Wednesday, 5 July 2017
recaping some recent cryptography links
a good 'simple' explanation of block chains that if i was given the text would have taken me a minute to put up on the web, but goldman sachs have no doubt spent $10,000 to make it almost unreadable !
http://www.goldmansachs.com/our-thinking/pages/blockchain/
these funds can swing huge sums in seconds so i feel that cyrptocurrencies will be a dangerous playground with them, but money can be made !
good charlie rose interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cycaD53Ly0
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i recently had a dream where i was walking with a friend, we went to this park, and i looked up at the beautiful canopy, golden light coming down on it. I became aware of dreaming and remarked how all so real it was. My friend was shocked, but then I pointed up and flew to the sky, and a darkness encased me. I said "What is Buddha? Who am I?"
ReplyDeleteand then another dream overtook me... after the darkness fell off
and i came to understand this fact
life is just a dream within a dream... endless dreams within dreams
that's all it is
What about the great sage and the great awakening?
Delete"During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream. And yet fools think they are awake, presuming to know that they are rulers or herdsmen. How dense! You and Confucius are both dreaming, and I who say you are a dream am also a dream. Such is my tale. It will probably be called preposterous, but after ten thousand generations there may be a great sage who will be able to explain it, a trivial interval equivalent to the passage from morning to night."
The Zhuangzi mentions a logic 'beyond' the ouroboros nested dreams. You should ask Andrew. I do not see the star directly, I only see people who see the star directly:
"Within the armor is the butterfly and within the butterfly is the signal from another star." - Philip K. Dick
This "dream within a dream" business is the butterfly within, but what about the star and its signal?
For some atmosphere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfRPLbSyiSM
Hopefully your reply will motivate Andrew to bless us with a new post.
http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html
Deletegood writing , i have put it up on the latest pending poems
ReplyDeleteDo you have any studies showing adverse psychological effects of long-term psychedelic usage? Thanks.
ReplyDeletezepehr, you will need to be more specific
DeleteI do not encourage the use of any drug, legal or illegal; but I've heard "4-AcO-DMT" is not illegal (at least here in Europe it's legal) - that it is non-toxic and is theorized to be a prodrug for psilocin, as is psilocybin, which is naturally occurring in various mushrooms. It was patented January 16, 1963 by Sandoz Ltd. via Albert Hofmann (the same Hofmann that discovered LSD). Some users find that the visual distortions produced by O-acetylpsilocin more closely resemble those produced by DMT than those produced by psilocin. These differences could be possible if psilacetin is active itself and not merely as a prodrug. - So it is like somewhere between DMT/ayahuasca and psilocybin in effects. - Andrew said on Reddit once that if any psychedelic resembles the "enlightenment" experience, it could be ayahuasca/DMT. - It's best to be drug free but from my researches I think this "4-AcO-DMT" would be my choice IF I had to take one.
DeleteI want actual studies showing how long-term use of LSD or other psychedelics can cause psychological problems. I was looking for some. I know they can break down connections among the parahippocampus and retrosplenial cortex, messing with global functional connectivity, but I want a study or article that focuses exclusively on the psychological damage of psychedelics from long-term use. Thanks.
DeleteZ, I am not interested in drugs in the least, even if they resembled enlightenment. I never have been, and feel enlightenment has to be in synchrony with one's life in order to be worked/sorted out as Andrew once said. To me, that's common sense, and too many times I see drug users fetishize their experience and treat it as something separate from life and good artwork. In fact, I think they may have mental disorders that have not quite been defined yet by the medical community...
DeleteI want to quit smoking too.
Cigarettes are physically more harmful than psychedelics, but I am sure you know that already: http://i.imgur.com/jPlxCoY.png
DeleteHow do you define mental disorder? It's not easy. Ewk says Andrew has a mental disorder. Someone could say the prophets in the Bible had mental disorders - for instance, Ezekiel.
We should take a pragmatic approach. If you are functional in society, you're not mentally ill.
Lots of people who take psychedelics are very functional:
"Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there's another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it." (Steve Jobs)
Psychedelics are actually being actively studied as therapeutic tools to treat mental illness (especially depression and anxiety).
zephyr, good post i have put the "drug users fetishize " one up on pending_poems
Deletehowever as z points out smoking cigarettes means you will die of a smoking related disease . .
hookah is just as bad and vaping is also problematic
you should step down off the habit over several weeks to allow the gene expression to normalize
Sorry Zephyr & Andrew to hijack this thread; however one thing I wanted to say is that the last time I was on a psychedelic I could understand how the transmission from 6th to 7th Patriarch is possible even though there are centuries in between. - Now I can't understand again, but just knowing that there was a time when it made perfect sense, opens a window of possibility. - As Zhuangzi said - in a dream/simulations, whole centuries pass in the blink of an eye.
DeleteI am getting sick of what I am doing (re: coins) I need a break. Man cannot live on the Quantitative alone. It is poverty; the Spirit is not in its own element. - I need to take a break and spend some time in Not-doing.
Z, why not travel locally a bit, you live in a beautiful country
Deletegood comment, have put it up on pending poems
I will do that, an3drew
DeleteNever really explored my own country
Z, let me explain to you why psychedelics are bad with a story.
DeleteOne hobby I really enjoy doing is walking with inquisitiveness through antique stores. There are many good ones near me, and they tend to have small compartments, like a cubicle, separated from each other in a long-winding hall-way, but with occasional open clearings where you're surrounded by a panorama of doodads. In most of these compartments, you find a general theme with interesting figurines, artwork, but normally, you also find contrite things like pictures of Diane. Granted, since these stores tend to be big, you could meander for 2 hrs and still find many cool things, some of which I have personally found include a tattered screen door with Victorian and Edwardian era stickers of kids frolicking with cats and dogs (can share a photo of this one), a Maxfield Parrish painting, cool owl and cat paintings and figurines, plates with anime artwork based on Belgium classic The Dog of Flanders & A Boy and His Rascal, and much more. It is as if each compartment has mysteries in every corner that transports you into a new world. One of mysteries, always something new and unexpected!
I avidly remember one dream I had where I was exploring another antique-like store. In this dream, things proceeded normally, until I found a wormhole somewhere else. In this wormhole, I saw flashes of my memories, the Cosmos, plants, and much more. It made me appreciate the diversity and complexity of life in this world more, how it's a projection of my mind largely.
Drugs tip you too much into the unreal. Actually contemplating your own experiences and lucid dreaming can help unreal and real synchronize, if temporally. Point is, you come to appreciate life and its mysteries more, developing more creativity in the long-run.
Travel more in your beautiful country and savor the experiences. Lay off the drugs.
Delete"Never really explored my own country"
Deletewatch out for ticks and these days, mosquito borne diseases !
"Lay off the drugs"
Deletetabbacco is a drug designed to give you cancer !
that's a really good bit of writing about the antique store, we have similar places locally !
Delete"contrite things like pictures of Diane"
"contrite" is not the right word, what did you mean ?
Zephyr here on different act - meant trite
Deletezakaj how about going to lisa carins retreat in southern spain !
ReplyDeletewhat are you recommending something to fuck him up ?
Deleteyou get away with the fairies sometimes !
I was never attracted to neo-advaita, but Jason I wanted to ask you already the last time I posted but I forgot to ask you: where is the Video interview you did with Lisa Cairns? I remember watching it, I think I found it through your Google Plus page, but now it disappeared.
Delete(Jesus Christ, the awful sentence composition and repetitions, will I ever learn to write properly!?)
Deleteyeah i shouldn't really be recommending that
ReplyDeleteinterview : https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_n-uthGuwT7ZGNtZTF4RmxNZjQ/view
non duality is a bit of a sex club, destructive to relationships, as you (jason) are not in a relationship its not going to damage you in that way
DeleteJason do you like Lisa as a woman?
Delete(I'm sorry if the question is too personal)
Delete((And thank you for the video! I like it.))
Deletedo i think she's pretty ? yeah sure
Deletedo i like her as a woman, idk what you mean ? i got along with her much better than most people
Do you still contact her regularly?
DeleteIt seemed you wanted to go in a more reciprocal direction in the conversation; not in the standard student/teacher relationship kind of way.
Anyway - are you still considering a non-duality teacher career as a possibility or is that not something you're intersted in pursuing anymore?
(I'm surprised you didn't mention Andrew when she asked you about your background in Zen.)
Deleteno i haven't spoken to her since that video, she wanted to find my facebook but i don't know if she ever did
Deletei've been talking to this lady who organizes her retreats so i can get a 'sponsorship ' to attend at a lesser rate, i'll be in portugal in a couple weeks so if i'm there until the beginning of november i'd like to go to lisa's retreat
maybe if you wanted to fly out to portugal we could meet up
yeah i just wanted to talk to her normally, i think i do that with andrew too for the most part
i would be a 'spiritual teacher' if that worked out, i'd like to make more money than what that line of work brings
bringing up andrew would've been a long conversation and maybe she would've even recognized him which i think would've probably closed the conversation
Deleteif i was in your position i'd go traveling around your country, seems really nice
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Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwzQJdvFMeI
DeleteThis is the only non-duality video that I saw and liked. It seems that they realize the absurdity of what they're talking about and laugh... but it's not that kind of "spiritual" normalized laughter, it's really the kind that gives you a hernia, so you know it's for real.
And I don't like Jeff as a teacher, or any other teacher, just this video... the laughter is the only teacher here.
BTW what's your ideal way of traveling? Probably being in nature, camping, hiking, things like that?
I/we just came back from Poland 3 days ago but the way I travel is not the travel you have in mind, I am sure... I travel like retired old people travel, you can imagine! Like a pensioner!
i've never really travelled myself besides going to tassajara and furnace mountain zen center, i've never had the money for it
Deletei want to travel around new mexico to see if i'd like living there, renting a place in some towns and yeah seeing the scenery no fixed plans
You're better off just taking more frequent walks in solitude. Just avoid the retreat stuff. If you're in the need for social events, I think visiting book clubs are better.
ReplyDeleteI recommend watching the film Hana-bi, which captures the spirit of Zen with one subplot. How the main character's friend, both being police cops, responded to his tragedy in the film Hana-bi is what Zen is all about. I felt this subplot was better executed than the main plot to be honest. Basically, one of the characters becomes paralyzed from being shot by the Yakuza, and his wife and child leave him, probably due to how he spent more time at work than with family sadly -- or how they don't want to feel depressed seeing him in a wheelchair. He is in a wheelchair but still has upper-body mobility. He contemplates suicide, but the main character advises against this course of action, encouraging him to paint instead to cope. Initially, there was great pain as he aimlessly watched the ocean trying to come to terms with his plight, and even a suicide attempt with swallowing pills! He survives it, and he gradually grows to become more accepting of his circumstances and contented in his solitude. As the film proceeds, we see him starting to become more relaxed in his daily contemplating solitude staring at the ocean, trees, and flowers; however, watch catches his attention more are the petals of orchids, which provides inspiration for his own artwork of animals, children, etc. This reminded me of Schopenhauer's views on aesthetic experiences, largely similar to Andrew's views on how we communicate with artists, when we read their works deeply, as a way to deal with the insanity of the world, creating our own calm ponds in the corner of the discord that is mankind's march.
I recommend watching this film and being more like the paralyzed man, after he became more contented and relaxed. Pick up an artistic craft, etc. It's hard to do, but I feel dropping Hegel and going for the superior Schopenhauer is the first step, Z. Hegel was a terrible thinker and charlatan whereas Schopenhauer was brilliant. My goal is to fully read The World as Will and Representation after watching this film because I was astounded by the parallels I drew between Schopenhauer's ideas relating to the role aesthetic experiences play with that subplot.
Also, one thing that astounded me about Hana-bi is how much parallels I noticed with the artwork and some Persian miniatures I've seen.
"Hegel was a terrible thinker and charlatan whereas Schopenhauer was brilliant."
DeleteIf you say so...
that homily about the restaurant and moon, the only thing i said in the conversation was " there's a full moon ! "
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