Posts made by psi

@yerrag in Steiner's time, all they knew was the cactus. Nowadays there's 100 documented plants readily available using the Internet. After you're done listening to his lectures, you can purchase the plants, or even find them locally. You can then have a similar experience as those occult circles did 100 years ago. My theory is that the cactus was only available in that scene back then, and that's why Steiner was spending time socializing with those folks.

Aldous Huxley wrote the doors of perception which is similar message to knowledge of the spirit realms. Both were inspired by the cactus.

@yerrag I miss inspiration because most people are too traumatized and tired to exit the culture. I should be thankful that it's possible at all to discuss this topic, as you'll be seen as a total crank by the masses. Obsession with the spirit realm and psychedelics didn't work after decades. Joe Rogan still believes that sugar is bad, DMT doesn't convey sufficient guidance. Steiner schools are very rare after 100 years. There are countless other hoaxes less important than nutrition.

Now you saw behind the curtain, what's next?

As for spiritual experiences, mine were very interesting. In one I completely lost awareness of time and body and lived in a world of rapid moving lights with its own logic and culture. Becoming human again felt disorienting at first, but the standard vibrations eventually cemented. And now I'm happier to be in the physical world as a human.

If you're eager to explore the spirit realms, the digital infrastructure is very useful

@yerrag sure it exists. Some call ayahuasca / DMT the door to it. Steiner used mescaline iirc. Those are materials to see the spiritual realms. Not my thing personally, it gets old pretty quickly and it's too chaotic. Meditation can get you there too, but success rate is low.

@yerrag I mentioned him because I brought up Steiner schools previously. I simply don't like imagining spirit realms. I can also imagine having wings and flying that way, or I can get an airplane ticket. Musk imagines going to Mars, but can't implement it. You can't show me your spirit realms. All you can do is teach me how to imagine them and be impressed.

Re: Using Marker Degradation to Synthesize Progesterone from Mexican Yams

@yerrag I'm already in captivity called civilization. You're gonna give me food and shelter and I get to listen to a podcast? What's the catch? Haha

I don't understand what you mean by active field. I'm more interested in how the material substance affects the mind and spirit. Hormones are a great example of that. Why make a big distinction between physical and spiritual when the intersection of them is the real deal. To me, obsessing over the divine or non material is similar dogmatism as digital tech censorship.

@ThinPicking if a process exists it is sustainable. Industrial calculation driven mindset worships long term planning, but it never works in practice.

I was really mindblown by the Internet media for years. Free movies from the pirate bay and memes on imageboards, calling friends on Skype, checking cool links, small blogs where you could post your address and no one would care, YouTube in super low res with a guy next door uploading a silly joke using a shitty camera. Looking at it now, it's absolutely unimpressive, but golden age compared to what we have now: a chatbot that can't say nigger, and everyone is afraid of spying and doxxing. I watch maybe 2 movies per year now, use YT to download Peat radio shows.

My best explanation for corona and stagnation is lack of growth in the fuel supply to feed the Leviathan. But that's impossible to verify as stats like reserves and population numbers are manipulated.

I'm not going to call it a majority but sure

2/3 humans in North America are overweight or obese, metabolically ill. You mean it's too mild for big change?

I still don't find it particularly unreasonable for people to be hitting the snooze button on their alarm clocks. As long as some are getting out of bed. And more than ever are on their feet.

I don't put my effort into convincing them. They like being raped as long as they don't get killed. They actually prefer it this way. Funny thing is I talked to esoteric folk about physiology, and they just say I'm an atheist and that kinda stuff is boring. I still wanna "share"/"publish" a few things but struggle to motivate myself to make my findings more discoverable and marketable.

@yerrag I haven't read Steiner's books. They're more up to date and less dogmatic than Abrahamic literature. Careful with false dichotomies. Materialism and reductionism are very useful for fixing machines, but fail miserably with living cells. Blindly opposing a mindset or a technique removes your ability to see other worlds. I am not very interested in what's divine. It's a mostly meaningless word for me. I often catch myself asking gods to help me, but realize how lame it is to be a beggar, so I just ask for a sign when I'm in a state of panic and severe stress. Sometimes the response is undeniable and swift (I saw weird spooky lights on a hike, but it turned out to be just the moon obstructed by vegetation). I thought I was gonna see aliens but the rigid forces of reason returned me back into the matrix. Ultimately the willpower, openness to accept good messages will machete a path through the jungle.

Air mattress. Probably less work than a body bag. Comes with an intake valve too.

It's probably more about blue light than RF. Try no screens after it gets dark. Download some podcast. If you're worried about RF too, turn off wifi and put your phone in airplane mode before you go to sleep. Some also buy a metal mosquito net for their bed, but that's expensive and cumbersome.

Gerald Pollack found out that a computer was enough to affect water structure in his experiments, so a lower power device like a phone could be better as long as it's in airplane mode.

KMUD episode about it was too short. Let's extend the list.

Mentioned in the episode:
Glutamate glue.
Carrageen, agar agar, gum arabic.
Ascorbic and citric acid made using lead tanks for sulfuric acid.
Vegetarian renet.

@ThinPicking what do you mean by ether? I assume it's the over unity and cold fusion crowd. I'm quite cautious of them, though they're interesting to keep an eye on. Definitely nothing happening with Ethereum, and diethyl ether is too niche to become a meme.

Corporatists trying to consolidate their holding with a side of techno marxism. And a steiner-esque potion to disorient the bullshit detector.

Aren't they supposed to have all the power they need going back a whole century or maybe all civilization timeframe? I don't see how more bullshit will prevent anyone from not believing in bullshit.

Steiner and secret society crowd are right about truth. Peat and PUFA is a great example. 50 years of explaining, and most are still unaware. We don't need to be lame and wear stupid robes though to find out the info. The secret is just buried by industrial amounts of corporate gospel. Usually people split into 2 camps, one is bootlicking, the other chooses a different type of dogma. Flat earth vs NASA, vegans vs carnivore, techno Marxist vs preppers.

It's quite possible the catastrophic events already happened.

The vast majority of humans are systemically ill. Not an event, slow crawl. In the past, the peasants would revolt sometimes. Revolting is more dangerous (and more fun) than simply not participating.

I asked about 50 years also because of Thiel, Tyler Cowen, George Hotz, Rory Sutherland from the tech cult raising concerns about stagnation. Similar timeframe compared to PUFA.

@ThinPicking thank you too. I was a bit moody when I joined the forum, so I was afraid of immediate disenchantment, but the vibe is of a renaissance of the pre reddit era.

developmental context

I ponder if some kids will naturally get bored of digital tech and move on. Vinyl is having a revival. I also see many boomers using Apple Pay and being glued to their phones too.

'smart'phones

Most use it as a combo of a pager and a TV. I use it mostly as a reader and radio, but hard to ditch the pager part, even if most online conversations are frustratingly meaningless and toxic.

most products are useless

Yes, but with physical ones there's a possibility of turning them into something else. Fidget spinner buttplug makes a funny door knob.

@Peatful it seems like it works for you, so nothing's wrong with the standard school system.

Ironically, the most human aspect these days seems to be obsession with tech. I'm not for or against it. I find underwhelming. I want the technocrats to succeed because it means a world with scifi level miracles. We don't have that. We have some upper middle class folk who soared because they ran their gaming computer to run internet money software 15 years ago. That's not taught in schools, eh?

@wrl found a study that says BPA is cancerous in animals. Aluminised polyester is mylar? Doesn't sound much better at first glance.

The situation in the East will create higher demand for manufacturing in the US. Copying the trades of Congress members should be sufficient for basic war profiteering at the middle class level.

@Peatful I read propaganda and acquire appropriate contracts. It's rather boring like playing poker. I reject the Protestant ethic concept of doing anything for a living. It's a non-noble idea of eating without contribution/working. Artificial intelligence is not fully developed yet, so the aristocracy still needs a small number of peasants. Aristocracy in a freedom sense, not in the context of finance. I quite like the natural beauty of the US, especially the Cascades. The pariah mentality of the office cattle, not so much.

Have you considered Steiner schools? Or Ray style homestead? Why the eagerness to participate in a toxic culture? Why waste so much time listening to bozo teachers?

@wrl I have never looked at studies about BPA toxicity. I assume it's due to estrogen receptor theory.

BPA free means a different plasticizer is used like BPS. Which is similar in structure and could be even more toxic.

@Peatful what counter argument? I mostly agree with Ray here, aside from the reaction part. Isn't ludicrous to call for rejection of "digital culture" via email or internet podcast? I understand rejection of symbolic culture, but digital culture has no clear meaning just like data and information.

I prefer to hear more practical steps like minimizing exposure to video and images by displacing them with audio.

By saying that culture keeps people enslaved you imply lack of agency and willpower. So that answers my question. No radical change for another 50 years.

As for knowledge, it comes from direct experience. When devices mediate the model of the physical world, there is no knowledge acquisition. It doesn't matter if the devices are digital or analog.

@Peatful 3 questions, right?

Last 5 years felt rather predictable and incremental. I had mild hope that a critical mass would accumulate and old hoaxes will be questioned, but it hasn't happened. I don't see how things are different now aside from the title of the news cycle which went from a health crisis to an economic crisis. The vast majority is still ignorant of the hoaxes and too ignorant of physiology and industrial processes to see the deeper meaning.

Your question for Ray about education and his answer. Best is not to participate in the school system at all. Ray did it because of libraries and equipment. It is much more practical to use sci-hub and Amazon for those these days. Ray's answer is cliché and not consistent with reality of artificial intelligence, for example. People don't need to reject it at all, as it simply doesn't work. Programming is a boring endeavor and made artificially complicated by committees and corporations, as well as a system of intellectual property. The demand for IT workers is very small and most IT products are useless. The layoffs are caused by this fact not by AI. You can see how digital solutions don't solve the problems they claim to solve. The internet was supposed to be a free library, now it's a censored circlejerk. Bitcoin was supposed to be electronic cash, now it's a digital collectable. VR doesn't work because there's no movement immersion. That being said, human interaction is still valued and there's nothing stopping us from using the internet to facilitate human conversations.

I have seen that thread and shallow knee jerk reactions from some users. It provides no context for why digital culture is bad and what the alternative should be.