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An Actual Freedom From The Human Condition
Personal blog · actualfreedom.com.au/richard/articlesphilosophy
An Actual Freedom From The Human Condition is a personal blog at actualfreedom.com.au about philosophy. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for an alternative take on happiness, a described meditation method of attentiveness, and dissociation as mystics' advice, and cite it on climate-change group-think. Comments are links or quotes, not praise.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
An actual freedom from the Human Condition, surpassing Spiritual Enlightenment or any other Altered State Of Consciousness, challenging all philosophy, psychiatry, metaphysics (including quantum physics and its mystic cosmogongy) anthropology, sociology ... and any religion along with its paranor
What Hacker News says?
I find the word 'marvelling' more fitting to describe the childhood experiencing of "lots of things are amazing when you're a kid, stone, river, rain, sky, .." than 'contemplating' because the contemplation of Buddhism is a whole new ball game entirely (I find nothing childlike--much less naive--in withdrawing from the world of senses into a detached reality that forms the essence of meditative practices). As you wa…
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on “Why are Adults so busy?”Before your comment (and mine) gets flagged to death, I wish to provide this information that might be of interest: https://actualfreedom.com.au/sundry/factsandgroupthink/globa... Yea, the climate change narrative is highly overblown, but it will take a few more years before the overtone window shifts for larger swaths of people in power to accept it.
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on “Humans have caused 1.5 °C of long-term global warming according to new estimates”> 8. Don't chase happiness, be content. For those who still harbor a child-like curiosity about happiness (and have not given up on it, like a cynical adult), it would be helpful to observe the folks who have succeeded in discovering it. Here's one: http://www.actualfreedom.com.au/richard/articles/richardsres...
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on “Ask HN: Turning 40 soon – seeking personal and professional life advice”This is based on my experience. As for references, start from here: http://actualfreedom.com.au/sundry/frequentquestions/FAQ33a....
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on “My first ten-day Vipassana retreat”People rarely acknowledge that a significant portion of their identity is a result of social conditioning (or indoctrination as you bluntly put it in another comment). The act of seeking of approval, in particular, is the persistently amorphous result of a society shaping/ strengthening/ controlling the underlying instinctual passions (of fear and desire and nurture) over decades. Most people even in individualistic…
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on “The Lonely Death of George Bell”It can[1] but most people including Peterson himself do not care. He alludes to this in his book's introduction. [1] http://www.actualfreedom.com.au/sundry/floggedmisconceptions...
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on “The habit of habit engineering”You are welcome. It is part of what is known as the "actualism method" (that I am putting into practice for many years now) as described here: http://www.actualfreedom.com.au/richard/articles/thismomento... Mindfulness is actually 180 degrees opposite, as it leads to a form of (acute) emotional distancing. Having done Vipassana in the past I can also say that from experience.
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on “Yale's online class on “The Science of Well-Being””For a completely different take on happiness (24x7 happiness, not the typical affective pleasure), see: http://actualfreedom.com.au/
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on “What Makes Us Happy?”http://actualfreedom.com.au/library/topics/dissociation.htm """All the mystics advise dissociation (wherein painful reality is transformed into a bad dream) as being the most effective means to deal with all the wars and murders and rapes and tortures and domestic violence and child abuse and sadness and loneliness and grief and depression and suicides and the such-like. Just as a traumatised victim of an horrific a…
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on “A Stroke Leads A Brain Scientist To A New Spirituality”The actual method is detailed here: http://actualfreedom.com.au/richard/articles/thismomentofbei... and further description of the goal here: http://actualfreedom.com.au/richard/articles/attentivenessse...
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on “Intellectually stimulating method to become completely stress-free. Comments?”