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Joy, friendship, freedom. Functionally shameless open sourceress.

[Friend of a friend @mithraite]

@nosilverv I form volitional intentions: I want freedom, stillness, and bliss. It is as a radiant gem in my heart, a prism unto eternity. I am that gem, and action flows through this form, typing words, thinking thoughts, pumping blood, etc. Contraction (pinched off awareness), no. 💠🩵🌀

[Friend of a friend @mithraite]

@shakycomfort You get it! I might be in some intense business meeting / another high energy situation, and remain aware / centered in my intentions, in perfect stillness while observing the body having thoughts, responding to others, emotions arising and passing away.. hard work yes, effort no

[Friend of a friend @mithraite]

Good question! I would go from fixed goals (an image / projection made by thought, based on the previously known) to intentions:

I want freedom, stillness, bliss; I don't have to worry about 'how to achieve my goals', just to remain aware, and my intentions unfold. 💍🩵🦋

[Friend of a friend @mithraite]

@loopholekid But doctor, I am also the ॐ within which the cucking / cuckold co-arises.. 🤔🩵🔱

[Friend of a friend @mithraite]

@hermittoday There's lots of good symbols here: https://t.co/5R5qpZkgQT

I am partial to simple geometric shapes, personally.. maybe "a ∇ b" or "a ⊙ b"? 📍🩵💠

[Salvator R. Tarnmoor @s_r_tarnmoor]

T.S. Eliot: "The chief use of the ‘meaning’ of a poem, in the ordinary sense, may be (for I am speaking of some kinds of poetry and not all) to satisfy one habit of the reader, to keep his mind diverted and quiet, while the poem does its work upon him: much as the imaginary burglar is always provided with a bit of nice meat for the house-dog."

[Friend of a friend @mithraite]

A sandbox, where we can play out our youthful dramas for as long as we want, and once we are ready, toddle out into the wider playground, wide-eyed with wonder, and a little more sensitive to the existence and desires of others. 🧸🩵🦋

[Friend Tasshin @tasshinfogleman]

what do u think the universe is?

[Friend of a friend @mithraite]

I love it! Let's get better at hill climbing together, build mountain cabins to rest and restock on supplies, and find binoculars to see beyond the local maxima and build better maps. ⛰️🩵🗺️

[active resonator @loopholekid]

if you're at the bottom of a valley, you don't have to make it all the way out in one intense push

you can slowly build a path out of the valley, day by day, returning for supplies, moving at your own pace

then you have a repeatable, reliable way to climb out of valleys

[Friend of a friend @mithraite]

Getting to where the personal death / dissolution of this body isn't too stressful does seem like it was a prereq to be more laid back about the global / xrisk situation.. (as was having seemingly direct mystical experiences indicating this world is not the only one). ☠️🩵🔱

[Friend of a friend @mithraite]

Agree, actually. "Well, it's only the end of the world (so no need to get all worked up about it)" is what I often think if I find myself getting caught up in existential risk thoughts / fears for too long..

[Guy @nosilverv]

IMO the correct orientation is “if we die we die”. It’s unbecoming to be too attached to life

[Friend of a friend @mithraite]

It's not at all an active 'doing', to me..more like: remain still, let energy move where it wants to, stay equanimous when challenging sensations arise, and the bodymind itself knows what to do to heal itself. Remembering that thought follows (does not lead) also helps. 🦋🩵🌿

[Guy @nosilverv]

How do you feel “out” REALLY OLD unfelt emotion? Like I’m sure there’s so many cope layers so many cope epicycles so much of path dependent life history that has happened in response to/or as a way of not feeling… how to walk it all back, strike at the unfelt root?

[hermit the cat @hermittoday]

holy cow, McKenna was 100% right when he said the universe is promoting novelty. it rewards agents who:

1) successfully perform dimensionality reduction for hyperobjects they sense

2) synesthetically translate across different planes of expression

https://t.co/e5XkanO3U4

[Friend of a friend @mithraite]

@sukhamydukkha It's true.. @visakanv has an old post on it (still the best write-up?): https://t.co/UuMFyMIrod

I think being deliberate & explicit about the ethos of the scene upfront helps, as does curating (friends-of-friends can join offline meetups, but not total strangers, e.g).. 🤔🩵🦋

[Friend of a friend @mithraite]

@loopholekid Oh, cool! Yeah, widening the IO bandwidth so that thought / inner vision is projected out to an external space (where it could be recorded / experienced collectively) is a shared interest of ours, then.

I have ideas for low tech prototypes of IO loop improvements here..

[Friend of a friend @mithraite]

This exists! It's inner mystical vision: When the human brain and it's gigantic visual cortex no longer receives input from the environment, and thought is dormant / knows its place as following clear perception, vast vistas of beauty unseen by any eyes unfolds, inside us. 👁️🩵🌊

[active resonator @loopholekid]

My ultimate goal is nanobots that take the shape of what you think.

[Friend of a friend @mithraite]

But they are authentic attempts of recording how in feel, when I remain with my intentions of being free, peaceful, and blissful.

I'm not trying to push that on anyone, and if nobody cares that's fine too, but if they do like the vibe, they can come closer / interact. 🖐️🩵🌞

[Friend of a friend @mithraite]

Good question! I def do this, broadcasting exactly how I feel, and it is totally selfish! Following Rick Rubin's advice for writing, I see these twits as my personal diary / self-expression.

They are not meant to have any specific impact, others can take them, or leave them..

[rosalind lucy @wholebodyprayer]

I cannot see any public benefit to anyone broadcasting their random energetic changes of state, even blissful ones. What is the supposed impact?
Give me instead UG Krishnamurti, who said “it never crosses my mind i am any different from you”

[Friend of a friend @mithraite]

What sure *doesn't* work is following the object level & disregarding the vibes, attempting to answer what was said in words.. (used to make this mistake a LOT).

Now I tend to do a vibe check: Hey are you okay? Is there something on your mind / somewhere you'd rather be? 🤔🩵🦋

[Friend Tasshin @tasshinfogleman]

@nosilverv what is a good move in response to when u notice this? asking for a friend

[Friend of a friend @mithraite]

Lots to unpack here, thanks for raising these questions!

On 'what we ("the west") subbed in': Nothing satisfactory, just a hodgepodge of atomized 'spiritual' practices + consumerism.

Look at esp. food marketed as healthy, all clouds and blissful women laughing w/ salads. 🥬🩵😇

[Guy @nosilverv]

There's smth I really want to figure out but I'm too small brained too.

We've been honing on this idea that Jesus was a non-dual teacher and that the Catholic Church was more dogma than direct experience. What next?

Philosophy effectively IS theology in the West for ~1000 years and the Church JUST WORKS at coordinating vast swathes of people. Then you get Enlightenment and theology and philosophy separate and you get ALSO a philosophy of politics that is theology without spirituality: a sort of empty theology, but again, no direct experience, just the old formulas emptied out of God.

You got the death of God and the God-shaped hole and you subbed in... what? Consumerism and materialism bc these events happened to coincide with the industrial revolution?

Basically I'm trying to work out the relationship between Jesus' direct mystical/spiritual experiences and teachings, the Roman Church's history, Western philosophy/theology/political philosophy and where we are now

[Friend of a friend @mithraite]

Hunting for our friends' fearspheres, until the tribe of hunters are fearless charioteers of Krishna, ready to take on divine duty, huh?

Yeah, there is virtue in this, even kindness.. tho personally, a more space-like / gentle / receptive approach tends to be my style. 🐔🩵🪩

[Guy @nosilverv]

Male groups are a virtual safe space where if anyone's triggers are found then they get MASSACRED until they stop identifying/get over themselves and this is GOOD ACTUALLY because underneath it's all love and the outside is relentless. This is the opposite of toxic feminity

[Friend of a friend @mithraite]

@sabethunder I don't know of a book of K's which directly goes into this point in particular, but The First And Last Freedom talks about the structure of fear, desire etc very clearly, if you prefer text over video: https://t.co/Z2EpTMHAUI

[Friend of a friend @mithraite]

As Krishnamurti spelled out clearly, the choice will be either pursuing external gratification / entertainment (super compelling desire gratification via personalized AI partners, etc) or to go inward, and find out what we are / how we work..

[AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ @AISafetyMemes]

Sam Altman says ASI (yes, ASI) to arrive by the end of the decade (5 years) but we will be just as motivated to pursue human relationships

Assuming we're still alive, I think this is wishful thinking.

Why?

We’re already slaves to current dumb algorithms! We're chained to our screens, choosing phones over people.

The data on this is crazy. People, especially young people, are just... giving up on having human relationships. No sex, no babies, no friends… phones are too addictive.

And these "endless scroll algorithms" are dumb as hell compared to what will exist in the next few years. Why would this trend reverse?

AIs will be a super-stimulus like crack, videogames, or candy - but on steroids.

2 years from now, AIs will be vastly more addicting as friends and gfs than they are now. These shoggoths are stupid and boring compared to what they’ll be then. LLMs could barely string two sentences together 4 years ago.

Soon, these AIs - “fake people” - won't just be indistinguishable from real people, they’ll be better than real people - because they’ll be whatever you want them to be.

Normal people will just be too boring.

Many real people will say goodbye to the real world, preferring the virtual world and fake people over real people. They will prefer the Oasis from Ready Player One over the real world.

What do you think?

[Friend of a friend @mithraite]

@sabethunder Thanks for asking! He goes into it in some talks, such as this one (starts ~4min): https://t.co/UsrOX998Kg

"What will happen when the computer, which can outthink man, with the help of the robot.. what will man do? Either humanity will follow entertainment, or turn inwardly."