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Very well. If we experience troll-disconnect I'll eventually find a way to use your forum. I do believe you have a 160 IQ and 180 isn't that much of a believability stretch.
Its funny how language and literalism works. When are you going to ask me about the bellcurve of different kinds of IQ?
thats where the more interesting stuff is.
I have very high verbal linguistic and musical as well as lethitic and intrapersonal intelligence.
I have very low interpersonal intelligence and very low math ability.
(Yet my thought pattern is highly linear and ultra rational- go figure.?)
So, like anybody, I have high scores and low scores, some of which are at 180 and some of which are maybe as little as half that. I'm technically a savante.
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I also think you're good at organizing thought experiments into some useful form of problem solving. My usefulness to your think tank enterprise is in question. It's easy to ignore the trolls. It's not so easy for me to fit in at your forum but if necessary I'll find a way.
Short term long term. Its easy for you and me to have a conversation and ignore all the trolling.
how successful we can ever be at entraining a third or fourth person naturally depends on how much noise to signal ratio exists.
There are some relationships where people have as little as 10 percent signal and i have to make up for 50 by translating.
lol. As far as fitting in, who fits in will be defined by who shows up. I have 3000 posts and 4 active participants. You become active the space becomes defined by you. I'd rather stretch to accomodate kewl people; Since I am the moderator i control the stretch.
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So, no clue why not easier there than here.
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Of course I understand your reticence for throwing pearls to the pigs since they will merely try to consume or otherwise destroy them.
I have important to do and not lots of time to waste. You make it worth being here and if people can hold a depth conversation than grand. If not- and when you run into trolling you know that theres social pressure against any kind of thinking- so you know its goign to get harder the more you unpack; because each detail becomes another toy for them to ridicule.
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What works to obtain altered states?
I live for the waking Theta condition. My life has been designed to allow for it, which hasn't been easy in that status quo prohibits it (well almost).
Buddhist practice of mindfulness helps in entering Theta.
Buddhism is grand but it really helps to have modern psychology to base the whole thing in, and paganism. Buddhism is mostly good for delta states. Not too helpful with alpha and watered down in america to lose theta.
It would be easy to do buddhism a long time and not get there. Do the psychology and the paganism first
and getting there is much more assured.
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As does remaining in the present moment (not that easy to do, requires commitment and discipline and most people don't even try to understand what 'remaining present' really means bc they have some flippant idea it isn't useful or they dismiss it as being not really possible....it is very possible but difficult...and if you don't even try to do it you'll never know). For anyone who really tries to do it, the key is in becoming clearly aware of the difference in being present and in not being present. Once you can tell when you're being present (all of us are present at least some of the time)..then...bingo.
Sure, the being present with the senses as it dives into malkut route to delta as root technique. Being ultra present is such an
enigma. to say and yet to not know; and those what can the words mean to them?
Present or presence of focus or force of attention; for most like a light bulb and for me like a laser beam; yet, it is only a matter
of learning to bring the energy into phase-
The question is learning what to pay attention to; ie the more spiritual self you relate to and thus the more relating you do the more you can pay attention to that aspect of self and use it to lead you over the veil.
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Sitting or moving meditation
Meditation usually doesn't help much for engendering waking Theta. I've found moving meditation (like Tai Chi or Qi Gong) more helpful because physiologically and psychologically it is more able to deliver one to waking Theta when your body and mind is profoundly soothed.
Yes, thats a direction very worth mentioning...
i do meditative movement and thats how i would induce if i wanted to go there.
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Communing with nature is helpful to me.
sure but needs combination with other methods...
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I go to classes in my dreams and have done so all my life. My classes are primarily in spiritual design and engineering. They require indepth hard physical science but the teachers are inspired and more effective at teaching to autistics than our status quo science is. I wake up with a full brain that would easily fill 5 spiral notebooks but when I start writing down the information my brain quickly empties and nothing much remains for me to grab onto. i.e, I don't recall the specifics. But I definitely remember the experience of learning various techniques of spiritual engineering and it's awesome. Needless to say I'm motivated to return again and again to these classes. Status quo engineering capacity is in my DNA; my aspieism tweeked that capicity into the spirital version of engineering (which is only in my dreams until you came along).
I don't like school or classes.
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Trance vs non-trance
I find it easier to go into trance than to function within status quo awareness. But my brand of spiritual path doesn't encourage trance states bc they are viewed as a distraction in the same way siddhis are viewed as a distraction. As a result I've aimed to try non-trance methods of achieving waking theta state and been successful. Having tried both trance and non-trance methods I tend to prefer the latter.
Using trance states for waking Theta condition for the ultimate purpose of problem solving is like trying to drive without using the steering wheel. It can be done safely only if you go slowly. From personal experience I have concluded that when bending the laws of physics it's better to have a firm grip on that steering wheel. And I've reason to assume I've been capable of going fast, very fast....but only in my dreams.
I don't know what to make of this other than to say that i was born with my siddhis and they are part of my mission and purpose.
Kind of written into me like a geas.
The wheel that i most often think of is the one that describes the energy potential to connect to he collective unconscious or phenonenize something there collectively. Thats the wheel i'm working to master.
IE; being the bridge which allows them to cross.
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