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The Prison Cell Meditation by Damien Echols
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Damien Echols was wrongfully imprisoned and put on death row for 18 years. He credits dogma-free meditation with helping him stay sane during that difficult time.
Keeping your mind in the present moment requires practice, but mastering meditation of any kind can show clear medical benefits like lowered blood pressure and better sleep.
Damien's meditation technique of choice was Magick, or what he describes as energy circulation via non-religious rituals.
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DAMIEN ECHOLS:
Damien Echols is the author of the New York Times bestseller Life After Death (Plume, 2013), and his new book, HIGH MAGICK: A Guide to the Spiritual Practices That Saved My Life on Death Row. He lives with his wife, Lorri, in Harlem.
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TRANSCRIPT:
Damien Echols: You don't have to believe in it. There's no dogma. Even like I said it uses iconography and symbolism from things like gnostic Christianity and esoteric Judaism, things like that. But it doesn't require you to believe in these things. The reason it uses this symbolism is, for example, in the part of the country that I grew up in there are literally places where you come to a four way stop and there are churches on all four corners. So even if you're completely atheist, even if you're repelled by these things, they are still part of your psyche, still part of our culture. So we on some level respond to those things in some way. That doesn't mean we necessarily have to believe in them for magick to work.
Like I said the people who devise these techniques wanted to know what works, why it works, how it works, and how we can make it work better. You don't have to believe in any of this any more than you have to believe that your muscles are going to get bigger by going to the gym.
The way that I guess one of the things that was so hard about Eastern traditions like Zen was you focus almost entirely on staying in the present moment all the time. That is really, really hard. Once you actually start trying to do that you realize how out of control your thoughts are. Our thoughts chase themselves around like a dog chasing its own tail all the time from the time we get up until the time we go to sleep. And a lot of the Eastern traditions deal with almost wrestling against that. Every time you realize you're doing it, bringing yourself back to the present moment, back to the present moment over and over and over. For me I didn't get a lot of results out of that. I never found myself in the present moment m ore than I was whenever I started the practices. Ceremonial magick on the other hand what it does is it doesn't really address that at all. Instead you're dealing like, for example, on energy circulation practices where you're circulating chi through different parts of your body, you're trying to energize different energy centers. It runs down through your spine. Doing that as a side effect you become more and more present. And I didn't even realize a lot of these practices say, for example, the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram, when you would learn these things traditionally the organization, the Order, would give you these exercises and they would not tell you what they're going to do. They would not tell you what they're for. They would say "go practice this for a year, come back and talk to us then. And if you're interested in learning more and going forward we'll talk about it then." Whenever you came back they would say "okay, well what did you experience?" That's how they would know if you had actually been practicing them or not. So I would practice these techniques, the middle pillar, the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram, and one day while I was in prison I bent over to tie my shoes and I realized, without even trying to do so, I was in the present moment. And it was almost like an atomic bomb going off because it was for the very first time in my life I realized "oh my god, I'm completely in the present moment!" Of course the second you think that it's shattered, and you're back to thinking or whatever. But it was even after years of Zen practice it was the first time that I had truly experienced that, and it was due to ceremonial magick.
One of the techniques that I use, you know, the analogy I used earlier about flushing yourself out like a cup of water, this is a technique that flushes our thoughts out. If you have a song going through your head over and over or if you're...
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[@goatgod2009]

Fascinating to hear how he was able to survive his ordeal without going completely insane. I wouldn't have survived that...

[@freeman7079]

Erik Neumann did you listen to his rambling???

[@thewildcardperson]

Pondering Presbyterian just because you can’t keep up doesn’t mean he’s wrong just google any of what’s he’s saying and it’s true

[@soundexperience5179]

Yes, you would have.

[@Spiral.Dynamics]

Great video. Meditation holds the key to real freedom than no one can take from you. May your suffering end, may you find peace. ☯️ “I know why the caged bird sings.” Maya Angelo ✌️❤️⚛️

[@1p6t1gms]

Thank you Damien, on Meditation from one perspective of a thought in a shortened summary. Start slowly and build up the time one minute the first day, two the second day and so on. Do not go over fifteen minutes; focusing on one beautiful word from nature is helpful and so would a candle’s light or reflection of light off a crystal to focus visually towards, as well as a peaceful comfortable setting. Don’t think about unreal or magical things during or after the learning process as it is going to take time away from reality and it would not be helpful to do so, you may need to start over. One of the main benefits of meditation is when quieting the subconscious mind to degrees of control you are able to achieve this opens you up for a clearer thinking process without being muddled by the interrupting thoughts prior to or during any events you are involved with in future events, as the mind has improved control and focus more intently on thoughts.

[@Arrian1111]

Damien credits Dion Fortune as a key source of this meditation.

[@jynxkizs]

Your sunlight in the prison cell meditation might have helped me. It's hard to pinpoint for sure when there is such a delayed response time with so many other changing factors at the same time. It could have been a confluence of factors. I just wanted to say that people should give this a try if they feel trapped in a dark coal mine. Sometimes too much pessimism causes us to miss out on good opportunities. For those with religious reservations, just think of it as a prayer that welcomes in the light of god. For those that are more atheistic, think of it as a way to organize your mind better. I see it as a step between wanting to want something, and actually wanting it. I have a hunch that this meditation has both the potentials to reveal one's own hypocrisies, as well distracting away from them, depending on the person and where they are in life. Or maybe I just have an eccentric interpretation of light raining down on the unseen.

[@k.dimova6351]

Please, please, please educate yourselves before commenting. There's plenty of content on the Internet covering different esoteric practices, spirituality and so on. And he talks about magicK, spelled with a k. Look things up and learn instead of spreading hateful and useless comments :))

[@MODIAK]

Experience the power of LED lighting... in your mind.

[@RikiB]

Kind of reminds me of an old saying: To boil water you first get a pot and fill it with water, next add fire underneath and finally add a tear from an infant. A few minutes later the water will boil. This works every time just try it and see for yourself if your skeptical. Doesn't matter if you believe in the tears or not, the facts speak for themselves. The deeper thought is I guess it's impossible to be absolutely rational and we all have beliefs hidden or not. Perhaps they even add to the final result in a psychological way which in the end becomes useful to break down walls or something like that. As long as it's not hurting anyone and proves useful. It just seems to be the ceremonial magic part is kind of like the tear. I'm reminded of the way some Mormons will go house to house telling people to just sincerely pray and ask god to prove himself to you and if you feel a burning in your bosom then that is him proving himself to you. This has opened the door many people converting and changing their lives which in the end was very good. I'm sure you can hear a very similar story about all kinds of things around the world. Something tells me belief is more involved than the speaker would like to admit. Who knows, I'm probably way off from the actual truth.

[@Tht1kidYouKnw]

he literally said it's not a matter of belief in the video. try it and find out for yourself

[@DoLifeYOURWay]

Love learning new meditations...excellent!

[@Knards]

@@freeman7079 Like the movie said, you have no understanding until you have tried. Dont talk when you have no knowledge

[@MoneyMaking.Technology]

Imagination is not meditation. Check out freemeditation.com or KZbin free meditation tv to learn to attain true thoughtless awareness the easy way

[@Knards]

@@MoneyMaking.Technology yes it is. Prayer is considered meditation. There are many forms of mediation not all achieving what you think they achieve

[@PsychopathUltimate]

@@Knards As long as you narrow your focus to a specific thing, you're meditating. So by focusing on repeating the scenario, he is meditating in the absolute most technical sense. It's not the most pure meditation, but the point is that it held his attention. Then again, I'm casting pearls before laymen who lack the presence of mind to pay attention to context and instead take the video title at its word.

[@gianmariovolta2992]

It all boils down to this , a bunch of bullshit

[@chestbuster1987]

The light obliterated my cell and me on the first try so I couldn't try again

[@HealingNatureMeditation]

Great video!!💕💕🍀

[@ASMRyouVEGANyet]

The doubters should read the books by Stephen Skinner.

[@carolinerutherford9430]

Enjoy watching you on KZbin and also find you such an interesting and inspiring person

[@briannaweeks6357]

Love this thanks Damien!

[@anonymoussearch4907]

thank so much i'll try

[@blackhunk2265]

vipassana is being practiced in many prisons

[@DonovanWert]

Awesome 😎 thanks brother 🙏

[@theabiscuit6869]

Big Think I've found your latest crop of videos not as well made as your early stuff. They used to be a cogent summary but now just seem a random segment out of a long talk. This is losing me. This talk is too random - the last Jonathon Haidt gave an inaccurate gist of his subject matter. I'm glad I saw him on Bill Mahr & realized I'd got the wrong end of the stick.

[@PanasonicTooth]

Big Think has an ultimate agenda and it's not a benevolent one. Keep your eye on them.

[@urszulazielezinska5107]

Thea Biscuit d

[@thewildcardperson]

PanasonicTooth y’all are some scared dumbasses why are you afraid of everything you don’t know

[@ChrisChaos]

Really cool 😎

[@joseluiz_carvalho]

Please, put the subtitles

[@ChessMasteryOfficial]

*Prove them wrong.*

[@TooToo246]

I actually started seeing it very clearly the third time

[@00i0ii0]

wtf is he talking about?

[@mannion7646]

He had a great time in prison

[@michaelemouse1]

I think it's about the fact that physical movement, including rituals, can have a psychological impact apart from any supernatural cause. Religions have insights and techniques which can may have an impact even if the religious are mistaken about the cause-effect relationship. For example, someone may fast for 3 days and feel something interesting. They may ascribe that to supernatural causes and be wrong in that but it still leaves us with the interesting finding that fasting for 3 days can have a positive psychological impact.

[@Metacognition88]

Someone please explain. I could only take 4 minutes of his rambling and had to stop.

[@PsychopathUltimate]

@@Metacognition88 Go watch the previous video. Then you'll have context.

[@magickisthekey]

No joke... I zoned out right away, then came back to realize I had no idea what was being rambled on about..

[@metaphysicalArtist]

Prison Cell Meditation my visualization creates a dark room and the light is dim over and over again like a cloudy sunset after the sun has disappeared with patches of red and purple clouds.

[@jloren5662]

Im not trying to be closed-minded but is he using "magic/majik" word in a different context? Is there a synonym? To my current understanding, anything that does something can be repeated and if not, it was a singularity or coincidence and there is no point in teaching it in a temporal universe. I hear a meditation exercise but I don't understand its association with "magic".

[@ASMRyouVEGANyet]

Read books by Stephen Skinner and listen to his interviews.

[@wkgames7516]

It's spelled magick, and it's spelled as such to distinguish the practice from stage magic. About it being repeated, I have done such things, and they have shown themselves to work. However, if this were to be put to the test, even if we successfully repeated it, skeptics would literally try to come up with any excuse. As an example, there was one girl who could have out of body experiences. They put this to the test where she laid down, tied so that she couldn't get up to see a paper that had numbers on it without breaking the rope. Take note that you couldn't see the numbers from where she was. She consistently got the numbers right, but when skeptics and critics came, they found that you could use a flashlight to see the numbers, debunking the experiment. They left out details as to whether not she had a flashlight, and the girl wasn't suspected of cheating at all. Until science can mature and make advances that eventually prove the existence of magick, the phenomenon of magick remains a technology. Not a science. We don't necessarily understand it a whole lot, but we find it to work. Since we have found it to work, why be afraid of it or not use it?

[@jynxkizs]

Informative video. I might be able to help some people with this. This will be just as difficult/impossible for people that can't concentrate, but it might help people with self esteem issues that absolutely refuse to focus on themselves. I've tried similar meditation before to heal myself. I agree that many symbols are ingrained into collective unconsciousness just like archetypes are. I didn't realize the banishing ritual was originally devised by the hermetic order of the golden dawn. Sorting out effective magickal techniques from dogma goes contrary to the presupposition that a book of shadows has to be unique to each practioner. Scalability is valuable is ultimately the value of the objective. Society is struggling to integrate their individual subjective quality of life with objective tech and knowledge. I suppose magick is as good a starting point as any for exploring this integration, especially with a tradition that sought practices that work for many/everyone. Do any of you have any clue what the deeper costs are to magick besides some time, effort, and ATP? For example, entropy seems to be a deep cost to life itself. I'm almost certain all these techniques are just ways to use consciousness more effectively to improve quality of life.

[@nick8252]

1:30 4:17

[@ThePmloc]

Yea

[@augustgreig9420]

No wonder. Zen and Tao are meant to be practiced in nature, not in prison. Of course he didn't want to be present there.

[@onemorefreak]

You KNOW this is a BIG BRAIN channel when 60% of the comments are just ''did he say he bent over? ''

[@tadpoleslamp]

Gareth Knight mentioned this in a practical guide to qabbalistic symbolism,as an exercise for daat, I believe.

[@user-kl1ie5ls5f]

JKZ has the best mediation in my opinion

[@cindymac911]

Do you any good training places or persons in Tulsa okay?

[@DinoRamzi]

Wooo woooo woooo... Wicken!

[@alexanderk.5474]

Sorry, third time I didn't wait for the light, I pulled up faster and escaped.

[@jamesstaggs4160]

I spent 7 years in prison. I think I'll skip this one.

[@laurenelizabeth2592]

Without looking out my window, I can know the ways of heaven

[@deeehmt_305]

I’m curious why his eyeglass lenses look blue

[@ASMR-oz7bm]

super late reply, but because Damien was in solitary confinement for about 10 years, it damaged his eyes due to barely seeing any daylight and not being able to see anything in distance. the blue glass blocks out light :)

[@deeehmt_305]

@@ASMR-oz7bm thanks

[@alonsoavalos598]

❤

[@TrishCanyon8]

Did he say magic!

[@MarkShaneHansen]

No, he said magick, actually. Of course, that's hard to know by hearing someone speak about it xD

[@TheFurryHypothesis]

Did this guy come from The Matrix?

[@CinemagneticSalon]

Ha! Yes. Pretty much

[@hopek7033]

Yes

[@Outlawgurl2419]

Maybe

[@kittttygirl5]

everyone is different in how they react to all the different methods and techniques out there i suppose

[@hosehbo5158]

instructions unclear. I have manifested my way into prison. idk what crime I did.

[@richardwebb4374]

Whatever you say Damien.

[@peladomontiel1]

At least its not an intersectionality video. Thats nice

[@sleepyredmoo]

It's not hard to be in the present moment though, that's another belief. It's actually effortless, and happens accidentally all the time. It's the same thing as being happy. It doesn't require effort, just not having an investment in time.

[@ropro9817]

Why are you wearing sunglasses indoors...

[@PearsAreOkay]

He's legally blind

[@Outlawgurl2419]

Because he didn’t see natural sunlight for a long time .

[@whatthefunction9140]

so is he blind?

He spent 18 years on death row without natural light, his eyes are sensitive.

[@baraldanny]

What with the sunnies? Close your eyes... with sunglasses? Lol

[@stoicforall]

Daniel Barale His eyes were permanently damaged in prison.

[@baraldanny]

@@stoicforall oh, sorry.

[@alextrusk1713]

420 mediation

[@whocares2087.1]

seems legit 🤣

[@Blaktimus]

*while I was in prison...i bent over to tie my shoes* Whooooooaaaaaa imma stop you right there buddy...We know what happened...

[@Boogeyman1511]

it was like an atomic bomb going off

[@7hello]

Hilarious

[@meisam9592]

wake up the others too

[@freediugh416]

"One day, while I was in prison, I BENT OVER to tie my shoes..." "...And I realized without even trying to do so..." "I was in the present moment!" "it was like an atomic bomb going off!" Alright m8, that was no meditation, that was the Middle Pillar hitting your Lesser Pentagram.

[@Ultra4]

wait what?

[@PanasonicTooth]

Anyone who thinks they are certain of Echols' innocence should look up "Damien Echols: Hex, Lies and Videotape" on YT...

[@eeeonsphere3327]

PanasonicTooth whaaat

[@MarkShaneHansen]

I've only watched the first part of three, and I will not be watching the last two. The video creator tries so hard to imply thing and assumes things constantly and presses that on to the viewer with text between trial recordings and newsclips. The text is full of fallacies. Don't misunderstand me: I'm not saying he didn't do it. I'm not saying he did do it. I don't really care. One thing I will say, though, is that it is possible he didn't. ---------_ One example of problem I had with the video. Can skip to next line. _--------- One example is Damien Echols mentioning something about the case and text pops up a couple of times and keeps saying something like (and I'm paraphrasing:) "how could he have known that if he didn't do it and it wasn't in the newspaper articles?". He mentions in his testimony not only reading about it, but also other people talking about the case, which of course makes sense, not only because of the nature and brutality of the crime, but also because the local police force is suspected to have been overwhelmed by the case, since they had never seen the like, according to Mara Leveritt , author of three books on the subject. Damien Echols mentions in his testimony that other people talked about it, and 30 seconds on the crime's Wikipedia page under "Criticism of the investigation" says, amongst many other flaws in the investigation, that police failed to control disclosure of information. _____________________ Even the plea he was released from prison on seems like a weird American justice system thing: The Arkansas Supreme Court ordered lower court hearings to consider whether the new DNA evidence could exonerate the three. There was also suspicion of juror misconduct during earlier trials which the Arkansas Supreme Court instructed the lower court to examine. This never happened, since they got an Alford plea, which apparently is the prosecuted acknowledging a guilty verdict while maintaining their innocence and they were then sentenced to time served - BUT it means whatever happens they cannot file a civil suit against the state for wrongful imprisonment. Why did the prosecutor agree to this? Apparently, cited factors: two of the victims families had joined the cause of the defense, and the mother of a witness who testified about Echols's confession had questioned her daughter's truthfulness. Add to that, that the crime scene was mishandled in the first place, including bite marks that wasn't noticed until years later on photographs. Expert for the defense of Echols (then 18 years old): "Not an adult bite mark." Expert for the prosecution: "There's no bitemarks" ???? My conclusion: It's possible he did it, but now I find it probable that he didn't. In either case, I don't find it very relevant to the subject matter at hand in the video and I still find the American justice system odd.

[@lifeimprovements4810]

This is what happens when life becomes too easy and you don't have to worry about wolves

[@soundexperience5179]

"Hey, imma milk this shit and see if they bite....."

[@MoneyMaking.Technology]

Imagination is not meditation. Check out freemeditation.com or KZbin free meditation tv to learn to attain true thoughtless awareness the easy way

[@Add_Account485]

Sorry but I'm not gonna imagine a cell. Because my mind is so powerful I'll end up in one! Bad advice echols... Your imagination is what brings things into being, u should b careful practicing that one.. But would have loved a bit of an example on the rituals though ..etc..

[@sinkler123]

isn't this suppose to be a logical pro science channel? not sure how this vid relate to your audience. it gave me nothing to think about, its just some dude talking about energies and pseudo science non sense. for ex. if there was new research made about "chi" or meditation practice and effects, that would be something i would like to hear about and discuss. he didn't have anything new or interesting to say, u can get all of that from a yuga instructor at your local gym. :P

[@letsdomath1750]

I mean... you can also get meditation instruction in general from the yoga teacher at your local studio for that matter. He presented a visualization technique that I had not seen in this particular form (there are similar ones in yoga nidra), the few times I tried it, the effect was different in a subtle way (like how Vipassana is different from chanting a mantra and listening to sounds or candle-gazing or doing Kirtan Kriya). It's beneficial to get your own personal experience with a wide array of these practices rather than spending too much time worrying about an ever-changing intellectual understanding of all of their possible benefits. The research already supports that meditation is great for most people.

[@sinkler123]

@@letsdomath1750 I understand your point, it was well explained. and can agree to some extent. My comment reflected my world views and biases too harshly maybe. :) I would love to learn more about it, but years of training resulted in my mind tending to auto block any communication that use non/pseudo-science terms. I hope next time some1 want to advocate meditation, he will be able to "speak my language" and describe what science has to say about it and what evidence data we have ATM.

[@drunkenrampage1588]

3:04 Are we sure it wasn't something else?

[@Avodroc42]

so on the one hand you have credible intelligent people saying , very interesting things... and then there is this... Big think you have shot your credibility in the foot.

[@anthony_barba]

Magic?! The title is about meditation. I’ll wait for him to get to his point.

[@k.dimova6351]

it's spelled with a k, so it's magick, and mediation is connected to it :))

[@ericpiteau50]

Meditation has nothing to do with "magical thinking". The purpose is to awaken the mind to the reality of the moment, clear and free from fantasy and false idealism.

[@baraldanny]

Meebe da guy's blind.

[@user-ex5fi9yx3u]

He wears sunglasses a lot because spending years in solitary left his eyes with severe sensitivity to light. He's not blind.

[@freediugh416]

"One day, while I was in prison, I BENT OVER to tie my shoes..." "...And I realized without even trying to do so..." "I was in the present moment!" "it was like an atomic bomb going off!" Alright m8, that was no meditation, that was the Middle Pillar hitting your Lesser Pentagram.

[@lillienelson5107]

Huh? Can you explain

[@UndeadKIRA]

ok, so i got through half of this, waiting for it to start making sense, but no. all nonsense new age hippie crap

[@XxASTROxXv4]

I love meditation but his energy feels like hes trying to introduce you to satanism 🤔

[@JKweez]

He has a high IQ, but he's using it on a silly endeavor. If he's doing this to sell books and exploit the woo woo followers who can't think rationally, then I can respect that. If he actually believes the woo woo spiritual stuff, I think the poor guy went crazy in prison.

[@ASMRyouVEGANyet]

Meditation has been proven to help people.... no "woo woo"

[@thewildcardperson]

Jonathan Kolbinsky try it pussy why is everyone so scared of magick

[@wkgames7516]

He actually practiced magick before he got into prison. He lived in a super Christisn area, and because he practiced magick, he was blamed for an alleged satanic murder. He did not go insane in prison. If you demand proof, go look at his interviews. He mentions it. Also, like he said, try it out before judging and being the individual who refuses to consider the possibilities at hand. You said that he has a high IQ, so that should tell you something. Also, you said you could respect him taking advantage of people who believe in "woo woo things?" You just disgust me more and more. Scammers and frauds dilute the "woo woo" side of things.

[@wkgames7516]

@@thewildcardperson Most people accept science, religion or both. People who are about religion condemn magick as sAtAnIc. Science thinks that it's just bogus. For people in both science and religion, they can be the biggest supporters of magick or the biggest haters of magick. Think about it. Those who accept science and religion would think that a lot of it is fake, and the stuff that is real shouldn't be messed with. However, there are those who accept science and religion and recognize the power of magick being the bridge that connects them. Now, I'm not saying that people that are only scientific or religious can't recognize magick. I just think that those with both would be more likely to recognize it.

[@mantis044]

daddy

[@bob-cm3kv]

4:16 sorry to you that believe in these things, but i did have to laugh this part

[@0fucksftw]

Sleazy con man, think he was in prison for a reason

[@user-ex5fi9yx3u]

Yes. Corruption of our judicial system.

[@thewildcardperson]

He was framed

[@thewildcardperson]

He lived in Alabama that’s all you need to know

[@onemorefreak]

yup, the reason being fundamentalist idiots that believe anything not christian is the same as satanism

[@wabisabi3343]

I've heard some really great ideas on this channel, so it's a bummer to see them peddling nonsense like this. You're better than this creep, Big Thnk!

[@onemorefreak]

You should try it, maybe it will stop you from writing to a youtube channel the same way Homer simpson writes to movies. At the very least you will get a couple of minutes of peace.

[@marcpelletier1366]

Petty, thought-induced experiences. Worthless.

[@tamarajessup1398]

I'm a former Witch (Wiccan) who is well aware that magic works, and by what power. I am appalled that someone who encourages people to draw on Satanic influence was allowed to post a video here, because, folks, there are two sources of power in the universe, and if, like this man, you've cut yourself off from God, the Eternal Father, there's only one other power source. Video title FAIL.

[@Saltpork305]

What he's advocating in terms of ritual magic is mostly Thelema, not Satanism or Luciferianism. The mindful meditation part to stay in the present moment is none of these systems. It's just a meditation.

[@tamarajessup1398]

@@Saltpork305 There's the Holy Spirit, which inspires; Jesus, who redeems; and God, who works miracles. Magic, without a doubt, is empowered by the only other influential being in this world - by process of elimination, that's Satan, no matter how benign its trappings. I wish I could impress this idea upon you, because I'm so willful, it's been brought home rather forcefully to me more than once. Peace.

[@jeffhodge7333]

This clown's next tattoo should be the letters OCD. I'm sick of people who overthink stuff. Life is a two-step process: Set goals and then take action. During the process, control your thoughts. The Big Think is a big joke. Too many speakers are worthless.

[@ssoonnyymm]

I like you.

[@MusixPro4u]

I'm sick of people who think they know when something is "overthought". Generally, my experience is that the lower the cognitive capacity of the individual, the faster he/she is complaining about "overthinking". "Hey, Einstein, physics is a two step process. Apple falls on head, head hurts. Stop overthinking."

[@Saltpork305]

And this is how all great philosophy is born. "Set goals then take action" That's great if you're working out or making a knife or building a shed. Not so great for trying to understand the why of pretty much anything. Introspection takes time. Don't be so damn dismissive over the processes people use to understand why, specifically when it comes to why they exist.

[@gianmariovolta2992]

Pure crap

[@milesblue638]

Really? Big Think promotes a guy who believes in magic? Pure flim flam.

[@matonmongo]

Sorry, lost interest the moment I saw the sunglasses and hipster hairdo.

[@SC-ec8xe]

So you go through life literally judging books by their covers...good to know. People will know to waste any time with you lol.