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Thanks for setting this out. Looking forward to taking a close look at it soon.

There are so many different kinds of materialism presented on the forum - the most extreme materialists I've bumped into deny even the existence of th...

No, no thesis yet. Still much more to learn.

What I mean to say is there is some kind of relationship (link, connection) between mystical and schizophrenic phenomena and experience. It's a comple...

Link-a relationship between two things or situations... https://www.google.com/search?q=link+definition&oq=link+&aqs=chrome.1.69i59l2j0i20i131i263i433...

I know they are but I'm not in their camp. Materialism tells a good part of the story - but any kind of extremism is, to my view, ill-advised.

Now you want to revise my phraseology. I said links and I meant links.

Not only wrong for so assuming but wrong in methodology as apparently your approach is to make a wild, baseless assumption and then a day later ask if...

Of course not. I've said nothing to suggest that. You've leaped there for unknown reasons. In fact, I consider myself a mystic.

I think Salinger was at least into it if not quite a card-carrying Buddhist.

Here's the passage from Franny and Zooey. Toward the end of the book and something like a conclusion. Appears to be exactly what I've got in mind re d...

Same here. A witness and friendly critic makes me think harder.

I appreciate your work.

Yes, Lao Tzu and the Buddha. But then again "all desire, unqualified desire" may be a fatally imprecise translation.

The wiki page on Tanha is helpful: "It is typically translated as craving, and is of three types: k?ma-ta?h? (craving for sensual pleasures), bhava-ta...

No prob. I'm familiar. As it reads, I just can't agree. If "desire" is qualified so as not to exclude the utilization of desire to ignite inspiration,...

An allusion to Baudrillard? The "talking classes." That's a good one.

Nice clip, and perfectly describes the flow state. A state of inspiration. The connection to desire is most puzzling to me. As I said above: I take de...

Be good. Be part of the light. SUBLIMATE, SUBLIMATE, SUBLIMATE! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tiduikIFUc

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Meditation is the antidote for scatterbrainedness. But, sure, it's not for everyone. :smile:

Deep meditation is not a simulation but mysticism itself.

Yes. The mystic moves slowly, by degrees, gaining mastery, into the waters in which the schizophrenic is plunged suddenly, wholly unprepared.

This is precisely how deep meditative states feel: a movement toward sleep and dream while retaining full to partial conscious awareness. (I've been a...

I do remember that one. I would say part lunatic, part lord. Part lunatic in that he took himself to be god's gift to humankind - in his own words to ...

In describing the preliminary stages of a schizophrenic break - termed the Trema by German psychiatrist Klaus Conrad - Sass writes: (bolds mine - to u...

I admire this vocation and the important work you're doing for these suffering psychonauts. I've been a student of psychology for twenty-five years, n...

This I link to Karen Horney's account of the neurotic pursuit of glory in Neurosis and Human Growth: The mystic seeks self-perfection via a system of ...

The link between the visitation of angels and anxiety and panic attacks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystical_psychosis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystical_psychosis

Thanks for your thoughts. My ideas about schizophrenia come from the literature: Schreber and other first hand accounts, and especially Louis A. Sass'...

Yes, that.

Yes, shocking and radical. And with a koanic ring. I dig it.

Would you call this a "flow" state? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)

It's a question not of what he looks like but of what he feels like. He feels unalienated. That's all I'll be posting here. Take care. :smile:

I never said anything remotely like the above. Keep reading the thread if you want to learn more about the link. I'll be posting more soon.

Will do.

Just did. QED. Your perennial unhappiness is uninteresting. Take responsibility. Grow up. Or continue to live as a child.

I never said it did. I'm just studying it. You have an agenda I'm not interested in. Cheers. :smile:

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The Dalai Lama is likely a case of swimming.

You define 'alienation' as 'complying with the game of life.' That's not what 'alienation' means. QED. Next, let's define 'red' as 'blue'. Fun.

Your view is tediously narrow. I work in long-term care, where I "produce" end-of-life care for needful elders. While it's at times back-breaking work...

If some set of cars are linked to some set of red things, there is an analyzable link between said set of cars and said set of red things. I think you...

If some Xs are linked to some Ys - but we grant that not all Xs are linked to all Ys - there is still a link, an analyzable link, between X and Y. Tha...

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The point of this thread: Marx's vision of communism has been corrupted in various ways. Here I set about busting some of the more salient myths. If y...

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