Carl-Richard

Bro, are you not reading anything I'm writing? It's not primarily about longevity. It's about living the best life; here, now.

"Vibes" is not a very substantive thing. I think most of the hate Bryan gets is just due to social outrage, not really anything of substance. People see what they think is unusual behavior and react negatively to it. It's not primarily about life extension. He believes this is living the good life. He says he has never felt better on a physical and mental level. Health isn't only about long-term outcomes. It has real impact on your immediate experience of life. To my knowledge, he has always underscored the fact that Blueprint is an individual project where there isn't necessarily an universal solution for anything. It's simply a method of repeatedly testing your biomarkers and tweaking your behavior accordingly. What is healthy for one person isn't necessarily healthy for another. In one sense, it's much smarter than a scientific process of trying to establish some protocol that generalizes to a lot of people. In fact, this might be why a high number of scientific studies in this domain actually fail to replicate: maybe a lot of human behavior is intrinsically irreducible. It doesn't matter as long as the biomarkers are good. And yes, he is doing an experiment, and he wants you to do the same. Again, health has an immediate aspect and a long-term aspect. The immediate aspect is highly attractive on its own. I would still go the gym even if it didn't impact my longevity. Why not both? Leo is allegedly highly developed but also suffers from chronic health problems. I think he would agree that both are essential for living a good life.

I'm somehow reminded of this picture: (maybe it's the paracetamol)

@Razard86 Instead of being so cutting, try a new strategy. Consciously causing repeated emotional distress to someone at this level is less a sign that you're doing something right, more a sign that you're OK with abuse.

If you want a fairly objective statement: anything that targets certain serotonin sub-receptors (particularly 1A, 2A, 2C) would be considered a "classical psychedelic". "A psychedelic effect" is very subjective. For me, even caffeine is psychedelic.

It's not any less healthy than being "obsessed" about say spirituality or psychedelics. How do you identify what is an "obsession" and distinguish it from "passion"? I think people have this wrong idea that doing an elaborate 3-hour routine every day is necessarily a source of stress. It's not. It's the phase of adaptation that can be stressful. Once you're adapted, it's not stressful at all, or at least not what he is doing (taking a few pills, eating some delicious food, and working out for an hour every day). I'm of course not generalizing to all behavior, say David Goggins -type stuff (in a way, he is constantly pushing the adaptive response). People underestimate how adaptable they are, and that if Bryan were to go back to his old unhealthy lifestyle, that phase of adaptation would also be stressful. The only difference is that he is currently extremely healthy while you're not.

I haven't heard about the guy, but it's interesting to see the beginning of proper Orange. Sort of related to this, I recently started reading a bit about the industrial revolution and thinking about how it all came to be (which is also relevant for understanding the birth of the modern view of the world).

The last time I smoked weed 5 years ago (and probably my last); instant ego death. Why that time and not before?: 1 year break from all drugs (peak sensitivity) Smoked it fast and a lot, wanted to not waste the (tiny) joint 6 months nofap streak (low prolactin levels) 1 year daily meditation, 1.5 hours in one sitting, some times up to 3 hours Hungover (downregulation of GABA) Empty stomach (peak ghrelin levels, low prolactin levels) Ate shit food day before; it was New Years Eve (gastrointestinal effects; gut-brain axis) No expectations, no desire to achieve anything spiritual Basically, I set myself up perfectly.

Mountain tops.

Hahaha, what a coincidence, but I'm going to do the exact same thing right now (I love pasta bolognese).

Then collapse "bias" and "non-bias" too. There is no way to point out bias without being biased yourself, so you might as well just be biased without pointing it out and making an infinite recursion of finger pointing out of it.

Are there explicit quality and length criteria or do you just go based on feeling?

Bruh. The true test is obviously to be born there

Yes, yes there is.

When you're in heightened states of consciousness, mundane things like repeating numbers might take on more significance or salience. That doesn't necessarily mean you're unravelling some grand plan that God has built around your life. Something being salient doesn't necessarily mean it's particularly meaningful in the grander scheme of things. Pain is highly salient, but it doesn't really have a higher meaning behind it just for that reason. If something is truly meaningful, the meaning pops out at you. If you have to go to great lengths to maybe find some possible meaning, it's less likely to be actually meaningful.

I'm going to do a lot of sprints leading up to this Christmas. I'm going to become a superhuman, trust me >:) I'll try your incline walking if it doesn't work out

It's true that you can't know what psychedelics are before you have tried them. But does that mean you should recommend them? Two different questions.

Ugh, I worded myself wrong. I meant you can't possibly meet people from all cultures in your country.

I stumbled across this clip after a long session of reading neuroscience, and it felt like I had entered a different dimension. Literal Stone Age individuals.

If you're in college, befriend international college students, or even just talk to your professors if they're from different cultures. There is a difference between learning facts about a culture and actually interacting with someone from that culture. There are subtle nuances about how people communicate, react to things, tolerate things, etc., that you can only get by interacting with them. Of course, you can't possibly meet people from all cultures in your country, but if you want to choose depth over breadth, that's the way (if not visiting the cultures yourself).

Lift some heavy ass weight. And I mean really heavy (within reason; safety first).

It sounds dismissive, but all of this sounds like (mostly) a psychosomatic thing to me. That is just my feeling, but it's also because you're spinning these very charged narratives about very normal things like eating meat or fapping (which I used to do myself by the way, particularly with meat consumption and the effects of fapping). When you get very obsessed about tiny changes in your mood or bodily sensations, and if you're prone to neurotic thinking, you can magnify the "problems" 10x. That said, I'm not saying you should stop doing whatever you think is best for yourself. It's just something to become aware of.

Gotta make your mind breathe sometimes

For example meditation, hanging around spiritual teachers, reading spiritual texts, etc. Many things appear sudden when looked in isolation from a larger context, but by closer inspection, it all looks highly interconnected. Just because something is complex doesn't mean that nothing is correlated with anything. The problem with pinpointing the exact causes of enlightenment is more a problem of determining exactly when it happens than what causes it. For example, you don't exactly know when a burning building is going to collapse, but given enough time, it becomes increasingly likely that it will collapse. And when it collapses, you can be pretty sure that it was the fire that caused it to collapse. There are many ways to stoke the fire of enlightenment, and even though the realization might appear sudden, there are many things that likely feed into it. I don't think it's the person that awakens, so I don't see what is so holy or sacred about the person. Individualistic spirituality is a highly deceptive Westernized notion of spirituality (deceptive in the sense that it's easy to conflate the realization itself with the means of realization). Just because the realization is beyond "people" quite generally, doesn't mean that the methods should be. The realization is also beyond the person, not just people. No method is sacred, only the sacred is.

You are not separate from other people. And I'm not being facetious by referring to non-duality again. I mean in a systems theory kind of sense (e.g., your mind is very much a product of your environment). Also, it's not the person that is supposed to grasp anything (maybe you're using "person" in a broader sense). Grasping will happen irrespective of a person or people. Still, there are external indicators of whether grasping is likely to occur or not, and that can be related to the person or people surrounding that person. But then again, there is nothing special about the person (singular) in this case. On the contrary (and I'll make the point again): external indicators are much more likely to occur in a place with many people. And that is why spiritual people gravitate towards other spiritual people. You can't help but unite with other people in the search for existential union.