Carl-Richard

How is that so? Is psychology unscientific? Does it exclude the study of the mind? Is the mind material in nature? Are all psychological models materialistic? The answer is no btw.

Only in America ?

What the fuck?! What definition of "crash"?

Reminds me of a friend of my dad. "Fluoride is making people absolutely brain dead and incapable of entertaining a single thought" *inhales tobacco smoke and takes a sip of beer*

This picture is the very antithesis to your statement

Imagine that taking psychedelics is like lifting weights. Once you have built up a lot of muscles, you can lift with ease something that other people struggle to lift. Their state might drastically change in their attempts to lift it: they might turn red, start to sweat, breathe rapidly and feel aches and pains, meamwhile you remain basically at baseline physiology while lifting the same weight. You don't actually know the extent of which that is true. The psychedelic experience is of course not the same as an enlightenment experience for an unenlightened person, but if we assume that the brain is responsible for producing different behavior, it's obvious that the enlightened brain works very differently than the normal brain, so why can't their reaction to psychedelics be different as well?

Speaking of finding non-duality in unexpected places, I ran into a guy with the name "Non Dual" on Oldschool RuneScape. I said "Aye!", "1k meditation hours ", and he said "<3", "One Love". A beautiful little moment

Done the survey yet?

It's not that simple. A consistent meditation practice is not replaceable.

I'm such an idiot

Are you meditating every day?

@Blackhawk You should try to survey people on whether they are happy for being alive or not and see if that produces an acceptable statistic. My intuition is that it will lean mostly in favour of the former.

today's school systems*

#1 public health solution imo. Start them young, like with mathematics, and increase the level over time. Curriculum overview: Theory - techniques, mystical traditions. Practice - class sessions. Retreats - arranged by the school. The subjects will be graded, at least the theoretical portion. Any thoughts? Improvements, challenges?

When your digestion processes stop, your body becomes literally more silent. Your stomach usually makes small noises and movements that you've become accustomed to, but when they disappear, you can actually notice the difference in meditation. You'll also free up a lot of blood volume that will instead fill the brain. Even though you'll have less energy, you'll have more mental clarity.

If you don't want to keep running into the same walls over and over again – yes.

Damage is the wrong word. Can it drastically change the nervous system (brain) through increased neuroplasticity? Yes.

"Healthy" Red ?

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Did they remove both the original video and the retraction video?

Link ples

For your first few times, it helps to be with a group of friends unless nobody knows anybody else. You want to be on a level playing field. If that's not possible, the next best thing is to be with somebody that you've met before and have at least something in common with. If you try talking to a group of friends who don't know you at all, it of course becomes harder to join in unless they all preemptively make an effort to include you. For those situations, the only solution is practice.

Not everybody who goes to a party and drinks alcohol is an insecure escapist (relatively speaking). It's a ritual, kinda like Ayahuasca ceremonies or any other tribal ritual. It's an elevated or "transcendental" experience compared to everyday life. Of course, there is a lot of social conformity involved in that, but that is Stage Purple for you

What he is basically saying is that infinity is not finite and finity is not infinite