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  2. I disagree with the forum

    Kid A replied to WonderSeeker's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    The price of not having likes. It's probably still a good thing though. Just look at Reddit: there's always some dry one-liner that's the top comment. I hate that. Speaking of humor: Was @Schizophonia banned? That guy was really funny imo.
  3. Hm, that's just playing with concepts, isn't it? If not, what am I missing? You point to being like wu-wei action? Actions that happens so easily and automatically that it doesn't require thinking or efforts?
  4. When you embody it, execution happens automatically as a function of being, not doing.
  5. Exactly. And becoming aware and actually executing on insights are two very different things.

  6. I disagree with the forum

    LastThursday replied to WonderSeeker's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    The flipside is that subjects like Solipsism, Free Will, Spiral Dynamics get discussed at all. Isn't it amazing that there's a bunch of people willing to talk about these niche abstract philosophical ideas on a public forum? Yes their definitions and usage get abused and misunderstood, I'm with you on that, but still.
  7. One of the biggest weakness of actualized.org goes back to the point about language and a lack of shared precise vocabulary and the lack of falsifiability. 1) When you have a bunch of vague undefined or ill-defined terms, sure you can dodge most criticisms that comes in your way because you can claim that they miss the target. However, even good faith and good critiques will almost necessarily miss and your work cant benefit from the antifragility that comes from receiving good faith, good quality critiques from multiple different perspectives and angles, because people dont know what and where the target actually is. This is why most academic arguments are much easier to undermine, because given how the arguments are structured, and given that there is a shared vocabulary the premises are easier to target and the inferences are easier to undermine - which is actually good in the sense that the easier it is to receive attacks the faster you can adjust your inferences and premises. 2) Some of your criticisms that you apply to science is applicable to your work as well, given how it is structured. Your work isn't really receptive to paradigm change and you rely on needing to provide ad-hoc reasoning to account for the data that goes against your work. You tell others to test the things you say, but when someone does that and ends up with a different conclusion than you, from that you never ever infer that something is wrong with your conclusions and you always only infer that something was wrong with the person or with their method. You are completely paradigm locked there, because there isn't any test that can be done in principle that would undermine your conclusions, because you can infinitely use ad-hoc reasoning to maintain your paradigm. Maybe there are arguments that can be given why falsifiability isn't a good approach or why it is a limited approach, but in that context it becomes unclear how your work is superior to any other work who uses the exact same methodology and reasoning as you and ends up with different conclusions than you. Like you can always ask this question "Why cant that other guy mirror your justification and response and with that justify his own unique conclusion"? I wish
  8. @Tboy You could always terminate your retreat and get back to home, couldn't you? If it becomes unbearable. Do you usually get trauma surfacing when you meditate for long hours? Also, what exactly do you do during your "satisfaction" meditation? What's the technique?

  9. I disagree with the forum

    LastThursday replied to WonderSeeker's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    I used to be sad about the lack of it here. But I've changed my mind about it. It's hard to convey humour in text and very easy to be misunderstood. One person's humour is another person's offence. Some humour can get misundertood as trolling, even if it isn't. What one person finds funny might be seen as childish by another. British humour is not American humour. And on and on. I inject a bit of humour from time to time, because I enjoy it, but I try and keep it to a minimum, and not get too upset if people don't pick up on it.
  10. What kind of meditation at the retreats? Ya, rumination type meditations can often be unhealthy. Mindfulness and transcendental meditation should have a cleansing effect.

  11. Please answer this Poll

    Jannes replied to Jannes's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Still figuring that out, I just thought the date would be very important for something. It definitely helps as a self reflection of what type of people are on the forum and are into consciousness work.
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  13. Finished the LP course

    Jannes replied to Jannes's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    Well, I am just hungry in the morning, so RV first doesnt seem like a good idea. Or I could train myself to do it first. .. I was still pretty emotionally invested from yesterday, so I couldnt fully relax into the session but it went better then expected. I am just much more conscious and in the moment I notice. Its not as painful to not be distracted anymore. Although I still have a long way to go.
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  15. Everything you know you already know but you are not aware of it.
  16. Today
  17. Well said. And the more you focus on how others are the problem, the bigger part of the problem you become.

  18. What are your hobbies?

    Oppositionless replied to Ampresus's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    I do a lot of spiritual practices but some of them are closer to hobbies than others . Like tai chi and yoga. Duolingo, smash bros.

  19. Looksmaxing is Legit

    caspex replied to AtmanIsBrahman's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Yeah it's true. Spirituality is not about shunning survival. It's about seeing through it's games, and still taking part in it anyways. The advantage over typical looksmaxxers for some awakened person would be that they don't feel insecure. Looksmaxxing is great for survival. The problem really starts when no matter how much you try, you cannot find yourself beautiful enough to love yourself. Your happiness is more important than your looks, and if you're happiness depends on your looks you need a lot of growing to do. Most looksmaxxers confuse looks with happiness. Looksmaxxing in the most healthy sense can only be achieved when you don't mind being ugly. Paradoxical, this is why nobody does it that way.

  20. What are your hobbies?

    Alexop replied to Ampresus's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Pair Dancing, climbing, running, archery, fixing technical shit.
  21. I am on my path to achieving Self-Mastery. But I just can't for the life of me figure out how to actually achieve discipline. I believe discipline to be some function of consistency, persistence and doing things imperfectly. I have been sitting for a few hours, can't get in a few hours of study. Some days I get in 8+ hours, and other days I cannot manage even a single one. I believe that Discipline on the outside should look like, for me, getting in 8+ hours of study everyday for at least a month or so (that's what I require to achieve my goal). At first, not being able to achieve this consistency, I went through a lot of emotional labor, but it only grew me more resilient to my own guilt. All the emotional nights didn't actually improve my discipline. I don't think, at this point, it's about 'caring' about your goal. I care a lot, but all that does is make me cry myself at night to witness my incompetency. I have now grown more emotionally mature, my failures and incompetency doesn't discourage me. Which is good for discipline, but I feel I still lack something, which is why I cannot get that consistency. I believe some part of self-mastery to be able to act despite your emotions. I am so far from that. If I could act and if i could focus despite my emotions, I should've been able to get those consistency hours in. Despite all the stake in the world, and I have tried putting in high stakes and pressure on my self, and I have also tried a very relaxing approach with little to no stakes at all, I cannot achieve that Discipline. What am I doing wrong?
  22. What do you mean by this?

  23. I disagree with the forum

    Ramasta9 replied to WonderSeeker's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Hehehe I guess but there are others for a reason the play of pretend @Natasha Tori Maru Well said as always, its hard to disagree with you
  24. @LastThursday I had this funny moment two years ago. I had an Ayahuasca ceremony and in the evening I was lying in my bed. I was not in the peak high but almost sober again, just the afterglow. I felt very much aware, calm state, my thoughts very clear, orderly and sharp. I was pondering this and that, some insights about me and the world that came to me during the last 24h. And then it suddenly hit me. "I have been here before". I don't mean in sense of reincarnation, but in a sense of "I had all this clarity, and insights, and epiphanies before." Most of it I wasn't new, I just forgot. Some insights I lived, others I didn't. No matter how clear they seemed to me in whatever state. And now, when I see myself or others proclaim big insights, I typically treat it with a certain scepticism until I see the action in real life.
  25. Cool, thanks for sharing

  26. What are your hobbies?

    Nemra replied to Ampresus's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    About two weeks. Its effects have started to get worse, so I quit. And I get addicted very easily to coffee. I just had to sleep early so that I wouldn't need coffee the next day.

  27. What are your hobbies?

    Basman replied to Ampresus's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    The overlap between people who watch gore and having a mental illness is pretty high, you have to admit. That shit is not far off from being self-harm. Those sights will never leave you.
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