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I learned Karate from a traditional Shotokan master who trained under Funakoshi – the man who coined the word “Karate” meaning “empty hand” in Japanese. The techniques he taught were deadly but he was also a pacifist. The traditionalists had a concept of using martial arts to develop character so that you would never have to get into a fight.

A lot of being social is about finding your tribe. If you are with people you vibe with, you will naturally connect. For example, I sometimes have been with a group of foodies where they have long conversations about food and different restaurants. They talk about all kinds of little details. I am not a gormet, so end up saying nothing. If you are in the wrong tribe, you will be an outcast.

Ayahuasca medicine song sung in Quechua and Spanish. https://ourchants.org/songs/ayahuasca-takimuyki

It sounds like you never actually entered a journey. It could be because of many factors including your body physiology, diet, and quality of ayahauasca. Sometimes it may take several ceremonies for you brain to adjust to the new chemistry. The strengths of different types of ayahuasca can very signficantly. My shaman told me that in Peru they go deep into the jungles to find vines that are over a hundred years old. If you were on a journey, you would have known. In my last trip, it took 30 minutes to work and I had intense visions for five hours.

I hope India remains Hindu for the sake of the planet.

I remember Harris admitting that he is not a very good meditator. That isn’t surprising considering that he is intellectual and thus can’t get out of his head. He actually studied under Papaji, who was an over-the-top mystic. That being said, “materialism”, “atheism”, “spirituality”, “religion”, are just concepts moving around in the intellectual brain and have no bearing on a person's grasp of the truth.

Noam Chomsky on Jordan Peterson

Obviously, but my point is the bulk of his commentary has nothing to do with clinical psychology. He is not functioning as an expert, but as a pundit giving his opinions. I am not saying there is anything wrong with that - just making it clear.

The stuff on the Bible and Jung are speculative and irrelevant to clinical psychology. He is really functioning as a pundit offering his opinions on current concerns. There is nothing wrong with that, but it should be made clear that he is just expressing his opinions and is not an expert providing facts and interpretation on current research in clinical psychology.

I can only suggest what I would do. I would write about the New Animism, Pachamama, and the Andean world view. The indigenous world view has been historically denigrated and considered inferior by Western academics and organized western religion, but in reality is now humanities only hope of survival. The New Animism https://brill.com/view/journals/mtsr/32/2/article-p115_2.xml?language=en Latin America - Pachamamism https://journals.openedition.org/poldev/2351

Millions of people relied on their word and took the J&J vaccine. Do we jump everytime they change their story?

The toxicity is non other then the toxicity of Western civilization – greed and arrogance. There is never enough, you have to keep acquiring more and more, and there is no limit. Then there is the pride of self improvement and the assumption that “self improvement” and “progress” are desirable in themselves. What is the difference between a PUA accumulating lays and Donald Trump accumulating real estate? Perhaps the only good PUA is a dead one.

I have taken so much ayahuasca that I have developed reverse tolerance. The more I take, the less aya I need to go on a journey. I take Bufo Alvarius once a month.

The idea is actually ancient. You have the Cult of Dionysus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_Dionysus

I don't listen to Rogan or any other media figure, but now it makes sense. He has more listeners than CNN. They have to attack the competition. https://www.sportskeeda.com/mma/news-ufc-news-joe-rogan-seemingly-millions-listeners-tucker-carlson-fox-news-cnn

Why do people take this so seriously? Why can’t people have their own opinions? You now have YouTube commentators in little boxes commenting on YouTube commentators. Social media is pure madness.

It’s officially promoted as a development model, but is it really? Most pictures of the spiral, that I have seen, show the spiral moving upwards, which in our culture “up” means better than “down”. Would it be fair to say most spiralists would consider green better than red or yellow more evolved and desirable than blue? Would a spiralist be happy if you told him the present development will be frozen for a thousand years, or may even go backwards down the spiral? It is also a linear system with the arrow pointing in one direction, rather than cyclic. The presumptions of Western civilization are baked into the cake.

Judging, anger, or feeling superior always comes from the ego. But he is doing the same thing, i.e he feels superior to the hypocritical New Agers. It’s not true that only the privileged are into spirituality and healing. In my last ayahuasca ceremony, the man next to me was a policeman. I do all my ceremonies is Mexico, where people are more authentic and community oriented and come from all walks of life. There are also experienced shamen who know how to hold the space.

A shaman follows the path of the heart. That guy in the bottom right of the screen criticizing every step of the interview sounds like a yapping Chihuahua looking for another ankle to conquer. These pundits are all in their heads spinning someone else’s beliefs condensed from the social media atmosphere or main stream media. Their words are like dead men’s bones. That’s why I take the medicines, to alter my consciousness out of the noisy ego voice. Whether the QAnon Shaman is “right” is not important. What is important is that he chose the right methodology – jump into life boldly instead of just talking about it. I don’t know anything about QAnon but judging from its effect, it looks like a type of black magic. It is confronting our unconscious overlords to the extent that they feel it and are concerned.

Extremism is just a symptom indicating there is stress in society. The globalists make obscene profits by destroying millions of jobs and shipping them to China where slave labor is legal. The cause/effect is lost in the complexity and people are at each other’s throats, not seeing the powerful economic forces at work. The mass media further amplifies the conflict for deflection and profit.

He has chosen a difficult path – over three years in prison. But he seems up to the challenge. When he gets out, he will be a real shaman.

I didn’t know he was trying to be a real shaman. I thought he was just mocking. He was using peyote which is a good medicine. The only problem is he was doing it on his own and doesn’t appear to have had a legitimate guide. I am gravitating towards Shamanism. It is the birth right of every human being. Monotheism is a relatively young invention. The people of the entire world use to practice shamanism. If your background is European, monotheism only goes back at most 2000 years. 50,000 years ago, your ancestors were practicing shamanism. If you read the ancient Roman historians describing the Germanic tribes, you will think that they are describing the American Indians. The Germanic tribes were the “noble savage”. A “barbarian” is just someone who doesn’t speak Greek. When the Christians came into Europe, the first thing they did was cut down the trees and destroy the sacred groves that were all over Europe. Saint Boniface is famous for cutting down the sacred Donar Oak. To spread ideology and enslave the population, it was necessary to destroy the European’s connection with nature. https://www.amazon.com/Shamanism-People-Michael-William-Denney-ebook/dp/B00A01DQ2I/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2BMMXTXVMC0ZI&keywords=shamanism+for+white+people&qid=1641574911&sprefix=shamanism+for+white+people%2Caps%2C124&sr=8-1

Maybe this is the solution – a breakthrough in the tunnel vision of the technocracy. A low-cost vaccine using older, safe, and proven technology. I heard about this from a friend who didn’t take the vaccine, but said she is going to take this one. “When a new strain of coronavirus triggered the COVID-19 pandemic, Hotez and Bottazzi figured they could dust off their old technology and modify it for use against COVID-19. After all, the virus causing COVID-19 and the virus causing SARS are quite similar.” "People were so fixated on innovation that nobody thought, 'Hey, maybe we could use a low-cost, durable, easy-breezy vaccine that can vaccinate the whole world,' " Hotez says. “Clinical trials showed they were right to be confident CORBEVAX would work. An unpublished study conducted in India involving 3,000 volunteers found the vaccine to be 90% effective in preventing disease cause by the original COVID-19 virus strain and 80% against the delta variant. It's still being tested against omicron.” “A Texas team comes up with a COVID vaccine that could be a global game changer” https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2477666102133/a-texas-team-comes-up-with-a-covid-vaccine-that-could-be-a-global-game-changer?noAds=1&_f=app_share&s=i1

I asked my doctor if I should get a booster and he wouldn't recommend it. He just said do what you want. I don't know if getting continuous booster shots would be good for your immune system. A lady I know didn't get vaccinated and was sick for 4 days and now is better.

You are asking a speculative question. The Buddha only dealt with "what is". Life is suffering.