The Mystical Man

This is really cool: I like biophilic design. "As the first museum to focus exclusively on storytelling through images, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art™ believes that visual storytelling can connect us and help shape a more just society. With a growing collection that encompasses artworks from across cultures, places, times, and mediums, including paintings, sculptures, murals, photography, comic art, book and magazine illustrations, and the arts of filmmaking, the Lucas Museum will explore narrative art’s potential to prompt questions, invite opinions, inspire community, and move people to think about the impact of images on our world." Visit the website: https://lucasmuseum.org

Adyashanti mentioned this book in his course: Taking the One Seat It's a great book about building character. Get it here.

That's part of the problem: https://nypost.com/2022/09/22/woke-gen-z-is-hellbent-on-destroying-entertainment/ This generation has poor taste. But we all lack taste when we're young, so I hope they'll grow out of it.

Leaks hurt on a human level: As a creator, you don't want people to see your unfinished work taken out of context.

I can understand why some people might not enjoy treating this like a task, but I like that approach. It depends on your intention. There is value in consuming bad art, because that's how you learn: through contrast. When you find a piece of art that isn't that good, instead of saying "This sucks!", you can ask yourself, "Why does it suck?" Yes, that's the idea. Those lists can serve as a starting point. Unfortunately, works of art get overrated and underrated for various reasons that don't have anything to do with quality. That's why it can take a long time to find your favorite works of art and develop your unique taste. It's also the reason why it takes courage to follow your authentic interests, because what you like might not be the most popular thing.

One of my favorite films: Writing and acting are the two things I care about the most, and the writing and acting in 12 Angry Men is phenomenal.

Yes, the performances are amazing.

This is a very intense show: Created by Craig Mazin, the guy who is making "The Last of Us" for HBO. This mini-series shows why it's important to face the truth. This disaster could've been avoided, if the ego hadn't tried to cover up the truth.

That is true. Robert McKee talks about that in his book "Story". In the chapter "Structure and Meaning" he discusses the power of aesthetic emotion: "When an idea wraps itself around an emotional charge, it becomes all the more powerful, all the more profound, all the more memorable." "Intellectual analysis, however heady, will not nourish the soul." "Writers deal with ideas, but not in the open, rational manner of philosophers. Instead, they conceal their ideas inside the seductive emotions of art." Plato wanted to exile storytellers, because he knew how powerful they are.

The way I see it, the whole MBTI community is full of themselves. Especially these INFJs.

The torture and execution methods of the past are a good reason not to commit suicide. You might get reborn and experience the brazen bull. Enjoy the 21st century, folks.

Those ten minutes will be quite bad, though. Crucifixion takes longer, but the pain level might not be as high as with the brazen bull.

Lolita is Humbert's nickname for Dolores, a 12-year-old girl that he's obsessed with. He calls sexually attractive young girls Nymphets.

Lolita is my favorite novel. It's the only novel that I like more than Moby-Dick. Nabokov's command of the English language is impeccable.

That's true to a certain degree. But Chase grew up in a certain generation, and that matters, too. What the mind gets exposed to while it's young plays a huge role in creating a genius.

Of course, there was bad content even when there were gatekeepers. But it was much less. Imagine there weren't any gatekeepers to becoming a doctor. There are bad doctors, but thanks to the arduous process of becoming a doctor, there aren't that many. Bad artists are also harmful to society, even if we have review systems. Everything is becoming dumber. How are we supposed to produce a genius like David Chase, for example, if kids are growing up with TikTok and other bizarre videos on YouTube?

I'm talking about the fact that everyone can publish whatever they want. Maybe you like that, but I miss the days when not everyone could call themselves an artist. Thirty years ago, nobody would dare call himself a writer unless he had a literary agent and a publishing house. These days, if you publish your writing on Amazon, you're a writer, but nobody wants to read your writing; I certainly don't. If you're on Instagram, you're a photographer. If you're on YouTube, you're a filmmaker. If you're on Steam, you're a game maker. If you use Midjourney, you're an artist. If everyone can do it, what's the point? The making and sharing of art used to be reserved for the talented. George Lucas and his friends needed to break into the equipment room just to make a film; that's how inaccessible tools used to be, and I have a fondness for that kind of inaccessibility, because people who were talented enough would find a way to share their art with the world, but now everyone finds a way. I don't think the world needs everyone's content. Who is going to make the mature masterpieces of the future? When you look at the TikTok generation and the kind of content that they're growing up with, the future of art looks hopeless. I tried to read to my sister from the first Harry Potter book, and she kept saying that it's boring. But she always watches these bizarre videos on YouTube.

Yeah, but they did that with Steam Greenlight, which was a nice quality control system that allowed cool games like Antichamber to exist. Then they replaced Steam Greenlight with Steam Direct, and I don't think that was a good call. YouTube would benefit from a quality control system, too.

I'm not a big fan of making tools and platforms more accessible, because accessibility doesn't lead to much good. Steam is a good example. It used to be quite difficult to get your game on Steam, but now everyone can upload their game to Steam, and what good comes from that? Steam gets flooded with mediocre games. Steam was better when they reviewed every single game to make sure that the games meet a quality standard. I miss the gatekeepers of yore; they filtered out the low-quality stuff, and because not everyone could publish stuff, the event of publishing something used to mean something. Now everyone can publish whatever they want, and it means nothing. Everyone can be an artist, a writer, a filmmaker. You can say that that has advantages, but, the way I see it, there are more disadvantages: we get flooded with low-quality stuff, and the event of publishing loses its value. All the great artworks that I love were created by people who had to convince gatekeepers: the studios and the publishers. I haven't found a single work of art that I like and that exists by virtue of the accessibility of tools and platforms. Making tools and platforms more accessible doesn't unlock creativity, talent, and genius. It unlocks mediocrity, which previously was getting filtered out.

Maybe gather the courage to endure your life. When you commit suicide, you get another womb, and the God that you love to hate on so much might give you a worse life. In this lifetime, you have all the resources at your disposal that you need to build a good life. In the next lifetime, you might be even more lost than you are now.

It took me a long time to finally procure DMT, and now that I have it, I'm too scared to take it. I have experience with standard doses of AL-LAD, 1P-LSD, 1cP-LSD, and 1V-LSD, so basically acid, but nothing else. I respect DMT, because it's a different class of psychedelics, and the idea that it kicks in so quickly scares me. My fear is that I might stop breathing; that fear always comes up during a psychedelic session, and that fear keeps me from fully surrendering. I can feel the shortness of breath on 10 ug of 1V-LSD. I don't think there is anything you can say to make it easier for me, but I still felt like sharing.

I'll be sharing my favorite monthly lessons in this thread: You’re not going to invite any feeling at all the next time you get knocked around by life. Don't care what happens to you. As long as you remain silent, only good things can happen. You have to take a million times more than you can now take. You have a delusion of yourself and it's killing you. You're to notice how egotistical you are when that feeling went through you. Every thought starts with 'I', 'me', or 'mine' — that's egotism. Awareness of that will preferably horrify you. All you can do is think about yourself. 'I must not be afraid of not having an answer when I choose not to react. I must not fear to not have any help. I will not try to help myself again.' You don't have to be you anymore.

A mature and healthy ego does have a say in it, and it will do everything within its power to avoid homelessness. An immature and neurotic ego will bring about the conditions that lead to homelessness. God has nothing to do with it.