Shadowraix

Possibly. You can map 3d movement on 2d and similarly map 4d on 3d. Quaternions are concepts that have many purposes in computing like rotation and they are 4d in nature. I know a video that explains quaternions and builds up from the perspective of 1d creature visualizing 2d then 2d to 3d and so on if you would like to watch it. I'm talking strictly spatial dimensions. 4th dimension as time is a non spatial concept. It's temporal.

Sounds like you are over thinking it. Before enlightenment chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment chop wood, carry water. You can break out of cultural indoctrination great. Now your motive can be centered around what you want to do instead of what they want you to do. If you don't understand reality then that's great! Because you never will in its entirety. At least as an ego. Learn to accept that you won't. There's nothing to ground to. You have this experience you are living. Do what you want with it. Make a map of your desires and decide how you want to solve it. But in the end reality does you so release control.

The Kyballion would probably be a good read for you. It too discusses the principle of gender as you describe it.

Reputation is beneficial but to have it at the top priority list is setting yourself up for failure and suffering. Do some hard inquiry about values and why you feel like you need a good reputation. There is likely something much deeper that you are trying to compensate for.

@Alex bAlex Consider judgment as someone following rules and refuses to break or change them. Consider opinion as someone deciding what they want to wear that day. I'm pointing out the assertion of concrete vs malleable.

They aren't lesser beings. Ego is what causes the perception of that. Plenty of spiritual people think they got it figured out cling and demonize those who aren't on the same path. There is no right path. Wrong is relative. The only reason to find truth is because you want to.

Depends on the music and its impact on you. Some genres can help me sit back and just be in the present. I feel more than I think.

Depends on the lens you are looking through.

Answer to that is simple. You do what you want to do. Live how you want to live. With meaninglessness you could say why bother but you could also say why not. That's the beauty of it.

Everybody else pretty much nailed it but man that stuff happens all the time. I've had drunk friends cry on my leg about their home life. I've had drunk friends stumble around and me have to carry them half naked to the bathroom. I've been the drunk friend that passes out and vomits on the floor as people try to make sure I don't choke then gets carried to a bathtub. I've been that drunk friend that vomits all over the couch. Anybody with experience with alcohol will probably have been on both sides like I have. And that's why it is no problem. Because all of us understand. And through that you look out for one another. Yeah you'll get a few prods over your funny drunk stories but you aren't the first or the last who will have such memorable nights.

Sounds like you should be having sex less instead of trying to give into your desire everytime it appears. Be content with just being horny. Or else you'll become a slave to your sex drive. Sounds like you have some kind of victim or pessimist complex since you jump to degrading yourself when she doesn't want sex.

Go deeper than that.

I've had similar scares of the ego when on intense doses of psychedelics. Even just a taste of dmt instilled fear into the ego because it was on the brink of death. The growth by overcoming those fears is kind of like a reward don't you think?

Spiritual and empathetic aren't binary values. It is a whole journey of progression. You can preach for or against meat all you want it doesn't mean shit until your desires reflect it else you are just playing the relative morality game. People like to show empathy for the causes they like but never for the things they don't like. Lab meat seems like a win win for everyone though no?

Bad example. Comparing apples to oranges. That's because those substances alter the natural balance of the mind. Food is meant to maintain balance as fuel.

Leo has a video on should / should not statements. This helped me because ultimately my judgment came from resistance to reality not aligning to my idealistic fantasy of reality. Go find that video or just stop making should statements. As those come from resistance to what is.

From what I see is these groups take legitimate issues and it ends up radicalized twisted and corrupted because they identify and obsess with it so anything in disagreement makes you a personal enemy and attacker of their 'good cause' Then you can't even have a discussion about those legit issues because the anti sides of those groups assume you are talking about the radicalized form of it. Take the Gillette ad. Toxic masculinity I acknowledge as a thing but radical feminist groups has spun it off to be all of masculinity so people assume Gillette is appealing to this version of it and hate it. I treated it as a shoe fits thing. It's really a huge game of labels and wording. Today we use the same words to point to very nuanced things and I the communication failing more and more. Or we can't have a female in anything without an assumption it's sjw appealing. And a lot of times it's nothing but a cosmetic change.

This. What I see in a lot of people is the wound is stitched ready to start healing then they do something and it rips the stitches out so it bleeds then rinse and repeat.

What is suffering? Is it the pain itself or the perception of pain? Can it be modified? I got a glimpse of pain perceptions when as a kid I discovered I could use mind to raise my pain tolerance. Now imagine what a highly disciplined monk could do!

Come a long way in what you've posted ever since your irresponsible psychedelic one. Much love.

I spent a long time running away from paradox only to be forced to learn to embrace it when it knocked at the door.

@alankrillin Hair is dead. The follicles in the head are what is alive. You don't touch the follicles when you cut you'd hair.

http://www.kriyayogainfo.net/Eng_Downloads1.html This book gets passed around and mentioned online a lot with the book mentioned in the title. On top of that it is free.

Absolute and relative truth. Kyballion is a great read for this. Follow your desires & Intuition. Thats the only justification you need to do something. You'll be led to veganism if its meant for you and when it is. Don't be inauthentic about it. No its just a limited perspective. People can switch between relative and absolute viewpoints but it takes time to integrate them both into a more holistic viewpoint.

This is all hear and no direct experience, but I didn't really think much of wheat until my grandparents who came to visit me just was talking to me and mentioned how their life improved by removing wheat from their diet. They had read a lot against it and after extensive testing they saw good results. They appear very healthy and full of life so I listened as it seems they embody what they preach with health. Surely there is an alternative for whatever they think wholewheat is giving you that is benefiting you to let you experiment, You are gonna have to try it for yourself and see how your body reacts.