Chris Evergreen

Lived experience in altered-states & integration, trauma, depression, recovery & healing.

Deeply committed to reducing suffering for all sentient beings.

[Chris Evergreen @clearrealityorg]

The most effective and high-level integration techniques require zero external input.

No drugs,

No concepts,

No reaching for a solution.

The hardest part is literally just learning to sit with yourself.

Learning to let yourself exist as you are, without augmenting or escaping any particular situation.

The whole process of meditation is just this. Learning to be okay with everything as it is.

It may sound boring at first, but this 'boredom' is one of the first filters to be stripped away.

The trick is to stick with it.

Sit with yourself.

Be with yourself.

Stop reaching mentally and physically for external sources of input.

Let yourself unravel a little.

You'll be fine.

Just BE.

Keep doing it, and keep challenging the idea that it isn't enough.

See where it takes you.

[Chris Evergreen @clearrealityorg]

@pmarca Gotta be the Trinity

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@Philip_Goff Qualia might be, but awareness/experience/consciousness is self-evident. Curious what your angle is though.

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@JakeFleshner Phenomenal empiricism

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@Plinz @scottastevenson Where do 'you' begin and end, in order to qualify consciousness as yours?

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@bryan_johnson Glad this has broken containment. Has been known anecdotally for some time, was hopeful someone could get a case study into a journal.

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@drmichaellevin @jessie_thinker I'm on X for 10 seconds and see two of your responses back to back, and you've given me a nights worth of highly salient and relevant reading for my thesis.

I'm starting to think this thesis is a diverse form of intelligence, evidence continues to surface with uncanny timing 🤔

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@alieninsect @donalddhoffman So grateful for both of you and your work. A much needed next step.

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@stanislavfort Epistemic integrity is the issue. It's not a big deal if your claim matches the claim in your citation. What concerns us is this has evidently not been happening and a huge swathe of academics just outed themselves as not performing the most basic checks on their own assumptions.

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The state of academia on X has been eye-opening.

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@QuentinCody @RuxandraTeslo Or simply does not contain the result for which you claim it does.

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@RickAddante It's hard to comprehend the number of 'academics' trying to spin this as anything other than meeting the bare minimum for a researcher.

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@alz_zyd_ You don't need bullshit citations to develop new knowledge. If you are developing new knowledge you should be able to clearly demonstrate your understanding of the 'old knowledge' by citing genuinely relevant literature that states what you claim it states.

The cope is strong.

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@zdeborova @eiszett You can't accidentally cite a paper. It's not the same thing is making a typo. This is something we had beaten into us in undergrad, no wonder nobody takes literature seriously ATM.

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@cosmicfibretion @DesertDiaries I agree, but curious what your take on their origin is?

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@ericweinstein Why keep biting?

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@joeroganhq You can't script this kind of insanity, a true spectacle to behold.

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@Andercot It's just not that good yet at the consumer level though. In our VR research program it's super temperamental and buggy. It will have its day, whether that's a good thing or not. I think AR is much more likely to take off than VR.

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@jeffcafe_ @lumpenspace Yeah no, Beff has and continues to deliver real work. I'm yet to see Yud offer anything of intrinsic value.

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@QuanticASI Infinite regress always makes me giggle.

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@BretWeinstein You aren't going to be comfortable with the reality of what that something is, unfortunately no amount of intellect will protect you from it.