Carl-Richard

"Demons", "entities", "energies", are frames to make sense of your experience, and often less fortunate ones at that. They assume some sort of malevolent force or agent that is involved, which may not be the case and which can complicate and magnify the traumatic response (which is a more appropriate frame imo). Traumas happen quite easily without involving malevolent agents, and when they are involved, they tend to be worse. So be cautious about invoking such notions after a traumatic experience, especially when the reason to do so is not clear. Have you ever seen a demon with your own eyes? Have you ever seen a demon that you for sure knew was personally invested in inflicting harm on you? If not, what use does that frame have? Is it not enough to say you underwent a traumatic experience and that you felt that it left a mark on you?

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I'll echo the title for this video 😂:

I didn't watch it yet. Maybe I'll do that today.

It's time for my bimonthly Destiny post: The context is Dan critiquing Dr. K's affiliation with Ayurveda (which he equates to homeopathy, which is a mistake in itself, but not the biggest one). The big mistake is when Dan critiques homeopathy by mixing theoretical claims with empirical claims, and Destiny does a decent job at pushing back. His argument is essentially "homeopathy is 100% bullshit, because it's not supported by current theories of pharmacology". Even though current theories of pharmacology don't jibe well with homeopathy, that doesn't mean we can't find significant effects in a study or that we can't get new theories in the future. 38:23 - 50:03 Notice how he later capitulates to "I trust the experts" when he gets cornered (I know it's a funny "jab" at one of Destiny's arguments for supporting COVID vaccines, but at the same time, it seems like he meant it). That's the dogmatism. The problem is that no expert would agree with what he just said. There were also some factual errors about the placebo effect (it doesn't just affect pain, but all kinds of psychological and physical conditions) and probably some other things (Destiny misdefining the Nocebo effect was hilarious). As if it needs to be said, I would be careful taking medical or scientific advice from these guys.

I already somewhat touched on it with how no expert would agree with what he just said, but another mistake (which also goes back to mixing theoretical claims with empirical claims) is when Dan implicitly equates Destiny appealing to experts for evaluating the empirical state of COVID vaccines with Dan appealing to theoretical claims of experts when he should actually be appealing to their evaluation of the empirical research. Those are two different things. One involves admitting the limitations of one's knowledge, the other involves fundamentally misunderstanding the scientific process.

I was so close to stopping the video because of too much cringe, but I somehow persisted. At some point, it just becomes self-harm, like intentionally ingesting poision (like homeopathy) 😆

I think this is what you think the law states (which I mostly agree that it should state and which warrants a different and more suitable name), but I think most people have a more flowery conception of it, hence I was referring to the "usual conception" of it.

The problem is that taking DXM produces a state reminiscent of dementia, so that defeats the purpose 😂

When you put it like that, it's less accurate, but not invalid, because it's more general. If everything functions according to attraction, then you're describing a more general phenomena. The usual conception has the opposite problem: it's too specific, and unreasonably so (because given the option, you would probably not use it, imo). It says you attract things that you intend to attract, but it misses that you sometimes attract things that you don't intend to attract but which you're inadvertedly paying attention to. But these are really trivial knitpicking points. You can use whatever words you like

Masturbate more, overeat nutritious foods (proper ratio of carbs, fats, proteins), avoid strong daylight when possible, learn to adopt sub-optimal hunched-over postures, perpetually tighten the left side of your abdomen (even when falling asleep), constantly distract yourself with your phone or conceptual thinking, sleep on your stomach. Your goal is to reinstate a suitable level of contracted energy in all of your daily behaviors.

Life is a distraction.

I think there is a saying that goes like "tripping is like holding up a mirror"

You experience being the author of your actions, but you also experience things being outside of your control, and these things influence your actions, and your actions influence these things. Hence compatibilism: determinism and a certain type of free will are compatible.

My first trip gave me a hard lesson in the first of the Four Noble Truths: the truth of suffering. I was grasping so hard, wanting to have a fun experience on the substance, while the grasping itself became the only thing I could focus on, and it left me feeling more empty and hollow than I had ever felt before. That kick-started my search for "something more" (which ironically involves the end of looking for something more).

I'm tempted to post a video of Jan Esmann showing you exactly what kundalini energy is, but I believe kundalini is so real that it would be like assault to do so.

And that is to be expected

Yeah, there is probably some other guy camouflaged in the woods who is high as a kite on LSD and looks at OP on his nature walks and thinks "man, this guy is so stuck in his routines, he is not even dropping psychedelics on his nature walks; I'm getting so irritated watching him do this every day" (must be a microdose I guess). Meanwhile, there is a second guy travelling through the woods in astral form, thinking "man, these people are so stuck inside their bodies, it's so irritating watching them do this every day". Then you have the mystic sitting under a tree thinking "bruh, these guys spend so much time engaging in forms, they don't even know about the formless" and then goes back to the void. Then you have the Buddha at the gas pump eating a hot dog.

The more I socialize with people, the more I think about what I might be missing in terms of insight, perspective or mere perception that they are tuned into and which I am not.

I've been revisiting Linkin Park the last couple of days for the massive dose of nostalgia. The band is literally the sound of my generation; truly iconic, innovative and talented, especially Chester (RIP). My first CD my dad gave me that I had wished for, was Linkin Park. It was a live concert CD to my surprise, but it didn't really matter (pun intended). It was from 2008, and I think I got it the same year: Back then, my favorite song from that album was for some reason "No More Sorrow". It was probably the metal-y buildup. Today, I find especially "Crawling" and "What I've Done" much more impacting, lending much to how I now realize how they were an authentic reflection of Chester's suffering. Those two songs made me emotional when I heard them again. Again, great band, famous for a reason, or I'm just molded in their image.

I prefer summing up everything that has been said here in one phrase: "absolute vs. relative". But maybe I'll fall in love with talking about it all day again some day.

Can a person ever be deluded about what is real?

My unconscious biases are not real? 🤔