UnbornTao

@Salvijus Then it seems to me you're failing to make that distinction. You think self is what you are.

I think we are using terms differently. I'm proposing that there are two aspects to what you are: Being, which is what you are, prior to and independent of character traits, identity, story, personality and any other activity--your nature Self, which is what you have learned to know as you and have adopted throughout the course of living--an artifice and convenient tool

We can postulate that, as babies, experience was operative for us and no sense of self was needed for that. Our memory of ourselves stops short at some point, yet we could see, touch, smell, plus likely felt the body, were aware, etc. So, self was constructed at some point throughout our upbringing, and therefore it arises not prior to experience, but after it.

Why do you take "self" to be what you are? Aren't we making a distinction here between self and being? This is a distinction that is hard to grasp experientially and that virtually no one makes.

Interesting that you frame self as being had by us, similar to how we say we have a body. This suggests that it is not us, and it might ultimately be constructed. A Koan for you: find your self.

Hey, how did you know?

What is it specifically that you would like to talk about in more detail? What are you asking, if anything?

If you mean microdosing, that'd be a better fit than a low dose, I think. If you mean taking a low dose at work, then I wouldn't do it. Other than that, it might help produce new thoughts, etc., but not sure.

Feel free to engage here, it's just an internet forum. About life, not sure, I'd say engage (intelligently) anyway despite your fear. You can also look into what that activity is about and stop generating so much of it. For example, if you are willing to experience what the fear is about--the future, unwanted experience you are imagining--then fear can't occur. If what you are afraid of is, say, making a fool of yourself, then being willing to go through that embarrassment would eliminate fear for you. Leo has some videos on fear, too.

Classic

"Commun-ication" = "Commun-ism" !!!

Surprised Claude brought up these models: integral-maturity-analysis (1).docx Then again, the word "integral" might have had something to do with it.

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Quotes by Jesus.

Keep to the main thread guys.

The etymology of arrogance originally was "to claim for oneself": Ad (to) + rogare (ask).

@Pro24 great.

You can create exciting threads.

- GPT Its etymology, to start with.

@Pro24 It's only for new users.

We respect the uncompromising quality of "objective" reality.