Carl-Richard

Well, I tried to rationalize why the fuck the one dude with the bald spot and blue t-shirt looks exactly like me when shot from the side. I spent 5 minutes rewinding the same clip

Scrolling my subscriptions on YouTube

Like shit.

I've gone way longer than that.

@Someone here Did you watch the video? ?

I recently found out that the crux of the insights about meaning, health and wisdom that I've had these last few years were all laid out by Socrates, Plato and Aristotle ?

Maybe read the guidelines one day. https://www.actualized.org/forum/guidelines/

According to attachment theory, the child has two primary needs: love/comfort vs. exploration. Both need to be satisfied for the child to grow. It involves letting the child get exposed to challenges and then getting love and comfort when they feel scared or upset. Then, as the child grows, they will internalize this regulatory capacity and become resilient as well as sensitive human beings. When those two needs aren't properly addressed during childhood, you generally end up with an emotionally dysregulated person. For example, lack of love can lead to trauma and dissociation, complex PTSD, borderline, etc., while lack of exploration can lead to anxiety, depression, etc.

Air traffic controller for flying cars

Holy shit

Get used to it already.

No ?

It's the perfect name.

I think science started with Pythagoras

Omg

This is the language of addiction. I'm fluent in it. The odds are that if life is bad now and you're introducing a new habit which involves addictive drugs, it's the warning signs of the beginning of a downward spiral. When you use more and more drugs, your life gets worse and worse, and then the drug use becomes worse and worse, etc. The only safe option is to replace the drug with a different coping mechanism which doesn't involve ever-escalating tolerance and ever-escalating dosages, preferably something physical like heavy exercise, saunas, cold showers, sports.

I frankly think that you would have to try very hard to misunderstand it if you actually take the time to read everything from start to finish. I almost decided not to write it because it felt almost too obvious to even mention.

Think of it this way: 3 times a week could be considered one of the last steps before daily use, and if you happen to experience some difficult time in your life, your first option of escape will be into that kind of habit.

The category of "focusing on states over growth" is distinct from "focusing on growth over states". In one sense, the categories describe a difference in degrees, so of course there is overlap, and of course both psychedelics and meditation impact both states and growth. What I'm saying is they're useful categories. Why are they useful? Because Leo says that ALL the people in the other category are "not awake", and it's because ALL the people have a different focus than him. If all people fit into one place because they're all doing the same thing, then that is a good justification for placing them in a category.

Then I don't see how you added anything new other than renaming each concept

Woops. Forgot "GHB receptor" is a thing. I was thinking about how both show activity at GABA-B.

I'm talking about a focus and approach, not about the potential benefits of either psychedelics or meditation. In psychonautics, the focus is on states > growth. In spirituality, the focus is on growth > states.

Their job is to represent my beliefs and desires.

It has the same pharmacological profile as GHB, which can thought of as a mix between MDMA and alcohol.

Yep, that's what I struggle with.