I've come to understand that it's simply a matter of calling everything by its name. Because if our definitions of what's good and what's evil are vague and imprecise, how can we expect disaster not to strike when our spiritual energy is so pumped up that even the smallest thought has enormous...

Thank you HP and VT

THC in the quantities found in marijuana. I'll specify this, otherwise you'll be revisiting the THC in breast milk argument and similar ones, always from the same sources, of course.

Other than that, you're just bringing politics into it.

THC is extremely harmful to the "mind" in general. That's all there is to it. You can't meditate while under its influence because it simply inhibits your ability to concentrate, and meditation, at its core, is nothing more than sustained concentration.

Marijuana makes you feel very apathetic; it makes the world seem gray when you're not under its influence. But I assure you that power meditations have an antidepressant effect that can help you quit.

It's an oxymoron.

Thank you. I didn't know. Very interesting.

I don’t know if there is any definitive evidence that the ancient Greek philosophers meditated, but the conclusions they reached are the same as those one might reach through meditation. Perhaps the fire has not been preserved, but there is plenty of ash to suggest that it once burned.

I'm not quite sure what your goal is. Sorry. It depends on the type of change, of course.

I believe one of my biggest mistakes was abandoning myself to fate and believing that my will has no influence or consequences on reality. Studying some classic texts on astrology and planetary magic (I recommend Al Kindi's De Radiis), I realized that this has never been the mindset of...

Greetings. What is Ruan? I can't find it on search engines.

Something like this

Hi, this is the method I've always used for the pendulum. And I always rest my elbow on a table.

I've collected a truly remarkable number of these mistakes. Some of them reinforce each other.