[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Rod_Cloutier', '
')One of the insights I received was about watching porn. How weird of an activity that really is. Like if you were in a house with a couple having sex, you wouldn't be in the same room watching them do it the whole time- that would be weird. Porn is the same. People forget that whenever you have a video of people having sex, you have a 3rd person in the room filming it- really, really strange. I think Kunstler who posts here on peakoil.com has mentioned how weird it is that in modern culture any 9 year old with a computer can watch live sex all day. Porn is weird and it is not a functional part of a rational or sane society.

(I learned nothing about the Mandela effect, which is part of why I took it)

[Tanada]

It isn't just porn really, all TV and Movie 'magic' have a much more profound impact than the vast majority of people realize. Our human brains are hard wired to interpret the data delivered by our senses and use that data to frame our concept of reality. If you go to a live stage production the production values even in the best of venues are still clearly a make believe world where make believe things take place. However in the last 40-50 years first movies and then TV shows have advanced so far in terms of special effects that your mind is fooled into accepting what you see and hear as 'reality' even though your conscious mind (for most people) know it is just a story made up for entertainment. The younger a person exposed to this alternate reality is the less conscious understanding they have of the line between fiction and real world events, to the point that if a fiction is presented as real in a believable fashion they automatically accept it as real even in the face of personal experiences telling them it isn't real.

For example modern American TV portrays all working class people as ignorant and incompetent, especially white males, and also portrays 'reality TV' where totally implausible scenarios take place with shows like Survivor or the Big Brother House where people do insane stuff to get more screen time than the other competitors. Meanwhile out here in the real world there has developed a severe shortage of people willing to work in the skilled trades. If you are willing and able to work as a welder/plumber/electrician you can make an excellent income with excellent benefits, but TV tells young people from earliest days that you must have a white collar college degreed job to make a decent wage with benefits.

The mismatch between what TV says about jobs and what the real world demonstrates is a massive gap, yet the vast majority of young people accept the fiction and ignore the reality.

[SeaGypsy]

Even more pernicious than the push to white collar jobs is the social media self as marketplace hype, i meet a lot of young people who are very aware of how many social media followers you need to make various standards of living. Some clutzes who happen to have won the genetic lottery (symmetry/ stereotyped beauty) & have a bit of coin to splash on clothing & travel, are becoming multi millionaires by their early 20s. The ridiculousness of lottery statistics don't stop people buying tickets.

[aldente]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Rod_Cloutier', 'I') was wrong, Ayahausca is somewhat addictive.

[Rod_Cloutier]

You can buy the supplies online, you don't need a session. I posted the recipe of how to prepare it earlier on this thread. You can buy the supplies on amazon.com and it will be mailed to you:

https://www.amazon.ca/Banisteriopsis-Ca ... B01N9MNUX3

You need both plants Banisteriopsis-Caapi and Minimosa hostilis for it to work.

[SeaGypsy]

Not necessarily. Anyway where i live importing these is illegal. As is possession of an array of native acacias.

Aldente, search up a guy called Julian Palmer.