Carl-Richard

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I always wanted to try pregabaline recreationally in my stoner days but never got to. How would you describe the effects?

From that perspective, sex with protection is a deviation.

Some of it. I don't really practice actively at the moment.

I don't usually, but if I have some and I'm planning to eat some fruit, I will most likely eat them.

@undeather When I don't eat enough carbs, I feel like it literally lowers my IQ, so this is not so far off actually

Did the thoughts have an "I/me/my" quality to them?

Meditation for me is literally just to sit and close my eyes.

I don't think these people call themselves geniuses, nor do they not recognize the geniuses of history. So what is disrespectful here according to you is me calling Daniel a genius but not mentioning every other possible example of a genius?

And then I can flip it on the head and say that every single significant non-dual experience I've had, the circumstances surrounding it was always indicative. Even the time I awoke on an airplane, or during an university lecture, or during my very first proper meditation session (i.e. situations that seemed like they happened out of the blue), I can always point to some set of factors that definitely had a positive contribution (and significant ones at that). These factors can be practiced and replicated across different individuals, times and situations, and meanwhile I agree that the realization itself always has an element of spontaneity to it, that doesn't mean the fire doesn't weaken the building. Besides, "being open" or "wanting to know your true nature" is a certain relative behavior that can also be indicative, and it's likewise not the same as the realization itself. If you want to be truly amethodical and "direct", being closed and not wanting to know your true nature should be equally as conducive to the realization, something which I've actually confirmed myself by the way. I was not at all consciously focused on "knowing my true nature" (which is just an idea in your mind by the way) in any of the aforementioned awakenings. They were simply cases of the right things coming together at the right time. There was no personal investment in the process that was unfolding. Additionally, I've been vocal about how the realization has been intruding on me despite me being actively resistant to it, further disproving the absolute role of "openness" in awakening. So there doesn't seem to be just one factor that you can reduce the realization to, and any such factor is not the realization itself. In summary: what you present as the sole factor is firstly not direct, and secondly one of many factors. Again, one in a hundred million saints.

This is what Blueprint is really about: 1:35:21 - 1:40:42

@LSD-Rumi Why are you acting like I didn't address your points one by one? Respond to my points.

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