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I don’t dismiss that it may have some value to someone else because the spiritual path is unique to each person. But I think Martin Ball’s “energetics” explanation is a lot of hand waving. It sounds good to a materialistic audience. For me, yogic techniques that have been around for more than a thousand years have proven they are reliable.

I don't think it is essential. The yamas and niyamas will push one more to liberation than drugs.

I did 20 ceremonies taking full doses of Bufo Alvarius as well as dozens of microdoses on my own. Sometimes I felt totally connected with divinity, tasting my existence, contacting the deepest part of my soul, feelings of terror and bliss. But there was no long term affects, such as deconditioning or “cleaning”. I now believe that drugs can’t do this. This has to be done over the longer term through yogic practices that have been around for thousands of years. You can’t force spirituality with drugs. This is a materialistic notion.

It is about what I expected. What they are doing goes way beyond sapo (5-meo). I quit because it only gives a temporary simulation of reality which then quickly turns into a memory. Sadhana gives a permanent change of consciousness. What he said (in the second video) resonated with me: “you are wasting your energy”.

I am skeptical of one-size-fits-all solutions. I could see that potentially being harmful if a facilitator pushes a client toward symmetry when the body is doing what is needs to do.

It’s going to be a bumpy ride, but on the optimistic side, the major powers want peace, particularly China. The only one who doesn’t want peace in the psychopath Netanyahu.

In the "Hindu" framework, Bhakti Yoga - the path of loving devotion - is recognized as a direct and complete path to liberation (Moksha). Christianity operates primarily as a Bhakti tradition. So, yes Christianity can lead to full liberation as non-dual union through love.

It’s not easy being green: Trump’s botched reflecting pool becomes 2,028ft metaphor https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/23/donald-trump-reflecting-pool-metaphor “Trump has wanted a monument to himself in Washington and he finally has one. It is this reflecting pool and it is a perfect metaphor of kleptocracy, failure, incompetence, a complete mess and it stands before the Lincoln Memorial, which he seeks to overshadow with his arch of triumph after losing the Iran war."

It appears to be more Trump corruption. "On May 11, nonprofit group The Cultural Landscape Foundation sued the Trump administration to prevent the project from continuing." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Memorial_Reflecting_Pool I used to live in D.C. and that is where people usually gather to see the fireworks display on 4th of July.

See David Hume's critique of causality. Our minds are hardwired to project the feeling of anticipation onto nature, mistaking an internal association of ideas for an objective law of the universe. https://philosophyalevel.com/posts/hume-causation-problem-of-induction/

An interesting side note: Feynman had an interest in Artificial Intelligence going back to the 1980s. He worked on the Connection Machine, which was a massively parallel computer architecture meant to execute AI algorithms. He basically ended up saving the project using a novel application of physics. https://medium.com/@savkin/richard-feynman-and-the-connection-machine-4c3b70a126f2

When the Beatles came out, their music was an historic innovation and break from the past. It had never been heard before. It seems that their popularity was driven by their fans and then the public. The music industry followed and played catch up.

The op is closer to the truth. The immigrants who are being targeted by ICE are productive people doing jobs nobody else wants. They are actually contributing to the economy. Billions of dollars are spent on ICE to attack productive people. Productive people are replaced by law enforcement. An ICE agent isn't going to mow your lawn or wash your dishes. The allegations of “illegal criminals” is used to stir up the self- righteousness of the monkeys and make them feel good about themselves (think Planet of the Apes).

That is definitely cruel and unusual.

Iran has the power to destroy the world economy. They could do it tomorrow and it will be permanent. The only silver lining is that China doesn’t want this to happen. It would hurt them too. China supplies Iran with GPS data to guide their missles so they have some leverage over Iran. I believe that this is why Trump recently went to China. Now we are in the stage where Trump has to make it look like he won, even though it is obvious that this is a huge defeat for both American and Israel.