Do low consciousness activities decrease consciousness? Or have no effect.

[Husseinisdoingfine]

I remember a while back, Leo uploaded this blog.

https://www.actualized.org/insights/why-bernie-sanders-lost

In this blog video, he had rather provocative things to say about McDonald's customers. He said that McDonalds was not in a conspiracy to poison people, but the problem with McDonald's was that the customer base was of a certain level of (low) consciousness, that they would eat at McDonald's in the first place. 

Going to University, there is a noticeable youth culture of people indulging in pleasures and fun, which is why this question interests me. The more I experiment around, the more I can feel myself on autopilot levels of awareness, and thinking more like an animal. Looking out at the world in a selfish way, trying to gratify needs more pleasure. I have noticed myself at times getting lost in complacency, and without conscious thought, completely on autopilot, engaging in low consciousness behaviors. 

So, do low consciousness activities such as; sex, alcohol, tobacco, fast food, browsing shock websites (gore websites, 4chan, etc...), pornography, watch sports games, binging TikTok, arguing and fighting, hating people, watching trash tv, watching Fox News, watching Trump rallies,  etc... Do these have a negative effect on levels of consciousness, or no effect?

He a while back said that socialization "made people stupid".

 

[thenondualtankie]

You're kidding right

In your experience, is it true that such activities decrease your level of awareness?

[Princess Arabia]

This is what some form of knowledge does to people's minds. Comparison. Now we believe we're better than some, and have a higher consciousness level and others are stupid and practice stupid behaviors because their level of consciousness is lower. Now there's an inner conflict going on when we engage in worldly affairs. If we're meditating all day, practicing yoga and reading endless books about Spirituality and engaging with so-called highly conscious people we're better than those who aren't. 

Those foods are addictive and most people don't understand this and they keep indulging because it tastes good and the brain's chemistry is changing and all that jazz. It is best to not label activities as low or high consciousness because that is just further creating more division in the mind. I would suggests you just say, that's not for me and leave it at that, or i'd love to try that to see if I like it. You're driving yourself crazy and now you're observing things about yourself and judging yourself because of it. Those people in the Universities you're talking about are enjoying their painful life because that's what pleasure eventually leads to while you're also indulging in the activity of analyzing them and creating for yourself a painful experience by making comparisons, judging and critiquing them and yourself. It's a fucking loop. 

Leave things be, do what comes naturally to you, seek help with something you feel you need help with, watch your videos and educate yourself but try not to start playing detective because the mind will not leave you be and will torment you because it loves to engage in things that perpetuates the cycle to keep it's never-ending cycle going. At least try to focus on what you like to do and engage in that because you don't have to go looking for pain it will find you so why engaging in useless activities like watching what others are engaging in and labelling it low or high conscious. People will come around when they're ready and fire is an element at play on an energetic level at all times burning away what's not needed for the balance of unity and your mind and thoughts have nothing to do with that.

[seriousman24]

Yeah they are higher risk to engage in and need more precise timing to actually benefit from them and this is a fantasy but I believe the highest consciousness beings would indulge in these activities in such a mindful and intelligent way that they actually achieve an even higher level of consciousness by doing them than if they had done some other higher level activity, just like humans can use drugs for surgeries and medications and intentionally exert themselves to improve their fitness which is a risk only higher consciousness beings can do at least if we're kind equating intelligence and consciousness to be a 1:1 ratio which it isn't, but I'm gonna assume you already knew all of this I'm just indulging in mindless responses to defeat my agoraphobia.

[An young being]

It is not about lower consciousness or higher consciousness, it's about pleasure or bliss. Indulging in those activities you mentioned creates debt for you, in other words, pleasures on selfish grounds will come back in the form of pain one way or the other. They are not dependent on the activity themselves, but with what intention you perform it. For example, sex with a desire to satisfy your lust is different from sex with a desire to satisfy your partner or love or having a child.

[Razard86]

23 minutes ago, An young being said:

It is not about lower consciousness or higher consciousness, it's about pleasure or bliss. Indulging in those activities you mentioned creates debt for you, in other words, pleasures on selfish grounds will come back in the form of pain one way or the other. They are not dependent on the activity themselves, but with what intention you perform it. For example, sex with a desire to satisfy your lust is different from sex with a desire to satisfy your partner or love or having a child.

I'm glad you understand. I also can't believe they listed sex as a low conscious behavior. 

In spirituality low conscious behavior is just actions that are taken for selfish reasons. When we say selfish we mean in defense, and in the expansion of the individual identity. The only reason McDonald's is considered low conscious, is because McDonald's and the customers are unaware of the damage the food does to their body. If they could feel the damage as it was being done in the moment to their body they would never eat there.

So low consciousness just has to do with ignorance. God is a devil to itself and others due to ignorance. This is why if you do not pursue knowledge you just turn yourself into an ignorant fool and will harm yourself and others unknowingly. So low conscious behavior is just behavior that is not wise/lacks wisdom. 

[Chadders]

@Husseinisdoingfine I think there are certain activities that can numb your consciousness but it is all relative. With sex you can feel very connected with your partner as one so that doesn’t necessarily numb your consciousness unless you are doing this in a mechanical way with little connection and love. Scrolling on Tik Tok however might numb your consciousness  but it is all relative

Notice how you feel after these activities and judge accordingly. Do you feel good about it?  

[An young being]

1 hour ago, Razard86 said:

So low consciousness just has to do with ignorance.

True, people are not good or bad, they just fall deep into the illusions of pleasure and selfishness and hence unaware or ignorant where true unconditional bliss is present. Everyone knows it deep inside their heart, but they simply ignore it for egoistic pleasures.

Edited May 2 by An young being

[CoolDreamThanks]

12 hours ago, Husseinisdoingfine said:

The more I experiment around, the more I can feel myself on autopilot levels of awareness, and thinking more like an animal. Looking out at the world in a selfish way, trying to gratify needs more pleasure. I have noticed myself at times getting lost in complacency, and without conscious thought, completely on autopilot, engaging in low consciousness behaviors. 

So, do low consciousness activities such as; sex, alcohol, tobacco, fast food, browsing shock websites (gore websites, 4chan, etc...), pornography, watch sports games, binging TikTok, arguing and fighting, hating people, watching trash tv, watching Fox News, watching Trump rallies,  etc... Do these have a negative effect on levels of consciousness, or no effect

You answered it yourself, didnt you? You operate like an animal if you do the things you mentioned. if you surrender to the flow of the society, then you have no free will, you are bound by what society feeds you, and our society is psychotic.  
 

lived a very hedonistic, luxurious life-style and lived (living) a very simple one.  
 

it might seem that restricting your life to the utmost is imprisionment, but it turns out its the opposite, it liberates the soul. 
 

love living a very simple, conscious life and getting closer to Heaven everyday, instead of an animalistic existence.
 

[Husseinisdoingfine]

Low consciousness can also be done in a conscious manner, such as sex, and even smoking.