Carl-Richard

You're in a conceptual web of lies. You can have multiple entities inside infinity already. No need to call them "Gods". It's just fat.

This is the crux of the previous issue I raised: you're invoking unnecessary conceptual entities (if your aim is to be precise, concise). "Infinite infinities" is not a concise presentation of what infinity is. The way you explained infinity in the second interview was more concise: "In truth, there is only one thing: there is an infinite field of consciousness, which is infinity itself, which contains the entire possibility space of anything that can ever be imagined or can exist. And this infinity is God". That's perfectly concise. When you start adding infinity to the concept of God again, you're just adding unnecessary fat. And the way you go about adding infinity to God in the Infinity of Gods video contains a logical error: you have to assume there is something outside of God to add something outside of God. If God is everything that could possibly exist, you can't do that. That's more than just being imprecise or inconcise. That's just being logically incoherent. That is the true signal for when you're really just waffling about something which is not needed.

Infinity of Gods is a load of bullshit, I'm sorry.

Leo is not the first "consciousness-first" idealist they have interviewed. Consider that their knowledge actually mirrors their intelligence. Idealism is actually not a new thing, believe it or not. The issue is that Leo's communication is sort of whimsical compared to the concise scientific delivery. The way he mixes morality, love, goodness, evil, into the Absolute, it makes the scientist-minded thrown off track. A view like Bernardo Kastrup's analytic idealism is much more effective for that kind of audience, clearly delineating a metaphysical position without dragging in too many connections or too much conceptual baggage.

They talk to eachother. But sure, that's most intuitive. But the absolute is one, not two.

Emptiness and form are one yes. But yet here we are, talking about the distinction between them. If you don't want to make distinctions, "creation" is the least of your concerns.

Creation is the mediation between emptiness and form.

It's such a basic word hello. "Salubrious" that Leo used in the video is more impressive.

@Ramasta9 Thing is, I respond very well to some vegan meals. No "adaptation" required there. How do you explain that?

Form and emptiness. God-realization is about realizing form. Self-realization is about realizing emptiness. Unity Consciousness is when the God-realization has matured to reflect the self-realization in form. "But that is to complicate it". It's just the case that you can refine the understanding of form.

I love Anneke's voice so much. Warm, majestic, powerful:

Suiçmez's solo style is so masculine and constrained in this Neo-Classical format, but in this solo he went full Avant-Garde improvisational (really odd and unhinged tonal modes and bends) but still maintaining the concise and elegant style. 1:52

At one point it became less pondering and more making things happen.

I know there are a few RuneScape people on the forum: did anybody play Deadman Mode Annihilation? I got some hours in there (game mode started January 30th and ended on 21st of February).

I don't bring up this guy to idolize him (and I don't seriously describe to his terminology) but it's one thing the guy Clavicular has that makes him allegedly successful with women despite his looks and despite his allergy towards "Jestermaxxing" (having a personality), and that is he doesn't give a fuck. He has said he literally does not care that he finishes in 1 minute with a girl and then bails, because he is only there to pleasure himself, he doesn't care about what the woman thinks (not saying that's a good thing at all, but just to give a picture). He indeed doesn't care about "jestermaxxing", to come off as likeable or charming or funny, just to literally "mog" with whatever other factor he has going for him. Now again, I'm not signalling to idolize, but to get some perspective, see what range of states or behaviors are out there, see that maybe your current states or behaviors are not necessarily needed in the degree you hold them.

Maybe your motivation for meditation is the issue. If you want to meditate to stop agitation, the very motivation of "I don't want this" contains resistance, attachment, contraction within it, so it will work antithetical to the goal. You have to be a master at brainwashing yourself out of the "I don't want this state" mindset and get into an acceptance mindset during the meditation. And even then, maybe you need a stronger type of motivation than that to really get the truly beneficial effects; a different kind of resolve, mindset, techniques, cognitive frames, assumptions about what is possible, etc., to get there. The reason I started meditating (or rather the reason I kept going) was because I was intensely curious about what consciousness is, what pure awareness is, how to exist in a state of pure silence, stillness. It was in reality an obsession. It was my main focus in life. Perhaps meditation doesn't work as well when it isn't that. Though ironically, it wasn't before I placed meditation and awakening on #2 place in terms of immediate resource expenditure (studies came first) that I started seeing the most progress spiritually (letting go of the attachment to meditation itself is highly beneficial at certain stages on the path). But you are seemingly not there. And that's not your fault. You can take meditation for what you want it to be. Perhaps other techniques like cognitive behavioral therapy, or challenging belief structures, assumptions, cognitive styles, could be more beneficial for you.

@Ramasta9 I think "detox" could be a cope and that the process is of getting adapted to a lower energy state and lower nutrition. It's like when you injure yourself, you change state to accommodate it; your mood drops, your activity drops, and it feels shit at first, but then you stabilize a bit (until you eventually get over the injury and start moving again). If it was undeniably the case that fruit-only was superior for nutrition, my body would be jumping in excitement every time I ate. The fact that I would be eating a slightly more unripe-picked fruit or even with glyphosate in it should only be a minor factor, and the underlying superiority should shine through and be robust. Meanwhile, instead you're encouraged to go on a kind of quest to figure out how to fucking eat a fruit and not feel like shit.

The fact is there are already different paths of technology, and discovering one didn't hamper discovery of the other. You don't need strictly need electricity to drive what we call a car. Combustions engines are strictly independent of the discoveries of electricity. But we also have electric cars now. We discovered both. It's easy to fixate on one or a few things but you probably underestimate how much innovation that exists and what has been tried but failed. It's not like people give up trying to find new ways just because an existing way exists. That would be to lobotomize half of our cognitive factulties. I think it's very hard to genuinely find a path of technology that was not discovered due to paradigm lock. You would have to go by some core assumptions about how reality works, like the existence of psychic phenomena.

If you care about lasting enlightenment, "when you get the message, put down the phone" seems more accurate than not. My first LSD trip at 18 showed me the problem of suffering, dukkha, perpetual dissatisfaction, seeking, grasping, clinging. It was so apparent to me that I just laid in my bed for hours with a slight frown, trying to avoid the feeling of tension when deciding to do anything. And trips after that were more just ventures into forms, Maya, highly abstract spaces of mind, of extreme self-reference and irony, of deep sensations of profundity, complexity, vastness. But of course, the mystical unity experience was always lingering in the background, trying to creep in at the center stage of experience. But I was then grasping, clinging to experience, the moments I could do that. The trip became a game of trying to avoid the truth creeping in despite the growing discomfort as the trip progressed. And the end of the trip was soaked with weed to alleviate this sense of discomfort, to avert the eyes and bodily sensors from what was truly the lesson. Only when I laid down all drugs, a true feeling of spiritual quest was revealed.

Yet you're looking for distractions during it. Maybe still and quiet is what you need so you cannot be distracted.

Be intensely curious about the agitation. What is it? How does it really feel? Where does the agitation arise from? Can you spot where in the process of awareness it arises? Meditation is like a study of the mechanics of your mind. The trick is that you're in it and trying to look at it from the outside. And that's what makes it fun.

Clavicular in his recent Piers Morgan appearance said "it's sort of a new philosophy". Meanwhile, here is the definition of "metrosexual", a term originating from 1994: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrosexual Clavicular might retort with "the idea that looks are #1 most important factor for attraction is the new philosophy; people spent a lot of time on looks before without necessarily holding this idea in mind". However, if you can deduce a philosophy based on actions, it's likely that many metrosexuals hold this philosophy implicitly if not explicitly stated in words or thought (e.g., it might be the #1 use of their time, and the outcome involves increasing attraction, and surely, a part of it comes from the intention to increase attraction, hence they hold it as the #1 most important factor for increasing attraction based on their intentions and use of time and resources).

Maybe my appreciation for music doesn't translate but that tends to be enough for me when running and lifting at the gym. I don't have to look at my phone (although I intentionally decide to that sometimes, but it usually feels like more work than not doing it). I said that when the noises aren't there, they shouldn't bother you, but when they are there, they could definitely bother you (and they sometimes do for me if it is particularly loud). Honestly could solve 95% of your problems. Perhaps focus on meditation techniques where you try to catch thoughts when they happen and then recenter on a sensation when you notice being lost in thought. I had a period I was so addicted to catching and breaking trains of thought that it was hard to take any thoughts seriously (even hard to think at times, certainly to mind-wander). However, I could still get anticipatory anxiety, but that was more a physical arousal issue than being bothered by thoughts. It's a bit of a tangent, but I find anticipatory anxiety is best dealt with by changing some expectation or interpretation of an outcome, rather than trying to silence thoughts.

@Ramasta9 I've tried some fruit monomeals now (bananas, mangoes, honeydew melon), and it might be the fact that I live in Norway where the food has to be imported, but I really can't do it. The energy levels are way too low. I last tried bananas (10), organic, but still, low energy. I seem to feel better afterwards when the fruit is digested and blood glucose drops, perhaps due to the microbial effect.

Run faster. I sometimes pull up the forum between 4x4 runs or sprints, but my mind physically can't move. Do you not listen to music while running? I basically only do high-intensity running/sprints (aiming at basically max BPM) and low intensity cardio (125 bpm fast walking for 40-45 minutes). And I walk 10 minutes after every meal (but I have slacked on the evening meal). When I walk, I just mind-wander or do nothing. I like it, it's an insight generator and simply mindfulness. It feels like cleaning. Afterwards, your mind is clearer, or you get fixated on an idea which you'll explore further.