Carl-Richard

Because it's not occuring in your personal mind.

When it comes to INTP vs INTJ, the amount of Te vs Ti is mainly a question about degrees and whether it's mainly driven by personal affiliation or rationality. Destiny read up on the specific facts on the specific case because that is highly relevant to the topic, while Daniel mostly drew upon a wide range of different topics that are familiar to him. He didn't even know who the "policewoman" was.

"Only my life purpose is valid" ?

@trenton One of my closest friends since childhood is definitely on the spectrum and he is the smartest and sweetest guy I know.

It's the vast richness of what your mind and body is capable of, in terms of intelligence, in terms of self-deception, in terms of mechanical perfection. There is so much there.

You do follow instructions, but meditation is mainly something you do on your own. The technique doesn't catapult you to awakening. It's the intensity of your investigation into your own being.

Where do you draw the line though?

What makes a life purpose valid to you? The mastery and the states of flow you can get from these things, and sharing it with others, seems like a valid life purpose to me.

Did you ever play any sports as a kid?

I think there exists a trap in looking for the "perfect" method, or looking too much at results, or really just looking outside yourself when approaching something like meditation. Meditation for me has always been something extremely personal and not something I was taught. It's a learning by doing, constantly learning new things about yourself, about how your body works, how your mind works, how attention works, intention, lack of intention, etc. You get small insights along the way that makes you go deeper, in every tiny movement, every breath, every shift in posture. Looking inward is what the practice is about at the end of the day. That said, use every tool you've got. Whatever it takes to discover yourself, it's worth it.

Pushing the limits of your abilities, whatever it may be, is what is life is about. Everybody is different: some are spiritual, some are intellectual, some are artists, some are athletes. Be the best you can be

Wow

@Danioover9000 He is referring to the guy who made the video who didn't know Leo was talking about SD.

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Either a spiritual high or growing spiritually. You tend to build up a lot of human drama and emotional impressions throughout the day, and meditating for a while can unwind some of that and cause a "high" for the rest of the day. Spiritual growth is just the gradual process of that over one's lifetime. Times where spiritual growth becomes particularly evident is when you untie particular knots that cause greater resistance (e.g. healing a traumatic wound, or letting go of a big attachment). In a sense, this is the real measure of growth. The highs may help untie the knots, but the highs are somewhat limited in themselves.

Lol. I might add that when I had surrendered to trying to stop the refreshing motion from happening, I realized that the refreshing motion wasn't because of my inability to perceive the thing, but more that it was the inherent nature of the thing from my current perspective. It was as if I had zoomed in so closely that I could see the pixels on my screen of perception. Every "pixel" in this case was an oscillating, circular, morphing piece of "smudge", kinda like an actual refreshing icon: So imagine your visual field consisting of many refreshing icons like this closely next to each other (only the refreshing is maybe 0.5x speed, and it's made out of the things you're looking at): That was essentially what I discovered. And before you say "it's the 5HT2A agonism from the LSD and the weed though": our brains literally run on 5HT2A activity at baseline. I can still see the refreshing happening completely sober if I just focus for a moment, it's only very subtle. The way I got to have the insight may be due to the LSD, etc., but I can never unsee that.

It's very good for quickly finding literature or getting a rough overview of a subject. You can also do stuff like this:

Bro, just don't ask it degenerate questions ?

Wtf do you mean?

@zurew To add to that, alcohol consumption increased and physical activity decreased on average.

I one time meditated eyes open on my porch on a microdose of LSD, weed, 5-HTP, L-Theanine and green tea. The porch is on a height relative to the surrounding area, viewing a hill with houses and pine trees in the far distance. I was staring at one of the pine trees. I tried to really perceive the tree "as it really was", and the more I focused, I felt like I couldn't get it, as I kept feeling like my vision was shifting or refreshing in this kind of loop. So I tried to sit very very still, still looking at this little green and brown smudge of a tree, and then I figured that I was not going to get rid of this refreshing motion, so I just surrendered to that. Then suddenly, I was looking at this shifting piece of smudge, just looking at it, and I saw that "this is not real". It was as if I was seeing a virtual reality being rendered before my eyes, breaking the illusion of a solid reality. All it really was was this groundless projection. That freaked me out. I literally said "oohh shiit" and stood up and went for a walk. I walked to a bench that I used to get high on with my friends, and I just sat there semi-blissed out (this was the time I kinda half-hallucinated a phoenix taking off inbetween slowly blinking my eyes shut). This post reminded me of this

I'll wait for the next version, but I'll ask it then ? I'll actually ask it ?

Tbh, ChatGPT has filled a big hole in my life. I have so many moments where I want to know something but I can't find it on Google, so I just give up. Now this never happens ?

Aversion.

Was that the time it took to first suspect the connection, or was that the time it took to confirm the connection?