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Desire for a sense of sure-ness is such a curious human phenomena. I wonder if humans are the only entities that experience it. It seems like some other animals have a sense of it. Sometimes animals seem to double-check things, which could be a form of sure-ness. Do birds re-check things as they build a nest to make sure it's correct? Yep, any thing is not another thing. Notice what happened there. One one hand, it is a very subtle transition that is overlooked. On the other hand, it's a very big jump. If we create a "perspective", it's a perspective. It's not a tuna fish sandwich. There is nothing to rule out. It is what it is.

Searching is a motivational dynamic, yet not necessary. There is also attraction, attention and the lens of perception one wears. There are reasons why these types of "studies" are "happening to pop up" in front of your face. It's not random popping up and detached, objective observation happening. There are other forces at play, yet a mind would need to expand beyond it's current conscious level to become aware of it and observe it.

There is also another dynamic of sneakiness. Sociopaths often cloak themselves with the good faith of others. I watched a documentary on sociopathy and one of the sociopaths in prison commented "I don't experience good faith, yet I know it's a thing others experience and I know how to use it to take advantage of others".

That’s some nice flow, mind space and creating reality. And not just for pickup. What he’s describing can be applied to socializing in general and flowing with life.

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Yea, too much of the other extreme is bad too.

That is one way to view it. I generally view communication differently. I just used a categories of “debate” as a simple construct. I see it much more nuanced. There are various communication dynamics that come into play, they are integrated and each have their own spectrum of degrees. In a simple construct of “debate” and “discussion”, I think a low amount of conflict and challenge can be helpful in development. In general, men tend to take this way to far and get bogged down into narrative control, being the intellectual alpha, winning the debate etc. Yet on the other extreme, I’ve watched women speak in such a passive, agreeable manner that nothing gets developed. I recently watched two women on YT discuss neuroplasticity. One was a neuroscientist and the other was a psychologist. I got excited to see how the two different perspectives could intertwine and develop a new integrated model. Yet they were waaay to agreeable constantly saying “oh yes, great point”. It was like they were being super careful not to hurt each other’s feelings in any way. One time the psychologist wasn’t quite describing neuroplasticity quite right because it’s not her specialty. The neuroscientist knows this, yet let it go with “yes, good point”. I was yelling” Tell her about the cell biology of it! Tell her the neuroscience perspective. It’s nothing personal.!”. Yet she didn’t and it turned into a bunch of goo that never took form. It’s disappointing because they could have constructed something cool together.

Tenure definitely helps. No way could I get way with what I do without tenure. In terms of losing tenure at a college, it’s more about crimes, sex or drugs with students, or giving the college really bad press like doing racist , anti-lgbtq stuff in classes. An eccentric professor sprinkling in some mysticism flies under the radar. I’m more concerned about talking to students about psychedelics or their psychological problems. There are grey areas I try to avoid.

Biden will be able to replace high level positions with his guys. The problem is that there are 10s of thousands of government employees in this agencies - many of whom are incompetent Trumpers. That takes a while to unwind. As well, Trump is twisting protocols so that he can make mid-level positions permanent with Trumpers. That makes it harder for Biden and his team to work efficiently in a new direction. Imagine being hired as the new president of an institution. You can bring in your own leadership, yet half the employees there are unqualified bozos some of which are Trump conspiracy theorists that want The Kraken released. And now there is all sorts of red tape to get rid of them. It could take a year or two to clear away the brush. Yet then new teams need to be assembled. It’s not an easy position to be in. In the past, both Republican and Democrat presidents have helped the incoming president transition. Yet Trump’s team is pouring cement in all the pipes, setting boobie traps etc. My sense is that Trump feels like he never got a fair chance. That Obama was spying on him and the Dems started the RussiaGate witch-hunt. I think Trump desires revenge by screwing over Biden. As well, if he can sabotage Biden and make Biden look like a failure, that would make him look better. That’s how his red level mind seems to work.

I think that is one of the best shots at structural change, yet it doesn’t look like Dems could get it through the Senate. Rs are up 50-48 and even if Dems win the two GA seats, I don’t think they would have the numbers to get it through. And I think they would focus on covid relief and student debt forgiveness. And 2022 isn’t a Senate good map for Dems.

I hadn’t thought of it like that. Ironically, he describes the lengthy process as “how to write a rock solid argument”. And he wrote a book on how to write solid arguments. . . In a way, he wrote an instructional manual how to stay lost in one’s thinking mind through writing.

Notice what you did there. . .

One option might be to finish the degree, yet substantially pull back and start transitioning to LP. Do just enough to finish the degree in good standing. And investing more time and effort into developing LP. The degree might come in handy some time in the future.

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Thanks. Ironically, only about 10% of students resonate with me. Most students give neutral or negative reviews and some avoid taking my courses. About 5% resonate strongly. They come to my office to talk about their lives, tell me their secrets and release ghosts from their closets. They are like groupies that take every class they can with me. They give me gifts, send me cards and ask to go out to lunch with me. Yet on the other extreme, about 5% of students avoid me like the plague.

I like how he describes his process of writing at 17min. He spent 3 hours a day for 15 years writing one of his books and describes his arduous process.

Just a few thoughts about different forms of intuition. A few points talked about the which direction to take in life or how to best do something. There is also a form of intuition of a knowing, that isn’t personal. I know a Reiki woman that is really good at picking up on “information” on others. She can intuit things about people’s past or their blockages. I’ve had a crude sense of this at times, yet I’m not refined at all. I also knew a woman who could intuite want aI was about to say. She had never experienced anything like it and it kinda freaked her out. Occasionally she would ask “didn’t you just say that a few seconds ago?”. There is also the intuition of spontaneity and flowing in the moment. I went on a date with a gal to a museum and for about four hours we were on the same wavelength. It was as if we already knew each other or like we were two pieces of the same whole flowing together. There was no calculating, strategizing or analysis. Nothing like “I wonder if she likes me. Maybe I should do this. Was she just flirting with me?” None of that stuff. Just talking, moving, flirting, innuendos, smiles, eye contacts, energy flows. It was like intuition was running the show and she later said the experience was the same for her. Yet it was all in the moment, only in that moment. Nothing outside the moment like “We go good together. Maybe we are twin flames. We might be good for a relationship”. . . .Ironically, we were not good for each other. In turns out that she was married and had major issues. I had no idea, until the ex tracked me down and calling me with threats. That was the end of that. Yet for those 4 magical hours, intuition flowed and ran the show.

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I need to tread carefully. Students in the U.S. are now highly conditioned by social media, entertainment and what is practical in their life. In high school, they are fed facts to memorize and simply study for exams. Most students cannot maintain attention for more than 20min and cannot read 10 pages of text continuously. That is really hard to break through. I need to present it in a certain way. One example: I teach freshman students the scientific method, open-mindedness and direct experience by creating experiments that test intention, intuition and ESP. I have students pair up and do Zenner cards together. There are five cards of different shapes: One student chooses a card and tries to transmit the image to the other student telepathically. There are all sorts of ways they can try. The other student tries to get in touch with their intuition and guesses what the card is. They each do 20 trials. We then do statistical analyses to see if anyone pair showed statistical significance. We look at mean, standard deviation, Chi-square tests, ANOVA. There are various ways to analyze the data. We then talk about being open-minded and how to design experiments that fairly test - without any pre-conceived assumptions. In the experimental design, we also want to leave space for phenomena to enter that we might not have hypothesized. As an example of a closed-minded scientist I say: Imagine a scientist who believes this is all “woo woo” bullshit and he goes into it with the mindset of proving it’s “woo woo” bullshit. He designs the experiment such that there are two strangers separated by a wall. . . Yet is this design fair for what we are investigating? We decided that wasn’t good design because it was eliminating channels of potential transmittance. On the other side, two students may give each other cues. One student may say “I wonder if it’s the circle”. The other student’s may open their eyes wide and subconsciously reveal the card. The student then says “I’m guessing circle”. . . We decided as a class that this wasn’t fair because it doesn’t count as ESP, so we had a rule that a student could not verbally talk out the process, yet they could stare at each other no verbally. As well, what do we count as a “positive”? One student pair suggested we re-design the experiment. She was trying to imagine her partner’s card. She envisioned her partner in nature laying by a river, so she guessed the water card. I was actually the star card. Her partner said “I was trying to transmit it to you by imagining I was laying in nature staring at the stars”. The students were like “Hey, it isn’t fair to count this as a complete miss!! We were communicating telepathically these images of nature. Isn’t that what we are turkey testing for?”. I agreed. We decided that an open-minded scientist we re-do the experiment so we could include these as “partially correct”. Every time I’ve done this there is always at least one pair that does very well. Off the chart statistically significant. Then we talk about reproducibility and how we can do that fairly. Perhaps one reason they did well was because it was a spontaneous, relaxed, fun environment. Could they score well if we demanded that they prove they have ESP in a controlled laboratory? A very serious environment with cameras to prove they aren’t cheating. This might seem rationale, yet it also throws off the energetics. Perhaps there was legit ESP, yet only with that one person in that one environment. And sometimes a student transmits well, yet cannot receive. And when we shuffle partners, the dynamics change. Some students that scored high with one person, did horribly with another. Then I direct their attention to direct experience - notice how you were on the same wavelength with one student - yet not another. We also talk about chemistry with different people and resonance. Students are like “yea, I was feeling on the same wavelength with her, yet not with him”. What might be some factors that effect our ability? . . . For those that scored close to significant, could we improve our abilities with practice? What if we spent a year training with a master? Students absolutely love this class and expand a lot. It opens their mind about science and how we can integrate and expand science. And I can get away with it in my science department. We are using the scientific method and statistical analyses. With the “woo woo” content, I just have to use some keywords like”innovative pedagogy”, “hands-on” and “engaging”.

At a liberal arts college in the Midwest, USA.

I suppose there is some value in Orange-level debates, it just seems very inefficient to me. Yet most minds are oriented toward perceiving everything as two opposites and the mind becomes attached and identified to one position and wants to defend that position. Look at the debate between Vaush and Tim Poole. How much did either expand? I’d estimate Tim expanded by perhaps 0.000001%. That is inefficient to me. In the same amount of time, I experienced 1,000x that expansion within a community in an Ayahuasca retreat. There are very different communication dynamics. Competition can have value, yet is can also be a major deterrent to progress. Yet evolution is a gradual process with competition as a fundamental feature. Perhaps that will change in the future. Yet that’s how it is now. The vast majority to the world is Tier 1 in which competition and ego defense are prevalent.

Curiosity, openness and willingness are super important in growth. Ime, it’s not very productive to engage in a mind that is 0-3 on these features and is oriented toward proving their Ecuador map is South America. Others may have more patience with engaging with that mindset, yet I’ve found it’s nearly always counter-productive. There is also a group aspect. If during a developmental biology class I engage with a student that wants to argue that a tiny human homunculus lives in each sperm, it is not fair to the serious students in class that actually want to learn. I would much rather teach a small group of 20 students that are serious about learning over 1,000 students that don’t want to learn, that want to argue about petty BS. It depends where/what that “somewhere” is. Hanging out with drunkards that are vomiting is a “somewhere”, yet a somewhere I don’t care to be. I didn’t say debate yielded no progress, I said it is very inefficient. Debate is like crawling up a mountain on one’s belly. Yes, there is progress, yet it is extremely inefficient. Once someone learns how to walk or take a helicopter, belly crawling loses its appeal. I’m not in humanities. I teach/research, developmental biology, genetics, neuroscience and cell/molecular biology. Yet I’m not a traditional Orange-level scientist. I’m highly integrative and include psychology, sociology, mysticism, ethics etc into my science courses. These are just my experiences, observations and impressions - and what happens to be appearing now. I’m not saying it’s an objective truth that I’m uniquely privy to.

Self love and curiosity come to mind. I imagine it depends on the person. My main challenge has been intellect-dominate. As well, I would say it can be context dependent. Ime, intuition is timeless, post-rational and transpersonal. I like to integrate this with intellect. In a pure form, intuition can be very impractical at the personal level because it is transpersonal. I guess it could be used as a form of wisdom to guide the human being, yet Ime it doesn’t strategize/plan in the context of personal goals or wellness. I see it sorta like dreams. My dreams are very ungrounded. They are creative appearances. These dreams are not motivated to figure out how to pay my bills or advance my career. Although they can give insight into some personal dynamic. My intellect could co-operate with dreams as if they are on the same team. Yet my mind pattern is that the intellect generally wants to control the narrative and show. It doesn’t like to share the stage.

In my view, it depends on orientation. If someone was contracted within a small map and realized they were missing something and were curious about exploring that, then I can see that as being potentially enriching as it could show the process of expansion. People could see the process of the mind realizing “Omigosh! What is that? That’s a thing called ‘Brazil’? I was misunderstanding what Brazil was! I thought Brazil was a type of sandwich in Ecuador. Wow, that’s amazing. What else is on this larger map?”. Yet if the mind’s orientation is to debate, argue and defend it’s small map of misunderstanding that Ecuador is South America - I don’t see it as enriching. Ime, it’s a huge distraction in which the mind defends it’s position and it re-enforces one’s trap in a contracted view. I don’t think many people are aware of how much space there is between these conscious levels. In the context of SD, there is massive space between Tier 1 and Tier 2. It would be like a teacher wanting to teach Calculus and someone arguing that Calculus is a type of coffee that dogs like to drink. That is not an enriching place for someone serious about teaching calculus or students serious about learning calculus. In my view, Adeptus is contracting within a small, personal-based map and is misinterpreting Trans-personal. He could probably do well within a small, personal map - just as someone contracted within a small map of Ecuador can do fine within that map of Ecuador. The problem is misinterpreting bigger picture by wearing a small picture lens. Imo, this is what adeptus is doing, and that causes distortions. Yet rather than taking out the small lens - he seems to assume his small lens interpretations are correct in a bigger picture he cannot see (because he is unwilling to take out his small lens). That’s just my take from watching a few of his videos. Debates are incredibly inefficient and crude. You guys aren’t seeing the massive developmental space between Tier 1 and 2. At higher conscious levels, debating with someone oriented to argue his position is like trying to learn a foreign language from a guy that is drunk and vomiting.

I wouldn’t say it wrong per se. I’m more curious about the impact on the human mind and body. Quite often, intuition, emotions and intellect are in conflict with each other, rather than being in harmony and co-operating with each other. For example, someone may repress intuition and emotions and get trapped in thinking. I remember dating a gal and had the intuition that something wasn’t right. That I shouldn’t be pursuing this. Yet the thinking mind kept entering and repressed intuition and emotions. It creaTed stories like “She is ok. I’m just feeling a bit insecure. Perhaps some fear of rejection. It’ll be ok. She is good for me”. Over and over again for months, my intuition and emotions kept telling me this isn’t right - yet my thinking mind kept rationalizing to continue dating her. After a few months, I started getting physical pains. Repressed intuition and emotions were now trying to get my attention through pain in my gut. Yet my thinking mind kept rationalizing “Oh, it’s just some stress from work”, or “I’ve been eating too many acidic foods”. This continued for a full year until I got some space. I went to an Ayahuasca retreat in Peru and my thinking mind was shut off for an entire ceremony. My intuition and emotions could clearly communicate what was going on without the interference of my thinking mind. It was very humbling to my intellect and when the humbled intellect return it said “Oops, sorry ‘bout that. Let’s work together to get through this”. The humbled intellect had a key role to play. Yet now it wasn’t running the whole show. The intellect was just one member of the band and willing to work with other band members in the concert within my mind-body. There is immense wisdom in intuition, emotions, empathy - as well as intellect. Yet the thinking mind often acts like a bully and creates all sorts of internal conflicts.