JuliusCaesar

Also, shoutout to OBEler, thank you for helping me realize that there's a possible non-magickal solution to the occurrences described under Subject #4.

Are you also interested in knowing the circumstances under which this happened to me that you might recreate the same in yourself?

An astute observation, this goes to show that "non consensus" reality has a a consensus of it's own. I wrought a small thesis on Datura trip reports. Perhaps I should post it here?

Consider the possibility that this may be false. Not opining on anyone else's experience. Personally, I've done what you would call paranormal things of this nature, but mostly this has not been with mind-altering substances or plants. I tire of describing the depth of most of the experiences which have formed the aspect of my worldview in question here. But a while back, I wrote a fairly succinct(well,succinct given the raw amount of information I'm trying to articulate) statement detailing it all on another forum post so I'll go ahead and quote myself now. "I mostly don't discuss my awakenings that are similar to Leo's to any degree here. I usually only discuss the things I've managed to do from certain states of consciousness that are more practical and in the realm of observable consensus reality. To bottom line what's happened to me/what I've done. It all started in around August of 2018, I experienced something that in my understanding of reality at the time should have been impossible. Basically, I started meditating on the thoughts of a character from a TV show(like whenever he'd speak I'd repeat what he says in my mind trying to practice for an impersonation). So I did this practice for about half an hour in the morning, and it totally shifted my personality, I noticed that not only did my voice sound a bit more like his throughout the day, but my automatic responses to things were based on his behavior. This alone had me a bit surprised, but the most incredible thing that occurred here is that I caught lactose intolerance from my aunt, when I've been with her experiencing episodes of LI in the past with my ordinary personality this has not happened/wasn't possible. Fortunately, the next morning when I woke up the effects of the practice seemed to have worn off as I returned to my normal self(which includes me losing the lactose intolerance I acquired from my aunt). Anyway, this made me realize that the belief I had back then that my body is somehow separate from my mind(which every materialist believes) doesn't comport with reality very well at all. In reality, my mind clearly seems to be creating my body somehow, as when I altered my personality my physical body changed with it much as you'd expect only a brain-altering drug can do. I reasoned that if the boundary I experience between my mind and physical body is ultimately arbitrary, then there must be some way of collapsing it, a state from which you could alter yourself mentally at will. And then I realized that if it's possible for me to alter my physical body with my mind, it's probably also possible to alter the "external environment" as well. Or in other words, there must be some kind of way of collapsing the boundary between human imagination and not only the human body which is an instance of physical reality but all of physical reality. So basically, this one experience made me realize the reality of the possibility and potential of humans functioning in a psychic capacity. There was one chink in my armour though, all of those realizations I mentioned above occurred to me from Caesar's personality(Caesar in Hercules the Legendary Journeys, the man I had become by attempting to mimic). That personality has a higher awareness of its past experience and a slightly higher awareness of logic than my own self(I'm more aware of present realities and what I'm going to do in the future). So when I returned to my ordinary self, I was kind of confused even though everything had just been so clear in my mind when I was Caesar. Consequently, I felt the need to study this subject in depth from a third-person perspective so I did. I found Dr. Joe Dispenza, who claimed that he was reduced to a paraplegic in a biking accident. His spine was broken and "irreparably" deformed, Doctors wanted to perform Harrington Rod Surgery on him. But for some reason, he declined and decided to try to heal his spine by the power of his own imagination. Reasoning that he couldn't do the healing, but whatever intelligence exists within that is giving him life can. So he imagined his spinal column being reassembled over and over all day long for about 6 weeks. At first he says, that it was difficult to continue as his mind was plagued by negative melancholous thoughts of the nature that he felt he'd be bedridden his whole life. But he pushed through, then he says eventually his body started responding to his mind. Then more and more powerful was the effect until his back was completely healed. When I first heard him say this I was skeptical of course. Thinking he may have fabricated the whole thing. But in reading his book "You are the Placebo", I found him saying that the placebo effect was discovered by a WWII medic named Henry Beecher who ran out of morphine. So he started using saline solution before surgery instead. Just under about four out of ten of his patients didn't experience any pain whilst being cut on. I checked NIH sources to find that the story is true. And realized that what's observed here should only be possible in a dream, not in a materialist universe as consciousness is believed to be separate from matter under materialism. Much like the strange things I experienced in the personality change. So basically, I realized there was no logical reason for my skepticism of Dispenza, especially considering the nature of the vast quantity of testimonials from his students. They all tell similar stories to Dispenza basically, where they managed to do things medically impossible via basically industrial-grade meditation they learned from Dispenza. At some point after this, I was seeking some kind of meditation course designed to activate psychic abilities or to be more specific, what they call remote viewing in myself. I found Arvari, and bought the course though I felt the sales page was overhyped and had a bit of a too-good-to-be-true vibe to it. Anyway, I completed the whole course(including the Remote Influencing course). And then I used the extended RV meditation to foreknow the drawing of the Megamillions lotto. I didn't want to buy a ticket because I wasn't certain at the time if I what I was doing would even work. So I just did it on an experimental basis, which in hindsight looks like a mistake. Anyhow, all the numbers were the correct numbers but 4 of them were in the "wrong order". I say this because at the time I didn't know the rules of the game, so I thought incorrectly that the order of the 5 non mega balls was relevant but it turns out it isn't or in other words, if I bought the ticket I would have won the lottery, but I thought I had failed at the time because I didn't know what any moron who's ever bought a Powerball/Megamillions ticket would know due to my assumption that the order was significant. So I concluded that Arvari wasn't powerful enough for me as I was under the delusion I had failed. Resulting in me searching for more powerful methods. I reasoned that Lucid Dreaming would probably be the way forward due to the fact that I could if I became lucid, command future information to be known to me. So for the next two years or so(I had first bought and practiced with Arvari in mid to late 2019) I was attempting to lucid dream. Using mostly conventional methods you can find on the web. Nearly everything I tried seemed to fail to yield any results as I couldn't manage to get Lucid. And when I managed to succeed by one method, which was by sleeping on a binaural beat track designed by Hemi sync to induce lucid dreams, instead of hitting the lottery I experienced God-realization instead. Which at the time I had no clue what the hell to do with. Taking responsibility for the fact that I'm the creator of everything wasn't something I was yet mature enough to do at that space/time. Much like when I had at a time earlier experienced God-realization on a psychedelic I had taken with medicinal intent, when I entered the normal human state I explained away the experiences. Though I was more accepting of the Lucid dream God realization as I realized I couldn't logically explain it away. Whereas with the psychedelic it was really easy for me to convince myself the drug made me lose my mind. Then, on April 1st, 2020(I'll never forget that day because it was April Fool's) I arose from a dream that showed me the riots and political calamity caused by the George Floyd incident in May of the same year. I also became aware in the same dream, of an increase in natural disasters, including widespread forest fires and an increase in tornado/hurricane occurrences that was to unfold in the months and years to come. In the dream, I was perceiving symbolic language and was perfectly comprehending its meaning. But when I had returned to waking consciousness, I entered the normal human state from which this type of omen interpretation wasn't possible. All the predictions I made from within the dream either have come to pass or are currently still ongoing at this space/time. However, I also made fear-based projections from a normal state based on this experience, and none of those predictions came to be. Like I was afraid that maybe since there would be rioting in the streets that it might reach me in suburban America, but it did not. Then sometime later, I bought some XRP for well dumb reasons to be honest. One morning I awoke from a dream where I saw a chart of Ripple over the Dollar, and the bottom was falling out of XRP. At the time, I was stupid enough to doubt the legitimacy of the prediction so I sold half and kept the other half. A few hours later the SEC launched an investigation into XRP and it started tanking. Then I later bought some BTC, for also dumb reasons but not so dumb as the reason I bought Ripple. And of course, I arise from another sleeping dream. In the waking world it was about early to mid October 2021, the price of Bitcoin was around $55k. In the dream I saw Bitcoin forming a double top at approximately $66k. So I set an order to sell all my holdings at $64k to be on the safe side. A few days later it was hit, I only made about 44 dollars due to the small amount I had put in. But hey it's better than losing money eh? There have been many instances of precognitive dreams occurring in human entities historically. Though we only have a public record of famous examples, like my historical namesake's wife Calpurnia dreaming of him being stabbed to death prior to his assassination. So it would seem that precognitive dreaming is a natural human ability, though it's more likely to occur in some individuals than others. And it mostly occurs without conscious control of the entity. In my case, however, it seems to be a hybrid of conscious control and unplanned. Because I had spent a long time trying and failing to lucid dream in order to win the lottery. But then I gave up and experienced dreams that did predict financial events I took advantage of. Anyhow, I found Leo after my XRP precognitive dream but before my BTC one. It happened as a result of me doing further study in lucid dreaming. I had the realization that the majority of the people practicing lucid dreaming are mostly deluded. Because they think their waking reality isn't a dream, but to lucid dream effectively my experience indicated to me that you basically need to realize that your waking experience is a dream. So I put into youtube, "Life is a dream" to try to find a new lucid dreaming technique and that's how I discovered Leo. He had a somewhat superior position to my own in the sense that he had gone further into God-realization than me. And as such, he made better sense of the fact that I'm God which is something I knew prior to this but didn't really understand too well. And certainly, I wasn't confident enough in my human-level understanding of this to discuss it with other people. Especially since any ordinary person thinks you've lost your mind when you talk about some of the radical things I've experienced." Understand that when I say "magick", what I am really saying is that reality is doing what you command it to do. How faithfully it responds to your commands we can call your power level. Which you have because you're an omnipotent being imagining itself to be limited in power. Or another way of articulating this, perhaps the best way of articulating this. Is that your waking world is actually a dream just as much as your sleeping dreams are. And as such, it's possible for the dream characters to bring the dream under mental control. They are both simultaneously. Nothing "makes" them this way, not any more so than anything makes you as you are now. There is no mechanism by which reality is being generated. If you were to try to assign some kind of explanation, it would be that we God will it so and so it is exactly as we want it to be. And then from there you mostly have less important truths about the chains of causality involved. I've only done this once actually(though I consumed seed matter when Chumash consume the root, I also used Wrightii when they use Innoxia, but anyway). My ability to understand what's occurring in these third-person instances arises from 4 different things. Using the understanding I've acquired from the "paranormal" things I've done in past, combined with what I've learned about her from yes the one and only time I've experienced her, also combined with my limited awareness of neuroscience applied to accounts by the Chumash. And finally, and this may not surprise some of you. But my understanding of Toloache is also derived from the assertion that she's either a member of the Orion Group from the Ra material, or some similar negatively oriented entity. I have confidence in the validity of the Ra material, because firstly, much of what I've read in it is true in my own experience. Especially Ra's understanding of the energy rays(the energy of what yogis call chakras), and secondly I've exchanged telepathic communication with Ra in the past albeit by accident so yeah. Oh and if you want me to cite my sources relative to the third-person experiences I've mentioned just ask.

It's more accurate to call them mental laws, which are distortions of the law that states that all things, all beings, are one. There is a standard of evidence I'm following, it's direct experience. I know that probably sounds overly simplistic to you, but it isn't. And unfortunately, I can't like Leo just tell you to use my methodology. Because that involved me personally ingesting Datura, which as I've told you is nearly always a fool's errand. While that's an interesting theory, psychedelics, like everything that exists are created by our mind. Therefore, it isn't logically necessary that there be such a connection between archetypal beings and these substances. We imagine(though you as a human are not conscious of it at this spacetime) that they are more highly evolved sentient beings inhabiting foreign planets. The fact that we also imagine that some of them have made themselves into earth-bound plants so as to give us a foothold into their worlds has no direct causal link to the actual chemical constituency of the plant matter in question. At the same time however, due to the mental rules present here that permit mind altering chemicals to function in humans much as neurobiologists expect. If we isolate these substances from the plants and gave them to a human they'd produce some similar effects. This however, is not likely to work as a means of establishing a means of interaction/communication with these same alien entities as eating their plants would. As the reason these beings are experienced is because they've by their own power infused themselves into the Earth this way. Likewise when you eat them, they become a part of you, and you a part of them even if only temporarily as is often the case in low dose usage. You're stuck with a limit I had for a long time early in my studies of her(Datura). In that, I read trip reports from westerners using her on a recreational basis. When you study Datura's use by Amerindian Shamans and even sometimes their laypeople, however, it starts to become clear that there's a better way of doing Datura(you still shouldn't do it anyway for the reasons I've cited already but that's beside the point). I noticed that the tribes such as the Yaqui who don't practice fasting prior to ingestion have hellish experiences and suffer a powerful deleterious impact on their physical vehicle. In spite of this, they've somehow developed a highly complex methodology that's still effective in conquering her power. Many other tribes however, like specifically the Chumash of Northern California. Fast for a duration of not less than 21 days prior to ingestion. And the deleterious impact she has on the Yaqui they've been safe from. The Chumash have managed to see into the future of consensus reality with her, as well as many other very radical things. They also have managed to do magickal healings on an emergency use basis(little to no fasting prior) and to counteract/determine whether or not things they superstitiously interpreted to be bad omens truly were so(and it's common that they discover they were wrong). In such emergencies, the same danger is present here faced by the Yaqui. That the anticholingerics competing with choline for receptors tends to produce some nasty effects(humans derive their acetylcholine from food). Those being forced apoptosis en masse from nearly every organ in the body, and powerful delusions we in the west call schizophrenia. The schizophrenia is temporary, and only experienced if the entity remains awake. If they sleep while under the influence which the Chumash always do, then they don't experience such illusions.

This is an excellent point, furthermore, their love of self is nothing other than the love of God for Godself ultimately. This reminds me of when 434 said that he once killed a machine elf. It was some kind of dragon being obviously evil entity, so he attacked it with his mind and found it fleeing him. Then he continued pursuing to attack it until it died. The machine elves were offended horribly by the humanness of his(434's) behavior, in part because death is something that normally didn't occur in their reality. And banned him from their realm for a total 6 months. For 6 months, no matter how much psilocybin he ingested, he couldn't trip because of his human folly. I can't help but think that I must feel about Leo's views on men such as these much the same way the elves did about 434's similar behavior. At the same time however, I accept the fact that since it's Leo's dream from his own perspective, it's his right to reject or accept whatever aspects of us he chooses. And that's ultimately also the same love that makes men like Donald Trump act as they do.

This doesn't comport with my experience of reality very well. From my perspective, you're clinging to unnecessary limitations. I understand, however, that in your experience what you're saying ostensibly is true. But keep in mind that absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence. After all to an orangutan, there's no evidence in his direct experience that it's possible to build a spaceship for example, he'd probably even struggle to imagine such a thing as it involves so many concepts that aren't real to him. It's something I've experienced firsthand. Though it's also something I've read in third-person accounts as well. This "physical reality" is a dream, and as such it's possible for certain sentient beings to bring it under the control of their consciousness. As such there can be and are alien entities that are more powerful than humanity currently is, and who are capable of doing this. To be candid, I'd probably prefer it if you didn't. If the whole world besides me were exactly like this, then I'd get to become the only human beyond the limitations of possibility for ordinary mortals. Also, until you can prove the things I'm claiming in your direct experience, it's probably best if you don't believe them.

Of course, I have to trust him enough to let him succeed/fail here on his own as he will. It's not at all wise for me to think of him as some kind of stupid child that needs coddling. Always.

Of course, it's just that I long had such high hopes for you because of the seemingly impossible progress you've made so far. And now that it seems in my perception I'm not helping you to reach the potential I had envisioned for you, well it hit me really hard. It gives me pause to realize that I might create a future where I'm the only living human entity in this reality. And that I might be alone here for billions of years. As if it wasn't bad enough that I started morning your "loss", but then I had to mourn everyone else's loss also. I was like a self-licking ice cream cone of sorrow there for a few minutes lol. True, plus I have the fact that I'm currently in a relatively normal human state. And as such I don't know that my fears about Leo's fate, as well as the rest of humanity besides myself, will ever be realized. Of course, I'm soon to rob myself of this luxury of mortal ignorance. But for now, it works out fairly well.

Leo added tremendous value to my life, in that he entered the scene shortly after my awakening. But I wasn't really sure what to do with it from my human perspective. And I sure as hell wasn't going to discuss it with others as I knew they would think me insane. Well, Leo changed all of that, and for a time I couldn't help but feel as though we were in sync. For example, sometime in January of last year, I realized that my human self could become Omnipotent and decided consciously to pursue that end, then Leo uploads a video 4 months later where he experienced an Omnipotent state on 5 MEO Malt. Sure, Leo rejected my views on the possibility of a man-God because I don't differentiate so dualistically between God and man as he does, or between life and death as solidly as he does etc. But now... I've tried to help him consider higher possibilities for himself. However, I currently feel as though I've failed him by trying to push him to do things he doesn't want to. And I can't believe this but I actually started crying when I first started writing this. What the hell is wrong is with me that I think it's okay to morn Leo as if he were somehow lost for eternity? Clearly.... clearly I need to put a little more space between my human attachments and this dream.

The whole point of my post is to advocate for views and practices that can take humans beyond their limitations in their ordinary life, bringing permanent change to their baseline state of consciousness. I've personally spent a great deal of time in the past months studying her from both a first-person perspective of my own experience with her and also from a third-person perspective integrating the experiences of occultists/shamans from Amerindian tribes that corroborate what I've experienced also. I've learned that the possibility for exactly the kind of work I'm describing here exists with her. The problem is, that the downside is so massive that it isn't worth it. Because at the end of the day, there's always a better way. The reason I spoke about her, was to solidify my point about how Leo is partially wrong in his assumption about selfish beings being incapable of doing high-level work in consciousness/spirituality. But correct in the sense that there is in fact a level of development that they can't touch without sacrificing their selfish orientation. Specifically, the octave of unity is unassailable to them, because the concept of separation is the bread and butter of their negativity. So while Toloache may be able to create a statue out of nowhere, or even entire people out of nothing. At the same time, there's unquestionably an upper limit to her spiritual potential due to her selfishness. Or in other words, there's such a thing as what you might call a highly dualistic version of nondual spirituality. Wherein entities only merge with other entities selfish like themselves and within that framework, they do spiritual work.

I suppose that by your standards Einstein thought too much about physics. Oh well, less thinking and more doing for me in the future. In the eyes of the majority of people in our culture, everything Leo teaches is crazy, but that doesn't change the fact that it's true. I understand that you believe me to be in some sort of state of psychosis. But consider the possibility that I'm so sane you've blown your mind.

You know, I've communicated telepathically with Ra in the past so maybe some level of my subconscious is still actively reliving that experience from time to time.

I respect your decision not to attempt to integrate your Stage Red shadow. We all have shit we don't want to face. But you seem to be reducing everything I've said only to this, and are ignoring the fact that ultimately, I'm saying you should be probing the unknown possibilities of existence in ways you haven't yet considered. Especially in the domain of making your spiritual practices more utilitarian and practical in your human life. This is the key to reaching the next level of the work you're doing. Did you read what I've written down? Clearly, I say that Toloache(the being living within the plant and it's creator) would make you her bitch if you followed the instructions I gave. If you think psychopaths(who are probably the only people interested in her that also know anything substantial about her) are willing to let themselves be enslaved. Then you don't understand psychopaths at all.

Nothing is everything and everything is nothing. I can't be certain that this is so much a flaw Leo's worldview has so much as his inability to perfectly articulate his views using human language. He's said before that he's realized that the entire existence, consisting of nothing ultimately is nothing as such. And basically, we're infinitely intelligent so we discovered how to create ourself out of nothing. This is obviously correct given the necessary state of consciousness is reached. And just incase there's a chronic intellectual masturbator like Wokebloke or whomever reading this. We exist prior to your spacetime continuum illusion's creation and foundation. And as such being outside of spacetime aren't bound to the limits imposed by such a continuum on finite beings.

Fasting is useful for ridding the body of undesirable thought-forms such as cancerous growths, physical wounds, and the like. As well as a plethora of mental disturbances that plague the human species. But in terms of altering your consciousness in an entheogenic capacity, on it's own I'd say this body complex discipline is incredibly lackluster. Especially when you consider how much more effective even something fairly impotent like 50 mics of LSD is in comparison. And also, there are other means of ridding the body of undesirable thought forms that don't involve body complex disciplinary practice.

Okay, it can be said that there may be some validity to this criticism. But from his perspective @JoeVolcano he's merely rejecting and ignoring human nonsense, which is useful because then you have the opportunity to find the actual truth. While I can't say anything I've seen him @JoeVolcano say is actually fallacious. It does seem odd that he can el kabong hit you all over the head with concepts you've already accepted to be true. And while I've been endeavoring to discuss the potential accuracy/inaccuracy of neo-darwinian evolutionary theory from a scientific perspective here mostly. I agree with @JoeVolcano in that look even if all of everything mainstream science currently believes and teaches with authority were totally true(it's not of course) it wouldn't matter anyway. Even in that instance, the wisest thing for us to do would be to explore the unknown possibilities of existence. And ultimately, if we want to evolve we need to move beyond our current limitations.

That's a good point. From the perspective of others here, it seems like you're confusing different levels of reality. Kind of like saying while watching a movie "don't the actors know they're in a movie and that none of it's real? why do they behave like it's so real?". But I see that what you're saying is that since we're studying a fictional universe, there's no point in doing science here anyway. And I'd expound on that perspective saying that not only should we be abandoning the traditional human ways of studying reality. But instead studying the dream from a radically different perspective which incorporates the awareness that the dream is in fact a dream. And in essence, a new science that has lucidity as it's central starting point and "foundation". For a combination of the same and different reasons, I believe both of us are probably out of place here.

I understand that, but I fail to see how that's relevant to anything I've said. This is a philosophical postulate that's simultaneously valid and invalid. It's invalid in that, in order for the the physical universe to operate under nonmaterial laws(like noncontradiction, universal gravitation etc etc) it's neccesary that there be some kind of conscious lawmaker and giver. Just as you can't have the US constitution without the founding fathers, so you can't have for instance laws of logic without some kind of God to dictate/enforce it. At the same time, the proposed deities we're talking about don't exist in anyone's direct experience. So while God exists(it turns out, we are God) and therefore the religionists have a notion that points to the truth. In itself, it's a delusion and of course, you and I can reach consensus on that fact. Haven't I stated before that I think there's some model of evolution which is actually true? What you've said here has no impact on whether or not neo-Darwinian molecules to man evolution is scientifically valid or not(which is what I've been trying to discuss). And just as a side note, I believe you once said that not everything is reducible to consciousness because for example, a rock isn't conscious. The problem with arguing this is that you can become a rock and you'd be conscious of yourself as that rock while doing it. And you would also remember the experience upon returning to your human form. The problem is that the logic being used requires observable facts to be other than they are in reality(I'm speaking specifically relative to current neo-Darwinian evolutionary hypothesis). Not so much that the deductions in of themselves are flawed on their own irrespective of the facts. I'd say the mistake you've made here is in assuming that those two are the only possibilities. Only under that assumption does this logic of well the only other alternative is absurd makes sense. And furthermore, just because a thing seems absurd doesn't necessarily make it false. lol, well you won't have that issue with me. Because while I recognize that the spacetime continuum is effectively a mental illusion(as is all of reality) we experience it as something real so it is real even if it's also illusory. It's real illusory or illusionarily real, however, you want to think of it. Don't you think that raising philosophical truths which are obtained from the next octave of experience where we're discussing scientific theory obtained within ordinary human limitations is unwarranted? Or maybe it's me that's out of place looking for debate over scientific issues here.

Of course, the original interstitials would be dead, this doesn't change the fact that there should be living interstitials present today in abundance if the hypothesis were true. Unless you're telling me the evolutionary process stopped in the past. You're not aware clearly, that evolutionary theory today is much the same as traditional religions' delusional manmade version of God. In both instances you have humans making unverified assumptions and engaging in tautology. And all to reinforce some silly notion that reality should make sense to the human mind. If you were being intellectually honest, you'd admit that you can't be certain such changes have occurred as they've never been directly or even indirectly observed in any capacity.

What I think isn't being evaluated by me here. I'm merely trying to acquire your position on this subject. Because I don't know how to articulate the logic behind my previous conclusion unless I know exactly what it is I'm putting to the test(in my own mind, I've entertained many possible answers, and none of them seem to change my original position, though the exact way the scenario plays out changes based on different answers). Since you seem so interested however in my point of view. I don't really have a bias in either direction of the creationism vs evolutionism debate, because I recognize problems with both worldviews. But I nonetheless have listened to both factions, and have heard from both sides arguments that are highly dubious, as well as others that are logically unassailable. If you want to reduce my views on this subject to the most simplex essence. It would be that I think evolution is essentially much like Schrodinger's cat. Until we go back in time and observe what's occurred in Earth's history, we'll likely never know concretely what the real truth is about what occurred. And the only way it's possible for ordinary mortals to opine on this subject is by making unverified assumptions. This problem exists in all perspectives I've heard being proposed. Or to bottom line it, I consider the evolutionary theory taught today to be simultaneously true and false. Much the same way, if you keep a cat in a box for a few weeks, it can be considered both alive and dead until you open the box. Or if you want the really nerdy version, I think of the unobserved past as being subject to quantum superposition. Which makes my views dramatically more complicated and yet also more simple than any you've heard before.

This is an assumption only. You'd have to compare genomes between the original hypothetical chimp from millions of years ago against modern chimps to test this position(which obviously can't be done by any ordinary mortal, and if you could do that you wouldn't need to debate the facts here, you could simply observe all organisms from Earth's history going all the back to the first lifeforms, knowing from direct experience whether or not any macroevolution occurred). This doesn't address anything I've stated at all, and it's also rather obvious that if macroevolution were a real process this would be true on one level and false on another. Something I haven't mentioned so far is the logical fallacy of equating microevolution to macroevolution built into the phraseology I'm using here. The processes by which, for instance, short-haired dogs evolve into long-haired dogs acts on and uses genetic information already existing within the genome which was dormant in the prior generation. The kind of change however that macroevolution requires would add not only novel information to the genome, but information that isn't deleterious junk dna(as is commonly created by all known mutation variants except for deletion mutations which simply remove information from the strand of DNA affected). This is because, for instance, there are DNA sequences present in all higher lifeforms(humans, fish, dogs, scorpions etc, etc) which are absent entirely from the genomes of unicellular lifeforms. So in order for such an organism to develop into anything other than a single cell it needs entirely new and useful/beneficial genetic information. A function no known naturalistic process has.

Personally, I use a fairly complex method that has its roots in the epistemological position that knowledge can only be acquired through experience. I've never attempted to codify it before, but I guess for you I'll attempt to do so. So essentially, I'll divide my methodology into a set of commandments that theoretically anyone can follow. 1. All conclusions must be derived from both direct and indirect experience. 2. The validity of third-person experience must be evaluated on the basis of first-person experience which corroborates the occurrence in a logically consistent way. Only when these are in agreement should a conclusion be formed. And know that in the future you may find cause to reject part or all of your initial conclusion(s). 3. Don't rely too heavily on your ability to reason, accept what's experienced as true, there will be plenty of time to make sense of it after the fact. 4. Don't assume that your current preconceived notions are necessarily true, search for evidence that contradicts your current views. 5. Don't make the mistake of assuming that experts are right simply because they're experts or they've reached a consensus. They've been wrong a plethora of times in the past, and they will continue to do so in the future. 6. Be open-minded to an extent that appears totally irrational to most humans. If you follow all of my guidelines, you don't have to worry about the downside possibility of believing absolutely everything you hear. 7. Don't assume that you must be wrong about something because at first glance you've gained knowledge that contradicts what you know already. It's highly probable that there's some validity to all of your views and thoughts as well as everyone else's, even the views that seem totally impossible and unthinkable to you.

I do, mate. And I'm not disagreeing with you, and as near as I can tell, @Carl-Richard here isn't endeavoring to debunk anything you've said there. Which is why it's altogether perplexing that you're capable of arguing when ostensibly there's nothing about which to argue. This is non sequitur as in my argument the entire hypothetical process is assumed to be carry on every step of the way. None of these circumstances are necessary for the scenario I've presented to occur as an inevitability. How many interstitials in your view exist between chimps and men? I know you probably don't have an exact answer to this question, but to counter your argument I need to at least have a ballpark estimate.

Why? It's clear you fundamentally fail to understand the argument I was making. Let me try to spell it out in no uncertain terms why the above is so. Under this hypothesis(the notion that the diversity of lifeforms present today occurred by macroevolution gradually over great durations of time in the past) requires that at some point in Earth's history, there were interstitial lifeforms(to get from an ape to human, there has be a part human part ape organism). The reason these interstitial lifeforms would still be living today is much for the same reason that the noninterstitials(pure apes, and pure humans for instance) are present today. Imagine that around 13 million or so years ago, a pure-blooded Chimp somehow acquires .000000001% human DNA. Then the generation afterward does the same, this pattern continues. Now fast forward a few hundred thousand years, and we have the original chimps with 100% chimp genes descended from the original pure chimps, as well as chimps with 99.999999991% chimp DNA, descended from the generation after, as well as chimps with say 99.9991% chimp DNA also descended from a later generation, as well as all the other interstitials from every generation in between that arose in that period of a few hundred thousand years all living together at the same time. Fast forward a few million years forward from that point, and chimps with say 60% chimp DNA would arise. Living alongside all the descendants of their ancestors(the chimps that are purely chimp, alongside the ones slightly more human, and the others slightly more human than them, and so on). Do you see the problem here? If we fast forward to the present, all of the missing links' descendants bearing their mixed genomes would be living on Earth NOW just as they would have been millions of years ago(in addition to all the interstitials since then). Or in other words, you'd have chimps that are, for instance, .5% human descended from chimps early in their evolution towards humanity, living alongside chimps that are 40% chimp(which were descended from an original missing link that arose a few million years later), and you'd be able to show me every single of them in nature today as such. When in reality, there are only pure-blooded humans and pure-blooded chimps. Now, you could posit punctuated equilibrium, but it makes no difference. It doesn't matter if they evolve at the rate of say 1% per 1000 years or at .0000000000001%, either way, you'd still have living missing links descended from the original missing links alive today. You could also argue that since humans are superior to chimps, all the missing links have been removed by natural selection in the past. But if this were so, then pure-blooded chimps wouldn't exist today either. As obviously, a partially human ape would be superior to a full ape. And as such the pure-blooded chimps would have gone extinct eons ago even before their increasingly human descendants would have. It means you're confusing natural selection, which is a concept that refers to something that is observed to occur in reality. With other things like macroevolution, a process that has never been observed, nor can be observed in any capacity. Not any more so than purple unicorns gallivanting about the moon can be observed anyway. The irony about your statement is that QM(the most successful theory in the history of science) being true necessarily means that your perception of reality is all that there is(or in other words, there's actually some substantial truth to this kind of solipsistic skepticism). And I was about to mention how even Einstein had a hard accepting QM because of this, and how he was in spite of that still a brilliant physicist. But you had to go and engage in reductio ab absurdum fallaciously. But to be fair, when you're up against philosophical jibber-jabber, I suppose you can take a liberty or two in the way of logical loosegooeynessss. To be fair, we don't need to know how to do either in order to do both.