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I have tended to find this to be true. I have taken Bufo many times over a 5 year period and it gives mind blowing experiences. But an experience no matter how intense is just an experience and the next day becomes a memory. There is no particular value to having a mystical experience. I heard in an interview with Shinzen Young that he has been working with scientists on TMS or Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, as a possible technical boost to enlightenment. He says that psychedelics don’t have the industrial strength nor precision to target the relevant brain areas. If psychedelics worked, everyone would be enlightened by now. However, I am open minded, so potentially interested in learning more details on a seminar. If there was a way to use psychedelics as a technical boost that would make subsequent spiritual practice more productive, even that modest goal would be highly valuable.

It's irrelevant what I believe. Trump won because he convinced the swing voters that he was the better candidate. Ralph Nader lays out the argument in the video I provided.

It IS the fault of the democratic party for running a mediocre candidate and an issueless celebrity driven campaign. It's important to acknowledge this and replace the leadership.

Trump is losing the popular support he would need to take over. He promised prices would go down, but his tariffs are just increasing inflation. His support base, MAGA, is maxed out and unlikely to grow any larger. Then the drunken clown Pete Hegseth literally orders every general into a room and demeans them in front of the world and they respond with no applause. Are these guys going to participate in a coup? Ralph Nader believes that if Trump loses enough of the public support, he could be impeached, even by a Republican congress, since their choice would be to go down with him or get rid of him. Also Nader says there are over 100 impeachment charges against Trump, some of them criminal, in contrast to Nixon, who had only two charges against him.

This is an insightful interview with Ralph Nader discussing the problem of the democratic party and what to do.

No, he was more of a conservative or a moderate. The Republican National Convention selected Eisenhower over Douglas MacArthur. McArthur was more of a right-winger. If he had become president, he would have been feared by opponents, and not humored as a fool, like Trump.

Eisenhower supported the Marshall Plan. The right-wing in American wanted to kill the Marshall Plan for the same obvious reasons - why should we help outsiders? If the Marshall Plan wasn't high consciousness, what is? We live in the real world, not an ideal one with perfect actors.

What about Eisenhower? We are in different times now and Trump is not a conservative. He is an opportunist, which is why he has stacked the government with grifters and criminals.

This is a really intelligent discussion with Chris Hedges. He starts out talking about Kirk being turned into a martyr and the importance of martyrs in fascist movements. He goes on to discuss the right’s goal of consolidation of power and the failure of the democratic party.

Context. The goal of the yoga sutras in samadhi. You simply can’t achieve a peaceful mind if you let an evil man stir up emotions inside of you. It doesn’t say anything about taking actions to protect or not. However, in the present situation of an evil man meeting misfortune, indifference means something like neither celebrating nor expressing sorrow. It seems to be prudent advice in this particular situation.

I follow the Yoga Sutras. Pantanjali said that you should treat a wicked man with indifference.

The Internet has adopted the Alex Jones model. No matter what happens, we can no longer agree on the simple facts. At least a few dozen YouTube channels will bury the discussion in an avalanche of trivia. Where did the bullet go? Was there more than one bullet? Bullets just don’t behave that way? What was written on the bullet? Can bullets talk? Did the bullet have any feelings for Kirk? As a result, any meaningful discussion gets lost in a sea of irrelevant speculation.

I know someone who says he is happy and he seems so. He had good parents and escaped most of the traumas of childhood. That is a big factor. I think the emphasis on enlightenment is misdirected. The key to happiness is learning to be fully human. If you wake up and find you are God, but you still suffer, then congratulations, you get the booby prize.

In my opinion, the focus of this forum should be on the completely irresponsible memorial service. First, it wasn’t a memorial service featuring the loved ones and neighbors of the deceased. It was a rally featuring political hacks spuing hatred on their fellow citizens. The running assumption was that “the leftists assassinated Charlie Kirk”, when it is clear by now that no organized group had anything to do with this. The careless use of the word “assassination” implies that he was killed for a political agenda, but the prevailing evidence is that he was murdered by an angry young man, schooled in how to shoot a gun by his MAGA parents, and finding a convenient target. Speaking of the unconscious and projection, the speech by the hate-monger Stephen Miller was full of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KSYjqB_Q-8

I was watching an interesting documentary on Mussolini. He said that the crowd is like a woman. The crowd loves strong men. The crowd is like a woman waiting to be violated. The similarity to Trump’s attitude is striking – how Trump treated women in the past and his relationship to Epstein. It shows that at a deeper psychological level, Trump really has the fascist leader mindset. Trump is no joke. Delving into this deep psychology is complex and the best psychologists and philosophers in the world tried to address it after World War II. But here we are repeating history.

That video of her hamming it up for the cameras in front of the coffin was goolish and sent chills up my spine. I could only watch a few seconds of it. These people don't need more religion. They need to learn how to be human.

It was a murder. Using the word "assassination" buys into the propaganda. A youtube pundit that expresses his opinion isn't assassinated.

On the same day Kirk was shot there was a high school shooting. Why was the Kirk shooting played up and the high school shooting played down and basically ignored? After all, he was just a pundit giving his opinions and not that important. Someone or something in the media consciously makes these decisions. The algorithm doesn’t make the events, but it does choose which of the continuous stream of events gets amplified by the media and imposed on all of us as something important.

The problem for them is how do you maintain memory in today’s virtual reality? The algorithms are already preparing the next big thing. There is no guarantee that in 10 days anyone here will remember who Charlie Kirk was.

A massive memorial service is being held today for Charlie Kirk an is being attended by the president and vice president. His funeral is turning out to be the MAGA version of a gay pride parade. https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/charlie-kirk-memorial-services-glendale-arizona-9-21-2025

Whenever I get the insufficient storage message I delete the browsing data. Then it works.

I agree that the right-wing knows how to exploit the unconscious processes. That part is intentional. The model can explain, as just one example, why people from Appalachia vote for Trump even though his policies will directly harm them.

Isn’t the focus of the model on the unconscious processes which facilitate compliance with untruth, rather than explicit lying?

The Kirk killing is being used for propaganda at a level never seen before. There is now a Kirk memorial, although children killed in school shooting don’t even get a mention from Republicans. This is a very similar propaganda strategy to the cult of Nazi Martyrs. “The forthcoming memorial for Kirk, the co-founder of Turning Point USA, will have Super-Bowl-level security measures, as the event was designated a Special Event Assessment Rating (SEAR) Level 1 advent.” https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5513674-man-detained-charlie-kirk-memorial-arizona/

This is an interesting model which addresses root causes. After World War II, there were psychologists like Erich Fromm who explored the psychological roots of authoritarianism. But all their work didn’t seem to come up with a solution.