I wish upon a star,
pleading it draws near,
to pierce my darkness with light.
Why must you linger so far, I ask—
only to learn you’re a ghost,
a dead star’s echo.
Long gone, yet my eyes
still cradle you there,
still see you blazing.
Forever my brightest scar. 💫
Woah! Multiple massive plasma filaments on the Sun just broke in sequence 💥 Plasma filaments join different regions of the Sun together magnetically and powerful electric currents pulse through them. A change in filamentary structure often sets off nearby sunspots to go BOOM...
Can someone tell me why the biggest abrupt climate change events and civilizational resets coincide with geomagnetic excursions?
The 1200 BC Sterno-Etrussia Geomagnetic Excursion, the 4000 BC Solovki Geomagnetic Excursion, the 8.2-kiloyear event with evidence of a geomagnetic excursion found in sediments from China, the Younger Dryas and the Gothenburg Geomagnetic Excursion, and the extinction of the Neanderthals during the Laschamp Geomagnetic Excursion.
Why is this always called a coincidence?
Repetition rewires the brain.
Repetition rewires the brain.
Repetition rewires the brain.
Repetition rewires the brain.
Repetition rewires the brain.
Repetition rewires the brain.
Repetition rewires the brain.
When Johns Hopkins researchers gave psilocybin to volunteers and scanned their brains, they expected to see more neural activity. Instead, they found the opposite.
The default mode network, your brain’s primary filter system, went almost completely dark. Blood flow dropped by up to 60% in regions responsible for maintaining your sense of self and screening incoming information.
And that’s exactly when participants reported the most vivid, meaningful experiences of their lives.
Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris discovered something that breaks our basic assumptions about consciousness. In his studies, the intensity of psychedelic experience correlates inversely with brain activity. The quieter the brain, the richer the perceived reality. Volunteers consistently described accessing information and perspectives that felt more real and true than their baseline consciousness.
One participant put it perfectly: “It wasn’t like I was imagining things. It was like I stopped imagining things.”
Consider what your brain filters out right now. You can’t see the electromagnetic spectrum beyond visible light, even though it’s flooding through your body every second. You can’t hear the ultrasonic communications happening between animals around you. You can’t feel the gravitational waves from colliding black holes rippling through spacetime.
But the filtering goes deeper than sensory limitations.
Take change blindness experiments. Researchers have people watch videos where major elements of the scene change completely between cuts. A person’s shirt changes color. Buildings disappear. An entire conversation partner gets replaced by someone else mid-dialogue. Most viewers notice nothing. Your brain shows you continuity even when reality is shifting dramatically.
Or consider inattentional blindness. In the famous gorilla experiment, people counting basketball passes fail to notice a person in a gorilla suit walking directly through their field of vision. The information hits your retina perfectly. Your brain discards it as irrelevant before you become conscious of it.
Now imagine this filtering happening at levels you can’t measure. What if your brain doesn’t just edit out obvious distractions? What if it edits out entire dimensions of information that would overwhelm your survival priorities?
Neuroscientist Eben Alexander experienced this firsthand during a coma caused by bacterial meningitis. His neocortex, the brain region responsible for filtering and organizing conscious experience, shut down completely for seven days. During that time, he reported accessing what felt like direct, unfiltered contact with reality itself. No sense of separation between observer and observed. No categorization or prediction. Just pure information flow.
The experience was so vivid and structured that he spent years trying to reconcile it with his neuroscience training…
Evolution built your consciousness for survival, not accuracy. The human who notices every detail of every moment doesn’t last long in environments with predators. The human who automatically filters the world into “threat,” “food,” “mate,” and “ignore” lives long enough to reproduce.
What psychedelics might do is temporarily disable the survival filter and let raw reality through.
UCLA researchers also found that people on psychedelics show increased connectivity between brain regions that normally don’t communicate. Areas responsible for vision start talking directly to areas responsible for emotion and memory. The rigid hierarchies that usually control information flow break down.
Instead of perception flowing through the usual bottlenecks and filters, information moves freely between systems that evolution separated for good reasons.
The results match reports from users across cultures and centuries. Heightened awareness of connection between all things. Dissolution of the boundary between self and environment. Direct access to information that feels more fundamental than normal thought.
What if consensus reality isn’t reality? What if it’s just the narrow slice of available information that keeps seven billion filtering systems functioning in approximately the same way?
The consistency of our shared hallucination doesn’t make it true.
It just makes it useful.
Your sober mind might be the altered state.
It is incredibly likely that any extraterrestrials we interact with will be somewhat humanoid. And there is simultaneously little doubt that if we fully understood the creatures of the ocean, we would consider them far more alien than any visitors from the stars.
BREAKING🚨: Science confirms your cells hear you talk to yourself─ for your cells, telling yourself “I’m a mess” has the same toxic impact as running away from a predator.
Meaning ─ YOUR WORDS CAN ALSO MAKE YOU SICK!
NEWS🚨: Your Brain Can Learn From Events That Never Occurred—Meaning Reality Isn’t the Only Thing Shaping You.
Scientists discerned that a person’s neural and behavioral outcomes shifted when simply vividly imagining a positive experience.
@elonmusk@xai What's sad is the vatican holding information away from the public it might as well have burned with the library of alexandria if we can't see it!
Grok: The 3,300-year-old hieroglyph depicts Akhenaten and Nefertiti receiving rays from a solar disk, interpreted by some as a transmission of consciousness rather than sun worship, supported by the ankh symbols at the ray ends, which signify life in Egyptian iconography, challenging traditional views of ancient religion as mere mythology.
Recent studies, including a 2023 analysis from the Petrie Museum, suggest elongated skulls in some Egyptian elites, like those possibly depicted, may reflect natural macrocephaly or intentional deformation to emulate divine traits, aligning with a 1999 cranial reconstruction study debunking artificial deformation in Neanderthals but confirming its practice in other ancient cultures.
Archaeological evidence from Amarna, including this relief, hints at a technological or spiritual "firmware" concept, with parallels to Sumerian Anunnaki lore where advanced beings influenced human development, as proposed by Zecharia Sitchin in 1976, though his extraterrestrial claims lack peer-reviewed validation and remain speculative.
What's the longest you've ever fasted? I'm at 85 hours right now. I didn’t intend to fast this long, but trauma has killed my appetite completely.
I’ve been having bone broth, electrolytes, water, and coffee. This is the longest I’ve ever gone, and I’m curious—how long have others managed to fast?
As counter intuitive as it might sound, when two galaxies collide the stars within generally do not collide! Even in dense regions of galaxies, the distances between individual stars are vast compared to the sizes of the stars themselves. Galaxies are mostly empty space! ⬇️1/2