Carl-Richard

That's transmission right there

Sadhguru likes to give a lot of context when answering each question, which is a good thing when you're dealing with a novice audience, but also the way he speaks in general is extremely interconnected and holistic. Each sub-point much be understood relative to the larger point, which of course is long-winded and easily mistaken for endless rambling. He always comes around in the end if you let him go long enough, but the common interviewing style is way too impatient for that, so he tends to get cut off too early. People are accustomed to short bullet point answers. Their attention spans don't allow for wisdom.

After studying a bit of psychology, I've noticed a recurring trend in the structure of various models across many sub-disciplines (of course excluding behaviorism), something which I like to call the "cognitive data bank": internally stored information. I believe it's such a common thing because of the intuitive sense (and thus utility) of conceiving of people as carrying information inside their minds, whether conscious or unconscious, for the means of explaining behavior, experiences etc. I believe knowing about the cognitive data bank will make it easier to understand similar aspects of slightly different psychological theories. When learning a new theory, you might start to have the experience of "aha! – that's a cognitive data bank!" Here I will give a couple of examples of what I think are direct representations of (or deeply related to) the concept of the cognitive data bank (obviously starting with the concept of memory): 1 Cognitive science 1.1. Memory 1.1.1 Short-term memory 1.1.2 Long-term memory 1.2 Cognitive schemas (Beck) 2 Psychodynamic theory (Freud etc.) 2.1 The Unconscious https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychodynamics 2.2 Object relations (Klein etc.) https://www.simplypsychology.org/Melanie-Klein.html 3. Attachment theory (Bowlby etc.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_theory 3.1 Internal working model 4. Coping strategies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coping 4.1 Appraisal theory (Lazarus) 4.2 Religious coping (Pargament) The examples under point 4. are less obvious, but hopefully you'll still be able to spot the part of the model where the internally stored information occurs. Anyways, that's it (maybe I'll add more over time). Hope you found it interesting

Resilience.

You can't be sure if your seat belt helped you in a crash, but you have statistics on your side.

Show us your pets

Well, you'll probably notice that I'm pretty stupid then Ok now we're dragging the metaphor a bit far.

This suddenly became very cryptic

Fun fact, the personal experience I talked about devolved into a cult. Not saying it will though. However, I think it's more about maintaining the community and not allowing people to leech in this fashion. It's like setting up a burger stand in the McDonald's parking lot. ?

Np!

Online communities split off and duplicate all the time. I have personally experienced this in the past.

I didn't, but I would. I also like to think that it at least postponed it and made the infection less severe. It's like asking if I regret wearing a seat belt in a car crash because I got both the hassle of putting on the seat belt and crashing the car. Who knows how much that seat belt saved me?

Yes.

No?

To say that these things are Love is essentially to say that these things are reality. Whether you like them or not only tells you where your biases lie, and apparently they're pretty human biases. You just have to take off your human glasses and experience reality as it is without resisting it.

All you need to know is that it's a substantial amount of people.

It's pretty logical. When you love something (even in a biased way), you experience more of it, which means that more of reality reveals itself to you, thus reality is Love.

What do you love? Your parents, your partner, your friends, your pets, your hobbies. Do you love all humans? All animals? All activities?

You've mistaken bias for love.

I would choose vaccine side effects over COVID side effects every single time. I finally caught the virus 2 weeks ago and I still don't feel 100%. The worst part is the brain fog.

When you listen to someone talk or even look at them, their state of consciousness is contagious, whether it's filled with negative or positive emotional content. This is how empathy works. Likewise, listening to an enlightened person tends to have a specific effect, and for me, I immediately get pulled into a meditative state. In fact, it's sometimes so strong that I have to stop watching, but that has to do with how I'm constantly living on the brink of persistent non-symbolic awareness and have done so for almost 2 years now after I gave up spiritual seeking, and it happens by itself if I relax for a while. I'm actively fighting it every day by intentionally comprimising my health just enough to stay "normal", because I fear death.

Most of my t-shirts and all of my jackets are navy blue (the dark, greyish kind). I often wear a cap which is also navy blue. Sometimes I'm pulled towards wearing red or white. My favorite color has always been red.

I'm significantly better now, 2 weeks since first symptoms.

To the people involved

I just want to leave this quote here about my development to really underscore the fact that this is indeed possible (and to give more emphasis on the physical health aspect; diet and exercise). I also think this is some of my most important insights which I will continue expanding on in the future, so I won't mind bumping once to see if more people resonate with it.