Carl-Richard

This is ridiculous that you think that. She has already been on TV her whole career.

@Chadders Spirituality, when conceptualized and practiced (which is the only spirituality worth talking about), is riddled with beliefs.

I could definitely see some New Agers support legislation to ban certain "low consciousness" behaviors; "New Age Sharia" if you'd like. Although I could also see how the belief in individual liberties might overrule that impulse You could argue spirituality in politics is by definition religion. When spirituality integrates into institutions, larger communities and the larger society, that's actually what you call religion. Spirituality integrating with politics is just that taken to the extreme (which is what Islam is known for).

Islam 😂

My guy explained a conceptualization of stress as if it's not stress but some mystical force

Either way, God doesn't give a fook.

Why did God create mildly uncomfortable feelings, like feeling sweaty or itchy?

So you're playing the non-dualist street preacher game and the implication is that "a conscious effect" is related to the ego and the ego is an illusion, right? Well, repetition of typing is also an illusion. So get played on your own game. You can always derail any discussion about reality into a non-duality preacher fest. But you don't have to do that. And it's also completely besides the point in this discussion. This is not the spirituality sub-forum.

I agree that "healthy habits" (things people generally perceive as hard or requiring discipline) generally need to be perceived as meaningful or rewarding for them to be taken up. But once they're taken up, it's hard to put them down.

It often is. But it is possible to use a certain conceptualization of solipsism (Absolute solipsism, Cosmic solipsism) and contrast it with the ego, like Bernardo Kastrup does in this 50 second clip: But yeah, the problem with using that term without adding a determiner like "Absolute" or "Cosmic" is that people get confused very easily and start equating it with the machinations of their ego. "Nonispism" could be a way to solve that confusion.

That's why you wrote it in 10 paragraphs.

Tl;dr: the problem of evil and original sin (or even shorter: karma).

Impress others enough so that impressing them is no longer impressive 😂

Omg.

"They have tried everything". Sounds like bullshit.

It's not simply about avoiding certain kinds of conscious thoughts. It's about avoiding possibly creating largely unconscious contractions and behavioral patterns that are counter to your goal. In other words, you should limit your "practice" to certain times of the day. After all, practice is not practice if there is no rest. That's called obsession.

Oh yeah, I'm pretty sure that is what my mom plays. I think I got to try to play it once and it made zero sense to me how it worked (maybe because I was like 7 years old 😆). My dad plays the violin and my parents tried to make me play it when I was 5 years old, but I didn't like it. Then my dad spotted me playing air guitar with this random wooden sword when I was 11, and he seized the opportunity and asked "should we buy you an electric guitar?". He is not a guy to simply buy stuff, so I was genuinely surprised and of course very happy. I think he was waiting for that moment all his life ; the spark of inspiration, intrinsic motivation. I think he implicitly (maybe explicitly, I can't remember) taught me about the concept of intrinsic motivation, and it's one of the deepest concepts I've learned that is still with me to this day. I think I can thank him for most of my wacky spiritual genes (although my mother has also become overtly more spiritual over time). Ah, so you are the frontman of Jethro Tull after all. I was going to ask you that Sitting on a park bench (I'll spare you the rest ). Hehe I might be exaggerating a little bit about how smooth I can pull it off, but I do like to whistle a lot, so much so I had to tone it down because I was pissing off my roommates while cooking

That can turn into a massive neurosis though, so beware. I'm speaking from personal experience. The thought "am I being conscious enough?" is the least conscious thing you can introduce into every aspect of your life.

Learn how to play an instrument.

Flute 😃 I like Jethro Tull. And that's about as far as my flute interest goes. Or maybe Camel or early King Crimson. My mom plays some kind of flute instrument that I forgot the name of. I can actually whistle the flute run in that one 🤓 Guitar, sometimes drums. Whistling.

Haha that's cool 😃 You still play music? I've only been "hired" to play in three family-related birthday parties (I was not paid in cash, only in honor, or laughs 😥).

That's not a problem. Meaning is often like that. You're looking for a special kind of meaning, an absolute meaning.

@Agrande I see. I'm happy that it ended well for you. It's not clear how SSRIs work to alleviate depression, but one hypothesis is that it causes neurogenesis in the hippocampus. The hippocampus can get damaged by excess cortisol (which is a factor in depression), and the hippocampus is involved in inhibiting the HPA axis, which effectively decreases the production of cortisol. It could be that taking SSRIs for a year restored some of your damaged hippocampus and thus dampened the chronic stress response associated with your depression.

Physicalism sounds elegant in comparison 😆