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The "Layers" pdf he is selling on his website is a good read and gives you the general philosophy. You could take it from there and use the awareness to practice authenticity. It's better than this "peackocking" approach which just makes a man even more quirky and weird and may get him a few drunk bar girls. Keep in mind this longer range approach is to interact with high-quality women.

99% of what is being taught as cold approach is bullshit. This guy is the only one who is teaching something that will work. https://www.removelayers.com/ His basic philosophy is that most men can't connect with women because they have accumulated layers of phoniness in their personality. The solution is to remove the layers and become an authentic human being. The second leg of his approach is to only pursue high-quality women that you can actually have a relationship with.

North Korea has made a recent defense pack with Russia and will most likely join the BRICS nations. They will be able to use their alternative payment system to escape crippling western sanctions. North Korea will then be able to break out of its isolation and develop its economy. https://www.cointribune.com/en/north-koreas-brics-approach-forging-a-new-global-equilibrium/

You are forgetting that North Vietnam actually won the war and it was their communist government that has created their current successful economy.

Yes, they are very good at business. But their intention is to win with business and trade. The US is increasingly relying on its military.

Using the GDP as a measure of the real economy is short cited. China is looking at the long term and building infrastructure particularly in Africa. To survive you need resources. Even the Internet can’t function without certain rare earth elements. The world is like a monopoly board. The one who buys up all the hotels eventually wins. That’s why the gangsters who control the US want Maduro out of Venezuela, which is sitting on significant oil reserves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative

China asserts its regional dominance over Tibet and Taiwan which are right next door. China has a very peaceful foreign policy compared to the United States which brutalized Vietnam, a small country thousands of miles from its shores. There are neocons in the US foreign policy bureaucracy who are determined to assert hegemony and will not accept a multipolar world. The result is forever wars to prop up the global financial elites.

I have given chatgpt highly complex sentences and it understands what I say as well as any human. It seems to have solved the natural language understanding problem. The responses could probably be detectable by a sophisticated human as they tend to be highly structured and politically correct. But the response system is designed to answer queries and retrieve useful information and not to act human. I wonder how an AI system that is specifically designed to give natural human responses would perform under the Turing test.

Chatgpt seems to pass the Turing test.

Shinzen Young believes it is possible to construct devices that aid the process of enlightenment. He is doing active scientific research collaborating with neuroscientists. One approach he is looking at the use of ultrasound to modulate brain regions involved in meditation related states such as increased awareness or altered perception. The technology might help facilitate specific brain states associated with deep meditation, making it easier for practitioners to enter and sustain those states. The path of enlightenment through meditation is already well known. The problem is that for most people it takes too long. The hope is that technology can be used to cut down the time to something reasonable. Shinzen’s view on 5-meo would be interesting, because Shinzen is very open minded. According to chatgpt, he has discussed 5-meo, but I have not been able to verify that yet. https://www.amazon.com/Science-Enlightenment-How-Meditation-Works/dp/1591794609

If they got everything they wanted, it would probably do no more than return the United States to what was considered normal in the 1950s. In some ways, the 50s were more free - no seatbelts required literally and more broadly.

I take Bufo mostly in Mexico. When I talk to facilitators in Mexico nobody has heard of non duality or enlightenment. The main paradigm is healing. But in America people assume that 5-meo has something to do with enlightenment. The reality is that 5meo just is and gives a certain type of experience. Could it be that it is just people interpreting the experiences in a particular way. One person interprets it through the lens of healing and another through the lens of awakening. As for experience, I agree that Bufo has given me experiences that meditation doesn’t even approach. But what is this proof of? I also get a dramatic experience from watching a movie in a Cinemax theatre which meditation cannot reproduce. Are dramatic experiences proof of anything? My hunch is that Peter Ralston should be taken seriously because he knows his subject and is a systematic thinker. He doesn’t have to take 5-meo. He should be able to meet with people who have taken 5-meo and tell if they have achieved the mind shift that he is looking for. As for my own experience with 5-meo, I choose not to put a label on it because it is so beyond labeling. It’s a non conceptual experience and the mind immediately wants to stick it in someone else’s system of categories. I prefer to live in the mystery.

Psychedelics, including 5-meo, gives you an experience which the next day becomes a memory. It's not a substitute for meditation or the focused concentration needed for awakening. Psychedelics can help in healing, or releasing the samskaras - the purification of the mind. The plant diet, the way it is practiced in the Amazon, is really an extended meditation combined with detoxing the body through purging, which is practiced before taking Ayahuasca.

I have done Bufo with policia in Mexico. They are caught in this weird karmic dance with criminals where they play the good guys and the criminals play the bad guys. But they are both in the same matrix. It is stressful and takes its toll and for some of them it initiates the awakening process and a search for the way out.

To much focus is given to Trump’s personality rather than what he represents to his followers. He is basically leading a redneck revolt against the rapid changes imposed on society by the progressives. Before he ran for president, Trump was considered a traditional liberal. Bill and Hillary Clinton were his friends. If John Kennedy were alive today, he would be to the right of Trump. That’s how fast things have changed. There is also an urban vs. rural thing going on here. The rural people are always resistant to big changes whereas change spreads rapidly in urban settings. That’s why when the new Christian cult took over, the rural folks (i.e., “the pagans”) were the last to dump the old gods. It’s no accident the Olympics presented the trans Jesus as the symbol of their new religion. Trump’s followers (who are the pagans of 2024) prefer the old Jesus. Is that confusing enough?

I don’t get why the elites and their media monkeys insist on forcing transexual stuff and drag queens on everyone at every opportunity. It’s not even cool. It just makes me yawn. They are really out of touch with aesthetic tastes and nature in general.

No. My heart rate doesn't even go up anymore. I know someone who has had a heart operation who recently took it. But you need to keep the dosage reasonable. I can go deeper by improving my concentration through meditation practice rather than increasing dosage.

My normal ceremony dose is 100 mg of Bufo Alvarius, which would roughly be 10 mg 5-meo.

I never have any body load with Bufo Alvarius. I have never had nausea. It feels so pure and when I open my eyes everything is brighter and more clear. I have never done synthetic 5-meo.

There is also the possibility of long term benefits. I know one entrepreneur who takes Bufo and says it improves his ability to think and solve problems.

I don’t recommend doing a full dose alone. My only experience is with Bufo Alvarius. I talked to a facilitator who had someone’s heart stop and had to do CPR. The other danger is if you are deep in a trance you can forget to breath. You can also move into some dangerous position, start choking, moving around violently, or any other number of things. The facilitator’s responsibility is to keep you safe. I do microdose alone, but only after four years of ceremonies.

In the Lincoln-Douglas debates you had two master rhetoricians addressing the important issues of the day. Their debates are still worthy of study. Today you have word-salad Kamela vs. name-calling Trump. This is called degeneracy of a culture due to top down control. The ideocracy is now complete.

Telling other people how to vote is bullshit. One person, one vote.

His wife Usha Vance is a practicing Hindu which is freaking out the far right. They don't seem to know that Hindus can be pretty conservative.