Here’s a thread of meditation takes that could be useful. Largely things I’ve learned firsthand. Reminder that I’m just a guy who meditates regularly Meditation done properly is the best method currently on offer for producing durably happier people. Period. The upper bound of that happiness is likely above what almost all people in history ever experienced

Had some really interesting meditation related experiences recently. Here are my notes about them.

I've been doing jhanas a bunch since ~August. Started working with and around jhana 4 more regularly in Oct. Presumably as a result of that depth, and some experiences therein, … I began to feel that my body was disappearing at random, particularly at night, popping out of existence, turning into a ghostlike material, etc — where "I" became just a floating head. Weird, cool, but maybe a bit much, since I'm not really aiming for "insight" or stream entry

After a while working with them, I can confirm jhanas are based. The counterintuitive claims made by @nickcammarata and others abt how instant access to pleasure+happy feelings leads to more hedonic balance, less craving, etc. have truth ime … which remains super surprising I will get back to this point, will first discuss how I do jhanas (mostly typical approach afaik). I highly recommend not taking my account of these too seriously. I’m newish to it and am being a bit lazy in my explanations