Carl-Richard

Like Mooji would say: "Show me the one who makes the effort"

There is no algorithm, but effort and sudden enlightenment are also not contradictory.

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This is not a troll post by the way lol. I'm genuinely fascinated by how extremely streamlined survival is and how little it has to do with acquiring accurate information about the world

The neural perspective is very narrow. While LSD might be friendly to individual neurons, what it can do to a person's behavior is more concerning, especially a young person. I'm talking from experience.

Genius

That is your context, your interpretative framework, not mine. All I'm doing is that I'm providing a context using language. <- This is also a context I'm providing using language. Now, if you ask "do you know that?", I will answer "All I'm doing is that I'm providing a context using language". It's more like saying "I'm speaking" than saying "I know". One is an action, a relative manifestation, another is a statement about an absolute. I make no such statement. All talk is relational. Relationships; the dance between perspectives; between subjects, objects, frameworks, contexts. -->this is not absolute<-- Oh trust me, I've been there. The only way out is compromise: speak because you're spoken to, not because you understand. Is the use of mind and concepts evidence of the attachment to said things?

Steve Jobs did not take LSD at 16 years old.

That is where meditation and contemplation comes in. Don't underestimate the power of these techniques. In fact, I would say to be careful with those as well. I managed to overwhelm myself with meditation alone.

Everything exists relative to an interpretive framework; a context. The context is never removed, only changed

I prefer "recontextualized".

It's worth it

The challenge is to balance survival and truth-seeking, because those two are largely antithetical to eachother. It's wise to get your foundational survival straight before trying to deconstruct your mind, and in an individualistic society, that includes things like finishing high school, becoming economically self-sustained and psychosocially integrated. Deconstructing a mind is tricky business, but it's even more tricky to deconstruct a mind that is still under construction.

High school is a bare minimum.

Very good. Continue with that. Here is my advice: finish school before taking any psychedelics. It's very easy to get other ideas otherwise.

What does your life look like atm?

Norway was very close to decriminalizing drugs earlier this year, but somehow the biggest left-leaning party decided to go against it. https://www.thelocal.no/20210417/norway-opposition-torpedoes-plan-to-decriminalise-drug-use/

That is a rough description of one aspect of it (the empirical aspect). Positivism is generally the idea that we can explain the world by formulating consistent natural laws, and that the only valid methods to do so are analytical reasoning and empirical observation. Post-positivistic thought emphasizes things like the limits and inconsistencies of such laws (which became rather apparent in QM btw), the relationship between the subject and the object in determining reasoning and observation (also QM related), the relation between the part and the whole (component-system), and the utility of other methods like introspection and transrational cognition. Posivitivism is analytic, linear, reductionistic, and virtually always mechanistic and atomistic, focused on parts/components/essence. Post-positivist thought is systemic, constructivistic, relational, non-linear, focused on complexity and holism.

That is the point

Letting go of life.

I find this particularly evident when trying to figure out where thoughts come from, or what even a thought is, and also how insufficient strings of thoughts really are for understanding anything.

Less people wearing masks

Seems like having an active kundalini is very helpful (if not required). Ninel complained about spinal pains during the experiments.

Careful what you wish for.