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@Noahsteelers34 It's better to fast during summer. Being able to lay out in nature instead of in a cold box is so much better. It's vital that you are able to relax, mentally and physically. Were you able to? Personally, I did a 2 week fast Loran Lockman style last summer without supervision. My health problems that have ruined my last 6 years got cured. After 2 months when I started eating ramen instead of just fruits and leafy greens, the illness slowly crept up on me again. I also had cravings. They will pass with time. After 2 weeks of refeeding, I had better vitality than before the fast and I jogged longer than I ever had. I also was just naturally joyful in a way I've never been. It was miraculous. I'm gonna do another fast this summer but I won't stop eating fruits afterward like I did last time. I also got rashes during refeeding. I think it's called keto rash. I think over 95% of the people who've done what u did experience tremendous results. I think you made all the right moves and got unlucky. I feel for you and I'm confident that your body will get back into equilibrium and with that, your mind. Thanks for sharing this. @aurum I think you get electrolytes from the muscles and fat you burn. The arguments against using electrolytes is: one, that the body doesn't fully go into fasting mode if it gets nutrients. Two, if you supplement the 10 most common electrolytes the other electrolytes you are not supplementing can become imbalanced. During fasting, the body breaks down fat and muscles. During a fast, if you do it right, meaning you are not doing anything at all, not even thinking too much, you would not be hungry and you'd feel at ease. There is a distinction between fasting and starving. When you start starving, I've heard, you start feeling different. You get hungry and you feel wrong. As long as you are not starving during a fast I don't logically see how thinness would cause a problem. We don't need muscles or much fat for our organs to work. I and many others have gotten as thin as this guy, if not thinner, during fasting and experienced tremendous health benefits. I think when people get that thin outside of a relaxed fast the problem comes from the organs and muscles getting torn through use and it doesn't have enough building blocks to rebuild themselves. The thinness here is only a correlation with the real problem, not the root cause. When the body doesn't get torn during a fast the root problem doesn't exist. Also, I've been meaning to tell you this for a while: The fast you did a while back you did wrong. The reason we get benefits from fasting is that the body gets a chance to heal. But you only get the benefits when you are relaxing, meaning you lay down and don't use your brain. Otherwise, the body is not comfortable going into healing mode. When you relax you will feel that you get less energy and feel worse than if you're active. This is because healing makes you feel sick because the toxins that are stored in your organs start to get released into the bloodstream for the kidneys to filter out. If getting up to pee isn't a challenge you are not healing. You were productive and active during the fast and it killed your results. Counter-intuitively being productive was the least productive thing you could have done.

@Thought Art Ye I know and I agree. Doesn't change that access increases use tho. We should get at the problem from all angles. @Zedman Maybe the revenue from the clinic can fund itself. People who do opiates don't want to party from my knowledge. That's why I wrote the policy is primarily for opiates. Tho yea I can see how this would never work with coke. Is your point that the left should focus on more important policies? Because liberals could push this policy too.

Okey, I just had a crazy new idea for how to handle hard drug policy that would increase user safety, kill the illegal market and reduce consumption. This is primarily about opiates but meth and cocaine could also work. I'm not talking about weed or psychedelics. This is the policy: You can buy hard drugs at a safe injection facility. You have to do the drugs at the facility, you can't bring them with you. To be eligible to buy you have to have a certificate that you obtain by handing in a small amount of the specific drug that you want to buy. The certificate lasts for a medium length of time, say 5 months. Towards the end of the certificate time, there is a period where the amount of drugs you are eligible to use a day decreases until it reaches 0, to wean users of the drugs in a safe manner. The result of this is that every time a dealer gets a new client, the client takes the drugs to the facility and obtains a certificate. He then no longer needs the dealer, so the dealer loses the client. Like this, dealers lose all their clients. With no dealers, users can't get certificates to get more drugs. This is a win from every angle. You can then wage total war on the drug market that is left without getting users in the crossfire. Can you think of any unintended consequences? Let's discuss!

@Thought Art It is an assumption but it's only logical as more people get access to it more people do it. I don't know if such a study exists. I don't think this kind of legalization has been tried. I've known people who would try it. Some of the same people have tried tobacco and got hooked. You are not just making it safe to use. You are also making it accessible, which I believe will lead to more addiction.

This is actually a great point lol. By train or bus I guess. This would only work in an urban environment. I'm such a city slicker I didn't even think of this. @Thought Art Part of the idea behind my proposal is that it would work in smaller countries. Superpowers like America, China, Russia and Japan can run their drug policies how they want. But for smaller countries like Sweden where I'm from if top-shelf heroin would flow from here to neighboring countries, there would be international repercussions. No head of state would agree to get that headache. The other problem with just making it legal is that it would actually attract more users. I really don't know if it's worth it but I'm open to the idea. But at the very least I agree that it should be decriminalized.

@Sucuk Ekmek As I understand it the biggest motivator for immigration policy is the declining birth rate. The economy will collapse if it's not fixed. stage green Social democrats that voted for this policy thought immigration would help economically out of sheer stupidity. The reality is that they are an economic burden and the resources would have helped 10x more in refugee camps. From the liberal side of the political system then yes banks and property owners are making a killing. Most of the liberal polititions that voted for mass immigration owns property and made a killing of it. Also, Fredrik Reinfeldt used immigration to destroy the welfare state, which played a big part in the policy. There are some corruptive influences on the Swedish government, but it's not so much from corporations. More so, the self-interests of the political and cultural elite in Stockholm. I don't see how this influences drug policy tho.

@Sucuk Ekmek What do immigration and nationalism have to do with special interests' grip on government?

@Eternal Unity What's his prescription now then? Just psychedelics?

@Eternal Unity And Leo endorses Kriya. Tho you be better off plugging 5-meo.

The Swedish government isn't run over with bribes and special interests like the US. Most countries aren't. The US might be a special case here.

@Ayham Im not an expert just an opinionated guy trying to figure this stuff out. The goal of kriya is to make you feel blissful and calm your mind. Think of it like the techniques are how to throw a basketball, and the bliss and calmness are like hitting the hoop. You only know if you are doing the techniques well if it makes you hit the goal. Kriya teachers are very unpedagogical in my opinion. Most kriya yogies are practising how to throw the basketball without any consideration for if it hits the hoop. How strong you are able to generate these feelings is like building a muscle. It might be medium strength at first, but as you open doors in your psyche and build the "muscle" you can eventually get to a place there it's like an orgasm. But if you feel close to nothing at first you are not doing it right. With regard to visualization: You should read Ennio Nimis' book on kriya to understand the subtleties of pulling energy. The goal is to generate a feeling of energy going up and down your body. With practice, you can feel the proper channel in your spine but this is not necessary for beginners. Visualization is just a means to generate feeling. You don't even need to visualize as long as you hit the hoop, which is to generate energy feeling. You don't have to upgrade your routine. It's not like you are gonna get all your results in the last 5 min of a 1h routine. All talk of you have to do this or that is dogma. If it works, it works. Mahamudra feels incredible to me. It's very grounding as I hit the rook chakra very hard as the energy descends down the spine. Santata Gamana got his pranayama from modifying the technique of a guy called Sri Rangin Mukherjee. His technique is to create bliss in the chakras by chanting om in them but instead of doing it in the body he does it in the middle of the head(agna chakra). Create a sense of radiation love in your chest. Notice how the same energetic feeling is also felt in your head. Now focus on the feeling in your head instead of your chest. With practice, you won't have to feel the chakra in the body at all, you just have to bring up a mental memory of it. When I do this it's so intense that I start shaking and twisting my body. I'm not good at handling pleasure. Sri Mukherjee does 6 oms per in- and out-breath going up and down the first 6 chakras(again, all in the head, there is no actual vertical movement). The technique requires you to be familiar with the chakras beforehand. Personally, I do one breath per chakra because I can't breathe slowly enough without rushing the technique. Sri Mukherjee's writings on his techniques are really bad, I don't recommend his books. It was hard for me to parse out his techniques. I would recommend practicing energy work fundamentals before getting into kriya. Tara Springett's teachings are good, especially her book 'Enlightenment through the path of Kundalini'. Try the technique I posted above in my other post.

@Zedman There are countries where drug reform is being considered. Having smart policy ideas out there for those countries is a good thing. I'm guessing you are American since you only seem to consider your own country or part of the world.

@Sucuk Ekmek I'm Swedish. Maybe war isn't a good word choice. Tho it's good rhetoric for getting conservatives on board. The problem with the war on drugs is that it's really a war on drug users. If you get the users out of the picture and effectively only target the marketers of heroin I don't see the problem.

Speak to the most intelligent person in the room. Let them be a good example to the rest.

Maybe start by figuring out how you be on your phone in the most healthy way possible. Instead of stopping watching youtube, find channels with the most educational content and unsubscribe to unhealthy channels. Get audiobooks. Keep one or two social media but remove the once that are the worst, TikTok for example. I only have Facebook. On there I follow some pages with beautiful photography. Introspect what it is you seek from your phone, maybe it's comfort, connection and joy. Maybe there are better ways of obtaining these things.

Something completely new that I never thought Leo would make a vid on. What I love most about Leo's vids is he opens my eyes to so many different things.

Email notifications for new blog posts. Ofc also an official tiktok channel where Leo does all the dances and challenges to get more reach.

Cultivate love. Feel your body as hollow and filled with beautiful energetic light of all colors. Breathe in feeling the middle of your chest. Breathe out as you create an explosion of love in your chest. It's an explosion of light and energy radiating out to the rest of your body. Also feel it radiating out from your body into the world, nourishing it. Feel the light forgiving you. All of you. yes. We need to make a distinction between psychological needs and physical needs. On the physical side, you have to survive. It can't be ignored. On the psychological side, I subscribe to a spirituality that doesn't see a conflict between lower needs and consciousness expansion. You should open all your chakras and as you open your lower chakras your energy will naturally rise to the higher chakras. The buddhist path is about ignoring the lower chakras/needs and going straight for enlightenment. This works in the short term as you can quickly get enlightenment experiences this way. But these enlightenment experiences often doesn't stick. It's common for buddhists to have had 10+ enlightenment experiences and still not be permanently enlightened. On the Hindu yogic path of kundalini, it's common that people get their first enlightenment when they have raised their kundalini all the way to the head. This takes a longer time but this way it sticks for good. Tho I subscribe to a combination of SantataGamanas kriya yoga and Tara Springetts tummo Buddhism which combines the two. Start the spiritual practice by cultivating bliss in the form of for example, comfort, pleasure, joy and love. Then when that bliss has stilled your mind, let go of everything and just sit.

@preventingdiabetes No, not as I understand it. Spiritual bypassing is a form of rationalization. It's not about how you prioritize but the story you are telling yourself about it. Gautama Buddha almost starving to death under the bodhi thee wasn't spiritual bypassing.

Only a sliver of our brains is responsible for consciousnesses so it's probably not sentient. Nor is it any more intelligent than moden neural networks. If we however manage to grow consciousnesses like this we have no way of knowing what kind of experiences we create, could be torture. This has the same ethical status as factory farms. Satanic shit.

SD modeling human values, not values as a whole. You gotta realize what SD is and isn't. It answers the specific question of how human values develop and that question shouldn't be expanded. If you want to model larger moral values development among different species, then you should create a new model. Also, human values develop linearly on one scale, It shouldn't be assumed that other animals can be put on that same scale.

"Nobody is intelligent enough to be 100% right 100% of the time" -Ken Wilber

My favorite debate so far is when the other guy admitted I'm right but thought that's it's inconsequential, so he didn't change his mind.

@Carl-Richard ye that's interesting.

JP thinks of chaos and order as being on a scale opposite to one another and life being about balancing between the two extremes. This has influenced my thinking greatly but recently I've intuited that his model is flawed. Here is finally my new and better model: What JP thinks of as chaos, I think of as novelty. I see chaos as something negative. I don't hold these to be opposites on a spectrum but rather as two separate axes. Life is about maximizing both without creating an imbalance by just focusing on just one. In this way, my model and JP's both advocate balance. Complexity, which could also be called life often expresses itself as evolution.