Carl-Richard

@undeather God daym 🤩 I don't know. Something like @undeather wrote: essential nutrients, anti-oxidants, etc. Things that aid in bodily processes. Not anytime recently. I got the vaccines a few years ago.

Those are good for battling the symptoms. I'm mostly interested in speeding up recovery.

I'm actually surprisingly better today, but I don't think I'm back to normal. One of the symptoms I had (eye pain) is now almost gone. I had a pretty good nights sleep (even overslept a bit by accident), which might have helped. I still appreciate you guys' responses. B complex or something more specific?

I read somewhere that one proposed mechanism for the brain fog is some type of immune cell in the brain getting out of wack and causing excess inflammation. A shock of adrenaline could maybe have some effect on that considering adrenaline's effect on the immune system. I also thought what if getting infected with a different virus could maybe "reset" the aforementioned immune cells? (I'm not trying that just yet though 😅). I'll try some cold showers.

Again, a method can be useful even if it's not always necessary. How do you explain the sense of progression and coherence from the beginning of the meditation session to the end where the awakening occurs? If what happens during the meditation doesn't matter at all, why is meditation the experience of getting more and more relaxation/bliss and awakening the experience of hitting a threshold of relaxation/bliss? Next scenario: I was on a plane on my way home from a vacation, and I decided to listen to music while breathing deeply and sitting in an extremely upright posture (my brother can vouch for the "extreme" part: he commented on it). Again, it was progressively building up to it, and maybe 45 minutes into it, I entered such a blissful state that a part of my mind eventually said "oh shit, I'm dying!". I quickly opened my eyes and tried to grab my water bottle from my backpack, and the most bizarre experience of my life happened: it was quite literally as if somebody else was moving my body and picking up the bottle for me and opening it. That is when I realized "oh shit, this is it". Then I looked out the window and saw the plane was about 10 seconds from landing, and then I was overcame by an immense wave of warm nostalgia and the realization that "this is where I have always been and where I always will be". I was about to shed tears of joy, but then I had to distract myself with the fact that I was on an airplane that had just landed. After that experience, I started having spontaneous awakenings. Now, would any of that have happened if I instead had opened a magazine, sat with a crouched posture and with shallow breathing (as I had done for the previous flights that summer)? As for the spontaneous awakenings after that, would they have started happening at exactly the same time if I didn't do what I did on that airplane? If "no" to either of these questions, are the "methods" involved in these scenarios not at the very least predictive? Well, the core "lesson" I got from that "change in state" was identical to all the other dozens (maybe hundreds) of awakenings I've had: "this is it". If you don't want to call this awakening or something that points to enlightenment, then at least invent some other term for me. Hell, even today with my covid-induced brain fog, I tapped into that experience again while listening to music and working out. It's gotten rarer over the years as I've (ironically) stopped meditating regularly, but it's still fundamentally the same experience: complete immersion and merging with reality, a lack of sense of distance between things, lack of sense of time, separation, "being the center", doership, self-concern. Meditation (for me) is just aimed at Being. It's a method, and an useful one at that. Contemplatation can also be a method that is useful. And just like any method, it might not be necessary for invoking the experience in question, but it can invoke it. Or lighting the fire and waiting to see when the building collapses. See, you do value method, just in an extremely constrained way. If you truly didn't value method, you wouldn't suggest contemplation as a method. And again, it is a method, because you can get the realization without contemplation, as I have, in fact in both experiences detailed in this thread. I can keep going on detailing my experiences. This virus isn't exactly making me concerned about brevity.

For example, "go meditate". Meditation is not useless if you want enlightenment. Let's get concrete: my first awakening happened during my first proper meditation session. As I was sitting, I became progressively more relaxed, my mind became more and more silent, and then those effects maximized and it felt like I was going to disappear if I kept going. I then opened my eyes and saw myself hovering 2 feet above my body. Then I looked up to the ceiling and started floating/melting upwards towards "heaven"; a level of bliss I had never encountered before. Then I jumped up in a panic as I did not expect that. Ever since that day, my mind has never been the same: it has always been extremely silent relative to what it used to be. Are you saying the meditation I was doing had nothing to do with the effects I was experiencing at the end of that meditation session? Do you not see how the effects at the beginning of the session and at the end exist on a continuum?

1. Talk to other people like you would talk to them face-to-face. If something is worth saying, you should be able to say it to their face. 2. You don't have to respond to every thread. If you feed low quality, that is what you get. If you engage with it, that is what you'll become. 3. Not every response is worth responding to. Allow yourself some level of self-respect. Your attention is valuable.

Yeah. But just pretend like it isn't. I feel like I can't follow the steps myself because I got covid 5 days ago and I'm experiencing the same intense brain fog which severely compromises my decision-making. Might as well take another 10-day break (ah, that should be the 4th step).

I know. But when conceding to speak about something (relativity), and assuming that you're doing it for a certain preferred outcome (relativity), whether or not that outcome if fully understood, all of this is relative, so might as well embrace it. If you can speak about something at all, it's also possible to speak about it in detail.

A wut?

Once every 4-5 months at most.

I struggle to see that. When did Razard mention anything about "Game B, Daniel Schmachtenberger, John Vervaeke, Jamie Wheel, and other systemic thinkers?"

I split it in 4: chest and triceps, back and biceps, shoulders, and legs. I'm a weird boy. "Only shoulders?". No, it's more like an upper-body workout that focuses on shoulders. The muscles in your body are highly interconnected functionally speaking. Even on so-called "pull days", you're inevitably going to train muscles that you target on "push days". The body is not dichotomous. That said, you should try to work out all your muscles, and splitting it up can be helpful for that.

😂

I always wanted to try pregabaline recreationally in my stoner days but never got to. How would you describe the effects?

From that perspective, sex with protection is a deviation.

Some of it. I don't really practice actively at the moment.

I don't usually, but if I have some and I'm planning to eat some fruit, I will most likely eat them.

@undeather When I don't eat enough carbs, I feel like it literally lowers my IQ, so this is not so far off actually

Did the thoughts have an "I/me/my" quality to them?

Meditation for me is literally just to sit and close my eyes.

I don't think these people call themselves geniuses, nor do they not recognize the geniuses of history. So what is disrespectful here according to you is me calling Daniel a genius but not mentioning every other possible example of a genius?

And then I can flip it on the head and say that every single significant non-dual experience I've had, the circumstances surrounding it was always indicative. Even the time I awoke on an airplane, or during an university lecture, or during my very first proper meditation session (i.e. situations that seemed like they happened out of the blue), I can always point to some set of factors that definitely had a positive contribution (and significant ones at that). These factors can be practiced and replicated across different individuals, times and situations, and meanwhile I agree that the realization itself always has an element of spontaneity to it, that doesn't mean the fire doesn't weaken the building. Besides, "being open" or "wanting to know your true nature" is a certain relative behavior that can also be indicative, and it's likewise not the same as the realization itself. If you want to be truly amethodical and "direct", being closed and not wanting to know your true nature should be equally as conducive to the realization, something which I've actually confirmed myself by the way. I was not at all consciously focused on "knowing my true nature" (which is just an idea in your mind by the way) in any of the aforementioned awakenings. They were simply cases of the right things coming together at the right time. There was no personal investment in the process that was unfolding. Additionally, I've been vocal about how the realization has been intruding on me despite me being actively resistant to it, further disproving the absolute role of "openness" in awakening. So there doesn't seem to be just one factor that you can reduce the realization to, and any such factor is not the realization itself. In summary: what you present as the sole factor is firstly not direct, and secondly one of many factors. Again, one in a hundred million saints.

This is what Blueprint is really about: 1:35:21 - 1:40:42

@LSD-Rumi Why are you acting like I didn't address your points one by one? Respond to my points.