Packy McCormick

The world is going to keep getting better because people are going to keep making it better. Techno-Industrial Deep Dives:

@carrawu Let’s go

@jonnym1ller Need to read this a few times tonight

The vibe reminded me of this passage I read from Karlfried Graf Durckheim ~~ “The man who, being really on the Way, falls upon hard times in the world will not, as a consequence, turn to that friend who offers him refuge and comfort and encourages his old self to survive. Rather, he will seek out someone who will faithfully and inexorably help him to risk himself, so that he may endure the suffering and pass courageously through it, thus making of it a 'raft that leads to the far shore'. Only to the extent that man exposes himself over and over again to annihilation, can that which is indestructible arise within him. In this lies the dignity of daring. Thus, the aim of practice is not to develop an attitude which allows a man to acquire a state of harmony and peace wherein nothing can ever trouble him. On the contrary, practice should teach him to let himself be assaulted, perturbed, moved, insulted, broken and battered-that is to say it should enable him to dare to let go his futile hankering after harmony, surcease from pain, and a comfortable life in order that he may discover, in doing battle with the forces that oppose him, that which awaits him beyond the world of opposites. The first necessity is that we should have the courage to face life, and to encounter all that is most perilous in the world. When this is possible, meditation itself becomes the means by which we accept and welcome the demons which arise from the unconscious-a process very different from the practice of concentration on some object as a protection against such forces. Only if we venture repeatedly through zones of annihilation can our contact with Divine Being, which is beyond annihilation, become firm and stable. The more a man learns wholeheartedly to confront the world that threatens him with isolation, the more are the depths of the Ground of Being revealed and the possibilities of new life and Becoming opened.”

I gave a talk last week that I was nervous to give to 80 people, because it's weird / about meaning of life / who am I to opine? but then a bunch of those people told me I should share it more broadly. "The goal is to live with godlike composure on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard, without being torn to pieces."

@jposhaughnessy 🙏🏻

“Technology can provide means - it can expand the range of possible conscious experience - but it can’t provide meaning...differentiation is a moral obligation...Pay attention. Enjoy the gift.” ~@packyM

@jonnym1ller 😂😂😂 Thank you 🙏🏻

It was so good I couldn’t not subscribe to read the end, damn you Packy 😄

@weff_jilliams No! I need to

@packyM Have you read Jes and Asher’s book? Incredible.

You must return with the bliss and integrate it. The return is seeing the radiance everywhere. The goal is to live with godlike composure on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard, without being torn to pieces.

@jonnym1ller Means a lot coming from you man!

@packyM pure fire 🔥

@generalcatalyst @HipCityReg 👏

Meet GC

@zdch Thanks Zac!

Great piece from Packy on consciousness-experience as the ultimate medium of moral being.

@itsbdell Thank you man!

This is phenomenal

A few months ago, my friend @davidwehrs told me he was leaving a great job at a big fund to join a brand new one, which seemed crazy bc how can new funds compete with big ones in the capex heavy AI race? Looking like a good call so far!

really compelling offer thx

One big step for Space Drugs. One giant leap for mankind.

@tomowenmorgan appreciate you brotha

@packyM There's a short list of people like you out there, mate. It's a tribute and a tragedy.

This piece weaves together some of the most inspiring influences of my own life to make a hugely optimistic case.

@PratapRanade 🙏

Deep wisdom from @packyM