Carl-Richard

This is golden advice and I'm speaking from experience 💯 @Nilsi I can provide some advice about the potential pitfalls of this as well if you decide to try it out.

Sorry for being crass, but your writing style is like @Reciprocality but you actually sort of make sense 😆 I don't see what the conflict is really about. Is it about viewing life through a Hegelian lens vs. a Nietzschian lens? Or is it simply about pursuing two different life paths? Because the former doesn't seem like a real issue. You firstly don't choose how you view something, and it's possible to view something in multiple ways. The latter is a more real issue, but that is just "resolved" by trying something out and seeing where it leads. If it doesn't work out, you can just switch. The problem is looking for an ultimate black-or-white, ride-or-die choice. Life doesn't work like that, and thinking that it works like that is a much bigger conflict. In the words of Sam Hyde (😂), "perfect is the enemy of good". You learn as you go. You might find out that you'll grow as you're trying the first thing out and that the conflict resolves that way, or you'll just be more certain that the other thing is probably what is truly right for you.

It's hilariously sad to see how many people here see an interview about a rape and the first instinct is to think they're lying.

Uhh, she is a reporter(??) 🙈

This is ridiculous that you think that. She has already been on TV her whole career.

@Chadders Spirituality, when conceptualized and practiced (which is the only spirituality worth talking about), is riddled with beliefs.

I could definitely see some New Agers support legislation to ban certain "low consciousness" behaviors; "New Age Sharia" if you'd like. Although I could also see how the belief in individual liberties might overrule that impulse You could argue spirituality in politics is by definition religion. When spirituality integrates into institutions, larger communities and the larger society, that's actually what you call religion. Spirituality integrating with politics is just that taken to the extreme (which is what Islam is known for).

Islam 😂

My guy explained a conceptualization of stress as if it's not stress but some mystical force

Either way, God doesn't give a fook.

Why did God create mildly uncomfortable feelings, like feeling sweaty or itchy?

So you're playing the non-dualist street preacher game and the implication is that "a conscious effect" is related to the ego and the ego is an illusion, right? Well, repetition of typing is also an illusion. So get played on your own game. You can always derail any discussion about reality into a non-duality preacher fest. But you don't have to do that. And it's also completely besides the point in this discussion. This is not the spirituality sub-forum.

I agree that "healthy habits" (things people generally perceive as hard or requiring discipline) generally need to be perceived as meaningful or rewarding for them to be taken up. But once they're taken up, it's hard to put them down.

It often is. But it is possible to use a certain conceptualization of solipsism (Absolute solipsism, Cosmic solipsism) and contrast it with the ego, like Bernardo Kastrup does in this 50 second clip: But yeah, the problem with using that term without adding a determiner like "Absolute" or "Cosmic" is that people get confused very easily and start equating it with the machinations of their ego. "Nonispism" could be a way to solve that confusion.

That's why you wrote it in 10 paragraphs.

Tl;dr: the problem of evil and original sin (or even shorter: karma).

Impress others enough so that impressing them is no longer impressive 😂

Omg.

"They have tried everything". Sounds like bullshit.

It's not simply about avoiding certain kinds of conscious thoughts. It's about avoiding possibly creating largely unconscious contractions and behavioral patterns that are counter to your goal. In other words, you should limit your "practice" to certain times of the day. After all, practice is not practice if there is no rest. That's called obsession.

Oh yeah, I'm pretty sure that is what my mom plays. I think I got to try to play it once and it made zero sense to me how it worked (maybe because I was like 7 years old 😆). My dad plays the violin and my parents tried to make me play it when I was 5 years old, but I didn't like it. Then my dad spotted me playing air guitar with this random wooden sword when I was 11, and he seized the opportunity and asked "should we buy you an electric guitar?". He is not a guy to simply buy stuff, so I was genuinely surprised and of course very happy. I think he was waiting for that moment all his life ; the spark of inspiration, intrinsic motivation. I think he implicitly (maybe explicitly, I can't remember) taught me about the concept of intrinsic motivation, and it's one of the deepest concepts I've learned that is still with me to this day. I think I can thank him for most of my wacky spiritual genes (although my mother has also become overtly more spiritual over time). Ah, so you are the frontman of Jethro Tull after all. I was going to ask you that Sitting on a park bench (I'll spare you the rest ). Hehe I might be exaggerating a little bit about how smooth I can pull it off, but I do like to whistle a lot, so much so I had to tone it down because I was pissing off my roommates while cooking

That can turn into a massive neurosis though, so beware. I'm speaking from personal experience. The thought "am I being conscious enough?" is the least conscious thing you can introduce into every aspect of your life.

Learn how to play an instrument.

Flute 😃 I like Jethro Tull. And that's about as far as my flute interest goes. Or maybe Camel or early King Crimson. My mom plays some kind of flute instrument that I forgot the name of. I can actually whistle the flute run in that one 🤓 Guitar, sometimes drums. Whistling.