2000BC-0: A lot of interesting religious and spiritual movement happened during this period generally the dharmic religious movement in Indian subcontinent viz. Buddhism, Vedic, Jains etc. Would love to know the path they took during "realization" and "enlightenment". I have my theories around these but would love to see if these actually worked.I can use that knowledge for myself though??!
There's a reason we don't let drug companies play the "you're holding it wrong" game. In reality the perfect patient doesn't exist, so if the statistics say that people on your drug experience an adverse outcome at significantly higher rates, it's considered a side effect of the drug. It doesn't matter if it's because the patient skipped a dose. It doesn't matter if it's because they're also obese, or alcoholic, or a PewDiePie fan. If we let the drug company explain away all of the bad outcomes as inadequate doctors and patients, then like magic, no drug would have side effects. What it comes down to is this: if N people are prescribed the drug, roughly N/M people will experience these problems.
If advocates of non-drug interventions want them to be taken seriously, the same standard should apply. That goes for everything from meditation to psychotherapy to exercise. If you refuse to acknowledge the risks, why should you be entitled to recognition of the benefits?
That's a good point, but I would argue to it by saying that meditation isn't a drug or a therapy like it has been marketed to western audience.It's more like martial arts or yoga or gym you can assume!
So obviously, Dunning–Kruger effect will be there!
An absolute master will in turn show Imposter Syndrome maybe :)
Anyway, let me give you not so brief information about the way I have understood meditation and spiritual enlightenment.Both are different, meditation is a practice, spirituality is an understanding, I call it the feeling of accepting everything but anyway I am young so don't take my word for it.
Coming from Indian background I have always seen this junction of science and technology that is mostly conceptualized in west vs. local culture and traditions.I use reason and logic to understand my surrounding still I get awestruck with the way things have worked around me!!!
Meditation is inherent in our culture.The first method for meditation was mentioned in a book called 'Vigyan Bhairav Tantra' in which lord Adiyogi(the first yogi/ shiva) explains how you can experience god, commenting: god is not a knowledge like most of the religion interprets but rather an experience which we all can have by practicing meditation[*it is never mentioned that that's what meditation is].
A total of 112 ways to meditate, to access the `sushma naari `on your forehead! Apparently, seventh/sixth method was used by Gautama(Buddha) to achieve enlightenment.
Anyway coming back to the point,the one who practices meditation according to that teaching is the real deal, and i am not saying this in a fanatical way, it has mentioned almost all possible way of meditations.
Now, a person who practice smeditation needs to follow some routine [in earlier time they used to], eg. intermittent fasting, early waking up and, few other routine which i am forgetting right now. But one needs to be disciplined while practicing this. Just like martial arts!
If a person becomes narcissist and self centered just by doing it for few months/years is basically suffering from Dunning–Kruger effect!as mentioned earlier... Achieving a true spiritual existence requires a lot of practice and patience!
consciousness; we can take different takes on it viz. religion, philosophical, cognitive sciences and evolutionary biology.
the most satisfactory explanation that i got was from cognitive sciences(https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/11/eaaz0087)or conscience as a side effect of brain's electrical and magnetic field and evolutionary biology(Attention Schema Theory).
AST: I am going to write a small time line for development of our brain(correct me if i am wrong)
Claim: This happened due to too much information processing!
As complex organism starts observing too much information; there were competition among neurons which leads to
(a)Selective Signal Enhancement (eg Hydra)---> (b) Centralized Controller for Coordination (Tectum): this is for overt/default attention controls eyes, head and is found both mammals and reptiles ---> (c) wulst(in reptiles) and cortex(in mammals): this is for covert attention, meaning you don't have to attend to the stimuli to process it; you can think about the sound coming from your behind without looking at it!
This is the main difference tectum is still in both of us and our response to most of the stimuli is controlled by it, but deep processing, thinking is done by the cortex which models it on a SCHEMA(a workflow)[neural pathways/consciousness] nobody knows but we tend to focus on this schema to do the deep processing [covert attention]
We make a sense of self using this; other animals as well!
We also associate ourselves with others using this; language was a direct consequence of this. As we extended a communication system of our brain to others!
Now; your statement if a set of stones can have conscience? Yes it can have; over the time if this system of stones will be observed; with some associated meaning to it states[arranged in circle or square]; someone can argue that it is aware!
You can look at universe as a set of rocks; the periodic movements; it's aware!? maybe :)
Yep, she did wrong according to law, but I think that can be taken as a good social experiment. A few people paid it from their pockets (that's why it was wrong and fraud).
If thinking from a business point of view isn't that how the economy works! I would like to know viewpoints of other readers.
I have some good points to support the above claim.
#AnnaDelveyExperiments
It's too long and contain details i am personally not interested in, but i can feel your frustration and the way you want to keep your sanity is by using a detailed description. I ain't gonna read the part 2 hoping the best for you. But no matter what there is some point in everyone's life where they get stuck like this, a strangling situation. Either go with the flow and live like others because normal people live like that, don't they? They adjust and give up in front of the system and people more powerful than them, but sometimes if we want to fight them we will have to put everything on line, our career, relationships and even life. Outcome might be favorable for you but ultimately the system is like that, its the basic nature of power, morally you won't have done that if you were in his place but practically thats not true because he did iy to you, so in real world you can't beat the system! Accept the fact or if you really wanna fight and have some dramatic revenge episodes, go for it but be ready to lose things, but hell yeah you will feel alive more than those normal people
