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@preventingdiabetes There's nothing wrong with that. How would you feel about taking action on looking for something like that? And if you can't find it, perhaps it's an idea for a (phase of your) life purpose to create it. You can always pivot or change your mind!

Might be, but even with a small cup, I have a noticable crash and a sense of chaotic energy/adrenaline usually Too little data.

So lion's mane + coffee is being sold as 'no-crash coffee'. Mine also has reishi in it. I found it a lot more calming and grounded, no pun intended, but I can't be sure which mushroom to ascribe it to (yet) because I am also supplementing reishi capsules and lion's mane elixir. An experiment with regular coffee + reishi caps will have to be done. It might still be mostly the lion's mane.

Maybe I have that. Drinking only one cup makes me feel euphoric, but slightly poisoned and itchy too. Today I combined it with lion's mane and reishi, which lessened the side effects impressively, and negates the crash. Good, balanced summary @Preety_India If you're sensitive to it like me, it makes you sleep noticably worse, no matter what time you drink it. And bad sleep is a serious long-term health risk and also associated with accelerated aging.

Patterns that I've noticed in these spontaneous tumor healing anecdotes: Patient was very calm, trusting and had a positive outlook Patient meditated and contemplated until they realized why and how the tumor was there to help them. They even expressed love and gratitude for their tumor. And then they healed. So these are good things to combine with taking your doctor's advice.

I've taken literally all the nootropic supplements I own together today. I still feel sleepy as hell. Nothing can replace sleep. Duh. (I got up early because I didn't feel like I completed my work yesterday - actually I messed around on the forum instead of working. It felt useful - mostly.)

And you are totally free to do so. Have you figured out the practical steps? What kind of monastery and where?

I have no idea what I'm talking about, but let's not let that stop me. It seems to me the trouble lies with, when at this sea-splitting level of consciousness, to still want it. You don't care about your egoic desire to prove anything to anyone, or kinesthetically attracting that cupcake, when you're "up there". So it probably only happens when it aligns closely with something like God's Will. That would explain why Moses could do it that one time, but he didn't then make a habit of it. Jesus still walked around most lakes in his daily life.

I see this has been posted already. To keep the discussion unique: Why do we think this guy doesn't get burnt at the stake for being a heretic, but Rupert Sheldrake did?

Don't you just love how they all wear facemasks so they won't give covid to the guy trying to die on a table

It is definitely that, and trying to think differently about things won't help be enough in my experience. Primal therapy is what transformed it for me. These early experienced were not properly processed, so they are influencing your adult life. I needed to go back and process them properly, so I could be free from them. It helped a lot, the issues you named were transformed from the inside. I would say I have 70% less social anxiety since I did that.

No, I wouldn't agree. All these statements are bad advice and fear-based. A fear of one's own mind. Psyche-delic means mind-manifesting. What's on your mind (conscious or subconscious) manifests in your experience. Psychedelics punish fear and reward trust. All these advices are based on the idea that a difficult experience is a bad thing. That distrustful attitude makes it not go well, and people who take this attitude have more difficult experiences and often (think they) have to resort to trip killers and the like. Instead, trust that whatever the psychedelic shows you will be in your best interest. It's happening for you, not against you. It's actually amazing how learning to navigate a psychedelic experience is a model for learning how to navigate life. Of course, respect set and setting And if you don't like something, it's okay to change it. Just like in life. You can change the music, switch between open/closed eyes, walk around if you want. But you can't always change it. Just like in life. It helps to meditate regularly. It helps to practice keeping a symmetrical, open body posture and belly breathing. Have I had fearful moments on LSD? Sure! But then I get to the root of the fear, figure it out, and within an hour I have overcome it, learnt a lot and am super happy again. My first ever trip, I took 2 tabs of LSD, because someone had erroneously told me that if I didn't feel the first one in half an hour, it wasn't going to work. I went through a lot of fearing that 'this was too intense'. And every time I feared that it was too intense/exhausting, everything became grayscale, wet, and a lot of crawling bugs appeared. Then I discovered that breathing deeply made everything rainbowy again, and color returned. So I learnt to breathe through my fear. That was useful.

I'm wondering if there is any link. Who can shed some light on this? Psychic mediums sometimes (not often) hear voices, often hear and see thoughts that are not their own (hearing and seeing in their mind's eye), and also often have olfactory hallucinations (smelling things that are not there). If they interpret those things correctly, it tells them things they could not otherwise have known. Sufferers of schizophrenia often hear voices, often have olfactory hallucinations, and often are paranoid that someone can hear their thoughts. So not the same pattern, but there's some overlap. Also they often smell things, but rotten things, that are just disturbing, not giving them intel. The voices and thoughts they hear are just messing with them, not giving them useful knowledge. What is the difference, what is the overlap? It seems to me that these type of hallucinations are how spirits communicate, and in one case they are helpful spirits, and in the other, they are mean-spirited spirits.

It's actually awesome that we have this hyperintelligent man explaining to us how he would govern the world to the best of his abilities. Because it provides a sneak peek into the dystopian nightmare that would follow if we would let our country or world be ruled by a hyperintelligent machine, and tell it to 'optimize for human happiness'. Is the goal of government to minimize suffering? That would loop back on itself and create more suffering. Government should provide a framework within which for the individual, the healthiest choice (for the whole) is the choice with the least resistance for the individual. Force should not be necessary. My interpretation is that Langan doesn't see that because he lacks empathy. So he fails to account for the innate human need for a sense of agency and models people like logical machines.

@mandyjw Thank you. When I smoke weed, I immediately start "hearing" my thoughts as if they were voices. The thoughts don't necessarily change, but they seem to be coming from someone-who-isn't-me, and I start feeling uneasy because now it seems like there is a stranger in "my" head. (and then I start fearing becoming a schizophrenic, and psyching myself out and trying to numb myself until it's over. It always passes) Your explanation is oddly comforting for this scenario. "hearing voices" is just an awareness of the fact that you aren't thinking the thoughts, that the you is another thought, there's just pure reception. I'll remember that. So how could a schizophrenic tune their reception to a channel where they don't receive these gnarly deceptions, but regular loving thoughts or even guidance?

"hearing voices" is just an awareness of the fact that you aren't thinking the thoughts, that the you is another thought, there's just pure reception. - mandyjw I don't hear voices except when I smoke weed. And the voices I hear are exactly like my regular own thoughts, but represented as something external. This insight comforted me, and if I ever get stoned again, it will make me less scared of becoming psychotic.

I pity these people now (of whom I was one) who force themselves to believe things that are very uncomfortable and cause great suffering to believe. Just because they got brainwashed at a young age into thinking that that is the correct way. Same with hell. "If you have anal sex, a bearded man in the sky will make sure you burn eternally". Does that feel comfortable to believe? Nope. So the comfort argument really doesn't fly as a way to discredit religious beliefs.

Hilarious attempts at rationalizing away evidence for reincarnation by practitioners of scientism: The scientific method just doesn't apply to this. You can't do an experiment using the current version of the scientific method, and prove that someone's soul reincarnates. You also can't prove with current methodology that it does not. I love how that makes these guys sweat and squirm and resort to hypocrisy and fallacies. The eggheaded guy criticized that reincarnation researchers are biased because they want it to be real. Then proceeded to set up an experiment with the goal to prove that it is not real? The experiment involved getting children to make up stories, and seeing if those correlate just as well with people that have existed. Then they picked only the stories that seemed to be very specific, linked them to a real person, and said "Tada, a made-up story is just as easily linked to a person that really existed". Conveniently ignoring that memories and imagination are very similar, especially children often mix them up. He didn't prove that telling the child to make up a story didn't trigger a past memory in her. That's what it clearly looks like to me. And the older devil: "We lost the Christian narrative that helped us cope with the mystery of death, and so we find patterns in perceptions, and pick and choose ideas that give us comfort . [And so that's why we needed the idea of reincarnation]" (notice how the choice of words makes it sound pathetic) LOL? Scientists do the exact same thing, but word it a bit differently. And they don't even see HOW it is the exact same thing. We lost the narrative that the atom is solid, which helped us understand (helped us cope with the mystery of) life, and so we find patterns in perceptions, and pick and choose new models that make sense to us (give us comfort/the illusion of complete understanding). [and now we have (that's why we needed) string theory / quantum physics] We lost the narrative that the sun spins around the earth, that made us uncomfortable, so then we looked around (measured a bunch of stuff, which is just perception with arbitrarily chosen sensors), and needed a new story to make us comfortable again. So interesting and devilish how they just reword the same process, to make it sound pathetic. I used to believe this scientism crap, not too long ago?

Interesting, thank you for your answer. So do you think the paranoid aspect of it (voices telling you not to trust your loved ones because they poisoned you), is related to the repression of it by our culture?

Hilarious attempts at rationalizing away evidence for reincarnation by practitioners of scientism: The eggheaded guy criticized that reincarnation researchers are biased because they want it to be real. Then proceeded to set up an experiment with the goal to prove that it is not real? The experiment involved getting children to make up stories, and seeing if those correlate just as well with people that have existed. Then they picked only the stories that seemed to be very specific, linked them to a real person, and said "Tada, a made-up story is just as easily linked to a person that really existed". Conveniently ignoring that memories and imagination are very similar, especially children often mix them up. He didn't prove that telling the child to make up a story didn't trigger a past memory in her. To me, it clearly did. And the older devil: "We lost the Christian narrative that helped us cope with the mystery of death, and so we find patterns in perceptions, and pick and choose ideas that give us comfort . [And so that's why we needed the idea of reincarnation]" LOL? Scientists do the exact same thing, but word it a bit differently. And they don't even see HOW it is the exact same thing. We lost the narrative that the atom is solid, which helped us understand (helped us cope with the mystery of) life, and so we find patterns in perceptions, and pick and choose new models that make sense to us (give us comfort/the illusion of complete understanding). [and now we have (that's why we needed) string theory / quantum physics] So interesting and devilish how they just reword the same process, to make it sound pathetic. I used to believe this scientism crap, not too long ago? It's very sneaky. They use the fact that "in believing this, they take great comfort" as a way to discredit it. Conveniently ignoring (or not knowing) that how a belief feels is a good indicator to how closely it aligns with truth. What a great deception! I pity these people now (of whom I was one) who force themselves to believe things that are very uncomfortable and cause great suffering to believe. Just because they got brainwashed into thinking that that is the correct way. Same with hell. "If you have anal sex, a bearded man in the sky will make sure you burn eternally". Does that feel comfortable to believe? Nope. So the comfort argument really doesn't fly as a way to discredit religion. That is a good song tho. Bro... If people who died and came back right away (the ones who had a near-death experience, of which many, many great recontations can be found in Shaman Oaks's youtube channel) remember that tunnel, AND children who were recently born remember that tunnel, then how stupid is it to say that the tunnel doesn't exist? That's like saying planets don't exist because you never looked through a telescope, and people who look through telescopes are crazy. And "it brings them great comfort" to look through telescopes and believe that we're not the only planet. ? Interesting parallel: if you die a violent death, your reincarnation remembers your past life better. If you are violently awoken from sleep, you remember your dream better. Do animals know the things they miraculously know (how to do their mating ritual, how to fly around the earth and navigate during winter trek, I'm sure there are better examples) because all of them die violent deaths again and again, and so they compensate their lack of brain size with being able to retain memory and learn across lifespans? Also what's interesting to me that in these reincarnation stories, the kids stopped remembering from the age they went to school. What would we remember if we didn't force-feed information to our children?

@_Archangel_ Interesting! So symbols are just tools, but to see them as that prevents them from working. Rationality is an obstacle to magic. So you have to be willing to let yourself go crazy, to access the wisdom or whatever one is after.

Given that there's a pattern of children remembering their past lives, and talking about them as soon as they learn to talk (I just checked some documentaries), also past life regressions seem to work well, so that points to reincarnation being real. At least at the level where you and I are real. Also, they remember how they died. Which is remarkable, because most 5 year olds don't even know about death

I bet he glimpsed the ox's tail plenty of times Maybe even bit it off. When you realise that humans often have ayahuasca trips where they become jaguars, that's when it gets interesting.

@Onecirrus When you're walking around in nature, where everything that grows and walks around is unprocessed and organic, and you find something to eat, fat, salt and sugar are signs that this is good for you. McDonalds has hacked this mechanism to make you eat their garbage. Why do people keep doing it? It's addictive The "food" is so bad for the brain and mental clarity, that it literally makes you dumber. So it's hard to think clearly and decide to stop. Their friends/family do it, and you have to be pretty mentally strong to go against the grain and be laughed at. Which again, is hard if your brain is withering away because of bad nutrition.

@Alfonsoo Trying to manage it is the wrong approach