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Isn’t Spiral Dynamics what the postmodernists call a grand narrative? It has great explanatory power, but that is part of the problem. History is neatly categorized into slots conveniently ignoring complexity and contradictions. I tend to favor the Hindu model, that the world starts in a high state of spirituality and loses the knowledge through time. Deevolution, not evolution. As for stage blue, I have known people from the World War II generation, which was stage blue, and in my opinion, they were more advanced because they were plunged into deeper levels of suffering and needed to develop character to respond. The fundamentalists beliefs are Bhakti yoga – they keep the left brain occupied so the right brain can develop. Stage orange is naturally seen as obviously superior to those who value the comforts of materialism, but the plunge into materialism is the deevolution.

This indeed is the most conspicuous feature of the modern period: need for ceaseless agitation, for unending change, and for ever-increasing speed, matching the speed with which events themselves succeed one another. It is dispersion in multiplicity, and in a multiplicity that is no longer unified by consciousness of any higher principle; in daily life, as in scientific ideas, it is analysis driven to an extreme, endless subdivision, a veritable disintegration of human activity in all the orders in which this can still be exercised; hence the inaptitude for synthesis and the incapacity for any sort of concentration that is so striking in the eyes of Easterners. -- René Guénon "The Crisis of the Modern World"

In one part of the interview, the researcher mentioned that they carefully screen the volunteers to keep out people with severe mental disorders. In addition they have an environment where any medical care is readily available if necessary. Despite that, about 30% of the participants went through a period of highly negative experience. The Shaman in Mexico who conducts the ayahuasca ceremonies I attended doesn't turn anyone away who seeks help. I have never seen anyone freak out in his ceremonies and everything is peaceful. He has a special gift to hold space, and I have had some people tell me that he knew what they were experiencing. The Americans didn’t know about mushrooms until Gordon Watson wrote about his experience with an Oaxacan healer in the 1950s. The interview doesn’t mention anything about the value of ceremonies or healing done in groups. It views psychedelics as drugs and not medicine or plant healers. Nor do they seem interested in consulting people in other cultures whose experience and knowledge far exceeds their own (he mentioned he has been doing research for only 20 years). The West doesn’t consider anything legitimate unless their Shamen in white coats bless it with their statistical voodoo. The good news is that JP seems to grasp the importance of psychedelic medicines, and introducing them into the culture that is fucking up the world can’t be a bad thing.

“They found that as they increased the clock’s accuracy, the heat produced in the system grew, increasing the entropy of its surroundings by jostling nearby particles. “If a clock is more accurate, you are paying for it somehow,” says Ares.” What the article is suggesting is that for a clock to be more accurate, he has to be more ordered, which means the clock as a system would have less entropy. But since the total entropy, clock plus surrounding, must increase by the second law of thermodynamics, the entropy of the surrounding will increase. This happens by the clock mechanism generating more heat. This is not a surprising result. There are other systems that become more orderly and hence decrease in entropy, consequently generating heat, such as stretching a rubber band or paramagnetism.

No, I experimented with different dosages, all with the same result. The point is that it is a different substance.

Well, several concerns. First, they could take the chemicals they find useful and then keep the real psychedelics illegal. I am also thinking of things like the chocolates that have THC and CBD and is called cannabis. The reductionists assume that cannabis can be embodied by two chemicals and they throw everything else away. When I have used these edibles, it has resulted in paranoid states and nausea, nothing like the effect of a naturally grown plant. It is actually a different substance but they still label it cannabis. Similarly, a mushroom is not just psilocybin, it is a complex living being. The substances could be reduced and altered with the same name used, and growing the real thing made illegal. I don’t trust how stage orange is going to package psychedelics in order to maximize profits, not awareness. They can transform the products and use the same name for a totally different substance. The eggheads see what they call “hallucinations” as just an annoying side effect. In their lower state of consciousness, they have no belief in awakening and view the idea with contempt. To get the "hallucinations" you will need to be monitored by "experts" who have a presumably been tested with a multiple choice test and given a piece of paper to put on their wall, which will make their fees high (which is good for stage orange). Also, why would the ruling elite want the world to be awakened? That is dangerous for them. LSD was quickly made illegal. Richard Nixon complained that his soldiers didn’t want to fight in Vietnam because of LSD. Richard Nixon was right. The indigenous people don’t see chemicals, they see plant teachers – separate beings worthy of respect and composed of incredible complexity.

The one thing I liked about “The Outer Limits” series is that the aliens could be evil. But those were the days when people were more in touch with reality and knew there was a dark side.

It is important to keep in mind that ¨UFO¨ means ¨unidentified flying object¨. That means the analysts couldn’t fit the image into one of their know categories. It does not imply that the image is an alien spacecraft.

I was attending a Unitarian church until the Covid lockdowns when they closed. The services were all on social justice and nothing on spirituality or inner work. But they did have a meditation group that met each week.

The video below has an interesting discussion of psychedelics by Culadasa. He frequently took psychedelics in the 60s. So he is a meditation teacher who is speaking from his own experience with psychedelics. He also mentions the recent Ayahuasca trend. His position seems to be that if you follow Buddhist meditation with the proper instructions, you will reach a state of awakening more quickly with meditation than with psychedelics. The effects of psychedelics are all over the map, whereas the Buddha provided a systematic method. Culadasa’s book “The Illuminated Mind” is the only meditation book out there that gives an efficient meditation path with 10 stages, and clearly defined goals and milestones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E48ByR0Xt6U

The companies producing these vaccines are free from legal liability. That means the people who are sensitive to the vaccine and suffer long term damage to their bodies are expected to bear the full cost of the benefits to society. Given this situation, everyone has to weigh the risks and benefits for their own particular body and make a decision. Let everyone decide and respect their decision as you would want them to respect yours. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/16/covid-vaccine-side-effects-compensation-lawsuit.html

Tell them that you are going to get it and don’t argue. It is your body, your choice. If you keep it a secret, it will come back to bite you. You don’t need to argue and defend yourself.

I look at it from what they do and not what they say. The vaccine companies cannot be sued. So, whatever you decide, the law says that you are assuming the risk.

He told me once that the reason his voice cracks is because of all the pot he smoked. He also related how through deep meditation he lost the desire to smoke weed. I have never heard him talk about psychedelics . As for the Shamanism, Shinzen became interested in Native American spirituality, and he ended up doing a Sun Dance (along with the two knives through the breasts and being hung from a tree). This had nothing to do with drugs. It should also be mentioned that Shinzen used meditation to teach people how to manage pain (eg., AIDS patients). Thus, the Sun Dance was a good opportunity to meditate with pain. He would also teach Strong Determination meditation, which produces discomfort and pain.

Here is a critique of the New Age from a traditional Vedic teacher.

I like Shinzen Young’s explanation. There is a difference between suffering and pain. The formula is: suffering = pain times resistance. We suffer because we resist pain and the suffering increasing by a multiplicative factor. Thus if you have 10 units of pain and resist by 10, then your suffering is 100. If you don’t resist the pain, it increases sensation only linearly and is bearable. Nature doesn't give you more than you can handle.

But that is just one opinion from a mob based on one youtube video. Maybe and maybe not. Due process is a procedure where the person accused has a right to receive a precise complaint and the opportunity to respond.

This is how mobs dispense justice as they see it. That is why in a civilized society there is due process.

Science and materialism are not the same. Science finds patterns in nature and ideally expresses them in mathematical equations. Materialism is an ontology, and hence part of metaphysical philosophy. You can believe in God or be an atheist and still solve Schrodinger’s equation. The equations don’t assume any particular ontology. I spent my entire career in science and technology and was a scientific materialist. That changed over a year ago when I took 5-meo-DMT. Since then, experience and contemplation have solidified my change in perspective.

America has actually gone backwards. It use to be normal for workers to receive pensions. Leaders of corporations like Hewlett and Packard believed in making a company where workers could thrive. IBM use to brag that it never laid off anyone. Everyone would receive the same 3% in their bank account. The turn around began with the election of Ronald Reagan. Fascists like Milton Friedman gained prominence in the academic and financial system. Pensions started disappearing. They even tried to privatize social security. The financialization of the economy with the advent of hedge funds and exotic financial instruments has introduced a parasitic element and the acceleration of wealth inequality.

There are only a few ways that you can make the exploitative profits that can produce a billionaire. One way is to have a monopoly. An operating system forms a natural monopoly, which is how Bill Gates became a billionaire. Another approach is to do something illegal like the drug trade. The other way is to game the financial system and use your money to buy politicians. Hedge funds operate by leveraging other people’s money including money borrowed from the banks. The theory is they are providing value by assuming risk. But the last time the world financial system almost crashed the government had to bail them out, i.e. to big to fail. How much risk are the managers actually assuming? Stage orange professors and noble prize winners are dedicated to justifying the virtues of the system that supports them and give explanations of why it is good and correct. The only way it will change is when the system finally crashes, similarly to the way the Soviet Union did because it was unsustainable.

He made his money managing a hedge fund, where huge profits can be made based on borrowed money and financial manipulation. That this is allowed is a major flaw of Orange stage. Now, if someone made a billion dollars by selling a useful product the enhances people’s lives, that would be different.

This video transmits masculine energy that is off the charts. It is a devotional song to Shiva. The singer’s expression embodies masculine tranquility and effortless power.

The world governments have been sold on this strategy of vaccines and brutal lockdowns by the medical establishment whose outlook is a scientific reductionist paradigm. Gorgion Agamben reflects on the life being created by a myopic science : "Agamben reflects on the meaning of the new order and warns that: ‘Fear is a bad adviser, and I don’t believe that transforming the country into a plague-ridden land, where we all look at each other as potential sources of contagion, is really the solution.’ He is alive to the way that a kind of social alienation has become deeply embedded in the management of the epidemic, explaining that ‘because our neighbour has become a potential source of contagion, we have agreed to suspend our friendships and relationships’. He also warns that ‘social distancing… will be society’s new organising principle’. ‘I do not believe that a community based on “social distancing” is humanly and politically liveable’, he states." Giorgio Agamben describes the consequences of science’s focus on biology in negation of the spirit: "Fundamental to his argument – a claim that he has made elsewhere, notably in Homo Sacer – is the observation that modern social norms increasingly diminish human existence to the bare condition of biological life. That means we lose sight of the importance of freedom and self-expression. ‘Human rights’, in this account, lead us to abandon civil liberties in favour of mere biological existence, as if we were like cattle. ‘People have been confined to their houses and, deprived of all social relationships, reduced to a condition of biological survival’, Agamben writes. The problem comes when ‘people no longer believe in anything, except in a bare biological existence which should be preserved at any cost’, he says, ‘but only tyranny, only the monstrous Leviathan with his drawn sword can be built upon the fear of losing one’s life’. We have reached a point where more engaging social projects have lost meaning so that ‘our society believes in nothing but bare life. But bare life is not something that unites people: it blinds and separates them.’ " Giorgio Agamben describes the consequence of a materialistic world view – authoritarianism: "Agamben also draws attention to how a state of ‘exception’ or ‘emergency powers’ can be invoked to suspend ordinary democratic rights and legal norms. He has written previously on how anti-terror legislation created an ‘exception’ that allowed for surveillance and a loss of rights. The coronavirus pandemic is similarly an exceptional circumstance that is invoked to suspend ordinary legality and liberties. But the point about these ‘exceptions’ is that, paradoxically, they quickly become the norm – or the ‘New Normal’, as is often said today. Agamben thinks ‘it is very likely that, after the health emergency is over, governments will attempt to continue the experiments… we will no longer gather to have conversations about politics or culture’." https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/03/17/where-are-the-postmodernists-when-you-need-them/

What we are seeing is the insanity of a modern medical system based on scientific reductionism. Instead of working with nature, they fight nature using their magic bullets and brutal lockdowns, and nature is winning. We were told that the vaccine was the solution, but now we are told that there are dangerous mutations. It’s interesting that the Amish community is the first community on record to have obtained herd immunity. The Amish reject much of modern technology and don’t buy into the false paradigm created by scientific materialism. https://www.fox29.com/news/amish-community-in-lancaster-county-reaches-herd-immunity-from-covid-19-medical-center-says