Carl-Richard

https://www.songfacts.com/facts/jethro-tull/aqualung

No. You can awaken to God without knowing anything about it conceptually, but just by simply doing the right things. Clearly it's not relevant to the practice. It's relevant to making accurate statements (which we're trying to do right now), but nothing of this will necessarily bring you any closer to actually realizing you're God.

I took LSD for the first time and wanted to do fun stuff while on it, but when I came up, I realized there is nothing to do

It's a video focused on exercises for realizing that you're God. It's not a detailed walkthrough of the metaphysics of God. He would only make that distinction if it was relevant for the exercise, but apparently it's not so relevant. He would also have to leave some things out for the sake of brevity.

Well, the hate from his old audience is obvious, but I guess people here view don't vibe with his prankster antics and relative immaturity.

All aspiring spiritual gurus need to go to the school of Spiral Wizardry before they can get their license. But I guess this is a part of that process for him, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That distinction is implicit when we're talking about God.

Bro, having fears about not being in the present moment means you're not enlightened. You would've realized that you cannot not be in the present moment. There IS only the present moment. You truly cannot keep yourself from being mindful in a non-dual state. You have a lot of limiting beliefs about why you're feeling this way. I suggest looking away from the past and looking at what you're doing right now. Are there some things you can do right now that might improve things for you? Daily meditation habit? Fasting? Dopamine detox?

It might be a simple explanation. Do you fear getting caught smoking weed?

"You" as in the big Self, not the small self. There is only one Self.

Bro, absolute vs. relative statements.

How is that working out for you?

Specifics brah

Even after watching that, I would say Copeland is still more demonic-looking in real life

I just want to thank Leo for introducing me to Thomas Kuhn 4 years ago as it prepared me for writing about him on the Examen facultatum that I took before christmas . The tools that exist on Actualized.org just makes studying feel like a breeze in general, not just philosophy.

True true. Still, praise the toolmakers

LOL wtf

Yellow is the unlikely marriage of radical relativism and unbridled pragmatism. It's like taking the crippling self-awareness of an anxious neurotic and combining it with the stability and charisma of a visionary leader; the openness of an artist and the precision of a scientist; the ability to wield inclusivity and discernment independently across different contexts. The examples of these types of contrasts are endless. A paragraph doesn't serve it justice. Self-awareness is used in different ways, most prominently the colloquial "negative" form of self-awareness that is contrasted with having a positive sense of self. This concept includes what I call "phenomenological self-awareness" that is being muddled by self-referential thoughts ("I/me/my-thoughts") that carry a negative emotional tone. Phenomenological self-awareness is purely the recognition of being, also simply called awareness, qualia (it's the awareness of the big Self rather than the small self). Standard western philosophy prefers to simply call it qualia, because it generally doesn't make the distinction between "Self" and "self", unlike non-dual spirituality that is influenced by eastern philosophy (calling it "self"-awareness then arguably becomes more appropriate). You could also say that these tendencies in spiritual circles to use self-awareness in a more a loose sense could just be a case of colloquialism rather than the explanation in the latter paragraph (or both). Standard western definition of self-awareness would simply be the ability to access information about the small self (your earthly identity), which essentially measures the level of self-referential thoughts and metacognition in an individual. The first google search result for "self-awareness" shares a striking similarity to the MBTI's cognitive function of Fi (introverted feeling): "Self-awareness is the ability to focus on yourself and how your actions, thoughts, or emotions do or don't align with your internal standards". Maybe that is why many INFPs are so colloquially self-aware and socially awkward

Kinda disanalogous when he is also telling the monkey not to shoot himself or other people. Despite all the information out there, some people are reckless and only learn it the hard way. I mean Destiny the twitch streamer dropped 10g of shrooms on his first trip ever thinking he could handle it, and he struggled with the repercussions of that decision for months. So even relatively smart people can run into this trap. No matter how much information is out there, the only thing that saves you in the end is humility and generally being careful.

He has had mystical experiences both with and without psychedelics, but he gets stuck with the framing. It all gets clouded by intellect and fear.

I think that Green can serve as a ramp that leads you to non-duality. He is reluctant to go up that ramp. Green's more feminine and proto-holistic qualities unlocks key mystical aspects involved with emotional embodiment and opens up that deep intuitional longing towards unity. There is a reason why New Age spirituality is a Green phenomena.

But muh western values