Carl-Richard

Transcending Orange by conquering it:

A holistic thinker knows the limitations of reductionism, but he doesn't deny its utility. Therefore, to exclude reductionism at all costs is firstly impossible and secondly anti-thetical to holism.

Like avant-garde, orchestral concept albums shitting on consumerism

When I say attachments, I'm talking about those structures within your psyche that create repetitive cycles of thought. You can have cyclical behavior without cyclical thought. Those are two different kinds of karma, and you can function perfectly fine without the latter. In fact, I would say it's the very definition of functionality.

Please make a new thread instead of reviving an old one.

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@impulse9 There is no reason to dichotomize the path of sober meditation and the path of psychedelics when it comes to stabilizing in non-dual baseline awareness. At the end of the day, no matter how many hours you meditate or how many psychedelics you take, you will never enter non-dual baseline unless you let go of all your attachments, and Leo has explicitly stated that he is not ready for that yet: 6:22:47

My sober awakenings were better (and worse) than MDMA ?

That is for the musicians to decide . I know about some Tier 2 musicians. However, none of this theorizing captures the essence of music.

@Gregory1 @machinegun I see. I like to evaluate songs more based on aesthetics than just lyrics. For example, when I think of Green music, I think ambiguous/mixed genres, use of self-reference, irony, not taking oneself too seriously, social commentary (often about the downsides of Orange and appealing to the underprivileged). By the way, most love songs have nothing to do with Green This is a Green gem that I found just recently that is an extreme example of all the characteristics I mentioned (except the social justice component ): ...on another note, this song tells a story about a homeless man (Aqualung) and how people like him are viewed by society. It was also considered genre-bending for the time (progressive rock), and yes I'm a boomer :

This is a big oversimplification. It's not as simple as pointing out the exact moment where your fate is sealed. You have to look at it over a larger time scale and what environments you're exposing yourself to. The people you surround yourself with always influence your decision-making and determine the likelihood of being offered drugs. The odds are if you have friends who're into hard drugs, you'll most likely end up doing hard drugs yourself and get addicted that way. If the reporter in the documentary isn't in regular contact with people from the drug culture then the odds of him becoming addicted is relatively low.

What I get from the comments is that spiritual ego likes to project its own ideas of positivity, peace and humility onto no-ego and judge it for lacking those things. Well, of course it lacks those things, because it lacks ego

Right brain Green vs. Left brain Green

What do you mean when you say Green music? Let me hear it.

Substance addiction is a complex problem that often comes in the form of multi-drug use and isn't just fixed by the occational use of psychedelics. I actually believe most multi-drug users have tried psychedelics. They do produce insights and give direction, but again, not everybody has the privilege to follow up on that.

What kills your brain cells the most is the constant sleep deprivation, malnourishment, chronic stress and emotional turmoil from living as a homeless drug addict with no hope for the future. Toxic contaminants is also a factor. Pure methamphetamine is a prescription drug. How much you suffer the downsides of drugs is mostly up to privilege. There is a reason why Jordan Belfort doesn't come off as a permafried tweaker. With that said, don't try god damn meth ? Interesting little documentary though

It's still not enough, unless we're somehow fundamentally different from Israel

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Suffering is separateness. Love is seperatelessness.

Last year, they removed the restrictions in the summer and reinstated them right before Halloween. Let's see how it goes this time.

It's radical, anarchistic Green. The idea of "decolonization" with respect to the intellectual traditions is a postmodern idea that has some validity. Reductionism is an example of the crique-worthy aspects of Western thought which has been used to delegitimize non-Western value systems.

Duh I wouldn't be so concerned about just one lifetime. Some awakened masters have been on the path for thousands of years

There is an interesting link between between a construct-aware epistemology, mysticism and systems thinking that I think is not much emphasized by people like Ken Wilber who emphasize the distinction between growing up and waking up. It's no coincidence that Fritjof Capra saw the link between non-duality and QM, was inspired by holistic philosophers like Thomas Kuhn and Gregory Bateson, and then went on to revolutionize systems thinking as a field, just like it's no coincidence that people who are averse to these ideas are also averse to systems thinking. Systems thinking emphasizes the ramifications of relationality/relativity, like the relationship between the observer and the observed in QM, the relationship between the map and the territory in metaphysics, between historical context and scientific discoveries, and the relationship between two dualities in a whole (yin-yan). It's not that mysticism is the whole story (like Ken Wilber points out with pre-rational mysticism), but it's that the marriage of mysticism and rationality leads to transrationality, and transrationality puts the rational in context so that one can observe the relationality of it, of how its constructed as a product of relationships, and hence you break into a construct-aware, paradigmatic systems view. In that sense, there does appear to be a connection between growing up and waking up that happens at the cutting edge of rationality (Green) that facilitates a movement into Tier 2. Other than that, a pre-rational mystic is still confined to Tier 1.

Do you count Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg as experts? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tao_of_Physics