Human Mint

They def should start teaching it in schools. From age 15-18 that's the perfect age I think. Imagine a Catholic school teaching that their religion is just a development phase. Haha.

Not even close, lol. I wonder how they came with the models.

@Cathal Good to see you! I could have taken that path too. I've decided other things. But training such a quality is very important to me. I definitely want to be more consistent with creating contemplative spaces in my day to day. A lot surfaces there. But I avoid formal meditation practice nowadays. Although I guess you could consider laying down without distraction as a meditation too.

@oOo I wasn't dismissing the use of social media. I can find value in it in certain ways too. To me is obvious why I open my cellphone to check on Instagram. They've capitalized on a need. But Instagram isn't just an utopic tool to share pictures with the world. Maybe that was the case in the first year 20 years ago. Those mofos are abusing the attention of billions nowadays.

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This is the kind of "social media" that I deem advanced. It just feels more right than Instagram.

Unfortunately addiction to social media happens because it hijacks our need for social company and our need to get information. We are wired to spend the time in groups. It would not be much of a problem if the social media we use is more advanced, but today it is designed at a childlike level.

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Your mother won't like that

@Heaven You thought conformity is all fun and games? lol.

Sugary food, sugary snacks: soda, donuts, etc. If you can stop conforming to that you can stop conforming to anything.

I'll start where I don't see bias from your side because I can spot that more easily. For example the politics views you present are quite unbiased. You don't favor left or right views blindly, you're objective in the real sense. If you see leftists being delusional you recognize that, and viceversa with conservatives. And hence you can recognize the best politics. The bias I can think of is in how you present your work to the world. You prefer to do it online exclusively and you're closed to in-person classes. Should you choose to create an in-person space to teach then it should be based exclusively on it's effectiveness to help people understand more. Until you don't try you won't know. So yes, that would be quite a project and might not be a priority, but it doesn't need to be one or the other. It would be a bias too to do only in-person teachings since you would reach very few people despite it being effective, and being closed to the power reach of the internet. Picture something like Peter Ralston does. I bet his students are laser focused when attending his meetings. That IS the pro of in-person. Plus you must behave there, there are no masquerade. Everyone is object to their attitude. And I think it creates a predisposition in the student for capting the insights.

Agree, that is a good resource. The video of that thread is quite good. Timestamp 31:12: that is too real. That was me 6 years ago.

If you really want to expand your views, I would try to get to know their culture. Try to understand the way they live. The trick is to feel it as if it was your own country. Pretty hard to do that on the street. So don't beat yourself up. Your spiritual practice doesn't contradict being aware of your surroundings and trying to be safe.

Psychedelics. Even microdosis can have more impact that you can imagine. You'll be embarassed at how poorly you've been using your mind.