Psychonaut.tech

Highly enjoyed the @QualiaRI meetup in London tonight. Couldn't stay the whole thing, but always glad to go to in-person things.

@AmericanALCHMY David Icke

Okay Alchemists, who do you want to see on the channel? Your top picks only. Who ya got?!👇🛸

Nebulous nearnesses cry to me. At this timeless moment, someone dear to me Wants me near, makes me high

@godspeed_aflame youtube.com/watch?v=jmeGpo… Not the longest, but beautiful!

you can tell a lot about a person by their definition of a “very long song”

@space_treasure8 It means the "indwelling" presence of God - the aspect of divinity placed within creation so as to experience itself. This also becomes a route back to the divine for humanity. In some ways, this is quite a gnostic concept.

what do you know about Shekinah anon?

I see a connection

@AthenaIver Yes. But I often add l-theanine, which makes it more like tea.

Does drinking coffee (or any other highly caffinated beverage) help you in any way during your meditation? When Japanese monks caught wind of tea in China, they were excited by how its stimulating effect could help them in meditation. I could see it going both ways though.

@Aella_Girl Ha! Currently reading this.

@mudscryer Break down harder. You only get a few good ones, so really go all out. Full trainwreck. Then the building back afterwards part is the easy part.

Does anybody have tips on making it through your Saturn return because I’m having a hard time

I used to like micro dosing at slightly above threshold level. Everything took on a magical quality and I had a weirdly synchronistic few months. But I definitely got lost staring in the carpet a few times.

Maybe they shouldn't have named it that.

@Josikinz Presumably, but then I can't help but wonder how that correlates with things like anxiety, religiousity, and dissociation.

@PsychonautTech i guess it means that older women have more volatile facial recognition systems that are more prone to glitches than that of the general population...?

On Strange Face Phenomenon studies: "The prevalence of illusions was also significantly greater in samples that were older, [and] had higher proportions of female participants". I don't know what this means but I like it.

Delusion-maxing is underappreciated. We should all be taking placebos all the time. This is one of my more serious posts.

@embodiedthinkr If you believe it, so mote it be. People look down upon the placebo effect, when in reality we should be asking how we can make it stronger.

Cilantro please get rid of all the heavy metals in my body

@InfamousStorm Coming at this from the opposite side, I did a Headless Way course a couple of years ago and found it profound. Recognizing that you don't have a head. Counterintuitive but very interesting!

@PsychonautTech It's an incredibly powerful practice. I need to pick it up again. I found it works very well with fire kasina because it's so eye focused.

I remain enthralled by mirror gazing and The Strange Face Phenomenon. I've been compiling various notes and will put something up on the site soon. If you really dig into the literature there is a VAST corpus of techniques here, and I think it speaks to something right at the core of what it means to be human. On the one hand, it's just apophenia, or pareidolia, but on the other hand it's something to do with faces specifically. Either your own face in the case of mirror gazing, or another's face in the case of dyadic experiments. The human brain is particularly attuned to facial recognition, but exactly how and why is still murky. The fusiform face area of the brain was only named and fully described in 1997 (although I have to remind myself that the 90s were nearly 30 years ago now) and we keep learning about how it modulates our recognition of faces. Autistic individuals show less FFA activation for instance. Electrically stimulating the area will distort faces! I think because the head/face is how we orient ourselves in the world and the window through which we perceive, any tech, meditation or experience that alters that will have a profoundly psychedelic/transformative/disturbing effect.

Strange face illusions: A systematic review and quality analysis - ScienceDirect share.google/Jcye0MWfWnxAeh…

Everybody is thinking about you. They’re remembering that weird thing you said at that party 3 weeks ago. And talking about it with their friends and they’re not going to invite you to any future hangouts