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Absolutely, that's a freaky insight, don't spoil it for others

Isn't this systems thinking with emphasis on the axis of statistics in the web of relationships? Or are you proposing a nuance to the bayesian worldview?

Interesting book that touches upon the storage of value, the importance of limited supply and how assets with easily bendable rules (like printable cash) are always prone to corruption.

Quote #584 simply sublime

I pursue everyday higher intelligence and it's a big chunk of my purpose and joy in life. For contrast, today I'll explain my personal hardships in this process or the shadows I dislike from it. 1. The lag between mind and embodiment I've been deeply struggling with this one lately. Imagine your mind skyrockets, becoming the tip of the arrow that leads your life. However, there’s a long tail, and understanding takes time to fully cascade down to the cellular level. Let's play another analogy: Imagine you are intelligent enough to outsmart your opponent in chess. However you are unable to implement your winning strategy, because it's currently not possible to make it operative, e.g. moving everyday the chess pawn over a marathonian length, to unlock the Queen and close the game. If you are intelligent enough, you start seeing the solution to every problem of your life but you cannot ground yet that solution because it takes time to mature. A tree doesn't blossom in a day despite perfect conditions. So enduring this lag between strategy and reality, between mind and embodiment, between peak performance and flat performance is a source of pain for me. You cannot live up to your ultimate truth and like the horizon the more you reach the more there is. 2. Being ruled by lower intelligence and having to own accountability This is getting on my nerves lately. Having to endure the outcomes of decisions made by lower intelligence that directly impact your life. In life, you don't have leverage to be the CEO of the world, hence stupid decisions will be made that will affect you. Let's imagine: Your boss pushes for A, you say B. There's a clash, no consensus, boss has more leverage, A gets done. A is wrong and you have to take accountability and eat that shit plus do B. Intelligence demands sovereignty. An intelligent mind will prefer to take accountability over its wrong decision than allowing another to correctly decide for itself. 3. The pain of limitation in the pursuit of understanding Human life is full of limitations and marrying any line of inquiry a necessary loss. A truly curious intelligent mind desires to understand all of Reality both as infinite landscape and granular detail. I'd like to learn every epistemic field, play all instruments, speak all languages, all sciences, all math, all logic, all art, all sports, all recorded history, all finance, all books, travel to every country, to think all possible thoughts, etc. The nature of human limitations as far as I discovered for now, doesn't allow for that quality of breath and depth simultaneously. There's a systematic compromise between each other and one has to always chose.

I'm so uneducated on novels, my reading is very developmental biased so the few novels I've read were on that angle. Hesse and Tolstoy are good in that line. I enjoyed very very much: Narcissus and Goldmund. It was a recommendation by my uncle who is a psychologist and I think it's very relevant to our work. Very profound implicit novel, you can draw many conclusions between the lines.

Wearing a suit. The more you climb the corporate ladder the better the suit you have to wear. Till you are a billionaire and you wear whatever you want closing the loop so to speak. Conformity is a function of survival, you need to conform to survive.

Of course, I'm full of shit. The problem of intelligence is you constantly see it. It is so, but not all facts are so easily digestible. I personally struggle with it. There's a balance between acceptance and striving. I'm quite non-conformist and ambitious but that demand is a fabrication of my mind. Everything can be dropped down into raw being. But I Do! Utilitarianism is the philosophy that runs the world indeed, because it's the default philosophy of survival.

Yes, that's very necessary feedback that refines your intelligence. One of the secrets to intelligence is feedback.

I like DeMartini, I've been studying his work for some years, he spits diamonds once in a while. His seminar the breakthrough Experience seems to be top notch in human development value, probably one day I'll take it.

Playing chess against your own mind it's an infinite game, the devil gets better at every move and so is the quest for higher intelligence insights and strategies, human life is a play against your own shadow. I am my own limit and my own liberation. Intelligence is such a profound joy, cultivating and maturing the mind is profoundly beautiful. There's times I cry watching at the beauty of Mind, as a craftsman delights in the ticking of a perfectly engineered watch, so too does the philosopher delight in the workings of its mind.

@kavaris at low doses everything looks like each other, at heavy doses every substance reveals it's true character and unique essence.

@Willy Phallicus Ralston is too genius to see the genius in others. He may be blind by his own brilliance.

It's the only video I dislike very much, I find it to be potentially very very misleading. It's mostly word choice and framing, but to me adds unnecessary complexity and confusion; at the same time deconstructs that weird definition presented as perception but then doesn't explain existential "base" reality, therefore lacking the philosophical depth necessary for resolving those mental gymnastics into metaphysical truth, imo. Or to simplify: Experience is truth and it's absolute. It may be absolute bullshit with the ego or absolute clarity, but experience is the absolute truth no fucking matter what. There's nothing but experience, perception, phenomena, sensations which is one and the same as consciousness. Leo of course knows this. That video may have been influenced by Ralston style at that time, I'm sure he would shoot quite differently that episode now. Probably this video gets across better the point that Ralston is trying to make or what I feel was the message of perception: And this one scratches better the existential itch:

What blows my mind is the insane definition and quality DMT visuals can get you in very high states of consciousness, it's like breaking your mind in impossible twists and connections of consciousness, like bending your back and kissing your ass in a perfect ouroboros strange loop. For visualizing Memory from Dead Mans trip series is great. Leo's video on strange loops is also very helpful.

Easter would be ideal, as many countries have a full week off or at least a four-day break. Alternatively, other European bank holidays could work well. For many people (myself included), attending a retreat during regular working days would require significant effort to arrange time off. It's probably the best option. Netherlands is Tier 1 in the psychedelic sense and has direct plane connection with almost all European capitals. Tier 2 is Portugal, Spain and Czech Republic.

Hey Leo, congratulations for bringing this into reality. I've been leading underground psychedelic retreat for years. If you want some expert advisory I'm here to offer tangible value. Consider it seriously, I can assure you there's some blind spots in how you are conducting the psychedelic retreat that can only come from seasoned experience in the field. Leading 20 people as a first psychedelic retreat is no joke, hopefully you're aware of the magnitude coming ahead.

Insightful, thanks for sharing

In your 20s be the Warrior In your 30s be the King In your 40s be the Sage

Not realising the value and love for people and pets till they die

Life is too short for not doing what you love

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