On power & success

[Letho]

@LordFall Leo's right.

You've just gotta look at yourself objectively and just a being in general objectively.

What is it and what am I outside of all of my life experiences? 

If you can't bridge and reconcile the difference of your inner experience with your objective appraisal of what you are, no matter what it is, whether it's blissing out in a cave or praying to the almighty praise you get from making a dollar, it's not even the case of if you're deluded its by how much.

These worlds need to be appraised separately with prudence within the mind and slowly merged together so that the emotions for each are able to unite rather than any resulting dissonance leading to the denial that blocks progress in thought.

Most people walking around in life are by some measure deluded, but because they're living inside the Matrix of social reinforcement in determining their reality as opposed to self authored thought, life becomes about the management of their delusions or going from one socially acceptable delusion to the next more than it does establishing very slowly your own personal life philosophy that also isn't a viral reaction to what is a daily trauma for people but is instead an empathic healthy integration that appraises the coexistence of worlds with a sense of groundedness. Otherwise it's your own philosophy that becomes the delusion you're using to self fuel because the ego hasn't achieved enough meta awareness on itself during its rise in success, which is why human half-truths can do so much damage to the individual and a society at large as they're without the introspection on the biases that make them vehemently opposed to anything that contradicts their viewpoints, "Because they've had success!" It's an ego protection of course, all of this is, and mastering it is all rooted in just bringing us back to who we really are after we wipe away the brass tax.

Edited December 12, 2024 by Letho

[Letho]

 

Double post, ehk this flu.

(I've got my methods to try and get rid of it by the end of the day)

To reduce ambiguity:

And it's not about being delusion, illusion, bias free. It's about having a minimalist approach. It's why I've learned, truth is about seeking falsity because then you minimise the confirmation bias. Our biologies are not built for the absence of either truth nor falsity, it's because we have areas of our being that are responsible for different reactions within us, my sexual organs (I have multiple now) want me to have sex with the opposite gender for example but my urges for understanding want me to grow my prefrontal cortex. Most of truly living life as it concerns either the resolve of dissonance or the extension of our truth because all our other urges for most of us are so strong, with equally strong variation in the population, is purely mediated by empathy and the prefrontal cortex and the sophistication by which these two can creatively interact with other areas of our being rather than through the rigidity of falsely perceived solitariness, as they're highly complex structures. 

In serving the latter in light of how little our science has interconnected all of its independent research that albeit still amazing that we can achieve such great feats we're still greatly missing the mark and it's important for anyone with a mind to not placate when we're capable of so much more in this era... there's a few book recommendations to add which are ones you wouldn't normally associate with me having read as I know I may seem pretty existentialist/rationalist, but I'll read everything and anything as I understand the importance of cross-disciplinary thinking in the search for truth, granted there's true intuition but it's the highest or synthesis of perspectivism that greets truth at the door, it's very rarely only one and even more rarely the first perspective.

And I'm barely scratching the surface with this comment including too as it's an era where I need to raise my own personal integrity concerning my own philosophical perspective overall on the related subjects:

1. The Upanishads

2. Advaita Vedanta

3. Yoga sutras of Patanjali

4. Mūlamadhyamakakārikā

5. The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch

6. Tao Te Ching

7. Zhuangzi

8. The doctrine of the mean

9. The works of Zhu Xi

10. Meditations, Marcus Aurelius

 

Areas of future research for next year:

* Dreams

* Near death experiences

* Past life experiences 

* Super human strength in crisis situations 

* All areas of Parapsychology 

* More

 

 

Cheers Leo, solid post mate.

 

This isn't the great wall of china here, so any immigrants that want to come through and discuss any point or intersect any approach-thoughts the floor is yours.