Carl-Richard

"Why I'm quitting water"

So porn is not harmful then, only when taken to the extreme?

Here is a challenge: find me a high perspective that you dislike.

So why is real sex not harmful and not supposedly leading to brain damage?

Why is it addictive?

Some practices and intentions are more conducive to cultivating kundalini energy than others.

@Someone here Let's pretend we are scientists and want to give a theoretical explanation for why porn consumption is harmful. Is it that it leads to excessive arousal? If so, do you think it leads to more arousal than real sex? And if so, at what point does real sex become harmful?

Answer the question!

Increased energy, increased subtlety of perception (more beauty, "better" vision, hearing, sensations), allegedly increased IQ (according to Jan Esmann, he went from 140 to 170 over some decades, which is the opposite of what you would expect due to age), experience of bliss, love, and a so-called "restructuring of your nervous system to uphold states of enlightenment" (paraphrasing Jan Esmann). Kundalini leads to God-awakening/God-realization (which is not a Leo invention by the way). There are parallels between kundalini and psychedelics (I believe psychedelics can sometimes initiate kundalini awakenings).

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Trump is someone who seems he could live to at least 95.

Is fapping to a pic of my GF healthy and harmless?

What should I be openminded about? How should I be openminded? What even is openmindedness? Do you see how for any of these questions, you have to choose something over something else? Do you see how you generally have to close your mind to something in order to open yourself to another? And if so, is the question then really about being openminded, or is it about being openminded in the right way? Maybe it's about things like wisdom, right discernment, right action, than openmindedness? Let's say you are a human being. Should you be openminded about playing Russian Roulette with a double barrel shotgun right now? Let's say you are driving a car on the highway. Should you be openminded about not using your breaks for the rest of the ride? Let's say you are finishing a project that you worked on for a year. Should you be openminded about discontinuing the project one minute before handing in the finished work? Maybe it's better to be openminded after that minute. Again, you obviously want to be openminded in the right way, about the right things, at the right time. But of course, sometimes you have to be openminded about what that exactly looks like in order to test the waters (openmindedness is essentially a type of exploratory/testing function). Nevertheless, the right way, the right things, the right times, are the arbiters of what openmindedness we engage in (and are able to engage in). Exploration, testing the unknown, can be painful, but treating it as almost an absolute good can be a trap (and you literally can't do that).

Don't ruin movies for yourself. Just watch the movie when you watch the movie. That is the most present you will ever be with the movie.

You can awaken your kundalini by listening to teachers such as Jan Esmann (and especially with Jan, you can awaken it by literally just listening to him, through a passive transfer of energy; his energy/Shakti is very contagious). But be warned: it's no joke. Once it's awakened, you will have a very hard time if you don't let it run its course.

What is the blasphemy about?

That video mentioned nothing about reductions in grey matter volume. They mentioned increased activation in the ventral striatum

Gentle Giant's ability to make interesting melodies and interesting rhythmical effects (counterpoint, polyrhythms, etc.) just resonates with me so much. Their songs are just fun:

Collecting student debt.

@integral I wouldn't rule out magic.

It must have started with my first LSD trip where I learned about the truth of dukkha (suffering). I had spent so much time and attention planning everything I wanted to do during my LSD trip; fun things to experience, playing with visual effects and tactile experiences, etc.; but when I was actually tripping and I did these things, after I did them, I was left with an extreme feeling of emptiness, like a black hole in my stomach. And I remember quite clearly now an intention forming in my mind: "I need to find a solution to this". And the day after the trip, I spent a whole day sitting in the woods and smoking weed, and I felt the most expanded and mystical effects I've ever experienced: expanded vision, expanded sense of the environment, of being one with the environment and a movement upwards. Then I started "living in the now", dropping responsibilites, school, people, until that came back to bite me in the ass. I became very stressed and almost psychotic, and then I discovered Leo's video "40 signs you are being neurotic", and then is when things truly started. I believe the following week, I watched Leo's "how to meditate" video, and then I was hooked. I believe I also learned about the concept of "mindfulness" around the same time (from I believe Sam Harris), and I spent a week straight actively practicing mindfulness in everything I did (because I couldn't smoke weed at that time). And after that week, I decided to try seated meditation properly for the first time (I had tried it once before from I believe before my first LSD trip because I had heard a friend talk about it, but it was very short, on a whim and without any strong intention or really knowledge about what was possible; but I actually felt some interesting effects then, like I was slightly distancing myself from my body and my field of vision expanded a bit behind my closed eyelids, but I was also on weed at the time). On my third meditation, I awoke.

Your energy levels follow the same patterns as your sleep cycles; up for 1.5 hours, down for 1.5 hours, etc. If you delay your sleep for 2 hours after you were initially tired, you will experience an increase in energy again for the next 1 hour or so, which makes it harder to fall asleep. If you are prone to 5-MeO re-activations or other types of energy phenomena, it would be wise to carefully craft a sleep schedule that puts you to sleep and does not provoke those things.

I have Sony WH-1000XM4. Worth every penny. If I use them together with foam ear plugs, there can be a party going on downstairs and I won't really hear anything.

Ah. I've lived with such a person. He started rearranging furniture and using a saw at 03:30 am. I screamed at him so much he felt like buying a white t-shirt for me as an apology. Then he played bass and music on speakers at similar times as well and I had to keep reminding him about the 11 PM rule of the apartment which I had also made him personally agree on beforehand. So I've been clear about setting boundaries like that. But if it's noise during daytime that is the problem and it seems unreasonable to ask for boundaries, get noise-cancelling headphones, use them together with ear plugs. It would probably solve most of your problems.