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Lost person in the wilds >> lack of food (possibly water) / inadequate nutrition / poor sleep >> hallucination, delusions.
Self-styled spiritual person practising extreme asceticism >> lack of food (possibly water) / inadequate nutrition / poor sleep >> hallucination, delusions.
It is a similar experience but it won't always be viewed in the same light, such as a meaningful religious experience for followers or the masses. When people with eating disorders also lack food and adequate nutrition, they start to experience hallucination and delusions. Or should I call it by a different name? I don't see why you say this is ''activism''. This here is exploration, not activism. I support ascetic practices, but I think we should be mindful of practices and beliefs that lead to malnourishment, starvation, and deprivation as these will mess up the body and the brain. I think people should aim for health, not wither away and confuse weakness and tingling, or effects of body eating its own fat away as enlightening, or confuse induced hallucination due to starvation with some secret about the cosmos. If we take decline in health as a sign of ''spiritual growth'' than what does that really say? |
I don't support ascetic practices. I believe that they are unnecessarily painful ways of trying to achieve a worthwhile goal.
The fact that uniformed observation of two phenomena seems to show the same thing doesn't mean that they are the expression of the same thing. Isn't it? Why is it so difficult to understand? - by chance and by design, people had psychic experiences they found meaningful or intriguing - they didn't know what caused them, and based on uninformed observation and experimentation they came with some techniques - rituals developed around those techniques and experiences - most of those rituals aren't necessary, if at all, but people don't know better - some rituals may be challenging for the practitioner's health, but that doesn't mean that there are no healthy genuine psychic experiences. Let the people do whatever they believe they have to do, as long as they don't violate the laws of the land! Trying to prevent them from doing that, especially in the name of helping them, I call "activism" (a pejorative). No reasonable person takes decline in health as a sign of spiritual growth. That's your uninformed opinion. |
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If you don't like me saying that it's better to be healthy instead of using starvation as a spiritual pursuit to induce a mystical experience than forget about that. It does not devalue the connections I have made here. Quote:
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Prolonged fasting in the Bible:
''As a species, we have been artificially inducing mystical experiences for as long as there are records of our behaviour. '' [from: http://www.humanreligions.info/hallucinations.html ] |
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Are you secretly jealous that there are so many who have found peace and love in their hearts, Altair? Perhaps bringing Holy Men and Women down a notch will elevate yourself, but it’s a fool’s errand, to my mind, That said if it helps you, I’m happy to subscribe to your hypothesis. Yes every spiritual man and woman, those of grace and blessing, only reach this state because of medical induced starvation and malnutrition. Hopefully you will find more blogs to help you accede to this reality, and if you can’t, you can always create your own cultish beliefs, that’s one of the blessings of modern day technology. No one near feel alone again :D Jl |
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That's such a ridiculous formulation: artificially inducing mystical experiences! :smile: |
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I don't see how any of this contributes to the explorations made in this thread. You have more interest in personally attacking people you disagree with than with discussion. Many religious traditions rely upon the words of various people that fasted for prolonged periods (starvation), 'locked themselves up' (deprivation) and lived on poor diets (malnourishment). These traditions may even today have sects or guru's continuing to preach the same lifestyles. Starvation, deprivation and malnourishment are known causes of hallucinations. If only you actually read my posts.. I would support a more modest approach to avoid lack of health, for clear health reasons, but possibly also to minimize inauthenticity. Let me know when you can actually engage with reason and an open mind for exploration. Quote:
Although it's not mine I would say it's an apt description, as some people consciously practice sense deprivation and prolonged fasts, with the goal of communion with 'divinity'. [Artificial: ''made or produced by humans'']. |
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I’m laughing so hard over here!! Jl |
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