BelmundoRegal

> Meditation is the ultimate key though, putting in the hard work and then using shrooms sparingly to cash in on that.

First, that ^ is gold.

Second, I've only had a few experiences with it (MDMA), but as far as I'm concerned, it's a waste doing it with other people versus by yourself. It's cool with people too, but off by an order of magnitude from what you can cash out solo, especially if you're someone who makes that ^ kind of comment. To be clear, I haven't actually done any since I found this document here a few months ago. But I have some shit that needs to be dealt with at the kernel level and I'm going to handle that sooner rather than later.

Speaking to your other comment ^ I think one could also come to meditation from that gate. Someone not into any of this could realize over night that there are all these other layers of reality that are accessible to them and pursue the path inward afterwards. Or realize they are dealing with extra and unnecessary layers of reality, depending on their specific case and how you want to look at it.

I did put a rough number on it but I must be pretty close. I reckon it might sound a bit rude which It wasn't intended to be.

As for the podcast, I was proposing it as a gateway into this field, not as a source to substantiate my general point although it does. My point is otherwise based on first hand experience and a large body of anecdotal evidence. You summarily dismissed one of the most promising array of treatments for people going through some rough stuff without any evidence or submitting any source yourself.

You're right about the poor communication bit though and thank you. Here's a 3:57 minute cut-off [0] from that same podcast, dealing specifically with psylocibin interventions.

> Please please don't quote podcasts as research

Well, this is a podcast with a cutting edge researcher ... I think it's fair game, and I didn't call it research.

I can assure you the general idea we're discussing is worth some of your attention, especially if you or someone you know is dealing with just about any type of serious personal issue.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJpX5y5w8tQ

I calculate a 99.99% chance you have never tried any such substance and therefore know not what you're talking about. The "long term personality changes" are for the vast majority transformational in a positive way, as in doing away with pathological stuff forever.

I encourage you to take a moment to get acquainted with what is being done clinically ( which to be honest is not what I was referring to ) ;

Matthew Johnson: Psychedelics | Lex Fridman Podcast #145

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICj8p5jPd3Y

Matthew W. Johnson is a professor and psychedelics researcher at Johns Hopkins.

I could accept your statement with "afraid" switched for "prudent" but even then, it turns out Psilocybin is your friend.

See also ;

MDMA Solo ; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25974701

“The brain is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can program. And if we don't take the responsibility for programming it, then it will be programmed unwittingly by accident or by the social environment.”

"By lending as little as $25 on Kiva, you can be part of the solution and make a real difference in someone’s life. 100% of every dollar you lend on Kiva goes to funding loans."

"Kiva borrowers have a 96% repayment rate historically."

https://www.kiva.org/

I have come to see this "fading" as highlighting. Here as well as in the world at large. To be fair, most of the time the downvoted comment here is trash in one way or another, but sometimes it's gold. Often times it's neither and should be left alone.

See also ; https://journalofcontroversialideas.org/

I think I get what your saying, but my understanding ( based on what I read on the website ) is that this is a genuine attempt at letting any coherent idea one can articulate and defend, be presented and discussed for its merits or lack thereof.

Not some sort of controversy hotpot like cable news or what have you. Controversy being merely a (probable) secondary effect of the legitimate endeavor.

When discussing ideas in search of the truth is controversial, you need something like that. The name of the project is merely a signal they are about what they say they are. When operating in that kind of climate, one shouldn't shy away from calling a cat a cat. I don't think this is controversy for the sake of it, just an invitation to any intellectuals that are being called controversial ( or just names ) when they shouldn't be.

Honest question ; why ? Can you develop ? I would see this as one of the most urgently needed initiative I could think of, with rampant censorship, PC and cancel culture ...

> Welcome to the website of the Journal of Controversial Ideas, the first open access, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal specifically created to promote free inquiry on controversial topics.

Basically liberating science.

Edit : I see why you would say that with /s but if you tacitly support the cocktail submission, that's what I would like you to expand on ...

Not sure, as for example here on HN, if I viewed a link from one container, and come back to the main page within another ( new and otherwise unrelated ) container, new tab and all + logged out, the link I viewed will still show in grey. Can someone explain how that works by the way ?

Is that a strong indicator you got it going on or what ?

An interesting indictment of sugar from 2013 ;

Sugar Policy, Health Care, and the Law

https://www.c-span.org/video/?314740-1/sugar-policy-health-c...

Where Dr. Lustig posits that sugar [over-consumption] is actually a public health issue.

"Robert H. Lustig is an American pediatric endocrinologist. He is Professor emeritus of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he specialized in neuroendocrinology and childhood obesity. He is also director of UCSF's WATCH program (Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health), and president and co-founder of the non-profit Institute for Responsible Nutrition."

It actually happens quite often and you can get handsomely rewarded for being that some guy ;

https://www.innocentive.com/

Have fun ! :D

Reminded me of the Kathryn Spirit ; "After years of immobility, the federal government awarded an $11-million contract last year to a conglomeration of businesses to dismantle the ship. Ironically, one of the companies picked was the same one that abandoned the wreck in 2011."

Where: "years"=8

"Built in 1967, the Kathryn Spirit has not had an owner since 2015, at which point the federal government took control. The ship, which had been used as a cargo ship in the past, had been towed to Beauharnois in 2011 by the Groupe St-Pierre, which wanted to dismantle it in the St. Lawrence River to then sell the scrap metal."

https://www.westislandblog.com/abandoned-vessel-kathryn-spir...