I have identified a major flaw in Sam's logic on the subject of being colorblind to race issues thanks to meditation, and I haven't seen this particular rebuttal elsewhere. Disclaimer -- I do not think Sam is a racism apologist or any of the harsher criticisms I've seen lobbed at him. I think he's well-intentioned, probably uncomfortable with the tone of modern racial discourse, and he's trying to reconcile his perspective with something more transcendent.
So, I totally get the value of finding a disconnection from your racial identity due to meditation. However, the problem arises when the rest of society does not share in your disconnection. If you are a person of color who has supposedly transcended to this enlightened state that Sam champions, you have to recognize that your bank still sees you as black. Your government still sees you as black. Your local law enforcement still sees you as black. The value of meditative color-blindness only works if everyone shares in it, and this is such a lofty goal that it's truly unrealistic. Our history books were printed in color. Our entire history as a society is colored by various ethnic lenses, and the inability to see color just means you're missing parts of the overall picture.
If the enlightened individual transcends discourse about race, this puts them at a competitive disadvantage when navigating a society and culture that revolves around race (or other identities). If you cannot see color but everyone around you can, including powerful institutions, you are only handicapping your own capacity to navigate a colorful world.
If we could all take a "color-blindness pill" tomorrow and wake up to a new and raceless society, that'd be fantastic. But in the absence of such a possibility, incapacitating yourself from racial discourse and thought is only a loss.
I have a playlist of 15 songs that are basically my calm, soothing, breathing songs, and I'd love for more suggestions! Most of these are dream pop / ambient pop / slowcore, but I'm open to all suggestions.
The songs are: "Headache" by Grouper, "Fade Into You" by Mazzy Star, "Love Songs on the Radio" by Mojave 3, "Milk" by Sweet Trip, "Romneydale" by Weyes Blood, "Alison" by Slowdive, "Falling" by Julee Cruise, "Becalmed" by Brian Eno, "Lazy Calm" by Cocteau Twins, "Lost" by Autumn's Grey Solace, "ambered" by Bluetile Lounge, "Mary" by Big Thief, "Median II" by Good Night & Good Morning, "Living Room" by Grouper, and "Wyoming" by Heather Woods Broderick
hi everyone 👋🏽 does anyone else here also share the love for some meditative techno tracks? do u know other albums/eps/artists with similar vibes? is there anyone here who likes to produce songs like this? I would love to meet other producers :)
Anunaku - Spirale https://youtu.be/KQrk3V43KSE
Donato Dozzy feat. Anna Caragnano - Parola (Rework) https://youtu.be/I9MEddhzBn8
cheers
I’m one of those people that gets “in the zone” so to speak, when hyper focusing on a project. Honestly I think it’s closer to a meditative state than anything; I have heard it described as being “in the flow”, by artists. When this happens, my thoughts usually lose coherence and take on an almost dream-like state. (I have adhd if that means anything, I get hyper fixated on art projects and the like)
Well, I’ve had a few times where deep in the zone, I’ve “heard” clearly in my minds “ear”, people conversing in (what I assume to be) mandarin. Keep in mind I speak no more than the most basic of mandarin phrases; I have never been particularly interested in learning Chinese. What I’m saying is I really don’t think I know more than I am aware of, I really don’t speak the language at all.
During the times I have “heard” Mandarin Chinese conversations during my “meditative” states, I don’t understand the language at all, but I know exactly what they’re saying, if that makes sense. But I am “understanding” all the words; the weirdest example that still makes me question if these incidents were actually more than my imagination, was when I “overheard” two men having a conversation about a Chinese social media site for career advancement and networking, like a Chinese version of LinkedIn. The name of the site one man kept talking about was “Dajie”, pronounced “Dah-jyeh” and how the other man should join it. I remember that word, it was the focus of their conversation.
Well....... when I was done with my project, I googled “Dajie” and it is a fucking REAL CHINESE CAREER/NETWORKING SITE. EXACTLY like I heard in my mind!! WTF!! Dajie.com
https://www.cbinsights.com/company/dajie
You can of course visit the actual site, but it’s not particularly informative if you can’t speak/read Chinese. I promise you I have no prior interest in obscure Chinese networking websites that probably work best on mainland China. And I understood their Mandarin (or possibly Cantonese? Who knows lol) and what they were talking about, but have no ability to actually speak the language.
It’s happened a few more times when I’ve been intently hyper focused, it’s like I’m overhearing private conversations. The other notable time was when I saw more of a “scene”, if you will. It was a family in China trying to get from one city to another, but the checkpoint wasn’t allowing anyone through due to COVID restrictions/lockdowns. What got me was that I remembered the words the guard was saying,
... keep reading on reddit ➡I really struggle with this context because I'm really sceptic to Life even tho I see spiritual signs and Visions. When see/explore something new I don't fully believe in myself because I get disappointed very often in My beliefs.
BACKGROUND Met each other 1.5 years ago for like 3 months before she moved (right before COVID). We kept in intermittent contact through text. Officially been ghosted since last August. We never dated or slept, and neither of us have a social media account.
STATUS Although we don't talk, she has helped me out recently. I've been wanting to move out of my current living situation and hadn't been able to find an apartment. I then have a dream with her on a peculiar street downtown, that we where embracing. The next day I got the intuition to look up apartments in downtown, which is notoriously expensive and out of my budget. Found a skyrise for $1,090.00 a month!
CURRENT SITUATION Recently got these audio-visual headset on Amazon that stimulate the user to help induce deeper calm during meditation. So far its relaxed my physical body to a point of feeling like sleep paralysis (with a chatting mind), but I think it has potential.
The dream recently had with her that I had which I just described, when we were embracing. I notice clear bruising on her back, I didn't like that at all. I asked her about it, to which she didn't respond but just looked at me regretfully and then I woke up.
Just like how her higher self helped me find an apartment, I want to know how she is doing and help her. I know based on everything I have read here that it only makes it worse if you interfere (in 3D) between your twin and their abusive partner.
I obviously don't know her dating status, but if that dream meant something. Then we can all assume its implications.
So I want to know if there is a specific visualization or mental experience I have to bring forth while meditating and/or how do I know it's not my ego playing a trick on me.
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This film stucked with me. Seeing that it is possible for an invertebrate creature, an octopus, with such a short life, to be able to develop consciousness was something extraordinary.
Can you imagine living in a binary environment of just hunger and fear? And when you finally learn to deal with it and can even play and have fun and joy, to live for real, when you "get it", you are old enough to reproduce and die?
I know that this film has a subjective narrative. We, as humans, can anthromorphize even an octopus. Maybe the creature's experience and interpretation of reality is totally alien for us. But still ... if you think about its life, you can see many strange parallels to our lives and struggles. What do you think about this movie?
HeLLO I am making some videos with binaural and frequency to help astral projection. We also have a small talk about the subject in our ATMA TALK videos. great week to all
I've done LSD around 4-5 times in 2021 each within the range of 150-300 ug. However, each of these has been with others around with music and interaction. I have found it difficult to reach a state of introspection and my mind doesn't seem able to push too much and explore the issues I want to. It seems like something I'm forcing onto it rather than something that would come naturally in such a stae. Am I doing it too often or is it the fact that I always have people around or is it the dosage that isn't enough. Not quite sure how to get there again but this is the entire reason I started tripping and am disappointed I can't get as much out of the experience as I'd like.
It looks like a cymbal and you use a ball on a stick and circle around it.
