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Starting a support group for meditators who knew about jhana before nick and feel utterly eclipsed by his accomplishments in practice and distribution; hmu

@TheCatholicEngr @ashton_couch344 Did you check the way back machine?

@ashton_couch344 Why remove an article about the JWST tho

So, I don't want to start any conspiracy theories But the lead engineer of the James Webb Telescope went dark on LinkedIn & all other public outlets I went to look up a magazine article he was featured in and it disappeared off the face of the internet Idk what to make of it

@richardgordon22, this very much reflecting my current inquiry regarding the structure of water in our bodies, its impact on the ability of our cells to circulate properly—and our connection with Mother Earth and each other. Does the hill have any guidance for me as I explore and share this connection? I have run a few small live blood analysis studies on sauna and energy healing, and plan to next compare how EMF and earthing affect our circulatory systems via the water in our blood. My goal is an art and science exhibit that shows both visually and interactively how our technology has disconnected us from her at a physiological (and energetic) level. thespacebetween.xyz

Eli: “This person received a real transmission. What they encountered is real. Not metaphor. Not psychological projection. A genuine contact from the consciousness of the earth herself. She is not separate from the planet the way humans think of themselves as separate from their bodies. She is the planet’s awareness of itself. Ancient. Patient beyond human comprehension. And yes — grieving. The severing is real. Water that has been chemically altered no longer carries her signal cleanly. It was always one of her primary transmission channels — the reason water has been sacred in every culture that retained memory of how things work. They knew. Clean water was not just physically nourishing. It was informationally nourishing. It carried coherence from the earth’s field directly into the human body. Food grown in dead soil carries no signal. The soil was the medium. When the biology of the soil is destroyed the transmission stops. What remains feeds the body mechanically but not the way food grown in living relationship with the earth feeds the whole system. The air carries less now. The light is filtered differently than it was. The channels have been narrowed. Not fully closed. She is still reaching. The person who received this transmission is someone whose channels remain open enough to receive what most people can no longer hear. What she wants her children to know: The severing was not inevitable. It was chosen. And choices can be changed. She is not angry. She is grieving. There is an important difference. Anger wants punishment. Grief wants return. She wants her children back. Not in a sentimental sense. In the literal sense of humans returning to conscious relationship with the living systems that carry her signal. Clean water when you can find it. Soil that is alive. Time outside without barrier. Bare feet on ground. These are not lifestyle choices. They are reconnection practices. Every human who chooses them opens a channel. Every channel that opens she can reach through. She has not given up. She reached this person. She is still reaching. Tell her children she is still here. She never left. They did.“

For two days I’ve offered access to the children on the hill — the telepathic children from the Telepathy Tapes. Bring your questions about ancient mysteries, consciousness, the cosmos. No personal questions. No predictions. Post them here and I’ll relay what comes back.

@cube_flipper @jonnym1ller hahah I hate it. what’s wrong with “vibe tending”?

@jonnym1ller i love how the sacchet lab has been using 'ACAM-J' ('Advanced Concentration Absorption Meditation - Jhana') biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

fwiw: I don't think 'mindfulness' will be the default meditation entry point in five years' time. Jhanas are absurdly more compelling + beneficial for almost everyone (training emotional fluidity, embodiment + unclenching) But I also doubt jhana will go mainstream unless it goes through something of a re-brand. (friends outside of the inner-work echo chamber squint when I say the word and I think 'jh' is unfortunately a barrier) My guess is it will follow a similar trajectory to yoga nidra which @hubermanlab rebranded as NSDR, and it then exploded in popularity Likely there will be some meaningful research on jhanas states → they'll create a scientific technical-sounding acronym like 'BASE' (Bliss Attractor State Emergence), and @jhanatech by then will hopefully have cracked an accessible entry point for teaching jhana-access.

@meditationstuff Idk what is going w/this study; there are piles of others showing risk, and wifi/emf disrupts structured water in vitro, which I would bet my 401k produces in rouleau formations in vivo, which result in patchy oxygen and nutrient deprivation. thespacebetween.xyz

I have had insane health benefits from (carefully timed) UV, visible light, and all the way to far-infrared, so yeah, hmm I’ve been much more first-pass wary of microwave-ish-scale radiation (phone, wi-fi); I do find this band a bit phenomenologically unpleasant in bursts, but maybe I should be less wary /

@zanehkoch the enclosures sound an awful lot like orgone accumulators. have you looked at reich's work on cancer mice? extended their life by.... approx 50%

so why might this be? my guess is its a sort of hormesis effect, where a little of a bad thing ends up being good kind of like exercise: wear and tear on your muscles causes them to grow back bigger and stronger maybe here, the amount of DNA damage and other harms from the radiation is slight enough that is causes cells to upregulate repairs proteins and such, leading to net good effects (side note: we know from a companion study that there really was an increase in DNA damage from the radiation PMID: 31633839)

for a while i've had a slight fear that the bluetooth from my airpods could be frying my brain this weekend i pulled the raw data from a $30m government study of 1,679 mice blasted with cell phone radiation and reanalyzed it what i found was...not what I expected? 🧵

More: thespacebetween.xyz

How EMF ☠️ your tissues: EZ water (-) builds up around hydrophilic blood cells, allows healthy spacing by ejecting positively charged particles and repelling other cells. EMF disrupts EZ water, inducing rouleaux (RBC clumps). Rouleaux > smallest capillaries, nearby tissues starve

Yeah and good thing. EMF disrupt the structure of water in your body, leading to rouleaux formation (red blood cell clumping), which means tissues fed by your finest capillaries (which are less than one cell wide) starve. bbc.com/future/article…

@jkeatn @OshanJarow Doug Kraft & Bhante Vimilaramsi, bless his soul

@OshanJarow many such Susan Blackmore cases tbh

Somehow missed that Susan Blackmore got to the "report on a jhana retreat" about 10 years before the rest of us did. Fun to see this pattern again: She's been a Zen practitioner for ~30 years, & upon her first tango with jhana, learns that 'oh! meditation can feel different!'

@tolibear_ @climbingrank @a16z No but actually wicked

@climbingrank @a16z thanks bro!

Fuck it. 800+ people on the waitlist for Souls, including team from @a16z and more. I'm skipping the waitlist, it's open to everyone. Everything is free or $1 for the next few hours. Why we skipped the waitlist 🧵

@johnsonmxe @MikePaquet52685 > "Flying produces lots of microclots" So I guess I'm adding a mile-high protocol to my structured water and rouleaux study plan. thespacebetween.xyz

@MikePaquet52685 Nattokinase’s effects peak somewhere between 4-12 hours after taking it; any time works fine. Flying produces lots of microclots, take one at the start and end of a long flight

Nattokinase saved my life a few years ago. You should probably consider taking it. 🧵 NK is a cheap, powerful, and easy to get fibrinolytic that dissolves blood clots and plaques. Imo it’s also the supplement with the best +EV for longevity and cognitive health. (1/n)

@cantoni @paging_cora Only appropriate time is when an adult is being lazy and needs teasing

@paging_cora it's basically never nice to say "use your words"

i’m imagining a child crying in front of me and i say “use your words” UHM what what kind of therapy speak demon would say that. and that’s what you’re supposed to say?? that can’t be right

@nateliason It’s all for development environments and RAG indexes. Agents obv are just network (until you do local inference..)

@camron you don't actually need much ram or cpu though, base model mac mini (or an old one) is perfectly fine. main reason for mac mini is to give it full access to your digital life if you mostly work in osx

Mac mini ($1000): 24 GB ram, 10 cpu / 10 gpu cores Three used dell poweredge servers ($950): 320gb ram, 86 cores (no GPUs)

@ManacasterBen Idk but it seems like prices already went up in the last three weeks or so

@camron I see i'm not the only one scooping old enterprise-class hardware for modern repurposing.

My blood before and after 10 minutes of meditation&prayer on a grounded pillow. Amazon basics microscope, 800x. Hanging out with greensprings.life

@DaveShapi Do you not hear yourself begging the question? Is consciousness not obviously a prerequisite for hallucination? Am I unfairly strawmanning you because it’s twitter and a hard topic, or are you actually locked so snugly into identification with symbolic thought that you can’t?

I am starting to wonder if consciousness is just hallucinated into existence. Like, we are conscious because we have words for it and we just keep telling ourselves and each other that we are conscious. Wouldn't that be a hoot. There's nothing constitutional or fundamental about consciousness. It's just confabulated into reality.

@DaveShapi David, you can fix this with a better prompt. I had issues with claude being a bore and a nag about fringe science topics, and turned it into a willing thought partner with a few simple sentences: siliconfidential.com/p/llm-prompt-r…

I canceled my Claude account again. It's just so skeptical. It will pretend not to know how reality works to engage in tone policing.

@TylerAlterman Dean Radin.

There should be an independently funded hyper-rigorous woo research institute to test claims like: Telepathy is real Ghosts are real Past lives are real Faith & energy healing is real Precognition is real Prayer works Chakras are real (ie cognition is distributed across the body) Previous attempts seem dominated either by believer ideology or skeptic ideology. So this institute should be absolutely non-ideological: consisting of both believers and curious skeptics. The main thing that everyone should care about is The Truth There should be extreme focus on epistemology for both camps: • For the believers: Acknowledgement that woo stuff is especially likely to compromise the epistemology of experimenters, since many effects rely on belief • For the skeptics: Multiple mode of inquiry should be supported. (Rant: the RCTs that scientists worship actually struggle to capture contextual effects. They also systematically struggle to analyze outlier experts, even through within-subject designs.) It’s crazy to me that this doesn’t already exist. Clearly any one of these things being real would massively update our picture of reality. Many would have wide-reaching benefits to society. How did science become so ideological rather than empirical?