Cireeric

With Qualia Mind the quality of my meditation is noticably increased. Oxiracetam sounds pretty interesting for meditation since it enhances the senses, I need to try it, but so far I only got my hands on Piracetam, Aniracetam and Noopept.

I honestly think they go very well together. Being in a state of presence and clarity is the best state to be in in order to be effective in any domain of life. Also being more aware of unconscious-patterns, ego/shadow-projections, being aware of how your mind works and being able to get out of dysfunctional thought-loops will make you more effective in general. Basically you will "get out of your own way". You should check out Peter Ralstons work. It is deep existential investigation and at the same time very practical and "down to earth". Peter Ralstons Book on Mastery is specifially applying consciousness work towards mastery and principles of effectiveness in general. The only "problem" might be that in the process of pursuing spirituality earnestly you might discover the superficiality of your motivations and goals and will find new ones.

Yes it is definitely a form of lying and manipulation. And I also think it is most damaging to our children and our youth. A few weeks ago I heard a girl sincerely saying that she likes talking about her issues with ChatGPT because ChatGPT does have high emotional-intelligence.

"And if you think about it, we unconsciously judge large chunks of our lives by how much time we get to spend in that Selfless, Timeless, Effortless and Rich zone of Kairos." I really enjoyed reading this blogpost by Jamie Wheal, you should read it too!: https://jamiewheal.substack.com/p/hows-now-brown-cow?publication_id=998820&post_id=171566375&isFreemail=true&r=hus3e&triedRedirect=true

Breaking Open the Head by Daniel Pinchbeck was the most interesting book on psychedelics I read. Chris Bache is on my reading list.

I recommend all you guys to study IanMcGilchrist. Im currently working through his magnum-opus: "The Matter with Things" and it is probably my #1 favourite philosophy book I ever read. It is comparable with Ken Wilbers: "Sex, Spirituality and Sexuality" in its scope and inclusiveness but it somehow stays more open and has a less rigid system. A lot of phenomenon you see in our current environment make a lot of sense through its frame of the two brain-hemispheres. Here is a good short introduction:

Yes, for me Cro was also my generation and youth. I remember we skipped school to buy the Raop box when it came out and wearing the way too large shirt to school next day Then Cro became lame till Baum dropped and I was full on again.

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This is insane!

Would you say the gains made with kriya are more stable over time and more influential in terms of inreasing baseline?

Obviously it always depends on the situation and the people youre talking with and you probably dont want to make your first impression talking about psychedelics, but besides that Im at a point where Im increasingly less interested in hiding and Im more into affirming my reality. You need to develop a certain sensitivity in how you talk about psychedelics, but I think were at a time where we should start to affirm our reality and bring the change into society thats needed - not just regarding to psychedelics but as a part of it.

This course was very fun: https://www.udemy.com/course/limitless-how-nootropics-can-enhance-your-brain-function/ It covers most of the interesting nootropics you an play around with and is recorded by Dr. Dan Stickler the medicine-director of qualia and one of the few natural health practicioners whos gone deep on nootropics.

This could actually be one of the worst unintended-consequences of AI: We dont trust anyone anymore who really puts effort into his writing. As LLMs become more intelligent they may more closely resemble a really deep human-thinker, so we will start to associate any deep thinking with AI. The lines to detect what is AI and what is not definitely become blurrier and brurrier.

If you think that the foundation of relationship is group-think your understanding of relationship is seriously impoverished. Relationship as basis for meaningfulness to occur at all would be another perspective much more rich. I think it is hard to imagine a human-being whose life would not be significantly enriched by a deep and meaningful relationship - Leo is no exception here. You could even go deeper into metaphysical territory and argue that relationship is pretty fundamental to this whole thing called Life.

This view is dangerously naive. There will be such a huge number of unintended-consequences - which we are already beginning to experience - that it will take us years of scientific research to even start figuring them all out. Also, were the people right or wrong about being afraid of the internet when it came out? Sure it brought a lot of good stuff. But there is also a lot of harm being caused by the internet. I think even if youre quite a conscious internet-user there are a lot of sneaky little ways it influences your experience of life.

Not sure if I am a bit deluded here, but if I listen to Owen, and really earnestly try to get what he is saying I feel like he has some really deep experiential-understanding in some areas. Some of his insights seem to be gained by deep observation of experience. Of course he has some distortions and biases, especially related to Politics and Pickup Culture, but some of his experiential-insights are spot on.

With Mark Zuckerbergs record-history of not caring about the unintended consequences of his tech at scale he shouldnt even be allowed to aspire something like this.