Carl-Richard

Experiment: try a sauna at high intensity for ~5 minutes (if under 90 C°, throw water on the oven while standing on top of the bench with your head as close to the ceiling as possible; the more stinging pain, the better). Our sauna at the gym closed down for a week, and when it came back and I did that, I literally got high for 3 hours ?

This is such a beautiful song and a beautiful moment for Mikael as a musician considering he used to not be comfortable with singing.

omg this sounds like when my buddy tried a pinky dip of cocaine.

Like a Leo quote compilation lol Non-dual spirituality (Advaita Vedanta, Buddhism, New-Age, perennialism, mysticism, etc.) defines Truth as seeing through the illusion of separation and aligning your life with that understanding, and this coincides with the end of suffering. There is no contradiction there. Out of all of these traditions, Leo is the outlier. His conception of Truth goes beyond the former definition of Truth, and to understand what he is talking about, you cannot use the techniques of the aforementioned traditions. You need to do the right amount of psychedelics and the right amount (and type) of thinking. If you want to deconstruct the Buddhist worldview, you should also deconstruct Leo's worldview. While the former relies on meditation and contemplation, he relies on psychedelics. This shapes his epistemology, which shapes his metaphysics. Psychedelics work differently from meditation. Am I saying one is better than the other? No. But, deconstruction is not deconstruction without deconstructing everything, including yourself. Am I saying you don't know this? No. I'm just saying it.

I would ask if they were going to do it.

ENTPs who like MBTI ?

Imagine you're at a fat loss convention. They will be very anti-cake. Normal people can eat cake and stay fit, but fat people often eat too much cake, so they'll try to address that problem by talking about the negative effects of cake. Self-help is the same thing, only applied to sex, energy, motivation, etc.

Is Ayahuasca not mainstream in the Amazon tribes? I think "mainstream" is a bad concept when talking about drugs, because 1. very few things are mainstream in the first place (if we define it as something that most people do from time to time), and 2. what going mainstream looks like is not one fixed result. 1. When it gets legalized and researched more closely, it will grow in popularity and then stabilize in its own niche, like with all things, but not all people will use it. Skydiving is not illegal, but it's hardly something all people do. Weed is legal in many places now, but it's not like all people do it now. 2. The psychedelic experience varies greatly after how much you know about it, what kind of person you are, in what context you take it in, etc. It's not "one thing". I know many people who take psychedelics without having any truly deep insights about existential topics and just take it to have fun. And even if they experience something resembling ego death, they'll probably experience some positive change, but moreover they'll probably fear it or underestimate its implications. I doubt popularization of psychedelics on its own will lead to a collective spiritual evolution by any stretch of the imagination. Most people won't be interested, and it wont be a magical cure for low development. This is a much bigger challenge than "turning on, tuning in, and dropping out" like we tried in the 60s. We need a deeply integrated and holistic approach; wide-scale and multi-faceted political and cultural revamping.

@Kksd74628 I can't imagine a less Tier 2 thing than removing voting. Voting is a cornerstone of democracy in the world, and democracy is a cornerstone of the Tier 2 project. Like Jamie Wheal says, the conditions for Game B (Tier 2) were actually set with the founding fathers. They were just never properly implemented. "We're are not here to honor the dead, we're here to re-commit to the promise."

@Vibroverse My thoughts are of value to you, because they're not already inside of you. My thoughts, like Western philosophy, provide insight into the content of reality; of the way we cognize and understand 'things' in reality. Being is beyond content; beyond cognition, beyond understanding. It's the groundless ground. You can't use it to build anything. It's an infinite free fall. It's just there, and of course, denying it is stupid, but you shouldn't use it to deny philosophy.

It's not the only reason. I just mentioned something which hasn't already been mentioned. I think removing democracy requires a certain narcissism; the belief that you've got everything figured out, and that everybody else should follow suit. Even if it were the case that you actually got things figured out, what if I don't want that? Who are you to say how I should live my life? What if instead of "system thinking, important models and morality", you said "the Bible" or "the Quran"? To a normal citizen who has no grasp of these things, there is nothing that will stop them from viewing you like the next Hitler or Stalin.

Can you read my thoughts?

Self-efficacy in a general sense is about the extent to which you believe you have control over your life. Removing voting is one way of undermining that belief, and it has consequences for your psychological health.

Self-efficacy is fundamental to living a healthy life.

No, that is called dogmatism. Most philosophers that are worth listening to embody a certain level of epistemological pragmatism, i.e. they see their philosophies as just philosophy, not as reality. The only way you'll get this impression is if you listen to popularizers of science like Neil deGrasse Tyson or Richard Dawkins. A materialist or physicalist isn't necessarily a dogmatist either. Non-dual mysticism is a very simple and reductionistic philosophy, and it doesn't take you very far in terms of describing or explaining the contents of reality. Sure, you have to posit certain irreducible assumptions to go beyond it, but it's worth it when you see all the good it can do. Western philosophy is not empty, and it has relevance to the human experience.

Nothing is total bullshit, and everything is different.

Is weed mainstream yet?

Makes sense as usual. I would emphasize the necessity of strictly commiting to the structure of the schedule so that the meditation is not driven by compulsion or uncertainty (or is distracting you during your daily activities), but is instead outsourced to a structure outside the craving and clinging self. You want to avoid making meditation a part of that which meditation is supposed to address.

Critical Theory and its offshots, especially Critical Psychology. The concepts of construct and context awareness I got from Cook-Greuter's Ego developmental model, as well as from reading about systemic communication theory (Bateson) and community psychology (Bronfenbrenner, Sameroff, etc.). I also wrote a short university thesis on the role of systems thinking in community psychology, and I incorporated those concepts there. There were a few books involved, but the only English one was "Community Psychology: In Pursuit of Liberation and Well-Being".

Golf ball to the face and you're dead.

Literal NPCs.

Last Zappa thing I'm posting, I swear . Steve Vai won a grammy for this live performance of Zappa's "Sofa", played at his tribute concert just after his death:

I agree. The intention might be love, but there is still a delusional element regarding the nature of such a relationship. However, that is different from a psychopath who has no consideration for other people, and those are the people who are responsible for most of the child molesting cases. Many pedophiles are non-offending because they actually care about other people.

Yeah I'm not going to argue that hebephilic relationships are not problematic within a 1st world frame, and that we probably should classify it as a mental disorder. However, you somewhat bailed on my original argument where I was saying that you should expect pedophiles to treat people they're sexually attracted to with love, not as an outlet for the desire to dominate (because after all, a pedophilia diagnosis is separate from an ASPD diagnosis). However, again, that is not to say that such a relationship will be good for the child.

I didn't catch that even after watching it 3-4 times lol. I still understood perfectly what he was saying though Idk man, the way he applied the concept of nested tuplets was just beyond genius, both cognitively and musically.