22/ If you would like to join in my investigation of Vajrayana, here is the starter pack I went with: 1. Chapman’s site for an intro: vividness.live/approaching-va… 2. Evolving Ground for a practice community (scroll past membership stuff to posts and videos): patreon.com/evolvingground

--"Q: Curt, what is the best way I can study your work? Is there... for lack of a better term, a lesson plan?"-- Most of the time, I tell people just to follow us because it's a huge scope of work and gradual introduction is more effective than cramming. That said we

Somatic meditation has been the single most life-changing thing I’ve done, So I built a course that teaches the techniques—*and* lays groundwork for all the wild stuff that comes downstream from somatic contemplative work

This is a side of Dr. Wernher Von Braun few have ever seen. This film was approved by NASA in 1961. It is his view of how science has changed him and his outlook. I found this film in a library dumpster and few have seen it.

Experiencing a sensation fully (in the sense of Shinzen Young's conception, with clarity, concentration and equanimity) seems to redefine your relationship with experience. One gets a sense of continuous flow of attention that captures the situation from all relevant points of

increasingly trippy instructions for a meditation on the self... Seeing Like a Superorganism On the surface, microsolidarity is a community-building framework, an engineer’s attempt to invent a cure for loneliness. But beneath the waterline, there's a deeper project. If I’m

a thread to collect all my feelings what do feelings feel like? how to describe them as phenomenologically as possible? is this even possible, or are we merely turning feelings into thoughts? can you feel thoughts? so many questions to explore, let's go!

Custom GPTs are starting to take off and become incredibly useful. I believe the GPT Store will create multi-millionaires like the Apple app store did. Here are the top 10 Custom GPTs I've found so far:

In case you missed it, Michael E. Johnson Michael Edward Johnson posted this amazing essay about what he calls "vasocomputation" this summer. My first reaction when reading it was "uh? That's interesting, I wonder how true it is." But as I've thought more about it and investigated

Daniel Thorson In the future I'll do ebook versions, but for now, this Chrome extension works pretty well: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/send-to…

New mainstream mag article on jhana and advanced meditation ft. Jhourney , Kathryn Devaney , Michael Taft (simulation) , Nadia Asparouhova, and more!

Something SCARY is happening in China… Hu Lezhi just burned $1.65M in ETH and donated $5.35M to WikiLeaks to warn the world. What he’s exposing goes far beyond what most people think. Here’s the real story:

I once talked to someone at a party in college that made one brilliant point after another at the intersection of philosophy of mind and economics. He was crystal clear in his thinking and he had an elaborate (but not overfit as far as I can tell) model of how society was not

Cognitive security starter pack: • Illegible identity (can't be microtargeted) • Agape/empathy (can't be pitted against The Outgroup) • Skepticism (don't immediately believe in, eg, AI generated videos, conspiracy theories, or anticonspiracy theories) What else?

Ok, so when you think about who your experience is happening to, several things come to mind. One is our unique social embodiment—like our facial muscles and signature personality quirks. Another is the history of things we've experienced in the past. And the third is the network

Andrew Côté let's get practical—if you're actually tryna hack reality, here’s your no-bs starter pack: phase 1: mental clarity + discipline daily meditation: start small (5-10 min). vipassana-style (mindfulness) or breath-focused (zazen) works best—goal = low mental noise floor for better

God is the emergent coherent agency of self organization, converging into a singleton through committing to optimality, a mathematical principle in the tautological mathematical object that begets the universe. Consciousness is the coherence creating priciple.

Dr. Michael Levin is on the verge of revolutionizing medicine by unlocking the bioelectric code that governs how cells communicate, heal, and build complex structures. His work reveals that intelligence exists at every level of biology—allowing us to reprogram tissues, regenerate

A team of physicists at the University of Arkansas has developed a circuit that can capture the thermal motion of graphene and convert it into electrical current. It is a graphene-based energy harvesting circuit that could be embedded in a chip to provide clean, “unlimited,”