Bright Mind

[caspex]

I was performing Chandra Arghya(Offering water to the moon) yesterday as part of my full moon fast and I looked at the moon and thought of something.

The moon is associated with the mind. I looked at the moon and admired its beauty. It was bright and it gave me a thought. 

 

I noticed that my mind is usually enveloped in this veil of darkness compared to the rest of the world. This veil is only lifted during very vivid dreams but other than that it is always there. It dulls clarity. If this veil was somehow lifted then the mind would become as bright as the full moon. In fact, the vividness and detail of one's imagination should also increase substantially. 

Some people are better at visualizing things than others and it may be that the veil is much lighter for them in their subjective experience.

 

I am not really sure how to illuminate my mind but I do think it should result in faster thinking and actually a much more joyful existence. I am sure I am not the first to think about illuminating one's mind, therefore I want to ask you guys if you know anything about it and how one goes about doing it.

When I am in higher states of consciousness the veil is lifted is significantly but that's because I start to see everything as the mind rather than what we mean colloquially. I wanted to figure how to increase the brightness of this mind we talk about normally.

Edited 8 hours ago by caspex

[Eskilon]

6 minutes ago, caspex said:

I am not really sure how to illuminate my mind but I do think it should result in faster thinking and actually a much more joyful existence. I am sure I am not the first to think about illuminating one's mind, therefore I want to ask you guys if you know anything about it and how one goes about doing it.

When I am in higher states of consciousness the veil is lifted is significantly but that's because I start to see everything as the mind rather than what we mean colloquially. I wanted to figure how to increase the brightness of this mind we talk about normally.

Meditation.

Become more conscious and aware.

Edited 8 hours ago by Eskilon

[oOo]

Love

Keep moving forward

[Carl-Richard]

Maximizing meaning and purpose. It hyper-charges your brain with dopamine, it increases your IQ by several 10-points; and not willy-nilly like taking a drug — holy, sacred, crystalline dopamine which is embodied and aligned with a goal and purpose, which harmonizes with and uncovers the faultlines of true/higher reality.

Then you also have brain training techniques like N-Back training and image streaming (can only vouch for the former, haven't tried the latter). N-Back is good for extending short-term memory length and capacity and generally increasing working memory capacity, image streaming is purportedly very good for training imaginative ability, semantic connectivity and verbal fluency.

I worry if I try image streaming I might actually go insane. I don't think practicing random off-the-cuff associative thinking would be good for me (I think I already have more than enough but who knows), but working memory yes.

Edited 3 hours ago by Carl-Richard

[caspex]

8 hours ago, Eskilon said:

Meditation.

Become more conscious and aware.

I was hoping for something more specific. 

3 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

Maximizing meaning and purpose. It hyper-charges your brain with dopamine, it increases your IQ by several 10-points; and not willy-nilly like taking a drug — holy, sacred, crystalline dopamine which is embodied and aligned with a goal and purpose, which harmonizes with and uncovers the faultlines of true/higher reality.

Then you also have brain training techniques like N-Back training and image streaming (can only vouch for the former, haven't tried the latter). N-Back is good for extending short-term memory length and capacity and generally increasing working memory capacity, image streaming is purportedly very good for training imaginative ability, semantic connectivity and verbal fluency.

I worry if I try image streaming I might actually go insane. I don't think practicing random off-the-cuff associative thinking would be good for me (I think I already have more than enough but who knows), but working memory yes.

Meaning-maxxing it is then.

Never heard of image streaming before. Will definitely try it. I think I tried something similar once where I typed out everything I was thinking (fast typer here) and when I read it later it was like 3 pages of elite advice. Although I think image streaming is supposed to be messier rather than structured. 

N-Back is nice too though I got bored after Dual-4-Back because I thought it wasn't doing too much for me.

[caspex]

4 hours ago, oOo said:

Love

Keep moving forward

AI is crazy good now. I see no spelling mistakes.