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https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/fast-acting-psychedelic-associated-with-improvements-in-depressionanxiety

https://www.lesswrong.com/s/3ELrPerFTSo75WnrH

Rather than colors: Traditional -> Modern -> Post-Modern -> Integral. It's hard to insult someone by calling them traditional, modern, or post-modern as they don't really require you to understand what they mean. I see that if you call someone traditional, they will even agree, rather than if you called them stage Blue. If you call someone post-modern, they will understand it if they know what modern means. The barrier of entry to Integral theory is much less and thereby I propose that Integral theory if this is it, is more useful. But I am interested in hearing your thoughts.

Basically Integral uses words that people are already familiar with rather than colors.

Maybe he's a shill for nuclear power... https://environmentalprogress.org/germany https://environmentalprogress.org/founder-president

Nuclear power is populist crap LOL. Guess Bill Gates is a populist.

Lol. I guess 2+2 isn't 4. It's literally math, numbers and economics. See what happened in Germany once they shut off most of their nuclear power plants. They are now building new coal plants because unlike nuclear power, solar panels only work when the sun shines and wind turbines only work when the wind blows. And batteries are expensive.

The writer of the article. ALSO Bill Gates is the chairman and investor for a nuclear power company called TerraPower but of course they can't build their new power plants in the U.S.A because of ideologues who are doing massive amount of damage to the environment due to their ignorance.

Also, if you actually read the article, this forum isn't for spreading fake news and lies. Think before you post. Because anyone who actually read it know what you said isn't true. Here's some of the "Psuedo-scientific" facts brought up in the article.

How about actually reading the article? It's not psuedo-scientific, short-term or reactionistic. Spoiler alert: It's about the case for nuclear power.

Why Renewables Can’t Save the Planet https://quillette.com/2019/02/27/why-renewables-cant-save-the-planet/

That helps. Thanks.

It's not a feeling, it's just "I Am". Sight, hearing, touch, feeling, thought (except the circular I-thought which is a kind of trance state), is I Am to me. I don't know what this I Am is though, that's weird. I think it's just consciousness. What can be. Not what can be in it. What is. The difference in searching for I Am and negating the questioner to me is that the search affirms the I Am with thinking. I know I Am. Of course in an intuitive way. But with dissolving the questioner I never pay attention to I Am. I think the only way you could've started this thread is because you search for the I Am and affirm it. Else you could've just been anybody else, except without a questioner. To know that you (winterknight) is enlightened you must've non-self-referentially thought it, I think, right now. But that is just a hypothesis.

Also includes topics like: Psychedelics, Lucid Dreaming, Alternative Healing, Paranormal, New Age, etc.

What's the difference between using "Who/where/what am I?" to dissolve the questioner/I-thought, and focusing on the feeling of "I Am"? When would you use one over the other in the pre-enlightened state? Can they be combined? And is it correct these are the two practices you recommend outside of the psychoanalysis/follow desire/emotions stuff? Sorry if you've already answered this. & Thanks in advance.

Any movie that's over 8 on IMDB with a lot of ratings is most likely good, this one has 8.3. I've seen it and it is good. Viggo is such a great person. Somewhat of a semi-genius, being an actor, producer, author, musician, director, photographer, poet. Although I disagree with his politics I admire him for it. Social democrats have a good heart.

Here's a fun paper I found on it (with a fun title). http://www.einstein.yu.edu/uploadedFiles/departments/neurology/Divisions/Child_Neurology/Child_Neurology_References/ADHD/Buckner 2012.pdf The serendipitous discovery of the brain's default network

Where is Authoritarianism-Libertarianism spectrum with Spiral dynamics? @Zizzero You appear to know much about Spiral Dynamics so I figure I'd ask.

What is to be discussed in this thread?

Does the changing of brain waves make any difference if the DMN is nonexistent?@Enlightenment

I would buy a Cyton + Dyson Biosensing boards from OpenBCI at 16 channels for $1000, then probably their headset either unassembled which is cheaper or their assembled one for $800. (or if you have your own 3d printer, even cheaper) The thing about EEG is that it only measures the most outer part of the brain as its near the skull where the electrodes are. The deeper part it really doesn't measure at all. But it is possible to use algorithms like sLORETA which is basically source localization, figuring out where the EEG signals are coming from. That means you can with a lot of computing power possibly get deeper braing regions like the PCC which is the center node of the DMN. Then you just neurofeedback to shut it down. I don't know if there is anything cheaper or better. But typically the more channels the better. The scientist are able to better get deeper into the brain since they do over a hundred channels to be able to figure out where the signals are coming from. Neurofeedback is basically you viewing your own brain activity and then you can improve your meditation. If I didn't buy it from OpenBCI and at the same time support free (as in freedom) and open source hardware I might buy something cheap from China. I haven't bought or used it though. But that would be what I would buy. For instance these people used OpenBCI 16 channel with the Ultracortex headset to visualize brain regions with sLORETA: http://thomaskosch.com/index.php/2016/09/28/visualizing-real-time-brain-localization-in-3d/ I don't know how real-time these visualizations are, but if they are very real time it could be useful. Some genius could probably program some fun games like a game with a rocket that is taking off depending on the amount of PCC deactivation as calculated with sLORETA. Of course at the same time increasing activation of IIRC, like the right frontal lobe of the task positive network. Just in case if the deactivation happens in other places. Basically to program it for increased activation of regions of the brain that deal with task-positive network and decreased activation of regions of the brain with default mode network. A healthy user is going to deactivate DMN just by looking and staring (not blinking) but this might increase that.

Unfortunately, "Stage Green" isn't without mistakes, 6000 protestors in Germany shutting down a coal plant might seem like a noble thing, like this article states. I wonder if any of those people were the same protestors supporting the German government to shut down pretty much all the nuclear power plants in Germany, which have zero carbon emissions when running and pretty much the lowest when the construction of the plant, digging out uranium, etc, is taken into consideration. It was only after all the nuclear power plants were pretty much shut down that other sources like coal power were increased substantially. Even new coal power plants are being built rather than new, safer, nuclear reactors. Wind only works when it blows. Sun only works when it shines. Nuclear is 24/7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Germany People like Bill Gates understands that Nuclear is the future, that's why he's invested a lot of money in developing a nuclear power company called TerraPower, which will reuse its fuel, meaning the reactor can be buried deep underground so all the people afraid of modern reactors can rejoice. Which are just unfounded fears. Fukushima were old reactors. These can be built then in 3rd world countries to bring safe, zero CO2-emissions, and most importantly cheap energy which will lift a massive amount of people out of poverty. The demand is infinite, the supply is limited. The first fusion power reactor will go online, ITER, in 2035, with net energy, which will bring 500 MW for 20 minutes, after its plasma is heated for 50 MW. After that DEMO, another fusion reactor will generate electricity in 2048, then PROTO, before 2050, will be the first commercial fusion reactor. https://www.gatesnotes.com/2019-Annual-Letter