adyashakti

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by adyashakti 3y ago
stupid. it would feel stupid.
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by adyashakti 3y ago
what could possibly go wrong?
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by adyashakti 3y ago
i have personally known four, and heard of others. probably HN people would not accept them out of atheistic/materialistic bias, so IMO it's not worth saying more.
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by adyashakti 3y ago
this is atheistic modernist tunnel vision at its worst. ancient sages revealed all this and more about the states of consciousness thousands of years ago in the Upaniṣads.
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by adyashakti 3y ago
mettā is a powerful practice. if you want to feel happy, do a bit of mettā. if you want mind-melting ecstasy, do a lot.
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by adyashakti 3y ago
this is old news. we were doing experiments with plants and music back in the 1960s. but nobody liked our results because we found that modern styles are toxic, and ancient vedic sacred chants are the most nourishing sound vibrations.
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Ask HN: Anyone know how to contact Frederico Faggin?
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by adyashakti 3y ago
western astrology is broken, unreliable and overly complex. because it is based on erroneous assumptions due to early mistranslations from Sanskrit into Greek and Latin, it has required so many patches it's worse than useless. Vedic as
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by adyashakti 3y ago
fully accepted it years ago. my first wife back in the 1960s was half Native American, and she introduced me to some tribal shamans. they told me back then what was going to happen; so far it has transpired exactly according to their predi
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by adyashakti 3y ago
because being rich isn’t very smart. the things one has to do to become rich compromise one’s integrity to the point where one loses one’s intelligence. vide the finance ‘industry’ for example. or any billionaire.
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by adyashakti 3y ago
of course animals are conscious. it would be more accurate to say that consciousness appears in animals, since consciousness is a priori to the body. but consciousness is not an observable; only its symptoms are observed, except by the cons
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by adyashakti 3y ago
christian evangelists propagandise meat-eating in historically vegetarian countries like india. in fact they sponsor large feasts featuring meat dishes, invest in slaughterhouses etc.
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by adyashakti 3y ago
i took an entry-level programming job as a way to earn money between trips to india. after documenting a test suite i worked on, my boss noticed i could write well. he gave me a good recommendation and i was able to fund my travel and study
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by adyashakti 3y ago
i was there. as a young aspiring jazz artist attending conservatory near NYC, i took jazz lessons with Eric Dolphy and others close to Miles. Met him a couple of times at his gigs. i grew up about a mile from the legendary Van Gelder studio
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by adyashakti 3y ago
ask questions about emotions
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by adyashakti 3y ago
if i did, would i post about it here?
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by adyashakti 3y ago
should read: “data dredged up by cherry-picking old surveys can be twisted to support our pet grant-hunting theory”
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by adyashakti 3y ago
there are many stories from india about spiritual and religious behavior of elephants, especially the elephants trained for and used in temple processions. i have observed spiritual behaviours in many animals including cows, cats and other
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by adyashakti 3y ago
nope; consciousness is Absolute this was determined thousands of years ago no amount of atheistic fantasies will change it
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by adyashakti 3y ago
i have: https://gnow.ly
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by adyashakti 3y ago
free ios app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aiko/id1672085276
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by adyashakti 3y ago
hahaha only life is conscious you don’t have the power to even simulate consciousness, because it is the absolute, Brahman.
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by adyashakti 4y ago
I happen to have a high IQ, and people are definitely intimidated by anyone with a large vocabulary and encyclopaedic knowledge of and skill in various professional fields. It’s a social curse that intelligent people live with every day. Ju
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by adyashakti 4y ago
Sort of. I use GPT-4 through Cody.ai to handle queries against a large knowledge base on my site Gnow.ly
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by adyashakti 4y ago
Contemporary understanding and discussion of “what consciousness is” has been so influenced and warped by mechanistic reductionist scientism that it no longer has a viable workable model of consciousness. Every living, actually conscious en
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by adyashakti 4y ago
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned IAST: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Alphabet_of_Sans...
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by adyashakti 4y ago
Ditto
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by adyashakti 4y ago
The nature of Consciousness is the key to solving all other problems, especially social issues like war and poverty. Actually consciousness was properly understood long ago in Vaidik culture as the Absolute. Thus the modern view of consciou
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by adyashakti 4y ago
Naval turboencabulator
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by adyashakti 4y ago
Well, gol-dang it to heck…

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