I'm looking to do a project on 'enlightenment' and would like to interview people who've claimed to reach enlightenment (or any equivalent type stage). If you or anybody you know is interested please email me at aellasinbox@gmail.com!
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I don't trust these emotional enlightenment gurus unless they can refute all but one of the current competing theories for how individuals should act in the mating market.
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He is not emotional or esoteric about it. His systematic study about people in prolonged ‘enlightenment’ states (particular modes and degrees of de-identification) is the best I know.
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Ah, ok. But why is reducing identification enlightenment? If a hobo identifies as a grain of sand, that seems highly problematic
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Enlightenment is not good or bad, intrinsically desirable or problematic. It is just a set of mental states in which the self dissociates from motivational impulses, with certain functional implications.
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Ah! I agree de-identifying from impulses can solve very universal and difficult problems. But many of those are implicated in complex, poorly understood social phenomena that I've seen no gurus give good accounts of. E.g. Adi da is clearly just on drugs.
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I am not sure how many gurus you know, but Jeffery is not one of them (at least not in the usual sense). I think his epistemology is clean, and he is not offering meaning, but information.
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