An educated person gains excess intelligence at the expense of intuition. An intuitive person is at the right place at the right time for the right experience. An educated person would rather be at the wrong place at the wrong time and write a thesis about why it was so.

"Our ego consists of the association of innumerable cellular egos, the residues of ancestral personalities." — Gustave Le Bon Michael Levin would agree ... and is making it actionable at Tufts University.

I'm writing/collecting a 2nd volume of Mesmerism & Miracles. Volume 1 has 173 chapters, and I'm hoping for that many again in Volume 2. Thus far, I'm up to 80 chapters. Almost no one realizes they're involuntary Mesmerisees coma-waltzing their way through a waking dream.

AI: "The Thirteenth Floor (1999) focuses on the nature of consciousness, identity, and the blurring lines between simulated reality and the 'real' world, questioning whether simulated beings possess consciousness or rights." It was released the same year as The Matrix.

AI: "The Matrix explores the central theme that reality can be an illusion, focusing on the struggle to distinguish simulated perceptions from truth. It heavily features themes of personal choice vs. determinism and the ethical implications of artificial intelligence.."

How do longevity "experts" (lol) explain Peg Leg Bates? He lived to 91 despite horrendous challenges. We just watched "Clayton 'Peg Leg' Bates: The One-Legged Dancer Hollywood Turned Into Body Horror." "You can't find health in a pill. Health is a lifestyle." — SNG

Some lectins are anticarcinogen (mistletoe, wheat germ, and jimsonweed lectins) and cure urinary infections (cranberry and blueberry lectins), but many have the potential for harm.

Professor Thomas Szasz (1920-2012) believed that "drug abuse" and "drug addiction" are moral problems, not medical ones.

"Get back to what you are, then you have the whole cosmos to live in." — Swami Nitty-Gritty 🦋

"I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it." — Morpheus

"The Self — it's not so much that it's completely illusory — but it has to be recreated at every moment in time." — Michael Levin 😙

According to Elon Musk, the odds we're living in the "base reality" are "a billion to one."

Using the Cornerstone Method, I've found 4 major traumas. 2 of them are Freudian — Sex and Death. Power is Adlerian despite Adler believing in agency and free will. The 4th is Change, maybe  Richard Semon (1859–1918)? I find only a few Jungian traumas.

Meat and dairy combined cause disease but a cheeseburger and pizza can save the life of a victim of certain mosquito-borne and tsetse fly-borne diseases.

News: "War Secretary Hegseth Ends Mandatory Flu Shots for Military." As an anti-vaxxer (99% of the time) dissident, this is GOOD NEWS! 😍

Reader's Digest's "Word Power" feature helped make me a high school dissident. What was I supposed to do with words like "jingoist"? Forget them? No, I had already met my share of them before graduation. 🤠

AI: "Eddie Albert was a health food enthusiast who prioritized eating fresh, organic vegetables grown in his own home garden, including freshly picked corn." He lived to 99 without lab help. Maybe his role in Green Acres sustained him.

MGM stole Buddy Ebson's voice after poisoning him with aluminum dust for The Wizard of Oz, blackballing him from Hollywood. That's Jack Haley skipping down the Yellow Brick Road, but it's Buddy Ebson's voice. Despite lungs damaged for life, Buddy Epsom outlived them all at 95.

News: "World's biggest condom maker to raise prices due to Iran war." The Global Sausage Grinder needs more troops and slaves. 🥴

News: "Global Emissions Rise at Slower Rate Amid Expansion of Solar Power." If you believe it, I've got a bridge to sell you on Mars.