@RedTailHawk19

Thanks.

If you're on Signal, we have a Signal group chat for Flight Club. You're welcome to join that. DM me if interested and we can get connected there.

I've recently read Fulcanelli's book "The Mystery of the Cathedrals" and I'm about 2/3 of the way through "Dwellings of the Philosophers". Very worth your time if you're interested in hermeticism.

Yep. The deck is stacked against us.

In Japanese, the word for "problem" also means "opportunity", so the fact that the deck is stacked against us is an opportunity for us to grow, improve, & strengthen our spiritual muscles.

To your point, I just made a new X account at the encouragement of @BringFacts and it's so damn hard to get heard or seen there, especially without a blue check. BringFacts has been great, reposting my stuff, helping me gain visibility.

Thanks for the follow here. I appreciate it. I assume I earned that due to the research I presented to Daniel Prince on Once Bitten, episode 562?

I hear some George Carlin wisdom in this post, too. I just parted ways with my employer of the last 15 years. I outgrew that sweet spot between being smart enough to work but too dependent to rebel.

If you know of any employment opportunities for mathematicians who research like autists and communicate well, please keep me in mind.

I love that we each have the free will to choose to polarize in either direction.

I once worked at a learning center. I'd only been working there for no more than a month or two when I attended my first "new parent orientation seminar".

The "math lead" who had been working at that learning center prior to my arrival there was a very bright high school student who was about to go off to college.

In that seminar, the director of the learning center told the group of parents that she loved that math lead who was heading off to college and that she loved me too.

This kind of blew my mind because I'd only known her for no more than a month or two, as I said above. My concept of love was different from hers and that was something I needed to wrestle with.

Now I see the service of holding a door open for someone as an act of love. I see the choice to take the earbuds out of my ears when I'm checking out at the grocery store so I can converse with the cashier and make the cashier feel seen and heard to be an act of love.

There is always love to be found in each moment and we can always find a reason to express love for each person. It might be the only reason we can think of to express love for that person, but at least it's non-zero.

I don't consider it to be a loving act or a loving disposition to ignore or dismiss someone when they wish to share something they've found to be significant with me. Likewise, I don't consider it to be intelligent to dismiss someone at the first sign of disagreement. If I acted in that way, I wouldn't have learned about the subject of jinn/djinn when discussing reincarnation with devout Muslim Bitcoiner Ray Youssef on X a few years ago. I'd never heard of jinn/djinn before that conversation. That conversation would not have taken place if I had not asked Ray how he explains the evidence collected by people like Dr. Ian Stevenson MD, Dr. Jim Tucker MD, Dolores Cannon, etc. I knew, going into that discussion, that Ray and I didn't see eye to eye on the big picture, but that didn't stop me from probing his perspective to see what interesting insights might emerge.

That's emptying your cup. That's choosing the road less travelled. That's taking the saddle bags off of your camel so you can enter the narrow passage known as the eye of the needle. If you're unwilling to take the saddle bags off, the camel isn't fitting inside. If you are willing to take the saddle bags off, they're probably going to get stolen so, to enter the city and see what it has to offer, you must pay a cost and eat a loss. Eating that loss doesn't mean you will get no gains though, and you'll never know what kind of gains you could have gained if you don't shoot your shot. As Gretzky said, you miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

*correction: I was thinking of Japanese, not Mandarin

Heresy hunters feign as though they love their neighbors in order to engage in opportunities for ideological conquest.
Heresy hunters are looking for the first instance of disagreement as an excuse to dismiss the entire perspective of the other part.
That's what you are and that's what you've done in this conversation.

News flash: that's not love. Love does not seek to separate. Love seeks to unite.

A loving person doesn't throw away an entire perspective at the first sign of disagreement. Neither does an intelligent person. An intelligent person realizes that they've never learned anything from someone with whom they completely agreed. An intelligent person acknowledges that no one person likely has all of the answers, but many people have some answers. An intelligent person realizes that by dismissing the perspective of someone after the first instance of disagreement has arisen, they are disavailing themself of the opportunity to find answers that the other party may have. Disavailing one's self of opportunity is, strictly speaking, not intelligent.

I would encourage you to keep looking, even when you've found a single instance of disagreement. You never know what you may find. This is the lesson of Christ's camel and the eye of the needle teaching. This is the lesson of the empty cup Zen koan.

Your criticism is premature.
Typically the way it works is you wrap your mind as completely as possible around a perspective before you criticize it.
You heard a less than one minute long clip.

Awesome to hear, friend :)
Thank you for your conscientious feedback.
It’s heartening to know that a recommendation is well received.
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I'm very familiar with the Law of One framework but not at all familiar with the Wagner Sahel playbook. I think you've found an interesting parallel that is captured by the aphorism "there's nothing new under the sun".

The Mercenary Dependency Spiral offered in the link provided does remind me of cyclical patterns that play out in human affairs. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Pournelle's Ironclad Law of Bureaucracy seems somewhat relevant here too.

The Law of One offers information that is indeed consistent in major ways with every major faith tradition. Studying this material alongside lots of other stuff (Itzhak Bentov, Dr. Lee Sannella, Dr. Joe Dispenza, Gopi Krishna, the Bible, Dolores Cannon, Nicholas Notovitch, Swami Abhedananda, George Jowett, Dr. Ian Stevenson, Robert Monroe, James Churchward, Graham Hancock, Brian Muraresku, etc.) has allowed me to find common ground between various faith traditions and distill the common teachings that are core to them all.

My goal is to demonstrate to the world that each faith tradition is pointing at the same truths in an effort to dissolve the imaginary lines that divide humanity from itself, thus rugpulling incentives for religiously motivated violence.

Without the Law of One, I don't think I would have discovered how sarcophagi were used in ancient Egypt or how that ties in to kundalini, enlightenment, the fiery baptism of the Holy Spirit, djinn, dragons, depictions of the sacred heart of Christ aflame, etc.. Bentov, Dispenza, Churchward, Muraresku, Cannon, and Stevenson's work were also important to figuring that out. Each contributed key pieces of the puzzle.

I don't see a path to world peace through any other ideology than perennialism/omnism/syncretism. All traditions contain both baby and bathwater but dogmatic adherents to individual faith traditions tend to be unwilling to compromise any tenets of the tradition to which they are attached. Quoting my favorite band, Wookiefoot, "You see love in all, or you don't see love at all."