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I have made several million dollars trading stocks and cryptocurrencies exclusively started with $10,000 of savings from working at a restaurant for 6 years. I didn't need to engage in any devilry or manipulation of other people to do it either. I am now free to pursue things that WILL elevate mankind without the need to muddy my day to day consciousness and activities in the pursuit of money. I don't need to combine my life purpose with some kind of business or need for money to sustain myself. I hate to break it to people but getting rich quick is very possible, just go where the money is and then spend the rest of your time engaging in things that are more pure. I do in fact have plans in the works that will have a positive impact on every single person on this planet... Obviously I'm probably the exception but it's very possible to get your piece of the pie when there are trillions of dollars sloshing around everyday in financial markets. Especially if you use options and leverage. ?

bitcoin is hard money, own some, don't sell ever and sleep well at night

I get the sense that it's just arbitrary mental masturbation but not mathematically sophisticated enough to say that. Is there anything to this, if so what? The part about everything and nothing was intriguing for sure.

Yeah the whole adding the two numbers of the sum together just seems totally arbitrary and ungrounded. Like saying poop o'clock + dairycow = 9. Am I wrong? How is this derived as significant??

This mirrors my experiences too. thanks for sharing your methods

microdosing or mesodosing when socializing in general is the masterkey, not just pickup. I for one become a talented mr. ripley lol

@Leo Gura Isn't it obvious that there are other dreaams being dreamed constantly in the form of other humans aliens etc? I'm wondering if there is a possibility of the continuity of experience after biological death. You die and maybe don't remember that you were here on earth and then find yourself in some other realm with a different set of physics. To my mind this wouldn't be possible and the ego must invent these kinds of afterlife type stories to cope. It's may be a fundamental rejection of oneness and the assumption that seperateness is the truth.

@Alejandro12pte make as much money as you possibly can and use it to contribute to a high consciousness goal. Money is power, power sees it's holder's will done. Too few people with high consciousness seek power and that is a huge problem.

grass fed meat. You really can't avoid glyphosate, no living creature on this planet can at this point in fact. Unfortunately Glyphosate is water soluble so it's pretty much a part of the hydrologic cycle now. Lobbyists and idiot regulators I guess. Of course there are dramatically varying degrees of the concentration you will be exposed to depending on where your food sources come from. But yeah, nothing more ecologically sustainable than raising ruminants on grass, no pesticides required

thanks for looking into this @captainamerica. Would love to get your updates

Digesting this book will grant you insight into the mind of a devil, understanding the tenets is a useful inoculation.

Leo Gura

Take @Leo Gura for example, he's been in the most transcendent states of consciousness possible, understands the ultimate nature of reality fully and yet seems to have no issue returning to the normal every day 21st century beta brain wave dominant state of consciousness that allows him to go to the grocery store, run this forum, keep shooting videos, brush his teeth etc. It's not uncommon for people to totally lose their grip on reality when they get traumatized by things psychedelics aside never mind the total profundity of awakening. I'm just wondering if the issue is being dragged back into the "normal" state or maintaining the normal state after awakenings and intense psychedelic experiences. To me it seems that my consciousness is quite fragile, I dont know how I'm even able to write these sentences and fear that if I delve fully into awakening I may lose touch with the relative domain. My psychedelic experiences have permanently altered my perceptions and thought patterns in a radical way that at times has been difficult to cope with but the thing that keeps me grounded is acknowledging the dream, and treating it as real. It's a simple decision that at this point makes me feel like I can always be tethered to, no matter how conscious and detached I may become I can always treat reality as real and be fine. What prevents a crazy person from doing this? Where is the breaking point between insane and not insane, why cant they just snap out of it so to speak like I've been able to. I can access transcendence at any time but decide not to and it just works, is this enough of a tether to continue to delve deeper without fear of never coming back to survival consciousness?

@Leo Gura ok fair enough, youre right that I'm skittish but it's gotten me this far. From a business/monetary/investment perspective, how do you feel about the climate currently? I mean, I assume you'd prefer not to have a massive hit to your personal balance sheet. It's an unprecedented time in that things are getting exponentially better and worse simultaneously. If you study history you'll notice that the levers of power have never been so long and things have never been so complex. Mistakes have global consequences. Survival is survival, I'd rather not die in a silly way and money is inherently worthless, so how best to prepare?

@Nahm BOOM. ahaha thanks

@Nahm hmmm good point. Makes me realize that what I'm really worried about is not being able to engage in the collective delusion that helps me to survive in society. @John Doe haha good strategy, thanks

@Leo Gura Leo do you feel comfortable having purchased a home in the middle of a desert while society is crumbling? Arent you worried about getting thirsty? Do you feel safer having allocated your capital into real estate instead of retaining the liquidity? I guess a house is worth at least something in reality relative to digits in an account... I'm currently grabbing as much credit (funny money) as possible to make my escape somewhere self-sufficient and far far away. Make no mistake we ARE transitioning to green, but I'd rather watch from a distance, global debt deflation will destroy the entire world economy

i live in china, maybe i can dig something up, im curious too

@Mystica45why can't your relative perspective and the absolute be simultaneously true? Do they contradict somehow? I'm personally not seeing the conflict...

@Michael569 Cheers! Always up for a friendly debate and information exchange. I love having my beliefs challenged and acknowledge them as beliefs and an approximation of what might be true, a solid useful model to filter decisions through is my goal ultimately. As soon as research starts getting fired back and forth it get's too involved i agree and in this context we can take each other at our words, i trust the information you provide is accurate although all perspectives are obviously partial. The article i sent you is quite unique in that the poor guy's c-peptide came back to normal which was thought to be impossible for a type 1. This in my opinion has broad implications for all autoimmune conditions. eager to see what you dig up on saturated fat

@Michael569 there are plenty of people who stop eating all plant foods and see dramatic reversals in many of their degenerative conditions in short order even autoimmune diseases like type 1 diabetes https://www.ijcasereportsandimages.com/archive/2014/010-2014-ijcri/CR-10435-10-2014-clemens/ijcri-1043510201435-toth.pdf. It doesnt seem like these people are experiencing rapid aging as a result of not getting polyphenols. I dont really see how jordan peterson is marketing his diet, he mentioned his personal experience on a podcast. what's pro inflammatory for one person may not be for another and vice versa. Microbiome science is in it's infancy and it's likely we will need AI and supercomputing to start making headway on the seemingly infinite fractal of interaction between the various organisms in our gut, spit swapping and transforming substances from one thing to another. It seems cut and dry that you eat fiber and bacteria process it and produce short chain fatty acids but in reality depending on the microbial makeup any given input in the form of food has no guaranteed output. The end product could be something very toxic or very healthy, no reason to rely on this. the other function of the microbiome is to allow us to be exposed to various compuounds without ill effects because the microbiome will in many cases intercept and neutralize them. I agree and am aware of everything you said about LPS in and of itself and also the various causes of permeability you mentioned but there are other factors at play, namely plant defense compounds. According to sadhguru nothing that lives wants to be eaten, and they ALL have strategies to avoid being eaten, animals and plants alike. Why would we eat things that require us to "tolerate" them. THis implies that they are damaging in some way I would be interested to see research on saturated fat stiffening the phospholipid bilayer and how that translates to rendering inuslin ineffectual shuttling nutrients into the cell, I was unaware of this. On it's face it sounds weird though given that the precursor to the phospholipid bilayer is saturated fat, but what do I know. I am aware that rancid oxidized cooked and processed plant oils cause massive free radical damage and oxidative stress though. Saturated fat is less likely to oxidize at temperature because the hydrogen bonds are more tightly knit with less surface area. What I have noticed is that my vitamin D levels finally went up significantly after being deficient my whole life while supplementing, to accomplish this i stopped supplemting ironically and dramatically increased the amount of saturated fat in my diet, I dont even get any sun. Of course the meat I eat is of high quality, because of course factory farming is undefensible. There are too many confounds to name with epidemiological studies rendering them next to meaningless. I do trust unbiased anecdotes because at least they are a holistic assessment and it really doesnt matter what some diluted study or narrow mechanism shows when my health IS an n=1 anyway, so self experimentation and macro outcomes are what matter to me. The qualitative difference in health is the highest standard of evidence for me above all others period. I'd genuinely be interested to know if there are any direct antioxidant compounds that are found in plants, because as far as Im aware they dont exist and are all stimulating endogenous antioxidant upregulation. The rich lords in the UK were almost certainly consuming plant foods in one form or another, likely in the form of bread and alcohol if not other non-rotten farmed produce, which of course will cause disease and insulin resistance along with a meat and dairy heavy diet. THere's a reason when given the chance the first thing people start eating more of is meat, it's naturally palatable for a reason. Animals in nature dont have dental problems, indigenous human populations also dont have dental problems, remember civilization is the master disease. All of this starts gets into the hierarchy of energy substrates that can be utilized to run the krebs cycle. To give a simplistic outline from inefficient and highest ROS producing to least it goes, alcohol, glucose, lactate and finally ketones. Ketones are ulitmately the optimal primary energy substrate for human metabolism, glucose on it's own is just like alcohol in that any excess cant be stored, just radiated as waste heat. Fat on the other hand doesnt get wasted in our metabolism, it all gets stored and utilized perfectly and efficiently granted you dont have excess glucose or alchohol gumming up the system. Oxygen consumption also goes down to 70% of what is necessary to metabolize glucose arresting the aging process related to oxidative damage, making it so in my experience i can hold my breath about twice as long while in ketosis. MTHFR is especially common in asian phenotypes which heavily favor consumption of animal foods as it happens. I dont think good data exists on this though population wide though. It seems like you are very well informed but if you arent aware of evolutionary biology you are missing a massive chunk of the story and imho the most important part. How do you think youre even alive? It's because your ancestors were optimized to their particular environment and all of their forebears as well. At the end of the day what matters when it comes to health is how well are you adapted to the environment. It's very difficult to change innate biology in the span of a lifetime or even many generations so it just makes sense to try to recreate an environment that matches the one we evolved in to begin with, maybe that will change with gene editing who knows

The power of concentration cannot be understated. Ever since i was a kid i noticed that when i tried to think about something to it's conclusion I often would lose the plot and my head would get this kind of numb feeling and I would have to start thinking about something else. It was odd because i found this very frustrating and noticeable but I just. couldnt. do. anything. about. it. The mind is funny because it seems to be simultaneously the easiest and most difficult thing to change. It's like why cant I just think about something, should be easy, but it seems to impossible in many cases to penetrate something with my mind. I think things that enhance basic parameters of cognition hold metaphysical and mystical promise, perhaps the only reason we have a shot at realizing god to begin with is some of these basic human powers, such as short term memory for example. Imagine if you could meaningfully expand your short term memory, what could you become conscious of? What is responsible for these advantages over say a dog? Is it our cortex or some certain neurotransmitter that we have, I would love to be able to identify that fundamental rate limiter and then augment it. I have to say my first experiences with breaking past my concentration glass ceiling was when i took psychedelics, microdoses helped too to be sure but there seem to factors that make psychedelics disagree with my constitution so an alternative would be nice.

If my mushrooms are powdered, could i theoretically plug them? I'll do the experiment unless someone knows right away that it wouldnt work for some enzymatic digestive necessity higher in the gut

@Michael569 antigenic substances in plants arent irrelevant, and no Dr. Gundry isnt the only one who is raising this issue, there are countless respected researchers saying the same look up Nora Gedgaudes for example. Are you denying the existence of oxalates, salicylates, lectins etc and the connection with LPS? Beta carotene content is irrelevant if your like the many people with certain gene polymorphisms that can't do squat with beta carotene, in those cases it's just another thing to process and eliminate. TBH vitamin D isnt the most relevant to my point bc you can get it from the sun true, but it's importance cannot be overstated, likely why we have that built in redunddancy to get it from food or sun. But in a northern latitude it would have been necessary to get adequate amounts from animal foods. especially since we would have been clothed to keep warm. Again in the skins of animals lol. Isn't it odd that all humans absolutly NEED b12 to avoid permanent brain damage and we dont NEED any of the phytochemicals, antioxidants polyphenols found in plants to be totally healthy and survive generationally? Like at all... What's really not debatable is the non-necessity of plants and the necessity of meat in a context where supplements arent available. We didnt evolve to need supplements did we? Practically all studies showing benefits from plant compounds are isolating a few variables, noticing certain narrow metrics improving and ignoring potential side affects. Exactly like all drugs and medicines. It doesnt make sense that the human organism would require any of these random xenohormetic compounds. It's certainly true that some human genetic phenotypes might make those nutrient conversions quite well and have very robust diverse microbiomes, these are the people who seem to be fine with vegan diets but this is the exception. What i believe to be the case is that most people's microbiomes have been decimated given antibiotics glyphosate oversanitation and also dont have the genetic capacity to derive significant nutrition from plant foods, if these individuals try to be vegan it will obviously not work out well for them. it's not so much that meat cures enzymatic or gut dysfunction it's that not eating potentially harmful compounds prevents the insults in the first place. ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. i also couldnt disagree with this statement more "Our pre-palaeolithic bodies are not adapted to be consuming animals several times a day." The preponderance of evidence points to the fact that we were only able to evolve big brains because we were able to procure enough calories in an efficient way i.e hunting big game, ever heard of the meat-loop? We literally drove the wooly mammoths to extinctioin, you dont think we were gorging on meat everyday??? Native americans drove herds of bison off cliffs by the thousands... and got plenty of vitamin C by passing around the raw liver to every man after a kill. There is also evidence that average brain volume has decreased since the agricultural revolution, when we stopped eating so much meat. Remember civilization is the master disease. THere's a reason we have an archetypical image of the toothless crazy dicrepid peasant farmer from medieval europe, they were lucky if they got meat once a week. oh and you forgot to debunk me on omega 3's too which coincidentally have antioxidant activity without any associated toxicity from xenohormetic compounds found in plants which are actually classified as oxidants, the antioxidant response is done in via endogenous glutathione upregulation... something you can easily trigger via exercise, cold heat exposure, hypoxia or fasting without need for plants. I really think the insulin resistance thing doesnt get enough attention though, this is critical for bridging the gap on this debate. The short term improvements with regard to insulin resistance make people very dogmatic about veganism, but it seems to be a mirage when you weigh all the other facts.