Originally Posted by juroara
spiritually speaking, the idea is to align yourself with what is good for your being. not because aligning yourself will suddenly make you a guru, but because living out of alignment makes spiritual practice, like meditation difficult. not impossible. just harder.
on one side you can argue westerners are always in a rush, expecting immediate results. the hippies cheated and took drugs. the result was most of them never really obtained true balance, became really unbalanced people, and made the whole being spiritual thing look foolish. so I can see how binaural beats can be the new soma. but on the other level you can argue that spiritually speaking, our time is speeding up. the evolution of our minds is speeding up, and there is more urgency to keep up with time. we have to achieve certain things within a much shorter time frame
these tools should be used to help you get over a barrier thats slowing down your progress. maybe the surface thoughts are preventing deep meditation, or stress, or depression, who knows. but like training wheels on a bicycle, you shouldn't become completely dependent on these things to achieve alter states of consciousness. if you can never achieve these things on your own, you haven't learned much.
these tools can also be inspiring. helping westerners indoctrinated into a material world view, understand the mystical. maybe experiencing deep meditation, or a lucid dream for the first time is enough to create a placebo affect making the next time that much easier. and any research into the brain is good research. we might find that these sort of devices work better to heal clinical depression then drugs, and with more positive side effects than negative.
Very good points juroara,
I agree that patience and perseverance are definitely the purest way to attain any type of result, even if in the end, it is not really the result that matters. I certainly do not agree with cheating in general, much less when it comes to important life lessons and ways of enlightenment. However, what motivated me to bring this out here, is the fact that technology seems to slowly shifting towards a more Eastern-like mentality. We have long advised the use of drugs and many other external stimuli to aid people in their quest for inner peace, and even though this is also a materialistic way of discovering the wonders of meditation and biofeedback, perhaps these tools may eventually help people realize that they can willingly alter their consciousness all on their own.
And thank you ChaybaChayba for the information,
I did not mean to advertise or promote the website in any way, it is just a very good example of how these new technologies are hitting the market for the general population.
All in all, I just think of the future, and can't help to wonder if perhaps we may, someday, work mind to mind with technology. It seems that, though it may be different, even animals who seem to be the lowest on the materialism chain, also need the aid of external stimuli to survive and thrive. Sure, all they need is natural, but we as humans, created this technology that sprouted from the earth as well. I mean, everything that is here, really comes from here, someway, somehow, right? May it be good or not, we are but complicated animals who added more factors to our survival, yet the principles stay the same. What I'm saying is, perhaps as we evolve, we may adopt the new technologies that will come to be, and become one with it, to eventually reach a newer type of enlightenment. That is but speculation though... I personally would rather go back to live in the mountains, since I already do that anyway, but who knows what we will become.
That is all, thanks for the comments guys.
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