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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. Euvie Ivanova‏ @euvieivanova 8 Apr 2018
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      Sometimes, you can see glimpses of the deeper reality through meditation or in other circumstances. But it often takes seeing it with enough of your being for it to "click". This is why shutting up the mental chatter and releasing the emotions first helps immensely.

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    2. Euvie Ivanova‏ @euvieivanova 8 Apr 2018
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      For me, this experience last year was so earth-shaking that it felt like I broke my head and went completely insane. I'd already had close to no mental chatter for months at that point from doing a ton of meditation, so it hit like a supernova. Cue the self annihilation meme.pic.twitter.com/SNTr0VASTV

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    3. Euvie Ivanova‏ @euvieivanova 8 Apr 2018
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      This whole business of awakening is not a pleasant experience, or at least it wasn't for me. I've heard the same from others who have had it.

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    4. Euvie Ivanova‏ @euvieivanova 8 Apr 2018
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      I had been meditating for 8 years by the time I had this experience. The year I got it, I was meditating 1-3 hours a day, sometimes as much as 6 hours.

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    5. Euvie Ivanova‏ @euvieivanova 8 Apr 2018
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      One time I meditated for most of 48 hours straight, and noticed that I had some continuous awareness even during sleep. That was an interesting discovery, but it's just a side note.

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    6. Euvie Ivanova‏ @euvieivanova 8 Apr 2018
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      Meditation is not all fun and roses, especially if you do a lot of it.

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    7. Gary Basin  💡‏ @garybasin 15 Apr 2018
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      I was thinking about writing more on this topic as it seems underrepresented. Do you know of anyone focusing on it?

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    8. Euvie Ivanova‏ @euvieivanova 15 Apr 2018
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      Replying to @garybasin

      The unpleasantness / difficulty of awakening? There is some stuff on @DeconstructingU, @Dan_Jeffries1' piece on Rick and Morty was good, I also recall @Meaningness' Buddhism For Vampires site having some tongue in cheek stuff.

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    9. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 15 Apr 2018
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      Replying to @euvieivanova @garybasin

      This paper from a year ago is the standard academic cite on the topic: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0176239 … I’m not sure I buy the methodology overall, but they collected a large number of first-hand descriptions of emotionally rough non-ordinary meditation experiences

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    10. Gary Basin  💡‏ @garybasin 15 Apr 2018
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      Replying to @Meaningness @euvieivanova

      Oh the other thing that comes to mind is recent academic interest in "dark night" experiences

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 15 Apr 2018
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      Yes, this paper is the final report on what was originally called the Dark Night Project. They decided that name was misleading and changed it

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