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Metal Gear Solid V, the Phantom Pain

We're currently living in the next phase shift of humanity. Such an interesting time to be alive. Wonder what our descendants will make of all this?

It would be a mix of: - Evidence-based naturopathy / holistic medicine, like with nutrition, with a teaching style similar to Gil Carvalho - Non-dual entheogenic experience with inspiration from Martin W. Ball, Ph.D. - Philosophy (with an emphasis epistemology & ontology) - Spiral Dynamics - Daniel Schmatctenberger's style of systems thinking

My personal favorite from big tobacco

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@undeather personally, doing Wim Hof Method breathing exercises induces a DMT-like state during the breath-hold cycle - especially when I'm outside in nature. Is there any explanation we know of as to why this happens?

Martin W. Ball says that our ego is a set of energetic constructs, and seeking out an energetic solution is an effective way to address the problems posed by the ego. He prefers to use the word entheogen over psychedelic. An entheogen is a substance that generates the experience of god within. Fundamentally, they alter our ability to perceive and experience energy. Powerful entheogenic experiences aren't "enlightened" or "awakened" states in of themselves, rather, they're best understood as energetic expansions. Different religions, customs, rituals, and techniques have been used throughout human history to reach these heightened states of consciousness. While they may be useful in some respects, they can also be rendered obsolete when the proper understanding of the bio-energetics of the human body are taken into account. Entheogens cut past the middle-man and are vastly more effective for moving energy because they go cut directly to the source: the energetic constructs of your body. "Enlightenment," as he puts it, is the relaxing of your ego and the opening up of your energy, along with taking full responsibility for yourself and your ego. Entheogens are a very effective way of going about this, but this practice also extends into your day to day life. Integration of the experience with everyday life becomes possible when you are liberated from the prison of the ego and you've awoken to the energetic truth of reality. Just my two cents.

@Michael569 would you agree with this?

Your apology meant a lot to me Leo. This forum has such meaningful nuggets of truth and insight if you know where to look ... it's truly one of the most unique corners of the internet. I think it shows a lot of maturity of you to admit that your approach isn't necessarily the best for you or other members of this forum. That’s a concept pretty much absent from most the vast majority of Internet forum mods / administrators of forums (from what I’ve seen at least). The contents of your work have regained their once-held respect my friend. I know we’re supposed to call into question the claims you make about reality, god, politics, and consciousness - but when the messenger on the horse develops tendencies to dismiss other’s suffering and act cocky about their superiority of enlightenment? A lot of my faith in your word slowly started to dwindle away - but now you’ve regained status as one of my most esteemed teachers.

The title pretty much sums it up. How could a predominantly stage green / yellow country enforce a draft in its citizens?

@Michael569 thank you for being a lifebuoy of reason in the sea of irrationality

You won't find based people on online forums because well adjusted people are living real life.

Atomic Habits by James Clear

@Leo Gura how do you actually embody “alien consciousness” in your human vehicle’s experience of life and reality?

I discovered this channel from listening to a Martin W. Ball interview (how I discovered actualized.org in the first place ) and the interviewer seems like he’d be open to discussing the true nature of GOD. He mentioned your name a few times, so he’s aware of actualized.org https://youtube.com/@Institute4AdvancedAstonishment @Leo Gura

This thread makes me think back to the purpose of actualized.org ”Actualized.org is a catalog of the most powerful concepts that Leo Gura has pursued, studied, and discovered in his own life in order to make sense of what life and reailty is and how to live the best life possible. It’s focused specifically on the biggest picture perspective. It deals with important principles and concepts on how to live the good life and how to understand how to live the good life. It has a broad range of subtopics and picks nuggets from all fields that are useful: - Basic self improvement advice - Relationship advice - Health advice - Psychological work - Developmental psychology - Positive psychology - Psychoanalysis - Philosophy - Epistemology - Metaphysics - Science - History - Sociology - Systems theory / thinking An instruction manual for life and reality that you were never given A catalogue of concepts and principles that you can use to guide your life, insights that you can yourself have and validated by you You’re not gonna find this level of depth and quality of wisdom and life advice anywhere in mainstream media nor in most books. Most books don’t give the big picture, they silo knowledge within science, medicine, philosophy, spirituality, etc. Everybody is becoming a narrow specialist that is good at one thing, and they’re not getting a holistic understanding of reailty. It is the closest thing that you’ll find in society that is trying to spoon feed you the information to live the good life.” ^^^notes from my commonplace book on “What is Actualized.org?”

Sounds like hedonism to me

How do you do this?

Mother nature is brutal in terms of predation because the balance of the whole ecosystem hinges upon predation, with some animals eating plants and some animals eating other animals. The animals that eat plants don't have the cognitive ability to regulate their own consumption and reproduction, and thereby their carrying capacity would far exceed the balance of their environment. This eventually leads to a scarcity of resources, and then these animals prey on each other because there's not enough resources. This is the evolutionary niche that predatory animals filled. The reason why nature is so fucking brutal - it is because herbivorous animals lacked the ability to be self-sustaining. It's not a good thing, it's a necessary thing. The reptilian brain is characterized by an on / off modulation response to pain and pleasure. The mammalian brain is characterized by the ability for emotion, and for certain species of apes and dolphins, the ability for cognition. The human brain is characterized by the capacity for abstract thinking. We can look at our environment and determine the carrying capacity and change what and how we consume. We can moderate our reproduction so as to not exceed the carrying capacity, so thereby the violence isn't needed. This hinges upon our prefrontal cortex and our capacity for abstraction. However, most humans are irresponsible with this ability and still over consume resources and over breed and this is one of the reasons why humans are still violent to each other.

The ability to mute certain members & hide their posts

??? Any claim that is made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence, by the way. Peter Attia MD once said nutrition is asymmetric in it’s effects on health. Getting it wrong will have far more downside as compared to upside if you get it right. It isn’t the be-all-end-all. Getting nutrition right at the exclusion of exercise still has downside. Getting exercise right yields enormous upside, as does getting it wrong yielding enormous downside, so it’s effects on health are symmetrical. The notion that there is one perfect diet that works for everybody is incorrect. Everyone has their own individual metabolism, genetics, and risk factors. There’s a lot of gray areas, too. Aside from ultra-processed foods and processed meats (which evidentially show continuous red flags), things like carbs are never really “good” or “bad.” It comes down to dose, tolerance, and demand. Some can get away with more than others. Protein depends on weight, lean body mass, age, sex, how much physical activity you get, and other factors, for example. Nutrition science is actually a really nuanced field that we don’t have absolute certainty about with what little we know. I don’t subscribe to the idea that we should eat like our ancestors for a multitude of reasons. One of which being the biological phenomenon known as “antagonistic pleiotropy.” Our evolution has favored for genes that help us survive, reproduce, and raise our offspring. After our reproductive years pass, evolution doesn’t really care if we live long. The genes that are harmful long-term aren’t weeded out because they’re already passed on. Humans have been omnivorous for most of our history on this planet, and that is precisely the reason why ancestral diets aren’t healthy for us in the long term. Our ancestors ate what was available to them and what got them to the next day, which I don’t think is a good basis for determining a decision that could yield tremendous downsides if done wrong. Just my two cents

This made me laugh in real life