+V Landan Laurusaitis That's awesome.

Iron BUTTERFLY 🦋🦋🦋🦋

That's absolutely true. Thank you very much!

When you are ready, the teacher will appear to you :)

@@ArkansasGamer is this a quote, or are those your words? It really speaks to me. If this is a quote, from whom is it? Edit: I found it, it's attributed to Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

Her,here!

In what way does School Of Life mischaracterise its subjects?

The school life often takes a different view on subjects and content rather than misinterpreting them

This channel is Awesome!

Very true. Another variation would be something like what I've been through. At a young age, I did discover my calling, music. I proceeded to take it quite seriously and got quite good. Then alcohol and drugs came along, and it was fun. So I did both, music and party. But I never grew up, and the fun started to be destructive. But I kept at it, and it got worse. Though I continued to work in music, my career was clearly moving backwards, not to mention losing friends and sinking deeper into poverty, unable to care for myself. And this is where many stay, because, although it's painful, it's easier (in the clouded mind) to just continue as is. Well, I got sick of it (many times), but finally did something about it. The last few years have been full of growth and clarity, as I have revitalized my health and passions, and unsurprisingly, this rebirth has made all the difference in my relationships and work situation. Best of all is the strength gained from knowing I did the better/harder thing, and all the joy and creativity I'm able to experience and share. The temptation to get f'd up is always there, but for me, it's clearly not worth it. I love feeling like a boss.

@@jasonwalsh8281 feel ya bro

@Blackpilled Saint I wish you the best of luck my dude. You gonna get through this.

relatable at 17

@@jasonwalsh8281 you be a rockstar bro

The question is ; how is this done? Cut the grand words and gestures...

Danil Thorstensson I'm about to go into the unknown ,

@@arkman2237 So how did it go? I'd imagine if you haven't done what you want you'd try again :)

@@maxsotelo9518 it happens automatically i think wheter you want it or not, you will be faced with a challenge so great you will be forced to change, it happenend to me like almost 2 years now and im not a new man or whatever i stilll have lots of things to improve, but the myth of the heroes journey is true, specially the death and rebirth part

@@arkman2237 wow. Response after three years! Amazing! :) 👍 Thanks for the reply! 👍

Jung is my dude. Mbti 100% real. I just lived the heroes journey to a tale. I am working on my anima now. How did your research go?

school of life is great too.

+Marcus Tullius Cicero School of Life is trash :/ I can't stand the pretentious tone of the narrator.

School of life is good and helpful ,too. but this one is sure the best.

+Hayden Smart I thought I was the only one lol

school of life is superficial. They dont explain the theories in detail.

I did the same thing but in Canada. I moved from Ontario to British Columbia. You have to change yourself ❤

That is completly false. You were born in USA and that isnt the whole world. Try being born in the middle east and "succeding".

That’s wisdom right there

The older I get, the more I realise that the mindset you have is what determines your outcomes (out of all the things that are under your control). Granted, if you’re born into some god forsaken war torn hell hole, you’re gonna have a way worse chance of ‘success’ relative to someone born in New York. But at the same time, the mindset that you embody should allow you to progress in whatever little microcosm that you inhabit.

Well said my friend. The idea of harnessing your unconscious is a daunting task. So few have the courage to unlock their potentially far beyond the surface. I too would like to know thyself beyond the mere opinion of other's structuring my life.

Mark Huslage that was very well said, because you are absolutely right, the responsible use of psychedelics can bring one to the most profound of epiphanies, and enlighten and expand perception like nothing else, but, and I can’t emphasize this enough, it is imperative to keep yourself ANCHORED, please follow his guidelines! Because not doing so, is an iffy gamble, one can easily become fearful and lost there. With an experienced guide you are far more able to comprehend and process what you encounter entering this wonderful gateway into the astral plane.

@@jacquelyndiamond3301 I agree almost entirely, but if I could suggest, to be lost is to know how to be found. And to be lost is to find where to go.

I am made flesh, bones and das spirit of das Big Bang.

Based

Don't take chances, take acid

@@s.a.l.1974 Drugs are a crutch for weakness and damage your brain.

It’s better to regret something you’ve done, rather than regretting something you haven’t done!

I think this is a book with many morals bud

@@Obese_Pterodactyl unless they change your perspective, and enrich your life. Drugs (and I mean ALL psychoactive drugs, which includes coffee f.e.) are just tools, discarding all of them seems ridiculous.

coreycox2345 based on Jung in part and more at the first.

It made me think of the dark night of the soul as well.

Seconded

+mariusstana That would be an interesting topic to do. Thanks for the suggestion.

Well said

@AlyxBeyondthePale Hi Alyx! I wrote it myself, thank you so much. So weird though, I wrote and posted this over a year ago and just re-visited it this weekend, after not having thought about it for many months. 💓

That's one hell of an awesome composition that I've ever read in KZfaq comments 👏👏👏

@@ammararauf4520 Thank you, Ammara! 🥰 So weird again though... I've had almost a complete writers block for a few months now. Hardly got anything done. A few hours ago, I got inspired to start writing again (something about the Tao Te Ching), and have been at it the whole day, and bang! Another loving comment on my poem! So thankful and full of gratitude!

@@dominikrisse8099 good to know that......wishing you to go ahead with full vigor (PS: that poem has inspired me to start writing my research paper) 😇

@@ammararauf4520 Ahhh... research papers... a daunting task! Still got a couple on my to-do list as well... 😅 So glad to hear, you got some inspiration from the poem! What is the paper about?!

Only 100 lines of code? Doesn’t seem like very many.

satnamo One must.

@narcosisanonymous I am fully recover now I think this is really a malfunction in the anxiety part of the brain, I still have those thoughts but without anxiety now, It was a great opportunity to discover how human mind works and makes me understand the behavior of other people as well, and yes I'm keeping the lessons I've learned from it especially those existential insights like meaning and purpose and acceptance, in my case, the distress was caused by the anxiety itself and not because of those existential thoughts.

@narcosisanonymousare you currently experiencing existential intrusive and pervasive thoughts that it makes you anxious?

That would be a very interesting video. Unfortunately I haven't read much of Spinoza yet, although I am currently reading Nietzsche's Epic of the Soul (a book analyzing Thus Spoke Zarathustra) which argues that Zarathustra's "solution" was Spinoza's "nature-mysticism". I would love to get to Spinoza at some point. Thanks for your comment.

Academy of Ideas No problem. :) I do know that Nietzsche loved Spinoza (Nietzsche called Spinoza his "only predecessor"), and that his "Will to Power" was influenced by Spinoza's Ethics. Also yes, as you made a brilliant video explaining that Nietzsche's "Will to Power" was a challenge to materialism and was a promotion of panexperientialism, these ideas were inspired by his introspection and Spinozian ideas. Spinoza's naturalism itself is extremely unique because it rests heavily on the PSR, which is why he viewed free will as being false and miracles impossible (or a being acting outside of the rules). Also it wasn't materialistic, but seemed to be a dual-aspect theory (some have argued it collapses into dual-aspect idealism) in which he promoted when it came to ontology. Ironically, the Philosopher Keiji Nishitani simply calls Nietzsche's view “pantheism” ("The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism" page 65). Also pantheists, Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung suggested the same about Nietzsche. And the philosopher Adrian Samuel says: *"Nietzsche’s psychological reductionism leads to his third principal reason for denying the reality of God. And this is Nietzsche’s pantheism. Pantheism is the belief that nature is divine - that everything participates in the divine reality.* [Adrian Samuel, "Nietzsche and God", Richmond Journal of Philosophy 14 (Spring 2007)]" Nietzsche, however, opposed Spinoza's theory of conatus, for which he substituted the "will to power" and he replaced Spinoza's formula "Deus sive Natura" (God or Nature) by "Chaos sive Natura".

Awesome, very insightful. Are there any of Spinoza's works or books on Spinoza you would recommend to start with?

Academy of Ideas Sorry, I have just seen this reply. Also remember Spinoza is not a materialist or neutral monist (many people say he is). There are no neutral elements for Spinoza: the mind is purely mental and the body is purely physical, and so he isn't a neutral monist. A better name for his view might be dual-aspect monism (I support this view and class myself also as a dual-aspect idealist). But, Spinoza is a non-physicalist, and espouses a mentalistic view. He is explicit about that. But he is also explicit that the physical ("extension") is real as well. So he isn't a Berkeleyian subjective idealist. Spinoza's philosophy is largely contained in two books: the "Theologic-Political Treatise", and his magnum opus "Ethics". Michael Della Rocca is arguably the world's leading Spinoza scholar and I cannot recommend his books and articles on Spinoza highly enough. He is an incredibly clear writer and really fun to read. Rebecca Goldstein has done some work on Spinoza. Also, Steven Nadler is very good. Check out "Baruch Spinoza (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)". Also check out: www.amazon.com/Spinozas-Ethics-Introduction-Introductions-Philosophical/dp/0521544793?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0 I would also recommend watching videos from the channel +Oppositum (in fact his videos on the PSR shows that if you don't accept it, you have an internally incoherent world-view and argues this using Della Rocca's argument). He has amazing videos explaining Spinoza's view on many different issues. There was also a mini series done by the channel "+The Intellection Surge" on Spinoza, so you might want to check that out also. Also, Spinoza's work can be very dense and abstract. One area is his ontological argument for God's existence. Some people accuse his argument of being circular, but it's not. But more specifically, the accusation is that Spinoza is question-begging. And question-begging is bad because it isn't convincing to those who don't already buy the argument or conclusion at hand. But notice that this is not to say an argument is formally fallacious. Question-begging is an informal fallacy that is in fact perfectly logical and formally valid (e.g., "P therefore P" is question-begging, and it's perfectly valid). Nonetheless: some people's accusation seems mistaken. Some don't even mention Spinoza's ontological argument in proposition 11 of part 1 of his Ethics. But this is relevant to a common argument against Spinoza! This is it here in a technical form by me: 1. Everything that exists or doesn't exist has a reason or external cause of its existence or non-existence. [PSR] 2. If there is no reason or external cause for why something does not exist, then it exists (by some reason or cause). [1] 3. Suppose that Spinoza's God (an ontologically infinite being, as I call it) does not exist. [for reductio] 4. So, there is a reason or external cause why Spinoza's God doesn't exist. [1,3] 5. If there is a cause or reason why Spinoza's God doesn't exist, then it is either because of (a) an incoherence in its essence (like a triangle that has four sides) or (b) some external cause (or a lack thereof) preventing it from existing. 6. There is no incoherence in the essence pertaining to Spinoza's God, i.e., not-(a). 7. There is no external cause (or a lack thereof) preventing Spinoza's God from existing, i.e., not-(b). 8. So, there is no cause or reason why Spinoza's God doesn't exist. [5,6,7] 9. So, Spinoza's God exists. [2,8] 10. So, Spinoza's God both does and does not exist, which is absurd. [3,9] 11. So, the supposition that Spinoza's God does not exist is absurd. [3-10] 12. So, Spinoza's God does exist. [11, indirect proof] All this is logically valid. But (7) might need clarification. If we recall what ontological infinitude is, it's easy to see why it's true: Spinoza's God is ontologically infinite, and so there can be nothing external to him, and therefore no external cause preventing him from existing. We might also add that (12) entails monism given an understanding of what Spinoza's God is. Some people make the mistake this way: is to take something Spinoza said before and after this ontological argument and then, without looking at (1-12), say that Spinoza's argument is question-begging. But of course it's question-begging if we ignore (1-12).

I Academy of Ideas I hope my in depth response to you really helps you. I have done my best to guide you and can't wait to see you make a Spinoza video(s). Also there are other Spinozists which have given different arguments (for Spinoza's views) that I haven't much explored. Two such recent Spinozists are philosophers John Leslie and Timothy Sprigge, in case you'd like to check out their work. In fact them two (and including Michael Della Rocca) defend idealistic Spinzoist theological metaphysics. *"Spinoza (1632-77) is the noblest and most lovable of the great philosophers. Intellectually, some others have surpassed him, but ethically he is supreme"* - Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy, page 567 *"I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind".* - Albert Einstein, 24 April 1929 *"How much do I love that noble man. More than I could tell with words. I fear though he'll remain alone. With a holy halo of his own".* - Albert Einstein *“I am utterly amazed, utterly enchanted! I have a precursor, and what a precursor! I hardly knew Spinoza: that I should have turned to him just now, was inspired by “instinct.” Not only is his overtendency like mine-namely to make all knowledge the most powerful affect-but in five main points of his doctrine I recognize myself; this most unusual and loneliest thinker is closest to me precisely in these matters: he denies the freedom of the will, teleology, the moral world-order, the unegoistic, and evil. Even though the divergencies are admittedly tremendous, they are due more to the difference in time, culture, and science. In summa: my lonesomeness, which, as on very high mountains, often made it hard for me to breathe and make my blood rush out, is now at least a twosomeness. Strange! Incidentally, I am not at all as well as I had hoped. Exceptional weather here too! Eternal change of atmospheric conditions!-that will yet drive me out of Europe! I must have clear skies for months, else I get nowhere. Already six severe attacks of two or three days each!! - With affectionate love, Your friend”.* - Friedrich Nietzsche, found in a postcard to Franz Overbeck in Sils-Maria dated July 30, 1881.

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