Carl-Richard

@Danioover9000 6:46 I distinctly remember watching this segment live a couple of years ago. I felt that Dr. K was being a bit pushy with his conclusion ("you're on a mission to save kids") and that Reckful didn't truly resonate with it. It becomes much more obvious when it's cut like that. 39:05 Man that's really fucked up. After talking about how he might have BPD and that such people specifically struggle with the fear of abandonment, he said he would stick with him, but then he changes his mind and abandons him. Yeah, this is a mess. My main takeaway is that therapy ethics is a pool of collective wisdom which has been gathered over decades of clinical practice by thousands of highly knowledgeable people, which is not something that should be taken lightly. To undermine the importance of ethics displays a lack of awareness of the complexities of human interactions, power dynamics, the illusion of control, and systems of wisdom.

I think this exemplifies the dangers of working with frameworks that go beyond one's own level of development (using DocWatts' idea of "epistemic bypassing"). Instead of organically going through life and exploring different perspectives from the bottom-up, you apply a partial, top-down understanding to bootstrap and brute-force yourself up to a perceived place of superiority. Pretend to forget everything you know and sit down and feeeeel! What do you really want? Pursue that.

I was elaborating on the fallacious thinking around reincarnation. I don't understand.

"The way I see it" is always just a frame, or a thought, shared between two individuals, i.e. communication. This has been acknowledged already, which means this is an unproductive discussion. Let me demonstrate how unproductive it really is: To present a frame without mentioning that it is in fact a frame is not a contradiction of the fact that it is a frame. To do that, you have to change the focus of the communication to the communication itself (which you did by stating that its indeed just frames), which is called meta-communication. That is all you've done. What I'm saying is that the meta-communication has already occured. If you can't acknowledge this fact and instead continue responding with "that is also just a frame", then you're stuck in an infinite regress of not meta-communication but meta-monologue. Communication is when you grant the frames that the other person is presenting, not recursively undermining their frames by presenting your own frame (a type of power game), which is not postmodern irony but postmodern hypocrisy: deconstructing the other but not oneself.

Monism - reality consists of fundamentally one substance. Ontological Idealism - this substance is mental, not physical. - reality is experience, and everything you experience is fundamentally that; experience. Pantheism - this one substance is God. - God is not separate from the world or yourself. Mysticism - you can experience God directly, independent of beliefs. - you can experience what Jesus experienced, what Buddha experienced, Muhammad PBUH, Hindu mystics, Christian mystics etc.

@lmfao Nobody reincarnates. What is thought of as reincarnation is when memories stretch beyond the current physical body. You are not your body or your memories, thus you didn't reincarnate into this body or any past bodies.

Art at its peak is flow. It silences the inner critic. However, you can't always be at your peak (unless you're enlightened), because then it's not a peak anymore

What does that even mean? Are you saying awakening to non-duality is in fact dualistic? The way I see it is that you have a mystical experience (non-dualistic), and then you construct a conceptual understanding (dualistic) of it based on your cultural symbols (symbols that were communicated to you), and then you use that to communicate your understanding.

Haha yeah, only one person went to that group ? (it's not a big class though). I think he explained it as he doesn't believe in anything supernatural, but he thinks religious traditions and practices are useful for living a good life.

Haha I'm watching the latest JRE with JBP and apparently he has done kundalini yoga every morning for 20 years now. Around the 2:05:00 mark. He mentions chakras as well

...well that's a new one ?

I wonder what the average length of time that the big revolutionary thinkers throughout history (known and unknown) had to wait before their ideas became the mainstream paradigm (surely many of them died before that).

Yep. This goes back to my earlier point about conceding to the dualistic assumptions inherent in communication:

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The best way to approach JBP and SD is to look at where he is lacking, which has to do with mostly Green values. He is an atypical intellectual in that his mind is not incompatible with that kind of thinking (in the descriptive realm), but he has a blockage that doesn't allow him translate that over to the normative realm (how one should act in the world). So he can entertain wildy abstract and holistic models about cognition, constructivism and narratives, but when it comes to politics and morality, it's mostly Judeo-Christian essentialism. On the other hand, his fixation on the Judeo-Christian lineage is indeed connected to (if not entirely grounded) in his psychological understanding, which if we grant that his psychological understanding is as advanced as it is, then the explanation for this fixation is not cognitive underdevelopment but cultural/contextual factors (SD merges both into one construct; value systems. Lines/facets are derived after the fact). This is yet another example that we need developmental models that better take into account contextual factors ...or maybe he is just way more advanced than all of us and that the Green he is reacting to is indeed a virus (after all, he was a socialist in his early years and got a BA in political science) ?

The act itself wakes you up, but the after-effect makes you sleepy. So in total, the decrease in sleepiness from initiating the act will interact with and delay the subsequent increase afterwards, so it might take a bit longer to fall asleep, but you'll probably have a better chance of eventually falling asleep. I had trouble falling asleep when I did nofap. However, fapping before bed is a waste imo. It's less exciting and it creates a kind of hangover effect the next day.

Definitely.

But then you have to define reality and God as two distinct things. If your definition of reality is not everything that exists but instead a finite universe, then sure, but even there, God is still the fundamental reality (everything that exists).

It's also a wide and fuzzy category.

I think they were pantheists (at least Jesus was ). Jesus was a true mystic. Monotheism is what happens when those teachings get translated in a Faustian/Patriarchical world (the world of great empires). Idealism, pantheism and mysticism make up the simplest, most parsimonious worldview (having the least assumptions), because they collapse ontology ("what is") and epistemology ("how to know what is") into one thing. They're simply different ways of expressing Oneness.

Np Haha yeah I'm on a roll ? Thank you though! ?

Let's just say that most of that he didn't learn in university ("the implications of God's Absolute Infinity" is not on the curriculum ).

They're doing their job.

The small self is an illusion. The big Self is not an illusion.

What's Leo's main thing?