Carl-Richard

So you're not really talking about "this actual body, the exact one that I’m touching and feeling right now", but rather the general experience of having a body? In other words, you think you will experience having a body for all of eternity, irrespective of any particular body? Well, then basically your only option is that when your current body dies, you'll immediately be reincarnated as a new human being, or did you have anything else in mind?

But if somebody created a new body from scratch, could it ever possibly be your body?

Ok, but are we talking about "when it was happening", or are we talking about something happening in the future?

That's like saying "I'm incapable of having sex because I'm a virgin". Last night, I dreamt I was sitting in a heated military meeting next to Vladimir Putin on a navy blue sofa, inside a bunker located near the icy border of Kirkenes, discussing the imminent invasion of Norway. Surely, this must be reality, right? The fact that your body is capable of repairing itself for small amounts of physical damage within a relatively short time frame is not an indication that your body is immune to things like aging, illness or severe physical damage, which are the leading causes of death.

Lol apparently this has a name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_psychiatry#autistic_thinking Maybe I'm autistic after all

That is a myth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_construction_of_schizophrenia

Why should that be true? And maybe change your profile picture.

The real thought experiment you want to think about is to put Osho in a silent room with nothing in it for an hour and then a normal person, and then compare the two.

At some point, you have to let go of all your attachments. Practices are just means to that end.

A few talks on infant, animal and organoid consciousness. To summarize, they claim that there are good reasons to believe infants are conscious (have a private personal experience of things like pain), even right after they're born, same for animals, while organoids (parts of brain tissue grown in labs) are less conclusive (but still raises interesting questions). They then tie it up to AI in the Q&A.

This is basically my gym (and I go there voluntarily ?)

You can't just talk about what you think is interesting all the time (that is my insight). And socializing can still be fun despite that.

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When I think of transmission, I usually think of the tendency of humans to influence each other at subtler levels than thought or language, but it technically happens at every level of their being. That is fundamentally what empathy is, although that word is mostly used in the emotional domain. But you could extend it to non-human things as well, as everything influences your mental state. For inducing a more primordial state, nature walks are an obvious option, or looking at a vast landscape or large mountains. I think those things often depend on learning through concepts, or at least through experience, but it can also happen spontaneously.

Life goes on without you.

My dude, he is talking about the personal psychological mind, and you're talking about the transpersonal field of Consciousness.

?? There is something called Figure 8 straps ? No mountain is too big.

If they weren't (), you could easily run a simple correlation analysis between exercise and general well-being (I could do that if you do the heavy work of filling in the Excel sheets )

Rack pull 3.5 times your bodyweight is very intense, oh yes

or Sat-Chit-Ananda?

Gary Weber awoke while working as a senior manager of R&D in a big manufacturing business, but it took him 25 years and 20 000 hours of daily practice. https://www.reddit.com/r/Meditation/comments/rkxifs/how_bhagavan_ramana_maharshi_changed_my_life_gary/

For the right person, they can be devastatingly effective. Besides, I don't buy that a teacher only teaches through their words. It happens at every level of their being: behavioral, emotional, intellectual, energetic. You can know this if you hang out with a depressed person all day vs. a happy person. They're "teaching" you their mental state.

Haha no problem. Religion as a general phenomena of course has a lot of wisdom, and I would prefer to practice mysticism in an environment that is actually supportive of it and which is also not in some cult leader's garage.

Returning to the experience of God as myself, à la mysticism.

I can also talk a bit about my personal experiences viewed through the three-way split I've been talking about: In my late teens, I was stuck in a kind of Peter Pan syndrome, constantly living life in a daze of fantasy and comfort-seeking; no sacrifices, no taking responsibility of living in the world. Every real-world action had to be in perfect alignment with my highest ideals and the feeling of safety and comfort, or else it wouldn't be worth it. At some point, you're fed a dose of reality and pushed to make some sacrifices and compromises, which culminated when I was 21: I was given an ultimatum by my mother to straighten up or get lost, replaced smoking weed with meditation, started pursuing academics, became more focused on health; a transition away from primal impulses. Amidst all of that, I had a bunch of spiritual awakenings, but I realized that I wasn't ready to surrender to God, which brought me a lot of pain, but that whole journey also gave me some "edge" psychologically. Then I became very heavily focused on the mind, and today, the focus is on integrating emotional and social aspects. The next step after that is probably returning to God (mysticism).