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For sure, I still need to recontextualize a lot of stuff. Eager to do so.

I have to add something that I've missing. A lot of spirituality will terrorize the ego in many ways. And that is not necesarily a mistake, but a requisite for grow. Like it can feel you're going insane. But diamonds are created through insane pression. I still want to diferentiate from full blown psychosis because you can't come out of that one without medications commonly.

If only they realized that mysticism would make them more intelligent.

Good spirituality (as in spirituality done correctly) is the opposite of psychosis rather.

I didn't know that. So in a sense it would be like german fans doing the infamous salute in a romantic way.

Recently I've been researching mental illnesses and I found great lens from which to look at this particular mental illness: Dopamine is linked to this illness, particularly an excess of it. Well not quite an excess but uncontrolled spikes of it at the wrong times. Dopamine helps you to pay attention to crucial information that you need. Primarily for your immediate survival, like remembering a piece of information because your life is at stake (for example social pressure could be a big factor). In a normal person this would work at specific times were you need it, but in a schizophrenic person it shoots up any time, giving relevance to irrelevant stuff! It is the feeling of having your life at stake 24/7 without rests. And what's the hearing of voices and all that stuff? I don't know, what do you think it is? Well I kinda know but I want you to connect dots for yourself. Sorry that I am not offering more info though but you can look for yourself. This is not the full picture of neurotransmitters though and science doesn't comprehend a lot of it. Science mostly does the obvious stuff of scanning what parts of the brain acctivates and inyecting neurotransmitters and see what happens. And yes you can have hints about the illness this way. And this is from a neurobiological point of view only but it certainly connects to Mind and Onthology, since it is essentially the mind doing sensemaking in a pathological way. It is Love though, don't get it wrong. I sincerely don't understand why some people in this forum dismiss neurobiology that much. Open to the discussion anyways.

Traumas are just bad habits of ruminating thoughts.

Baboons mothers go into a depression. They eat less and isolate from the tribe more. Robert Saposkly studied that.

Saying "leave a like and subscribe" on YouTube.

It takes a lot of contemplative effort to see through the illusions of science, hence why is so uncommon. Basically how science deals with generating any kind of understanding is by brute force trial and error (the so called evidence). And is not necesarily the most advanced form of understanding. So you can't trust that kind of process that much really.

You have to like it. It has to feel important on a personal level.

Is not simple, but if you want it bad enough is inevitable.

Well that's good progress. I wouldn't like that either. You can be your own worst enemy.

Not really. Maybe when I was a kid. Although when I am dreaming I don't know I am asleep.

That example would be just more conformity. This is a great snapshot about all the different kind of conformism. From racism to tattoos. A lot of variety, a lot of nuance too. Some more harmful than others. If you've found people as you potrait, I can see is it being problematic. But also conformity may affect you in ways you aren't aware.