Carl-Richard

When things get sufficiently removed from oneself into the past, we start to view it more through aesthetic than the brutal factual reality. We see this with the Vikings, pirates, Romans, Spartans. We start viewing them as cool, even noble somehow, perhaps despite the factual reality, and we even identify with them. Look at the Norwegian football fans during the World Cup role-playing as Vikings with their "Ro!" chant. The Vikings were essentially what Islamic terrorist groups like ISIS and Al-Qaida are today. Violent, ruthless killers, slaughtering everyone in their way, doing surprise attacks on larger cities and settlements. Norwegians are terrified of Islamic terrorists, yet they identify with the Vikings. The distinction is the separation of the far past and the immediate threat towards their survival. Remove the immediate threat to survival and you start viewing them in a different light. "But their ideology is different, that's why Norwegians don't like Islamic terrorists". Yes, different from their own, so it threatens their survival because it threathens them now. But is it really different from the ideology of the Vikings if you look at the pure structure rather than the content? Violent Islamic jihadism is not really that dissimilar from violent Norse paganism. Also, pre-agricultural hunter-gatherers, who couldn't be more different from oneself ideologically, also get the aesthetic treatment. There is even the idea that they were somehow enlightened or peaceful, living in perfect harmony with nature with egalitarian and matriarchical tribal structures, when that probably couldn't be further from the truth. This image crashes immediately once you replace "pre-agricultural hunter-gatherers" with "uncontacted jungle savages", and you see how when you meet these people in the present, you will end up with an arrow through your eye before anything else you can "gather" from them (talk about "aesthetics"). And of course, pirates get the Johnny Depp treatment, the Romans get the "every movie ever made about Ancient Rome" treatment, Spartans get the movie "300" treatment, etc. It wouldn't surprise me if 1000 years into the future and if violent Islamic jihadism has somehow become a thing of the past, Norwegians (or whatever they're called) start viewing violent Islamic jihadists as something cool, a bit like pirates, or the Vikings.

Never thought about it like that, it's also just words.

There is a fine line between being authentic and not having any antennas for the surrounding environment and how you act within it, or not caring about anybody else than yourself in a social situation. If you are authentically bad at relating to others, that might be something you would want to work on if you care about that. You could authentically care about relating to people but you just don't have the right know-how or practice. "Authentic" and "autistic" have the same root: autos, meaning "self". You can be true to yourself or you can be self-absorbed. You can be expressing yourself or you can be unable to express yourself in a way that could better fit the situation.

"Plastic bag in the sea" at the end is very emotional:

Healthcare seems to be special in that there is high urgency and high quantity (of patients) and high quality of care / level of responsibility and rigor and of course understaffing, so it forces high workloads. Working in business is nowhere near the same workload even though you would think the market would create it. The solutions are straightforward: increase health of the population through public health policies or other interventions, increase education of healthcare workers and staffing. Also reduce administrative burden (AI has helped with this; modernisation of journal systems and other tech could also help).

She does say she experiences it as meaningful. It's the workload that seems to be the main issue.

I was inside my house and the house started spinning like it was inside a washing machine at full RPM. I also fell from the sky and (I think) I hit a stone tile floor face first, and then I looked at the tiles and it was like LSD visuals in them. Another time I dreamt a sci-fi story plot that was thousands of years long. That's what weed withdrawals and/or anticholinergic sleep aids do to you.

Why porn but not drugs?

I feel like I've seen all those types of action scenes before, I think they're running out of new ideas.

Cessation (nirodha samapatti) is also described in other traditions where Love and God (and infinity) become common descriptions (nirvikalpa samadhi). The crux of the distinction you're getting at is psychedelic states. Eh yeh.

In that case, him dissing Buddhism means he "doesn't know what he is talking about" lol. (Entering) cessation feels like being slowly injected with anesthesia. And the sounds in the room, they don't as much weaken or vanish as they seem to slow down and "stop". It's as if each "bit" (or beat) in the vibration (sound is vibration which means rhythm) becomes audible, slowing down until it sounds like somebody is clapping their hands really fast, or like putting a piece of cardboard on a spinning bike wheel, until it lands on the silence between each bit or beat and you get sucked into that void. Like this video in reverse (just with the sounds in the room and not a pure note): It's as if each vibration in your sensory field (also including vision, bodily sensation) becomes perceptible and you start to become aware of the void in-between each vibration and eventually you get sucked into that void.

"Marr's three levels: A re-evaluation": https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00361036 Good for learning the difference between "the what" (quality, essence, semantics, content), "the how" (quantity, structure, form, algorithm, syntactics) and "the where" (physicality, spatio-temporality, implementation, medium).

@Leo Gura Is this true?

You can be lucid dreaming.

Has existed for more than a decade: 32:21-35:07

My mother is a doctor in her late 50s, she is very vibrant and capable, but the amount of work she does really zaps her.

@integration journey Or just read The Listening Society. Wonderful critique and contextualization of SD. Just ask AI for a summary, it could help a lot of issues and questions raised in this thread and by the OP.

He has done a lot of psychedelics. I like to poo poo psychedelic gnosis, but the higher dimensional mind spaces (sensory, perceptual, conceptual) are interesting. Does not seem like he has baseline / "perpetual" mystical/non-dual awareness like those examples you mentioned, he will probably tell you yourself.

Being smart in this thread would be kinda embarrassing.

Insane impressionist. His Warren character feels like a real human being. 3:47 His Bill Maher is also off the charts. And last but not least, RFK:

But he is "not political"? 🤔

I've never had to drop the soft A before this occasion. Tells you the seriousness of the situation.

My nigga, I'm serious, I think you should see a psychiatrist, these are serious symptoms of OCD. You can't just laugh off being suicidal and "oh well I was just sick". And "I can't breathe the air in the hospital". Bud, get help, seriously.

True word salad (the "intellectual" kind, not born in psychosis) cannot come from a sincere expression of one's own understanding. It comes from insecurity about how you're perceived by others, and you will in fact discount your own understanding to potentially gain that perception by others (and in a way, it makes you psychotic). The thinking is "if I can put it simply, if I can understand it perfectly clear, then other people might think I come off as simple, so I have to make myself more complicated / less understandable so that I come off as complicated instead". So if you have the balls to come off like a simpleton, or if you really try your best to say things that are completely simple and clear to you, you'll basically be immune towards "intellectual" word salad. But of course, you can think something like that is word salad if you simply lack understanding. But that's not actually word salad. Because at least somebody truly thinks it's simple and clear.

Stage Yellow people and above know that Stage Word Salad goes on the ignore list.