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Is Auckland Peace Action as in this interview, and the spokesperson an example of "Stage Green"?

Sometimes I've found that button to press to turn off thoughts and that metaphor is really the best way to describe it. It's something you train.

https://eu.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-best-reads/2018/05/09/bentinho-massaro-sedona-experiment-how-search-enlightenment-led-digital-cult/487923002/

I don't understand why you want to micro-dose. That is a pharmacological intervention. I've had a change of heart and I'm not telling you not to, I am just curious what's your reason. Because once you explain your reasons maybe there are other pharmacological tools that are more useful or have more evidence if you want to go that route of altering your brain. There are always other routes, and that doesn't mean the pharma way is bad. For instance neurofeedback, or meditation/self-inquiry biofeedback, exercise (as the non-active state is notoriously bad for your brain), therapy, etc.

https://medium.com/@tarttoter/elon-musk-does-a-lot-more-than-smoke-weed-c4404288ae1b

You're not the body. You're not a name. You're not the brain. Nondual awakening is a process of subtraction, not addition. What's left is just space... Here. That's you. But that's just the start of Awakening.

If you use it no more than one time a week. But it is going to be hard because it is very addictive as it reaches the brain very fast. Try nicotine gum. Or patches. Make sure to split to smaller pieces as its typically dosed for smokers who have a large tolerance. I am also interested myself in seeing if people can only use nicotine one time a week.

Dunno if this is album is good music to trip to but it's good nonetheless.

The problem I have with everyday coffee consumption is that you develop tolerance. So drinking the same amount, it will become less useful. I don't know how many days are enough to not develop a tolerance, but at least a day or two in between administration. Since I rarely use caffeine a cup of green tea is enough to make me feel the coffee high.

I don't know if they are doing that, but I wouldn't be surprised if they do. Because it's just one question in their questionnaires: If this day's pill was placebo or not. They probably do ask it because that gives info whether people are able to feel the effects or not. They are of course are checking cognition. You can see p. 12 it saying so. They are actually schedule 1. https://www.dea.gov/drug-scheduling It's like a dystopia. Xanax have low potential abuse and risk of dependence?

Basically placebo is a positive effect you will have for no reason, even if you know you are taking a placebo pill it will have a positive effect. If you have a negative effect for no reason, from taking a sugar pill, it is called nocebo, which is more common in people with low dopamine levels. Since all substances are subject to placebo, its important that your substance is better than placebo. The self-blinding manual says they are doing pre- and post-dosing surveys. During dosing they are doing questionnaires and tests on mood, and cognition. p. 12. https://selfblinding-microdose.org/self-blinding_manual_BLOTTER_v1.6a.pdf

Unbound Telesis: a primordial realm of infocognitive potential free of informational constraint. In CTMU cosmogony, “nothingness” is informationally defined as zero constraint or pure freedom (unbound telesis or UBT), and the apparent construction of the universe is explained as a self-restriction of this potential. In a realm of unbound ontological potential, defining a constraint is not as simple as merely writing it down; because constraints act restrictively on content, constraint and content must be defined simultaneously in a unified syntax-state relationship. Some other short videos with a new perspective (I don't agree with much, but they are well made). The CTMU is too complex for me to understand. Taking the raisins out of the oatmeal. Documentary about this guy:

That is interesting, but that doesn't mean it works for everyone since it is an anecdote. Placebo is actually a real effect and whether microdosing beats placebo is under investigation. The only placebo-controlled micro-dosing anecdote I know of is from gwern, and it had no effect on him. But I'm sure you know all of this already. For a healthy artist for instance, that doesn't have schizophrenia or psychosis in their family, there isn't really that many negatives in trying a microdose. But I'm not sure why, since there isn't any evidence outside of anecdote supporting its use.

Because you are addicted and because you are addicted you aren't getting the most bang for the buck from the substance. If you used nicotine once a week or every 10 days then you wouldn't be subject to tolerance and dependence. You are vaping it is reaching the brain quickly and thus makes it more addictive. Try nicotine gum instead or if you really want to be optimal use appropriately dosed patches. Nicotine is the most powerful nootropic and it deactivates the default mode network like meditation. http://www.gwern.net/Nicotine

Yeah, it sounds like something I've heard before. It's good to be continuously reminded, so thanks for this post. Forgetfulness is a thing. I'm sure this post can help alongside with practice (obv gotta mention this).

One can't accurately measure IQ to those levels, the max is like 1 in 10,000 which is basically SMPY. Yeah I think you can study it in the detail, like a churchgoer studies the Bible or a Hindu studies the Gita. It might give you something. At least the accomplishment of understanding something novel which defines new terms and uses new words. In the CTMU FAQ someone brought up a saying from Alan Watts and Chris basically said that what Alan said predicted the CTMU. Many things are def. legit.

Micro-dosing is a terrible idea for someone predisposed to schizophrenia in my opinion, at least everyday. Psychedelics don't work except in higher dosages. That's proven with all the studies. Low dosages did nothing, except make you feel different, that's why it was used as placebo. Even 2 g of shrooms didn't do anything, it was only at around 4 g that the beneficial effects occurred. Because that's when mystical experiences were triggered with all of the religious and classical music and the setting. There were no benefits without the mystical experience. Which is basically a non-dual experience with positive emotions. Neuroscientist Carhart-Harris said in his AMA he was worried that microdosing would put people out of touch with reality in their day to day life. Of course some might think this is good, but generally if someone says that they mean it in a way which is negative. Not like tree-hugging out of touch of the current order. People also use it as ways to become "more productive", like Silicon Valley-types, or like a nootropic. Gwern did a LSD microdosing RCT on himself and it had no effect. That is basically controlling for the placebo effect. Even Fadiman commented on it. https://www.gwern.net/LSD-microdosing There is a new self-blinding microdosing study for people to join if they wish: https://selfblinding-microdose.org/ The science isn't there... imo. But it seems some are helped with it.

When scientists gave schizophrenics psychedelics it made them weird, but high dose amphetamines exacerbated their symptoms. I'd never use psychedelics if I had a family history of schizophrenia. The same with weed. I think any type of trauma or stress puts you at risk for "unlocking" schizophrenia. Especially in your 20's. Psychedelics can be very traumatic, anxiety-provoking, during the experience, but with positive effects long-term for otherwise healthy users. That's why I think working working with your current traumas and building ways of coping with future ones and stressors in healthy ways is a better idea. Psychedelics can be a medicine yes, but there are also other medicines out there. Spiritual bypassing is a thing. And psychedelics isn't an all-cure panacea. Studies done on people have a very careful selection process, they exclude people who do have family history of schizophrenia or psychosis. It might be worth your time to look into how to prevent schizophrenia, maybe something like serious exercise can help with that for instance. The nootropics subreddit can be helpful with that. If you become schizophrenic or psychotic that is not only putting you further from the truth but it also limits your options for growth - like using psychedelics or other spiritual practices. You might start excluding things that make you feel well like coffee after a psychotic episode. So you spiral into higher neuroticism which makes you more prone to be unable to deal with traumas and other stressors. If the enlightened state is like the flow state, but higher, why on earth would the psychotic state be in any shape familiar? The studies scoring people on mysticism had non-duals at the highest score, while psychotics were like half below that. The known flow state is like the reverse psychotic state. You are smart, alert, calm, relaxed, attentive.

Yeah. I suppose you can email him at chris (at) ctmu.org if you want. I found it at the end of one of his papers, which was good, though there was some jargon I didn't understand. http://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/694 I got the text from: http://hology.org/ The CTMU paper is there as well which I gave up reading after some pages.

What is the feeling "I Am"? are you --and everyone else the same "I Am"?

Neuroscientists use N-back to assess working memory performance. You press A or L when either visual or audio is matching what you've seen or heard two rounds back. Some people have trained themselves to do 7 times back. Here's one person writing of their N-back program: https://github.com/HMB-Entertainment/NZT

Dual N-Back probably works in training working memory. See it as a form of meditation, most people answer the n-back question using intuition. Whether greater working memory is useful is another question, maybe for some things. https://www.gwern.net/DNB-FAQ

http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html