Carl-Richard

https://www.youtube.com/@essentiafoundation/featured

At some point, it becomes clear when you're running up against a threshold and you can intuit what is on the other side. What does that threshold look like? Here is an idea: Are you awakening sober, spontaneously, without intention, at seemingly random points of your day, even while doing things actively? And the awakenings keep becoming more and more consistent until they become seemingly self-sustaining and it's hard for them to not happen? That's a sign. Why are you guiding yourself towards enlightenment when it could be a dead end?

Viewing these things as "shields" and not things that give an additive effect seems a bit self-serving in your case. There are other sources of pathology than diet that can be offset by fiber and related phytonutrients (free radicals from stress etc.). Also, do you always move or work out after your meal, and if not, do you experience side effects due to post-prandial glucose? Do you generally experience side effects due to post-prandial glucose? And how often do you eat?

The entire premise of trying to paint somebody as emotional in order to make a point is too brute to be worth my serious attention.

No, just obsession, and essentially no internet access. And filling a hole from not smoking weed. Seeing, feeling, moving and breathing with great care. Giving attention to objects, environments, nature. Cultivating attention in every activity, small or little, be it picking up a glass to drink, or using a remote controller, or peeling potatoes, or skiing up a mountain. You just have to be in a desperate enough situation 😀

It was quite shortly after engaging in seated meditation. But before that, I had been engaging in active mindfulness 24/7 for a week straight in the mountains. And before that, I had been doing psychedelics a few times and weed chronically multiple times a day for a long time. Quitting weed on the mountain also had a drastic effect on my awareness.

"Only my techniques are valid. Oh, somebody else is advanced with other techniques? Genetics." Not doing drugs could actually be a causative factor of "me". It does not have to be in spite of that or because of me.

"More important", not that aiming is of zero importance. But if you can shoot so fast your ego cracks, that's a technique.

Omg why has Leo infected people with this mind virus 😭

Intensity is more important than the technique. If you gravitate towards one technique more than the other, take advantage of that.

Hmmm. How much of it is beef and how much of it is rice?

"Esoterify"... "esoterify"... "eso-terify".

I don't do drugs 😌

The freaks still ate food.

I don't feel like you answered my post.

I guess that includes Peter Ralston. "Genetic freaks" is a thought terminating cliché. All people go on a path. The path of devotion is a thing.

I was waiting for this comment. The choice of words for that video was perfect for the type of thought terminating clichés we "true spiritual people" all love so much

LOL. Go hug Amma.

How do you explain cardiac arrest NDEs where the brain has for all intents and purposes zero metabolic activity? Where is the physical mechanism there? How do you explain OBEs? Where is the physical mechanism? My general personal experience of psychic phenomena is that they happen to me. I generally do not set an intention for them to happen. I think this is how it generally happens for most people. Even for "psychics", their control is limited. Once your ego becomes too involved, you lose sensitivity to these phenomena. It's no surprise supposedly nobody has won the James Randi challenge (but even there, apparently Randi has refused many to participate). Here is an interesting experimental study on telephone telepathy (by my man Rupert Sheldrake). Try to find a physical explanation for this: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/252380718_Experimental_Tests_for_Telephone_Telepathy

You can be an enjoyer of "physical laws" without being a materialist or crypto-materialist. It's just whether or not you believe there is something more than the mere physical going on. Essentially, do you believe psychic phenomena are at least plausible (and are not always explainable by physical mechanisms)? As a starter, "physical mechanisms" would be whatever a standard physicist, biologist or chemist would consider "real" in their area of study (e.g. atoms, molecules, five sensory organs).

I don't see any ultimate conflict between mind and Mind. Between complex thoughts, there can be profound moments of silence. But you're right, I'm currently prioritizing mind. That is intentional. My entire existence on the forum was initiated by a non-dual awakening that I couldn't handle. I started using my mind in an act of desperation. And then I decided pursuing science was a way to "grow up before waking up". And five years later, here I am, using the forum as a way to sharpen my mind by expressing my thoughts as clearly as I can. And if I had stopped doing that, I would probably not be here as often.

I touched a tree right after sprinting, and it felt like my energy got sucked in, like the tree was a black hole. It felt empty, still, peaceful. Quite psychedelic experience. And as I was walking back and thought about what just happened and how it was quite psychedelic, I remembered the dream I had last night where I was picking mushrooms just on the road I was walking on and which I got high from touching the mushrooms. And then I thought "ah, what a psychedelic experience indeed". I thought about how Bernardo Kastrup thinks single-celled organisms are conscious, and then I thought then also trees must be conscious (they are also made of cells, they are organisms, they metabolize, they have a "bodily boundary"). And when in this highly energized state, it felt like the tree was conscious, touching it was like touching the arm of a person. I even felt embarassed for violating its autonomy afterwards. I then thought I understand tree huggers now, but I also thought they are like unhinged pleasure seekers violating people's autonomy for their pleasure. I also thought I was downloading some ancestral energy from the earth.

He seems to fit the term of "Liberal Christian Universalist": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_universalism

I think you're underselling how little of a "hard Christian" he is. He seems to use it merely as a spiritual tool, just like you use meditation. He just likes Christianity a lot and engages in the practices. It's like you liking focused attention meditation a lot. Now, that "instrumentalist" approach doesn't have to make him "not Christian", just like it doesn't make you not spiritual (New Age spiritual in my book).