Carl-Richard

No :/ I irradiated them epiclothaneously with a stainless metal alloy device containing sub-room temperature liquid dihydrogenmonoxide. Tasty.

I did a back-to-back sauna session recently. Entirely stripped of electrolytes.

Doesn't matter if USA invades or threatens to invade your country. I live in Norway, next to Denmark. Denmark owns Greenland. Greenland is situated in a similar territory to Svalbard, which is owned by Norway.

One of the realest questions you can ask is "where were you before you were born?", and the answer is not "in a past life" but in Infinity. Although now I start questioning that answer, considering you could be floating in a subtle body somewhere, watching your moma's belly from above, and the crib that you will inhabit for the next few years.

When you ask people about reincarnation and how they know they have reincarnated, they will answer "I remember living at that place and that time". It's a thought about the past, of themselves seemingly living in the past. Therefore, the most epistemically parsimonious position is that reincarnation is simply when you can recall thoughts about what seems like yourself from a different life. Now, can you ask a sardine to recall and produce thoughts about any past lives? Perhaps not, but maybe you could ask a human about their past life as a sardine. You can be agnostic about the metaphysical implications of past life claims without denying that the people may have legitimate 1st person experiences of memories of what seems like past lives. You can say it's not "them" in a past life but simply "a" past life they recalled. But then there are extraordinary past life claims that trace lives chronologically back thousands of years, no mentioning of random time jumps or somehow multiple lives from the same time. It would then be a better explanation that there is a kind of a metaphysical structure there, like a subtle body, persisting through biological death. And this is already the case: your body is not the same body as 7 years ago. All the cells have been replaced, through controlled or circumstantial cell death, yet your experience persist, continuously through every cell death, from your first memories to today. When you're remembering your childhood as an adult, you're recalling memories from a different body. "But the overall structure is the same, it's the same creature, just gradually changing". Yes, there seems to be a kind of a "subtle" element that persists despite gradual biological change. And yes, it's just a funny example of how things persist despite biological change. Perhaps something persists despite complete biological structural annihilation as well.

You have a fixation on non-pointing.

Reincarnation happens every moment you think a self-referential thought ("I/me/my" thoughts). Enlightenment eliminates self-referential thoughts. If the thoughts are eliminated, the string of thoughts preceding it are broken. What is reincarnation? A string of self-referential thoughts extending across lifetimes.

Bruhhh he said they were materialists, Essentia Foundation is explicitly an organization meant for spreading idealism. It's probably DemystifySci Podcast.

I can pinpoint it and you can too if you're not suppressing your gut response, but it's part of what makes Leo Leo and it probably won't change (and in some cases, maybe it shouldn't).

He did say some impactful things as well, but like with all teachings, they are often misunderstood.

@MuadDib Yup. The disclaimer is already a vibe killer (it already was for the Curt Jaimungal appearance). It is highly unusual (nobody does a 4-minute pre-written disclaimer before an interview) and creates a rift between the viewer and the interviewee. The disclaimer can be revealed step-wise for each question when required. In an interview you're supposed to reveal information in a sequential fashion in the rhythm with the questions. Or else you break with the format and it comes off as forced and unnatural. If it's really necessary, I would just give a one-sentence disclaimer at the top of your head before you begin answering the first question, like "just as a quick disclaimer: we're going to use a few words today that might be loaded for some people, like God, Absolute Truth, but if you keep an open mind, you will maybe still appreciate what I have to say". And perhaps "also, questioning reality might be destabilizing for some people so be aware of this when deciding whether to watch the video or not".

I've recently tried many supplements, which is popular these days (Bryan Johnson, Dr. Rhonda Patrick, Andrew Huberman, etc.). Before, I had an aversion to B-vitamin supplements because they made me feel too wired, but I decided to still try them in the form of a multivitamin. I also added copious amounts of zinc, boron and vitamin D (and K2, magnesium, calcium, fish oil). Then after finishing my degree, I noticed I was a bit restless even though I had little reason to be. So I decided to drop the multivitamin to see if indeed it was the B-vitamins. The restlessness dropped noticeably and quite immediately. Then when I try meditating I still find there is some lingering restlessness there. Maybe it's the zinc supplement (which I over time decided to double the dose of, because it gave me more energy). Also, when I started the boron supplement, I went straight to two pills (6 mg) without starting with one and then deciding whether I should taper up (or drop it). I suspect it could be making me feel a certain way (I have for example had strong reactions to too much Vitamin E, probably due to its anti-oxidant/anti-inflammatory activity, and boron has anti-inflammatory activity). If I still feel too wired or weird, I will maybe start tapering down vitamin D (which is a bit of a tough nut because I've done it before; but then I also took smaller doses; and I did not respond positively).

"Normal" wheat bread gives me brain fog. By chance, I discovered that spelt bread does not give me brain fog to any similar extent, so I started eating it instead. But an explanation for why always puzzled me; explanations like higher fructan content in wheat did not seem satisfying. I always knew deep inside it had to be something with selective breeding for millennia, and lo and behold: It also explains why I can eat pasta with fewer problems, because it uses durum wheat and not the semi-dwarf wheat variety, and likely the cooking process (boiling) removes or deactivates some of the anti-nutrients.

The way you open the link and it just stares at you covering the entire screen, full on jumpscare 😂😂😂😂

DemystifySci?

What dose? And no co-factors? (Not completely co-signing everything this guy says before I do my own research but anyways):

My friend tripped and said he turned into a literal window. And he had the strong sense that "today is the day windows are to be sold". It's sort of the drug 70s anti-drug commercials wanted you to believe LSD is. There are some wild videos on YouTube of Salvia trips gone let's say not so good. It really scrambles your entire reality. And then you of course have Eric, my look-alike, doing Eric stuff:

Correct. It is as simple as that. Solipsists around these parts tend to take the witnessing of objects as absolute, while the witnessing of objects is in fact relative. They will maybe protest this characterization and vaguely proclaim "this is everything that exists" but then also add a bunch of other statements after that (e.g. "if your grandma is not in your field of vision, she doesn't exist) that implies that only a certain configuration of objects exist and anything outside that configuration cannot be the case. "But my visual field is not an object". Well, objects are defined by exclusion (or distinction), and if your visual field can exclude or be distinct from your grandma, it's an object.

Solipsism around these parts are very concerned about denying the existence of certain spatio temporal entities (hidden forms and objects), while clinging to other spatio temporal entities as ontological primitives ("currently visible" forms and objects), and calling these primitives absolute, seemingly for no coherent reason. But there too, the answer is to simply dissolve any primitive that is not limitless.

Why?

One time at my old gym in another town, I was walking over this glass bridge where you can see down to the first floor through the floor. And I spotted this absolute heterosexual visual black hole (hot female) and the song said exactly at that moment "do not look down, do not look down" (like in an extremely audible way, as it was the chorus). I will never forget that.

You can be an outlier not captured by the data. That's the role of body signals to identify (but one has to of course distinguish between simply tasting with the mouth and tasting with the body; distinguishing between hedonic and eudaimonic signals). And that's of course also not an excuse to not experiment with the more meta-analytically rigorous options.

I listened to a song once when I was in the most stressful state of my life many years ago, lying, stealing, doing drugs, etc. I think the song was "Low Life" by Death or something (or one of the other Death songs where he sings about "lies"). I felt like the song was about me, like every lyric was describing me exactly, talking to me, about me, broadcasting to me in real time. Thing is, I was also a bit psychotic in that state, things were starting to become quite wonky. I specifically thought in that state "oh god, I'm turning into the guy who believes the radio is talking to him". That said, an expanded sense of identity need not be pathological. But it might be concominant with pathology, so it can be a sign to watch out for. But maybe more related to your question, almost a year ago, I was putting up posters in the city advertising the study for my MSc. This lady comes up to me, starts talking to me about what is on the poster (which said "do you have smartphone and negative thoughts? Join a study at _"). She was like "smartphone? I've not had a smartphone since forever". She really started rambling a lot, but not incoherently. I asked about how she manages to pay for shit without the mobile app for entering your bank ID in various places, and she had some elaborate answer which I won't bore you with, then she starts talking about how she has decided over time to live a more simpler life, not care too much about friends, simply taking time for herself. And then as her talking came to a conclusion, she sort of ended on a lesson (which I can't quite remember, but I think it was about not working yourself to death or something), and she was like "remember that" with a sense of passion and sincerity in her eyes. The entire interaction felt like she was either a bit cuckoo or tapped into presence, and it felt like she was sent there in a weird way, like as if this interaction was orchestrated. And of course, I spent that entire year working myself to death and I gained a noticeable amount of grey hairs.

It might attenuate the dysphoria but it might also attenuate the trip (unsure).

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