Sir Darius the Clairvoyent

Wonder if anyone would like to share their experience, or read trough my draft?

“Let us compare the soul to a charioteer driving a chariot pulled by two horses. One of them is noble and good, while the other is of the opposite nature. The white horse is beautiful, well-proportioned, with a gentle temperament, guided by honor and virtue. The black horse, on the other hand, is unruly, dark, and driven by desire and untamed passions. For the charioteer, it is a constant struggle to keep them in balance and steer the chariot in the right direction.” (Phaedrus, 246a–254e, Plato).

Beautiful words, all of you. It resonates.

Beautiful words, @Jenn. They resonate. Appreciate it!

I have friends over, so I’ll resport short and get back to you shortly. But this made me think of something, in large part inspired by @Shadow_self. That modern science, specifically psychology and medicine is BS. A more holistic approach to human health is needed. I mean, lonliness and stress is more harmfull than smoking. A pill can’t solve that. I heard a beautiful metaphor on the radio a few days ago: if a bunch of fish end up dead in a polluted lake, you are not going to give the fish medicine, but instead clean up the lake.

I wonder if we would feel healthier if it was viewed in religious terms, demons and angels, and not as an disorder. Even if it is entirely biological, there must be a reason that we have the capacity for it, no? I am not able to provide a reference, but I once heard that in traditional societies, psychotic people were often considered shamans.

We all know that a chicken salad is better for you than a Big Mac. Yet many eat way more Big Mac than salad. Even if this is not a problem for you, I think it is safe to say that we humans often do things we know are bad for us, while avoiding actions that would lead to growth, to a greater or lesser degree. I find this perplexing. It is almost like you are not one entity, but a series of competing ones, some acting against your (you as in the sense it is useally used) best interrest. I guess much of it might be down to the discrepancy between the our biological nature, the environment it is adapted to and a failure to readjust to modernity. What do you think?

We all know that a chicken salad is better for you than a Big Mac. Yet many eat way more Big Mac than salad. Even if this is not a problem for you, I think it is safe to say that we humans often do things we know are bad for us, while avoiding actions that would lead to growth, to a greater or lesser degree. I find this perplexing. It is almost like you are not one entity, but a series of competing ones, some acting against your (you as in the sense it is useally used) best interrest. I guess much of it might be down to the discrepancy between the our biological nature, the environment it is adapted to and a failure to readjust to modernity. What do you think?

So… trough out most my life I have been pretty hard working. Not necessarily in the sense of academic or career success, but in identifying what I want, make a plan and work towards it. I feel like I have lost this drive. Thoughts?

I have shared this before, and I am aware you know him, but in my harder periods, I turn to this song: pure perfection

If you want to succeed in stocks, going in to politics is way more profitable than an education and working at Wall Street But you are without a doubt correct in that the game is rigged. Have this absolutely clear: betting and gambling companies offer their services because, in the long term, they always win. Maybe a very small amount of people are able to beat it without cheating, but the companies will then simply ban you. Likewise, if you hire an investor to invest your money, they earn their income with fees they charge you, not their ability to invest wisely (for the most part).

So, this is a personal one. But it is anonymous and I have a good impression of the folks here. I have had experiences that I would characterise as super natural/spiritual and others as delusions. I am not psychothic, but I do know that I am at an increased risk of developing it, and have experienced tendencies in the past. Whats scary about it, is that it appears just as real as anything else. Lets say that I suddnely under the delusion that the CIA was trying to assinate me (I am not, just for illustration haha). That conviction would appear just as real to me as the fact that I am writing these words, right now. What scares me about this, is that once you start questioning your ability to distingiush whats real and whats not, you start questioning everything. On the other hand, I recieved "messages" that I would characterize as spiritual. Helpfull. As if some force, imagined or not, were communicating truths and insights and advice to me. My question is, if anyone can relate or if they have any advice? One thing I intend to start doing, is grounding/presence. Any ressources that could be of help, or "just chill"?

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You know the famous Nietzche quote, «God is dead and we have killed him,» right. This is often interperted as an atheistic statement, however, I and many other believe it is more a statement about how enlightenment thought, rationalism, scientism whatever, have made God obsolete. And by doing that, removing God from the equation, the long held moral convictions and traditions lost it’s authority. So, how do we navigate in this world where the long held beliefs no longer hold any power, and nihilism rules? A world where there is no higher power, no plan, no meaning, no objective right or wrong? By creating your own values, self overcoming, creating, saying yes to life (according to Nietzche). This is the so called Übermench (over man). Asking people to find themself and not be mere diciples of a new prophet is extremely congruent with his philosophy, and «think for yourself,» is by no means a way of telling people how to think. Know thyself. Here, the three metamorphoses are relevant as well: the camel (following dogma), turning in to the rebellious lion, before achieving its ultimate form: the creative and playful child. «People have never asked me as they should have done, what the name of Zarathustra precisely meant in my mouth, in the mouth of the first immoralist; for that which distinguishes this Persian from all others in the past is the very fact that he was the exact reverse of an immoralist. Zarathustra was the first to see in the struggle between good and evil the essential wheel in the working of things. The translation of morality into the realm of metaphysics, as force, cause, end-in-itself, is his work. But the very question suggests its own answer. Zarathustra created this most portentous of all errors,—morality; therefore he must be the first to expose it. Not only because he has had longer and greater experience of the subject than any other thinker,—all history is indeed the experimental refutation of the theory of the so-called moral order of things,—but because of the more important fact that Zarathustra was the most truthful of thinkers. In his teaching alone is truthfulness upheld as the highest virtue—that is to say, as the reverse of the cowardice of the "idealist" who takes to his heels at the sight of reality. Zarathustra has more pluck in his body than all other thinkers put together. To tell the truth and to aim straight: that is the first Persian virtue. Have I made myself clear? ... The overcoming of morality by itself, through truthfulness, the moralist's overcoming of himself in his opposite—in me—that is what the name Zarathustra means in my mouth.» — Ecce Homo, "Why I Am a Fatality"