Carl-Richard

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

If you remove all things, all form, you're still left with "something", and this is formlessness. You go from a more gross experience to a more subtle experience, so subtle in fact that most people don't even notice it or think it's even a thing. Even so, all of it, both subtle and gross, is consciousness.

The basis of form is duality. Duality is based on opposites. For example, warm vs. cold, big vs. small, sharp vs. blunt etc. When you experience the world of form, even if you're in a non-dual state and recognize the unity of all things, this world is still experienced through differences, opposites, duality, form. Form is essentially any gross (non-subtle) "thing" that you can point out and distinguish from something else. The keyboard you're typing on is form. The screen you're looking at is form. The glass on your desk is form. The water in the glass is form. The taste of the water is form. These things are different experiences, and the experience of them are constantly changing, and this is the basis of time (the general feeling or concrete measurement of change). All form is happening within the most subtle aspect of consciousness (the unchanging, formless, timeless, empty "void"). If you remove all things, all form, you're still left with "something", and this is formlessness. The next step is to realize that the duality between form and formlessness is also one (it's a subtle distinction, but a distinction nonetheless). Consciousness is therefore both form AND formlessness. In other words, consciousness is literally everything that exists; subtle and gross, formless and formed. This is because consciousness has no opposite. Consciousness is absolutely non-dual; one.

People confuse the experience of form with the experience of consciousness. When they experience something without form, they call it "no experience". That is actually consciousness. The word "experience" is inherentely confusing, because it smuggles the idea of comparing one form to another, of contrasts and distinctions, of experiencing "something" as opposed to something else. Consciousness is what you are. You are yourself, always, and there is no "other", just you.

When you enter nirvikalpa samadhi, there is a timeless nature to it that is identical to dreamless sleep; something which cannot be experienced through time, because it exists outside time, but it's nevertheless experienced. In samadhi and dreamless sleep, there is no form, and time is experienced through the change of form. Experience/consciousness/awareness always is, regardless of form, and you are it. You are not just the limited human form. You are the unchanging, formless and timeless awareness.

Investigate a diversity of perspectives.

I had barely learned about meditation and enlightenment. I interpreted it as physical death and insanity. I still do.

There is a reason people do it. It fulfills a deep need for ritual, community and social bonding, just in a Stage Orange format. Alcohol in this case is analogous to shamanic practices and entheogens.

He was fucking shaking even before Sam came on. When Ethan said "I like to come prepared...", he knew EXACTLY what that meant ?

And now he booked an interview with Donald Trump Jr. to distract everybody from this mess!

The argument is settled. Crowder literally admitted that they were monitoring Sam Seder in real time to avoid just the possibility of encountering him on a separate show. It makes zero sense for him to call Sam a nobody. "I'm just monitoring this nobody so he doesn't ambush me on this highly popular youtube show"... Yeah good one, Stevie

I'm watching Vaush's reaction to it right now and I'm literally dying

There are some valid aspects to New Age spirituality, but a lot of it is self-deception, wishful thinking, absolute-relative conflation etc.

1977 might be a bit outdated, but this is what came to mind

Is that your idea of fun?