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It’s interesting that the entire American government was hijacked by a billionaire real estate agent who perfected his human skills by creating an image of success and saying the right things to convince bankers to give him loans. He correctly read the public’s frustration that they have no power – major decisions are made that they have no control over. He diverts the frustration into a few scapegoats. Additional diversion and irritation at the status quo is created by a mindless debate fueled by a corrupt media over whether a man should be allowed in a woman’s bathroom finally pushing normies over the edge. Now there is rule by capriciousness with tariffs freaking out the rest of the world. If the Federal Reserve becomes compromised it’s game over. There is a silver lining here: the system is being exposed.

There will always be pain, because pain comes from the physical processes of a biological organsim. But suffering is an illusion. According to The Four Noble Truths there is an end to suffering.

That's why I stick with natural substances. They are fully understood by the body. Synthetics like ketamine and MDMA have nasty side effects.

China is providing a serious alternative model to American style democracy. In China, you have an authoritarian government ruled by the Communist Party. But, America is turning into an authoritarian government ruled by billionaires. With the billionaires increasingly inclined to take direct rule, like Trump has, rather than using surrogate politicians, the American system is looking increasingly capricious and unstable. The Communist bureaucracy assures that incompetent people are weeded out of the system and has provided a stable means of transfer of power. The world will eventually adopt the government model which works the best.

My theory for why politics is so fucked up is that the people who get in power are the people who most want power. So, instead of getting policies that affect the greater good, you get an unbalanced system that serves special interests. The trans issue gets priority over every other issue even though they are a negligible minority. Kennedy gets power because he is obsessed with vaccines. Stephen Miller is obsessed with immigration. Etc. Ancient Athens had a kleroterion machine that would select officials at random from the eligible citizens. If a random citizen was elected president, he would do something useful like fill in all the potholes for the entire country. It would be a common sense action that would improve the life of every citizen equally. Academically derived categories and DEI would be unnecessary.

"Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven ." Matthew 6:1 (NIV) ".... Truly I tell you, they have recieved their reward in full." Matthew 6:2 (NIV) In other words, you get the booby prize.

I have found cannabis to be more useful than most psychedelics. It amplifies my feelings allowing me to investigate and be with them. I get useful insights. I use the ingestibles.

I have mixed feeling about Sadhguru. He doesn’t appeal to me. I don’t fit into his target audience (i.e., confused young people looking for guidance). On the other hand there is a real need out there. Scientific materialism is shallow and empty and doesn’t have the depth to replace religion. There is a resurgence of Christianity among young people. In my opinion, Hinduism is healthier and has so much more to offer. I’m not ready to throw away Sadhguru based on Internet rumors. There really has to be hard evidence of wrongdoing. I hope he is building an organization for the greater good because it is really needed.

I hope the lawsuit fails. It will just lead to more censorship so that we can't get useful information.

Trump is getting the public accustomed to having military troops in the streets. When he steals the congressional mid term elections, they will put down civil unrest. Trump is already pushing gerrymandering in the Republican states to rig the vote. In Texas, it takes 4 black votes to override one white vote. If they succeed with gerrymandering, democracy is over because people will see the futility and stop voting. Then the only option to change the government is violence.

Good luck in convincing them of that. The ego would rather die than admit it made a mistake.

To get the most out of AI, I am more concerned about the accuracy and completeness of the information I am getting than about politeness. I asked Grok about the reputation of a spiritual teacher. It gave me all kinds of disturbing information full of red flags. I then asked Perplexity the same question and it gave me a glowing report of how great the teacher was. When I further challenge perplexity it revealed that it won't give any negative information unless it meets extremely high standards of proof, like legal documents. I personally want all the information, but most of the AI assistants are highly censored.

There is a three day meditation for old students.

The point to keep in mind is that Trump was elected by the middle of the road voters who decided at the last moment to go Republican. This wasn’t an appeal to those lusting for authoritarian rule. The rhetoric from the academic left clearly became excessive and had an effect on young men. The worse was pushing the pronoun nonsense and the over focus on the trans issue. This is the problem with identity politics. It divides people and pits them against each other. The democrats could win with a focus on economic justice that effects everyone.

Only America could turn "Who am I?" into a multi billion dollar industry.

I use to work in Washinton D.C. Most of the government is in the North West quadrant. It was always common sense that you never go to the southern quadrants. Nothing has changed and crime hasn't gotten worse. Trump is using this as a distraction and it takes a really low IQ to fall for it.

American is already an authoritarian government. People are being disappeared off the streets and abducted by masked thugs and put into privately run detention centers (i.e, concentration camps). Do you think this infrastructure is going to magically go away because the democrats are elected? The trend that isn’t going away after Trump is direct rule by billionaires. It use to be the billionaires kept in the background and their politicians did the work. They now want to run things directly. It is interesting to consider what other countries think about this. The two choices to the world are now authoritarianism by billionaires (America) vs. authoritarianism by bureaucracy (China). Other countries are seeing the Chinese system as far more rational and beneficial to its people.

The Democrats need to remember history. FDR was the only 4 term president and he was the biggest socialist politician America ever had. But FDR wasn’t woke. This isn’t complicated.

I did psychedelics intensely for 5 years. I haven’t completely stopped but I now am very, very selective. I realized that at the end of the journey, it becomes just a memory. You are left with a memory and there is no long term changes. It’s unstable. I also had an intense 17 hour trip on San Pedro which pushed me to the edge of insanity. I realized that if you go to far using a drug without prior development your brain can’t handle the expanded awareness. I am now doing intense spiritual sadhana and as a result have naturally lost the desire to take drugs.

Carl Jung gave a psychological interpretation to the seven chakra system which is used in many of the standard books, but I have read other accounts that according to the Tantric tradition they are energy centers that can be perceived.

I believe that Aboriginals and pre-modern people can perceive subtle energies. This perception has been, perhaps permanently, destroyed in modern man by cultural conditioning. The analysis obsessed man can’t perceive much outside his conceptual imagination, so can’t detect these energies and thus declares they don’t exist. They may even be undetectable by any instrumentation. The Aboriginals when they put this into language may refer to the energies as spirit entities, which modern man immediately concludes as superstition, even though what they are referring to is totally real. It’s a limitation of language. Angeles, holy spirit, etc. could also be an attempt to describe energy in language. I also believe that the chakra energies are real even though what you read in books is the same conceptual bullshit and there are few people alive today that can actually perceive these energies directly.

I knew someone who had two NDEs. He had a genetic heart condition and died twice. He had super self confidence and seemed to be fearless which added to the credibility of his story.

Up until the 1960s, a middle class man could afford a home, a wife, and have at least two children. He would retire from his company with a pension. Even people in the upper classes can’t afford to do that anymore. In exchange, we have tons of electronic garbage, smartphones, Internet. A real quality life has been lost and replaced with surface entertainment.

I have found that it is best not to talk about your experiences with psychedelics. Nothing good comes of it. It was meant for you and won't make sense to anybody else.

This has been debated for thousands of years. Shankaracharya believed Karma Yoga and Bakti yoga couldn’t get people to liberation. Shankaracharya in the Vivekachudamani: “The fear and sorrow created by the delusory serpent on the rope can be ended only after fully ascertaining the truth of the rope which is available for recognition only through steady and balanced thinking”. He is using the rope/snake metaphor. You mistake the rope for a snake and have fear, but the fear vanishes once you recognize it is only a rope. Knowledge of the truth gives instant liberation. The catch is that in order to practice the Vedanta, you have to be qualified, which means you need to have a sattvic mind. For most people they just go in circles applying self inquiry with a disturbed mind. That is where Bakti becomes useful in purification. Even Ramana Maharshi practiced Bakhti yoga.