Arthogaan

Sitting in silence and. contemplating, exploring one's psyche, mind. Seeing patterns in one's behaviour. Using your imagination like a tripping tool.

In the past what helped me most was to skip breakfast and curb apetite with a little bit of stimulant (cup of coffee/nicotine gum). But now I no longer want to use stimulants at all so for me sadly (beautifully) it is deeply accepting hunger as part of being a human (at least part of being me while wanting to be lean). Meditation and going deeply into center of sensation helps.

Personal apetite varies a lot. I absolutely was gaining weight on both keto, paleo or mainly protein diets if I was not carefull about controlling myself. I lost and gained 10kg couple of times in my life and it never was possible without accepting being hungry most of the day. Not difficult for me to eat over 1000kcal of mostly protein in one sitting.

That is one of the best reports i've read. You put very nicely into words of how information access works/feels in those higher states. How much were you able to integrate this information access into daily life? How has it changed your daily life?

My whole life I felt a little bit out of place for how little social interaction I need to be happy. Yes there is a risk many people liking solitude are bypassing something. So you really have to be honest and look deep inside. But yes, there is a possibility that one's particular brain, personality is that of "lone wolf". I felt gaslighted for years by society, always feeling a little bit ashamed. And I remember some few years ago I watched netflix documentary "Chimp empire" about different chimps, apes, bonobos, gorrillas and their social interactions. It was mindblowing how they resemble human behaviours. And even among chimps there are less social individuals. But especially Orangutans are very solitary. They spend about 90% alone. Let's embrace our inner Orangutans for those that it genuinely resonates. Don't be gaslighted/conditioned into believing you NEED socializing BECAUSE YOU ARE HUMAN. Humans are so so complex and diverse. Genuinely check within what do you want. And don't get stuck in any end of the spectrum as your identity. One day you can be a social bonobo, another day you can be a lone orangutan. Lol. So I kinda want to defend @Leo Gura here. The message of "people are so important in life" or "happiness only true when shared" or "humans are social apes" etc. - you can find it anywhere, any family member will agree, any movie, it is engrained in our culture, it is the default. So it was very very valuable to hear Leo clearly speak about how much bullshit there is in socializing culture, and actually open a way to fully question it and actually think for myself regardless of culture. We rarelly speak how much unnecesarry suffering may be created for naturally solitary people feeling slightly ashamed of their introversion by the very harsh social default of our culture.

This is pure Gold Leo. One of your best post on the forum! So simple and so deep. Much love.

So in the total formlessness can there be pain at all? Or in it;s purest form God is so Formless that even the form of pain cannot arrise as something unpleasant.

God is so unbiased that he cannot have any aversion towards pain whatsoever? Can God even feel pain at all? Or he feels it but is so unbiased that it is not really pain to him?

I still can't wrap my head around into how Infinite Goodness generates the world with such potential for suffering. I know it is infinitely good and I know there is infinite potential for suffering but I can't grasp the mechanics of it. Is it that Goodness wants to explore/imagine physicality/materialism and how it is to be "in a body" and this necessitates the mechanism of pain receptors and suffering so that embodied life is sustained? Or are the horrors imagine not as necessity in creation but more as beutiful aspects to explore on it's own?

Yeah. And what is a defense mechanism if not imagining/creating reality to be a way that i am able to accept according to my survival agenda.

Those two comments being posted next to each other is a beautifull lesson on it's own. See how your Mind creates Beauty and Inteligence or lack thereof. You can program your mind to see more beauty and genuineness or you can program it to be more sceptical and distrusting. Both of users just saw pixels on the screen.

Yes, but as mentioned before Centerlesness is crucial. And recoqnition of Aliveness of Others-Construct. There is no less inteligence operating behind the eyes of the person you are talking with, because it is one inteligence that is speaking your words and their words. You are just as unreal/real as the person you are speaking with. Both the tip of your nose (to make the illusion of 1st person perspective) is imagined and the eyes of another. As Leo said Solipsism is true not because you are so alone, but because we are all so together.

Hmmm I'm not sure what your point is but please do not assign homework to me senpai. I didn't like school assignments

Well yes, that is kind of the crux of the matter. Because it is all of those. It is Impersonal Flow and yet also intimately loving and wanting to experience full of eros. So there are aspects/facets. And some of them are higher/purer. Like God is also unconsciouss materialist or christian fundamentalist. The Deceiver. The Lover. The Emptiness. The Truth. Etc. And I kind of wonder whether he is more of a Lover/BDSMer or a Self-Deceiver lost in it's own thoughts. Or rather I want to understand the mechanichs of how those different archetypes flow/relate. I don't know. It is a hard question to even articulate lol. Much love to you too

Just using conventional language to communicate. Feel free to exchange God with "You" or Awareness or whatever.