Carl-Richard

@Entrepreneur What if we could predict what everybody values the most based on an inverse activation of the Default Mode Network, and that the end goal of spiritual practice is the pinnacle of that?

And you?

Yup. MMO analogies are the way to teach zoomers. Tom Campbell was 20 years early.

Denying other, denying multiplicity, denying maya, is cool and all, but as Ramana Maharshi would have said, deny it all the way. Yourself as a person in the dream, that is also maya. If it's possible for you as a person in the dream to exist, it's possible for others in the dream to exist.

Death of the self means you're literally dying every single moment of your existence.

Solipsism is not heavy. Death of the self is heavy.

The person you think yourself to be in the dream: the personal. The dreamer: transpersonal.

The distinction between personal and transpersonal is more illusive than the distinction between spiritual ego and spirituality for some.

Dictatee.

Yes. Yes.

What do you lay in the word "self-transcendence"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_Z

I've just skimmed through parts of it but I find the writing style awful and repetitive. Hanzi Freinacht "The Listening Society" is a step up from even Wilber.

@Rilles 👀 Hello

You can pursue a goal without strictly needing the goal. You can pursue it because it's desirable, not because you need it necessarily. But also, neediness seems like an extreme kind of expression of a need. You can have a milder expression that could not be classified as needy and still have a need associated with it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needy https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/neediness If you lack the self-assurance and character to not display a behavior indicative of extreme privation, that you don't have a sense of balance and stability within yourself or are able to handle shifting outcomes without breaking down into a non-functional mess, that means you're being needy.

It's an attitude of non-attachment. You pursue it but you accept whatever that happens and are ok without it. Acceptance is a core feature in the psychological concept cognitive flexibility.

Meaning, autonomy and being. Then comes "physical health" (optimized diet, exercise, sleep, etc.). Then comes social health. If meaning, autonomy and being collapses, that's death. An organism that acts in accordance with its impetus, follows its drives, is in tune with its capabilities, lives. Nourishment comes secondary to that. A house divided against itself cannot stand.

The process was I noticed a tension when focusing on the speaker/powerpoint in the lecture. Like I was trying to force my attention to project in this piecemeal and inelegant way. So when I noticed this tension, I let it dissolve. Even this subtle act of perception did have a physical manifestation, as a slight tightness in the visual apparatus. And when this dissolved, things notably became calmer, and then time stopped and the rest of the story unfolded. Some mentalist might say "you simply let go of your attachment to focus on the lecture", but even attachment has physical correlates, albeit subtle ones (what we call "behavioral" patterns), where tension in the body is one example.

This song is so feelgood, like butterflies in my entire body. It's so short:

My first awakening (which happened very quickly during my 3rd meditation) probably only happened that quickly because it was preceded by a week of intense active mindfulness practice (up in the Norwegian mountains 😎, true mystic), which included not as much body scanning as overall awareness of movement (although the distinction kind of evaporates at some point). But the meditation where the awakening happened included body scanning (and then vipassana, which also has a body awareness aspect).

I'm saying it's both. Mind-body dualism is an outdated view. It's always intertwined. After my first awakening, I stopped having problems with suspension headaches and tight back/neck/shoulder muscles (extremely rare that I have those now). A lot of tension and aches and pain arise from unconscious and inelegant bodily movements. It's like you're moving your body in such a reckless way that you hurt yourself. And when you don't have the ability to relax and heal, you keep hurting yourself and it becomes a chronic pain problem (this is likely the cause of many "Subjective Health Complaints" (SHC), i.e. problems that have physical symptoms but not clear physiological causes. The causes are "physio-mechanical", behavioral).

At around 150-200 ms. (Figure represents event-related potentials in EEG recordings). https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-08651-9_12 Semantics is processed at around 400 ms.

Can you eat a grudge without utensils?

I'm just conforming to the format of the thread. For purely the act of getting nutrients into your body, utensils have zero to exceedingly minimal use. Better examples of tools are kitchen knives, butcher's knives, pots, spatulas. Show me one food you can only eat with utensils.

You literally bite and chew. Do you eat apple with a fork and knife? Have you not seen people eat steak with their hands?