Carl-Richard

That's another way to look at it. When you engage actively with literally anything at all, you activate the task-positive network in your brain (and deactivate the Default Mode Network), and you stop thinking about yourself if only for a moment. When you engage with something deeply and intensely, like when you love something or you're deeply passionate for it, you stop thinking about yourself even more. And at the highest levels, you might completely lose yourself, and then there is only reality.

You know what I mean when I say it's a perspective. When we talk about the Absolute in conversation, it becomes a perspective. But a tree is also merely a carving out of reality. It can be carved into many other individual constituents (e.g. cells). In reality, all forms in reality are interconnected; cells, trees and forests alike. But your individual cells are singing and dancing in a fantastical cult of biology, yet you call that spirituality. On a serious note, all spiritual practice boils down to engaging in some kind of behavior, and it can be done either individually or collectively. If you want to provide some strict definition of what counts as spiritual practice, you can do that, but singing and dancing in a context that orients itself towards the sacred (the highest value, e.g. enlightenment) and inspires feelings of devotion towards the sacred, is traditionally considered a spiritual practice.

If you're talking from the Absolute perspective, the individual as distinct from the social doesn't exist either. Why?

When you love something, even in a limited human way, you experience it more intensely. The more you love something, the more access you have to it, the more deeply intimate your experience of it is — the more real it is. If love gives you access to what is real, then love in the highest degree is reality itself.

Social method, individual method; any method is not the thing

History repeats itself: We should be hailing circular developmental models, not linear ones like Spiral Dynamics 😝 EDIT: Man, I used to be long-winded.

For example in a niche where the foliage and general environment have pizza patterns on them. Camouflage is critical for predator and prey animals alike.

Imagine creating an evolutionary niche where animals with coat patterns most resembling pizza have the highest fitness 😆

I'm going off topic and posting kundalini pasta, because I'm that edgy.

Nowadays, I avoid it like the plague, namely because of the cognitive effects. All the times I've gotten high lately (unintentionally might I add), it was only a nuisance. The way I would describe the effect for me nowadays (in the mini- to microdoses I've been exposed to it) is that it dissociates me from my memories in the same way that looking through a keyhole constricts your field of vision. It's like you have 100 toys in your toy box but you only get to play with 5 of them at a given time, which sure, it can make you more creative, as creativity often spawns from working within certain limitations, but it obviously sucks for thinking sober and grounded thoughts.

I prefer real dogs.

Like this?

I'm talking with my advisor about doing a study which could satisfy your question (I won't reveal the exact hypothesis, but it essentially investigates the overlap between mindfulness and music). I'll come back to you in a year with the results 😆

I prefer silence in the morning.

Not anymore, but I've probably consumed weed around 1000-1500 times. I'm an experienced weed man. Last time I got intentionally high was in the beginning of 2019 (and then I had already been sober for a year straight).

It was a hand-held device. It tasted and smelled pretty weed.

His?? I'll stop.

Whatever you think it means It means I'm a smart and observant little boy

I meant PMs between you two But maybe not. Then I guess "long legs" was just another Schizophonia ® "non-neurotypical" language lightning strike from the open sky. But I won't press any more on that

I don't want to know what your PMs look like

Ahh I think I've tried one of those like 8 years ago. It was smooth.

As deeply rooted as seeing green leaves? 🤔 Sex is probably more deeply rooted as it evolved around 2 billion years ago, but we starting crawling on land and seeing green leaves on land around 400 million years ago, which is not bad either.

We're not talking about absolutes, are we?

What does that mean?