Dr. Willoughby Britton is not as popular as I would’ve expected. It took me years to come across her, despite being in the same New Age sphere as her. She’s been making waves in meditation research. What are her claims? There needs to be safe practice with meditation. Practical.
Scooby Doo projects each tend to focus on one member of the gang, resulting in each of them having a refined set of character traits and stories. Except Fred. Nobody really gets Fred.
So what are the dangers of meditation? They’re many faceted. From innocuous, like forgetting the meaning of given signs: people after meditation retreats report forgetting what red-lights and stop signs mean; to middling: people feel detached from their loved ones, like they’re
As a final note though, I don’t want to give the impression that meditation is bad. I want to warn that it can be bad. Very bad. I meditated for 6 years straight and I was incredible anxious the entire time. It never occurred to me that a direct cause of that was my excessive
And because of this fascination, I have seen it constantly said that Buddhist understanding of psychology is leagues ahead of the Christian understanding. Yet a plain reading of the New Testament, Psalms, and Proverbs completely nukes this assumption to oblivion. At worst,
He says that if these stories are to be believed, these practitioners are rushing into something they’re clearly not prepared for. In his book Hardcore Zen, he said that when he began meditating, he would only do it for 10 - 15 minutes at a time. He never went over 30 minutes
And because of these claims, she, well, claims, that she’s had to go into hiding and lives a remote for her safety. I don’t know if she’s exaggerating, or if she’s actually in fear of her life. However, I have experience being accosted by meditation practitioners & Buddhists who
My question is: why isn’t this brought up more? And what is meditation doing, exactly? It seems to be acting on a similar pathway that psychedelics act on. Users of both report breaking barriers, escaping a duality of understanding, entering into a type of true perspective of the
I think it’s safe to say most are practicing meditation to control their emotions, and to get out of their yoke. I don’t think anyone wants to cease feeling them. What needs emphasis here is that detachment is a key aspect in Buddhism and a lot of Hindu practices, and that’s not
Dr. Britton tells the story that once she was presenting at a summit and reporting that a parent after taking up meditation no longer felt love for her kids and felt like she was playing along to keep up appearances. A Buddhist master stood up at the end and explained that
One Zen master, Brad Warner, and the very ancient Dogen, have talked about the dangers of meditation, but when I asked Warner about Briton he was incredibly suspicious that a lot of these stories even had taken place, and was therefore dismissive. I don’t take Warner’s opinion
So why isn’t this brought up? Why is that when Dr. Britton interviews meditation masters about this phenomenon she’s met with a shrug, or they get angry and yell? She quotes one master telling her, “You psychologists miss the point of meditation. You think we do this to make
She believes it’s motivated by money, and I agree. I also think a large part of it is proselytizing. It’s easy to get people through the door when you promise to make their life better. She explains that the secular sheen of meditation comes off rather quickly. Her story is
I believe that what Dr. Britton signals is the beginning of the end for the West’s unearned spiritual fascination with the East. Since Schopenhauer’s time when the Hindu and Buddhist texts were brought to Europe, there has been a strange obsession with Eastern practices. I
The story that led me to finding Dr. Britton was of a woman who became deeply versed into Kundalini awakening and couldn’t handle it and it ended up taking their own life. Her family reports that her grip on reality just completely fell off. They couldn’t get through to her at
But again, Dr. Britton and her team signal an end, and I like that they’re doing it rather methodically. Dr. Briton runs an organization called the Cheetah House, helping those who are suffering from psychosis. She also leads a lot of research into how this stuff comes up. It’s
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It is VERY UNUSUAL for a photographer to use 1/8000 shutter speed @ 30 FPS in broad daylight.
UNLESS you are INTENTIONALLY trying to CLEARLY capture something happening VERY FAST.
Like a BULLET blowing someone’s head clean off their shoulders
The emotional whiplash between Joe's withdrawal on Saturday, to realizing we're going to elect the 1st woman of color as our next President is probably closest you'll ever get to knowing what it feels like to make the jump to hyper-space. 🤯
Tim Walz dodged a deployment but wants to be commander in chief.
Insert video of him insulting National Guard members.
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How can I script a video in 30 seconds, better than anything the PACs or campaign can do?
Fuck! This pisses me off so much.
I’m in production of two movies THAT I AM SELF FUNDING.
Also opening a private cigar lounge.
You can’t even begin to comprehend my motivations and force of will.
You are a loser:
@pochobolshevik
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@dannyroddy
So Jesus believed in the dialectic of history? What did Jesus mean when he said to give unto Caesar what is due? Where in Marx is there mention of loving God above all things? I can’t find it, but I can find where Marx dedicates his works to Satan. Fuck off with this
why is pre-schism Christendom presented as post-schism? what moron made this map?
and sorry to belabor the point, pagans, but we converted you. get over it. stop being mad at your dad.
Hmm I wonder what happened in the quaint grey area there, I bet Christians went over with bouquets of flowers to peacefully propose that they convert to Christianity!
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No, I am trying to get clarity on what the problem is. I haven't even declared a goal post, nor have I made a declarative statement on what I believe.
Burning incense represents prayer? How? Prayer is prayer, burning incense is burning incense. These are separate actions, are
I have heard someone say this exact same thing about Radiohead, Nick Drake, Ian Curist, McLuhan, Spengler, my mom, Derrida, Deleuze, Baudrillard, Alan Bloom, Teletubbies, Charles Taylor, Carroll, Pope Leo XIII, Karl Marx, My Little Pony, et. al.
@whatifalthist
I might get roasted for this, but NYT is closer to unbiased than most. When Antifa was wilding out in Oregon they were one of the few MSM to report on it honestly with no spin.
I think the biggest example of "childlike faith" is my father-in-law. Since I've known him he's been very pro-Israel, but when the videos of the "team" spitting on a eucharistic procession got popular, he immediately disavowed.
"Christ is King. You don't do that to my King."
Mike once said, "I don't need to read obscure German philosophy to know it's dangerous to step foot in a ghetto." Here he is again channeling that same wisdom
of the thousands of white people i have met IRL and online, only two have been sincerely KKK level racist. the racist white devil boogey man is so ridic idk why i'm even pointing this out gimme engagement
Women often hate the premise that women's worth is inherent and can be lost, while men have to build and earn their value, and yet they say stuff like this
No one talks about the lack of quality men for women to reproduce with period.
Most women are inclined towards monogamy, marriage, and kids. But they wisely forego them (and SHOULD) when they can’t find solid partners.
If anyone is talking about the birth rate and not directly
I almost skipped the show to watch Neon Genesis Evangelion. Horny teenagers pilot giant robots. The main guy, a boy, lives with an adult woman who drinks beer and leaves her panties laying around. One of the other teens wears a scandalous bikini. I want to go through the
@mynameisHorn
i started to keep one this year when my wife miscarried. made me realize how perishable important moments are. you forget specific details: what date, day of the week, how you felt, etc.
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there's no real precedent, it's a small court. i'm just shocked it's not being challenged or even allowed to take place to begin with
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it's funny Russell actually read it all the way through and had serious issues with it and Wittgenstein couldn't be bothered to really talk about it. given the context of W's life, it makes sense, and makes sense why he hated it later in life.
It has been tried. But ideology needs an anchor, unquestionable axiomatic truths, in order to work, or it becomes liquid and people start making crap up and subverting everything.
Why has no one made a humanist ideology that acts as a surrogate religion. Teaching you important values and self improvement as an individual? If so why not work.
This book had a profound impact on my worldview when I read it. I didn't understand the cultural subversion so prevalent in Capitalism, and Mishima here masterfully shows how capitalism swoops in and strangles out tradition and honor. Also one of the greatest endings in all of
@rheinsteinrex
Yeah. I left Zen because I had a hard time accepting that good and evil did not exist. I just couldn't buy into it. My best friend at the time sort of put me dead to rights with it, explaining that Buddhism had no business making moral claims. I went to church the next week and
Switzerland To Offer $20 ‘Suicide Pod’ Deaths to Citizens Who Can’t Afford Basic Necessities
Citizens in Switzerland who are too poor to afford basic necessities are being offered the chance to be euthanized at a discounted price, the government announced on Wednesday.
The
How does she want to do that? That’s what’s making everyone freak out. Mega industries like food and transport are very fragile. Letting them get rocked by an experimental policy is not a good idea