Carl-Richard

There also many notions which you should consider dropping. A common notion for some people is "I'm an introvert". It's a notion you should generally drop in social situations. It will impede you. Another one is "I don't like having presentations, I tend to get nervous". That's a notion to drop before having a presentation. You should also practice identifying and dropping all your notions. This is the apex of autonomy and allows a huge degree of choice. And don't take the notion of dealing with notions absolutistically either. It's not everything. The notion of notions, just like other concepts in self-help, is just a tool and way to remind yourself of your own capacities and the potentials that exist within yourself. What we're doing here generally by communicating is reminding ourselves of what we're capable of and what we value. We're honing the limited frame of our ever-wandering attention.

@samijiben Brutal honesty is itself a notion that can support your autonomy. But be careful that it doesn't impede any of your other values (i.e. be aware of the traps and nuances). Brutal honesty can often be used a cover for anti-social outbursts and impulsive, less than strategic behavior which you might regret in hindsight. As for examples of notions for autonomy, they are often very particular to your life, and you'll get insights about them. One of mine is that "I need to be tormented to be motivated" is false (it's a notion I reject). A notion I embrace is "you don't need to do anything". It's good for reminding yourself that your being is always whole. It's also useful for noticing when I'm for example doing something on my phone while doing something else instead of doing it while being completely focused. That I'm not driven by an outside stimulus but rather my inner will. Another interesting notion that I got from Leo is "you are creating everything". It's extremely mystical and all-pervading. Another one is "thoughts are just thoughts" (or "concepts are just concepts", "concepts are limited", or even "notions are limited"). It gives you a layer of meta-awareness and space to choose how to act. Notice that a lot of spirituality is about elevating autonomy. But I'll stress again, be aware of traps and nuances when dealing with notions. A big trap is treating a notion absolutistically, or ironically ceeding your autonomy to it. Notions are more like small furniture decorations in your mind that create certain moods and states. And you should always be up to change some of the furniture, but be honest with which furniture you like and which you don't. Use your sense when dealing with notions. Don't just take up a particular notion because I mentioned it. Your ability to choose and discriminate between notions is fundamental for your autonomy.

Finding the physical correlates of kundalini energy (or inventing new methodologies to capture it) is something I would like to research one day. There are things like nadis which are subtle phenomena and not physically measureable (as far as I know), but surely it could be possible to find something physical going on that would be particular to kundalini and which could explain or predict it.

I just realized the second song is the first one played backwards. I've listened to this album for so many years without putting two and two together 😂 Ron Jarzombek, ladies and gentlemen.

Lol how?

If fluoride binds so strongly to your teeth, what do you think it does to the rest of the structures in your body? I'm a weirdo, but for me, the straw that broke the camel's back is that it increases the activity of an enzyme that converts glutamate to GABA. It essentially lowers your brain activity. There are many studies showing IQ decreases from fluoride. But it also affects many more things in the body.

I could possibly raw dog it then if I do some small tweaks. I already don't eat much processed sugar. Largely whole foods. But I'm a sucker for sauces and spices. My dentist said that bacteria don't seem to like it in my mouth (a compliment) back when I was brushing with only like a microscopic amount of normal fluroide toothpaste (it would usually not even create foam, just integrate with my spit), and often I would only brush at night.

Here is a prompt for checking whether your post isn't shit enough to post 😂: If you were to interpret this post from a Tier 2 perspective in Spiral Dynamics, what is wrong with this post? And here is your answer (only showing the summary): By the way it hurts to post ChatGPT nonsense, but to balance out other ChatGPT nonsense, it will do.

Let's also do some ChatGPT-4o dialectics since you brought it up as a point (only showing summary): And if you have problem with logic (which you shouldn't if you're a "man"), women are of course generally still more "social" than men (I already addressed that point). I'm just countering the point about 13 out of 100 spiritual gurus.

This is a caveman post. Tall people are less interested in truth because they are more attractive and get more sex and get more complacent in the social matrix. That's a true statement. But who gives a fuck? Why does that need to be said? How much does it really matter? Men are generally in positions of power, what's your point?

I believe genetics often dictate whether you do the right things intuitively, like deconstruction. Meanwhile some need a prompt to do the right things and suddenly they get many benefits. Then some maybe struggle doing the right things. Genetics is also a crude way of looking at it. You might actually have spent decades meditating in a past life and you pick up where you left off. Somebody posted pictures of a child prodigy painter in another thread. The things they drew when they were four-five years old makes you think they definitely had some past life experience. Another painter Jan Esmann said he was a painter in at least one of his past lives, and he is of course a master. He was also on the spiritual path for many lifetimes, which also would explain his insane experiences.

But then you of course have to subtract something. I don't think subtraction of fructose would be a good idea. What fruits can you eat?

Damn. A literal construction metaphor for explaining deconstruction 😆 Very sound.

I just thought that to choose between fluoride toothpaste and hydroxyapatite toothpaste is like choosing between a lambo for your teeth and lambo for your brain. You can drive a good ol' Hyundai or Volvo and get good mileage with that, you just don't get a supercar. So do you want lambo teeth and volvo brain or lambo brain and volvo teeth? And if you think having lambo teeth is mandatory, what about fuking Jumbo jet teeth with strontium chloride toothpaste, hmm?? That's a real thing.

I just learned that the word "health" stems from the word "whole". Health is holism. That's amazing.

Steps from most fundamental and metaphysical to concrete and practical: Being (connect with reality): Tell the truth Accept yourself Contemplate Meditate Meaning (what should be happening in reality?): pursue what is meaningful. Abstract principles and virtues (what is meaningful?): goal-oriented movement functionality health balance holism integration Concrete domains (what is meaningful?): Systemic: commit to long-term goals and daily habits; write lists, plans, journals; do yearly, biyearly, monthly evaluations of progress. Bio - psycho - social (Engel); also, id - ego - superego (Freud); reptilian brain - neocortex - limbic system (MacLean); competence - autonomy - belonging (Deci & Ryan); monster - man - lion (Plato). Bio: diet, exercise, pleasures, hobbies. Psycho: knowledge, wisdom, self-insight, values, self-esteem. Social: friends, family, partner, community. Summarized, you should connect with reality and pursue what is meaningful in reality; in alignment with abstract principles and virtues; using systemic techniques, habits, goals and practices; while covering all of the three bio-psycho-social domains. To illustrate with one example of each (not at all exhaustive): you should meditate, balance all aspects of your life, work for a set period every day, while going to the gym, expanding your knowledge base and hanging out with your friends. Another version: you should tell the truth, pursue health, write down everything your mind tells you is important to do or remember, engage in some short-term pleasures if you so desire, act in accordance with your inner values and keep up with your family members. As a side note, this map shows what happens when things work as they should. It's not a given that things will work as they should, and in those cases, you need to fix yourself. Often, fixing yourself is not a matter of knowledge or will, but of untangling unconscious mechanisms and trauma. For that, conventional therapy, energy work and even psychedelics might be useful. In other cases, it may boil down to medical problems, which require medical solutions. Even though the map will fall short of addressing certain pathology, it does lay the foundation of health (in my opinion), and it's therefore relevant to everybody.

I'm primarily a psychology guy but with specialization in neuroscience. My masters now is an RCT and an fNIRS study on a kind of music+mindfulness practice. I did an interview about it here (it's in Norwegian but there are English subtitles):

You think I will give that shit away for free? 🤣 I'm in the same boat, soon. Do you have any ideas yourself? 😂

Sense of self is unhappiness. But if you deconstruct your sense of self and you live in a sewer or a public toilet from a horror movie, it won't be too fun, but you'll not be too unhappy about it.

Generally the more often you use it, the less mystical and more degenerate you become.

That's a new one. Yup. Quitting weed is not just quitting a bad habit. It's quitting a lifestyle. It's altering your personality. Even if you only smoke once a week or once a month, that shit stays in your system for at least a week and passively works on your brain.

I just had a realization with ChatGPT: If you ever use ChatGPT to troubleshoot softwares that you enter code in like MATLAB but where you also tend to use GUIs, just ask it to literally solve your problem. Don't ask it (unless that is your main problem) if you need to e.g. update your software or how to make the software find the correct file or library or how to get a program that isn't running to run so that you can do the thing yourself the proper way. Just "I have this problem and I need this to happen instead. Plz fix". And it will just hack the program for you. All I needed was essentially a color to change on some visual model because the GUI had some bug that didn't let me change the color, and I tried to go through so many hoops together with GPT to fix that bug, but when I simply said "I want this color to be this", it just gave me a few lines of code and boom. (It was a little more complicated than that; through some trial and error, I found out I had to change the very bottom of a color spectrum to another color. But still, this was after presenting my problem directly).

It's actually ridiculous how prevalent "it's all in your head" is as a heuristic for people. Even my mother who is a doctor, when I say I feel different after taking a multivitamin (and many other things), she has this knee-jerk response of "yeah, the placebo effect is real". And I'll have to say like "ok, if you're deficient in vitamin D, will you not feel that?". Also, even if something is "all in your head", it doesn't actually matter. If something has an effect you can notice, then that is incredible and should be celebrated. Secondly, literally everything is "in your head"; the placebo effect is constant. Even if you take a drug like heroin, you don't know how much of it is in your head and how much of it is "real". Certainly with drugs or vitamins, the correct assumption is that it has a real effect and a placebo effect, but you just don't know how much of which. Besides, SSRIs are only 2% better than placebo, so so much for "real" effects. So "it's placebo" is not really a good reason for doing anything, maybe unless you're a cancer patient who needs brain surgery and not apple juice.

Are you taking any medication?

People who don't smoke and get offered a joint are notoriously bad at getting high. It's mainly a mechanical skill problem of inhaling it. That's why I didn't think I got high the first time I tried it. There is also pharmacological sensitization that occurs after repeated use (your body becomes more efficient at responding to it), but I don't think matters a lot if you just inhale enough. I've gone from smoking weed multiple times a day without getting any "effect" from it (but I was of course perpetually high but adapted to it), and then I've also gone straight into ego death from it. It depends very much on your life situation, psychological and physical health, regularity of use, other psychedelic use, meditation ability, etc.