Carl-Richard

(Non-duality) -----------------WOOOSH----------------> (You)

Does anybody know what causes body load on a biochemical/physiological level?

Speaking of online Red: It goes from 0-100 right out the gate ?

Go beyond reasoning. There is nothing reasonable about what you've been doing up to this point.

Have you ever had an awakening?

@Leo Gura mmm yes, mAmMALiAn pROTUBeRaNCEs ?

It does seem sort of obvious when it's laid out like this, but you can't stop the trendiness of DMT ? Here is another example: let's say DMT was somehow a main catalyst. How would that relate to spiritual practice? So you would work at something for let's say 10k hours like the Theravadan meditators in the DMN study and then suddenly out of nowhere DMT starts secreting? What prompted that? Certainly not DMT. We can easily assume that the practice must have changed the body or brain somehow. If that's true, that proves that it's possible to ignite a drastic change in mental state through a slow and steady overall structural change. Then why isn't that a satisfying explanation on its own? Why is the DMT part emphasized or even needed? ?

Do it then! ?

You don't know that.

Never understood how you do this intentionally. Nowadays it happens for me naturally to some extent which is another reason why I fap less. In fact, I feel the build up of sexual energy more in my spine than anywhere else.

Transmutation happens naturally when you do stuff. Like Leo just said, if you spend less time doing stuff, you'll be more inclined to use that energy towards procreating.

Models are supposed to simplify. That is not a mistake. There is always a balance between comprehensiveness, validity and neatness.

When you feel sexual energy, what do you do?

Tried it, overdid it, stopped and found my own Goldilocks zone. Went from fapping 1-2 times a day to once every 2-3 days. It's good if you want to re-establish a healthy baseline.

IQ and cognitive development are not the same thing. You can be stage yellow cognitively with 120 IQ and stage orange with 170 IQ. The point was that Blue is more or less limited to dogmatic thinking. Higher stages become progressively less dogmatic, and you can see this by Orange incorporating alternative ways of thinking.

Passion is what I'm talking about . It may also vary from person to person, but if you watch a video of an enlightened person and watch their eyes very carefully, you may be more able to understand what I mean. Try Rupert Spira:

@dlof You're using dogmatism in a rather loose way. Dogmatism is much more central to how the Stage Blue mind operates. In Blue dogmatism, you have some concrete rules that cannot be questioned (e.g. the 10 commandments) and that's it – no more questions, no more nuances. Stage Orange adds a level of nuance and says: "we have these rules right here (scientific principles and methodology; experimentation and observation; empiricism), and we can use these rules to test other types of rules (theories)." In that sense, dogmatism is only a small part of how the Stage Orange mind operates. Piaget's cognitive developmental model can be useful to understand the difference. It has 4 stages: sensorimotor, pre-operational, concrete operational, and formal operational. Here the two latest stages are the most interesting: Stage Blue thinking relies much more on Concrete Operational (CO) while Stage Orange relies more on Formal Operational (FO). The difference lies in the ability to use abstractions, see nuances, predict, plan and scheme using symbolic thought. If you want to teach a CO child to behave, you would give them simple rules to follow – no questions asked (Blue dogmatism). If you were to teach a FO child how to behave, you would also give them rules, but maybe rational arguments are needed as well. You see that both follow rules, but the latter adds an added level of nuance (the need for rational justification). That is essentially what scientific theories are: a set of rules with a rational justification (empiricism). The rational justification then becomes the hidden assumption that locks them into the materialist paradigm. Just like Blue stops asking questions at the first rule they're given, Orange stops asking questions at a later rule (the justification). Now, that is not to say that Stage Blue people are children, but this model is actually formally recognized to correlate with SDi: -> https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/51a0ef99e4b0673a4c034ab8/1373221911253-I9CKMOFPCM86G3TNULLF/Screen-Shot-2013-03-29-at-7.07.30-PM.png?content-type=image/png

The meaning depends on the context which it's said. If I say "I'm better than you" in a game of Chess, that would not conflict with me saying "we're all one" in a non-dual seminar.

No U! There is no past. There is only the present moment. "The present moment" is an invocation of non-duality. That is why Eckhart Tolle talks about it all the time. What you're talking about is the duality of past&present, which is only accessible through thought. The non-dual "present moment" is before and beyond thought.

WHAT???

...will you guess what I'm going to say? Relative/absolute conflation. (I marked "A" and "R" to indicate which is the absolute and relative statement). In other words, it's not a paradox <3

It's not a moment. It's the moment. One, not two

What slips is your illusory grip on a finite object. The present moment is always there.

This may be a case of the pre-trans fallacy. When a stage Blue Christian talks about God, his concept of God is very different to the mystical God encountered in deep spiritual experiences. So when a stage Orange person has one of these experiences, he may not realize this distinction and think that the bible thumping Christians are actually onto something, while in reality they're dealing with a dogmatic paradigm and not a mystical paradigm.

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