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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Aug 28, 2014 - 03:28pm PT
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Order yours today...
http://www.amazon.com/Waking-Up-Spirituality-Without-Religion/dp/1451636016/ref=zg_bs_12807_1
Waking Up, by Sam Harris
“A seeker’s memoir, a scientific and philosophical exploration of the self, and a how-to guide for transcendence, Waking Up explores the nature of consciousness, explains how to meditate, tells you the best drugs to take, and warns you about lecherous gurus. It will shake up your most fundamental beliefs about everyday experience, and it just might change your life.”
Paul Bloom, Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Yale University and author of "Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil"
“Waking Up is a rigorous, kind, clear, and witty book that will point you toward the selflessness that is our original nature.”
Stephen Mitchell
“Sam Harris points out the rational methodology for exploring the nature of consciousness and for experiencing a transformative understanding of possibilities. Waking Up really does help us wake up.”
Joseph Goldstein, author of "Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening" and "One Dharma"
“As a neuroscientist, Sam Harris shows how our egos are illusions, diffuse products of brain activity, and as a long-term practitioner of meditation, he shows how abandoning this illusion can wake us up to a richer life, more connected to everything around us.”
Jerry Coyne, Professor of Biology at the University of Chicago and author of "Why Evolution is True"
"Sam Harris ranks as my favorite skeptic, bar none. In Waking Up he gives us a clear-headed, no-holds-barred look at the spiritual supermarket, calling out what amounts to junk food and showing us where real nutrition can be found. Anyone who realizes the value of a spiritual life will find much to savor here – and those who see no value in it will find much to reflect on."
Daniel Goleman, author Emotional Intelligence and Focus
"Sam Harris has written a beautifully rational book about spiritually, consciousness and transcendence. He is the high priest of spirituality without religion. I recommend this book regardless of your belief system. As befits a book called Waking Up, it’s an eye opener."
A.J. Jacobs, bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically
Then we can all discuss - on this very thread!!
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PSP also PP
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Aug 28, 2014 - 03:39pm PT
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HFCS you have become an airchair buddhist ! As I predicted some would when they adopted Sam Harris.
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Tvash
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Seattle
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Aug 28, 2014 - 04:00pm PT
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It seems that Largo and MikeL are losing it here in the face of a some boring ole, latte sucking Washingtonians, former midwesterners, and immigrants who are making civil rights history entirely sans woo and post addiction amends.
Kinda weird, but thas coo. Nobody really cares. Bigger lutefisk to fry n all.
I will admit to poking at the big egos just to watch em swell up. My bad there.
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WBraun
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Aug 28, 2014 - 04:50pm PT
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he gives us a clear-headed, no-holds-barred look at the spiritual supermarket
LOL ... airchair buddhist & spiritual supermarket.
Those are funny terms ....
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jgill
Boulder climber
Colorado
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Aug 28, 2014 - 05:03pm PT
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For me (and maybe you want to sing along here with me), the most rewarding experiences showed up when I stretched, was deeply challenged, when I changed in my core, when I saw the emptiness to a choice of action or decision that I invested heavily in (MikeL)
Sorry, Mike, can't sing along with you here. It's the "seeing the emptiness" business and the "changing in my core" that's sticky. You make a choice, invest heavily, it doesn't work out: then OK, I made a bad choice, let's suck it up and try something else. Crying over spilt milk, etc.
It's probably because I'm naïve and insensitive to my core. I have way too much confidence in my "I" (which is probably not my core, right?) . . . a serious flaw, perhaps.
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Psilocyborg
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Aug 28, 2014 - 05:29pm PT
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the real key to this, as I have said, is a parametric sound synthesis program that activates medical parts of the body through frequency in one layer through say the liver or adrenal frequency, is linked to bio to midi in its linear time sequencer, as that is all the program does, generates midi control data, and and the rest of the synthesizer would have to incorporate chemical geometry hardcore, there are frequencies associated with the elements too, and not only that, the time spiral of the sequencer would have to incorporate the audio element to the time sequencer. I don't know what frequencies they used in the music on that site, because you could use that program to trigger a whole orchestra of bass drums and sliced up vocal samples for all I...
I confess I need to read crystal's post in a nonskimmed entirety, and indeed as all music affects chakras and the human energy system, as sound is the element of aether and throat chakra, with the other types of energy above the four elements, and isomeric grounding mechanism of the legs, third eye pituitary is light and crown pineal electricity. soul energy is even higher and breaks up into octaves, like a mages ascension, and the arms are a volume depth thing and the fingers the 10 decently audible octaves, with the thumb stuck in the bass and the high freqs floating off your pinkies through the volume filter and straight to the brain. maybe dogs exist on a higher mental plane on earth, noses all drawn down, and act like beacons of nature, since they can hear higher frequencies, and birds just the same but more intense, less laid back. I have made music with the orbit and spin freqs of all the planets and do astrological intro songs in my dj sets for the planetary conjunctions of the day, for the special shows. I made these all quantum by combining the orbit and spin freqs of each planet, pure sines, with the orbit or spin freqs slowed down to 1/3 or 2/3 quantum electron charge spin ratios, thus creating four quantum faces for each planet corresponding to the fall exaltation, detriment, and ruler of each planet. Just like in classical astrology. ethics must come with things of this nature, and if I sped these up to 133.333- or 166.666666666- it would be less like a meditation album than aliens shooting you with guns to colonize
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Aug 28, 2014 - 05:35pm PT
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Deepest woo as you get, right there. Waste of time. We can only hope it's a humorous troll.
As an EE past, I'm familiar with just about every science term used in above post from psylocyborg, and I can only imagine how esoteric, mystical and maybe / likely persuasive such pseudo rhetoric might sound to the average new age grammas and school dropouts out there.
Faith healers move over. At least these woo panderers as lost souls aren't taking up arms for ISIS, silver lining there.
It mentions chakra, so Jan might like though.
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But remember, too, a 150.000000000 speed (exactly) is perfect, for iota to kappa peaks. ;)
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Aug 28, 2014 - 06:13pm PT
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I'm iota peaking right now, so while I can see that you posted, brah, I don't savvy the words. Wrong dimensions, fer shur. Try bending over, might help.
Here, research this... kechari mudra.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khecar%C4%AB_mudr%C4%81
Just think about it. It could help you access various stores of amrita in your head. Many benefits. Fer shur.
Do NOT cut the lingual frenulum though, my friend, not necessary!!
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MikeL
Social climber
Seattle, WA
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Aug 28, 2014 - 06:25pm PT
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No problem, John. S'all good. I'm not asking you to believe anything.
That would go against my grain.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Aug 28, 2014 - 06:47pm PT
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Believe in your disbelief.
Sorry, no room, as I'm already spilling over with belief.
Belief. Belief. Belief.
Just not of the silly Abrahamic sort or other silly sort.
My beliefs are subject to quality control.
Call it a modern-age innovation.
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WBraun
climber
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Aug 28, 2014 - 07:09pm PT
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You people just lick the outside of the jar.
Never open it and taste the inside contents.
This is why you're all so bewildered.
It takes tremendous strength to open the jar.
Most every needs help opening the jar.
99.999% of the people give up immediately and just keep staring at the jar and it's contents inside.
And keep guessing and speculating about those contents and their taste which are inside that jar.
Those that actually finally open the jar and taste never ever return.
The mental speculators stupidly believe they've been poisoned and are now dead.
Stupid stupid stupid people still licking the outside of the jar ......
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Tvash
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Seattle
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Aug 28, 2014 - 07:13pm PT
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the real key to this, as I have said, is a parametric sound synthesis program that activates medical parts of the body through frequency in one layer through say the liver or adrenal frequency, is linked to bio to midi in its linear time sequencer, as that is all the program does, generates midi control data, and and the rest of the synthesizer would have to incorporate chemical geometry hardcore, there are frequencies associated with the elements too, and not only that, the time spiral of the sequencer would have to incorporate the audio element to the time sequencer. I don't know what frequencies they used in the music on that site, because you could use that program to trigger a whole orchestra of bass drums and sliced up vocal samples for all I...
I confess I need to read crystal's post in a nonskimmed entirety, and indeed as all music affects chakras and the human energy system, as sound is the element of aether and throat chakra, with the other types of energy above the four elements, and isomeric grounding mechanism of the legs, third eye pituitary is light and crown pineal electricity. soul energy is even higher and breaks up into octaves, like a mages ascension, and the "arms are a volume depth thing and the fingers the 10 decently audible octaves, with the thumb stuck in the bass and the high freqs floating off your pinkies through the volume filter and straight to the brain. maybe dogs exist on a higher mental plane on earth, noses all drawn down, and act like beacons of nature, since they can hear higher frequencies, and birds just the same but more intense, less laid back. I have made music with the orbit and spin freqs of all the planets and do astrological intro songs in my dj sets for the planetary conjunctions of the day, for the special shows. I made these all quantum by combining the orbit and spin freqs of each planet, pure sines, with the orbit or spin freqs slowed down to 1/3 or 2/3 quantum electron charge spin ratios, thus creating four quantum faces for each planet corresponding to the fall exaltation, detriment, and ruler of each planet. Just like in classical astrology. ethics must come with things of this nature, and if I sped these up to 133.333- or 166.666666666- it would be less like a meditation album than aliens shooting you with guns to colonize"
Waiter - I'll have what he's having.
I usually just shoot the top of a stuck jar.
.001% of the time, anyway.
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MikeL
Social climber
Seattle, WA
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Aug 28, 2014 - 08:26pm PT
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Friends:
Check your reality and see if it's all intergalactic, subatomic, and neural pathways.
Thinking is the only real weapon of mass destruction. You can think the universe to death.
Do not mistake non-reproducibility for non-validity.
"God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through."
(Paul Valery)
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Psilocyborg
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Aug 28, 2014 - 08:30pm PT
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The formation of matter from energy is clearly proved by Einstein through the law of equivalence of mass and energy. Therefore, the theory of evolution proposed by Darwin associated with the Einstein’s theories will certainly prove the evolution of universe from the energy or space in sequential manner. But Veda mentions one more item indicated by the word Atman as the ultimate cause from which the primordial energy or space was generated (Atmana akashah… Veda). You cannot say that the word Atman means awareness here, because, awareness (purushah) is mentioned as the third generated product in the chain of evolution. A generated product in the chain cannot be the first ultimate cause.
The scientist may say that there is no necessity of the word Atman as the ultimate cause because the meaning of the word Atman can neither be energy, nor matter, and nor the awareness because these three items are already existing in the world. Moreover, energy, matter and awareness are visible items in the light of development of advanced electronic equipments. Even the awareness is visible which is in the form of waves propagating in the nerves found by the latest instruments. Even Gita says this that awareness or soul can be seen by scholars (pashyanti jnanachakshushah). Therefore, the meaning of the word Atman must be unimaginable item, which is not the object of senses, mind, intelligence and even sharp logical analysis (Na chakshushah, aprapya manasa, na medhaya, naisha tarkena… Veda). The best word that can be used to mean such unimaginable object is “wordless” (Ashabda mavyayam… Veda). A negative word like ParaBrahman can also be used which means that which is not Brahman.
But the word Atman is used which means the awareness that is pervading all over the human body (sarvam shariram atati iti atma). This word means awareness along with its property of pervasion. An independent existence of awareness pervading the space is not available and hence the awareness pervading in a human body alone should be taken. If you take simply the awareness pervading all over a human body as Atman mentioned here, such a possibility is negated because the awareness in the human body is not an unimaginable object which exists in the beginning of the chain since such awareness already appeared in the end of the chain as the normal awareness or life (purusha). Therefore, the word Atman here means a human being, which is completely different from any other human being, which appeared in the end of the chain of evolution. Such a special human being is the superman or human incarnation like Krishna in whom the existence of the special unimaginable item is inferred.
Veda says that the existence of such superman is the basis of the inference of the unimaginable item called as God. But mere Veda cannot stand as an authority because it can be disposed as poetic imagination of some selfish priests to exploit the society in the name of God. Therefore, mere scripture (Shabdapramanam) cannot be the authority. All the authorities (pramanams) are based on perception (pratyaksham) only.
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PSP also PP
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Aug 28, 2014 - 08:57pm PT
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PBorg do talk like that when your on belay?
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MH2
climber
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Aug 28, 2014 - 09:14pm PT
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There is no progress. No personal growth is possible. No maturity. No evolution. No meditation. No discipline. Nothing to do. No place to go. No discrimination. No prejudice or bias. No one and no thing to change. No controller. No control. There is simply no need. Everything is upfront and in our faces.
Another bum lottery ticket?
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Tvash
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Seattle
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Aug 28, 2014 - 09:27pm PT
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Atman Begins, The Movie
Shot in 0D
This has got Keanu comeback written all over it.
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jgill
Boulder climber
Colorado
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Aug 29, 2014 - 05:59pm PT
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Moreover, energy, matter and awareness are visible items in the light of development of advanced electronic equipments. Even the awareness is visible which is in the form of waves propagating in the nerves found by the latest instruments
I always thought awareness wasn't that big a deal.
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