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This is a type of problem that might not be able to be solved through the justice system, and it might be unlikely that it will be solved through social media witch hunts. One of the major problems is that in casual dating culture, females are inherently disadvantaged as the powerdynamic, especially when it comes to actual physical interactions, is biased towards men. So, every casual dating interaction is inherently risky for the woman. Women in general are also disadvanted on a psychological level because they are less assertive and aggressive. In practice, such a dynamic, combined with an inherent immaturity within the population, will constantly lead to such situations. Women are drawn to high status men, high status men are able to abuse their power due to being high status. So, in casual sex culture, high status men will have endless opportunities of sexual interactions with women, which over time leads to these types of depravities in some individuals, whether due to sex addiction or other types of dynamics. The whole situation is driven by a sort of immature hedonism, and because sexual interactions actually are a serious thing for most people, these types of situations will continue to occur. You have to also keep in mind that casual sex for high status men tends to lead to an objectification of women, and an objectification of women will lead to an insensitivity to their needs and desires. Another aspect of this is a falling away of safety mechanisms. In the past, your parents would have to evaluate a potential partner before you had the chance to really get into risky situations. Of course in practice this was not always the case and there were other drawbacks to that system, but there was some sense of protecting young individuals from their own naivity and inexperience. Today, dating is much more private, and especially young, naive inexperienced women can be easily exposed to risky situations that they do not quite understand are risky, both to their mental and physical well-being.

Well he said a breakthrough so deep there is no returning to your previous mind structure.

Never is just a temporary arrangement.

As you should be.

This translates to: Being stuck in L-Mode causes me suffering.

I'm describing a tool Forest, nothing more. However, rigidly holding onto relativity and non-rigidity is it's own form of rigidity. For example, when it gets in the way of conversations because whenever something is said relativity must be pointed out anew.

The fact that I have to explain this to you indicates you have abnormal cognition. I never called you an autist, you take things way too seriously and personally, this is the issue here. I am just trying to help you figure out what is going on, because I suspect this is a you problem. The fact that you are reacting this way to what I said tells us much more about you than you seem to recognize. And again, we are not here to be mean to you, we are trying to help you. If you had some distance from all this, you would be right here next to me laughing at yourself for how silly you were being.

What I described is not a thinking process. When I say intention and belief, it is beyond a conceptual idea or belief. It is more like, looking at a cloud and seeing a face in it. That's the type of thing we are talking about, it is rooted far deeper. Yes, it is as real as any other, because that's how realness is constructed. That "belief" is what realness is. You probably are not aware of the R-Mode vs L-Mode distinction, but what you refer to here is the L-Mode type of belief, not the R-Mode type of belief I am referring to. The subtle thing here is that it does not arise from nowhere, much like your dreams dont arise from nowhere. Your perceptive state at the moment of a dream will determine the dream, and in the same way it will determine the trip you had. If you had been in a state of existential terror, you would have seen very different things, and the magical forest might be appeared as something completely different. By imagination you just mean existence. So, it exists, as all things that exist must exist. There is no thing that exists more than any other thing that exists. And, part of L-Mode is a distinction between "actual existence" vs "subjective existence". If fully engaged in R-Mode, this type of distinction is no longer made. In fact, making that distinction can disrupt that state, as you described, in the same way it can disrupt a dream state. Both states are the same brain states.

I had basically this happen in my first trip. There is something interesting I learned during Lucid-Dreaming. I generally have quite a lot of lucid dreams, and for the past 2 years my goal was to improve my mind's eye visualization abilities. I was taught there there is a similarity between intentional visualization (which I am very bad at, almost aphantasic) and dreaming. When learning to visualize, you have to almost put yourself into a trance like state, and it is important that you don't try to "control" what you want to visualize. This is tricky, because the mind only knows control, that's how it goes through life. I control my body and my mind to achieve things, but how can I control my way into visualization? It is similar to meditation, in that the more you try to control, less it will work. With imagination, you do not manifest through control, but rather through intention and believe. So, to visualize a cat, you have to convince yourself that you are seeing a cat. You don't actually create the cat by some direct means, rather, you simply imagine you were seeing the cat until you convinced your brain to such a degree that the cat appeared as a visual phenomenon in your mind's eye. I took this knowledge and applied it in lucid dreaming, because I would over and over have the problem that once I was lucid and tried to steer my reality, the dream would collapse and I would wake up. I was trying to be too controlling. So, the next dream I employed a trick. I had a certain dream scenario, and then I took a binocular out of my pocket and I convinced myself that looking through the binocular I would see another place. And it worked, as I looked through it, I suddenly found myself in the place I wanted to be, because I somehow convinced my brain that it was what I would see through the binoculars. I didn't control myself into it, rather I used the binocular as an object to project my intention and belief onto. It is like drinking orange juice during a bad LSD trip. If you drink orange juice, your bad trip will instantly transform into a good one. This will happen if you are convinced of it happening. If you truly believe the orange juice has that effect, you can use the orange juice to actually alter the trajectory of the trip. Usually, the way we employ control is through left brained type of means. Though, the subconscious and dreamlike state cannot be controlled this way. It requires vision, intention and belief. Obviously it's hard to describe in words, the true difference, but once you kind of grasp Left-Brain vs Right-Brain Mode of being, you get a good sense what the difference is. One is trying to control, the other is convincing oneself such that the dream gets changed into that. The dream is determined by your belief-state. If you are scared and paranoid, the dream will become scarier. And if you try to control it, you wake up because the dream state is not a brain-state of control, but of complete relaxation. This is because the dream state requires a certain brain-wave state, which is different the conscious-control brain-wave state. This teaches us the value of shamanic objects, totems and so forth. Objects into which we concentrate certain mental belief structures, intentions and emotions. By tying those aspects to the objects, we can, during a trip, use those objects to steer the experience, which is what shamans have been doing as well. It is similar to using an external memory palace. By the way, Leo has reported for a long time that he never came into contact with beings during his trips. The reason for this is his bias towards left-brain-mode. It is also what makes him overthink and overvalue contemplation. He is only now kind of discovering the more relaxed, right-brain type of mode of cognition.

But that is an incredibly strange question to ask, why would you ask this question. See, if you came to me and told me this in person I would laugh at you. Maybe I would laugh so hard that I would be crying from laughter. And you would probably interpret it as malice. But it's not malice. It's just that you might have difficulty seeing how clumsy this question is. This doesn't make you a bad person, but it is something worthy of laughter. Now, to you this might be harsh because you are insecure, so you are too tense to be playful about this. I also think you might have tendencies toward some type of autism, which could make communication more difficult for you in general. In general, you need to take all of this far less seriously. And if you can't, you need to work on resolving how to take yourself far less seriously. Hell, watch something like "The Theory of Everything", and take Stephen Hawking as an example for you. He doesn't take himself seriously, and I think I remember there were scenes were he was socially awkward and was being made fun of. See, if you are playful enough, you can turn the "being made fun of" into an enjoyable interaction rather than tensing up into insecurities. That is the mindset you have to achieve, it has to be all fun and games.

Also, am I the only one who gets seriousl Bullshido vibes from Peter Ralston? His biography seems completely made up, and I still have not found any proof for any of it. Just give yourself this:

The issue with this type of thinking, that the cartoon wolf is not simply something occuring in the brain, is that we simply do not observe new information arising as the result of trips. It becomes hard to believe in the convenient excuse that it's all just set up so you can never prove the truth. I think it is likely that one day they will be able to precisely show what kind of brain activity is the cartoon wolf, and they will be able to manipulate you and convince you of that so that you will be 100% certain and convinced that it is somehow beyond the brain, even though we will be able to showcase on a monitor the precise hallucination that are occuring and how the neurological activity relates to the phenomena.

No but I am glad I did not pick this life path. Being in left brain autism mode for 8 hours a day is just hell and I think unironically makes you less human.

The not recognizing yourself is part of what you are and how you created yourself intentionally. Self realization is the default, God has that all the time for all of eternity. It's only the ego that makes it out to be a big deal.

I don't think there is "illusion". Illusion is another word for existence, much like you use the word consciousness. I would wager what you mean by not an illusion is that it is necessary attributes of existence, or something like that. I think Hegel had a lot of influence on oyu.

I don't see how that is a problem either. The self construct is part of Maya, so the upsetness and the taking things seriously is also just Maya. Anything you will see as anything will be seeing Maya as Maya, this is obviously true no matter what you do. You still do the same exact thing, playing a different game that you also take super seriously. Your idea is to reject Maya, which is also part of Maya and being invested in the illusion. There is no way out of this. Realizing that Maya is illusiory is part of Maya and also an illusion.

What's wrong with being a good human being or morality, or following some human guru? It's all consciousness/maya/existence anyways, it's not like you are doing anything different from they what are doing, they are just valuing different things than you.

How is this not just Maya?

I disagree. But it does not matter that much. The truth is the truth.

According to you. I reject the notion of consciousness, it's just existence to me.

I think you are wrong here. Height is relative. In the end, all consciousness is absolute, there is no deeper or greater consciousness, it's all one. The exploration of infinite is just that. That, of course, it can only be defined as a duality between the greater and the lesser. It's all Maya. There is no more or less Mayaness, that's where I think you are going wrong.

AI might lead to the most significant concentration of power in the history of mankind. You cannot really add anything to AI that some megacorporation cannot then use to fuel their AI and make you obsolete. That is the inherent problem with this technology and the way we are using it. And for the few people who will be able to use an AI, you have to consider that it will just lead to less people overall having opportunities. Everything will be so filled with noise that only those who already have a monopoly on attention will be able to benefit from any of this. The average will stand no chance, and even the slightly above average joe will stand no chance. You keep thinking that AI will make you more productive, and in a sense it will make you more productive in terms of output. But all that means is that the standard for how much output vs work input is expected will adjust. Whatever creative solution you have, someone else will be able to use AI to steal that idea from you effortlessly. It won't matter how good your ideas are, how amazing your contributions are, nobody will even find you in the noise, other than the scrapers who will use your information to then feed them to the audience they have acquired. There will be a sea of noise and islands of attention monopolies, which will basically lead to a sort of technological feudalism. At least that is how I think this might very well go. In terms of a consumer, you might benefit (although I am skeptical even of this, at least in certain industries), but in terms of a worker and creative, it will become near impossible to survive AI mass data scraping.

This is more like people's egos getting riled up and behaving immaturely.

I am inexperienced with psychedelics, only had one proper 150mcg 1V-LSD trip, but from what I can tell, this was what almost happened to me just with a different type of thought pattern. The problem is that you had violent thoughts and you started resisting them. For my trip, it was the idea that I would have a horror trip and basically come out of the trip with my brain permanently fried by terror. I was in a complete, existential dread type panic before the tripping even started. What saved me was something I learned during visualization exercises. One of the things about direction attention, and therefore directing your trip, is that you subconscious does not know negation. You cannot negate anything. If you try to negate it, you will just get the opposite plus an increase in your attempt to negate it, meaning resistance to the experience. So, you had bad thoughts, then you resisted those thoughts and started getting scared, so naturally the thoughts become even worse and worse, until you became so scared you didn't trust yourself. And naturally, you then became the devil. You created a narrative because you did not know how to point your attention. And pointing your attention is actually a subtle skill. You think when you sit down and point your attention at some object of meditation that this is the skill of attention control, but it is actually not, for the most part it will not engage the core mechanism responsible for attention control. Obviously, you will not be able to employ this skill if you have not ingrained it in yourself during such moments. Because, the natural reaction is fear based, and once your attention drive is fear based, it will just pull you right where to where your fear is. I think there is a point of no return during a trip, where if you have not gotten your mind on track by that point you will not be able to get it on track until the trip is over. By on track I mean have the trip be about the particular thing you want it to be about, or not to be about. When you started trying to distract yourself from your bad thoughts, you should have immediately realized "Oh shit, I am scared of these thoughts... I am trying to avoid them.", and see that if you continue on that path of resistance, that will be precisely what you will get from the trip. In your case the climax was becoming the devil himself. There is a skill of "mind switch", which is not the same as trying to surpress something or distract yourself. Surpression during a trip is like telling yourself over and over "DON'T THINK ABOUT A PINK ELEPHANT, DON'T THINK ABOUT A PINK ELEPHANT!". A mind switch is actually being able to switch your mind and fill it with something new while leaving the other thing behind. This cannot be done if there is attachment to the prior thing. And fear, ironically, is such an attachment. If you are scared of the thought, it will be impossible to perform the mind-switch, because you will be pulled back to the object of your fear over and over. What I did is I kind of went into my fear, because I was unable to perform the mind switch. Or at least, I was only able to do so temporarily. After that, I transformed my experienced by a ceasing to resist to my fear. I became curious and started obsessing over the cause of my fear, which became the source of very valuable insights into the nature and process of creation of fear and fear narratives. So, this might be what I recommend if you cannot perform a mind switch. Actually become curious about "Hm, where do these thoughts come from, what is this about?", etc. You did the absolute worst thing you could have done which is "Oh no I cannot be thinking about this, let me make it go away, please, please make it go away! These are terrible thoughts, what if I could harm someone?!". And during a trip, the literal thoughts you will have will completely shape your reality, and before you know it the trip is so intense you completely lose agency, being trapped with those ideas that you have created for yourself.

I would say I have a pretty standard view. A falling away or dissolution of egoic structures.