Natasha Tori Maru

Thanks for the episode. Just finished it. I have a question. More a request for your opinion! In your view: should institutions enforce epistemic standards, or is that a slippery slope toward control?

Oh man I'm a bit of a cheater - often I refry what I prepped with some cheese or nutritional yeast 🥹 I don't really batch cook meals - I batch cook ingredients and then combine them. Often refrying or jamming em in the oven. Depends. I often find ways to freshen the meal. But I always cook greens that day. It is just meat/heavy veg I roast in seperate Tupperware. Then I grab other ingredients like pine nuts/chickpeas, eevo, roast pumpkin/potatoes, beetroot and some pulled kangaroo with green beans and chuck it all together with hot sauce. I have a whole bunch of different condoments for different flavour profiles. I don't like heavy sauce meals. Sauces can make a meal stale and stodgy quickly. So I stick to eevo, lemon, salt pepper and spices. Kangaroo is slightly gamey, very very lean meat. I marinade it and fry it on super high heat, pressure bbq it or make rissoles and hamburgers. Love a kangaroo hamburger for dinner (the only time I eat bread). Sometimes I will make sausage rolls (packed with veggies and some meat) and freeze them. Instant oven food from the freezer in a pinch. Egg bites are fun (basically eggs with whatever in muffin tray) and I love cottage cheese chips with eevo and herbs roasted in the oven (if you want to avoid crackers or chips). I will say though I am a freak and not super food motivated. I can eat the same thing over and over. I prefer to get eating out of the way so I can move onto the next thing 🙂

@Leo Gura oh my gosh! In my defence they are a pest here - their populations explode and they need to be culled so the land isn't destroyed. Despite them also being a cultural icon! I eat our cultural icon... Jeez. I am just happy they aren't farmed and pumped full of hormones. I have tried being vegetarian many times and end up with severe anaemia. Ferrin levels in the single digits. Also it fucks with my thyroid. Already have issues there.

Vegetables, nuts, meat (fish, chicken, kangaroo) , cheese, eggs, some fruit (intolerances) eevo 90% coffee/herbal tea I basically eat 70% shrubs and meat (organ meats too). The meat I eat is not farmed. Either wild (kangaroo), or some fish (might be farmed). Weight lift, run, mountain bike and walk (doggo). Don't own a car. Always take the stairs. Maintained 47/48kg @ 164cm my whole life. I'm pretty fit, high stamina. Days start at 5am and I don't stop until evening at 6:30pm. Every day has lots of movement. I meal prep for the whole week on Sunday. I Always have some nuts / fruit handy. I never let myself get too hungry. Small portions. It's funny how people think my portions are some sort of starvation mode - I see the typical meal overweight people eat as 3 portion sizes, usually. Portion sizes and hidden fats in food purchased out are a KILLER.

I do not think so - I think maybe you are attempting to sell your preference as objective fact. In my opinion, it is not so simple at all!

Ohhhh! Thank you I will check this out 🙏 Yep, I do! It helped a lot with my emotional healing initially (release and somatic work), and now I would say the energy I feel is mostly sexual. Without being erotic, if you get my meaning. More the movement of primal energy. Enhanced focus from the do nothing meditation and yoga makes the experience of being and movement more intense than a hit of MDMA for me. It has taken a long time to feel into my body with this much sensation. Taking mushrooms... When everything in your body is vibrating. Similar feeling. I haven't needed to use substances in a while now. Training the quality of awareness also dovetailed back to consciousness work.

@Sincerity 👍 Your signature points to the issue as well !

@theleelajoker Agree! The sexual component really interests me. I find through really intense meditation and mindfulness practice my quality of focus and attention is enhanced. I always relate this back to orgasm - it is the only time I am in a pure state of being; in single minded highest quality focus. I have occasionally had experiences of do nothing meditation where this heightened quality-of-focus is so high it almost feels ORGASMIC. No shit. Freaky as fuck the first time I experienced it. Since then, I have always wondered if the drive for pair bonding and orgasm with another was to experience this extreme/heightened focus state. Where I am completely one with my body, with another. Like my desire for romantic paring is a desire to merge with another and sex/orgasm is the easiest mechanical way to do it. Total unity of focus of two beings. Becoming one being. Just being. Needless to say, I have been working on the quality of my focus through mediation for some time now. Not just the ability or duration of attention. Which is a different domain entirely - and one in which it saddens me is being eroded by technology. Anyway, just some crazy musings before I fall asleep!

Beat gets me moving and I will smash out 40kms mountain biking in an adrenaline filled rush. Or dance all night! Melody - particularly strings - will fuck me in the feels : Then add a defined beat/rhythm - I'M DONE FOR:

So it is the phrasing that makes it egotistical or unhealthy? The language?

I think when one does awaken to it, and makes the statement 'I am God', others who have discovered this truth understand it is not the self, or ego, that makes the statement. Even if, ironically, it is the ego that types it out on a computer screen.

@AION You really do not like to simply state your claim. That's cool. But it can be frustrating when you create threads like this then dance around answering direct questions.

Hue hue hue oH nOES! My bOdY cOunT is HiGh! WomEN r HyPeRgamOus!!! MEn LoVE UncoNdiTiOnAlly, WoMeN LoVE OppoRtUniSticAlly!!! I better stop now >.> The funny thing is, red pill is meant to help men out dating. And most dudes don't even realize its red pill thinking behind half the popular podcasters these days. I don't actually see red pill advice actually helping men at all in practice... Regarding Ralston. Man, I dunno. Not enough info to go off from him. I would love to hear him rap on about romantic love more. But there's very little of his stuff out there on it. For me - just as there is spirituality, nonduality, unity and oneness - to see through that requires subject/object dissolution. Dissolving the barriers between subject and object - either by viewing self and all distinction as object object. Or seeing self in everything; self-self dissolution. All as one. A romantic partnership is about dissolving the barriers between two. Just as marriage isn't a unity of two; it is dissolving all that is between. But in romantic paring, your bias, your issues, your troubles, your bullshit - show up. It is a more accurate mirror because I cannot see myself while behind my eyes. There is more opportunity for healing and growth in romance. I have always felt a glass ceiling present when going true alone monk-mode. Monk-mode can be done with the right partner. Just my feelings on the matter

I take it the phrasing 'we are all God' or 'everything is God' isn't drumming up the same egoic connotations as 'I am God'. So it is the individuals personal ego identifying as 'God' that you argue is unhealthy? I am trying to make out the nuance in your view - not argue. I suppose Solipsism would be equally as unhealthy a view (Solipsism, to me, is merely a philosophical concept, not something that can be directly realized at the relative level. Too many thought/conceptual presuppositions).

@AION The way you phrased the portion I linked made it sound like you do believe in some form of diety ie "God". Which is chill, just not sure where you stand.