Carl-Richard

Debatable.

Stop posting schizophrenic Instagram reels omg 😂 The video seems to me like 100% acting. You don't just pull out exact four-five digit numbers on the top of your head while performatively looking into your skull like that. Exact manic energy and oversharing of unsolicited information you would expect from a pathological liar who does it for kicks.

The forum used to be like this, it used to have this view, then something very wrong happened. It was a slow change that culminated with the kicking of @Nahm. The forum was never the same after that. That was the best time, all the best people and conversations were had. Now it's a forum of suck-ups and outcasts.

Well, this universe has hardness, correct? So you're conceding that argument. I added a concrete example for clarification. Our minds tend to have a hard time actually/literally imagining things that exist outside space and time (our cognition and thinking is so deeply tied to it), but it is possible to conceive of such things. Bernardo Kastrup has a video on it called "Imagining the Crystal of Eternity" or something like that.

I can imagine an universe without space, time, only association. That would be akin to the Platonic realm or pure syntax/structure/algorithm (see the paper on Revisiting Marr's Three Levels). Space and time are required (or descriptions) for the physical implementation of the Platonic forms. The Fragment can precede physicality, through pure form, no extension, no change in time. Space and time is for us just an abstraction of our physiological senses and the change of their state. Where there can exist a sensation, we replace with space, and the change in sensation, we describe with time. You can experience a proto-version of the Platonic realm by the fact that you can imagine a car without having an actual car in front of you. The issue is of course in your image of a car, you project sensory qualities, extension, etc. But you can also merely investigate the "concept" of a car, its pure structure, without conjuring up an image in your mind (through linguistic associations). The Platonic realm would be akin to the conglomeration of that structure.

Surfing unlimited identity is not some puny thing. After you fall from the peak, you're in the toilet compared to surfing the unlimited, unless you're on the very brink (which 0.000004% of people are).

Application does not mean better than other options. I can apply a seriously inflationary cosmology and it will still be inflationary. Why is the application better than other options? (By what account do you ascribe its status as a Theory of Everything and not say Analytical Idealism?)

I've had similar experiences. Same with improvising on guitar: every note feels more profound, but my motor skills are clearly inhibited, so it just sounds sloppy and limited. The inhibition of motor skills is a microcosm of the larger inhibition of cognitive movement. Adds points to my point in another thread dicussing how psychedelics (weed goes under there) makes you take insights into form/Maya very seriously (it seems very profound), even when it might not be. Weed has its own caliber of this, but other psychedelics might be even more radical in their own respects.

The insistence on "truth" is very probably the intellect in disguise, co-opting the truth as usual. What I've been seeking has always registered to me as simply the "highest/best thing/feeling/sensation/existence", not any specific quality like "truth" (more than any other quality).

Morning: eggs, bread (currently trying gluten free), kiwi fruit, tiny dash of butter, fish oil, vitamin D and cofactors supplements, pepper, 50/40 sodium potassium salt, some water. I barely drink water for the rest of the day except at the gym or when running. A fruit at the gym (orange unless I'm out of oranges). Dinner: 200g of some meat, 450g potato or 200ml rice or 125g pasta (dry weight/measurement), 250g or more of veggies or salad. Sometimes tomato sauce, sour cream, various spices or herbs, EVOO, smaller amounts of butter, cheese, Indian sauces. No mayo or other high-fat dips, no frying (except beef mince on low heat in a pot in melted butter and garlic and/or other spices/veggies), no oil while cooking (only some water), no pizza (unless extremely bored once a few months, and then homemade unless forced), no doughy stuff. Left out some minor things. Evening meal: same as dinner.

Weed dissociates you from salient aspects of your psyche that you want to be connected to for personal development. Perspective change, creativity, may arise, but at the cost of a more narrow cognitive stream (and perhaps expanded being stream, but in a narrow fashion).

Because all people are broken and traumatized.

The logical "proofs" are question begging. You can insert any concept x and justify it. For example, "effluviousness is a necessary quality of reality. Let's assume it's false. If it's false, reality would not be able to effluve. Q.E.D." The question is why is the quality a necessary quality (for explaining some other quality)? In Analytical Idealism, the fragment separates itself from the Absolute through the process of "dissociation" (of establishing a boundary). That's it. Do you need more than that? EDIT: Bruh "effluviousness" is actually a word 💀 I thought I made it up.

You are so full of bullshit, you know that?

That's retarded and backway. A surfer who never falls vs a rock climber who falls off the highest mountain in the world. What is more impressive? What immense dialed-in-ness do you need to never fall? A peak-chaser who is not stuck in liberation is drowning 99.999% of their life in deception of ignorance, and the peak is only but a faint memory that never brings justice to the experience. While the liberated is the experience always and forever. Liberation is in its own league of radical. To get your finite existence nuked and replaced by a puppet show where you channel the ultimate will of God, it's unfathomable even for people who have allegedly awakened.

To balance out Leo's troll response, I'll musical-intelligence-mog with one of the most intelligent and probably the most original musician I know 🗿:

Normie music.

Music that tightly interweaves rhythm and melody is some of the most entertaining and musically satisfying music. One of the best examples of this: 7:04

That's the dumbest thing I've heard, lol.

A tone, which is the rudiment of melody, is literally rhythm, just sped up. So it's impossible to perceive melody before rhythm.

And I think it should be perfectly acceptable and reasonable that you can say that without some condescending comment that "you're not awake enough" or whatever other variant I've already mentioned. And that when we disagree, as a default, we speak to each other as equals, of course not denying experience wholesale, but not using it to literally terminate thinking or lines of argumentation or to make your perspective something else than it is, a perspective. Then you can ask "is non-duality a perspective?" and then I will ask you back "is it?". Can you say with a straight face that the fact that existence itself, IS, is a perspective, again, without trolling? "But your perspective on non-duality, the way you talk about it, the way you practice, the notions you have about how you go about inquiring into it, etc., that's a perspective", yeah yeah yeah, but just keep it real. "The Absolute" has been made so ridiculously complicated, it's an exercise in gaslighting to try to unwind it. "The Absolute This, The Absolute That", Chill. And yes, I still love Leo. But man, keep it real, dawg.

And by the way, imagine perpetuating the exact same defense mechanism I'm pointing out, as I'm pointing it out. "As if you know what he's talking about" / "you just don't understand". That's what's repulsive. And to clarify, I can say "I haven't experienced it yet, he hasn't explained it in full detail yet, so I can't say for sure", as I have done many many times. But then if you ask me what I think, this is what I think. And I like to say what I think. It can't be much to ask on a forum that prides itself on "thinking for yourself, questioning authority, challenging conformity". And for contrast, I did not say "I've had an anti-Alien Awakening Awakening, and if you question any of it, you don't know what you're talking about". That's appalling, even if it's supposedly true that you don't know what I'm talking about. It's the epitome of anti-intellectualism, thought-terminating defense mechanisms (which not so coincidentally are only brought up when no other arguments are brought up). I'm just requesting even playing ground on matters that are obviously personal, obviously Maya, nothing to do with non-dual awakening, the Absolute, Truth with a capital T. None of "Alien Awakening", none of "Infinity of Gods", none of "solipsism". "You just don't have the right experience, you don't know what you're talking about". No thank you, I don't want to hear that stuff even once. But again, this is just what I think. No "Absolute X" awakening here from me. And I'm of course not expecting you to actually listen and take my advice. Only some of you, like @Eskilon, @Oeaohoo, @zurew.

This has been abundantly clear to me for years. I'm just reminding myself from a different angle: He even admits it himself that he is not ready to let go of his limited identity, that he likes using his mind, that "understanding" is his game. Yet it's couched in "awakening" language. I've explained why that is.

I'm just speaking my mind. The option is speaking what I think I know, or not speak. I'm not saying "this is ultimately true". I'm not doing that game. Maybe you're used to bowing to that game, I'm not, not anymore.

Everything you see, touch, smell, think, conjure up, feel, sense, imagine, which is tangible in form, substance, quality, etc.; "stuffness", "thingness", not merely "thisness", "existence", "it"; that's Maya. What is true always and forever, irrespective of space, time, person, mind, thought, that's truth. Maya is the antithesis to that.