only care about hyperthrophy (which is also highly questionable, and in fact, I don't believe it, for the same reason I stated above). But if you care about how lifting makes you feel, not just during the session but days after (and the direct "side effects" like increased cognitive functioning), you should go for intensity as the number one goal. That is why I like sprints, because there is nothing else that makes me feel the same way. It's like cranking my veins full with nitroglycerin, like the real Limitless pill. Looking at the studies he and his buddy Jeff Nippard have been cooking up lately, the field of lifting-based exercise science for hyperthrophy is in its infancy. I would love for them to do a study comparing experienced lifters who train while maximizing for flow and intensity vs slow eccentric. And I'm not talking about just cranking weights like some lunatic who doesn't know what he is doing. I'm talking about intentionally and specifically trying to cultivate the state of flow, the state that is as far as I know the best predictor of performance in professional athletes.

I like to think I got the OCD from my mom's side and the hypomania from my dad's side.

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You know how when you see an ad on TV that you can always assume that any core feature you see is intentional because it has money and a lot of work behind it? Can we assume this here? 😆

I have a huge bone to pick with Mike Isratael. His "slow and controlled" approach to seemingly all exercises is seriously problematic and the way he arrives at that position could be an example of "epistemic scoundrelness" in my book. I think critics like Eric Bugenhagen who you could consider a meathead is much more on point about how you should generally approach lifting ("gusto", intensity, while keeping full range of motion). I think slow and controlled is best reserved for only some exercises or if you are working to fix muscle imbalances or recovering from an injury.

I'm not quite sure if I said that. What are you referring to?

@LordFall

Before reading: Close your eyes and take a few (e.g. three) deep breaths. Then sit with your eyes closed for 20 seconds while making yourself feel as relaxed as possible. Then do 2-3 minutes of staring at one point on your desk (e.g. the smallest detail you can pick out) and really focus all your attention on it. Then simply close your eyes again and rest for 20 seconds. During reading: Sit upright and relaxed (find a sitting style that makes your spine erect but not in an uncomfortable or laborious way; e.g. the way Sadhguru sits in most situations with one leg tucked under his bottom), breathe through your nose, avoid distractions and disturbances, be well-rested, generally do things that maximize or improve mental performance (adequate diet, exercise both for muscles and cardio, meditation habit, brain training habit). After reading: Do a quick mental recap of what you have learned while softly glancing at the pages you have read (maybe a few seconds per page).

Ok, thanks for reporting to us, mr. Easter egg filled with cream (☞ಠ_ಠ)☞

https://www.google.com/ In other words, trying to experience (directly) God, Consciousness, Non-duality, Oneness, Unity, Love. Mysticism, non-reactivity, ego transcendence, has existed for millennia, since Hinduism and before that. Meanwhile, Turquoise is a stage that supposedly evolved only a couple of decades ago. How do we square that? The 60s LSD hippie era is a perfect example of what I'm talking about, because despite being introduced to mysticism both culturally and supposedly experientially through psychedelic states, they had a (painfully) Green approach to addressing social problems, not Yellow, not Turquoise which is supposed to transcend and include Yellow. The Tim Learys and the Ram Dasses of that era weren't saying "how can we work with the elites, how can we make the elites understand the masses and the masses understand the elites?" but rather "how can we topple the establishment, how can we spread this message of non-conformance, of 'questioning authority', of 'turning on, tuning in, dropping out'", etc.

Q.E.D. Because conceptually (or at least a very common intepretation), it's an ill-conceived mixture of late Green and early Yellow ideas and non-dual/New Age mysticism. And similarly, this mixture (I believe) is reflected in its empirical foundation, because in the West (which all the people that Turquoise was based on were from), you tend to discover non-dual mysticism at around Green, because that is when you become more open to other perspectives than the standard line of (then) contemporary society, other cultures, and henceforth other cultures where mysticism has not been repressed for millennia (virtually exclusively those who harbor buddhism and hinduism). And for those intepretations that try to consequentially deny it having to do with mysticism, they seem not distinct enough from Yellow to warrant a distinct stage (e.g. "global view").

Keep going. Awakening is waking up from the dream, but you go back to sleep. Enlightenment is waking up and carrying it into the dream, being lucid in the dream, lucid dreaming. It's only a matter of repetition and eventually letting go of all control or agency.

Because of the idea that you can claim your allegiance with Jesus without being very explicit about what doctrine you need to follow and still be saved. It's fast food spirituality. It streamlines the process. You don't need to do much ground work, you don't need to prepare much of the ingredients, all you need to do is turn up the heat and out comes the food. You basically only need to open your mouth to the body of Christ.

ChatGPT, the pinnacle of sound epistemology.

If those are your motivations, never underestimate meditation. But of course, it depends on how obsessed you are.

I think I'm good at pretending that I am. But I care much less about pretending now than before.

What are you looking to get out of meditation? Because the more radical the orientation, the more radical the results. Here is a quote that I liked so much I saved it on my computer 5 years ago:

Describe Coral and how it differs from Turquoise.

The MBTI fanatics got banned 😝

Just curious, do you fancy yourself situated in Tier 2 in Spiral Dynamics?

In retrospect, the profanity was not needed, but the rest was. I'll apologize, but I think you should think about how it makes someone feel when you call them not manly for really no reason.

So essentially everything in your life is not wise, and it has nothing to do with gender in particular. Great.

Let me leave a reminder that making mega-threads about listing examples of bad things can be a provoker of epistemic scoundrelness and self-deception, as you create a habit of putting up walls between what you like and identify with (and think is you) vs what you don't like and don't think is you. When the "bad" constantly gets put into what is not you, you can become blind to that in yourself. And there should be a virtue (e.g. temperance, balance) that excessive judgement impacts clear judgement. Maybe a way to combat this is for each example you post, you also post something about yourself. If this mega-thread is indeed a practice meant to benefit you, maybe it could be helpful.