Carl-Richard

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.

@mandyjw ?

And how would you even begin to explain what something like Twitch is? ?

Then the next step is that feel-good philosophies and spiritualities are shallow, inauthentic and lead to denial, repression and finally breakdown. You're never safe from the truth.

and mainstream ideas like reincarnation, the afterlife, nihilistic atheism, simulation theory etc.

Does this include youtube videos of Eckhart Tolle, Mooji, Alan Watts, Ram Dass, Rupert Spira etc.?

I dunno. There is just something deeply satisfying about delivering fat packages ?

Yes, drugs are bad . I just provided some context to what creates the stereotypical addict, and most people completely miss that part of the equation. People act like taking a chemical once is a gunshot to the brain. It could be; 10 years down the line after suffering the living standards of an addict.

That's what they want you to think ?

Your brain chemistry tells you when something is wrong. Trust your brain chemistry.

I'm willing to bet a large sum of money that they're fronting a positivist framework.

@Leilani When I first learned about spirituality and later non-duality, I did a lot of stupid stuff that I regret later on, like not joining my best friend to play music for a year because I interpreted the idea of improving my guitar skills as an "ego game". I also messed up my high school grades by "living in the now" (smoking weed full-time and repressing every thought resembling a conscience). I even bet if I never discovered those ideas, I would still find a way to screw myself up somehow, because I had some unresolved emotional issues that I had to work through (repressed id/Red). My point is that there will always exist ways to fuck yourself up as an unstable person, and it's not as easy as saying "outlaw this and this and this, and everyone will be safe". Although it's true that the more radical the teachings become, the greater the danger for misinterpretation and the ego co-opting it as a survival mechanism, that is a possibility with literally anything. I mean, I basically interpreted "live in the now" as "fuck up your future" ? (like, hello??). Remember that we're anyway living in a highly dysfunctional world. You can child lock it all you want, but dysfunction will still be a fact.