Carl-Richard

Sexual intercourse, let alone porn, makes you fall asleep if you did it correctly. That is an influence that lasts not just a few minutes but hours (and of course weeks as well). The "waste of time" comes as a chronic dampening/softening of energy. That said, natural cycles of sleep are good. But only sleep, probably less good.

Energy rises upwards, like in the video.

Solipsism is retarded.

@Saop Mactavish Jesus Christ you people are relentless.

@Basman Tell me if you didn't get it.

Interesting things happen when you resist temptation.

@Basman If you have spiritual aspirations, trying abstinence for up to a month or so can bring a lot of benefits.

So let me perhaps elaborate on the reasoning (about seeing without eyes "indicating" that maybe God could be possessing higher mental functions as a baseline without evolution being a preexisting requirement). When I used the word "indicating" (or "could indicate"), I did not imply increasing the probability of one hypothesis vs another. I simply implied that the hypothesis is now possible and that the probability increased from zero to non-zero (given the preexisting belief that you thought evolution was required). If you were of the previous belief that evolution is a prerequisite for all forms of higher mental functions, then seeing evidence against that removes that cap or limitation. It's now possible, the probability is above zero, but whether it is more possible than an alternative hypothesis (e.g. that God is still non-agential but seeing now happens through another mechanism than evolution), that has not been argued for. So your suspicion was maybe right that you had created a false dichotomy.

Seemingly the same problems as The Diary of a CEO. The presenter is essentially hired to do a job and the larger company makes the script. So anything you see is predetermined and rehearsed and any interest is ad hoc and surface level at best.

Bro are you ok?

The key point is identification drops. When identification drops, identification is with whatever that is. There is a complete openness in that. Then the body or mind may act out in different ways, and then a purification might happen over time where the openness is more embodied in the body and mind. But the identification with source is allegedly constant throughout.

Somehow they manage to replicate the atmosphere live.

"I'm the only authority on this matter and you can leave but then you will waste your life chasing something that is not absolute truth." -> pressure to conform. "And the way you find out what is true is by finding it out yourself. You shouldn't listen to me, that's not how you get to the truth" -> manipulation to justify the conformity. "But if you speak against me based on what you have found out, I will say that you don't know what you're talking about and that I'm the only authority on the matter" -> pressure to conform. And the cycle continues. The reason why you and @Inliytened1 don't feel pressured by these things is because you don't believe it to be true. You see beyond the bullshit. Imagine if you don't.

14 men and 14 women each live on their own deserted island in the tropics and have to survive for 5 weeks. WhO hAs wHat it tAkes to sUrviVe? I've watched three episodes so far and it's pretty fun. I can't be asked to join the "haha lol women" thing before I've watched the entire thing. But there are some differences of course, as you would expect. If I was stranded on a deserted island, I would take @Natasha Tori Maru as medical grade shelter builder and @integral as contamination specialist I would be the jungle shaman or whatever; let me spend some time meditating and I'll maybe give some intuition-based navigation tips or just some wacked-out shit. When watching episode 3, I randomly came up with a possible hunting technique for sting rays that were swimming in the shallows on the beach and some of them tried to catch (if you're interested and you're ever on a deserted island without food ):

Gibberish distinction without a difference. I will not talk to an AI, thank you.

@Jirh Ask it to only treat the statements as false if they are categorically false (and not "so small to be insignificant"). Because me and @integral will immediately jump on that as "but there is something there".

Being more attuned to presence can make you sort of fine with being fractured, because you can always loop back into presence when you discover the crack. But paradoxically, it can also make you better at identifying the cracks and how to solve them. And if you also realize that the endless looping is actually less conducive to presence than smoothing out the cracks, you will hyper-fixate towards fixing the cracks. Because once the cracks are fixed, it becomes smooth.

Cringe. Be an uncouth hobo and attract the 10s with nerfs. Only half-joking. Aside from perhaps basic personal hygiene and bare minimum knowledge of social conventions, people trying to hack social interactions is to me like when somebody uses AI to think or write for them. At some point, you just realize there is nothing there and it's completely inorganic and hollow like a metal tube.

Would "I'm the only authority on epistemology" (or awakening for that matter) and "you don't know what you're talking about" qualify for this? What more would you need?

If you can imagine experiencing anything in a pre-self-reflective state, be it gripping a ball, or feeling pain or any sensation localized to your body, what stops you from imagining experiencing an emotion? What self-reflection seems to do (among other things) is it ties the experience to an abstract experience of "me". But so it does with anything else. It's "me" who is gripping the ball, it's "me" who is experiencing pain or any sensation in the body. But what if you can have just the experience of gripping the ball, just the experience of pain and other bodily sensations, or just the experience of feeling and being moved by the emotion?

Norwegian Symphonic Black Metal has an atmosphere and darkness that is entirely unique in its magnitude and depth. I will never forget when I discovered Emperor. There is an artistic vision and visual and imaginative quality that comes with the entire sound that is so elaborate and well-conceived.

I mean, the self-aware self in humans arose as far as we can tell only between 30-70k years ago. There weren't even any anatomical changes attributed to the change. It's quite mysterious how it happened. So if there were no salient anatomical differences between pre-self-aware humans and self-aware humans, do you think pre-self-aware humans had emotions or not? Imagine talking to (I guess they didn't have complex language yet) or meeting such a human. Do you think they would show signs of anger, fear, disgust, happiness, sadness? How do you know a person is angry? They will show it to you. Look at any animal, perhaps mammals are the best examples, e.g. a cat or a tiger. Are you going to tell me you've never seen an angry cat? "But antropomorphizing". Really? What about a growling bear, or a growling chimpanzee, or a growling... human. "Lol, calm down bro".

How strict? Give us your definition. What about scholars? Things started collapsing as soon the implication that the cause of the energy had to be removed from the Earth somehow had been made. The moderation practices occurred up to that point. After that point, I'm not sure any moderation practices occurred in any structured degree. It was sort of like the rug was pulled from beneath the picnic party and people's bare asses landed in the dirt and the ants started crawling and people started fleeing.

It was a quite structured practice of readers (like moderators) ensuring a minimum level of quality of the members. I'm giving the position that gives credence to the common crowd of people who make such videos as above and also the scholars (the majority) who say the same thing. If you want to somehow make it more strict for some credence of, I guess simply being strict, or perhaps downplaying the different things that may occur in a "weak definition" of a cult, then that's your prerogative. But if you ask me, I don't think defining the Discord described above or the forum described as similar to it as "weakly defined" changes the fact that they may have various dynamics which may warrant some caution and perhaps a label (if not the label "cult" as is).

Leave / take a break (until you get a clear reading, that was a practice as far as I can remember). A bit like if you post while drunk, you get moderated. A bit like if you break the guidelines, you get moderated. A bit like if you get moderated enough times, you get kicked out. Replace "Discord" with "forum" and "harmful energies" with "non-duality" and "one of the most advanced members" with Nahm and you have the ousting of Nahm and other events (Leo's 30-day 5-MeO experiment, Leo's "mean phase"/"psychosis", the fractioning into an accused faction who left to establish a different community and the rest who stayed, Leo's eventual apology for being mean). The difference is that here, the leader and members are still active. If you feel compelled to call what I described a cult, then you might sympathize with the person in the video above calling this place a cult. It essentially boils down to "look at these weird people with these weird beliefs" (which is essentially what most scholars define cults as anyway: social groups with deviant beliefs compared to society, often with a religious nature).