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Maybe it’s all the times in the club with loud music? I know for me that I would get ringing in my ears after being in a loud club, especially weeks after.

I like it. Postmodernism becomes its own self-deception when it denies objective truth exists. They can’t admit that there is a way reality is structured and certain points of view are more or less in alignment with truth and more or less with survival. Believing in God isn’t truth but it is in alignment with survival. Realizing God is in alignment with truth but may or may not be conducive to survival.

That’s interesting. I’m sure women think the same of men who watch porn.

It is not me who says which perspective is more or less valid. Go around telling people that you are the Messiah and see what happens. Go ahead and believe gravity doesn’t exist and see what happens when you can’t fly off a building. Claiming that objective cannot be discovered is itself an objective truth claim. I don’t claim all truths can be discovered, but there are some objective truths that can be such as the shape of the earth. I probably will never know whether you have 2 nipples or not.

This is exactly what a postmodernist would say and is the problem I’m talking about. Saying that it is just opinion is foolish. You can’t just make up whatever you want truth to be.

God is a social construct, but the Universe isn’t.

Hello. I think I am at a point where I am ready to start pursuing psychedelics. I have a friend that has access to psilocybin mushrooms. I would appreciate any general advice. I have stressed concerns in the past about worrying if fentanyl could be laced with mushrooms. I am going to see if I can buy some off of my friend. Any tips on what to do when I get them? Do I need to soak them in salt water or do anything when I buy them or do I just eat them raw as they come in the package? Do I need to store them in the refrigerator or my closet? How long do they last? I plan on getting a food scale and weighing 2 grams to start, and then my intention is to contemplate consciousness. I would appreciate any feedback. Also, I heard about growing mushrooms from spores. If anyone has any info on that, I would appreciate it. For context, I have never been drunk or high in my life. Never drank alcohol nor marijuana. Thanks.

That may be all well and good guys. But how do you deal with the fact that you still have to think high quality thoughts in order function in society and create something meaningful? If you don’t spend time contemplating, how are you gonna produce insight?

So is Covid then. I get that it’s still an inference, but it would be foolish to believe he doesn’t. Believing he does take a crap is more in alignment with logic and reality. 1. If Sadhguru eats, then he poops. 2. I’ve seen Sadhguru eat. 3. Therefore, Sadhguru poops.

There you go. That’s what I’m pointing to. Contemplation is a must. If all you are doing is quieting the mind, that is like wearing only one shoe to a marathon. Adventure, being active, and ambition are important values.

You already are in actuality. Quieting your mind does not equate with intelligence and understanding. If you want peace of mind, then quieting your mind is useful. But if you want deep understanding and make nuanced distinctions, then you need to use your mind.

I am coming from the perspective of having done meditation seriously since 2018 with the most I have ever sit was 5 hours in a day. But the issue is that you guys say meditate for an hour or so a day, and I am saying that it isn’t about how much time you spend in meditation but rather the quality of your consciousness and how deep you go now. I claim that quieting your mind only gets you so far. You need to contemplate!

We already are consciousness. You can’t just live life sitting on a cushion. You need to be active and ambitious. You have to contemplate and have a vision for the future while also appreciating the present moment. The only meditation practice I do is visualization/LoA. I would say contemplation is meditation, but the way meditation is talked about is the opposite of contemplation. Contemplation is about deeply thinking about reality whereas meditation is quieting the mind. Quieting the mind is good in moderation, but you have to use your mind.

I don’t think you guys are quite understanding what I’m trying to point to. If everything can be meditative, then why would you need to sit for 1 hour a day when you could go outside and garden or go for an hour run and have that same meditative state? That routine of meditating an hour a day becomes too much. If anything, 5-10 minutes of formal meditation is enough. Right now I’m on a serene walk through the woods. The issue is trying to define meditation as only one thing such as sitting down eyes closed and chanting. This is not meditative for everyone. I have too much curiosity and ambition to confine my mind with this practice of 5 hours a day. If you really want amazing results with meditation, you need to go at it all the way. Doing 5-10 minutes or an hour a day will only get you so far. It’s not a worthwhile investment for me to devote 5 hours a day and let only 1 hour.

He literally does in his book called meditation. He says meditation is simply being the witness to whatever you experience. He says you can meditate while driving, while running, while dancing, while hiking, while having sex, etc. What I’m arguing is that if everything can be a meditation, then why the Hell would you won’t to confine yourself to 10 years in a freaking room staring at a wall and chanting a mantra? Life is too short and there is a big world to explore. If you can meditate everywhere, then you would miss out on a lot of opportunities spending everyday in a room. Meditation seems like a prison to me that one confines themselves to. You don’t need to sit down for 1 hour with no thoughts. You might as well be dead by how some people practice with 5-10 hours of meditation a day.

Be honest though. If you won free tickets to go travel Europe or go on a 10 day Vipassana retreat in Costa Rica, I bet you’d pick the travel through Europe. If you can make everything a meditation, then there is absolutely no point in sitting in one place for 10 days. It’s a complete waste of time. I meditated for 5 hours straight and it was a waste of time. I can be more happy walking outside and running and more connected to being than doing some monotonous activity like closing my eyes and focusing on my breath and chanting a mantra.

I would agree. But you don’t have to sit with eyes closed with no thoughts to experience the truth of being. Since thoughts are part of reality, it would be a mistake to not use them to contemplate. Life is too short for me to sit all day with eyes closed. I’m a very active person and I think you can access truth by not meditating.

Good. I would agree. My issue is that people think that to meditate, you have to shut off and quiet the mind. This is not meditation but more like what cults use to indoctrinate. You have to be thinking in life if you want to be intelligent. Of course, it is good to balance that with quieting the mind. But you don’t have to sit cross legged and count your breaths to do that. I find that if I work out and go to the gym, I am more present than when I try to meditate. Counting my breaths and closing my eyes has never made me more blissful than walking in nature and contemplating the beauty of existence. If I had a choice between going to a 10 day Vipassana and 10 days in a national park. I will take the 10 days in a national park everytime. Life is too short to be sitting on your ass for 10 days. My point is why do that when you get more benefits doing something else.

I just added my definition of meditation above. Yes, but what is the purpose of distinguishing aversion and craving and not being attached to emotions? How does that add to increase your curiosity and gratitude?

Flat earthers would disagree and just say that you can sail around it in the same way that a disk spins on a track. The shape of the earth is an objective truth and not a subjective or relative truth. An objective truth just means that facts exist independent of your beliefs, culture, experience, consciousness, etc. whereas a subjective truth says that truth is a matter of personal preference. But we can clearly see that people can be wrong in their beliefs. The earth being round is objective because it is either round or it isn’t and it isn’t just a personal preference. We could even apply this to a good musician. Being a good musician isn’t just subjective. There are objective criteria that make someone a master or beginner. Of course, the lines can be blurred, but there are objective things that are pleasing to the human ear. If I say violins are pleasing to my ear but really aren’t, then I am wrong. If I say that Trump is a good philosopher and is smarter than Einstein, that would be demonstrably false. This isn’t just personal subjective preference. The nuance between subjective and objective truth is challenging and twisty.

But the 5 senses and thoughts are intertwined with awareness. There is nothing to be aware of without senses and thoughts. Also, I would say that contemplation is a higher-order faculty than pure awareness. Awareness only gets you to see things as they are. Contemplation gets you to see things as they are and how they could be. Without contemplation, without the intellect, you couldn’t have advised Bandman to not use his intellect. Do you see the paradox and strange loop there? You are using your intellect to tell us to not use our intellect.

That’s what I thought. It’s a part of consciousness like gravity, thought, and temperature are.

You assume time doesn’t exist. How exactly can change exist if time doesn’t? To be able to read this and respond back takes time. To argue that time doesn’t exist takes time for you to argue that. Notice that.

Who invented Hell? There’s your clue.

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