Joseph Maynor

Like a regular person but I tend to go into life coach mode when I see people suffering. Usually this comes off well. I almost never talk about spirituality with people in real life. I like to laugh with people and enjoy their company. I like to work on my self-help goals. I have no need to try to be seen a certain way in real life. My goal is to enjoy the company of others but also not interfere too much with people's time who are trying to work.

One issue I see is are you listening to music to contemplate or are you listening to music to listen to music?

You don't forget hey I'm not who I thought I was so easily. That's not an experience that is forgotten, so yes it can be recalled. I'm not in the cool guys awakening club by design.

Most of the time it is not. But if I think back to the trip I can recall what it was like.

If I were to describe that in a 5-Meo sense it would be realizing what I really am is Awareness.

I'm not sure what would qualify one to declare that they are awake or not.

The idea of dream is actually key here and it comes up in theory. But is direct experience the same as or analogous to a dream? That seems to imply an intervening thought.

Psychedelics are interesting because although they're thought, commonly, to be fantasy, they're actually direct experience. It depends on how we want to define direct experience.

I've only needed to do 5-Meo once. But nothing compares to that trip for me. It was enough.

The elephant in the room is there's a psychedelic connection to solipsism or to that insight anyway.

It seems to me this turns on what we mean by mind.

How so?

I agree. You have to look at individual philosophers. It's easy to lump them all into a class and then judge them all. There are a lot of great analytic philosophers. A lot of contemporary epistemology has in many ways been a project of analytic philosophy.

One technique I did is brainstorm into an audio recording on my phone for like 30 min to an hour. I just let myself talk which is like a brainstorm. Then I would listen back and try to outline what I said in the audio into salient points. Then I wrote those down on my whiteboard and made goals out of those principles.

God created your finite mind and body no? So by extension it seems He could do this for other finite selves.

I feel like some people are more into an artform than others are which explains wider taste. People who aren't into music that much have a very different set of albums or songs they listen to. I'm the same with visual arts, I have very little interest in that so someone who is really into visual arts would look at the pictures in my house and probably cringe a little.

My honest answer is that all of us have a finite perspective we attach to so that we can know what a finite perspective is. So the Absolute contains all finite perspectives, including our own.

I never try to fight with people about taste. That's where you learn that everyone has their own unique perspective. Everyone loves music, but they differ as to what music they like. There's a lesson in that! We can value the same thing and expect to be different too. This is what I think musicians learn quicker than others do.

Does contemplation mean you're trying to control a contemplation or are you letting contemplation emerge more naturally?

Not on a daily basis, but I want to make better Indian food.

I guess it's understandable that most people have confusion with how deep artistry goes. Think of an artwork like a trip.