Carl-Richard

I'm an LGBTQ+ ally. But when I eat bananas, my brain goes nanana and my body goes bobobo (i.e. feminizing and non-vitalistic effects, PS: non-interchangeable concepts). Is it the copper? The fructose? The potassium? The magnesium? The polyphenol oxidase? What's up with this penis shaped yellow flag?

And what does he mean by that? That his Chamundi hill story is bs?

Let's see what wikipedia says: I think the best description for Sadhguru is ironically just "Indian guru".

Ok fuck it, Hinduism is a wacky religion and a culture, so Sadhguru can be a Hindu AND New Age.

Fingers 🥴

Banana too big.

Because he is not literally a Hindu "bible-thumper", a literalist traditionalist. He is like a weird thing: a New Age Hindu/India supremacist or something like that, like I tried to explain above. He has contemporary non-dual / New Age background / cognition and lingo but he uses a lot of Hindu stuff, and he makes the claim that Hinduism is "spirituality" rather than religion. That's simply it. Take an Indian atheist from the 1980s/90s, make him have an awakening, and what you'll get is a Sadhguru-kind-of-guy. Had he called himself religious (which he doesn't), he would be like a Rupert Sheldrake. He has a soft-spot for Christianity, he calls himself a Christian, he calls himself religious, but he has New Age roots and cognition. There is like a "dumb" kind of New Ager (the one who thinks New Age is not a religion) and the ones who think it is a religion. The dumbness just makes it obvious that they are New Age, but if your background is obviously postmodern, post-rational, atheist, individualist, even hippie, you'll also be New Age.

What, do you have a banana up your butt? All the mods in the thread are having a great time. Right? Right? Right? Yes.

Religion-critical, culture-aware, Hindu supremacist. It's really funny. The same reason he calls Hinduism not a religion is the same reason why New Agers call New Age not a religion. "It's just people practicing their own thing". It's of course all hocus pocus anyway. New Age is religion, Hinduism is religion. "Seekers" believe in stuff they have no personal experience of, before they have the personal experience. They follow religious frameworks (dogmas) that shape their path, their practices, what they find useful or relevant to invest time in. And they engage in communities that share their view and that amplify their vision and share knowledge, practices, insights, get advice. And of course they worship.

New Age is postmodern, individualistic, (and often) syncretic. It critiques the ills of traditional religion as dogmatic and besides the point, it focuses on individual practice / individual insight and "going inwards", and it may incorporate a multitude of practices from different cultures (as it has deconstructed the adherence to just one set of dogmas as necessary or useful). But I would say its defining characteristic is its postmodern / post-rational qualities, its syncretism is a downstream effect of the former.

So does the New Age. Does that make New Age Hindu? The hell. Bingo.

Ok it's weird: he shits on religion more than you do, and he does the thing where "we're just seekers, not believers", like you and other New Agers do, but he applies that to the entire Hinduistic/subcontinental enterprise ("we've always been a country of seekers, not believers"). So he is like a Hindu/India supremacist while still New Age. "Seeker vs believer" is a New Age concept. It's directly tied to the modern atheistic critique. "We're spiritual but not religious".

Bruh this is a braindead take. He shits on religion more than you do.

Yellow flag is the most amazing idiom I've ever conceived of. But do you consume its contents? Do you "phage" it? Do you swallow?

Gen Z uses "autism" to mean anything that vaguely resembles nerd behavior. I'm diagnostically anti-autistic.

No. You can effectively buy an ADHD prescription. It's called private practice. The prescription of ADHD meds in Norway has increased 220% since 2015 and 85% the last four years. https://www.forskning.no/adhd-medisiner-ntb/eksplosiv-okning-i-bruk-av-adhd-medisin/2632463 There is an economic incentive on part of the practicioners that can explain parts of it. You can follow the list of criteria and be "charitable" in your interpretation so to speak and then give a "diagnosis". It's all down to the individual professional. At the end of the day, if you eat like shit you eat like shit. My friend has always been a picky eater and it seems to me he has not been very challenged in that area during his upbringing (perhaps him being an only-child could be part of the explanation). I've also always "eaten well" and been active, my mother is a general practicioner. But the difference between that and me making a concerted effort to 1. eat anti-inflammatorily, and 2. regulate glucose strategically and systematically (which is following each meal with either a 10-minute walk or a workout), the difference is astronomical. This kind of self-help approach to diet is new and cutting edge, GPs are mostly out of the loop. If it works for you it works for you, but don't be surprised if it doesn't work. Age seven is a funny thing. Virtually nobody diagnoses kindergarteners with ADHD. Seems like an environmental artifact. Make school play, make play school, let the people who sit still sit still, let people who want to run run. Let people who have eaten food move, let the people who have moved sit down. That's glucose control right there.

Only time I'll happily indulge in a banana is when in a heterosexual format.

"Peeinghuman" what the actual fuck is that channel name and logo.

Who? And how do you judge them to be enlightened? People who judge Sadhguru as not enlightened, are in my opinion either not very acquainted with the man or probably not enlightened themselves.

He is definitely New Age but his Hindu aesthetic makes it a bit less obvious. He has a standard atheistic take on traditional religions. "It's just beliefs, dogma, you have to go inwards".

No.

I might be allergic or I just overeat them sometimes or I simply don't appreciate their gayness.

Learn to identify a shittake comment and take the general gist. I'm pointing out a very often overlooked issue while being a jokester about it. It's taken from personal experience. I can drop the full-scale graduate curriculum if you haven't already learned it. If I don't regulate my glucose or eat sufficiently anti-inflammatory, my attentiveness and IQ goes to absolute shit. No brain training, meditation, anything, except pharmaceuticals of course, can help me. I watched my friend who eats like absolute garbage get a med prescription because he convinced himself he has ADHD and then he developed OCD-symptoms, felt like "I sort of feel like I have more ADHD on the drug than off it" and then threw the prescription away.

If your tits are shaped like bananas, should you be concerned?

You just have a problem with autism. You come into the nerd squad preaching basketball and beerbongs. It doesn't inherently make you less awake to be a nerd vs a jock. It's primarily a difference in preference and temperament. Unsolicited preaching on the other hand, perhaps a strong case for an inverse (🤓) awakening relationship.