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Legatvs Silanvs's avatar

burials which began 50kya

start of recursion again

I wonder whem belief in the afterlife could have started

on another note, have you explored the Monroe Institute's gateway experience? many pop commentators love calling it spooky CIA methods, but Robert Monroe started it far before the Feds were ever interested

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Andrew Cutler's avatar

First I've heard of Monroe, have you explored it at all? I've done very little meditation, tbh. Should probably do more than dip my toes in!

Ritualized burial is pretty good evidence of some notion of an afterlife, though I think in the very beginning "life" was experienced far differently as the gravity well of a self-referential "I" was faulty and not fully evolved.

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Legatvs Silanvs's avatar

I'm far in the process, but I've decided to keep where I am for now and will go further once I feel like it

The Mickey Skalzo YT channel has all the publicly available tapes, but I suggest starting with the Monroe Institute channel's free guided meditation (I actually felt my mind unlock doing that)

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Andrew Cutler's avatar

What do you mean "my mind unlock"? How close is this to the traditional buddhist path where there is a certain order of fetters?

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Legatvs Silanvs's avatar

it's more Daoist (and Aristotelian [in the Joe Sachs translation]) than it is Buddhist

by "mind unlock", I guess it's similar to the Daoist- Aristotelian way of insight and inner power by equanimity

but it's really something beyond words - the gateway experience is about exploring consciousness so I thought you'd really like it

XianyangCB has a good piece "The Base Layer" as a primer for Daoism if you're interested

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Malcolm Ocean's avatar

Reminds me a bit of this book review which talks about how to integrate more mythic meaning into kids education:

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-book-review-the-educated-mind

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Andrew Cutler's avatar

Oh interesting, the comment you left before this was published appears here now

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