#mind #humans #metaphysical # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought #to-digest # Related - [[Louis/High without drugs]] - [[Philosophy/Psychology/Escapism]] - [[Philosophy/Mind/Subjective experience]] - [[Philosophy/Rationality/Meditation]] - [[Philosophy/Asceticism]] - [[Philosophy/Humans/Modern struggle]] # TODO > [!TODO] TODO > [[Freedom]] relationship to Flow # Flow it's like sitting next to a car track when suddenly someone from a car grab you by the neck suddenly you are copilot feeling the momentum increasing as you push the pilot and take his seat you become - truly alive >If a human life is devoted to something, one tends to lose oneself in it. As one loses oneself in it, the more blissful one becomes. >~ [[Kapil Gupta - Direct Truth - Uncompromising - Non-Prescriptive Truths to the Enduring Questions of Life]] Flow is a state where when you start it's 8 am and when you look at the clock again it's written 8 pm. It alters the experience of time. The psychological subjective experience of the dimension of time is not something fixed. So if the subjective experience of time is malleable, [[Space|space]] should also be since [[Relativity|relativity]] tells us that they are but one. When I was young I'd always start projects that got me into this state, maybe it was a sort of escapism, but, anyway, I found it the most efficient way to learn [[Programming|programming]]. Finding a fun project that could be done with programming, for example I liked video games and hacking/cheating, so I'd always look for some breach into the system and start exploiting these breaches (bots, hacks, ...). >Men are like clouds. They are driven forward by a mysterious and invisible wind against which they are powerless. They think they are in control and laugh at the weakness of the clouds, but their wind is a thousand times stronger than the one blowing up there. >~ [[Louis/louis030195]] Ultimately, every human endeavor is a quest towards a state of flow, letting ourselves be guided by a mysterious wind that will let us forget the unbearable pain of existence. ## Relational flow The state of flow is the highest state of consciousness, in which one can experience joy, love, and peace. It is a state of being in the moment, lost in the task at hand, and feeling connected to something larger than oneself. ## Flow - addiction - escapism Escapism usually we hear this when people discuss someone avoiding pains by using some drugs like weed or video games, Netflix, porn, etc. Another form of [[Escapism|escapism]] - the state of [[No mind|no mind]] - it is [[Addiction|addictive]].