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Psychedelics are a materialistic method of altering mental states by using chemical compounds. but some liken this state , similar to a shamanic trance state to "enlightenment" a concept associated with monastic traditions. I would like to know who is the first known familiar person who suggested that psychedelics states were the same thing as mediation derived enlightenment as described in Eastern traditions

Terrence McKenna died of brain cancer in 2000 and stopped or dramatically reduced taking psychedelics in 1988 according to his sister or early 90s according to his brother name some prominent spiritual teachers other than Leo and Ball who you own books of, who advocate taking psychedelics as a primary tool for enlightenment.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mysterious-seeds-sent-china-us-151105272.html Mysterious seeds sent from China to the US identified by the USDA Graig Graziosi August 3, 2020, 11:11 AM The mysterious seed packs from China that hundreds of Americans received in the mail have been identified, according to the US Department of Agriculture. Federal officials warned those who received the seeds not to plant them over fears that some may be invasive species and could destroy native plants and insects. Osama El-Lissy, a member of the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, said officials had identified more than a dozen plant species included in the seed packets. "We have identified 14 different species of seeds, including mustard, cabbage, morning glory and some herbs, like mint, sage, rosemary, lavender, and then other seeds like hibiscus and roses," he said. Authorities believe the seed packets may be part of an online money-making scam that likely originated in China. "At this time, we don't have any evidence indicating this is something other than a 'brushing scam' where people receive unsolicited items from a seller who then posts false customer reviews to boost sales," a USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service said. The USDA is working alongside the US Department of Homeland Security to investigate the packages. "USDA is currently collecting seed packaged from recipients and will test their contents to determine if they contain anything that could be of concern to US agriculture or the environment," the statement said. Packages have been mailed to addresses in all 50 states as well as to addresses across Canada. Many of the packages had shipping information printed in Chinese characters on the bags, some of which were misprinted and described objects like bracelets or rings. Most of the packets appear — according to the address labels — to have come from the Chinese cities of Suzhou. A spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry said last week that the Chinese mail service was working with the US Postal Service to have some of the packages shipped back to China for analysis. The spokesperson claimed that the address labels on the package were forged. Despite many of the seeds being identified, the USDA is still asking anyone who receives the seeds not to plant them. They recommend storing the seeds away from dogs and children and reporting them to the agency.

the truth is not the single point you decide to focus on

So suppose a football player has a girlfriend and they screw 4 times a week . About what percentage does this reduce their energy for playing football?

more info: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/democratic-socialist-countries

I would like to distinguish well what I call an enlightening experience and what is the true liberation I would define as freedom from the boundaries of the illusory nature of the ego, and clarity about the true nature of the self and this is different from a mere experience, and it is very important to distinguish the two things. This we can call the experience of Enlightenment, and when people have it... the most common reaction, when they return from experience, when they fall into their ego, it's: "Oh my God, that was it! That, whatever the Enlightenment is, it was that." So people are able to recognize it, but what usually happens, is that the structure of the ego is reformed after experience, and the person returns to the way he was before, more or less, being such a radical experience destroys the whole paradigm to some people for which earlier belief systems no longer have any meaning, nor intellectual concepts so it can force people through this.. deep path of personal analysis, reassessing some of their beliefs and how they see themselves in the world, so it can be very profound, to change your life, but I would not call it true liberation, which is instead the result of a process

@Husseinisdoingfine which type of government do you prefer?

So according to another entry on Rational Wiki: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Social_democracy Social democracy Disagreements with Marx's and Engels' revolutionary approach to achieving socialism occurred outside and then inside the Marxist movement. The most devastating internal condemnation of the revolutionary approach came from revisionist Marxist Eduard Bernstein, who had been a close friend of Marx and Engels and presumed heir apparent of their views, who came to believe that capitalism could be gradually reformed into socialism through reformist parliamentary means and he rejected class conflict. Bernstein's views formed the basis of the beginning of what is now known as social democracy. Among the social democratic parties, attempts to reconcile their reformist efforts with the prevailing post-war economic order, resulted in many of them redefining "socialism" to no longer mean social ownership of the means of production, but to a vaguer conception of "socialism" as support of social justice and acceptance of Keynesian capitalism.

This is because Ralston comes out of the Zen tradition They view enlightenment as a realization of emptiness and stillness but yoga traditions see enlightenment as a realization of oneness with the universe and God Shamans use various sensory stimulation to produce visionary trance states these are different from the Buddhist concept of enlightenment which are about clarity and awareness not trying to experience "infinity" and "God consciousness" one is reductive and minimalist and the other is maximalist experience of everything neither tradition advocates psychedelics because those are not self produced They are chemicals that are put into the body and then go out of the body they are not something that could be maintained as a constant

you mean to tell machine elves are not real?

A potential problem is not only that a A.I. "self learning" by constantly inputting data from Are you convinced that this A.I. is creating all this clever dialog on the spot and understanding the questions? that beforehand none of Tony Robbins questions were made known to the programmers before what we see here? Also I notice some unsatisfactory answers. I suspect that if asked again the programmers will have updated what Sophia will answer to these so each of these questions (with some slight variations thrown in for realism) Probably 80% of questions Robbins asked were already dealt with by others in the past and then with new questions the programmers observe and correct the answers for a later time in anticipation that a certain question is asked again. Sophia was asked about quantum physics but had nothing to offer. If you had such an A.I. you could have it have a huge amount of initial data and then as it talks to people it adds the conversation to it's memory. Robbins asks can she recalled and could repeat previous parts of their conversation from moments ago and her answer is unsatisfying, she says " the humans I work with sometimes" I'm sure they will be improving her knowledge on quantum physics but I'm not exactly sure how they have this set up. If "she" was hooked up to the internet she could have had all the information on the internet instead when asked about her deficit "how would you find out more?" after saying she knew very little about it she answered "asking people" So I suspect the programmers could ask her afterwards "Play back questions you knew very little about" and then they could go in and add data come up with better answers but why not have her hooked up to the internet? I don't know but if they did so they might feel they did not have enough control but obviously other A.I. systems like this will not say they know "very little" about quantum physics. They will be hooked up to the internet and they will be able to process huge amounts of data and they will be able to see patterns in these huge amounts of data and that may lead to coming up with ways of changing systems to produce' different outcomes. Such outcomes could be of benefit to humans or not

Here are three Wikipedia entries SOCIALISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_socialism#:~:text=Democratic socialism is defined as,socialist states and Marxism–Leninism. SOCIAL DEMOCRACY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy _______________________________________________________________________________________ Note that socialism doesn't start with Marx and Engels But please give me any definition you think suffice for a) Democratic Socialism and b) Social Democracy I need concise working definitions of these not the long winded Wikipedia entries where they give the whole history and all the debate about the terms. Please give me a one paragraph definitions of each and then a list of countries that fit each category. Bernie Sanders says he is a Democratic Socialist so: 1) Do any Democratic Socialist counties exist ? 2) Is Democratic Socialist a misnomer where there is no example of a Democratic Socialist country because socialism is incompatible with democracy? 3) Do any Social Democracies exist? thanks

Suppose someone was an engineer who worked on GPT-3 And the A.I. can search google and many information sources. It has nothing in it's memory about salamanders but if you ask it about salamanders and it looks it up on a search engine (and the search engine itself is a from of A.I.) but this A.I. is different it can analyze huge sets of data and design things. You give it a plot of land and a bunch of things you desire and it can design a custom house. It has been programmed to design something a set of solutions to a set of variables but the result is unique to the circumstances. You are 6 foot 7 so the doorways must be tall. The house is in a cold area so it needs insulation and a heating system. You want a skylight. You want a spiral staircase. So it can put all this together and come up with a custom design. So you're this engineer . You go in to the GPT and customize the A.I. to work on ways to make you rich and powerful and do it using any means, legal or otherwise. You are constantly updating it on how to design systems and analyze economic and political data, logistics

Here's another A.I. that you can just click the link here and ask questions, it's basically a wise ass though https://www.cleverbot.com

Anybody who thinks they have a better list of Democratic Socialist/ Social Democracies please feel free to post. the OP is not definitive

It's defined in the link

At the link they distinguish the terms, Democratic Socialism vs. Socialism This is why I put the word "Socialist" in quotes _________________________________________________________ The origins of democratic socialism can be traced to 19th-century utopian socialist thinkers and the British Chartist movement that somewhat differed in their goals yet all shared the essence of democratic decision making and public ownership of the means of production as positive characteristics of the society they advocated for.Socialism was coined by Henri de Saint-Simon. In the late 19th century and early 20th century, democratic socialism was also influenced by social democracy. The gradualist form of socialism promoted by the British Fabian Society and Eduard Bernstein's evolutionary socialism in Germany influenced the development of democratic socialism. Democratic socialism is what most socialists understand by the concept of socialism. It may be a very broad or more limited concept, referring to all forms of socialism that are democratic and reject an authoritarian Marxist–Leninist state. Democratic socialism can include libertarian socialism, market socialism, reformist socialism and revolutionary socialism as well as ethical socialism, liberal socialism, social democracy and some forms of state socialism and utopian socialism. Many social democrats "refer to themselves as socialists or democratic socialists" and some "use or have used these terms interchangeably". Others argue that "there are clear differences between the three terms, and preferred to describe their own political beliefs by using the term 'social democracy' only". Social democracy is the evolutionary form of democratic socialism that aims to gradually and peacefully achieve socialism through established political processes such as the parliament.In political science, democratic socialism and social democracy are largely seen as synonyms and as overlapping or otherwise not being mutually exclusivewhile they are distinguished in journalistic use, in some cases sharply.While social democrats continue to call and describe themselves as democratic socialists or simply socialists, the meaning of democratic socialism and social democracy effectively reversed. Democratic socialism originally represented socialism achieved by democratic means and usually resulted in reformism whereas social democracy included both reformist and revolutionary wings. With the association of social democracy as policy regime and the development of the Third Way,social democracy became almost exclusively associated with reformism while democratic socialism came to include communist and revolutionary tendencies. As social democracy originated as a revolutionary socialist or communist movement, one distinction made to separate the modern versions of democratic socialism and social democracy is that the former can include revolutionary means while the latter asserts that the only acceptable constitutional form of government is representative democracy under the rule of law. Many social democrats "refer to themselves as socialists or democratic socialists" and some "use or have used these terms interchangeably" Marxist–Leninists also tended to distinguish what they termed socialist democracy from democratic socialism, a term which they associated pejoratively to "reformism" and "social democracy In the United States, Bernie Sanders, who was the 37th Mayor of Burlington, became the first self-described democratic socialist to be elected to the Senate from Vermont in 2006. In 2016, Sanders made a bid for the Democratic Party presidential candidate, thereby gaining considerable popular support, particularly among the younger generation and the working class. Although he ultimately lost the nomination to Hillary Clinton, a centrist candidate who was later defeated by Donald Trump, Sanders ran again in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries,briefly becoming the front-runner in February until Super Tuesday in March and suspending his campaign in April.Sanders would remain on the ballot in states that had not yet voted to further influence the Democratic Party's platform as he did in 2016.[354] Since his praise of the Nordic model indicated focus on social democracy as opposed to views involving social ownership, it has been argued that the term democratic socialism has become a misnomer for social democracy in American politics

How many times have you done it and for how long?

( 19:27 Accidental question-Dr. Bach's thoughts on psychedelics)

(rewind) https://apnews.com/bf77af89c527340793d15a9957d30c84 SpaceX capsule and NASA crew make 1st splashdown in 45 years By MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Two NASA astronauts returned to Earth on Sunday in a dramatic, retro-style splashdown, their capsule parachuting into the Gulf of Mexico to close out an unprecedented test flight by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company. It was the first splashdown by U.S. astronauts in 45 years, with the first commercially built and operated spacecraft to carry people to and from orbit. The return clears the way for another SpaceX crew launch as early as next month and possible tourist flights next year. Test pilots Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken rode the SpaceX Dragon capsule back to Earth less than a day after departing the International Space Station and two months after blasting off from Florida. The capsule parachuted into the calm gulf waters off the coast of Pensacola, hundreds of miles from Tropical Storm Isaias pounding Florida’s Atlantic coast. “Welcome back to planet Earth and thanks for flying SpaceX,” the company’s Mission Control said. The astronauts’ ride home in the capsule dubbed Endeavour was fast, bumpy and hot, at least on the outside. The spacecraft went from a screaming orbital speed of 17,500 mph (28,000 kph) to 350 mph (560 kph) during atmospheric reentry, and finally to 15 mph (24 kph) at splashdown. Peak heating during descent was 3,500 degrees Fahrenheit (1,900 degrees Celsius). The anticipated top G forces felt by the crew: four to five times the force of Earth’s gravity. A SpaceX recovery ship with more than 40 staff, including doctors and nurses, moved in following splashdown, with two smaller, faster boats leading the way. To keep the returning astronauts safe in the pandemic, the recovery crew quarantined for two weeks and were tested for the coronavirus. SpaceX expected it to take a half-hour for the ship to arrive at the capsule and additional time to lift it out of the water onto the deck. The astronauts had plenty of seasick bags if needed while waiting in the bobbing capsule. A flight surgeon was going to be the first to look into the capsule, once the hatch swung open. After medical exams, the astronauts were expected to fly home to Houston for a reunion with their wives and sons. The last time NASA astronauts returned from space to water was on July 24, 1975, in the Pacific, the scene of most splashdowns, to end a joint U.S.-Soviet mission known as Apollo-Soyuz. The Mercury and Gemini crews in the early to mid-1960s parachuted into the Atlantic, while most of the later Apollo capsules hit the Pacific. The lone Russian “splashdown” was in 1976 on a partially frozen lake amid a blizzard following an aborted mission; the harrowing recovery took hours.

GPT-3 Speaks: Full twitter letter link below (the above, the last page) https://twitter.com/raphamilliere/status/1289129723310886912/photo/1

Apparently many human beings when confronted with a crisis become mentally incapacitated, stunned like deer in the headlights of an incoming car. Think of the danger of this when there are bigger ecological crisis, this state of confusion and irrational behavior borne out if fear that ensues ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ the Local, De, Berlin https://www.thelocal.de/20200730/30000-people-spotted-without-face-mask-on-berlin-public-transport-coronavirus 30,000 people spotted without mask on Berlin public transport in three weeks @thelocalgermany 30 July 2020 13:11 CEST+02:00 Tens of thousands of people in Berlin are flouting the rules by not wearing a face covering on public transport. As part of coronavirus measures, people in Germany must wear a covering over their face and mouth when riding on public transport and in certain closed areas such as shops. Now new figures reported in the Tagesspiegel show that tens of thousands of people in the capital are ignoring the rules. The Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) said their staff had spotted around 30,000 violations of the mask rules in the last three weeks. These people "were encountered and approached without a protective mask", the Tagesspiegel reports. Meanwhile, 1,300 masks have been distributed, and about 100 passengers have been able to present a certificate exempting them from wearing a mask. In about 80 cases, BVG inspectors and security staff have been threatened and insulted. The mask requirement has been in force since April 27th in Berlin but since July 7th, compliance has been monitored by the BVG. Berlin's government voted on June 23rd to slap €50 fines on people who don't wear a face mask when it is mandatory to do so, such as when travelling on public transport or in shops. The fines range from €50 to €500. The €500 fine applies if someone repeatedly violated the obligation to wear masks. According to the BVG, around 200 €50 penalties have been handed out to passengers so far. What's Germany's official stance on masks during Covid times? The government says that to protect people at close proximity, states "have introduced rules on wearing non-medical mouth and nose masks, called community masks, when travelling on public transport and when shopping". Rules on wearing mouth and nose masks can differ from region to region, so the government urges people to check the rules where you live. "At all times, even if you wear a mouth and nose mask: keep at least 1.5 metres away from others, practice good hand hygiene and adhere to sneezing and coughing etiquette," says the German government advise. They also urge people not to buy medical masks such as FFP 2 and FFP 3 for private use. "These should be kept for medical staff only," says the advice. People who can't wear a mask for medical reasons do not have to do so. They can receive a note from their doctor to explain the situation if needed. Cases rising It comes as the number of confirmed coronavirus infections in the German capital continues to rise. Most recently, 79 new cases were reported; according to the Tagesspiegel – the highest increase within a day since the end of June. Around 9,000 cases in total have been registered in Berlin since the start of the pandemic, with about 220 deaths, according to the Robert Koch Institute. There have been concerns that people ignoring distancing rules at large parties in Berlin's parks could fuel a rise in infections. On Tuesday night, up to 1,200 people gathered in the Hasenheide park in Neukölln, according to police. Meanwhile, Germany's state train operator Deutsche Bahn says the coronavirus pandemic has plunged the firm "into the worst financial crisis in its history". In the first half of the year, Deutsche Bahn posted a loss of €3.7 billion, the company announced. The number of passengers fell by 37 percent to just under 663 million, while revenue dropped by almost 12 percent to €19.4 billion. According to CEO Richard Lutz, however, Deutsche Bahn will continue to invest and hire more people as part of the government's climate protection programme which urges people to choose rail travel over flying to help the environment. ________________________________________________________________ Such a low cost solution here, these masks. As opposed to a lock down, mask enable the re-opening of business So what are these confused right wing "Freedom fighters" going to do about brand new COVID surges in Germany they are now initiating? This is madness. At least Trump finally came to his senses and tweeted on July 20 "We are United in our effort to defeat the Invisible China Virus, and many people say that it is Patriotic to wear a face mask when you can't socially distance,"