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There are a lot of wonderful dynamics at play here. We have to first make a distinction between Sentience and Consciousness. Consciousness is Existence, it is everything that Is and can Be. Sentience is a very particular form of Existence which we refer to as the mind or colloquially as consciousness The universe is Consciousness, every particle is Consciousness, everything "material" is Consciousness. The wonderful thing is that it is not merely that there is a First Cause that is somehow Groundless. The miracle of Nature is that each element is truly embedded into Groundlessness, which allows the Illusion of cause and effect. Fundamentally the question is what is the mind in terms of it's relationship to the world? Why is the rock not sentient, but the human brain is? And more importantly, why is the human brain only at certain points sentient? Why is it only sentient in very specific configurations and states? The concept of microtubules are a very important step into the right direction. There is a recognition that fundamentally sentience must somehow be captured by the physical world. This is essential. Each aspect of this universe is an expression from Infinite Potential. Infinite Potential contains every possible State of Being unmanifested. Once Infinite Potential is expressed into a limited manifestation it will lose it's potential. It will be limitation until it dissolves into Nothingness/infinite Potential. What is the brain fundamentally doing, then? The brain is capturing States of unmanifested Infinite Potential. The microtubules in this way allow for the unstable Infinite Potential to be balanced in a very particular manner. This allows for that Infinite Potential to be guided to generate Sentience or every particular aspects of Infinite Reality. It can guide the Expression of Nothingness into particular States of Being, like Colors, Sounds, Feelings and all other specific dimensions of Reality even the Universe itself. This is crucial to understand, because this means Minds in general can literally Understand anything possible if the structures allow for that particular Expression. The Mind is tapping into Infinite Potential and can therefore Reflect anything in Existence, any Form possible. This is because the brain is basically using Infinite Potential to express very certain outcomes. But here is another crucial part. What the brain does fundamentally is completely miraculous. The fact that a certain Expression can be Guided can only be due to the Will of God. There is no other way, because no limited Structure could possibly chose from Infinite Potential for something particular to manifest. This requires the Free Will and Infinite Wisdom. After all, there is truly Infinite Potential and for any lmiited form to chose from that Infinite Potential, it would required to dissolve into Infinite Potential. What the brain is is a machine which simply limits the expression of Infinite Potential. It's an Infinite Potential Limitation machine. So it might very well be that Quantum Physics is important in this, because at some point it will reach Nothingness. That Nothingness is what is being Limited by the brain. This is the mindblowing thing about this, you can Frame this in Infinite ways. You could say that there are Infinite pieces of Nothingness or Infinite Potential which themselves contain All of Existence, and each one of them is manipulated by a Manifested piece of Infinite Potential to manifest into a particular form of Limited Potential. And every single one of these Infinite Potentials contains literally every possible combination of Infinite Potentials manipulating each other into the expression of certain Finite Potentials. This is how you could look at reality. This means there is no beginning and end. There is no fundamental thing. The universe does not cause the brain which causes sentience. Everything causes everything equally. Everything contains everything. Your Sentience contains the Universe, all Universes, all of Existence, every possible form of manifestation and intercombination of manifestation. So in "reality", there is no brain causing or capturing anything. Everything simply is a miracle manifested into Reality so directly it is simply unfathomable to grasp. But yet there is consistency to it, and Illusion of Cause and Effect. And all of this can theoretically be Understood directly, by manifesting literally All of it within a single Mind. Your mind could literally manifest the entire universe, if God's Will deemed it so. The miracle is not Unlimited Potential, the miracle is Limitation. This is fundamentally what science does not grasp yet. So the right question in this context would be: How can the brain limit Infinity into a particular, consistent and guided way? This would, however, assume that it is not Infinity itself that creates the limitation and therefore the illusion of the structure of the brain. Science is not creating or discovering anything. Rather Infinity is allowing for the Illusion of Science discovering and creating things. Science is fundamentally the Mercy of God, as everything else in Existence is. Science is the Impossible deemed Possible. Yet Science today is so arrogant as to assume to be the arbitrator of the Possible and Impossible, when infact it itself is Impossible and only Possible becaused Free Will deemed it so. Scientists should be on their knees crying in gratitude for Science having been allowed to be made possible.

I don't think framing it this way makes sense. I wouldn't do many things because of my limted love. I wouldn't make people starve and suffer. But from Ultimate Selflessness, I don't see how oce can say "No, I do not Accept Eternal Suffering, I do not Love Eternal Suffering!", rather one would Love Eternal Suffering as much as any other part of Creation. That would be true Selflessness. Therefore, the Infinite Expression could not be limited to a lack of Eternal Suffering.

I understand that this is what it was made to be, but if I was All Loving and had Ultimate Power, this is only one way I would express myself.

If I was All-Loving, I would Love it and I would create it. If I was all Loving I would be Selfless enough to do that, so that I could express my Full Love.

I don't think we share the same understanding.

I am not talking about metaphorical hell in terms of eventuall returning to God or remanifesting as bubbles of Consciousness that experience suffering. I am talking about One Bubble that exists for Eternity, a bubble which never dissolves. A bubble which experiences Ultimate Pain and Terror, for Eternity.

So Eternal Hell is impossible? Is God unable to create it, or is it chosen not to be created? If so, why if God is All Loving? From what I know, Impermancence is a deliberate feature, not an inevitablity. It might be rendered Inevitable by the Creative Force, but I don't see that it truly is. But this is not Total Acceptance.

Depending on how much you have consumed it in the past, for how many years and most importantly how young you were when you started, this process might take years. The most damaging thing by far is browsing for the porn, so looking for it and finding more and more videos or images. Read the book "Your brain on porn". https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/ You can start by allowing yourself to masturbate but only using your fantasy, no computer, no images and no videos. This will help get rid of a lot of the dopamine response. For it to be healing, try to focus on emotions like Love rather than pure Lust. You will realize how much more enjoyable loving sexuality is than lustful sexuality. And you will notice that lustful sexuality actually can inhibit your ability to feel Love. This will be huge, and you should realize more and more that when you watch porn you just don't get the greater depth of feelings, infact watching porn is mostly an experience of suffering. There is a desire which you want to get rid of, it's a very primitive part of your brain. On the other hand, when you have a partner, or fantasize focusing on more Loving and giving aspects Sexuality, you will notice a whole nother spectrum of emotions and a far higher quality of consciousness while doing so. This will in the future help you to avoid porn because it will simply not seem that attractive anymore. You will be conscious of it's destructive powers. Unfortunately the nature of a dopamine withdrawal, and a general rewiring of the brain from a lack of stimulation this significant, will result in symptoms like depression, lethargy, demotivation and so forth. You can aid yourself by taking something like Brahmi.

Same, started exactly 3 weeks ago. Only drank a single cup of coffee and a single cup of green tea a day. The difference is just really staggering, I used to stop drinking coffee but continued to drink green tea, and I never had these results. Which means for me I cannot consume green tea. Sleep is much better, I feel energized throughout the day. Digestion is much better, less dehydration and the list goes on. I had real problems with fatigue that are now completely gone.

A good video on what animal agriculture does to workers. Terrible stuff.

I think there is an important difference between plants and most animals. First we have to ask ourselves, why do we suffer in the first place? Why do you feel pain then you hurt yourself? Why do you feel lonely when you are all by yourself? Why do you feel hungry when you haven't had food for a long time? The reason is because you can do something about it, and all of these feelings are indicators for you to do what will allow you to survive. And it's not just about doing something about it, infact it is about doing something about it right here and now. You feel the loneliness so you can go about, right now, and make an effort to socialize. You feel pain when you touch a hot stove so that you can pull your finger away right now. This is why human beings do not feel pain in the beginning stages of cancer, because for most of evolutionary history we couldn't do anything about cancer, so it would have made no sense to develope a system which makes us feel pain in the here and now, because we simply couldn't have done anything about it. Today however, it would be very useful if we felt pain in the beginning stages of cancer. We could go to the doctor, point to where we feel the pain and then have the doctor do something about it before it has become far too late. So this is very important to the nature of suffering. Now consider a being like a plant, what use would it be for it to suffer when someone cuts it up? What use would infact any perception be to a plant, if it cannot do anything as a result of that perception? The plant cannot escape, it cannot drastically change any behaviour in the here and now. Suffering would serve no purpose. Notice that when you are sleeping there are times in which there is no perception at all, even though your body is doing very, very complex things. Your body is growing, breathing, moving about. Your body in your sleep does far more complex things than a plant does, yet there is no perception. If plants are conscious, what about your bones? What about your skin? What if each part of your body had it's own consciousness and perceptions, completely inaccessible to the brain? Do you think that is likely? What use would it have? After all, your body is protecting itself from disintegration all day long. Each cell is doing so, in a very complex and sophisticated manner. Do all of these parts have perception? Even the brain itself can be active yet not have any perception. So no, I do not think plants suffer when we eat them. It could be the case that they have their own forms of perceptions, but I certainly do not think they suffer from being cut up into pieces, as an animal would. Don't forget, even humans do not necessarily suffer when their body is dying. Many people eat McDonalds every single day, destroying their body, yet there is no immediate suffering from doing so. Why? Because in the past there simply was not point for this kind of suffering to exist. And I myself cannot see for what reason a plant would suffer, when it cannot react to us in any immediate way. A plant can survive by pure intelligence, it requires no feelings.

I find that the spiritual community has a tendency to escaping many aspects of Isness, like suffering, evilness, despair and other fascets of reality. Sometimes I feel like there is a really immature discrimination towards what the ego finds most pleasant. For example, how many people are willing to take 5-MeO-DMT while watching slaughterhouse footage, or even better being in a slaughterhouse themselves? Notice that usually tripping is done in a way to make it a most pleasant experience. This kind of bias can lead us to a sort of blindness, because we can pretend to be at peace or grown up while we would not be able to handle much of the suffering that is happening if it was to happen to us. I think it is best not to look at this at flaws, or something being wrong with you, because this is not true. Focus not on what is wrong with you, focus on your brothers and sisters. What are they experiencing? If you want to focus on yourself, frame it as something like you having more potential within you than can yet be unleashed. There is no reason not to unleash that potential, other than procrastination really. And procrastination is a powerful force.

You are not trying to seek to understand my perspective, rather you are trying to create peace of mind for yourself. I am not the one suffering here, and I do not care about my own suffering to such a degree that I need to delude myself about the suffering in this world and the suffering I am causing. Enlightenment is not about the end of suffering for me. I am not trying to convince you or making you realize you are wrong. I am pointing out the things that seem to true me. You have a tendency to project upon me desires and feelings that you yourself seem to feel. I do not hate you, nor your ideas. I do not feel any hatred at the moment, I feel love and compassion for those that are exploited for nothing but wanting to keep up a certain standard of living. It is very easy to say the good and bad are necessities when you yourself are not subject to the torture and death you are inflicting on others. There is a great irony in calling the world a cruel place, and telling others to accept that, while being unable to overcome ones own egoic desires. You are so inable to face your own suffering that you are not even capable of giving up something as trivial as meat. Imagine if someone forced you not to consume meat, would you tell them they are wrong? Well, you are forcing someone not only to eat something they do not want to eat, you are forcing them to live an entire life of suffering and to be then disgarded like an objected so that you can have your packaged product that additionally contributes to the destruction of the very planet that gave you life. And then you say "Life is cruel, ying and yang! I am at peace, I am so enlightened!". How can you not see your own devilry? When you yourself are the one bearing the cross, then it is appropriate to say "Ying and yang, Life is suffering, I am accepting suffering!". This is embodiment, not some sort of reaction towards someone simply revealing to you what you are doing.

Drop the Spiral Dynamics stuff when I point out how you are misusing it to justify your own selfish acts? People enjoying being slaves in terms of SM is not the same actual slavery. Why do you point out that I am defensive when you have done nothing but reject everything I said and are actively dismissing it as "new age vegan stuff". Why is it me who has to do the serious shadow work? Would you tell the same to someone who is against slavery? Would you tell to someone who is against murder to "Let go"? In what context does this make sense? You should really self reflect on how easy it is to your the mentality you are displaying here to dismiss any criticism of the ego. I think you fail to see how big of a liar you actually are. Unless you criticize people for being anti-slavery (real slavery, not some obviously uncorrelated consensual idea of of) as being new age anti-slavery people who have some serious shadow work to do, I don't think you are in the place to criticize the ego of people who are against animal exploitation. You understand that any less evolved ego, namely an ego at stage orange, will use the same kind of mental gymnastics, excuses and dismissals that you have provided here? Transcend an include. A developing ego should expand it's identity, not dismiss the uncomfortable expansion in the face of having to change their lifestyle. You don't go from someone who keeps slaves to Jesus Christ or Buddha. You go every step, you transcend and include. You don't suddenly become an apologist for slavery once you are Buddha, you don't suddenly abandon the idea that we shall not exploit sentient beings. What you are doing is completely transparent to anyone who has themselves done the same in the past as a result of their neanderthal-esk egoic structures.

I'm sure a slaver owner had the same sort of excuses. It is very interesting, what do you call people who are against slavery? Do you call them out and tell them they have a stage orange ego because after all Life is cruel and there are good ways of keeping a slave? Yes, it is me who has the ego, who is stuck at stage green, who is incapable of expanding their identity to encompass other beings. The ego is so good at turning it's own devilry against those who point it out.

The selfish make up stories to make themselves feel better about what they do. This is the nature of the ego. In the end, you are the one paying for the torture and slaughter of yourself. You will become the consequences of your actions. This is by the way a very good example for why convincing people to stop consuming animal products for selfish reasons is bound to fail. The only way to abolish the animal agriculture is an actual shift in the identity of individuals and collectives in terms of including those animals as relevant brothers and sisters to be under the protection of their more intelligent brothers and sisters. When a person does something out of selfish reasons, like to stop eating meat for health, there will be selfish reasons which will override that selfishness, because it is selfishness against selfishness. If there is a love for your brothers and sisters, the capacity for self-sacrifice is far greater because it is genuine. This is a good video on this which highlights the unintuitive nature of creating true social change:

You have not really provided what I have asked for, I am aware of Dr. Gregers stance on this. I think you did not quite grasp the point of my post, as Dr. Greger is precisely one of the people I would criticize for what I mentioned in my previous post. For example: Consumption of coffeee and tea boost longevity in a population which gets most it's antioxidants from coffee. To frame that therefore we should drink coffee because it extends longevity is very misleading because there are many other sources of antioxidants. In my opinion you have a very simplistic view of what is healthy and what isn't healthy. For example, coffee can be good at surpressing depression and therefore elevating someones mood, and therefore lowering the risk for suicide. But it is interesting how you do not mention how for such people getting off of coffee is enormously difficult and that it can lead to them never addressing the root issues of their problems. You have a substance here which significantly affects the chemistry of your brain, what about all the effects on consciousness development this might have? Do you have a study on that? Of course you don't, because science today is so unconscious it is not even considering this to be an important aspect of health. With the methodology presenting in the studies you provided it is not possible to map high variance reactions or subtle phenomena which are not looked for or too dfficult to establish. What if different people have different reactions to coffee which have a detrimental effect on their ability to thrive, but do not effect all cause mortality? What if there are things that effect all cause morality positively but yet hinder the ability of the mind, body and spirit to thrive? Why don't you compare coffee to something like Brahmi? You are reading results without any context whatsoever, which I was asking you not to do.

If you were to become One with the Will of God, your Will would be the Will of God, it would be equivalent. All of Creation is already God's Will, exactly as it is. So you as God would do what you as God always did. The problem is that you think that your egoic Will will become the Will of God, when it is the other way around. Your Egoic Will is part of the Will of God. The Will of God is creating everything, including your Egoic Will. If you "become" God's Will, you will deem everything to be perfect as it is, because everything is a perfect manifestation of your Ultimate Will. The Egoic Will might not like that, but even that is part of the Will of God. The Will of God is already manifesting the universe, every particle that exists. If your Will would be aligned with the Will of God, you would do the same thing as God does. Creation. Christ is a manifestion of the Will of God resonanting through itself into itself, a reflection of the droplet within the droplet. The embodiment of God is not the Ultimate Union with God, because the Ultimate Union would dissolve your Form completely. That's how the theory goes, atleast.

If you are so well read, it would be nice if you could actually showcase that what you are saying is true. Show me the studies on all the possible negative effects coffee could have on an individual with respect to different constitutional types and in consideration of more subtle phenomena than all-cause mortality or specific disease occurance. Show me the studies that compare coffee, or general substances with caffeine, with other alternatives that provide similar benefits. Show me the peer reviewed paper which established whether or not there is a bias in the direction or pursuit of results on the current research regarding caffeine. There is nothing scientific about exclaiming that science says coffee isn't bad for you because there is not enough evidence to support that position. A lack of evidence is only relevant if there is evidence of a unbiased pursuit towards a whole picture that includes phenomena which are difficult to study. Imagine if all the research on exercise was to revolve around the negative effects of exercise, would you then conclude exercising is bad for you because there is no evidence to show it is good for you? This has nothing to do with science. You first have to establish that there is no bias within the overall research direction. And with an industry that funds most of studies on caffeine to be geared towards showing positive effects, having no obligation to release studies that would show negative effects, I am really curious what you will find in this regard. Under your epistemological standard, a few decades ago it would have been completely fine to say smoking cigarettes doesn't harm you because the evidence does not support it. And also, don't forget that with the reductionistic approach of the current scientific culture it is extremely difficult to map relationships and subtle phenomena which get lost in the play of averages and reductions. You are operating under the assumption that current western scientific methodology and culture is infallible or the most appropriate tool to map these phenomena. I can tell you when I drink caffeine I have to go take a shit within 5 minutes, no matter at which time I drink it. I don't need any research to tell me this is unhealthy and destructive.

Not sure about bat burgers, but if you want bat burritos instead, here you go:

12 days in, been getting sleepy progressively later these past few days. Today it started around 6pm, I hope that in a few weeks I'll be at 10-11pm sleepy.

Watch the video I linked if you want a different perspecitve.

Yes, but what do you think is the root cause of psychosis and bipolar disorder? How is that different from a spiritual crisis? Watch this, it takes a really interesting angle on the entire field of mental health.

Isn't this what Ayahuasca is known for? It confronts you with your shadow. It's like opening the door to the dungeon where you have locked up all the inner demons. If you are scared of something like this, do thorough shadow work before you take psychedelics. Psychedelics will force you to sit through in a few hours what you usually can work through over the span of years. If there is too much baggage and the ego is too fragile, this is the result.

Not necessary when we can get the same benefits without the negatives from other sources. You can get antioxidants from other sources fairly easily, which is most likely the primary reason why coffee is so beneficial for people who mainly get their antioxidants from coffee anyways. Then you add an entire industry which has no reason to publish studies on the negative effects of caffeine while having an incentive to publish positive results. https://www.foodpolitics.com/2019/01/industry-funded-study-of-the-week-coffee-protects-dna/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10333733 Notice how there is no nuance whatsoever, no dietary ward etc. In the end it's most likely that it is the antioxidants which have created this "DNA protective" effect, no miracle component in the coffee that somehow makes it super healthy compared to vegetables and fruits. Yet, nobody seems to be talking about any of the negative effects, and any such effect is dismissed as insignificant while any positive effect is interpreted as somehow relevant while obviously not comparing them to other food-groups. This is what the meat, dairy and egg industry commonly does. They talk about so called positive effects of meat due to certain nutrients found in said product, yet they fail to mention that there are food groups which contain these nutrients or positive effects aswell, sometimes to a far higher degree, while not coming with the negative effects that come with the consumption of meat. And then the headline is "Meat is healthy because X component is found in it!". https://www.banyanbotanicals.com/info/blog-banyan-vine/details/caffeine-and-your-ayurveda-practice/