Carl-Richard

Trying to get the snake to rise 😈😏

You can get an arousal of kundalini, which can pull you in the right direction and can for example help your meditation and make you experience some bliss, but it's not the same as a kundalini awakening. A kundalini awakening is an intensely physical experience; you're quite literally being penetrated by an object.

No, what is "power"?

What is power? Not resource-abundant enough.

I think Game B will become more likely and "bottom-up" if we get a non-turbulent launch into Ray Kursweil levels of AI. It's too unstable if there is resource scarcity in any part of the system. If there is severe enough resource scarcity, that's when countries collapse, tribes collapse, families collapse. Higher levels of unity require higher levels of resources.

"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.