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  2. 🟤 Book "A Monk's Guide to Happiness" by Gelong Thubten summary - Chapter Four: Meditation and Mindfulness Nowadays we tend to blend the concept of meditation with the one of mindfulness, but in reality, meditation is when we sit down and use specific techniques to train our mind, while mindfulness is the awareness that we use to bring back our attention to the exercise, and this can be applied to the everyday life. Meditation then is not about emptying our minds, but about being aware of its thoughts and not getting caught up in them; it's about leaning to observe what happens in our mind, and applying that to our day to day life means feeling our feelings and emotions but not getting attached ad carried away from them.
  3. @Reciprocality Ok, let's take a 4-stroke internal combustion engine. Which part is less important in its construction: Cylinders? Pistons? Piston rings? Valves, bearings or maybe the crankshaft controlling the valve opening sequence? Or maybe the cooling system or the alternator charging the battery which supplies current to the coil so that it gives the ignition spark? The above does not mean that physical processes are not exposed to failures, defects, and diseases. And of course, using logical reasoning, it is better to drive on 4 working cylinders than on 2 and it is better to lose an arm than a head. Fuck again, either we pretend not to understand what we are talking about or we really do not understand. In this case, sorry, forgive me for being slightly irritated. The artificial hierarchy that I want to talk about here is nothing more than the illusion of the ego's measurement, division, evaluation, comparison, subjective individual, unrepeatable qualities, used by the ego to position itself constantly, create comfortable narratives for it, to justify its actions or worldview. A good example of such artificial hierarchies are: the culturally diverse systems of values, moral assessments, ethical commands and prohibitions, etc. How constantly, all the time, subconsciously you position yourself in relation to others, you compare yourself to others using a whole range of assessments pulled out of a hat. Generally, this is the essence of what is called Maya in Sanskrit - the illusion of the ego's measurement, the artificial division of the world according to egoistic conditioning. That's all I meant. If we are to start a discussion now about what "artificial" means, then thank you, but I'm not interested. And no offense - I'm having a hard time. Peace Brother
  4. The general reply to the phil of science issues is that but "science works though" - look (insert a bunch of examples). Yep, thats true but that often times doesn't really engage with the criticism that is made. Its a strawman, because the criticism isn't about denying the validity of certain lower level equations that are necessary for us to build certain techs , the criticism often times aimed at more abstract level problems and equations and formulas. You can send a rocket to the moon using newtonian physics and you can do the same even if you accept general relativity. You accepting the validity of general relativity wont undermine you from sending rockets to the moon, but it will give you a more precise understanding of other things. So the point is - multiple different kind of theories are comaptible with "science working".
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  7. I highly recommend you looking for older threads here in this forum about Peter Ralston. They are endless long and have s lot of wisdom in it also your question should be answered there if you read them through. It's a master piece alone these peter Ralston threads on actualized.org forum.
  8. Because we are emotionally connected. Although, people still kill each other for other reasons. We can also do that with everything. But as you can see you'll have problems with surviving unless you figure out a way to survive without ever killing. I know. I don't like the animal abuse before killing though. I don't know if by only eating plants I would lessen the killings. If it lessens, I don't know if I can fully survive on plants.
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  10. I'm talking in a practical sense. For example, now I'm having a coffee. If someone tell me that the coffee doesn't exist, what is the point of that? Genes are like the coffee, they are there. You could say that they are a consecuence or anything, but the thing is that I have fear to the hungry tigers, even they doesn't exist. I don't care at all about those differentiations, I only care about the openenss to the absolute. Then the relative could be defined as non existent, dream, real, illusion, Maya, karma or anything. Are just relative definitions. Enlightenment is your true nature, the being, that contains everything. It's something that anyone can realize only removing all the hindrances. You asked, what to do after that? The same than before, existing.
  11. You are engaging in a hardcore fanboying of RFK without actually checking out what evidence he provides for his claims and without evaluating how many right or wrong claims he makes. The reason why you are doing that is because you like his anti-establishment approach. But you know that you can maintain your anti-establishment stance, without any need for endorsing all the wrong and retarded RFK claims, right? Making a systemic change in the health department and destroying bad incentive structures is compatible with you acknowledgeing that RFK jr either makes a bunch of claims that he cant subtantiate or at worst he is outright wrong on a big set of things including vaccines, seed oil, AIDS, antidepressants,fluoride and the list goes on and on.
  12. @Razard86 Ram Dass: I'm a fake. Krishna Das: so what? I'm a fake too. But a real one
  13. In one of Leo's videos about his deepest awakening — one of the most beautiful insights — he shared an experience where, after taking 5-MeO-DMT or DPT (I can't fully remember, maybe someone can help me find it too?), he had a dream still deeply influenced by the trip. In this dream, he fully merged with his "mentor", experiencing love and full connection. I’ve often wondered who that mentor was and if it was Peter Ralston. He’s one of the few gurus Leo holds in high regard. Considering their similar expressions and energy in interviews, I wouldn’t be surprised if Leo drew a lot of inspiration from him, even now. "Yeah, you see? Ta-daa!" This might be a personal question for Leo, so I understand if it’s too much to ask, but I’m curious: What do you find so inspiring about Ralston, both now and when you first started out? Could you share any insights influenced by him? And how did that merging experience feel? It sounds incredibly powerful.
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  15. @Razard86 Dude, listen to me! I'll tell you more. Thanks to probably some fucking abilities (whatever they are), through practices that I have even less idea about, I started to spontaneously see through closed eyes, move objects without touching them, and influence the operation of electrical mechanisms. In front of witnesses - my wife, friends, strangers. Lucid dreaming has become a nightly regularity during which I stay in various states in various dimensions, in a completely differently understood passage of, let's say, time. Some of these dimensions are a hundred times more real than this tightness here. Often I don't have the slightest desire to come back here. From that perspective, which is still mine alone - this dimension here is nothing more than a game, similar to the computer games we know. Put the latest Oculus on your head and play anything in some virtual. When you forget that you have these goggles on your eyes, that you're just playing, you very quickly get glued to what you're playing. There is no internal history, no evolution, no mythical struggle for survival. You tell yourself all this to give it context. Human experience suspended in a vacuum makes no sense. Because you experience birth and death very strongly here, through your own level and the level shared with other characters, you create myths about the birth of the universe, evolution, and the end of existence. And because we are what we have made ourselves, we co-create the scenario of this game according to this pattern of birth and death. And this game seems to circulate with us in closed cycles of time according to this pattern. Everything has already happened a billion times, we have been here more than once. We started in a cave, only to end up blowing ourselves up in the most sophisticated way and finding ourselves in a cave again. And so on and so forth until we puke. My experience teaches me that fundamental change happens when you reach a wall, or rather, you bang your head hard against the wall of your own ignorance. It hurts like hell every time. So what. Even now, when I know there's nothing to achieve here, nothing to gain, nothing to lose, that the whole story about some kind of evolution is at most a good joke, when all that's left is to accept this experience of beautiful failure that I've become here, I still am who I am. Still fucking far away, still nowhere closer to god than at the beginning of this fucking-cosmic-perfect-hellride.

  16. Other forum for trip reports

    The Renaissance Man replied to ZX_man's topic in Psychedelics

    They're also illegal in almost every developed country

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    Sugarcoat replied to Sugarcoat's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    48: Did 3 hour meditation yesterday. Took a little break after one hour because I felt tired and considered whether I should go to sleep instead, but then I regained energy and decided to continue my session. I managed for the first time to meditate for an hour without looking at the timer. In total I looked at the timer a little bit less than last time so I’m making progress. My goal with this meditation is to one day experience some kind of mystical experience. Enlightenment would be the ultimate goal though.
  18. Lol. You seem to be ok with Russias genocide in Ukraine why are you not ok with Israels genocide in Palestine?
  19. Vaccines have been used for decades to prevent diseases. They cause mild side effect sometimes and serious ones rarely. Is it worth it? of course. They have been preventing serious diseases and save lives all this time, but people pay little to appreciate what they got until they lose it. The thing is if Covid was more serious, like 10% mortality rate, People would have literally killed each other over getting it.

  20. Letho

    Letho replied to Letho's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    Pre-MemVinci (yep, I've decided that's a pretty neat name haha) December Journal: ~ Tempress ~ Proof of concept and raising broad awareness on the deliberate failures of modern Psychological Science by providing one of my own newly discovered advancements upon one of their attempts at raising intelligence via the N-Back paradigm. Tempress is named after my coined term, 'Temporal Compression', as well as in action how training on Tempress one almost immediately wants to quit, but just like in my running journeying, unique ways of motivating oneself via a deeper connection and patience with consciousness can be self-learned by simply staying on track, not to mention the benefits one receives by doing so as it pertains to previously shared understanding regarding the AMCC. And so as previously shared as the AMCC grows, so too your ability to keep one running foot in front of the other, one mental foot in front of the other in your perseverance towards mastering Tempress, a breakthrough in genuine cognitive enhancement. This journal entry will serve as a primer for those about to embark on a deeper journey into MemVinci. Firstly, following the leading from my post just previous to this one on this site not this journal it's essential to approach intelligence not as an insurmountable idol, but as a skill set that can be actively cultivated through a methodical integration of advanced techniques. My goal is to share a transformative technique, that I've called Tempress, one that amplifies cognitive processing and prepares you for the even more challenging MemVinci framework as both a primer and to build confidence and credibility (in my follow through heh!) for what's to come; I totally get it for example my journals haven't been as synthesised or complete as I would have liked them to date, we'll make that a new goal breaking into 2025 for me to achieve fully by the end there and my final post for the year will bring full encompassment to all previously stated related goals from meta-ascendence to bioelectrical agency to magnitude learning. Everything related to symbol, word and number pertaining to our English language though, and to a large level the meta-language stuff that underpins meta-ascendence, will come further down the road, something that'll unfold maybe about May-July of next year and only for some stuff, perhaps a little earlier. For those 'in the know', we're aware N-back method was initially hailed as a breakthrough in IQ improvement nearly a decade (?) back now, but it ultimately fell short. While it does engage working memory, it lacks the necessary complexity and interconnectedness to truly optimize cognitive growth around two fundamental areas that I'll be address with Tempress, patterns and relationships. The n-back approach often oversimplifies the process, focusing too narrowly on memory retention without the necessary calibration for depth or breadth. This leads to a stagnation of mental acuity, and by emphasizing linear improvement, it fails to leverage the broader, richer potential of our cognitive systems via depth (i.e.bcomplexity like relationships and patterns) and breadth (i.e. word number and n level), something I'll more deeply expand on in future posts. Later, with the foundation laid, we will evolve the technique into something more powerful and all-encompassing with MemVinci, the deepest answer I have so far to Bioelectrical Agency. Introducing the Tempress Technique: A Hybrid of the Temporal Compression of relationships and patterns. Designed to harness the best features of N-back while avoiding its limitations, Tempress introduces a concept of temporal compression, where you compress various time intervals into a single experience, coupled with pattern recognition to identify relationships between disparate data points. Step-by-Step Guide 1. Use Your Breath as the Metronome The breath will serve as the rhythmic anchor for this technique. Set the number of breaths you take to represent the “N-levels” of the exercise. For instance, five breaths = five N-levels. Each breath, then, serves as a marker for your cognitive cycle. 2. Create Disparate Associations With each inhale, generate a set of words that are as disparate as possible. These words should not be thematically connected, but you must challenge your mind to find patterns between them. The number of words corresponds to the level of temporal compression you are attempting. Start with 1 word per breath then as you slowly get better increase the number of words for level of compression. 3. Compression and Depth of Processing The real power of this technique lies in your ability to compress broad information (the variety of the words you select) and process them at deeper levels on the exhale. Your aim is to maintain the balance between breadth and depth. For example, if you're choosing five words per inhale, each should represent a different domain of thought (e.g., a color, a season, an emotion, an object, and an abstract concept). On the exhale including too on the inhale as much as its relevant relative to where you are in your development, this is where you're now deeply in the multi-imaginative space of expanding consciousness into the meanings of each word and the abstract overlaps (patterns and relationships) between them as creatively as possible where you're striving for a combination of novelty and uniqueness in those imaginative representations that can incorporate all categories of senses within the imagination however I recommend primarily stretching the imagined auditory and visual. 4. Pattern Recognition Across N-Levels The next stage is to compare the relationships between and within the words you've just selected with the previous N-levels. For example, if you're on a 3-breath cycle, you’ll compare the current set of patterns and relationships you discovered with the sets from the two previous cycles within the unique sets of words that as a reminder, although they're meant to be as randomly selected as possible you must also strive to make them as different as possible too like your representations from previous sets. Also rather than comparing the literal words themselves in the differentiation to compression stage, you compare the patterns and relationships noticed within and between them. 5. Abstract Thinking for Maximum Flexibility Again, when you imagine these words, do so in an abstract and associative way. Visualize the words not just explicitly but rather through deep, vivid connections that emerge from them. Again, keep it fresh and avoid familiar routes of thinking to ensure that you are exercising flexibility in your mental processes. For example if on the first breath, your first 3 words if you're working with 3 words at n-2 are "Lion, Earth and Rain" then on n-2 neither repeat "Lion, Earth or "Rain" but instead generate 3 new words like "Smile, solar system and Eagle". To continue this example, what are the patterns and relationships between "Lion, Earth and Rain" also, how are those patterns and relationships similar to those you can notice in "Smile, solar system and Eagle" versus where are they different? Moreover, how can you notice deeper patterns and relationships within the patterns and relationships of the two sets? This is how we go 'Higher' within n-2 aka a greater level of depth at the level of complexity before we go wider at the level of breadth as it concerns either expanding the number of words per breath and or expanding the number of n-levels we choose to train within. Now... What this pre-share is all for as stated in the beginning... Achieving Proof of Concept in sharing this Resolve Tempress offers a proof of concept, a way to prepare you for the complexity and intellectual rigor of MemVinci by experiencing success with something difficult and of my own creation that imbues you with greater trust towards not only me but towards yourself that you'll be eventually be able to not MemVinci. Tempress is not an easy technique, but I can't stress enough how the benefits that come from its training make it an essential stepping stone, just as the stuff from heartmath.com is. By practicing Tempress, you will develop the neural flexibility necessary to manage complex systems of information, improve your working memory, and enhance pattern recognition skills, core principles that will be further developed in MemVinci so I'm not at all expecting anyone to be able to just jump straight into it. It includes all the stuff on bioelectrical agency thus heartmath.com and the expansions I've made from here including the advancements I've made on the dumbed down version of the noted method of loci. By honing Tempress, it'll build the stated trust, confidence and reference experiences important to help you through your learning curve of MemVinci just as your learnings at heartmath.com are meant to do. When you achieve your confidence in Tempress, you'll undoubtedly strengthen as stated the confidence you have in me and therefore, your own personal resolve towards MemVinci. Preparing for the Future One other thing I'm really excited about being noticed by others is as you train your mind with techniques like Tempress, remember that you are engaging in a practice that not only increases your intelligence but also reconfigures the way you process and interact with the world. This is part of a much larger system I'm looking forward to elaborating on the broader framework to concerning the greater radical impacts that mastering MemVinci will have. Especially on the relationship between altering how one stores memories that create the authority of their chosen agency, aka not only why you choose one thing over another but why you subconsciously first look for those things concerning the filters that influence your choice, the essence of your reticular activation system. This means among other categories of our existential processing within consciousness, MemVinci is going to invert the natural mechanisms at play which create our tendencies towards groupthink and enable us to completely defloor that operation where we're actually going to be able to take back our authority as a consequence of altering how emotional memories are formed and how this in turn, alters social cognition. Emotional memory is the key to understanding social bias and therefore, flipping the switch on where the self-perceived authority is and how that perception gets stored is the key to the lock that otherwise binds us to the inevitable imprisonment that follows from instead executing the mechanisms behind authority and social cognition right into the hands of preprogrammed bias which usually is to some variation of conformity. I'm looking forward to explaining this a lot more come MemVinci, but that should be a great primer to keep in the back of your mind for what's to come and yes, it follows from a recent post Leo Gura made on his blog regarding groupthink, so he's adding a couple of ingredients to me being able to have the right insights here. Memvinci is a transformative new way to generate complete agency over the RAS process of filtering what, how and why we choose what we do relative to both cognitive, emotional processing and more, and the controls to doing this are completely within the control of the person trying to master it, not to mention with full unrestricted self-mastery in this fascinating domain of our understanding of consciousness in the balance of choice, freedom and self-perceived freedom within the confines of the levels of the physical to world to the metaphysical landscape. To sum, my goal in openly sharing my breakthroughs here is that whether it's intelligence enhancement or any other category of personal development no one has the right to say that it should stay a social construct where it's tied up in the bounds of elitist dogma reserved for only the privileged few initiated, nor should we positively reinfoce outdated social status systems like modern academia by hoarding our ideas away until we can wait for the right time to receive social recognition. So as it pertains to someone or someone's taking my work and claiming it as their own via repackaging/related, it's simply not the paradigm or related social stratification I operate on to even mildly care two neurons about. Mathematical Framework for Tempress Now finally, to allow the reader to mentally organize and "unpack" the abstract nature of Tempress, I've translated it into a little abstract math just to stengthen the learning curve and something I'll share deeper developments on in the last post. Sure, it's a simple equation right now however only goal is to create one that removes any misunderstandings present around Tempress so far and solidify ground already made in comprehending the training involved. Expect it to be a learning curve that is a key piece of the advancements in cognition that'll follow so you don't become deterred during the learning process, bringing us back full swing for the meanings behind my choosing of the word Tempress. The Tempress Equation: T = (W X D X I) N2 X A Where: W = word count per cycle (conceptual breadth), D = disparateness (semantic distance between words), I = imagination (abstract thinking), N = n-level depth (temporal integration across cycles), A = pattern abstraction (recognition and compression depth). Enjoy yal for that to play with, gives much more closure on everything for what's to come now heh. I shouldn't leave too much up to surprise, we need to intelligently lay out stepping stones as much as we can for not just ourselves but also others to come full swing on my post on the site just previous. This will be the minimum standard into my journals moving forward which I'm sure will evolve more and more. Naturally on my travels things are a little more chaotic and I was searching for personal resolves in a lot of areas outside my responsibilities in this space so I cared less about presentations but kept them laid here to bare for future learning and a consolidation of this new resolve moving forward into the future of my own personal growth. Best of luck for yours, and yes, if you've got kids after you've truly got the hang of it, make simpler versions that'll be just as and arguably much more powerful for them in the long run, I do not recommend traditional dumbed down versions of n-back in the slightest relative to how its presently conceptualised as they do not accurately reflect the areas of engagement and key mechanisms they're meant to activate in order to thoroughly reflect what an n-back task should be about. Best Light
  21. @Razard86 Oh fuck me, dear Razard, do we really have to treat each other like idiots who don't understand, or pretend not to understand, what the adversary is saying just to repeat the same thing over and over like a mantra? Just like you, I experience the ego persona. And it's a fucking masterpiece created to experience darkness pretending to be light. The ego is never about truth, only about being right, so that it can be on top, to feel supreme. That's why it creates these artificial categorizations, divisions, judgments, hierarchies, about which I see I have to write more in a separate thread. It will split hairs just to be fucking right. Nevertheless, we all share this matrix here... I am not, like anyone else here, free from this devilish octopus holding me by the snout, and let's not pretend to be surprised when someone sometimes gets irritated or pissed off. Are everyone here so liberated and enlightened? Well, I fucking doubt it.
  22. This is how many people have felt regarding the left / Dems / establishment coming after them for not towing the party line or presenting a challenge to the orthodoxy. Jordan Peterson, Bret Weinstein, JK rowling - all their fiascos revolved around this, and these are just the more notable names. The pervasiveness of this stretches from academia to social media, from corporations to mainstream entertainers. Your ''side'' cancel, censor, lecture, and condescend. They wield moral superiority like a hammer, dismissing dissent as ignorant or bigoted. They can get someone memory holed from the internet and destroy careers with a hashtag. They can turn the entire media apparatus into a synchronized chorus singing whatever tune serves the establishment. The left are blind to this cultural authoritarianism, because power not only corrupts but blinds those who have it. The right naturally put their efforts into alternative media because the mainstream platforms were hostile to them. It’s the same reason on a macro geopolitical level - BRICS is forming an alternate financial system parallel to the Western system - because the West abuses and weaponises it through sanctions and seizure of assets - utterly suffocating multipolarity just like how the establishment suffocate domestic political plurality of opinions - causing utter polarity as a result!
  23. He was probably speaking more in the hypothetical - if things were to escalate. The thing is even if these missiles don't do much damage or are countered by Russia - the major difference is this isn't simply providing weapons for Ukraine to use, these missiles require US participation in order to launch them. ATCAMS rely on advanced targeting data that Ukraine doesn't have without Western levels of ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance). Thats as far as I currently understand it. It's literally declaring war on Russia directly and no longer by proxy. Russia even said this was their red line, and here we are - the red line is shining bright red but the West just walks right past just like the past actions that resulted in where we are today. The hubris, arrogance, delusion and stupidity is on another level. This is Bidens legacy (if presidents even are in control that is) - presiding over a plausible genocide in Gaza he didn't stop but had all the means to (supposedly) and nuclear brinkmanship 2 months before his departure from office. But yeah, this forum can keep worrying about Orange Hitler whilst not a single thread gets started on this major escalation - and barely a mutter from Democrat die hards lol.

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    By the way I have a little difficulty understanding that why this mail was sent to me .I am also ready for giving away one free chapter of my ebook . If anyone interested kindly PM.
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  29. We don´t even know if the damn missiles have impacted anything of significant value in Russia
  30. yeap. That's what really ego is.
  31. A wise man once said "Don´t take advice from people that their own advice hasn´t worked for them". Basically any human that is not fully Enlightened, can not give advice or guidance of 'Life'. You can find any professional that can give advices about limited things: money, sports, etc... But when we are talking about mental health, we are talking about how to conduce the mental mechanism, which obviously puts us in the trascendental world. So you can not treat something of unlimited capacity with limited knowing (academia, language, logic), which is what ultimately psychology does. It falls to the trap that the mind problem is something you can handle with limited tools and schemes. Is not that they scammers, they just don´t know any better. They lack the consciousness to see and accept what they are doing. I once went to one that the first session was free
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