Nak Khid

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  1. do you have any mental health issues?
  2. Some say the universe is Mathematics others say the universe is Love they pick what they want , what they like but they are both wrong the universe is the universe
  3. @hoherbasti start by helping the world in a small way , choose anything starting is what counts and only by doing that will you be shown the next step
  4. What good is it if you can't do anything with it other than talk about it? They say Jesus walked the walk
  5. Ans here's yet another such comment made just yesterday So God imagines an infinite number of living beings being killed and that that is love made manifest. I don't regard ideas like this as spiritual. They are in another category altogether using spiritual terminology is the only thing spiritual about it.
  6. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/275795.php Medical News Today What is the link between love and oxytocin? Oxytocin is a hormone and a neurotransmitter that is involved in childbirth and breast-feeding. It is also associated with empathy, trust, sexual activity, and relationship-building. It is sometimes referred to as the "love hormone," because levels of oxytocin increase during hugging and orgasm. It may also have benefits as a treatment for a number of conditions, including depression, anxiety, and intestinal problems. Oxytocin is produced in the hypothalamus, a part of the brain. Females usually have higher levelsTrusted Source than males. Fast facts on oxytocin Here are some key points about oxytocin. More detail is in the main article. Oxytocin is produced in the hypothalamus and released during sex, childbirth, and lactation to aid reproductive functions. It has physical and psychological effects, including influencing social behavior and emotion. Oxytocin is prescribed as a drug for obstetric and gynecological reasons and can help in childbirth. Research shows that it may benefit people with an autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), anxiety, and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). What is oxytocin? Oxytocin is a neurotransmitter and a hormone that is produced inTrusted Source the hypothalamus. From there, it is transported to and secreted by the pituitary gland, at the base of the brain. It plays a roleTrusted Source in the female reproductive functions, from sexual activity to childbirth and breast feeding. Stimulation of the nipples triggers its release. During labor, oxytocin increases uterine motility, causing contractions in the muscles of the uterus, or womb. As the cervix and vagina start to widen for labor, oxytocin is released. This widening increases as further contractions occur. Oxytocin also has social functions. It impactsTrusted Source bonding behavior, the creation of group memories, social recognition, and other social functions. Oxytocin as a drug Oxytocin is used as a prescription drug under the brand name Pitocin. Under medical supervision, an oxytocin injection is sometimes used to start birth contractions or strengthen them during labor, and it helps reduce bleeding after delivery. Side effects include a rapid heartbeat and unusual bleeding. If too much oxytocin is delivered too rapidly, it can lead to a rupture of the uterus. Oxytocin can also be given to make the uterus contract and control bleeding after a delivery or a termination. It can be usedTrusted Source medically to induce a termination or complete a miscarriage. The love hormone? In 2012, researchers reportedTrusted Source that people in the first stages of romantic attachment had higher levels of oxytocin, compared with non-attached single people. These levels persisted for at least 6 months. Sexual activity has been found to stimulate the release of oxytocin, and it appears to have a role in erection and orgasm. The reason for this is not fully understood, but, in women, it may be that the increased uterine motility may help sperm to reach their destination. Some have proposed a correlation between the concentration of oxytocin and the intensity of orgasm. Oxytocin and emotion When oxytocin enters the bloodstream, it affects the uterus and lactation, but when it is released into certain parts of the brain, it can impact emotional, cognitive, and social behaviors. One review of research into oxytocin states that the hormone's impact on "pro-social behaviors" and emotional responses contributes to relaxation, trust, and psychological stability. Brain oxytocin also appears to reduce stress responses, including anxiety. These effects have been seen in a number of species. The hormone has been described asTrusted Source "an important component of a complex neurochemical system that allows the body to adapt to highly emotive situations." Is it that simple? In 2006, investigators reportedTrusted Source finding higher levels of oxytocin and cortisol among women who had "gaps in their social relationships" and more negative relations with their primary partner. The participants were all receiving hormone therapy (HT) following menopause. Animal studies have found high levels of both stress and oxytocin in voles that were separated from other voles. However, when the voles were given doses of oxytocin, their levels of anxiety, cardiac stress, and depression fell, suggesting that stress increases internal production of the hormone, while externally supplied doses can help reduce stress. Clearly, the action of oxytocin is not straightforward. A review published in 2013 cautionsTrusted Source that oxytocin is likely to have general rather than specific effects, and that oxytocin alone is unlikely to affect "complex, high-order mental processes that are specific to social cognition." The authors also point out that a willingness to collaborate is likely to be driven by anxiety in the first place. Nevertheless, oxytocin does appear to be associated with social behavior, including maternal care, bonding between couples, sexual behavior, social memory, and trust. Behavioral effects Delivering oxytocin through a nasal spray has allowed researchers to observe its effects on behavior. In 2011, research published in Psychopharmacology foundTrusted Source that intranasal oxytocin improved self-perception in social situations and increased personality traits such as warmth, trust, altruism, and openness. In 2013, a study published in PNAS suggested that oxytocin may help keep men faithful to their partners, by activating the reward centers in the brain. In 2014, researchers published findings in the journal Emotion suggestingTrusted Source that people saw facial expression of emotions in others more intensely after receiving oxytocin through a nasal spray. Psychiatric therapy Oxytocin has been proposed as a possible treatment for social phobia, autism, and postpartum depression. Scientists have proposed that it might help improve interpersonal and individual wellbeing, and that it could have applications for people with some neuropsychiatric disorders. They believe it could help people who avoid social interaction, and those who experience persistent fear and an inability to trust others. Children with autism could benefit from oxytocin, say some researchers. In 2013, a small study suggested that oxytocin levels in the brain affected how 17 children perceived a series of social and non-social images. Oxytocin may also play a role in anger management. Research has indicated that certain polymorphisms of the oxytocin receptor (OXTR) gene are associated with an increased tendency to react angrily to situations. In particular, differences in OXTR gene expression appear toTrusted Source affect the regulation of the relationship between alcohol and aggressive behavior. Uses Oxytocin appears to increase the release of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) in cells lining the intestine. This helps to encourage the repair of intestinal injury and to protect against such injury. If this is confirmed, oxytocin could beTrusted Source a useful therapy for preventing chemo-radiotherapy-induced intestine injury, and it could be used to treat irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
  7. Does alcohol cause drunkenness?
  8. No, that is not logical. A things's reality is not determined by whether or not somebody loves it intently What you are right about is that love involves being attentive to something. One is not continually attentive to one thing. And when that attention is drawn to another stimulus or interrupted by sleep we realize that everything is not love, the intoxicant wears off. What if everything was love wouldn't that be wonderful? It might be. But it isn't. There is also suffering in the world. And that is why love is needed. Wouldn't it be wonderful if when could just eat constantly but never get fat and never be limited by the capacity of our stomach? Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could take a drug that made us feel like we were in a state love and we could just take a pill, one after the other and exist in an unbroken state of love with no interruptions? That might be wonderful. Or horrifically monotonous. Fantasies and promises
  9. A chemical, which is material, can be taken into a person's bloodstream and cause a psychedelic experience. So what do you mean by "explanation" other than that?
  10. From my opening post You left these other things out form what I said in my opening post Love like all feelings comes and goes like the tide. People who are deeply in love and devoted adn commuted to each other but they are not feeling that love 24 hours a day and to attempt to do so, though impossible would be excessive and smothering. They encounter other people and situations they are not feeling love constantly. There are other emotions in this world. And let us not pretend that love is all there is to try to make it fit into this idea we may have of nonduality. Streams are not infinite. The have a time when they are formed and a time when they dry up. Any feeling is part of duality, fear, anger, love, sadness, joy, tranquility, excitement They don't have to be paired as duos of opposites. Every word and thought spoken here is separation. That we need to survive and communicate with each other right here and now. yes, it is an action, these variations yes, and one can even love ice cream. but is a hand grenade love? Is an electron love, is a shoe love? Is a cute puppy love? No, things aren't love. Love is a feeling and energy if you like from one being to another. It rises and falls, like the ocean. Things die. Others new born.
  11. I don't normally talk about rape an murder but I hear these things frequently being brought up in addition to Hitler. These thing are brought up in the context of "infinite love" "God" "Police brutality is love" . These types of things are frequently brought up to try to suggest this is some kind of "higher" beyond human love Somebody might love to murder. But murder is not love and love is not everything and it's not a substance. It's a feeling.
  12. There is nothing wrong with looking for love. If everything was love there would be no looking. But since it's not everything we look. The way to find it is to love somebody first.
  13. That's a good question. Why would an Infinite Intelligence create a world with murder, torture and painful disease? Why wouldn't he create a world where everybody loved one another and people would never suffer painful debilitating diseases and animals would not hunt down and tear each other apart for food? Do you think by calling these things "love" such a God did not create a world that has much joy and also much suffering? If you looked out your window and saw someone being raped or a child being severely beaten might you call the police or would you sit there and not do anything and call it "love" ? That type of love is not love. It is excuse to not to care
  14. Anybody who says they know what happens after death doesn't knows what happens after death. They are simply making it up
  15. Somebody considering suicide might be inspired to do it in reading this. but do you care? And you are saying this but retreated from it yourself in your Outrageous Experiments video where you were virtually crying in part of it. You didn't go through with the death experiment so why are you encouraging others to? Would it be fascinating to watch someone else do it? That's love?
  16. when you put certain chemicals into your bloodstream it alters the chemistry of the brain that controls the senses and perception
  17. a formless quality is a formless quality not love If I imagined loving something, loving something is a feeling. Therefore doing so would not lead to the idea that it is not a feeling. Also if I loved something I would not always allow it to be exactly as it is. If it was going to harm itself or others I might try to stop it . Love is not accepting everything. That is apathy pretending to be love Again you are talking about a behavior "accepting" and what you are saying here about accepting rape and murder is very wrong. Accepting raping and murder is not loving. This is the danger I am talking about that occurs when nonduality is divorced from it's traditional and then when further confusion is added by attempting altering to change the meaning of the word love. Love is a simple thing available to us all in it's higher and lower forms. It is not an obscure intellectual concept only available to a few in some kind of rare solitary altered state that only certain people can understand .
  18. I would not call visualizing love upon everything thoughtless. That is concentration mediation the trap is perfectionism.
  19. or is this another grandiose fairy tale leading to narcissistic delusion ?
  20. This is an interesting essay and I recommend everybody read it at the above link because it brings up many points of view. Traditional oneness traditions (nondualism) or monism do not say love is all that exists. It seems the thinking is this, there is no separation all is one and since this is the case we get to choose what we want it to be so we choose "love". And then we see in the essay once this is done other thinkers come in and may then start redefining love as they want it do be and the Course in Miracles version is described in another essay on love: https://circleofa.org/library/what-is-the-meaning-of-love/ The Course in Miracles does not use the term nondualism but some say it has an aspect, a Christianized one, resembling nondualist concept. ___________________________________________________________________________ "love" is not the oneness described in Advaita Vedanta or Buddhist nonduality THE NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH (Buddhism) 1. Right understanding (Samma ditthi) 2. Right thought (Samma sankappa) 3. Right speech (Samma vaca) 4. Right action (Samma kammanta) 5. Right livelihood (Samma ajiva) 6. Right effort (Samma vayama) 7. Right mindfulness (Samma sati) 8. Right concentration (Samma samadhi) Although Buddhists advocate right action which is moral, honorable, and peaceful conduct, they prefer not to advocate love and instead compassion because love can include love of power, food, money, sex, etc, attachments and desires they believe lead to suffering (although some might not deny or advocate certain forms of love) However they don't say that this feeling compassion is all that exists. Bhakti yoga is more focused on love. Bhakti yoga is focused on loving devotion towards a personal god. The Sanskrit word bhakti is derived from the root bhaj, which means "divide, share, partake, participate, to belong to". The word also means "attachment, devotion to, fondness for, homage, faith or love, worship, piety to something as a spiritual, religious principle or means of salvation". According to Samrat Kumar, bhakti yoga is an Indian tradition of "divine love mysticism", a spiritual path "synonymous for an intimate understanding of oneness and harmony of the eternal individual with the Divine (the universal Being) and all creatures, a constant delight" Neither the Course in Miracles with it's LOVE IS A LAW WITHOUT AN OPPOSITE not Bhakti yoga teach that rape and murder are love. from the essay at top People who say everything is love often will say rape and murder are love, everything is included. some will articulate this a neutrality. I think rape and murder are not love. Love is a feeling. You can love to murder people but that doesn't mean love is murder. Love is an affection, preference or devotion to something. It is not the object itself. And if you claim to love everything, you love eating shit, you love torturing animals. That still does not mean love are those things. And there is a word for neutrality, it's neutrality. Neutrality is not love, love is not everything and love comes and goes it is not infinite. You can maintain a belief in oneness of all things (and I prefer this to nonduality which is a negative term) but that does not mean the oneness is love. What you have done is decided the oneness have a particular character love. So what's wrong with advocating love? Why knock that? Isn't it a wonderful thing? No, it can be hideous if love evil things. And it's worse if the word stripped of it's natural meaning by saying everything is love, evil is love, hate is love, police brutality is love, racks are love, puke is love etc. That to me is spiritual violence. It takes a word which in it's highest form is caring and helping each other and living things and then say it includes everything including evil and harming people and then tries to hide behind being pro-love in saying everything is love. It is not being pro-love. It is a false empty love, a facade The traditions that nondualism comes from have ethical codes and these ethical codes are part of how their version of nondualism is realized. If you take that away it can potentially become very dangerous, where everything is accepted and some things should not be accepted.
  21. yes fill in the blank with anything __________________________is infinite love that's cute but there are words for that. "part of everything" . Calling it "infinite love" sounds like something a 13 year old girl would come up with in her fantasy journal. Fill in the blank, shit is infinite love, hate is infinite love, a dirty sock is infinite love, Donald Trump is infinite love, a puppy is infinite love, a person dying with COVID-19 is infinite love, picking one's nose is infinite love Could a concept be more useless? You came up with a new word for "everything" or "oneness" . There is nothing new there just repackaging I hope you grow out of this. Maybe in 2 years it will be so worn out you'll switch to something else. I don't want love to be everything. There comes a point when a bloated surplus of love makes you puke I don't want to be loved 30 days a month. Throw in one neglect day, one pissed off day. The nature of reality is constant change not a fifty ton slab of love. I suppose the whole saying "love" every 5 minutes is a good tool for being annoying. That I will credit. It's a tool, a hand buzzer
  22. I am not advocating this or saying this is the wrong thing to do but are you using medications for bipolar and psychotherapy (don't answer if too personal).