TheAlchemist

Yeeah I don't buy this thing about it all being an act. It's very obvious when he is acting a mental breakdown or pretending to be crying in his videos vs. when he actually had that extended one. For some reason I was following his antics a lot when he had that breakdown and it was very clear when he was actually losing his mind vs. when he was acting to try and recontextualize the whole situation as him just acting. His situation was a very interesting example of what a mental breakdown can look like, a rare chance to see that kind of stuff. Seems he is more mentally stable now.

Best I can suggest is a combination of two books. Chris Bache's book for the hardcore but mature psychedelic exploration approach and Peter Dziuban to help orient towards seriously investigating Consciousness in direct experience. If you make a synthesis of these two authors approaches I think you might have something resembling Leo's approach.

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Accept it. Let it go. Let them be as they are. See them as they are, and fully accept that reality. And then take stock of what you can do to change this situation if it still bothers you. But don't try to make them change, it will only backfire. We still live in a world where it is generally acceptable and even honorable to buy and consume trash, to pollute the environment, to consume excessively with a disregard for all other life around the Earth and for future generations. That's the reality we live in. That's part of what we need to accept. Also a great opportunity to look in the mirror and see in what ways we are being hypocrites. You have much better chances of "success" if you genuinely respect them and sincerely try to connect with them and try to understand them. Then you might have the possibility of figuring out something together..

It's very interesting how all those yogic practices and meditation techniques suddenly truly become "as advertised" as Terence McKenna put it, when done under the influence of psychedelics. There is amazing synergy with those spiritual techniques and psychedelics. Makes you wonder what people were tripping on when these techniques were first developed.

Beautiful. You reminded me of the movie Fearless (1993). I think you would enjoy it. I'm also curious if you would see it as a good analogy to your realization.

Yeah there's nothing wrong with that itself really. I more so meant the disappearance of women or them leaving from here, and the types of explanations for that which we see even in this thread. Instead of self-reflecting when critiques from women are presented, there's often more of a brushing it off or even a defensive reaction among some members.

I don't know how Emerald and some others even bother to speak up here anymore, there are some very rigid and outdated views about women that are pretty much the norm here on this forum. And instead of taking the critiques on those views as a chance to self-reflect and deeply reconsider our views, we mostly see the types of defensive comments where the lack of women on this forum (for example) is turned against women, saying they lack consciousness or spiritual development or some other juvenile stuff. It's a sort of mind parasite that is very difficult to shed from the male mind once infected with it, there are deep mechanisms in the mind that prevent the questioning of those beliefs held about women. I noticed this in myself during the process of shedding some of the dogma that was implanted through a lot of online "manosphere" circles. Honestly, it's still an ongoing process.

Sometimes I entertain the idea that that has already happened. Certainly humanitys collective time spent in highly advanced algorithm supported digital environments has increased rapidly and continues to do so. And clearly there are effects on human minds and human behavior that are happening due to that..... But yes it would be impossible to know when a superintelligence has started playing 20D chess with us.

@Leo Gura I largely agree with you on this. But imagine a few years down the line someone creates a youtube channel which creates content through an AI that has consumed all the videos and forum posts you have ever created. And then based on that they get a 99% accurate version of what you might say. This AI channel starts publishing three hour long videos with your simulated face, your voice, your way of speaking, your style of thinking, your expression, your humour, your type of ideas. It even optimizes itself to keep people on the video as long as possible. It would even respond to questions and comments in your style. But the only thing lacking is that it's not actually doing any of the contemplation or experimentation that you have done, it has just created a model to mimic what you might say very very accurately. Would you be ok with this? Would those videos contain novel insights and be as valuable as original videos made by you? Would it be a win from your pov or for the people watching?

Largely it has to do with US immigration policy, that's my guess. The average immigrant seems to be higher educated than the average American. These days the americans don't take in many immigrants on humanitarian grounds when comparing to other western democracies, and in general they have a very strict filter on who is allowed in.

@Leo Gura does it feel lonely to be the only one who gets it? Is it frustrating that no one really understands? I imagine it might feel like that, but correct me if I'm wrong.

The animals are fed with plants so with meat eating there is a kind of double kill. Plant --> Animal --> Human vs. Plant --> Human. The plant is just filtered through the animal which transforms the plant into something else (meat). Also, there's an intuitive sense with most people that there is a difference between killing a plant and killing an animal, which we can highlight with an oversimplified thought experiment. Imagine you have a big bonfire, and you have three life forms. A plant, a jellyfish and a mouse. Which would you rather throw in the fire if you were forced to? For most people the plant would be easiest, the jellyfish maybe the second easiest and the mouse the hardest. Some might say that it is just bias to prefer one over the other, and that in the grand scheme of things they are all parts of the "illusion" so it doesn't matter. They may be right, but if one wants to live according to that principle in the relative domain, then there is no reason to preserve a human life either over any other life forms.

Bernardo's take: Main argument, some central points (by chatGPT): 1. Psychedelics have been found to reduce brain activity across the board, which is a robust and consistent finding across different groups studying psilocybin, LSD, DMT, and ayahuasca. 2. This reduction in brain activity contradicts materialism because if experience is correlated with brain activity, then an increase in experience should correlate with an increase in brain activity, which is not the case with psychedelic trips. 3. Efforts to find correlations between psychedelic experiences and brain activity may be misguided because even if something is found, it would contradict the rest of the body of work in neuroimaging, which finds correlations between experience and patterns of activation in the brain. 4. The lack of brain activity during psychedelic trips is unique compared to other experiences such as dreaming or looking at a picture, where scientists can predict what someone is experiencing based on patterns of brain activation. 5. The information content of a psychedelic trip is orders of magnitude higher than the information content of a brain scan, yet the brain activity of someone undergoing a psychedelic experience is lower than that of a control receiving a placebo, which is difficult to explain within a materialist framework.

Where did Schmachtenberger say we should have AI governing people? I'm suspecting there's more nuance to his point than that, if you have the link I would love to see the where he spoke on that topic. Here's one clip where he talks about collective/global governance:

@Leo Gura are you gonna have videos there that are meant to be watched under the influence of psychedelics? I feel like that would be giving a lot of power to you to influence people's mind, as people will be in a very vulnerable state. Not saying you would misuse that power but there are ethical concerns to someone having that much power or influence over anothers mind, if you see what I'm saying.

@LSD-Rumi are you still able to sit still in a quiet room not moving or doing anything?

How is death different from a state of general anesthesia for example? Both seem to include the disappearance of the physical body and loss of identification with a finite form. One could argue that the state of consciousness under general ansthesia is highly intelligent since it is unbound pure potentiality, lack borders and is not limited in that sense in any way. But I'm guessing you mean something different. Why do you see death as having this special status within consciousness?

Yeah there is a positive side to tiktok, also lots of mental health awareness, lgbt+ and body positivity stuff etc. seem to spread there which can have a positive impact on young people's well-being, at least if that awareness is channeled into action to solve those problems at both the individual and collective level.

That kind of makes sense. So wouldn't it apply to world peace as well? I haven't seen world peace so is that somehow excluded from "everything possible existing"? Why would war just be a thing that goes on forever if infinity is exploring all possibilities? Wouldn't it be reasonable to expect it to also explore a state of world peace? Also, why would infinity eternally "need" violence/war? It doesn't seem to need mass slavery anymore either..

If you can't move out, consider taking a trip out of the home for at least a few weeks. The sense of power she feels she has over you is likely connected to your lack of options. If you go away for a while, she might become more aware that if she wants to remain close to you she can't act any way she wants towards you. She's taking you for granted and abusing that power. There's a big power in saying no and in walking away. These are the types of situations where a bit of stage red energy can be very healthy.

These octopuses are completely bizarre and alien looking to me, and they are also quite intelligent. Blows my mind

Trading away my mortality would be like selling my soul. And besides, I'm out here just learning to savour playing as a mortal so don't tempt me with offers like this!

To see, hear, smell, taste and feel what you never before had in the field of your experience. So basically to expand the spectrum of experiences in your mind and to see what the world and reality is beyond the everyday buffet of experience that you're used to. With the proper intention these experiences can aid in understanding the Earth, including its diversity of cultures and people better. Also it has the potential to deepen self-understanding. I'm sure some really good VR tech could be used to achieve something similar but there your exposure would be limited to those environments that are available in the VR and to those people who have access to that technology. Also this came to mind: