In all honesty, I don't remember enough about Schopenhauer to say to what extent I think he's like Eeeyore. That wasn't a comparison that sprang to my mind back when I actually read him, because I didn't read A.A. Milne's books until long after that.
" Of course there's also the concern that I'll find myself feeling similarly in the next job I take...which would be a recurring theme."
Hopefully by now you have enough insight into the causes of your emotional states to prevent that from happening. If you 'find yourself' feeling similarly, it'll be because you didn't pay attention to the process of little-by-little talking yourself into feeling that way.
It seems as though none of the jobs you held in the past were worth your engagement. You weren't learning anything useful or interesting, nor did you have any opportunity for advancement; most of the things you did, a robot could have done as well. Not to swell your head, young Jedi, but you are capable of so much more. Obviously you're never going to be content in a dead-end no-brainer job, regardless of how comfortably it pays the bills.
Yes, I've experienced ecstatic states during meditation - both that 'about to break through' sensation, and the sensation of having broken through; trying hard to hold on to it and bring something back to 'ordinary reality'. There are a lot of ways to induce a lot of different varieties of trance-states, and they all boil down to 'interesting things one can do with one's brain'.
There is in truth no 'veil' one can breach. The veil is an illusion - one can see it/not see it/see it/not see it indefinitely, like that optical illusion of a duck one way, a rabbit the other.
Astral travel: I got quite good at it in my high school and college days, and genuinely believed I was leaving my body. However, in the course of my Initiatory training, I put it to the test, to try and determine if the information I brought back from 'traveling' was accurate. It wasn't. After a lot of experimentation, I hypothesized that so-called 'astral travel' is actually a trance-induction to activate the brain's lucid-dreaming program while one is not technically asleep. I'd love to see a brain-scan study test this hypothesis properly.
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Date: 2016-03-01 09:09 pm (UTC)" Of course there's also the concern that I'll find myself feeling similarly in the next job I take...which would be a recurring theme."
Hopefully by now you have enough insight into the causes of your emotional states to prevent that from happening. If you 'find yourself' feeling similarly, it'll be because you didn't pay attention to the process of little-by-little talking yourself into feeling that way.
It seems as though none of the jobs you held in the past were worth your engagement. You weren't learning anything useful or interesting, nor did you have any opportunity for advancement; most of the things you did, a robot could have done as well. Not to swell your head, young Jedi, but you are capable of so much more. Obviously you're never going to be content in a dead-end no-brainer job, regardless of how comfortably it pays the bills.
Yes, I've experienced ecstatic states during meditation - both that 'about to break through' sensation, and the sensation of having broken through; trying hard to hold on to it and bring something back to 'ordinary reality'. There are a lot of ways to induce a lot of different varieties of trance-states, and they all boil down to 'interesting things one can do with one's brain'.
There is in truth no 'veil' one can breach. The veil is an illusion - one can see it/not see it/see it/not see it indefinitely, like that optical illusion of a duck one way, a rabbit the other.
Astral travel: I got quite good at it in my high school and college days, and genuinely believed I was leaving my body. However, in the course of my Initiatory training, I put it to the test, to try and determine if the information I brought back from 'traveling' was accurate. It wasn't. After a lot of experimentation, I hypothesized that so-called 'astral travel' is actually a trance-induction to activate the brain's lucid-dreaming program while one is not technically asleep. I'd love to see a brain-scan study test this hypothesis properly.