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I remember being offended once when some Christian fundamentalist on TV told a bunch of children that "the scientists don't know what truth is". I was 16 ?

As a matter of fact, I did leave a comment the first time I watched it: "You say QM is shrouded in confusion because you need some experience in the field in order to understand it. What if the same applies to mysticism? How can I know you're not misunderstanding mysticism? Where is your "PhD" in mysticism?" Let's just say he didn't take it seriously at all ("mysticism is garbage" "mystics are hacks"). In fact, I have used it before I even read about it specifically, because Ken Wilber incorporates it into the cognitive line of his AQAL framework (which is what makes SDi (Spiral Dynamics Integral) an elaboration of SD). I intuited some of the concepts from there, but it made the relationship much more clear when I read about it directly. It's very useful for understanding exactly how the mind operates at different stages of SD development. To put it in the language of MHC, Dave refuses to see the potential cross-paradigmatic operations that exist between the paradigms of QM and mysticism. It's mainly because he has no incentive to investigate the mystical paradigm or the mechanics of how the two paradigms relate. It's not even certain that he is aware that paradigms are constructs and that QM is only one system/paradigm out of many (which places him at sub-metasystematic cognition; low construct&context awareness). Greasy foods, fried foods, processed foods, red meat, sugary drinks (diabetes). Let's not forget heart disease as well. Alcohol is metabolized to acetaldehyde in the body. Whatever you've read about the supposed health benefits of alcoholic drinks, it's never the alcohol. It's going around that some chemicals in red wine are good for the heart, and somehow that is interpreted as it's the alcohol that is good for you. Not at all. Then the article would be about vodka and not wine. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3959903/ Seeing the relationship between QM and mysticism is a matter of comparing frameworks, not a matter of verifying hypotheses. Again, MHC is useful for understanding the difference: The hypothetico-deductive method (the scientific method) happens at the formal operational level (level 10). It deals with simple one-dimensional, monofactorial logical propositions. Comparing mysticism and QM happens at the level of cross-paradigmatic complexity (level 15-16). It deals with large, multivariate collections of systems and how they interrelate. Trying to validate the relationship between QM and mysticism using scientific verification is like trying to do science by grammar correction.

High-level bodybuilding is super unhealthy on so many levels.

You're talking about good art

There is already an ongoing thread about this. You may post there.

I'm not awake because I turn it down every second of my existence.

I'm still writing it, but I'm almost done and it's going great. My supervisor was really intrigued by it

One way to define art is that it sticks out from the mundane. So what about postmodern art? Well, postmodern art isn't just about the object of attention. It plays with context and self-reference in such a way that for example a mundane thing being displayed in an art museum suddenly becomes not mundane and thus art. It's a higher dimensionality of art that is self-aware and context-aware. It comments, reacts, contradicts and deconstructs the classical conceptions of art. There is a lot of meaning there, but not as explicit or even implicit (it's meta-implicit). I'm not saying nikocado avocado is a postmodern artist, but his expression and his way of being still strikes me as artistic, intentional or not. The state of being that creates art (the "non-mundane") is about emotionality, flow, authenticity, creativity, and that is what I'm picking up on.

Art is fundamentally about expression. It's a way of being. It doesn't need a well-thought-out message, not in our postmodern world

Artists are weird people. I come from a family of artists

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@Shin @Rilles I don't watch this guy, but he strikes me as an artistic person. It's not the fat, it's not the eating. He used to be a professional musician according to some youtube comment.

It's not really about the eating. It's his demeanor, facial expressions and performative comedic style. Watch the violin video.

People saying he is crazy when the obvious explanation is that he is an artist.

Feels bad man. I'm going to a private Christian university in Norway, and our psychology department is Greener than Portland, Oregon on a Friday night. I was allowed to write an assignment on "what role does systems thinking and holism play in community psychology?"

Even if LSD itself is unlikely to be broken down by monoamine oxidase, a MAOI could still have downstream effects on the altered production of endogenous monoamines that the LSD is causing. Remember that the brain is a complex system.

I first interpreted that as Rupert Spira's "the mind silences in the sight of beauty", but then I realized you meant the ego death of rejection

As awareness increases, you naturally gravitate towards healthy behaviors. You become acutely aware of how your body feels when it ingests poison. You can also feel the impermanence of sensory pleasures (not as thought, but as feeling).

If we don't need any laws, why would we need to remove them?

Which one is better: getting enough sleep or eating enough food? I would say both are pretty helpful. Whatever it comes to in life, having a holistic approach never hurts.

How many hours exactly have you been awake when trying to sleep? If you've been awake for more than 24 hrs, many of your body's endocrine systems will think it's daytime, so you'll most likely feel less tired than say 6 hrs earlier.

I used to have anxiety all the time. Nowadays, generally speaking, the only times I get anxiety is if I'm not doing what I'm supposed to be doing. When I look back, I think the anxiety had a lot to do with exactly that, or more specifically I didn't know what I was supposed to be doing. In one sense, that question was never definitely answered, but I chose to establish some certainty by picking a path and sticking to it. It's not just about the grand things like life purpose. It's about every moment of your life, both big and small decisions. The tricky thing is that the anxiety doesn't want you to establish certainty. It wants you to stick around and never make a final decision. It's an evil circle of uncertainty breeding thoughts -> thoughts breeding anxiety -> anxiety breeding more uncertainty etc. At some point, adding more thoughts is no good and you have to decide by some other means. So if not by thought, by what means do you decide? Intuition.

The highest consciousness people don't need teaching. You teach the people with lower consciousness so they can raise their consciousness. When you deny the lower aspects of self-development, you close yourself off to the higher aspects. If you want more people to become spiritual, you start by fixing the socially awkward incels.