Davino

A metapoint that I get from brilliant books beyond the insights is seeing how a genius mind works and thinks. I'm very curious to get that view into your mind. As side advice from friends that have written books is that when finished, the process of reviewing (even if just by yourself) may lead to some deep changes and that frustrates some writers because they thought reviewing would be much quicker, but it's not usually the case. So when you finish let the book and your mind breathe and know that you enter into the second phase of reviewing and it takes time, moreso with such long books.

Your last post reminded me of: It has to be taken with the proper context, still is a good general quote.

Feminine love has to be balanced by masculine love. Masculine love is like a slap on your face, a slap out of love.

Near Barcelona, Spain, they are a bit difficult to spot but findable if you like birds. They look beautiful, above average if they are just on the ground, but it's when they fly that the full beauty of the wings is seen, it's hypnotic. Same with the crown, it's most of the time hidden (pictures are deceiving in this sense), when I was younger I already loved it and didn't know it could do that, one time I spotted it and the crown opened, it was at that moment when I fell in love, what a cool bird! Pictures don't make it justice, it has a fantastic presence when seen in the wild.

I really like the Hoopoe, it's my favourite bird around where I live. It's so much greater seeing it in real life.

@Nilas I've never experienced a black out really, so I can't tell you about that. But sometime less is more. Changing substance may help as well. I've experienced nausea and two things have helped me: taking ginger prior to a trip. And working with the energy in my stomach. Sometimes the body recognises a substance as poison and wants to puke it out for safety, so you have to baby talk your own system that this is safe and to be in oneness with the substance, not to reject but to embrace and realign. Other times, it's stuck energy on the stomach, call it karma, or whatever label, I don't know to properly address it but, it's something that is out of alignment for you and many people and it's important to work with it. Sufi grind yogic exercises are very helpful in this regard. Maybe try this for some time and specially always before a trip: Hopefully you found some value.

@Nick_98 A good rule of thumb is to keep going till a question suddenly shocks you and makes you really pause and contemplate. Get a fifth sense for this killer questions, they'll lead you straight to an insight.

Could you elaborate?

Will is such a juicy inquiry topic. I've been contemplating it today.

Of course. I shared more good material for contemplation, in case anyone finds value.

That's why you gotta observe the crocodile at action and get insights into it. Poking the crocodile and reading between the lines. If you watch a hundred of those interviews you'll start to the see the self-deception and good advice as well. It's the intermingle of truth and falsehood what makes it so interesting to inquiry. This smells bad

Smells bad...

This channel has interesting short interviews with millionaires: Check it out, interesting content, got many insights on the rich psychology from the shorts

Lmao this killed me

I have to admit it has swag

Thanks for sharing the creativity video. Really liked it!

I'm happy to hear you've contemplated independently

Anyways, just wanted to leave my perspective for the record. Everyone makes up their mind. I might be terribly wrong at the end of the day, it wouldn't be the first nor the last time.

Let's see how the experiment goes. You make it sound so much more nefarious than what it is, given the current ecosystem. It all depends one the measuring stick I guess, and I think it's the wrong one. Who would pass our standards Leo? I'm trying to promote a more omnisided view. You have to recognise he's adding value. Some ridiculous one sided comments have been made. Let's acknowledge both realities. Say everything, the signal and the noise. And again, if we had to truly talk who would be left, not even ourselves.

Just for the record, I think Bryan Johnson is the wrong nail to hammer. Sure he is full of inadequacies, but given the epistemic trash of public figures rn on social media, he at least is promoting healthy habits. Yes we can speculative about ulterior motives, but imo he is making a net positive in society. I've benefited with some good health content he's made and most people here would too if they cared to watch his content with an open mind. He's doing unconventional stuff, that's why all the buzz, but we should know better, moreover in his beginnings he made plenty of basic solid health videos, without that context the current stage looks eccentric. Leo does seem to have a shadow on health topics, biasing lightly but noticeably his views. The rest of forum members just seem to be unconsciously conforming to his views here, that's the only reason this topic is relevant in the first place. My final thoughts are that Bryan is a decent figure in the current state of the events and that I support his experiment. I'm curious to see his evolution and I sporadically get value from his content.

It's all about understanding Oneness. Holarchies and holism is the base but at some point you gotta realise it's all One. It's not anymore systems, or holism, it's oneness and you are not a holon anymore, you become the Oneness, ending all chains of inquiry just to arrive at the very beginning. Everything becomes self-explanatory, as it must be due to Oneness. Check Leo's video on Strange Loops, and really try to grasp that as an insight, if Reality is a strange loop, how does that radically recontextualize understanding? Understanding strange loops is like kissing your ass backwards, everything connects perfectly.

On the other hand, how is it possible to truly reach clarity without undergoing that messy process. I'll explain how my sense making has evolved over the years. It's necessary to be lost in systems for a few good years before starting to intuit holistic thinking. Once you reach holism everything starts making much more sense, however your understanding hasn't fully reached completeness, it's necessary to close the loop so to speak. The next level is strange loop thinking, at this point you understand how all of reality is self-contained and self-explanatory. The snake has found its tail. However, still the snake hasn't fully realised what it means to be self-contained, everything connects within itself, but it doesn't know itself. Then you realise, Infinite Mind and the Sense Making Game becomes literally Infinite.

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