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Hard to say. Ideally they would be decriminalized but not marketed and commercialized like weed. I don't like the commercial weed industry.

There's not really room during a hardcore retreat to indulge in creativity. However, I notice that I get crazy creativity about 3-4 days into a retreat. You could design a kind of retreat specifically for creativity, but that's different than a meditation retreat. Try both and see which one suits you better.

Although Mark will soon find that his long ass episodes will get very little views and require so much more work than interviewing people that he might not like the drop in success. The reason everyone does interviews is because it's 20x easier and more profitable.

That's why I never interview people. It's lame.

I don't think he's gonna appreciate you regarding him as that. Problem is, if you regard people are beneath you, they will feel it and close down their minds to your ideas. So this Spiral Wizardry stuff is really tricky. It's saint's work.

Of course. There is no authority to tell us what the right development pathway is. We have to figure that out ourselves and we will disagree about it. For example, Don Beck thought that Trump is just what America's development required. Was he right? Who's gets to say? Does America need more Blue? More Orange? More Green? More Yellow? You could answer that 4 different ways depending on your biases and purposes.

@Joel3102 Hardcore MAGA basically requires cult deprogramming techniques. You could try teaching him just about stages of cognitive and ego development. Rather than arguing over content, try to explain structures of the mind. You don't want to get drawn into a debate about trans stuff or guns. You want to keep it about meta mind stuff. But you're never going to change the mind of someone who doesn't want to grow. The reason my work works on you guys is because you want to grow. Which is rare. Most people do not want to grow mentally. They just want to survive as they are.

Spiral Wizardry is basically the answer. You have to empathize with their level on the Spiral and be respectful and lower yourself to their level rather than preaching advanced things down at them. That's not something I'm practiced in because I just assume my audience are epistemic masochists like me. That works online but not in real life.

@abc123 I don't have a good answer. I teach advanced things for advanced people. I don't really know how to drink beer with your local Joe and talk about football. The ideas I teach would offend the hell out of most normal people.

Trump def qualifies because of how much bullshit he spreads. He dumps horseshit into the epistemic pool by the truckload.

Well, but I see no preemptive solution, so there's no way out. That's not just not the case. That's not happening.

There is a factor to intelligence which is general, across-the-board. That determines a baseline. But then there are individual types of intelligence over-top of that. So people can be quite dumb or rusty in some domains. For example, I've always struggled with math intelligence. Math was always an uphill struggle for me because the way my mind works is not wired for it. My verbal intelligence is way higher and comes to me effortlessly. Intelligence determines what comes easily or naturally to you and what doesn't. But also don't forget that you can develop higher intelligence by training, education, cognitive development, consciousness work, emotional work. Rationality, for example, isn't automatic, it must be developed. If you fail to develop rationality you will be pretty dumb even if you have high general intelligence. 1-4% of the population has aphantasia, which means that cannot visualize, they do not see images in their mind. It's not a lack of intelligence, it's a kind of neuro-divergence. Maybe you have that, I don't know.

@Vynce That's why sages and saints have always been rare. Oh well, it's good to be a unicorn among horses.

Yeah, that's the whole game. It's deeply frustrating and sad that people get stuck like that in their own narrowness of mind.

CEO: Chief Epistemic Ontologist!

I like that one

Jeez

@Natasha Tori Maru He only got schizo symptoms from weed?? How much weed did he do? At what age?

I've never heard fat described as "profound" before. You have a way with words, madam.

@Natasha Tori Maru Thanks for sharing. That's a nice illustration of it. Disturbing indeed. Weird how it's mostly auditory. Did meds help him?

I literally said the opposite of how you quoted me. Jesus. I explicitly avoided the mistake of conflating meaningfulness with constancy.

Trump's weakness is that at the end of the day I think he really wants to be loved. Putin has no such weakness. This is really the only thing that might save America. LOVE wins after all

Actualized.org is the epistemic Oregon Trail. Pray you don't get dysentery or we leave you out for the wolves.

Don't forget that Trump is pretty cowardly under the facade. I don't think he has the balls to do the kind of stuff like a proper dictator would do, like a Putin.

Time for Tier 2 to embed with the Taliban. It will make for great sitcom. The odd couple. I wanna see Daniel Schmachtenberger discussing Game B with an Afghan warlord. "Let's double-click on that..."