Carl-Richard

Why would you need to confirm a psychedelic experience (and what does it even mean to do so)? But ok, so you can't ever confirm it's a demon. Here is a softer question: what would be a reason to think demons exist and that it's not just say psychopathic energy?

So demon = psychopath/criminal?

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My guy literally has 30 topics and only 7 normal posts 😂

The university is the prey. Capitalism and rivalrous games is the predator 😆

https://bigfive-test.com/ This test straight up tells you your level of introversion/extroversion.

University academics. Prey: graduate students.

Because you're using the word "role model".

.@Danioover9000 When you have someone as a role model, especially when that role model preaches the key to all of life like Andrew Tate does, you usually emulate most of if not their entire persona. That's what I think most people mean by role model and why people react to you calling Andrew Tate a good role model. If you want to embody some virtue like drive or ambition, you can use other people as inspiration, but you wouldn't necessarily call them a role model.

Life is brainwashing. Rinse it well.

This thread is getting more cancerous by the minute. Let's get back on track.

Impress them real good 😂

While not engaging actively in a task: very little mind-wandering, self-referential thinking, probably zero rumination. This correlates with a de-activation of the Default Mode Network in the brain. From the outside, it looks like someone who is highly present, attentive and emotionally stable, drives Rolls Royces; stuff like that.

🤔 What is wrong with the world 10 years in the future that was not wrong with the world 10 years ago?

Now, that required a brain 🧠😛

I don't understand. Enlightened people tend to act a certain way, so why can't their brains act a certain way?

Why 10 years in the future and not 10 years ago? 🤔

How do you reasonably confirm it's a demon (and not something else)? Can you ever confirm a demon?

I want you to have an out-of-body, telepathic, mind-merging psychedelic experience which people sometimes talk about and see how the notion of "solipsism" collapses quite quickly and all that is left is Transpersonal Consciousness. Imagine what you would see if you could gradually slide into my body and see the world from my perspective. That's the experience I'm talking about. You can also have a taste of it sober just through empathy.

It's only you forever, but it's not your body, not your mind, not even your soul. It's Consciousness, which is everywhere all at the same time. It's not distinct from anything else. It's not something "you" have which other people don't have. That's the misunderstanding Spira is pointing to and which I've tried to point out to you many times before. The problem is that it takes direct experience to truly grasp what is being said.

Mind (M) is not mind (m). Simple.

Find an analogy or a point that works then 😂 Literally Buddhism. I'm still waiting for that definition. I think you can ask the people at the Mooji satsang why they're singing and dancing and they will give you a straight answer, which might only be partially true, but still true.

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?