Bryan Lettner

Reality is infinite imagination. Okay, hmmm... so i wonder if that imagination is deliberate/willful/volitional, or if it's an automatic process. Or both? Neither? All of the above? Willful at the higher levels of self-realization, and automatic or mechanical at the lower levels? Also maybe Reality is the ongoing eternal process of Truth deriving itself, because that process resolves all paradox. Like, Creation has to Create itself? Something like that.

Thanks, sounds plausible. Certainly God, being God , has the power to chose otherwise, than only to maximize love? And for all i know, God is maximizing pleasure at a particular locus, drawing vampirically from the environment around it.... all while cleverly disguising this as a Maximization of Love. Certainly God is Infinite Cleverness as well? If so, then it can probably disguise anything as anything else, without you or I ever becoming aware of it at the human level. And this may be my own myopia again, but I've never heard a good explanation as to how prolonged torture can maximize love. Torturing may be fun, cuz someone might love doing it... but being tortured, on the other hand, is not loved by anyone, not beyond a certain threshold anyway. Or maybe i just need to accept that Love may not be as maximizable as we wish it could be.

Thanks everyone. It certainly wouldn't surprise me if God is (or has) Infinite Will. I just have trouble making that leap, since it also wouldn't surprise me if God is also infinite obedience and lack of will. I guess my confusion boils down to... what causes god's choice to will a particular imagining, vs. a different one? Maybe will is previous to causality , i just can't wrap my head around it still.

i go over the idea that earth may have been machined, including most lakes and coastlines

**Note that i do not definitively espouse any of these views outright or with any strong degree of certainty. I am merely presenting some good ideas, to be weighed against other good ideas and valid counterexamples. Strong convictions, held loosely, etc. **And I do not necessarily think any civilization necessarily needs to exist or be sustained and continued. Civilization itself may be a bad idea. Pure nothingness/ non-experience is just as well. But... if we are going to perpetuate our civilization, we might as well set things up strategically, and as optimally as possible. **Written kinda bullet-pointy, doesn't flow well. Take what you will from it. The fact that someone can work hard and strategically to increase their level of consciousness is wonderful. But the fact that someone can work hard and strategically to increase their bank account, despite their level of consciousness, is a travesty. And a recipe for a dysfunctional poopshow of a society. It's possible that how much money you get paid should be based solely on your spiral dynamics level. Not even on your contributions. Reward on the front end, before you make anything of value, without any expectation of having to make anything at all, ever. Now, from a certain perspective, this is actually reward on the back end, because talent and spiral-dynamics-level (or "midichlorian count") is soul labor already accomplished, crystallized and calcified into the soul. And maybe a more nuanced and pragmatic model would be to use level of consciousness as a primary determining factor of monetary income, with some other factors weighed in as well. One could argue that the reason Anakin Skywalker went off the rails is mostly because he was forced to trudge through the archaic conventions of people dumber and less advanced than him, who wouldn't let him use his power until he satisfied their dumb criteria. If he had just been given an open platform to express himself, commensurate with his innate, inborn level of ability (his "midichlorian count"), then no frustration would have arisen, and he would have remained a force for benevolence. Of course it's just a movie, but a decent example nonetheless. One problem with this model is, lower spiral dynamics level players will not permit this, and will do everything in their power to prevent it. And another problem is... who would implement and maintain and enforce the model? Well, those with the highest levels of consciousness, of course. In the same way that the current financial system was a lot of work to create, but has nearly unstoppable momentum.... this new model will be a lot of work to implement, but once up and running, very stable over time, and resilient to perturbation. Perhaps only implementable through enlightened dictatorship, or a team acting in that capacity. Leo brings up some great points about value creation in this blog video. The major problem I have is: Our economic system only rewards innovation within a category. It doesn't reward innovations on the category, which are of course FAR MORE VALUABLE. Our system only rewards solutions which are "a little new". Only mildly innovative. Take cars for example. Sure, you can make millions with a new type of car or a flying car. Or with a little nicknack which makes moving a piano easier. Or with "revolutionary" software or hardware for an airplane. But let's be real: A car, even the best Lamborghini or Tesla or Apple vehicle, is a primitive little metal cockroach with round rubber shoes. Absolutely ridiculous Flintstones nonsense to anyone with half a noodle. Now I love cars as much as the next guy, but let's put it in it's proper place: recreation and hobby, and not our primary means of transportation. And Antigravity is not just some overly-specific example. It's a cornerstone of a functional society. Real innovation makes existing industries obsolete. This is, of course, a problem for the collective ego we call an economy, which feels a need to survive as such. Real innovation cuts to the core, and fast. What passes for innovation in our economy is shallow and frivolous, and slow. Real innovations bring non-dual solutions, which obsolete the need for an economy at all. I'm talking about nothing less than... real innovation reprograms the universe and reverses entropy, such that nobody is a leaky-bucket energy system with unmet needs. An economy presupposes unmet needs. Real innovation takes us to a place where there is no such thing. True innovation obsoletes the need for "careers". The notion of a career is substrated by lack and undesirable circumstances. By wanting to be over there in that other better situation, and needing to do something over a time period to get to there. That's what a career is: a vehicle which transports you from "meh" to "yay". However, when we pass a threshold of yay-ness, which we are currently in the process of doing now, the opportunity arises to raise the floor from meh to yay. And by yay, i mean nothing less than: instant manifestation of anything. Even a magic genie is unsatisfactory and too slow. The very desiring of something must manifest the thing. And if it doesnt, then the "CAREERS" which make the most money should be those which are geared towards bringing that new state of affairs into existence. Also, note that: The greatest minds are ON FIRE in many different fields. Regardless of who came up with them, the best ideas deserve to be implemented. That's not what our economy facilitates. Buckling down on only one thing is inefficient for some minds and personality types. Those wild Leonardo da Vinci types, should be given CEO status on the merit of their spirit alone, not on their results. Then, the results will come 100x. The highest paid musicians should be the ones who write the best riffs and songs. Period. Regardless of work ethic, or networking prowess, or career strategy. No architect should be able to fashion a strong career unless they are visionaries. Period. Money is currently blind, but that is a tragedy. Money should be blind to the lower spiral-dynamics levels, and heavily favor the higher spiral-dynamics levels. Money = power over others, as Leo pointed out. But, the only people who deserve to have power over others are those with dank-ass brains and nuanced perspectives and benevolent souls. Ability to "monetize" those proclivities should be irrelevant. The midichlorian count alone (the level of consciousness) should bring in the paycheck. Those most capable of contributing should be the most supported, without having to interrupt their creative and productive process to go and procure the support. That interruption causes inefficiency and kinks the flow, and therefore fucks us all. Society works better this way, and we all win, cuz better shit gets made. Everyone should get a paycheck NO matter what, and that paycheck should be proportionate to your level of wisdom and soul-growth. The only way to get more money or freedom is to get wiser and better. Not by producing results. When you increase your wisdom and skill, and get rewarded for that, you'll be naturally compelled to create great works. Reward on the front end, product on the back end. Escaping wage-slavery, vs. ENDing it. Winning at musical chairs, vs. creating a better game entirely. In the meantime, our musical chairs game must move towards favoring those who are creating that new game. Not going to happen anytime soon, so act from where you are. (We must be pragmatic... Those in power aren't going to simply hand over their power just because they "should". I probably wouldn't, and you probably wouldn't.). But it's something to strive towards. Ask yourself... Are your life choices and lifestyle moving us towards this new game? And, insofar as you attempt to win at the current game (by all means, go for it!)... is your style of playing conducive to a healthy transition to the new paradigm, or is it reinforcing the old?

Great video. My key takeaways... confirming some stuff that i've been feeling for some time now.... Nothing will ever "finally be fine." You are God, and God is on fire forever, in a hysterical clusterfudge, trying to find a way out, but never succeeding. Yeah, theres good stuff too, but the only thing that could ever truly satisfy is only good stuff and no bad stuff. There is no ultimate peace or eternal bliss. No state of rest and safety. One can "make peace with the lack of peace", but that's not very satisfying., not what we really want. The deeper the rabbit hole of inquiry and awareness goes, the more it seems like a rotten egg to me. "Oh, no wonder I'm playing the game of not being God... cuz being God sucks, and forgetting that for a while is the best i can hope for." Am I missing something? It almost seems like delusion and escapism and numbness are the ultimate, and they are closest we can get to freedom and peace. Living through every life... haha, yikes, no thanks. Reality seems like a cumbersome never-ending tv series of God shitting in his own mouth in a million different ways, with no option of doing anything else. Imprisoned on the great Ferris wheel, with no way of getting off. All the realization of Radical Oneness makes me wanna do is stop existing entirely.... Which, of course, does not seem to be an option. Sorry I don't mean to doomf*g all over everybody. But help a brother out... is there any good news to the realization of Oneness? A silver lining? I struggle to find something reassuring about Radical Oneness.

@i am I AM I could definitely use more creativity. Mind listing a few?

@now is forever I can officially say this post was a success, since 'yeast bubbles' have now entered the discussion. @tsuki Yes, I can definitely admit to a wounded ego. And I am humbled on a daily basis by people who are far more Da Vinci or Tesla than I am. And to the degree that they are, they should have more say than me and more power than me. And my wounded ego doesn't mean the points i've made aren't valid. it may look like naivety, but it's not... it's just an awareness of what happens when you combine high consciousness with high technology. I think people are misconstruing it like i've said "do xyz, and we'll have utopia on earth". I'm not talking about utopia, i'm only talking about making things better than they currently are, by configuring them in a better way than they're configured now. You say that like it's a good thing. Yes, there is a reason the world is structured as poorly as it is... and part of that reason is that lower consciousness stages are running amuck with power.

@Christer -You can try the Language Instinct by steven Pinker. Havent read it, but i read How the Mind Works by him, and that was good. -You can search amazon books for "semiotics". haven't read any of them, but they are on my to-do list. -You might also enjoy researching the topic of the so-called 'secret language of the dakini': the language whose words do not represent things, but are things. (the idea that meaning is inherently conveyed by sound, form etc). -you might enjoy reading this post about the underlying structure of language.

I don't really smoke, but when i occasionally puff on a cigar, i've noticed that it has crazy nootropic boost. Increased mental clarity. If i continue to smoke more than once a week, it doesn't give the same benefit. My question is: What administration method of nicotine would have the least negative impact on health, and highest nootropic boost? Least carcinogenic effect. Gum? Patch? Smoked through a bong or some filter? Cold-brew tea? Pill? I think once per month is a good frequency for nicotine. Insane upside, lasts 30-60 mins.

@Emerald Except, a person can't grow fruit in their backyard if they don't already have a backyard to work with, and seeds, and water, and tools.... FIRST. You can't expect an empty handed person with no resources to bring forth results out of thin air. A person can't bring forth their value unless they have a place to do it, and the tools to do it with. (which are, of course, only purchasable... after you provide the value. a catch 22.) Human infants are only able to later create value because... we nourish their needs FIRST. It's not fantasy, it's just a more refined physics. The world runs the way it does because.... our laws of physics are poorly configured. The idea is to move towards reconfiguring them, with a more meritocratic system only as a brief stepping stone. To settle for the universe we have, and to perpetuate it as such, stems from a lack of resourcefulness and self-respect and respect for each other. I would agree that there is no utopia possible in our particular type of universe. But why just sit here and eat shit? why not create a better universe, or go to a different one and decommission this one. Past generations did half-decent, but they didn't know much. They didn't know how to vibrate an apple into existence rather than growing it, or how to reconfigure the human body such that it doesn't even need to eat to survive, or how to forego the need for a body altogether, or how to reprogram a universe.

@now is forever Agree to disagree

@now is forever A valid question. No one would decide, a metric would be developed and decide based on more or less objective indicators, similar to the sorting hat in harry potter. A "smartmeter" for souls. Something which can read your "field", at the electromagnetic level, plasmic level, and beyond. Now who would develop the metric, and what criteria would be used? Yes, that would be the messy part, full of errors and strategic blunders. And Reality is irreducibly mysterious, so such a metric would always be subject to at least some non-trivial margin of error. But the idea is, it's something to asymptote towards. There's a lot of diversity in voting behavior, even within one particular level such as Turquoise. Many turquoise might see the futility of it, or "vote" with their lifestyle choices, or would vote but they are busy with other things, or be so indifferent to the outcome that they dont bother. Or, a turquoise might choose to get involved. Maybe i generalized too heavily there.

@now is forever In regards to democratic voting... that's not very good, because the higher spiral dynamics levels generally dont bother voting. So the vote reflects lower consciousness who are overconfident in their dumb opinions. And if everyone did vote, the vote should not be equal... the lowest consciousness in the species should get a vote equal to 0.001 vote, and the highest consciousness people should get a value of 1 vote.

@Michael569 Curious, what is your true purpose? if you dont mind

@Western Buddha Don't sweat it man, do what feels natural right now. Just be open to the possibility that you may feel compelled to make some kind of impact in the future. There's a phrase, "the heart asks pleasure first." Maybe the universe just needs you to do you, at least for now. Guilt won't help anything.

@non_nothing No, blockchain networks have nothing to do with level of consciousness. Leonardo Da Vinci should not have to waste his energy "gatekeeping a blockchain" in order to enable his work.

Fuck. This is a hard one. Any ideas? What purpose does Purpose serve? All i've got is maybe: -to act as a backbone somehow to prop up Reality's games. -to give God the feeling of having something to do, so that it stays oriented and patterned rather than chaotic and unoriented. -Purpose... has no purpose? I don't really understand what i'm saying. Need me some helps.

@Joseph Maynor An interesting take on it, thank you. That definitely makes a lot of sense. I actually didn't have life purpose in mind, specifically. More like purpose in general, as a fundamental phenomenon. Like the purpose of a hammer, or a vacation, or pain, or an emotion, or time. My question may be akin to "This statement is false", in that it renders itself nonsensical through self-reference.

@Outer Thanks outer. Yes I may try the patch. It would be cool to experiment with ways of sustaining the effects. Maybe patch gives a longer high? For some reason I have zero addictive tendencies towards tobacco. (Sugar and caffeine is a different story ). Actually, probably factoring into that is the fact that i never inhale. Just draw it into my mouth and blow it out (which of course can cause mouth cancer in excess). Alcohol also has zero addictiveness for me... it's fascinating how widely peoples' addictive tendencies can vary. Worth noting that I made tobacco tea once (cant remember if it was cold brew or hot brew), with natural loose leaf pipe tobacco (no chemicals). Not much, roughly the amount that would go in one cigarrette. And MAN, after only drinking a few oz., i had a major panicky, freaked-out feeling. Like, the kind where you plead with God that you'll stop jerking off to porn forever if he'll just let you survive this. LOL And when i smoke more than 3/4 of a cigar, I get the same freak-out feeling. And also cigars that have been half-smoked already or left out overnight, can give me that same feeling, after smoking only an inch or so. maybe some bacteria grows or something? Also, Ayahuasca completely wrecked me for a year, which may have been due to the nicotine from the tobacco leaves added the the brew. (same freaked-out feeling, and more.) Nicotine sensitivity is no joke, and highly individual (like gluten-sensitivity or anything else). But I still think nicotine definitely has its place in a nootropic stack, in the right amounts, administered properly. Also a recommendation for everyone: Mapacho is a gloriously wonderful tobacco strain. Has 9X the nicotine of traditional cigar tobacco (highest in the world i think). So you don't need as much of it. Tastes amazing as well... best taste of any tobacco i've encountered, although i'm no afficionado . I think moving towards a comprehensive nootropic schedule is a cool idea. Scheduling in weed once in a while, nicotine once in a while, microdosing etc. That way you're always turning your brain on in different ways, and never getting burned out or developing a tolerance. Ironic personal note... it took me like 15 minutes to remember the word "tolerance". I think that's a red flag that i need some dang nootropics .

He discusses some pretty wild topics.

@Arkandeus Yea, typing it out/ writing it down is one of the most therapeutic things. Helps to process the experience and digest, without triggering much of an emotional response. Some other stuff you can try: -Herbal tea, L-Theanine, tart cherry juice concentrate, sauna or ice bath, and healthy distractions like actively cultivating a skill. Practicing or working on a project. -One mental crutch you can lean on is the fact that there are so many natural herbs and supplements available (and pretty cheaply for the most part), that you could try a new one every single day for the next 4 months, and even if one doesn't help at all, you can feel reassured knowing that you haven't yet exhausted all your options. Also I talk about my ayahuasca experience on my youtube channel if you're interested.

@Arkandeus And you can also use any feelings of "madness" or mania or overly intense feelings as an opportunity to practice "non-adding". A resigned "it is what is is" attitude. Not resigned as in complacent or defeated, but accepting, in a peaceful way. Like you know that adding more angst into the mix won't help, so you can try to just relax and let it be. (easier said than done). This works the "manual override" muscle. And tempers you against any future stress. So when you feel any ayahuasca weirdness, remind yourself that it will pass, and try to force-reframe the situation as an opportunity to practice peace amidst turbulence.

@Arkandeus I feel ya brother, I can relate. Had a 6-8 month hangover of morbid doom feeling every day after a couple bad ayahuasca trips. Fear of sleep, lots of weird and bad stuff. The good news is it goes away completely after a year or so. My theory is it just throws the brain chemistry out of wack somehow, in a somewhat traumatic way, and it just takes time for the brain to recover. (seratonin syndrome, or similar). You should restabilize and be back to a healthy baseline with time.

He has some very interesting perspectives on Reality and the universe, and sometimes elegant ways of explaining things. I'm cautious and skeptical, but he seems pretty authentic. Do you guys buy his story? Not trying to gossip, just gathering different perspectives, and bring him to your attention if you haven't heard of him. The stuff he talks about leads down a pretty deep rabbit hole, paranormal territory, whistleblowing, advanced technologies, etc. Attached one of my favorite audio clips of his, about freeing the soul. (18 mins). Can post more links if it resonates. Here's his youtube channel. The way out and forward- Aug Tellez.mp3