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I started with Moojiji because I'd heard of him but not much of his content. He's a nut. Finishes some super deep idea, closes his eyes for 10 seconds, opens them "not one more word is needed", continues to stare at the crowd for 30 more seconds. I'll be at least going down his list of 81 highlight videos, and do the same for the others, thanks for your recommendations. Leo if you're reading this, it's almost tragic, because Shinzen Young has such good information. I mean obviously you know this, but it's very digestible for me, I just wish he took good notes like you and focused on the nuances instead of random details. That being said, he's a blessing nonetheless, and I owe him a lot of my progress

I've been trying some teachers in Turqoise now for a bit. I really love Shinzen Young and resonate with what he has to say, but I find he spends 75% of the time talking about details that I don't care about. Really specific kanji symbols, reading the lessons first in Japanese first at times, just a lot of filler. I've read a lot of what you've posted on here, and aside from Complexity Labs which I will be looking for, if you can point me in the right directions of a turqoise, high information density teacher who teaches similar lessons in Zen Buddhism and emotional mastery, especially more heavily rooted in science, I'd appreciate any recommendations. Otherwise no worries, I'll just keep going down the list of people in the Turqoise mega thread

I agree with everything you've said, just want to add that you don't have to trip balls each time. I found a quarter tab easily gets my ol' brain tingling and just rattling off insights. It's certainly a much milder experience, but then it just peaks for a few hours lightly and you can do a three hour meditation during the peak, and then the rest of the day is pretty normal or a light light high. You won't feel mentally drained the next day either

Alright, we'll get some moldavite haha, when it's in stock D:::: Your day sounds awesome btw

This was the best category I could find to put this under, it's just kind of forums logistics. It's fairly important to me to show gratitude, especially to those that have helped me. Not only because I enjoy mutual relationships, but I want to make it clear that I've read and appreciated your advice. However, what this has entailed for me and a lot of other people on many threads is @'ing them, or quoting their comment and thanking them. The only problem is that this tends to bring up dead posts that aren't actively being discussed, just for other people to open up the thread and see someone thanking another person. I love that people are showing gratitude, but maybe if you added three emojis like a thumbs up, a heart, and if you really love me, praying hand (idk why I love that emoji in particular). This would add a nice cosmetic touch, as well as allow us to show gratitude to people that give us life changing advice, without burying the threads where active discussion is taking place. I'm pretty sure you can selectively add emojis, such that we don't become toxic and gang up on each other with thumbs down and angry faces, I just want a way for us to show gratitude without burying other people's discussions. Actually, I'll add some life advice, then we are in the right area for part of the threads. I've noticed over the last few weeks of setting my alarm at 7:30 that if I get up within an hour of my alarm, that it's best to just trust my body that it got enough sleep, and get into the shower. Me and my roommate both confirm that getting too much sleep can kind of paradoxically make you more tired throughout the day, so if you get up and you feel up, I'd recommend hopping in the shower and starting your daily routine

Hi! I'm very STEM oriented and I don't think there are too many of us on this forums, I think we have an opportunity to share our perspectives and both learn something. So I was interested in looking into the crystal hype, and found very little information except for one study done on quartz and glass shaped into quartz crystals. From what I can tell, there was no statistical significance indicating that quartz had any healing benefit, yet out of the 50% who were given quartz and 50% given glass, both sides indicated feeling heat, vibrations, and other strange effects when primed to do so. This was a double blind study, which is some of the best science we can do. I'm not saying crystals don't have real healing benefits, and I would never advocate someone who is benefiting from crystals to stop. However, I think it's important to understand that different things resonate with different people. I can feel the vibrations in my head when those juicy insights are coming, I feel love in my heart towards others. I can see why people believe in chakras and what they are experiencing, and I'm not here to say there isn't any truth to them. However, I would like to advocate for people who don't resonate with this. It's not that we don't love or didn't learn the properties of crystals. I actually graduated with a degree in physics and would love to talk to you about how crystals work, how they are designed, why they are used, I love to teach. While it may be true, I don't feel like I was uneducated to "simple physics", and when I had heard about this I went right to Amazon to buy some moldivite which was out of stock D: Some people just resonate with different things. Personally I'm an optimizer, and i'm that way because I love it. Yesterday Leo recommended the quickest way to enlightenment as staring at your hands and asking questions like "what is existence" and "who am I", so I spent three hours doing this. During this I tried different distances to see if it was easier or harder to merge with my hand, and get that kind of deep experience that comes from a micro-dose of acid, I tried different thoughts and meditation techniques, I just had a good time experimenting. That's what I enjoy doing, to me if I can find a technique that is 5% better, I could save months of suffering for myself and others, and I'm not so much neurotic about that as I am happy to explore techniques. Anyways, we all have our ways of spiritual growth, and I really feel like I live a beautiful life that gets better day after day, and has a lot of love in it, so I hope you can stay as open-minded to my perspective as I'd like to be with yours. I still might get that moldavite though

I absolutely agree, I think there is a certain intuition that arises when you are ready for another experience

this is gold

Tragic haha, maybe one day we can handle thumbs up haha. I definitely figured there was something behind this, and had assumed it was the negative emojis more than people bragging about positive emojis. Shows what I know...

Because of quantum mechanics the world runs on probability, I'm not going to get too deep into the free will debate, but there is no script. The script is a bunch of probabilities of different realities if that makes you feel any better. It's a mystery what you're going to get

Thank you for giving me one more thing to watch out for <3 Do you think there is any necessity to having the ideology to get that far, and then it's something that should be stripped away? Or, do you feel like one can stay away from ideology at all levels of development?

I baited him, my bad D::::::

Is that essay somewhere I can access, or is that personal?

Curse you, don't worry though, you've joined an ever growing list of people I've asked. Have fun next week though lucky bastard

Are you Canadian or can people get 5 Meo U.S. if they look hard enough? Or maybe you are from somewhere completely different

No tricking yourself, just ask yourself the facts. Have you felt any noticeable shift in consciousness? Have you integrated the lessons you've learned into your daily life yet? Do you see yourself having a productive trip? I've been doing acid almost once a week spiritually for the last few months, sometimes just a half dose to get in that insightful head space. I don't regret it at all, it's cheap, and it really has worked wonders for me, I'm sure you'll be fine. If you haven't integrated your lessons from the last session, then what's the point, you still have lessons you need to integrate, get to work. Anyways gl, trip safe

Wish you luck on the down swing, hope it never comes though, gl!

I will definitely consider it, just so that I can make that judgement for myself, thanks!

Would this be improved by SDS while looking at your hand or hindered, and more importantly, why, if you can give me an explanation?

I certainly laughed when you capitalized HATE, I'm slightly confused because you seem to strongly believe and adhere to spiral dynamics, which is in effect admitting that green people are at a higher stage of consciousness than yourself, at least according to your self-diagnoses. I think you are treating it as too rigid of a system, free of nuances. You don't have to shove green down your throat, the truth will come. I don't remember having a distinctly green phase in my life, I certainly remember some of the thoughts I had on the importance of love and remember some more of the yellow ideas coming into my life, but that's happened throughout my life. You don't have to force the truth, you just have to keep an open-mind and look for it. I agree that green can be very emotionally charged, often to the detriment of their cause. They are often unable to listen and take the perspective of those they are debating with, and instead a cycle of demonetization occurs, which I believe you may be in. You don't have to adopt the intolerant behavior that some of the darker side of green shows. You don't have to love every behavior of every green person, they have their flaws and are deluded like the two of us. I do think however that you need to understand that a lot of the ideas green people have genuinely come from a place of love, and while it isn't right for them to crush everyone in the way of their agenda, we've all been ignorant. Learn to love. Learn that sometimes pragmatic solutions and advice we give our friends to end depression are sometimes far inferior to a hug, or letting them know you care about them. Take the good of green that you can accept, and move on. Yellow has plenty of digestible ideas such as non-judgement that you could work on too if green ideas are really giving you the ringer. Find ideas that resonate with you and change your perspective on the world, don't force feed yourself a list of green values when you haven't realized them yet

Alright I feel an end in sight, this has been enjoyable. You're absolutely correct in saying that because a sub element has some property, that the larger system as a whole doesn't have to rely on the same properties to function. My brain certainly doesn't appear to be a quantum computer, despite the QM of reality. I think you chose electron of the three (electrons, atoms, and larger molecules) so that you could use your example of magnetism and not because you wanted to dramatize the electron to brain scale ( a brain being 1.5369415e^32 times larger than an electron quick googling the two). My argument is trying to stay at the same level of abstraction. https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/physicists-smash-record-for-wave-particle-duality-462c39db8e7b Here is an article, for you to criticize it's authenticity if you life, but from it I am taking one quote "But physicists have seen this wave-particle duality for protons, atoms and increasingly large molecules such as buckyballs." I'm focusing on bucky balls, which have about 60 carbon atom Seretonin is C10H12N2O These are certainly on the same order of magnitude as eachother, which suggests seretonin acts quantum mechanically. The stage of abstraction I'm working at is on the AI side, electrons and transistors. On what I would consider the roughly equivalent layer of abstraction for brains as neurons and serotonin. Considering the mass of serotonin and other much smaller ions in the brain, it's impossible to correctly model the brain without considering QM effects in the potential ways these small molecules may tunnel, interfere, and well everything they do. If you don't consider the QM effects at this layer of abstraction, you don't end up with a brain functioning in the same way we do. However, until recently the "equivalent" layer of abstraction of electrons on transistors developed without a strong knowledge of quantum mechanical effects. In fact, now that transistors are getting so small, and there are like 40 electrons or something on a charged bit, they have to actively avoid quantum mechanical effects. In this way, these layers of abstraction between the two differ, and while I'm not nearly intelligent enough to consider the ramifications of that, if any, I think it's a noteworthy distinction between the two to think about. I hope I'm not keeping you from helping out other people haha, I just enjoy the intellectual challenge

Hi this all comes off as really "woo woo" to me, but I think I have an open-mind. Have you tried having a friend placing a crystal in a random part of the house, and you looking for it to prove that this isn't placebo? You'd convince me to buy them certainly

I walk around with sweat pants (they are so comfy) and right now I got this sick ass game of thrones t shirt on me. I really don't spend a lot of time maintaining my self image, I think it would be more accurate to say that I stress about the image I have. I finished first in class, I tend to do well in intellectual situations, and that has caused a sense of pride that when I say something stupid and get proved wrong I just cringe so fucking hard and causes a bit of anxiety, because that image is going to be affected. Even in some of my debates with for example Leo on here, I'll stress about him coming back with some great argument that puts me to shame. I try to just laugh at it, and can usually turn that attitude around pretty quick because I also really value truth and being aware of everything I can be aware of, including my delusions, but yeah, I still feel anxiety in my stomach when I have to come to terms with the fact that I am or could be far more deluded than I thought

I think this is interesting, because I'm kind of the opposite. I tend to have high confidence to the point of narcissism, and we still care about other people's opinions. We feel like we have to maintain an image, and when we get approval, we pride ourselves in our ability to maintain that strong image. I'm not disagreeing with anything you are saying, how could I, just letting you know that us in the higher confidence spectrum are also slaves to other people's opinions

Hmmm maybe I have my fixed ideas, but they don't feel very fixed to me. I have a rough idea of the kinds of teachers that benefit me and other people, and from my experience you differ from those teachers greatly. I wanted a chance to address this potential delusion more than anything, but you skirted again around many of the direct questions I had for you, instead insisting it must by some fixed ideal of what an enlightened person must be. I'm honestly here to learn, and I feel like I have a lot to learn from many people, just not you from my experience. If i'm deluded about my intentions here, I genuinely hope that pops up in my awareness, but I feel pretty certain that you aren't the teacher for me and don't have the intention to address my points. On that note, I wish you all the best, and I'm going to carry on my own way... gl!