davebryand

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by davebryand 6y ago
That this is needed in one’s life is a sign that you are probably wasting your life.
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by davebryand 6y ago
Thanks Tom! Your profile quote pretty much sums it up: “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate” ― Carl Jung
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by davebryand 6y ago
This is exactly the type of thing we can explore that pays dividends in ways that has a halo effect over everything in our life, not just our startup performance. Thanks for mentioning!
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by davebryand 6y ago
So much of the advice I see from YC (PG in this case, I know he isn't YC, but it's all cut from the same cloth) is about how to change your outer circumstances to accommodate inner impediments, such as Fear. They'll offer hac
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by davebryand 6y ago
If Egoless Programming is powerful, imagine what we could do with Egoless Living!
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by davebryand 7y ago
It's interesting that in the study they described, performed on blindfolded people, that their descriptions have similarities to the DMT experience: >>> One subject, a 29-year-old woman, saw a green face with big eyes when she
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by davebryand 7y ago
"Thus the discovery of these new properties of the atmosphere not only opened up the possibility of transmitting, without wires, energy in large amounts, but, what was still more significant, it afforded the certitude that energy could
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by davebryand 7y ago
I had a similar experience. I was a burnt out YC startup founder in SF with a wife and kids whose life I was missing, and everything felt off track. I started working with a life coach, left my startup in the capable hands of my co-founders
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by davebryand 7y ago
Yes—Mahasamādhi has been practiced by yogis for millennia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahasam%C4%81dhi
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by davebryand 7y ago
I just ran `brew install awakening`--much easier.
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by davebryand 7y ago
Jobs did speak up about his LSD use at some points, but I think he probably transcended that and followed the practices outlined in one of his favorite books: "Autobiography of a Yogi", which I'd highly recommend to anyone in
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by davebryand 7y ago
It’s all true but though it’s easy to experience, it’s impossible to fully describe because it transcends rationality.
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by davebryand 7y ago
I’d love to understand how much of a role psychedelics in the creation of Apple’s story arc. Does anyone have information about where this has been discussed? Thanks!
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by davebryand 7y ago
Nailed it. It surprises me how few in this crowd has had first-hand experience.
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by davebryand 7y ago
I thought the same thing until I had my first experience. Now it's hard to maintain a materialist point of view...
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by davebryand 7y ago
Sounds like you are moving through spiritual awakening. Congrats!
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by davebryand 7y ago
The experience is easy to try but impossible to describe. You're often left with the impression that the dimension you enter (or however you describe what happens during a visit to the "DMT Realms") is more real than this lif
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by davebryand 7y ago
The laws of physics can't be violated. The human definition of "the laws of physics" is what has been violated, and this will continue for as long as human's exist and evolve our understanding of reality.
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by davebryand 7y ago
An enlightened yogi, Hindi, or Buddhist would say that the physical chair is also an illusion.
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by davebryand 7y ago
From Elon’s perspective, we live in a simulation, so it’s not faith, it’s understanding how the simulation works.
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by davebryand 7y ago
“Nature is more complex than we previously thought.“ The human ego is a hell of a thing...
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by davebryand 8y ago
Apologies, my mistake!
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by davebryand 8y ago
Scientific rigor is not just about gathering people as lab subjects, experimenting on them and publishing your findings in peer reviewed journals. In my experience, the strongest science, where the deepest knowledge arises, is by systematic
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by davebryand 8y ago
Ok, don't try it. :) Wive's tales and home remedies still circulate because they often work. Of course, you're not going to read that on Hacker News because it's biased by people wearing modern American blinders that don
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by davebryand 8y ago
When you try it for yourself, you realize that it's not.
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by davebryand 8y ago
Only for Americans in labs, though. It's totally fine for the rest of the world and our ancestors. I'm an American not in a lab and I do it all the time with life-changing results.
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by davebryand 8y ago
As someone coming off a three-day water fast (five days was my max), all I can recommend is that you try it for yourself. The lightness, clarity, and self-assuredness that it builds is lovely.
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by davebryand 8y ago
What stronger proof is there than direct experience? Edit: I would never want anyone to "believe" me, nor would I recommend anyone "believe" anything. There is only direct experience which brings knowledge, this is the s
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by davebryand 8y ago
Exactly! The fact there is a boundary between what is reliably and repeatedly observed in reality, and what science can explain means we need more people doing experiments on themselves to give scientists more data. If everyone tried enough
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by davebryand 8y ago
Me, personally, or as a discipline? As a discipline, remote viewing allows the practitioner to gather details about a remote subject (anything in the universe of which you can become aware) which is unavailable to the five senses due to dis

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