Weird, I actually bought a Gaiam branded yoga ball that came with a DVD to throw in a little yoga before I get into my real workout, weights. Maybe the company was trying to expand to the non-crazy market, but apart from stereotypical "new age" music, the DVD was a pretty ordinary workout video. There wasn't any philosophy or spiritualism.
Certain Gaia series do have some cheesy and embellished elements, however ancient civilizations and other history based shows do contain some amazing content, with very influential and intellectual hosts and speakers like Graham Hancock, David Ike, Billy Carson, Steven Greer, Gregg Braden etc. Not all of Gaia is worth watching, but some of it is extremely eye-opening and educational.
dutch translation: Grab your elbows, place your arms on the backrest, let your forehead rest on your arms, your back has to be parallel with the ground..
As a 12 year old I had a TEACHER in my school tell me that with the power of positive thinking I could cure my Cystic Fibrosis. For those that don't know, CF is a genetic disorder caused by a mutation of (most commonly) the F501 Delta gene. This mutation is present in every single cell of my body (I'm simplifying like crazy rn). This woman, an authority figure, told a CHILD that they could cure their fatal disease... by *wishing it away*. To say my mom was angry is an understatement, but obviously 30 something years later, I still remember the damage this did to me. COULD it work? Should I try it? Could it save my life? HOW could it work?! The closest I've gotten from a medical professional saying "positive thinking would help" was the clinic therapist mentioning that by centering myself, doing hobbies I enjoy, and cultivating a safe and positive environment, I was avoiding depressive episodes which helped in maintaining my medication and healthcare routines necessary to LIVE. If the placebo effect helps you, that's wonderful, but to push to *actually medically ill patients* that they do not need or can will away medical help.... it's at best disgusting, and at worst dangerously negligent.
While I don’t think that positive thinking can cure any illness I do think it can a person *feel* better but they should still go to the doctor to check you up. Remember, feeling good doesn’t prove that you aren’t sick Many many people have parasites and they feel fine. Stay safe.
I think your teacher told you the wrong thing for sure. I wonder if she really believed that you or anyone else could simply wish or pray away a genetic disease/defect? I wonder how you are doing and I sure hope your CF symptoms are not getting the best of you! Godspeed ❤
Based on their new age, dualistic or idealistic beliefs: skeptical people are caught in a behavioral pattern of neglect & harm towards themselves. Cribbing off of Buddhism and related belief systems like the thieves they are, they position themselves as honorable and trustworthy guides when they actually perpetuate the suffering and attachment they claim to fight against.
I know we're just joking here... but there won't be one, because they wouldn't have anything to say (or at least anything of substance). The usual response of grifters and pseudo-gurus is to just pretend the critics don't exist, and hope their followers don't notice it either.
@@dakrontu yeah god, there are so many math/science historical figures that were so on the ball but just had no way of moving much past theory and hand calculations. And yet they're still legends. When I grow up I wanna be like them lol
The most unbelievable thing about this Gaia thing is that they have messed up the basics of Yoga, i.e it comes from India and has its origins in Hinduism instead of Buddhism, a difference of almost a millennia.
Just as a correction because this is a common incorrect myth that is spread, but yoga predates Hinduism. In fact, yoga predates all religions and did not come from any of them. For some reason the followers of Hinduism love to lie about this fact, probably because Hinduism was a religion started around the culture of yoga. To make it clear I have no problem with Hinduism or anyone who believes it, however yoga is not a religion and never has been and it is extremely harmful for people to claim that it is.
@@Jesse-ge4lv "Religion" is a western term, and if I recall correctly the Hindu term for Hinduism translates to Eternal Tradition, and since Yoga is a tradition that Hindu people practiced, it is a part of Hinduism.
@@Rabavilas Well that's the problem innit? It doesn't sound stupid, it is stupid, and it isn't in a game, it's a real thing, that real people buy into. Which is kinda what Stellvia was saying.
I feel embarrassed to admit it, but I was subscribed to Gaia a little while ago and canceled my subscription after watching a video like this one. I'm not prepared to explain why their content appealed to me, just that I was at a very vulnerable time in my life and was feeling susceptible to all kinds of strange and alternative ideas (QAnon, New World Order bs, and the like). I just want to say I really appreciate an expose like this that brings the content a much-needed dosage of reality. Videos like these save people. Thank you
Cults, stuff like Gaia, MLMs, hardcore propaganda, etc. all are tailored to the vulnerable because they’re more easily manipulated. Unfortunately, there’s a huge number of vulnerable people in society ready to latch onto the first answer they see that even somewhat resonates with their own projections
Don’t be embarrassed, It is a lot more impressive to pull yourself away from those beliefs Gaia and most religious, cultish and spiritual content are designed to target people in a vulnerable state. Just think about religious people you know, most I know either grew up believing or had troubles and found god
I just woke up...suddenwise, was thinking of the term "fan-fiction". Doris Ione Smith comes thru again! When she comes thru...you better listen....i better listen too!
Jesus fucking christ...gaia.... Metaphysics fan-fiction and Biblical fan-fiction. I cant tell the difference sometimes. hey NordicWolf7. If someone dosent know the true story, lets just make up a fake story to fill in the gaps. Doris calls it the "Hollywood Syndrome". Fukin A....you crossed the eithers dude. This must have been and important question for U?
that guy was definitely the worst of everything he showed. I found a lot of it interesting though. I think 'Ordinary' guy is pretty closed minded and cynical. I think he could have done with learning yoga earlier in his development. His posture is atrocious, the scenes showing him trying to do yoga were nauseating for me. Poor guy
"...starting with our chairman and founder, who was a math prodigy at a very young age. So he was thinking in algorithms long before that was even a word." I'm done.
The term "algorithm" was first used in its current sense in 1817 (or earlier), I found a Monthly Review from 1817 that uses the term. If you include older meanings of the term it goes back even further!
@@bane2201 I can't decide whether they're implying that their leader is hundreds of years old, or they hope the viewer is ignorant enough to believe that this term only came to be a few decades ago.
The best book I’ve ever read on chemotherapy is called The Great Secret, and it tells the story of how a horrible but classified disaster in Italy in WWII involving chemical weapons gave rise to the discovery that leukemia *could* actually be treated. It does a really good job of conveying the sort of heady wonder and joy in the medical field as chemotherapy actually began to make significant inroads in giving extra years to, and eventually curing, people who would have died very quickly.
Yeah, chemotherapy is a brutal treatment that works because cancer cells are far more aggressive about growth than all but a few healthy cells. What a lot of people don't realize is that killing cancer cells is easy, the challenge is doing it in a way that doesn't kill healthy cells too.
A few extra years sometimes ain’t worth the pain though. I’ve seen a lot of people go thru it. Only a few were “cured” and it was never for longer than 5 years.
@@realleon2328 I love cooking shows. As someone with (some mental illness that makes it impossible to focus) they really hold my attention and aren't too stressful or complicated
Fucking hell, that must have been rough. Im psychotic too and I know this would fuck me over badly if I’m the wrong spot, hope you’re still doing good 11 months on.
"Reality is weird enough on its own you don't need to start writing fan fiction about it" That might be the funniest thing I have ever heard in my life thank you
Oh wow, I love that. My personal outlook is that a lot of spirituality is the art and culture of humans in practice, not a science. It's the idea that they decided to take observations and tell stories of expression and creativity about them. And it's all well and good until its taught as fact without proof and used to harm people.
Small anecdote I remember going to pick up some food in a place i was not to familiar with, while i was waiting for the food outside, i started to read products from a clearly snake oil store next to the food place,i saw some silly ones like sexual enhancers with very explicit wording that gave me a good chuckle. That is until i saw that they also were selling, and i quote:”tumor remover”. Absolutely vile people.
Did you research it before condemning it. There is a natural cure for tumors called Blushwood Berry. Go ahead and be closed minded, maybe chemo will work for you. It rarely does, but it's very dramatic and traumatic. All the world is a stage.
They do that for anything that appears to discuss climate change and/or climate change denial, even if it denies or mocks the denial. Even if it's entirely factual and scientific and still doesn't fit the popular narrative (let's face it, especially so).
You should be aware that that occurrence has nothing to do with how dangerous Gaia is or is not. Those cards appear on any video that directly references certain topics such as climate change or vaccines
Mate, I've been following you for some time now and I gotta say, you've made some of the best, most consistent content I've seen on the Internet. Please keep going
@@OrdinaryThings Today is Mainstream science much more Dangerous then Gaia! And how much reliable where the Clima Prediction in the past? And Mainstream science is often Influenced by politics and Billionares!
@@SergyMilitaryRankings Found the ret4rd who really thinks NASA sht is legit. I am not subscribed to either Nasa nor Gaia while for some reason you think one of the two is more credible while they probably are both scamming you
like 90% of “new age spirituality” is just watered down hinduism/buddhism lol. like there’s nothing wrong with questioning the fundamentals of your reality and looking inwards to escape suffering but don’t get ur info from a cult lol, read the vedas or something.
All religions work like cults. The problem, as you said, isn't in questioning the fundamentals of your reality. The problem is imposing an answer on other people without evidence.
@@ekki1993 religions that are prone to being cults are mostly Protestant Christianity, those who claim they’re Jesus or claim theyre the direct descendant of Jesus so you must give him your money for a jet lol
@@mjolninja9358 Sure Judeo-Christian ones are similar to the stereotypical cult, but any religion is, by design, cult-like in their problematic aspects. They tell you an answer to a question that can't be proven either way and impose their worldview on what's good and what's bad. I'm not saying that's inherently bad, but treating "cults" as a separate phenomenon when they are in fact just small religions is a completely unproductive way to understand their issues.
@@ThatGuy-kz3fx Never compared both religions. Just namedropped Judeo-Christianity to make it clear I wasn't talking only from knowing about that. You do however seem to like to compare your preferred religious framework and imply that it's better than Christianity and that atheists need it to not be miserable. Again, back to the cult behaviour, trying to sell your personal response of the big problems of life to everyone else.
About 20 years ago I was into esoterics and new age... I liked the various teas, esoteric music, I liked the Eastern philosopies, I was somewhat practicing zen and meditations... I got a bunch of scented sticks ... but if somebody wanted to pull me into a cult they would have to face my other side: my curiosity and fact checking. When I smell rat I go deeper until I figure out. And that is pretty much how I left this delusion about spirituality, cosmos and stuff. Learning about drugs, psychology, physical limits and how things actually work in the real world... I soon figured out what was what. But that zen still stuck with me. Be present in a moment and appreciate what you have. Life has no purpose, it has a meaning you give to it. Letting go is probably the hardest thing to do when we want to cling to things. And when you finish eating, clean the bowl.
Sounds like you arrived at a feeling of psuedo intelligence because you got tricked by some videos before. There are aspects to ancient wisom that go way deeper than your dish metaphor. Your just an arrogant kid tbh
@@jean-francoisaubryno you can't have any habitual habits.😂 Not even eating or breathing if you want to reach the rainbow body. 😂 So no washing that dish.
Im from India and the "samadhi" they're talking about actually means "tomb" or "grave" in south indian language called Tamil. It does have some significance as it is a word still in use today
@@nigelnix1 notice how it's always famous people - or, at the very least, people in touch with the famous people and who've led fascinating lives? No-one's "like, "yeah, I was a peasant... then another peasant... then a more successful peasant which means I sold other people my home-brew... oh, look! A peasant again..." :-D
I think it would need to go even further back because in ancient Egypt they still had rituals, and rituals are "scripted" (they follow a pattern/algorith) so technically they already had a way to convey the idea of an algorithm. lol
Years ago I used to watch the Gaia series Cosmic Disclosure back in the day because I found it entertaining. Then came back last year to rewatch the series and they swapped out the host for someone else and changed the lore. I was so blown because the originals were 10/10 hype. It's a conspiracy man, they should cosmically disclose that OG content!
You should watch the deposition of Corey Goode (one of the main cosmic disclosure guys) he had to admit flat out that he made everything up and never went to the moon (one of the big claims was he worked at a secret base on the moon for years) the crazy part is after the deposition leaked he just pretended it never happened and continued the grift.
@@elvingearmasterirma7241 Goblin brain gets what goblin brain wants. And if I'm out on the beach looking for pretty rocks and old fossils, I'm not there to assign spiritual meaning to them, I just think they look cool and it's wild to think some of them could potentially be 10s of millions of years old. Rocks are cool enough without woo woo science added on.
@@theredgoblin562 Because psychedelics definitely aren't hazardous in any way, shape, or form, they don't often affect a wide variety of people in an even wider variety of ways, can't permanently alter brain chemistry, aren't abused by a shitload of people who just want to trip balls, and there's definitely not a metric ton of pseudo-spiritual horseshit already attached to the psychedelic movement that's just ripe and waiting to be manipulated by the right grifter. _Totally._ Look, bro, I like tripping balls on shrooms as much as the next guy, LSD too, but pretending that a powerful brain trip is the same as receiving legitimate medical care isn't just _personally stupid,_ it's hazardous info to spread to all the other gullible people out there. Yes, there is a decent amount of data to support the idea that psychedelics _might_ prove beneficial in the treatment of _certain_ mental illnesses, but: (1) *Definitely* not all mental illnesses. (2) Those studies still need to be researched further, preferably by more than one institution/group, that way a group with an agenda (either for _or_ against) doesn't just coincidentally reach a result that they clearly wanted to from the start. (3) Drug culture _pretending_ that psychedelics are a magical cure-all is a downright dangerous lie to spread. (4) Even if they do prove to be beneficial, it would be when prescribed _alongside_ proper psyche therapy and professional medical supervision.
I like how they leave out the fact that the point of placebo controlled trials is to make sure anything that becomes a pharmaceutical product is significantly more effective than a placebo.
Also they exclude recoveries due to other factors. Some conditions go into remission based on time (either due to the normal healing process or conditions that emerge and subside over time) or environmental changes (I.E. "I moved to somewhere with different humidity and my skin cleared up). This means that the "power of placebo" is smaller than it looks as both groups have random recoveries that have nothing to do with the trial. Source: BA in Psychology, so I learned a decent amount about clinical trials and some bleed over medical knowledge when things like psychiatric drugs came up.
I sincerely believe that the worst thing about Gaia is that it turns a lot of genuinely profound questions and insights into a clown show, so that even if some of it was worth considering most people will be driven hard in the other direction. Towards pure scientific materialism. Which sucks because I really believe we are spiritual being having a human experience. Love your content and love taking the piss out of myself too, so take everything with a pinch of salt. Love and light as the cliche goes x
That's a good assessment of Gaia. I get the feeling if Gaia was non-profit with the sole purpose of helping people, the teachings would be a lot more pure instead of endless watered down content for $$$.
Exactly there's nothing objective or scientific about it, and takes away people actually thinking for themselves and considering spirituality that can be consistent with scientific progress
I feel exactly the same way. I think the mind over matter, placebo effect and the theory of civilisations older than Sumeria are fascinating topics that the mainstream does not take seriously enough but the Gaia programs are just a piss take which reinforce the mainstream dismissal
I knew a women, called Mona, that believed in that shit and then died of breast cancer. Some esotherics like Gaia got her money and were happy. Evil little bastards! I really wish they would all die.
Reminds me of the best advice I ever received from my grandmother. She always told me, "lil one. No matter what happens to you in this world, you'll be ok, aslong as you don't ever go into a giant ass maze built by a sketchy cult. There are literally many fables, myths, stories and legends that all confirm it. Don't go into a fuckin maze created by a bunch of crazy people who worship some wierd stuff" I always thought that was weirdly specific advice. But it's been surprisingly useful.
You forgot Cosmic Disclosure with David Wilcock. The episodes with Corey Goode talking about the Secret Space Program and Blue Avian aliens are so outlandish that it’s actually quite entertaining.
Crystals, in general, are pretty cool. I'm a particular fan of iron with a cubic crystal structure. No need to make up silly 'healing' aspects to crystals, they're neat enough on their own.
PHOSPHORS. Phosphors are the coolest effing property crystals can ever have, they store energy and then slowly release it over time as light, anyone who says glow-in-the-dark stuff isn't awesome has no inner child left in their cold withered heart.
crystals are just a representation of the different minerals the earth holds and how these minerals can benefit us. white women and astrologists turned it into some woowoo magic man shit. just like chakras are the main vertebrae’s in your spine. your spine has neurons that communicate to different parts of your brain. its not magic just science and biology
Love this guy. He's so cynical yet not in the "wow everything sucks we're on a floating rock people bad" kinda way. His videos are campy and fun while also being real
I am also annoyed by the anti-human schtick. Also, annoyed none of the perpetrators have made any effort to remove themselves from being part of the problem.
I 'thought' some very serious stomach issues away. Maybe not the best first course of action but if medical intervention isnt working you can impress your body into a state of health with continuous reinforcement
Person: has cancer Hospital: use chemo-therapy Person: Dies precisely from the chemo Hospital: Oh it didn't work you're also dead. I do think Gaia is a scam. However, I would blame capitalism for the repression of natural cures and other modalities of treatment
Samadhi ain't an "ancient Sanskrit word without modern meaning". I'm a Sri Lankan Buddhist and we learn it as just higher consciousness or concentration. And it ain't Sanskrit. The original meaning of "Samadhi" in Buddhism comes from Pali. Later it was translated to Sanskrit by the Mahayana sect. The pronunciation is the same but it is widely believed that the translation caused a loss of meaning. The point is at least these people could have got their info right and said Pali. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I love language, and have an interest in Sanskrit, so it's always nice when I find one of the few people who still know it. I've always seen people use the word as some sort of vague buzzword that doesn't mean anything, and so I'm not really surprised that a litany of translations has eroded the original meaning.
Thank you for exposing this. I mean, I saw the red flags from the trailers, obviously, but it's always nice when someone willing to invest in uncovering does a debunk. What's really sad is what it has done to Eastern traditions. All this rubbish about energy waves and, well, you know. the galaxy brain garbage--it undermines the centuries-old wisdom of Eastern traditions. For those about to leap on me 'What wisdom...?' I'm not talking cancer denying, medicine-denying dangerous stuff, I'm talking about really helpful ways of dealing with mental health, of finding community. People/things like Gaia take our past, our history, and our traditions and scrape it through the dirt. They should be ashamed of themselves.
Places like Gaia are hell holes. People go there with a belief and enter an echo chamber. Constantly being told they’re right until they don’t believe in anything that is factually correct.
Ya that struck a cord for me, a good finger on the pulse nail on the head unpacking... I was always looking for that short to the point conclusion trying to argue common sense to new age, satanist, nihilist ect bs saying freewill doesn't exist, a tree falling doesn't make a sound. calling it for what it is, @utism, just gets replies removed...
Umh actually you are wrong... Gaia is really heplful... I had a hole in my wallet, and now, thanks to Gaia I have two, so it has a new friend! Checkmate!
Almost every ad I get on YT is Gaia, those guys REALLY want me on board. My favourite is the one where guy says: "the fetus, it is not human" with a heavy euro accent.
7:57 - As someone who has written way too many papers on Plato in college, that scene made me laugh because I feel it was half a sentence... I feel the second part of the sentence was supposed to say something such as, "The only way out of the cave... is with a subscription to Gaia starting at..." in a soothing voice. I truly think something like that was in the original script.
Hey! Plenty of us who have bongs in our laps are completely normal, salt-of-the-earth people. I laugh at pseudoscience just like you do... except for the lizard person/hollow earth stuff, that is real af bro.
Yoga just teaches you to have a good diet, excercise regularly, read and learn regularly and meditate (contemplate deeply) on what you have learnt. Plain and simple. Good way to live a life.
There is nothing that could make me believe that the Universe gives a shit about me anymore or make me think that my life or anyone’s life is so incredibly important or have some divine purpose is so completely absurd and ridiculous to me on every conceivable level imaginable!
It makes you wanna take a double take on your fellow yogi friend, and try to knock them back to their senses before they start saying the election was stolen.
I hate when people use the word energy signals because LITERALLY EVERYTHING in the universe is energy scientifically speaking. So if you're not being specific about what you mean by energy [chemical, physical, electromagnetic...] it means nothing
So, one of my favourite Gaia contributors (both ironically and unironically) is Reuben Langdon. Reuben is most well known as voicing and performing as Dante from the Devil May Cry series, beginning his career in entertainment as a stunt man for Japan's original Power Rangers/Super Sentai, before getting into mocap and voice acting. Eventually he worked on James Cameron's Avatar, which was a long "shoot" with lots of downtime that he spent on early RU-vid, looking at conspiracy and UFO videos. He and part of the rest of the crew sighted a fleet of UFOs flying over the studio and thereafter he took the red pill. Following that he started engaging with the theory that UFOs are a psychic phenomenon that you can summon, got into the Wim Hoff yogic breathing method, and did a RU-vid series called "Interviews With E.T" were he interview channelled aliens (which is legitimately fascinating on an anthropological level). Gaia bought that series (more recently renamed "Interviews With E.D") and he now seems to do some sort of partial exclusive series of it with them. He's BIG into UFOs and aliens with a spiritual, vibrational angle, talking about raising global consciousness and all that new agey tilted stuff. But in the last 2 years he's also gotten into Q Anon, believe in the scamdemic, and god knows what else since I last checked in on him. Thankfully he's a legitimately lovely person, though I can't help but worry that will change with who he rubs shoulders with these days.
ouhhh god. my mom subscribes to this shit. you’re not totally wrong about gaia being a cult, like idk when she subscribed exactly but if she’s been into it for a few years? that would explain… a lot. my mom was pretty normal until like 2014 or so? when she became interested in ghost photography and taking pictures of orbs. silly but harmless. that led her into new age spirituality though, and she started buying crystals and essential oils. it was annoying but it’s not like she was hurting anyone, right? it escalated slowly and i don’t think it actually started becoming like, a problem, until about 3 years ago. the purchases of rocks and crystals and stuff got more and more excessive. she started going to psychic conventions. she got really into gaia and the type of content described in this video, and she started talking about pseudoscience and energy healing bs. (i’ll explain why that in particular is really bad later.) after going to all these psychic conventions, i guess my mom was inspired to start her own scam- i mean spiritual advisory business. she took a bunch of online “certification” courses to become a “professional” tarot card reader and reiki healer. it would be a good side hustle i guess, except my mom is also a trauma surgical nurse who works at an ER. a real actual medical professional somehow has been completely brain-rotted by this shit. i am ashamed to admit that she probably makes more as a psychic than she does at the ER. she only needs to work part time as a nurse now, because she charges $90 an hour for tarot card readings and so many people actually buy it. my mom doesn’t want to just rent an office so instead she has customers come over to the house for readings every day. our home address is registered on google maps as a psychic business. it’s embarrassing when i have to explain what my mom does for a living. i would respect it more if she would just admit its a fucking grift!! but she genuinely thinks she’s a psychic and is helping these people, who are often dealing with a lot of stressful situations. i eavesdrop sometimes and a lot of my mom’s “readings” are basically unlicensed therapy and romantic/financial advice that she is wildly unqualified to give. it worries me that there is a nurse working on real emergency life-saving surgeries, who also believes she can heal people with her magic reiki massage hands. don’t get me wrong, i don’t have a problem with tarot cards or people who really do believe in spirituality/occult stuff! if it works for you i don’t see anything wrong with it, it’s no different from any other religious practice, as long as you’re not profiting from it or using it to take advantage of people. but my mom and content producers like gaia do exactly that, and it’s really scummy and i hate it.
A lot of people have no idea how much they open themselves up to evil influence with this stuff. That is why it get's worse over time. You get deeper and deeper into evil stuff. It does not read like you are religious yourself. But it could help a lot if you would pray for your mom. Go light a candle for her in Church, and pray for mercy! She has no chance to get out of this alone. And even if you don't believe at all, I think you can objectively see that this spiritual environment is not doing her any good. Get her out of there... All th best to you and your family!
@@oceanside88 Feeling better doesn't equate getting better. Cheap shots of serotonin can be just as harmful as getting no help, because you aren't looking for help as you think you already have it. No unliscenced agent should be giving therapy. Therapy requires a specific method and years of training to do effectively, you can't just give it out under the guise of tarrot readings.
My mum is into this stuff. Every time she shows me some of this, i see like 90 red flags, i call them out, she gets pissed and goes back to listening. Help
Ok I'm going to get a bit psychological here but it might be that she really WANTS to believe in those theories to fills some kind of hole in her life. When someone truely wants to believe in something they stop being critical and only look for confirmation. Showing facts that prove otherwise is not going to change someones believe. So find out why someone has a need to believe in those things in the first place. If you work on that someone might actually lose interests in finding hope/excitement/security in conspiracy theories.
My parents are borderline QAnons. They aren't into the particular weird shit, but they are in the "all government officials and companies are controlled by a cabal out to destroy the common people." I ask them why and it's either A) liberals want to destroy all straight white people and replace them with queer, trans, POC, all across the board or B) biblical mumbo jumbo. I am equally as terrified for my parents as you are yours! 😪
You were slightly talking about cancer towards the end of your video and I guess RU-vid thought you were a spokesmen for it.. I have never seen so many cancer/cancer help ads in a RU-vid video before.. I hope everyone is okay
Meditation if done properly can be good for your mind and can help u control it easier in ways like improving your patients, positive outlook on the world, and help u to calm your emotions.
Yeah. A lot of spiritual teaching is actually based in proper philosophy of mind and body, just a shame the west has ruined it entirely by injecting their bullshit conspiracies into it. Meditation and studying the masters, or doing psychedelics and figuring it out yourself is the way to go. Not paying a fee every month to watch kooky videos on your phone.
@@TheRealFallingFist ya, actual spiritualism has nothing to do with spirits and forces, it’s all just so uneducated people can understand the concepts there trying to convey and end up taking them way to seriously or just use the story’s to manipulate people.
@@TheRealFallingFist as long as you can think for your self the internet is a great way to learn about how the world actually works, everything I’ve learned over the years is in one way or another form the internet, but I’m able to sort through bull shit and am take different part of ideology that I find advantage and make sense when applied to reality, and then apply them to my own philosophy’s, sometimes I can dull my emotions with drugs and think over an ideas or philosophical problems for hours and try and come over what It at as many different angles as possible and eventually sometime I’ll get to a Eureka moment and come to a conclusion. But Then I’ll find out someone in history had already explored the same ideas I have in the past. I’ve just always been hyper critical of my own thoughts for a long time and question and challenge everything I know and think. And after doing that for years it makes it really easy to know when someone is talking out of there ass or not and if there using manipulation tactics or not. I can also learn about ideas that I don’t agree with but I can find points within the idea that do make sense and could be applied to real life.
@@theangrydweller1002 I've had the exact same experience. The key for me is to never lock in on an opinion or definitive world view. If you're always open to having your beliefs and thoughts contested, and critical enough to sort through the bullshit, you can indeed get quite the expansive understanding of reality, society, psychology and spirituality.
@@TheRealFallingFist ya it’s the same with me my entire life even as a kid I was pretty existential and but I think i was about four or five when I started asking my parents how the universe started and my Mom pulled out some Jesus kids books and my dad showed me a documentary on the Big Bang, I was a little disappointed do find out how little humans actually know but the Big Bang made a lot more sense to me even as a kid. I I would flip flop from time to time and try out believing in god and science at the same time but the last time was when I was 14 and hadn’t believed in god for a wile but I went to a Christmas summer camp and there I tried out believing in that stuff one last time but it just showed me that the entire belief system and the way they teach it is completely built through manipulation tactics and positive reinforcement using the placebo effect. And over time I’ve realized that science can be wrong at times and can also be completely inaccurate and dangerous if not enough critical thinking is used and if any unproven facts are assumed wile trying to come to a conclusion. Also I’m guessing your the same but the cool thing about not conforming to any pre determined ways of seeing reality is that u realize how little we actually know and we will never know everything but excepting that and just trying to focus on getting a clearer idea over your life span can be extremely advantageous in the long run.
...okay, but WHAT about the fact that "you discovered this guy thanks to Internet Historian"? It's just the "feels good man" thing? Or does that make you glad, because now you have a cool creator with an interesting backlog of videos to watch? Y'all care to finish the sentence?
My gf encouraged me to go to a Joe Dispenza meditation retreat. The only thing that I meditated away, was my money. If there was any doubt before, I can without a doubt say now that I’m not into cults.
'Thermonuclear Protection' was Oakley's tag line in the 90's for its sunglasses. The older you get, the more you see shit like this get recycled but only the catchy coolness, and none of the factual cleverness.
“Organized skepticism is a two edged sword. It allows us to question orthodoxy as well as unorthodoxy… The scientist who claims to be a true skeptic, a zetetic, is willing to investigate empirically the claims of the American Medical Association as well as those of the faith - healer; and more important, he should be willing to compare the empirical results of both before defending one and condemning the other”- Marcello Truzzi Ph. D. The Zetetic Scholar, Nos. 12-13 (1987)
