Carl-Richard

Try crying meditation.

....THAT IS THE JOKE!

They're apex predators, Sam

Sam Harris mostly leans towards an individualist interpretation of the world (psychology, biology; beliefs, genetics) contrasted with a collectivist interpretation (sociology, history; material conditions). Something that demonstrates this (and is the background for his dislike of religion, particularily Islam) is his belief "people's actions are primarily explained by the beliefs they hold". Not surprisingly, his PhD thesis was about how different beliefs affect the brain: https://cosmosmagazine.com/society/brain-according-sam-harris/ This "beliefs matter" stance is a common thread in his analysis, which explains why he is so focused on Islam, racial differences in IQ, why he is pro-Israel (hint: they're not muslims) and generally pro-America in terms of foreign policy ("intentions matter"). One possible personal explanation for why he has this belief is that his career was built on his reaction to 9/11 with the book "The End of Faith", when America was attacked by none other than Islamic terrorists. Individualist analysis is a core feature of Stage Orange. Historically, rationalism and empiricism gave the power to the individual to make up his mind about reality, which broke with the collectivist doctrines of traditional religion and mythical thinking, where dogma was created and passed down not from the thoughts of a single individual but from a long tradition of myths and stories.

You have just yet to realize that you're only looking at yourself. That is literally what it feels like.

The angle makes him look like a child

I see no difference between your comments and your description of zeroISinfinity's comments, only the level of verbosity

Recently thought about this while falling asleep: What Spiral Dynamics does is that it lays out the "developmental pathway" that an individual will follow if he should happen to grow. It doesn't mean that everybody will grow to reach the same levels, only that the growth follows the same order of stages. It's like differences in height: some people are shorter than others, because they're either growing slower or have stopped growing all together, but when you're growing, you will go from being shorter to being taller. Just like how biology impacts your height, it can also impact your SD development.

The similarities lies in the levels of energetic expression, openness, curiosity etc., but the quality of those things and the subsequent behavior is vastly different. One is delusional, ungrounded, confused, and dysfunctional while the other is sober, calm, integrated, and hyperfunctional. One is of the mind, the other is beyond the mind. One is insanity, the other is beyond insanity. Awakening is beyond mind, beyond insanity, beyond psychosis or normalcy. Psychotics can have awakening experiences - that is not the issue. The issue is the psychotic mind. Then again, psychosis is a relative concept. I would consider most people psychotic.

I don't know if you're referring to something like brain scans, but atleast experientially (although I didn't go "fully" psychotic), I would say these states are qualitatively very different. Before awakening in my late teens, I entered psychotic-esque territory due to prolonged abuse of weed (I'll elaborate in the next paragraphs). However, when I tried weed after my first awakening, despite getting very stoned, it didn't feel euphoric anymore, and my mind was empty and crystal clear. It was in some ways very psychedelic, but from a hedonistic perspective quite frankly boring. That was the beginning of the end of my weed career (I somehow convinced myself to start smoking again for a full year ). My pre-awakening hobby was basically to get high and see how many cool insights I could produce from it. It turned into an obsession that made me exhibit a lot of dysfunctional behaviors (socially isolating myself, neglecting responsibilities and trying to manipulate and deceive my parents about what I was doing), which created additional stress and neuroticism. I was also already way above average in neuroticism before this (which didn't exactly help me ). The combination of stress, additional neuroticism and obsessive introspection had essentially turned my mind into a hyperactive, superconductive thought factory, and that would escalate until I went on vacation with my friends and one of them said to me "you're speaking too much" (I made some weird comment about the pier that we were going down to). He is the smartest guy I know (he literally came 1st place all year in the cognitive tests for joining the military) and I believe he is on the spectrum, which arguably made him more prone to be blunt with me, and that was a wake-up call where I realized that I was destroying my mind. That little nudge of self-awareness, combined with me getting out my mind by being social and grounding myself in more normal cognitive processes, made me able to "come down" so to speak. It was a rather pronounced experiential shift were I went from being semi-incoherent, dazed, unfocused and extremely random to relatively calm and grounded. This state was very different from the post-awakening state (even with weed). It's like the difference between a storm roaring over the ocean and a silent lake. It's quite funny, because on the train trip home, I watched Leo's video on neuroticism, and that was instrumental to me being able to conceptualize and diagnose my problems, and that along with a string of incredibly unlikely and fortunate events, put me on the path to awakening (which happened only a couple of months later).

It ain't. It's a cool video that's all.

Immersion and creativity is increased tenfold. Made me start caring more about feeling than technique (played guitar for 12 years).

@deci belle Why are you posting on the same topic with two different accounts?

Lol

I guess history does infact repeat itself (kinda) ?

I might just be a filthy foreigner, but how on earrth is breaching the walls of the capitol constitutional?

A main course of black and white with a sprinkle of platitude, great as always But do you want people to die in the process?

Does this help?:

This is not the hill you want to die on regarding free speech...

Yo I'm a stupid frat boy, can you put it in terms that I can understand?

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