UnbornTao

Where Unborn?

Cute.

He sounds overly intellectual and stuck in that domain, a warning sign regarding matters of consciousness. Not sure he knows his nature or if he's coming from an authentic experience. Talks and writes a lot, is smart, and can be convincing to some. If stages, maps, and models don't help increase consciousness at all, why place so much emphasis on fitting what existence is and what it all means into a form that can be "known"? David Hawkins and Jed McKenna's work seem much more grounded and experiential. That said, if you're interested, give it a try. Pick up one of Ken's introductory books and decide for yourself.

Direct experience is different from what is conventionally known as experience. What you describe—seeing someone, encountering something, going through an emotion, perceiving an object, or gaining “experience”—is the conventional notion of experience. Direct experience, though a misnomer when combined with “experience” (since all experience is indirect), refers to the most basic and raw encounter you can have with something through your senses, before any conceptual overlay is added. For example, a direct experience of an object, such as an apple, involves experiencing the apple for itself. Within your experience of "apple", try to separate what is conceptually added from what is simply "there." This distinction is fundamental: an experience about the apple vs the apple itself. Value, meaning, association, past history, and preferences are about the object and how it relates to you. Once we sort this out, we can wonder: what's there for itself? In addition to that: What is memory, and what is its purpose to begin with?

Speculation aside, I'd say first look into the nature of life. An explanation is not the goal but a direct knowledge. We don't know what this is and each of us has to personally sort it out by having direct experiences.

"What do I find threatening to my worldview about other people's legal, respectful and consenting sex lives?"

Pursuit of Wonder guy, perhaps. There're a few popular YT channels on these topics but they need to be searched for, similar to the one above, perhaps.

I think you might be misunderstanding things and tackling matters superficially. Coincidences and anecdotes aside, you can openly look into things, questioning what they are. Being grounded serves this.

Aren't there two of these threads? Can they be merged?

@Keryo Koffa "I missed the part where that's my problem."

Like Plato defining a human being as a featherless biped. Diogenes plucked a chicken, brought it to Plato's Academy, and exclaimed, "Here is Plato's human!" In response, Plato and his followers modified the definition to include "with broad nails."

At this point, we might as well ask what are self, self-concept, identify?

Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near?

Not practically possible, unless you had the requisite basic survival skills. Without any human interaction at all, eventually, like Tom Hanks in Cast Away, you might end up befriending a soccer ball. It'd be like experiencing radical solitary confinement in the long term. I suspect that, at some point, we all would miss human interaction to a greater or lesser degree, even if we consider ourselves "loners".

Notice that your state changes when you openly listen to this video.

yep

You know who else? Ken Wilber

Everything you do is a manipulation.

Recognize and acknowledge that everyone, including you, is operating in the domain of belief, whether religious, scientific, philosophic or cosmological; the truth of the matter remains unknown. Getting this in your experience takes work and can be deepened.

James Clear, Shane Parrish (Farnam Street).

Joe Dispenza Deepak Chopra

The future has no future. Seriously though, no idea on what the future of work is going to be like.

The Power of 1% The Power of 10% How To Achieve More With Less How To Do Less with More Fuck It, It's All Meaningless Finding Your Purpose The Joy of No Purpose How to Be Still (a 340 pages manual) The Art of Joy The Joy Of Art The New Korean Way to Tidy Up

Loved Black Ops 1 and 2. Zombies mode was appealing to me. Hopefully BO6 does things reasonably well; zombies looks promising.