Carl-Richard

@Oeaohoo I've simplified the abomination of a response I made yesterday so it maybe makes more sense. I think I sat in the sun too long ?

I literally get an adrenaline rush every time I listen to it. It's like a Pavlovian response for going apeshit There is just something about evil-sounding atmospheric synths combined with really heavy guitars that makes me take off. Mmmyes, I really like Black Metal when it's not too low-fi ("how dare he!" ).

He is currently on a 7 day break from the forum. We'll keep this in mind for the future.

The "you" that you think you are is a dream character that you are imagining.

"20 stabs in the back in self-defence". Wait... is Varg to Euronymous what Heisenberg is to ... well... everyone?

Let me first preface by referring to something I said in the beginning (it's not a firm line): I'm secondly viewing the frameworks mostly through their "teaching style", i.e. which specific metaphors or explanatory constraints they're utilizing. It's the case that some of the metaphors in nondual mysticism are more tied to something in the 3D realm (like "Mary and Jane's dream", an analogy used by Rupert Spira), i.e. normal human objects and events. It also reflects where the teaching style is derived from: the practices are generally done sober in human form, and even the peak states are considered "normal" to some extent. On the other hand, psychedelic mysticism (Leo's teachings) is much less embodied in this respect. He will easily go to things like "you can imagine that the couch is sentient and start a conversation with it" or "you can stop imagining the entire universe right now if you were truly conscious". It too reflects where teaching style is derived from, namely the more overtly hyper-dimensional realm ("5-MeO/N'N-DMT hyperspace"). When it comes to the naturalistic frameworks, their "teaching style" is very much confined to the human side of things. If there is anything that linear human reasoning has a bad time grasping, it's the hyper-dimensional realms of those encountered in psychedelic states (maybe I should've just called it the "psychedelic realm" instead). This emphasis on teaching style is some of what I was trying to communicate with the two "inarticulated" levels, by pointing to that there are indeed teaching styles that utilize silence over speech ("the teachingless teaching"), e.g. aspects of Apophatic theology, which sort of collapses the comprehensiveness-specificity continuum and deconstructs the concept of teaching, and you can make the case that it merges with "the reality as it is". I have to admit that I was experiencing a strong feeling of dissonance when I first made the thread, which was one motivation for simplifying the layout. I've definitely not resolved that dissonance yet (which may be indicated by my verbose explanations), and you pointing to inconsistencies might help with that process, so thank you

I simplified it because I felt the two inarticulation levels were firstly a bit distracting from the overall point, and that they didn't fit well with the blocks on the left, and that most people are already familiar with the "map vs. territory" distinction anyway. I'm also generally starting to favor elegance over detailedness (especially when it comes to things like visualizations which are supposed to be simple).

https://civilizationemerging.com/what-i-learned-about-being-a-man-from-my-dad/

I've had some recurring themes in my dreams since I was little that I would be in a place that was either very similar to a familiar place (like my house) or a combination of several places, and sometimes I could explore a completely undiscovered part of that place. For example, one very common dream is that I would be in the first house I grew up in and that the cellar would have a hidden passage behind a bookcase which lead to this vast underground hall, like a secret royal palace with a tall ceiling like in a cathedral, and it had a feeling of mystery and scariness to it, and I thought it had infinitely many rooms. Then in the second house I grew up in, I would have a similar thing where I would be in the attic and be able to see through the floor down to the kitchen below, and I could float down into the kitchen and then continue down into this vast hall again, but this time it was more of a true underground mountain hall (dark and misty), like those in LoTR or in the game Motherload. Another such dream was that my grandmother's house would be like a kind of palace again, but not as vast as the other one. It's just like a nice house with extremely many rooms, bathrooms, baths and miscellanous rooms. I think the best description would be luxurious.

You didn't happen to read about his adventures with his dad?

I've had severe addictions before. In order to quit a habit, you need to rewire every possible manifestation of it in your life, and most of the work is done in the first month, but to fully weed it out (no pun intended) takes years. The mindfulness aspect is really crucial. You need to be aware of all the moments you're used to engage in the habit, preferably before it arises (but you also have to expect to be surprised), and you have to consciously inspect and expect your emotional state when those moments happen (not just the general intensity of it, but every type of situation it happens in).

I'll post the golden oldies here:

It contains carcinogens and deteriorates your gums, and I believe it's not generally sold outside of Scandinavia. If you're concerned about health, just chew nicotine gum.

This is me with you Her Fe will be spellbound by my Fi arguments and I'll say it's vegan or something

@Artsu @thisintegrated Ok, here is a challenge for anybody who dares to type me (?): go to my profile and take ONE random post of mine from each month of this year (12 in total) and type each one of them. The one who gets the best pattern wins! ?

Because I dislike MBTI? Ok bro

Lol how many posts have you read from me?

Am I that though?

@thisintegrated The kind of thinking in this thread reminds me of something I used to do when I was 18 years old and completely obsessed with how drugs work. I would look up every drug on psychonautwiki and correlate the phenomenology with the pharmacology, and then make general inferences based on that. For example, I would think things like: "visual acuity? That's glutamate." "Physical euphoria? That's dopamine and serotonin." "Fine motor movements? That's acetylcholine." Then over time, I would look at all the overlapping receptor systems and effects and ask myself: "how meaningful are these correlations really?" I started to suspect they were extremely superficial, and of course the logical conclusion to that is to look at specific studies of statistically rigorous science and not just haphazardly correlate general descriptions. This same process happened to me with MBTI. Now, when you say "this is just because you're FiTe — you don't like to use Ti and make logical inferences", my counter to that is that I obviously know how to use Ti very well, or else I wouldn't understand your Ti arguments at all, and that I even prefer to use it quite often, or else I wouldn't be addicted to self-admitted Ti giants like Bernardo Kastrup (he finally talked about it). No, the difference between me and you is the level of conviction we have in some of our inferences, and I believe that my low level of conviction when it comes to MBTI is actually derived using logic, not merely as a blind appeal to authority "because it feels right." Anyways, enough about me ?

HAH! ENFP > ENTP ???

Playing devil's advocate can be useful, but it has a trap of insincerity to it. The odds are that there is something in spirituality that deeply resonates with you, but you just need to find out exactly what that is so you can parse out what you consider to be dogma. Read some of the different perspectives within Psychology of Religion and see how they define and understand spirituality: William James, Sigmund Freud, Abraham Maslow, Gordon Allport and Kenneth Pargament to name a few.

Keep it simple. Nature and chill music.

I would use the word "psychic" instead of "mystic" in this context. Mystics simply want to experience God. Psychics have psychic abilities, and they may achieve them through mysticism or the occult.