Carl-Richard

Do you meditate every day?

Every comment section is an endless, fractal cascade of reactions ?

In this universe, there is no reason to fear something that has never happened before in the history of the universe.

If there are no limits, there have to be cases where that is extremely unlikely to happen.

You need to have a mystical experience

McKenna was an incredible speaker and a psychonautic pioneer, but his Novelty theory (based on "Timewave Zero") was a joke, and I believe his weed addiction was partly to blame for that

Change happens in the present moment

Is there anything happening that is not happening right now?

@JosephKnecht Exactly. He talked about the distinction between knowing about the "force" of gravity (9.81m/s^2 - an acceleration) and knowing the mechanics behind how it works (his examples about free fall). He lost me at the differential geometry jargon though

There is this idea that gravity is just acceleration. While there is some truth to that, it's obviously not the whole story. Let's say you were accelerating in a car. One obvious thing is that you'll feel like you're getting heavier (inertia). However, if you're jumping from a cliff and into a lake, for a while you'll feel like you're weightless (you're in "free fall"). The point is that those are two rather different experiences even though both involve some form of acceleration. But it gets deeper, and here is my insight: Now, that is only partially true, but it serves as a good opener for the point about reference frames. But first, another common description that is also not very satisfying, is that the earth is "pulling" you using its gravitational pull, because let's say if you were pulled by a car on earth, you would still feel like you're getting heavier (inertia). So the problems with these two descriptions of gravitational "pull" or "acceleration" is that the everyday experience or common conception of them are not very accurate for describing gravity (the lack of feeling of inertia). So about reference frames: in space, there is no absolute frame of reference for movement. In that sense, when you have two bodies in space entering their respective gravitational fields, they will simply start moving towards each other. It's not that the Earth is "pulling" you, it's not that you're "accelerating" towards the Earth. No – strictly speaking, the distance between the two bodies is decreasing. But more importantly, from the perspective of what you're actually experiencing on a bodily level, it's as if you're simply floating in space but the Earth is moving/accelerating towards you. From the Earth's perspective, it's as if it's simply floating in space and your body is moving towards it. The nature of this movement can of course be partially described as acceleration, but the point is that it's qualitatively different from other phenomenas involving acceleration. I tried to keep it as laymen friendly as possible (as that's what I am after all), but I'll appreciate any input from people who are more immersed in physics than me

That is one model, yes. However, Einstein is also using reference frames as a basis for his models, hence the Lorentz factor for estimating time dilation in Special Relativity and the equivalence principle in General Relativity: The idea that your reference frame is accelerating is exactly what my insight was about: it's what you would experience if you imagine that the Earth is accelerating towards you. In reality, in a sense you are accelerating, but you're also weightless because your entire "frame" is accelerating, not just your body so to speak. It's not so much that your body is accelerating relative to the background than it is your body "+" the background accelerating in unison. "Gravity is not a force – it's an acceleration" is a statement made by the yt channel Veritasium, which is obviously just an opener for a deeper explanation, but that is also why I included it here. If I had to state it again, my point with this topic was to point out the peculiar nature of gravity using laymen terms without copy-pasting some physics textbook. This is just one way to do it.

I wasn't comparing them. I was making a distinction. Both involve acceleration but they're still not the same. The car example is only to explain a point.

With absolute infinity, the answer is always: why not?

...and that's your opinion

Mood is one thing. It's possible to be in a relatively good mood while ignoring the fact that you life is shit (by doing drugs for example). Psychedelics will shove that right in your face.

Two distinctions: 1. Meditation initially removes repetitive, fear-based, self-referential thinking. It does not remove problem solving ability or planning. 2. At later stages it may dampen or completely remove any 1st-person experience of thinking, but you will still be able to function. You can say that your declarative memory becomes non-declarative. An example of non-declarative memory would be procedural memory (for example tying your shoes). When you tie your shoes, you do it without representing it in your mind (you just do it). Likewise, you can solve problems without representing them in your mind. In fact, most high-level problem solving happens "offline", outside of conscious awareness. All you become conscious of is the answer, not the full insight into the process of arriving at that answer.

Sam Harris is a necessary first step of the spirituality pipeline. I considered buying his book "Waking Up" when I was 18.

I don't understand that definition. Can you please explain it to me? ?

? Occams razor is used when you have two competing theories with similar amounts of evidence but you discard the one that uses more a priori assumptions.

Nofap has teached you many good lessons and my advice is not about forgetting those lessons. I'm only concerned about the unhealthy approach. You can take those lessons with you and integrate them into a more balanced approach. The first step is to reestablish a more conscious connection to your impulses instead of outright repressing them, and that means you don't have to be afraid to fap. You don't have to go 2 months to get the benefits of abstinence. Experiment and keep doing healthy things.

This is so perfect. Please show this to every spiritual person in the world ?

He has a health issue which is incompatible with a plant-based diet.

You got born into this world out from nothing. You got used to that. You'll get used to this.