Carl-Richard

Notice how Leo has not made a video on the Dark Night of the Soul. Notice how nobody on the forum talks about it. Notice how he has made a video on conformity. Notice how everybody talks about it. Confirmity comfortmity.

Hey, it's the quotes guy responding to a post I made. Did I watch a Spira video the last day, week or month and then I had the idea to write this topic? No (not that I can recall). Have I watched a lot of Spira throughout the years? Yes. I used to listen to Spira (and Alan Watts and other teachers) while falling asleep every night for many weeks. If you literally feel like you didn't just move your hand and as if somebody else was steering your hand in the direction they wanted, that's without a doubt non-doership.

This is not about philosophical free will. This is about existential/phenomenological (lack of) free will. That this conflation is happening is also indicative of the problem. I'm talking about that you are literally experiencing yourself moving on autopilot, as if somebody is controlling you with a remote controller. This is what non-dual embodiment implicates. If there is no difference between you and the chair next to you, there is no difference between you choosing to move towards the chair and the chair choosing to move towards you. Your agency is intertwined with the whole universe. The universe moving is you moving out of your will. Your will is the entire universe moving.

I don't really eat seed oils but sure

Which ones?

Exhibit A.

@Natasha Tori Maru Could be the anti-inflammatory effect. I get similar effects from eating cumin powder.

Hmm, I've been avoiding fruit juices, just eating the whole fruits, but mostly due to blood sugar and that I would've gotten the processed pasteurized crap. Avoiding oils, not sure with that one. The things I eat aren't usually very naturally oily. Most times when I avoid added sources of fat either through oils or dairy, I just feel on edge, like my cell membranes become dry. And people say "placebo!" when I say shit food makes me feel like shit.

Try almost failing a max deadlift. You'll maybe not feel a "burn" during the lift (rather like your entire body is going to split in half), but your back will be sore as hell the next day. I did essentially this once and I almost passed out:

My body runs on olive oil squeezed by virgins (isn't that why they call it that?). Anyways, I feel really good after eating extra virgin olive oil. It's like it lubes up the entire machinery.

Gimme a ooch.

Schizo, izo.

Endorphins and other neurochemicals make you less volatile and more present. Increased blood flow, decreased heart rate, lower blood pressure. Essentially working out is a source of vital energy, it's the basis of your physical existence. If you don't use your body, you deterioate as a physical being, and your physical being is linked to your mental being. If it's particularly high intensity training, you also pump a lot of lactate into your brain which is used as an energy source and has especially stimulating neurotransmitter properties, and noradrenaline which increases alertness. BDNF is released which is involved in neuronal growth and plasticity. High intensity training is arguably the #1 brain health intervention after sleep.

Don't you see my profile picture is Turquoise? You can't fool me, Yellow 😌

@Leo Gura Get yo ass to moderator discussion, right now 🥰

Not just a part of you, but likely you in an earlier stage of your life.

These would fit perfectly: Because they're Blue.

That would fit right under the Reddit cave exploration posts.

Ironically, a bit like how virtually every post in this thread says or implies "conformity is bad". What you fear, you tend to dichotomize, absolutize, extremize, reject, deny. It creates a solid basis for conformity.

Zizek should have seen me from February to March last year where I slept 1-3 hours most nights, measured people's brains all day, still kept up my workout regimen and still most days made my own food, until my face turned yellow and I had a massive mysterious swelling in my elbow which I took antibiotics and anti-inflammatories for, still kept going without being able to extend my arm fully.

My idea of compatibilism (which I stole from Bernardo Kastrup) is that the feeling of free will is compatible with the insight of determinism. Saying that you have free will in one sense but not another is a psychologically healthy frame, rather than "you have no free will, it's an illusion, you're a leaf blowing in the wind". To be able to say that you have free will is healthy, as per the confusion of the OP, but denying your logical mind is also unhealthy. It's similar to how a frame of epistemic pragmatism is psychologically healthy (in my opinion) as opposed to say realism or skepticism, in that you can say "it's true relative to this criteria" instead of "it's true" or "it's not true". Here it's more about stating your assumptions and making them conscious. It creates a mood of being careful and being aware of bias, which I believe is more healthy than the alternative.

Nah, Bryan would only do grass-fed organic local-raised, with mixed Australian-American accent for extra longevity points 🥴

"Is sex good for longevity? 90-day experiment" 💀

Just read the statistics. Heritability is around 50%.

That, but also some people just want to be like the Hulk.