PsychedelicEagle

One could read it with the goal of understanding psychological patterns or stages of ego development. The risk would be getting convinced in the middle of it and becoming a misogynist. Yea... Maybe not worth the risk 😂

The work of Alan Roger Currie is great. Not sure if red pill strictly.

There's a project called the Microbiota Vault Initiative that's been quietly banking human microbiome samples as a hedge against what researchers call the "disappearing microbiota" — the loss of microbial diversity that comes with antibiotics, C-sections, formula feeding, and industrialized diets. They've actually collected so far: 1,204 human fecal specimens 190 fermented food samples From Benin, Brazil, Ethiopia, Ghana, Laos, Thailand and Switzerland Everything is cryopreserved at −80 °C at the University of Zurich. The next stage is expanding into environmental microbiota from threatened ecosystems. https://www.instagram.com/reels/DRy3_7BkjhM/ https://www.microbiotavault.org/ How well are you taking care of your microbiota? 😉

What ROA are you using? If vaporizing it, you could experiment taking MAOIs 30min-1h prior to vaporizing it. It makes the experience less abrupt (and you'll need half the dose — be extra careful when mixing substances).

Sounds fantastic

I would love if there would be ways to vote on someone's message. E.g., each post could be voted with attributes such as "High-quality", "Perspective-expanding", "Honest criticism" — whatever qualities, behavior, and types of posts we want to incentivize. These could then be gamified somehow to display as badges in the user's avatar if enabled, or used to filter the most relevant messages in a thread. --- This comes from the perspective that often the problem is not the people themselves, but the behaviors they're being incentivized to do. Most people in the forum should be mature and open-minded enough to exhibit high-quality behavior. If not, the forum should be helping those not there yet reach these levels.

Great one. Related: “You have to be wise enough to realize that what you really want in your life is always going to be walled off from you by your own willingness to exert the label to get it.” ~ Leo Gura in Why Valuable Things Require Development Over Time

Awesome! I have been craving more content on Ego Development. Thanks a lot — already on my playlist. Based on Actualized.org's EDT videos, I consider myself in the post-conventional tier, with my center of gravity falling somewhere between Individualist / Pluralist and Autonomous / Strategist. Which is why I'm now reading "Thinking in Systems" — to deeply enter and solidify myself in the latter stage. I will watch this series and report back on insights and whether the new perspective changes where I see myself.

The key is: Prioritize yourself; Do not try to manipulate others' emotions — you are not responsible — let the chips fall where they may. For people who learned to manipulate others' emotions early in life, this is usually hard word, but it can be done. If you had a parental figure who used emotional manipulation to guide your behavior (e.g., "son, if you do this mom will be really sad") more than average, you likely have psychological patterns where you feel guilty if you can't match their expectations. For example: someone invites to go out; you don't want, yet you feel obliged to accept. Sometimes this can even take a more dysfunctional form, e.g., another person does something that is likely to upset a third person, yet you feel responsible to try and cover it up or make up for it — despite it clearly not being your responsibility. The important thing here is to become aware of the pattern and expose yourself to situations where you don't try to make it up for things that are not your responsibility. In the first occurrences you will likely feel cognitive dissonance, but over time you will learn how to ride the wave. PS: When exposing yourself to new patterns of behavior, it is sometimes easier to go a bit further than the optimal balance. So if you act a bit like a jerk in the beginning it's OK. Over time you adjust your set point. For now you gotta explore the dark side a bit.

"Survival is about intelligent limitation"

"Your capacity to love is directly proportional to how big your identity is"

IMO the value of forums after LLMs shifted from getting advice toward getting new perspectives and opinions grounded in human experience. For me the forum is also about connecting with the special types of mind that saw deep value in the Actualized.org content and persisted through the years.

I'm Brazilian. I don't see a big difference in terms of sexuality, especially when compared to other latin countries such as Spain, Portugal, etc. Most of the country is stage Blue, which speaks for itself. When traveling you tend to meet people from other countries who are generally more open-minded and willing to explore, so perhaps that's where you perception comes from.

@Olaf yes, the median will be different from the mean, making typical salaries look smaller. A small number of high-paying jobs pushes the average upward. I do believe the numbers are accurate on the chart, tho. What types of jobs do you refer to in "working a job"?

Hahahha great find — fascinating. Didn't know about this guy.

Interesting product, especially for Canadians:

Sounds cool indeed. Btw quite impressive you can plant 3k trees in a day.

Haha I meant Leo's original post referenced therein.

Super nice post. So poetic. Almost 10y ago 💫

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This guy eats flies while producing 5-MeO through his glands. Perfect solution for you @Leo Gura

Nets on the windows are actually a good solution. And I actually never kill spiders at my place haha. You can do this yet still kill some of the flys on-demand.

Althusser Explains Ideology is such a great video indeed.

Put nets on the windows and let spiders live in your place. Lol

Overvaluing sex. Sex tends to be marketed and perceived, in a Stage Orange society, as much more valuable and enjoyable than its intrinsic value.