Carl-Richard

That's the most impotent "conspiracy theory" I've ever heard. It's like calling yourself a rapist for thinking about sleeping with the teacher for 1 second.

Sure. The thing is just I can explain your experience too in a way that is consistent with the "narrowing" frame. That doesn't mean you yourself should/would prefer using that frame, because ironically, you're fixated on the mind-expanding aspects (or they're more relevant for you, and you're fixated on explaining your own experience, not other people's).

Then how do you explain why weed often makes people emotionally numb or indifferent? Or why it screws with their short-term memory and also parts of long-term memory? Or why the endocannabinoid system is intimately involved in habit formation and maintenance?

It's like you're not even reading what I'm writing. But that's ok. Had any weed lately? 😂

If you actually inquire into the effects weed has on your mind as you're on it and in the ways I mentioned, I don't think you would disagree with what I said after that. If you go into expanded states, you are narrowed out from narrow states (e.g. negative emotion or mind-racing obsession), get it? This is not just a word game: it explains why sometimes or in some ways you experience a seeming narrowing and sometimes you don't. If you get locked out from your Default Mode Network or long-term memories or your short-term memory goes to complete shit, that's a narrowing, even if it leads to an expanded sense of awareness in another sense. "I feel at one with everything" can still be narrowing if you also can't remember your name. "Then aren't other psychedelics also about narrowing?". Not necessarily as much, because you don't see people on psychedelics as much lying on the couch eating cheetos every hour of the day (habitual narrowing) or indeed getting addicted to it and having to puff it everyday. The incredibly tricky part of weed addiction is that you can get fixated on weed itself, and it gets exacerbated by the cognitively fixating effects of weed, which creates an evil reinforcing loop.

I've been in both camps: using weed everyday like a crutch and using weed once and then having a full blown ego death experience. Weed is good at magnifying whatever is there (other psychedelics are too but in their own way, and they're perhaps more rude sometimes pulling the rug from under you). If you're a manic guy stuck in his mind, weed will magnify that. If you're a couch potato stuck in your couch, weed will magnify that. If you're a non-dual or psychedelically expanded guy, weed will magnify that. What weed seems to do is it narrows your cognitive lightcone. Your access to memories becomes less wide ("dissociation"), your focus becomes less fluctuating (unless you are in a state of paranoia or mania, which weed will magnify by focusing in on that paranoia or mania). It is associated with the neurochemical system of habit, which is by definition a narrowing of cognition. So whatever is there, or whatever you focus on, or whatever habit you have, weed will focus in on that. And as for the emotionally numbing effect of weed: the way negative emotions work is they are supposed to break habit, interrupt usual processing and make you shift your focus. "Look here, danger — fear, move, retreat", "look here, a problem — rumination, access memory storage", "look, uncertainty — anxiety, predict future scenarios", "look, an obstacle — engage anger, focus on obstacle and eliminate it". Weed just makes you like "whatever man". Most of these things receive a general dampening, unless of course you get focused/fixated (obsessed) on any one of them.

Have a goal that never gets fulfilled.

It's like my friend said: you become a bit like a grandma.

Ego grasping for what it thinks is the ultimate until it dies.

AI allows for laziness because it's so powerful, but you can use AI in a not lazy way. And imagine how powerful that makes you.

If I were to point out corruption, I would never shut up.

Yeah. He talked about self-realization (which to me seems like death) like it was just another experience.

I think if we start bringing back the Stages of Enlightenment models to the forum, these problems of solipsism won't arise, because 1. they don't contain solipsism, and 2. it's harder to deceive yourself (but not impossible) about the stages (especially the Shakti-Shiva progression models, i.e. self-realization, God consciousness, Unity Consciousness). It's harder to deceive yourself about concrete things like presence of shakti in the body or in the spine. And it's harder to get lost in conceptual stories when the models are only reliant on the interplay between shakti (dynamic energy) and shiva (pure being).

I'm re-watching his first interview and I get shakti activating too (I always did but it's still there). And it's such a smooth and flowing interview because Rick Archer is also self-realized so two self-realized people talking to each other is like such a resonance and Rick knows exactly how to add on something Jan says. Gem of the internet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpellation You said phantaclesis is: Give me one example of phantaclesis which is not described by interpellation. Maybe the difference is in style or tone: phantaclesis could perhaps be described more for cults, while interpellation is more about culture in general. Cults are more "enticing" and "alluring", they call on you, they reel you in, while culture is more like the environment you just exist in and passively soak in.

Here is like the best examples I could find of each extreme of the spectrum: Fact-based: Narrative-based: List 25 is like "here is a fact, and here is a fact, and here is fact, what you do with them is up to you". Meanwhile Spirit Science is like, well, it speaks for itself.

Neodingus 🤪

I'm saying economics is epistemically more aware than e.g. physics, similar to psychology, for the reasons I listed. Maybe you didn't catch the context of my earlier comments. Psychology is also "barely" a science for its own reasons. That doesn't mean I think economics or psychology are crap.

Neologitis. a) Trying very hard to come up with a new word (and usually failing, or rather there was already another established word for the same concept). b) constantly coming up with new words. You guys are a), Eric Weinstein is b). https://theportal.wiki/wiki/Ericisms Here's an excerpt of words starting with A (just A, there are many more letters):

Interpellation.

Lol. What was in the letter?

I would guess some heart problems considering he had an operative scar in his chest for a while. He seemed to be very "truth absolutist" in the sense he didn't seem to care much about physical health. The famous Pepsi meme I was a bit sad when I heard he died because I wanted to maybe meet him in person one day (I once met him in a dream and it was quite something).

So yes, another social science. Economics is also barely considered a science. Like it's basically impossible to predict things in economics. If that wasn't the case, everybody would be rich (and nobody would be). It seems like the more purely mechanistic and "basic" the field becomes (i.e. physics, chemistry, biology), the more epistemically naive it becomes. The thing about those fields is they can point to very tangible ways which their contributions work (technology, accuracy of measurements and experiments down to 9th or so decimal point, etc.) and they think of themselves as getting at the very fundamentals of those things. So they have a lot of feelings of self-efficacy, self-importance and self-confidence and thus hubris and become epistemically naive. Coupled with the fact that they align very squarely with just one epistemic mode (objective, external), they don't have to question their underlying assumptions much (unlike psychology or social science in general: "which model or research paradigm do we want to approach this question with?"). And when these assumptions also underlie the cultural metaphysical status quo (mechanistic, materialist, ironically Newtonian), that's even less of a reason to question them.

He is specifically known to do that. RIP.

Letting go is what Enlightenment is about. Having crazy experiences is what psychedelics are about. Time to graduate to Enlightenment.