Carl-Richard

That is a second-order construct, based on symbols, based on thought. Go to the first-order, pre-construct, pre-symbolic, pre-thought space.

The US isn't even ready for green yet.

There are an infinite amount of possible answers to a question.

This is actually my favorite clip on youtube omg

First test at keys2cognition looks like this (INTP):

Not sure if this is some sort of conspiracy theory or if it's just a case of conflating the relative and the absolute.

This is called "ostrich spirituality": sticking your head in the sand and calling yourself God. You should be totally involved in the world, just not identified with it. To quote Sadhguru:

If you want people to stop doing drugs in a free society, they must evolve to that place individually. That is the true measurement of cultural progress; bottom-up, piece by piece, not bottom-down, forcing a square peg into a round hole. Education that gives a realistic picture of how drugs work and other harm prevention measures will help in that direction. Most other cultural interventions (prohibition laws, ad campaigns, scare propaganda) only work to build a facade so we can pretend that we're dealing with the problem. Drug use is a symptom of society's pitfalls (its dysfunctions, both structurally and on the level of values), and you should try fixing those root issues if you want true change (again, bottom-up).

He does make some really sweet videos though

People don't always fit neatly into boxes, but boxes can be useful.

Reminds me of SD to be honest: the colours, the oscillation between individual and collective stages etc..

Truly inspiring life story, incredible storyteller. This guy taught Gordon Ramsay btw. 00:00 - 15:50 - Stage blue 15:50 - 24:12 - Stage orange (aspiring) 24:12 - 43:33 - Stage orange (mastery) 43:33 - 59:40 - Stage green

You said you were deepy traumatized, so I assumed that happened in the past and isn't an ongoing process. Then why do you reach out for help? Love isn't just an emotion; it's the fabric of reality. When you close yourself off from love, you close yourself off from reality. Maybe you should re-investigate what you believe love is. For me, love is what happens when you're intimately involved with any aspect of reality. It doesn't have to be flowery and sentimental, or "hippy-dippy" love. It's just truth.

That's a question, but alright.

@K Ghoul One of the coolest Pink Floyd songs imo

@Lindsay This one is legendary.

Persistent-Non-Symbolic-Experience.

Steve Vai was heavily into spirituality when he made his magnum opus "Passion and Warfare", and his most popular song "For the Love of God" was recorded on the 4th day of his semiannual fast, a decision which arguably produced one of the most spectacular pieces of work on the guitar ever: "Steve Vai: How a 10-Day Fast Influenced Me While Recording 'For the Love of God'": https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/steve_vai_how_a_10-day_fast_influenced_me_while_recording_for_the_love_of_god.html

You can point out similarities, but I wouldn't ascribe some historical relationship or continuity between the two. I don't think emo/goth "lead to" incels, but they can be based on the same insecurities and needs either way.

Historically, hippies arrived before emos and goths, so no.

I haven't given Ralston a try yet haha. I have a tendency to go more in depth than in breadth

What you're talking about is survival. When the organism feels threatened by its environment, it starts building walls to protect itself, and it's based on fear (Trump's whole campaign summed up in one sentence). This is a natural response, and when the organism gets out of that environment, it will take work to unwind those old patterns. I also suffered with this for a long time (still do to some extent), essentially distancing myself from my emotions and not wanting to feel them, and that made me numb and unable to truly connect with people and things that I used to love. The way I started to untangle this problem was that I revamped my meditation habit. I started trying to provoke stuck emotional energies by focusing on a particular area in my body (primarily the stomach area) and trying to probe for tensions and "let go", cry, breathe, relax, forgive, surrender. Don't be afraid to feel vulnerable - welcome it, it's the point. After doing this for a while, things started to change for me, and I realized the thing that lies at the core of all that bodily tension; it's the impulse of survival, and ultimately the fear of death; the ultimate threat of the small self (the last "wall"). I still struggle with that one. The more you let go of tensions, the more you unwind these cyclical energy patterns, the more you let go of control, and the more you open up yourself up and get in touch with your emotional vulnerability again and your true authentic self. If your purpose is to seek what is true for you, try this simple practice.

The pendulum always swings back. That's such an universal rule. Who needs Newton?

Tbh, if we want some proof of concept (lol), the best pointer I've ever come across is "you're creating everything in your experience", and I've never heard that being said by anybody else than Leo, so

Been playing guitar for 10+ years and I've never felt like practicing. That's all.