Thank you for the shout out :)
I can't be certain but I have a pretty strong inclination about what that Lake Mead canyonland paranormal experience was and why it happened.
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Great stuff! I already knew a good amount of your story but this offered new and greater detail so it was great to get to know you better.

Loved the parts about religion, spirituality, cryptochrome, psychedelics, and past lives, for sure. @npub1756j6... sounds like he would enjoy my research as I avoid dogmatistic attachment to any given tradition, explore them all with open mind, avoid throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and try my hardest to remain grounded in science to support my positions.

My research into near death experiences echoes what you said, that it's not just the panoramic life review. One experiences the domino effects of one's actions and this, I believe, is the single greatest force of karma there is. We are our own judge in that moment. If we horrify ourselves, we're going to want to "go back" and seek to rebalance the scales, so to speak, and make up for our missteps. The single most effective path to eliminating karmic debts is forgiveness and "letting it go" (but not necessarily forgetting).

Loved getting the recap of your spiritual experiences with meditation. It's been a while since we first talked about that. I believe kundalini awakening was how we first connected on X before you took the orange pill :) That was super helpful to me because I was still early in my exploration of how varied kundalini experiences can be. That seems like a lifetime ago lol. Since then I've stacked over 200 books and written over 200 pages.

🙏We are not apart from nature; we are a part of nature.🙏

Very interesting story about the Lake Meade canyon land areas.🤔
It sounds like I need to visit that place and have a look at the petroglyphs and see if anything stands out to me. I visited Cahokia Mounds with @npub15ymzg... a while ago and while it wasn't a petroglyph, I did notice some very interesting symbols on the tourist info signs that were distributed upon "Monk's Mound".

I wouldn't be shocked if the Lake Meade light experience was some kind of UAP event. The owl encounter may very well have been a confirmation of that as owls are technically "raptor" birds. Raptor and rapture are clearly related. Both consist of "Ra" and "pt" which suggests "opener of the light" or "sculptor of the light". My research has yielded cause to consider the idea that raptor birds are used by "higher beings" to warn or to affirm. I would consider that owl sighting to have been an affirmation of the light experience. My interpretation is that it was an anomalous experience caused by "higher beings" intended precisely to encourage all who experienced it to seek answers. Seeking truth is something they encourage with these types of events.

I got kicked off of Twitter because I got excited about my discovery of how sarcophagi were used in Egypt, created a thread, and then shared the link to that thread with a couple dozen friends via DMs. Twitter's algo flagged that as SPAM and declared me an "inauthentic user". Attempts to appeal the suspension never yielded anything other than automated responses, likely because I didn't pay for a blue check. It probably didn't help my case that I'd blocked a few hundred XRP accounts. 😅

@npub1v9rsz... thanks for the shout out brother. 🫂 Just earlier tonight, I mentioned our walk through Milwaukee where you and my college buddy's girlfriend set an example the world needed to witness.

Anik, I'm glad you mentioned the Steiner/Waldorf School. I was studying a table that relates the signs of the zodiac to, among other things, 7 year chunks of the human lifespan. It reminded me of what you taught me about how Steiner broke up the education process into three 7 year chunks. Lines up perfectly.
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A big problem is that text based communications lack body language and intonation. What may come off as neutral in person can be perceived as inflammatory over text.

If I've learned anything from studying so many religions while seeing bullets and bombs flying in the name of God, it's that humans are not very good at interpreting text.

@nevent1qvz...

I refer to that issue as "the nanny state".

Education is one of my wheelhouse subjects so if you want a primer, let me know and we can arrange a conversation of some sort.

I follow Ben but I don’t subscribe to flat earth. I’m also not a fan of the divisive racial/religious content he puts out. I will definitely give him credit for being an outside the box thinker though. That has recently yielded me an interesting insight on the spiritual benefits of high elevation living as it pertains to theta neural oscillation band synchronization.

Many early Bitcoin/crypto people are either uneducated on logical fallacies or they are just hypocrites.

“I was right about Bitcoin, therefore you should listen to me on subject X” is the composition fallacy a.k.a. the “part-to-whole” fallacy.

Just because the tires are made of rubber, doesn’t mean the whole car is made of rubber.

I see this same logical fallacy committed by religious dogmatists, racists, Democrats, Republicans, etc.

I’m with you dude. My research methods have been almost entirely devoid of AI usage.

In order to gain high level overviews of tradition X or philosopher Y, I used others YouTube content. If I wanted to explore, say, Giordano Bruno, I would search his name, throw a playlist of half a dozen videos about him together, and listen through them all, figuring that some videos will cover things others didn’t and, in general, they’d offer me the ability to “triangulate” a decent approximation of who Bruno was and what he was about.

If that process yields signal rather than noise, then I would follow up by buying physical books by him or about him to study later on. In the last 2~3 years I’ve stacked well over 200 books on dozens of topics.

I read. I underline. I harvest quotes. I write my own content and incorporate quotes as appropriate. Almost none of the over 200 pages I have written up consists of AI generated content. There’s a little bit in there, but I presently have zero AI subscriptions, so anything AI generated came from the fact that search engines have integrated AI into their offerings of search results.
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“Patience is the ladder of the philosophers, and humility is the key to their garden.”

Me reading Fulcanelli

Does this mean we have to start calling King Tut "Gizachad" now?