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Glad y'all are benefiting from this stuff. I've since learned that many of the pranayama and other yogic exercises are amazing for breathing less and oxygenating your body too. Breathing out of one nostril, restraining your breath, slowing it down, holding it for extended periods of time, etc.

Just go deep into the feeling and experience it fully. Names don't do any feeling justice anyways.

This. It's very important to quit finding things so important.

For sure. I like to try to "ignore everything" (I mean everything), and it always seems like there's something there, like a subtle object that is "me". You can always just realize that there is an awareness of that. Just relax your mind/attention completely (can be difficult to do). There will probably still be a visual, feeling, sensing field... Really, you can't become aware of awareness like you can other things, cause what's aware of being aware of awareness? Maybe a better way of putting it is to "be" awareness. Which is always the case, but you can really recognize it when you just relax and drop all effort.... Even besides all this spirtuality mumbo jumbo, relaxation is extremely good for you that which we call you.... This relaxation is actually your natural state. Like, if you were to clinch your fist for a long time, eventually that might seem like your natural state. And it would take some effort to relax it, after which you would realize, oh, that is actually my natural state. Or tense shoulders, etc. I think one of Leo's earlier videos was highly true, about 3 stages of meditation... first stage is to notice your thoughts (this is so crucial and this alone improves the quality of your life drastically. A huge part of meditation is to not be lost in your thoughts. Being lost in your thoughts has all kinds of negative consequences. They're not just words playing in your head, but they even affect your physiology. You start clenching muscles and tightening up.... versus relaxing and observing the thoughts go by and not attaching or clinging to them). Second stage, drop the thoughts as they arise. Third stage, aware of awareness. Of course, there are other paths that may resonate with you more. Sometimes I find that instead of ignoring everything, it feels better to try to notice everything. Every aspect of my experience. And the noticing of it becomes sorta effortless, and there's this automatic feeling of acceptance / love, even for the "bad" stuff and pain when you just notice things, as opposed to sorta being oblivious of them and at their mercy and reacting unconsciously to them. It's like, stop and smell the roses (or the garbage). Like widening the flashlight's beam of light to capture everything, or letting it freely go where it wants to and just resting effortlessly.... And then you may find that all the things you notice are simply made of the awareness of them (subjectively, not scientifically). What else is there to a smell other than the awareness of it? There's not a smell, and then awareness latching on to it. It's just one seamless experience..... And when you've noticed every aspect of your experience it's like... wow, what lies beyond that.... ? And then there's all the other consciousness work that's insanely good for you that isn't all about this aware of awareness business... Concentration, yoga, loving kindness, etc etc etc.

You don't have to completely rid yourself of beliefs (that's all but impossible). Just relax your mind, even if only for a few seconds. Relax your focus on all external objects, including your thoughts and filters on reality. Even if only for a few seconds. What you're left with is simply a feeling of existing. An awareness that you are aware. Awareness of awareness. That feeling of existing is always there, it's just so often masked by being caught up in external reality, thoughts and objects, etc. But no matter what's going on, it's there. Just relax your attention. It's a lot like a flashlight shining light on other objects, just turn the flashlight off for a bit.

Thanks! And yes I've watched some videos about the 8d crystal, it's name is E8, which is basically an algebraic structure... the "largest simple exceptional Lie group" (all of those terms are mathematically defined). Some surfer dude physicist Anthony Garrett Lisi wrote "An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything" where he argued that all the qualities of all the elementary particles and their interactions, all fundamental constants, etc can be described as quantum excitations of E8. I'm not sure how closely this aligns with the folks over at quantumgarvityresearch's (Emergence Theory's) views, but they both use the E8. Emergence Theory seems to be stresses that consciousness is fundamental, as reality is made up of pixelated information, and information is meaning, which requires an interpreter or a subject to give meaning to the meaning. Which I agree with. It's a very sacred geometry kinda theory, which seems intuitive to me as reality is highly geometric (not like 3d shapes but like relationships between bits of information). Of course mainstream science pays it very little attention. These theories may turn out to be extremely useful someday, but I don't personally think we will ever have a true "Theory of Everything". Perhaps a theory which unifies all 4 of the fundamental "forces" (strong and weak nuclear, electromagnetic, and gravity), but then why the standard model? Why is reality like that rather than like something else? Whatever answer you have, why that? And so on forever. Like when Professor Farnsworth in Futurama built a telescope that could see the fundamental structure of reality, thereby answering all problems in physics. It still leaves open the question of why are things they way they are. Besides, Godel's Incompleteness Theorem loosely says we can't have a theory of "everything mathematical", and physics uses math so... As for reality being both virtual and 'physical', yes definitely in the sense that once observed, things have all of the qualities we would ascribe to them were they physical... You see, feel, hear, taste, smell them, they have mass and energy, position, momentum etc. As for them being objectively physical, I don't think so. But then I tend towards thinking there is nothing objective to their nature... I like what Reality Transurfing has to say about reality, that reality is "free to manifest itself in infinite variety". It can seem utterly physical, virtual, and probably all sorts of things that the human mind can't even imagine.

Cleaning up diet Optimizing diet Transcendental meditation Noting meditation Self-inquiry Other consciousness work (feeling gratitude, love, acceptance, etc, appreciating existence, aware of awareness, do nothing, body awareness etc) Buteyko breathing Various healthy lifestyle habits Reading Watching the actualized videos, often multiple times, and other self improvement stuff Watching videos from spiritual teachers Need to do kriya yoga and journaling more. Kriya yoga feels incredibly effective, I often have crazy dreams after that feel like they may be astral projectiony. And journaling I know is extremely good for you, and it would be insanely valuable to have notes on all the important stuff I've read and watched over the years. And to get thoughts out of the head and onto paper / screen

Eat eggs from humanely raised chickens, problem solved. Highly bioavailable protein, extremely nutritious, no suffering. *cue outrage from the pro chicken life advocates

Double slit experiment (matter is particle like when observed, wave like when not), quantum entanglement (instant cause and effect across distance, or different aspect of same object in multiple places), and quantum eraser (seemingly backwards causality) pretty much do it for me. But here is a ton more stuff that makes reality seem more virtual / digital than physical, worth a close read: "Here are fifteen reasons why we live in a virtual reality: from Brian Whitworth’s, “Quantum Realism” How can we know if our world is a digital construct or not? One way is to look for tell-tale signs, like pixels, processing limits, channel bandwidths and a system boot-up. A virtual reality should behave like one, so a critical analysis should reveal it. Surprisingly, physics tells us that our world: Had a beginning: All the distant galaxies are receding from us at known rates, so it is possible to calculate back when our universe started up about fourteen billion years ago, in a first event that began not only our universe but also its space and time. Yet a complete physical universe can’t begin, as by definition there is nothing outside it to create it and to create itself, it would have to exist before it began. This leaves physics speculating on D-branes, alternate universes, wormholes, teleporting worlds, quantum tunneling, big bang-big crunch oscillation theories and other steady state variants. In contrast, every virtual reality has a boot up that creates its pixels and its space-time operating system, based on nothing within itself. Has a maximum speed: In our world, a light shone from a spaceship moving at almost the speed of light still leaves the ship at the speed of light, which is impossible in an objective reality. Einstein proved that the speed of light is a maximum, but gave no reason for it. The equations increase an object’s inherent mass as it increases speed relative to other objects, which works but doesn’t really explain anything. In contrast, every screen has a fixed refresh rate that no pixel-to-pixel transfer “speed” can exceed. Is digital: Everything at the quantum level is quantized, including time and space, but field theory assumes continuity, so it has to avoid the infinities that implies by a mathematical trick called renormalization. We think our world has no gaps but actually Planck length and time are irreducible and calculus implies infinitesimals. In quantum realism, pixels and cycles are expected. Has quantum tunneling. For an electron to suddenly appear outside a field barrier it can’t penetrate is like a coin in a perfectly sealed glass bottle suddenly appearing outside it. Again, this is impossible for an objective reality although quantum theory permits it. In contrast, a digital reality allows “cuts” between one probabilistic frame (quantum state) and another (Ch5). Entangles entities: Entangled photons maintain opposite spins no matter how far apart they go because quantum collapse works instantly across the universe. An objective reality limited by the speed of light can’t do this, so Einstein called entanglement spooky action at a distance. In contrast, a program can instantly alter any pixel anywhere on a screen, even if the screen is our universe. In this view, entangled photons just merge their processing until the next processing reboot. Space curves: In Einstein’s vision, the sun keeps the earth in orbit by “curving” the space around it, but what exactly does space curve into? Space needs another dimension to do this, but string theory’s extra dimensions are “curled up” in our space, so they don’t allow it. In quantum realism our 3D space is a just a “surface” that can curve into a fourth dimension. Time dilates: In Einstein’s twin paradox, one twin travels the universe while the other stays on earth, and the first twin returns after a year to find his brother an old man of eighty! In an objectively real world time is fixed but in our world it slows down as we go faster. Likewise, every gamer knows that the frame rate of a game slows down if the server is busy. Randomness occurs: In our world, radioactive atoms emit alpha particles randomly, i.e. in a way that no prior physical “story” can explain. Randomness implies a physically uncaused cause that isn’t possible in a complete physicality. The many-worlds fantasy, or today the multiverse, was invented solely to deny quantum randomness. In contrast, the processor of a virtual construct can choose which quantum state becomes a physical state in quantum collapse. Empty space is not empty: An objective space should be nothing but our space exerts a pressure. In the Casimir effect, flat plates in a vacuum placed close together experience a force pushing them in. Current physics attribute this to virtual particles created by the vacuum, but space as null processing is a simpler explanation. Waves are particles: In Young’s two-slit experiment, one electron goes through two slits, interferes with itself to give an interference pattern, but still always arrives at one screen point. A particle can’t do this but a program can spread instances of itself like a wave but still restart at a point (quantum collapse) to arrive as a particle in one place. Processing can spread like a wave but reboot like a particle. Every electron is identical: In our world, every photon, electron and quark is indistinguishable from every other one, just as if the same code generated all of them. Quantum superposition: In quantum theory, currents can simultaneously flow both ways around a superconducting ring (Cho, 2000), and an electron can spin both up and spin down – until observed. Such combinations are not physically possible, so in current physics quantum states don’t exist, but in quantum realism an electron program can instantiate its code to explore both options. Non-physical detection: Imagine a bomb so sensitive that even one photon will set it off. It should be impossible to detect, but scientists have done the physically impossible with a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (Kwiat, Weinfurter, Herzog, Zeilinger, & Kasevich, 1995). Current physics attributes this to quantum states that don’t exist but quantum realism lets those quantum states exist. Retrospective action occurs: If the future can affect the past, causality fails and with it physics. Yet in delayed choice experiments, an observation made after a photon takes a path defines the path it took before the observation. This has led some to speculate that all time, like all space, already exists, allowing time travel and all the paradoxes it implies. In quantum realism program instances take all paths and the observation picks the physical event, so there is no time travel. Anti-matter: Quantum equations predicted anti-matter, but no reason has ever been given why matter that inherently exists needs an inverse, of the same mass but opposite charge, at all. In Feynman diagrams, an anti-electron colliding with an electron goes backwards in time, but how it can enter an event in reverse time not explained. In contrast, processing by definition implies anti-processing, and if time is the processing sequence, anti-processing implies anti-time. Each of the above alone is just odd, but together they form what courts call circumstantial evidence. They imply that the physical world is a processing output, so by the duck principle: If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck. The ‘duck’ here is a virtual reality generated by quantum processing. Note that we would not doubt that the physical world was objectively real, if only it would behave so, but it doesn’t. In an objective reality time doesn't dilate, space doesn’t bend, objects don’t teleport, empty space is empty and universes don’t pop up out of nowhere. Since no-one has ever proven that the universe is not virtual, why is this option always dismissed out of hand? For example, Hawkings says: “But maybe we are all linked in to a giant computer simulation that sends a signal of pain when we send a motor signal to swing an imaginary foot at an imaginary stone. Maybe we are characters in a computer game played by aliens.” Then his next sentence was “Joking apart…” But why must it inevitably be a joke? Conversely, if we find that physical realism is impossible, the Sherlock Holmes dictum should apply, that: “When you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth” If the physical world can’t be an objective reality, science must consider whether it is a virtual one."

Tricky subject to talk about. But ask yourself how there is something rather than nothing, and go extremely deep. With no preconceived notions, beliefs, etc. Was there pure nothingness out of which things popped out. Have there always been things. What could possibly ground those things' existence. How can their existence possibly be explained (it can't, cause whatever reason you give what grounds that reason?) Or, does it just appear that there are things, when really there aren't. Science tells us at least that chairs are made of atoms, which are made of subatomic particles, which may be made of strings, which are vibrating "energy", which may be identical to "information"... Are there 1s and 0s on a sheet of paper somewhere out of which arises the world we see? A chair does not look like a chair, the way a human sees it. Consider what an ant sees, or other animals? What does the chair objectively look like? Does that even make sense, "objective" means regardless of any interpretation. Also, look at a computer game. Mario doesn't have actual physical existence, though it appears he does. He is made up of information. Similarly with reality. (Though it goes even deeper than that)

How could there POSSIBLY be some"thing" rather than no"thing". As if the default state for aaaalll of reality, at the most fundamental level is that some "object" exists. How tf did it get there? Makes more sense to me that there's no"thing". Only appearances. Quantum mechanics supports this.

Argument for God's existence around 14:20 - 15:30

Tryna learn music production, finally putting some halfway decent stuff together (song is like 1.5 minutes, the "yeah, that's right" and "guillotine" moments are inside jokes) Selected Ambient Twerks Vol 0 Song 0 by Boards of Autechre Twin

Word. Shins perpendicular to the ground, knees directly over ankles, that dude isn't having many health problems. Most moderners his age can barely do a half squat. The price we pay for all our comfort. As for your op, all I can think is that the meditation bench has helped me a lot (though requires a little flexibility in the feet / ankles), and maybe looking at what shoes you're wearing when running. Maybe some vibram five fingers or something would help (idk).

"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." "Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: Ye must have faith. It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with." "Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve." https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_Planck

99% at least. Proper squatting would be being able to squat as a resting position, ass practically touching the ground. We're all fucked up for life due to our chairs and what not.

Being really athletic DOES NOT equal being really healthy. There's definitely a positive correlation but there's tons of unhealthy athletic people, and healthy people who are not athletic. Check out buteyko breathing to optimize breathing. "The Oxygen Advantage" is great for this. And definitely yogic breathing techniques too. The "complete breath" specifically is great for fixing shallow breathing. As for the posture problems, stretch, and check out Esther Gokhale's work on "primal" posture. It's different from typical advice. Also if you happen to do back squats a lot, I think those made my hip flexors unflexible. Also, I've found a meditation bench to be very comfortable.

How is Sheldrake's video even banned. I can understand videos that seem to encourage drug use (or at least I'm not surpised those would be banned) but he's just talking about areas where he thinks mainstream science is wrong, shouldn't that be encouraged. Sometimes i just smh

For the vast majority of people, imo, their consciousness would raise from incorporating the single most nutritious food group, organ meats, into their diet. And getting rid of suspect foods like wheat, corn, soy, dairy, chemicals etc. Just adding liver and egg yolk can clear up sooo many nutrient deficincies that so many of us have (hopefully from the most humanely raised animals as possible). Making you healthier and happier. Additionally, we are (pretending to be) animals and require proteins for structure, the proteins from animals more closely match what we need in terms of their amino acid profile. The whole animal, not just muscle meat. As for enlightened folk or breatharians or people who feel great without animal foods, more power to them. But if your health is lacking in almost any way, eating organs, collagen, marrow, broth etc from healthy animals can go such a long way in helping you. And of course, be thankful and try not to support factory farming and needless suffering. Do your research and buy from legitimate family farms who are doing it right... Giving say a chicken a good, relatively safe life and plenty of space and sunshine and fresh air and chicken friends, and a quick, painless death that goes towards sustaining humans... Not that bad of a life for a bird imo. *this is written at my current level of consciousness, state of mind, and understanding, and is subject to change

Everything is Self (like in a dream, someone talking to "you" is really just you talking to yourself... even though you don't know what they're gonna say next) Self exists eternally (transcending time and space)

Love cacao, it may be my favorite superfood. Potent mood enhancer. Jeanne Calment (longest living human on record) ate pounds of chocolate each week (I'm assuming high quality), so that proves definitively that it's great for you. She also smoked cigarettes every day (probably just paper and tobacco, not marlboro lights or anything like that). So yeah, raw cacao is amazing. My top 3 would probably be Cacao, Cordyceps, and Mucuna Pruriens... honorable mention for ashwagandha. Raw egg yolk is great too.

I mean there's a lot more to it (understatement) but if fruit increased brain size... orangutans would have taken over by now (but they eat unhealthy insects )

I've heard the exact opposite, that vegans tend to have decreased brain sizes (not trying to be rude this is just what I've legitimately heard and read). That chart needs a new row, "ability to cook food", which would put humans on all columns. This is what (I've heard) really led to increased brain size. We didn't have to work so hard chewing so our mouths could get smaller, more energy in less time for bigger brains.

I'm amazed at all of the conflicting information out there. And a lot of it is so radical, saying one should exclude whole natural food groups, eat exclusively this or exclusively that. Humans can thrive on a wide variety of diets. This is why we were able to spread out across the entire globe. All traditional cultures that we know of ate plant foods, and animal foods, as available in season. Animals were practically always available, plants were not always available. For most people, both are good. One other universal of traditional cultures is that they were much less removed from nature than us, which is where our problems largely stem from. And they weren't worried about paying bills or having a certain body type or being in a rush to get to work, etc. As for meat vs vegetables, if you have nagging health problems, especially autoimmune issues, and nothing seems to be working.... meat (AND organs, skin, bones, collagen, broth, etc) is the safest food to eat as far as allergies and toxins go. And the latter foods are extraordinarily nutritious. The human body is absolutely designed to easily handle cooked animal food. The whole no meat thing seems to me to just be spirituality dogma, sorry. A lot of yogis look pretty fat, actually. I doubt it is a requirement to grow spiritually. Nature will always eat itself. Of course, factory farming is egregious. But that being said, mass farming of vegetables and grains is bad for animals too and requires killing pests. Really hunting or raising your own animals is going to leave the smallest biological footprint. Shopping organic, from family farms, farmers markets etc is also a great step. Our warming of the planet, littering, plastics, deforestation, etc etc is much more troublesome for the ecosystem than killing an animal and eating it. To be fair, I have never directly killed an animal and am sure I would feel guilty doing so... and I'm certainly moved by videos you can find out there about animal cruelty. But if I were out trying to survive.... I'd be killing squirrels left and right (or more likely, trying to and failing and starving to death). And lastly, while diet is crucial it isn't everything. Beliefs, emotions, mindset etc are probably the most important. Stress management, sleep, relaxation, nature, physical activity, having a good time, laughing, purpose etc... These things are important too.

Sounds like you're doing fine to me. If you're not thirsty don't drink water. I'd recommend the highest quality milk you can find. Full fat, grass fed, happy healthy cows.