A Stage Theory of Enlightenment - Intro + Standard Perception (1/5) 

Great video! Laid out in a calm, elaborate, and eloquent manner.

Also, these are absolutely awesome, down-to-earth, no-nonsense descriptions and I will now recommend these videos everywhere I go.

you have a great voice and presentation for these kinds of videos

perfectly laid out! can't wait for the next one and frankly for the rest of the series!

Thanks for sharing Roger! Super interesting 🙌

Very important aspects for me are story & music and i’m very interested in how experiencing them might change along with practice and how you experience them today. Are you captivated & pulled into a book, into the world of a movie? I suspect that one might retain the rapture of music, possibly more so than before, but I doubt you can be enchanted by stories with closed individualist protagonists, with their motivations, fears & preoccupations. When i watch a movie and the character starts a journey, encounters new lands, is put in difficult situations, etc i go through very subtle, particular & valuable esthetic experiences. Knowing of their fabrication greatly lessened these experiences compared to those of my childhood, but intellectually i see no reason to abandon pursuing them because they as as magic as they subjectively appear, irrespective of their context. Like John Vervaeke says, it’s the present "me" that makes the choices, starts the journey, but it’s a different "me" that gets to enjoy the consequences, in most cases this change being a consequence of the journey itself.

Thank you, Roger. This helps so much with contextualizing the different states I go through in my meditation journey. Good video quality and background, btw.

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I love the new format, although just a comment on the style is I worry you've turned down the voltage a bit too much. It can feel drab at times, even though what you're saying isn't drab at all Less true after the first third!

u have nice eyes!!