Do your best. Speak the truth.
all the world is a solipsistic circus with no way out. all cultures are self-referential solipsisms. all speech is hopelessly entangled in definitions that go nowhere. we ourselves don’t know what we mean. one thing defines another. actions prove words only because nothing else does, and neither does that. this is caused by words making no sense except through their connections to other words ABN
Why settle for not being crazy when you could be going for psychological optimization?
A mental disorder, also called a mental illness or psychiatric disorder, is a diagnosis of a behavioral or mental pattern that can cause suffering or a poor ability to function in ordinary life.
Why settle for being able to “function in ordinary life” when you could have an extraordinary life?
Why take pills to get by when you could be optimizing your brain?
Humans go for optimization whenever we can. We optimize technology, our diets, our medical treatments, our educations, even our friendships.
Optimization: an act, process, or methodology of making something (as a design, system, or decision) as fully perfect, functional, or effective as possible.
Hell yeah. That’s what you want for your mind, your life. Why settle for less?
OK, that does read like a sales spiel, but I will deliver.
All you have to do is put time and thought into the process of optimizing your psychology. An optimized psychology is an optimized brain and life.
First, you have to learn how to do FIML.
This requires about as much time and effort as learning to play a musical instrument at a beginner’s level. About as much time as it takes to learn to drive a car. Or to learn to play pool well enough to enjoy it.
FIML takes less time to learn than a semester at school, whatever grade. Less time than most job-training courses. Less time than becoming a decent amateur cook. Less time than buying a house or redoing your kitchen.
The hardest part about FIML is learning the technique through reading. Start here: How to do FIML.
The second hardest part is having a friend or mate who is willing and able to do it with you. Sadly, this is a deal-breaker for too many people.
I hate saying this, but it is fairly normal for people world-wide not to have a friend who is close enough to do FIML with. This is the result of so many non-optimized psychologies in this world!
Many people have five or more “good friends” and a loving spouse, but not even one of them willing or able to do FIML.
Their excuses will be they can’t understand it, don’t want to bother, don’t want to be that honest, don’t want that kind of relationship, don’t have the time, already are doing it (no, you are not), etc.
The result is they and you will continue to languish in less than optimal mental states. Moods, alcohol, pills, arguments over nothing, ridiculous misunderstandings, ominous silences, severance of ties, and worse will rule your world(s).
For most, the best relief they will find are self-help books based on generalities, career books about “getting ahead” as defined by more generalities, nonsense about “loving yourself,” low levels of religious belief and practice, exercise programs, etc.
You didn’t learn to drive a car that way. Driving a car requires interaction, observation, the help of another person.
Your psychology needs similar kinds of input.
Once you have learned to do FIML with a trustworthy partner, the practice will tend to self-generate because the insights gained will be real and have real and deeply felt benefits for both partners.
Besides the “how to” and FAQ links at the top of this page, most posts on this site describe some aspect of FIML practice.
For psychologists, I honestly do not see how you can claim to be able to treat other people if you have not done at least a few years of FIML practice. Human interactions without any technique for consistent meta-control and understanding (which FIML provides) are 100% guaranteed to be riddled with misunderstanding and wrong views.
Interoception means our “perception or sense of internal body states,” including the states of our cardiovascular, digestive, respiratory, and thermoregulatory systems among others.
Proprioception means “one’s own” or “ones’ individual” (Latin proprius) “perception.” We normally use this word to refer to our physical position in the world—whether we are standing or sitting, how we are moving, and how much energy we are using.
Both interoception and proprioception generally refer to physical states of the body though, of course, how we interpret those states may involve much more than immediate physical considerations.
Erroneous interoception or the misinterpretation of internal states is is generally thought to be an important contributing factor to many psychological disorders, including anxiety, depression, panic disorder, and more.
Consider some other levels of interoception—our states of mind; our mental impressions of other people and of ourselves; our senses of our own psychologies.
These levels of psychological reality are normally accessed through introspection, meditation, mindfulness, and psychotherapy. All of these methods are good, but each of them lacks ongoing, real-time input from another human being, thus missing the dynamic functioning of the human mind in real-life situations.
FIML corrects this problem by providing objective, dynamic access to real-time psychological functioning. FIML is a method or tool for optimizing human psychology by honing our perceptions of our mental states as they actually function in real-world situations.
Someone inside Kaiser sent me the below internal guidance concerning shots and medications for newborns.
It tells Kaiser employees that the “approach to how we introduce and administer routine newborn … Hepatitis B vaccine” is to ” avoid saying ‘it’s optional’ or ‘you can refuse’ unless directly asked” and to tell parents that “we will be giving” instead of asking consent to give. This is the antithesis of informed consent. Yet Kaiser calls it “excellent patient and family care.”
Jewish Supremacy social engineered leftwing policy to divide and conquer the host nation with activist causes that
>Destroyed white birth rates
>Destroyed white male economic status
>Destroyed white familiesTo weaken the host nation and make it easier to control and steal from.
Jewish Supremacy then social engineered the right wing into dividing and conquering their enemies in the middle east through
>Zionist infiltration of Churches
>Islamic terror false flags (911)
>Blackmail / corruption networksTo send the young men who can’t afford to start families to die for them in the middle-east.
Jewish Supremacy has no borders. It has no party affiliation, it has no morality. It will be and do anything for total control.
He is leaving out covert violent attacks against rivals, especially when they are young. Attacks range from low dose poisoning to lobotomies to murder. I am not sure if Dan is aware of the scale of these attacks, but am confident he is smart enough to figure it out. Covert attacks by an army of infiltrators are extremely difficult to prove or even notice. This is especially true when attacks are directed against young people before their careers begin. Trump right now is showing conspicuous signs of possibly having been cognitively damaged or discombobulated by a targeted energy weapon or some other means. Keep this in mind the next time you see a more or less normal friend go bonkers. Our normal reaction is to assume they are losing it, started drinking or using drugs or are simply going crazy. Rarely does anyone suspect a covert attack designed to disable or control the victim. I am not saying this is definitely the case with Trump. I am saying he is an example of what you might see happening to a loved one, relative, friend or colleague. The person becomes a weird deranged version of what they were because that is how the mind is affected. From that information, most of us wrongly assume the person is simply devolving into some core state that we may or may not have thought was there. Our minds seize on simple reasons for the victim’s demise and rarely wonder if something sinister is being done to them. Consider how almost everyone is viewing Trump right now. How many suspect he may be a victim of covert violence? ABN
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Drumming up hate against Jews and pretending there is hate against Jews where there is none — these are a major Jewish Supremist modus operandi with deep historical roots. ABN
Under the greatest propaganda machine in human history, an international attack by every government in the world, the WHO, the WEF, the UN, all of them in lockstep with a 24-hour news cycle pounding you every single day, 30% of the world still said oh hell no.
Think about what that means. Under that kind of pressure, with your job on the line, with your ability to provide for your family on the line, 30% of people around the world held the line.
In England, experts told me 30% denied receiving a single COVID vaccine. Someone from Denmark said the same. Someone from Finland. America is right about the same. I was just in Europe weeks ago and that number kept coming up everywhere I went.
That is a rebellion army. That is an international movement that already knows the truth. 30% changes governments.
And then think about the 70% who did get that vaccine. How many of them actually wanted it? How many got it under duress because they had no other choice? I think there is at least another 20% in there who know they were lied to and are just waiting for permission to say it out loud.
I think at least half the world knows. We have got to start speaking loudly, every one of us, and speaking proudly, because if we don’t we are going to lose free speech and we are going to lose this movement, and this movement can make change not just in America but around the world.
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This is very good news. Let’s hope the CDC follows suit. All Americans everywhere should have complete and unquestioned control over which vaccines they want to take or not take. And this right to personal autonomy should also apply to all babies, infants, and minor children as determined by their parents, not the school system, not the governor, not the state legislature. Moreover, all vaccine manufacturers should immediately, if not sooner, lose non-liability for injuries caused by their vaccines. Shielding these companies from liability has opened a Niagara Falls of corrupt money for harmful and even deadly vaccines. ABN
It has been shown conclusively that in the earliest sutras Buddha is shown as having attained nirvana in this lifetime, and did not lose it during the decades before his death. Hundreds of years later, in Normative Buddhism, the early picture of Buddha’s enlightenment as nirvana had become increasingly modified, to the point that many came to consider it impossible to attain nirvana in one lifetime. Nevertheless, this must not mislead us into thinking that such was the view of the Buddha’s followers in his lifetime, or soon after his death. It is logically necessary for the Buddha to have achieved nirvana and for his followers to have believed that they could do the same thing if they imitated him, in order for such later ideas to have developed in reaction to it. If the Buddha had not achieved his remarkable, heroic breakthrough, there would have been no Buddhism.
Beckwith, Christopher I.. Greek Buddha: Pyrrho’s Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia (pp. 42-43). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.
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In early Buddhism, it is also true that no one thought of the Buddha as a god. The Buddha himself, even in ‘Normative Buddhist’ texts, claims that he is ‘just a man’ and that anyone can achieve nirvana if they do the work (karma). It would probably be a good thing for Buddhists today to emphasize these points; and by so doing, remind Buddhism of its deepest roots — Nirvana is a real state that anyone can achieve if they do the work; and all dharmas (things) are characterized by the Three Signs, or Trilakṣaṇa: “All dharmas are anitya ‘impermanent’…. All dharmas are duḥkha ‘unsatisfactory, imperfect, unstable’…. All dharmas are anātman ‘without an innate self-identity’.” ABN
…The device, called proximal hypoglossal nerve stimulation (pHGNS), targets specific nerves in the tongue to keep the airway open during sleep.
It is a small, rechargeable battery-powered device, about the size of a pacemaker. It is surgically implanted under the skin in the upper chest, just below the collarbone.
A thin, flexible wire connects the chest generator to the nerve in the neck. This wire runs under the skin and is not visible from the outside.
At the end of the wire is a small, multicontact electrode cuff. This cuff wraps directly around the hypoglossal nerve, which controls tongue movement.
When the patient turns the device on before sleeping, the cuff delivers mild electrical pulses to the hypoglossal nerve.
These pulses stimulate the tongue and other airway muscles to contract and stiffen. This keeps the airway open during sleep, preventing the throat from collapsing and blocking breathing.
The conclusion to be drawn from the evidence about Pyrrho’s thought and practice is that he adopted a form of Early Buddhism during his years in Bactria and Gandhāra, including its philosophical-religious and pragmatic elements, but he stripped it of its alien garb and reconstituted it as a new ‘Greek Buddhism’ for the Hellenistic world, which he presented in his own words to Timon and his other students.
Beckwith, Christopher I.. Greek Buddha: Pyrrho’s Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia (pp. 54-55). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.
The earliest attested philosophical-religious system that is both historically datable and clearly recognizable as a form of Buddhism is Early Pyrrhonism, the teachings and practices of Pyrrho of Elis and Timon of Phlius, as shown in Chapter One. Its central features correspond exactly to some of the central features of the traditional putatively “early” form of Buddhism presented in Pali canonical texts.
However, the latter tradition of Buddhism also contains many elements—beliefs, institutions, devotional practices, and so on—which developed at the earliest in the Saka-Kushan period, three centuries after Pyrrho. They spread throughout the ancestors of the attested forms of Buddhism, creating Normative Buddhism. The elements that are attested only from approximately the Saka-Kushan period on—the exact time remains to be established—are far from trivial. They include the Saṃgha, the community of monks; the idea of the bhikṣu ‘monk’ per se, as well as of the bhikṣunī ‘nun’; the vihāra or monastery; the Vinaya, or Buddhist monastic code; worship of the Buddha;4 development of the idea of reincarnations of the Buddha, both human and godlike; abhidharma or “Buddhist scholasticism”; and many others. They are now considered to be essential elements of traditional Buddhism, yet there is no historically sound evidence that they existed at all5 (and some evidence that they did not yet exist) until long after the visit of Pyrrho in 330–325 BC and that of Megasthenes in 305–304 BC. The lateness of the development of devotion for the Buddha and Buddha incarnations, as well as reverence for the Buddha’s teachings (the Dharma) and the community of monks (the Saṃgha), means that the invention of the Triratna (‘Three Jewels’) formula is even later (perhaps as a “popular” substitute for the difficult Trilakṣaṇa1 ‘Three Characteristics’ formula, which is phonetically similar.
Beckwith, Christopher I.. Greek Buddha: Pyrrho’s Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia (pp. 61-62). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.
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