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I agree with everything @The0Self said in this thread about meditation/Jhanas @Someone here If you want something else to make you high naturally, other than meditation, go all out doing some cardio activity for 30 minutes or almost all out for an hour

Yea I completely agree, it just depends on which perspective we want to look at obesity, and here it gets into philosophy. Its kind of like a physicalist say human is just a bunch of atoms - well, from one perspective it's true however we all know humans can be understood at many different levels and there is much more to them than just atoms Holistic vs reductionistic understanding. "If you would have the right genes, you would be completely immune to obesity, so it's genes that cause obesity" This statement is true in a reductionistic sense. But of course, it's a very limited understanding of obesity. My subjective take on obesity: For the majority of people in the middle of the normal distribution, obesity is caused by: dietary protein deficiency (often severe); an environment in which very tasty food is easily available; not enough physical activity during a day; alcohol which adds a lot of aditional empty calories For the people at the far end of the normal distribution (people from "My 600-lb life"): It's mostly due to their very bad genetics and bad prenatal envirement. "everybody can be lean, but not everybody can be lean and not be miserable" applies to them and I think some small percentage of people should accept being just overweight, not morbidly obese category but overweight.

Yes, but it's hard to adhere to a calorie deficit, because of appetite which if you don't satisfy - you suffer. Ultimately that's why we have an obesity epidemic. All it takes to get to 4% body fat as a male and 12% as a female is a calorie deficit, it's just that simple! Yet of course we all know appetite is our enemy. That's why people need to take steps to make calorie deficit easier to adhere to, like low calorie-dense foods, intermittent fasting, perhaps keto for some

Do the math again, you are adding one too many zero. 1 pound of muscle = 6cal 2 pounds of muscle = 12cal 5 pounds of muscle = 30cal 10 pounds of muscle = 60 calories! Unless you mean exponential growth but that is even more ridiculous, as gaining 100 pounds (45kg) of muscle would add 60000 calories to your BMR . So again 1 pound of muscle adds about 6.5 calories to BMR and if we multiply that by 10 we get 65 calories, not 650 calories! About a year ago, before I stopped lifting due to arthritis, at the age of 25 I had about 45lbs of muscle more than when I was 15 years old. So by your estimates, I should add at least 13500 calories to my total daily energy expenditure, just kind of moving around because of all these muscles. So let's say my TDEE at 15 was ~1900+13500=15400 Absurd. I would get morbidly obese extremely quickly eating 15400 calories (leaving aside that it would be impossible for me to eat that much, but anyway). I hope nobody follows the advice of adding several thousand calories for 10 pounds of muscle built It doesn't make sense because metabolic adaptations simply do not occur to such extremes. Even people with hypothyroidism at best have a 15% reduced metabolic rate. Chris Bumstead would have to break the law of thermodynamics for his metabolism to slow down like 85%(?) Not everybody has the genetics to achieve these numbers even with 20 years of intense training and proper dieting. On the other hand, someone with elite powerlifting genetics will have them while still being a complete beginner (for him). Andy Bolton squatted 484 lbs and deadlifted 572 lbs the very first time he tried the lifts. Genetic variability in how much muscle/how strong people can get is huge.

Until you’ve committed to a hardcore spiritual practice for 15 years you really have no idea what you’re talking about with this. You’re reifying a very limiting *belief* taken on as an ego position that is not based in direct experience. There are also states which you can't access through 5-MeO but you can through meditation.

Eric Helms, Menno Henselmans, Mike Israetel, Layne Norton, Greg Nuckols... are guys I pretty much grew up with, they are great. There were times when I was obsessed with bodybuilding and was learning as much as I could about BB/powerlifting @The0Self I would agree with almost everything you said, except... Your absurd estimations of calories burned by muscle. Dude, I don't know from where you took those numbers but they are totally inaccurate, not even close. Have you ever been counting calories and watching your weight for more than 3 months? Well, so there is no way that Mr. Olympia Chris Bumstead: 240 lbs monster, doing intense weight lifting AND cardio, would stop losing fat at two thousand-something calorie diet, right? I mean if your numbers are correct then he should be losing weight dangerously fast. Wrong, he stalled on his diet and had to literally lower his calories to 1800 to continue losing weight for competition. https://www.verywellfit.com/how-many-calories-does-muscle-really-burn-1231074 "There is a longstanding myth that says that if you put on 5 pounds of muscle (which is a challenge, even for young men), you could burn an extra 250 calories a day at rest (i.e., one pound of muscle burns 50 calories). The problem with these numbers is that there aren't any real studies to back them up. Dr. Cedric X. Bryant, the American Council on Exercise's chief science officer, says that research suggests that a pound of muscle only burns about six to seven calories a day. Obviously, that's a big difference from 50. However, it is still three times more calories than are burned by a pound of fat." 1lb of muscle = 6.5 calories 6.5x10=65 so 65 calories instead of your 600 This is again just so incorrect. I don't know what your definition of relatively-strong trained person is but there is no way some average height relatively strong person will burn 4000+ calories in a day without training. It can last up to about 72 hours for beginners. But yea it quickly drops to 48 and as you get more advanced, probably will drop even more. When I say weight loss I assume fat loss by default, not muscle loss of course. I think even people without much knowledge in fitness know that you should not lose muscle on a diet and weight loss is about losing fat. Muscle loss is not much of a concern unless you are eating less than 1.6g of protein per kg of body weight, or dieting to very low body fat %, or were lifting weights but stopped on a calorie deficit diet. When I go out for an hour long walk to do about 7000 steps, I count it as cardio. By cardio, I don't mean just running, fast cycling etc. but also just walking. BTW I know there are other things you have to do/care about to lose fat/maintain low body fat. I just posted this one thing about steps and hoped people will add this on top of other things like eating an adequate amount of protein, eating low-calorie-dense foods, potentially strictly counting calories...

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Training for hypertrophy/strength in the gym doesn't burn a lot of calories compared to cardio. Having more muscle on your frame increases your appetite adequately, so the overall effect of having more muscle which burns more calories at rest is small protection against obesity. I'm speaking from my own experience too btw Yea it's overrated if you think just exercise is gonna make you lose a lot of weight. But it still does have a significant effect up to a point. If you would burn 500 net calories every day from exercise and somehow your appetite wouldn't increase from it, that would be very significant. I only burn about 330 calories from exercise every day and even that allows me to maintain a lower body fat compared to not exercising at all. The problem is that as people exercise more than ~7000 steps I've mentioned, they just compensate for it by eating more because they're hungry. Calorie restriction is the only way to lose weight. It can be achieved by eating less or exercising more or both

@KennedyCarter Suplemment some whey protein or powdered protein made for vegans. Look like you lost some muscle cause probably your protein intake was too low. There is a lot to gain from increasing protein intake to 1.6g per kg of body weight in terms of muscle protein synthesis and appetite suppression

Well, it kind of is. I often fool my brain with aspartame, the brain gives me pretty much just as much pleasure for it as for sugar

"Psychokinesis is an alleged psychic ability allowing a person to influence a physical system without physical interaction." I don't see why physicalist science wouldn't be able to study the effect people claim it produces

From The One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge

I think it's mostly just like lucid dreaming. It all happens in a lucid dream. Of course, some people may lie too They talk about it here in 1h and 8minutes https://deconstructingyourself.com/dy-014-diving-deep-jhanas-guest-leigh-brasington.html

Leo says that God has no bias, yet he clearly displays bias while in infinite consciousness God Mode state: 39:26 I once asked you if you could burn alive while in this powerful temporary state and you said something along the lines of "yes it wouldn't matter to you" so then how you can(?) have no bias towards burning alive but have a bias towards young bodies of fertile females? I also have one more question for @Leo Gura I wonder if what you call God Mode on 5-MeO is the time from the peak to until weak effects? meaning about let's say from 25 minutes to 1h and 10 minutes *it's just to illustrate, not necessarily an accurate picture When you talk about walking to and using the computer, bath, or potentially even masturbating, I suspect what you call God Mode is already after the peak effects, right? Or are you actually mean you do these things within ~5minutes of peak effects (at least for me) or that your peak actually lasts like 40minutes?

Not only the prefrontal cortex creates the self and duality. For example, to get enlightened persistently you have to rewire the whole default mode network and task-positive network. The brain doesn't work like isolated areas only responsible for doing something and exchanging information to other isolated areas which have their own role to do. Brains actually seem to work more holistically Here is a great podcast about this:

If you find it scary, I think you haven't deeply contemplated what it really means. If there is no consciousness (leaving aside whether or not it's really unconsciousness), there is 0 suffering, not even a possibility. @Being Frank Yang Have you ever reached Visuddhimagga level jhana? Supposedly in Visuddhimagga Jhanas, you don't even hear anything if someone screams directly in your ear, but only about 1/3 of the monks are able to enter it. Did you explore temporary states of 'tapping into Ultimate Reality,? which Kenneth talks about here: And here: Those are different from classical jhanas

I'm very excited about the interview with Curt Jaimungal coming soon Have you ever reached a state where there was no craving/body and mind had no biases (but you were still conscious)? Do you think sensations of the body, colours etc. have to disappear for this to happen?

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at one time I could enter 5th Jhana but now I'm working to get to access concentration again

Interesting story on Reddit how she took on average 250ug of LSD every week for 10 months: https://www.reddit.com/r/Drugs/comments/4whrnx/i_did_so_much_acid_i_almost_died/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 and permanent effects it had on her: https://knowingless.com/2018/01/17/permanent-mental-effects-from-lsd/ Cliffs: She has an insane sex drive, wants to have sex but can't find any men good enough to have sex with -"Saying no to sex is a form of power – not because I want it to be, but because of the way the system is set up. A: Men want something (me), and B: They cannot get the something – because I’m the sexual ‘selector’ and thus sexually superior to them. I only say ‘yes’ to men I find sexually superior to myself" -Even if she gets "Chad", her brain still constantly questions if he is good enough “Are you sure you can’t do better?” -She often has to dull herself with a lot of alcohol if she wants to shout her questioning brain to be intimate with men -Likes forceful, brutal sex because somehow it subconsciously means for her that she had no choice so didn't give up any power as a tradeoff -Was almost raped, says it was horrible but still fantasizes about it Brutal female survival adaptations.

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