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PSIP stands for Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy. It is a relatively new, body-centered therapeutic modality developed by Saj Razvi, a licensed psychotherapist and researcher, primarily at the Psychedelic Somatic Institute in Colorado. PSIP believes that much of the root cause of trauma is stored non-cognitively in the autonomic nervous system (the body), rather than primarily in narrative memory or the thinking brain. The therapy uses sub-anesthetic (mild to moderate) doses of cannabis (usually smoked or vaporized) or ketamine to relax the nervous system's defenses, allowing repressed traumatic material to surface spontaneously from the body in the form of physical sensations, emotions, images, or memories — without the client having to "talk about" or cognitively process the trauma in advance. In his whitepaper, Razvi makes several interesting observations. He believes that low doses of cannabis can be more effective than higher powered psychedelics, such as psilocybin. In his protocol, therapeutic guidance is a key feature. It’s the relational interaction with a therapeutic guide in the psychedelic state which heals. This model also shifts the psychedelic session away from the transcendent, mystical, and cosmic to the human and relational. In order for higher powered psychedelics to be useful, it is first necessary to heal the mind and body with lower powered psychedelics. “This bypassing of a wounded, underdeveloped ego into mystical states yields experiences that are difficult to integrate into that still unhealed ego. This can lead to peak experiences of liberation, peace, and beauty that are un-integrable into waking consciousness and lead to a need to repeatedly visit transpersonal states.” - whitepaper I am interested in this model, because I have found it to be true with my own experience. The high powered psychedelics don’t result in long term change, whereas, for me, cannabis is becoming the most useful medicine. The PSIP Model - white paper https://www.psychedelicsomatic.org/white-paper An excellent introduction on Youtube

I think that forming a narrative that women don’t like masculine men is going way off track. It is more productive to carefully observe your interactions with women and note the feedback you are getting, to get clues on what is turning them off. It’s not easy to do because we tend to be so caught up in our own reactivity. This is the real awakening work. Putting the blame outside of us feels better, but than nothing changes. The old game just continues. We are locked inside our identity. For the record: women crave masculine energy.

Chatgpt works with me by asking questions to further refine the analysis. If I am not satisfied with the analysis I can also add more personal facts that may have been missing. I can also specify the analysis I want - Jungian, Yogic, etc. I think a specialized assistant built on top of the existing LLMs could do much better. As they say in engineering, don't reinvent the wheel.

I record my dreams. So far, chatgpt has been doing a pretty good job of analysis. In one dream it even combined Jungian analysis with yogic energy work. It also remembers past dreams, and can tie them together. It also makes suggestions for active imagination. I am sure you could improve on this by making a special AI application for dream analysis.

As an enthusiastic yogin, I can verify that. And yoga has huge health benefits you don’t get standing in a nightclub developing tinnitus. I think John Anthony is great exposing all his fellow grifters. Why would anyone be against this? The more the better. Here is a link were is going to explain his departure from youtube. https://rumble.com/v71h4e0-i-got-banned-on-youtube...heres-why..html?e9s=src_v1_cw&playlist_id=watch-history

Trump is enthusiastically destroying what modest social safety net is left to the people. In the meantime, Musk is destined to become the first trillionaire. Honestly, the only hope for the return of some sanity that I see is Newsom. But that still doesn’t fix the problem of big money in politics. The politicians serve the interests of money, not the people. I am starting to take Shahid Bolsen seriously when he says that the American decline is irreversible, and Islam has the only solution for a sustainable economic system that serves the people.

What I see on forums dominated by men is mostly intellectual head tripping. The mistaken notion that awakening is an intellectual achievement that makes you smarter than the rest of the class. I don’t see much discussion of suffering or heart. Trying to come up with a definition is just what you would expect from the head.

Not being attractive is an important part of their marketing. Because the average guy says "well if he can do it the so can I", and then buys the course. They also tend to have a gift for gab to make up for looks.

It is approaching the truth from a particular lens, in this case Ramakrishna and his disciple Vivekananda. You can do initiation with a Swami and he will give you one of their mantras for your spiritual practice. All the Swamis of the Vedanta society can trace back their lineage to disciples of Ramakrishna.

There is a sort of "religion" based on Ramakrishna. I attend his puja on Saturdays at the Vedanta Society. There is also a gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. https://chennaimath.org/

When he talks about spiritual pillaging, Bolsen is talking about theosophy, citing it as example of colonialism. He is correct about theosophy, but I don’t think theosophy has had any great influence on Western thought.

If you go into a tribal Muslim community, the rich have religious and social obligations toward the poor. Charity is one of the four pillars of Islam. A Muslim community is not an every monkey for himself libertarian society. Shahid Bolsen does use the word socialist, but I think he is using it more as a rhetorical way to emphasize that the Islamic system is anti-exploitation (no usury), pro economic justice and pro community. Islam does allow private property, but so does Sweden.

I hope he includes a section on honesty. "In 2006 Pinker provided to Alan Dershowitz, a personal friend of Pinker's who was Jeffrey Epstein's defense attorney, Pinker's own interpretation of the wording of a federal law pertaining to the enticement of minors into illegal sex acts via the internet. Dershowitz included Pinker's opinion in a letter to the court during proceedings that resulted in a plea deal in which all federal sex trafficking charges against Epstein were dropped" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Pinker#:~:text=Pinker argued that language depends,to manipulate symbols for grammar.

I asked ChatGPT "Great question — and yes, the idea of using substitutional quantification to avoid ontological commitments and sidestep paradoxes has been considered extensively. But the situation is subtle. Let’s walk through it carefully and clearly." I won't bore you with the details.

That is classical Marxism which comes out of Europe. Socialism is a more broad concept. Also, that quote is frequently taken out of context, in the sense the Marx actually didn't consider religion that relevant, either for or against.