First listen to Danna Pycher on using hypnosis to treat trauma by breaking subconscious patterning in lower brain functions. Call this "top down": working from higher conscious states to lower.
Now listen to Ayelet Landau on the percentage of inputs to the brain that come from the senses. Most come from other parts of the nervous system and other "peripheral" nervous systems.
Now it is these resonances in closed-loop brain-chatter which are an important element in patterning, which is the "neural net" type of conditioned learning that we involuntarily engage in, which tends to take repetitive conscious experiences and relegate them to the subconscious. It is this patterning that is a significant factor in psychological addiction. This patterning, when it is mediated by monotonous social behaviour patterns in an entire community, is the main problem in the treatment of addiction. See Helena Norberg-Hodge on Healthy Personal Identity and Jessica Green on Architecture for Living Spaces.
Now listen to Giulia Enders, particularly starting at 7 mins 17 secs, on the enteric nervous system's connections to the CNS. Most traffic is from the enteric nervous system "up" to the brain.
Which suggests that another element of subconscious patterning could be coming from the "bottom up", so to speak! 😂 And in the first formative years that patterning may be more affected by the gut than by the other five senses. Perhaps go back and listen to Danna Pycher talking about early childhood.
Now with that in mind, listen to Claire Frazer on the differences in gut flora diversity between Amerindian children and American.
And this ought to give some idea of the nature of the connection from ingestion of entheogens such as plant compounds like N,N-Dimethyltryptamine and the various toxins in Brugmansia to the assiciated psychological effects, and maybe even to the actual experience of the subject at the time they are under the influence of the drugs.
Listen to Ariel Bissett on the effect it had on her to read about life in Latin America:
So one could consider therapies that work at all three levels: the conscious one, literature and music, the subconscious level Danna Pycher works at, and the preconscious level of the gut and microbiome.
This is a valid field for research: some news I got from the Wikipedia page on Ayahuasca.
The idea that human societies are power or control structures of some kind, be they military, economic, technological or political is simply wrong. At 1 minute 45 seconds, see how microorganisms respond to our attempts to control them
And it's an interesting example of linguistic convergence that the word culture has come to have meanings that are on the one hand psycho-social, and on the other hand biological.
Here's Sandor Katz talking about fermentation around the world.
And here is part 1 of Katz' series on fermentation in China.
Now that same fermentation process that preserves food, and enriches human cultures, goes on in the soil, and is part of the process by which plants grow.
And we can hack it, like the Japanese have been doing since the early eighties:
The microbiome is an integral and crucial part of practically every material cycle anywhere on earth. Micro-organisms in water are a major part of the carbon pathway into the atmosphere, ...
... but soil microbiomes sequester carbon. In the past few decades one third of the agricultural land has beeen washed into rivers. See In Ethiopia's South Omo It Hasn't Rained for Five Years. The solution land regeneration, ....
... and water filtration
So what is the role of information technology in all of this? It turns out to be what the people at Google call digital wellbeing. See Google Senior Executives Sidestep Senate Hearing Inquiry. Ray Dalio calls it radical transparency and algorithmic decision-making:
At 11 mins 38 secs, this process of feedback and how it affects intellectual and personal development is explored at a psychosocial level in this post: On the Psyche and Why Mathematics Works.
See On Connecting People for some of the necessary maths, and Blueprint For Progressive Democrats for some of the political and economic thinking in the area, and Lori on Loneliness for some of psychosociological angles. For the philosophical basis, see Julia Galef on Aumann's Agreement Theorem, and for the physics, see FT Illustrating The Problem With Modern Medicine. The importance of transparency is that accurate assessments of future potential cannot be done without people openly sharing their assessments. See Jason Bermas on Bilderberg.
So how did this come about? Well, I seem to be living in a story that Nick Cave is still busy writing. This was the first song I ever heard Nick sing. It was in 1999, and I felt like he was singing a dream I had had, but which I'd forgotten until I heard him sing this song:
So, having lived a life written by someone else, I think I could probably understand this book.
Now listen to Ayelet Landau on the percentage of inputs to the brain that come from the senses. Most come from other parts of the nervous system and other "peripheral" nervous systems.
Now it is these resonances in closed-loop brain-chatter which are an important element in patterning, which is the "neural net" type of conditioned learning that we involuntarily engage in, which tends to take repetitive conscious experiences and relegate them to the subconscious. It is this patterning that is a significant factor in psychological addiction. This patterning, when it is mediated by monotonous social behaviour patterns in an entire community, is the main problem in the treatment of addiction. See Helena Norberg-Hodge on Healthy Personal Identity and Jessica Green on Architecture for Living Spaces.
Now listen to Giulia Enders, particularly starting at 7 mins 17 secs, on the enteric nervous system's connections to the CNS. Most traffic is from the enteric nervous system "up" to the brain.
Which suggests that another element of subconscious patterning could be coming from the "bottom up", so to speak! 😂 And in the first formative years that patterning may be more affected by the gut than by the other five senses. Perhaps go back and listen to Danna Pycher talking about early childhood.
Now with that in mind, listen to Claire Frazer on the differences in gut flora diversity between Amerindian children and American.
And this ought to give some idea of the nature of the connection from ingestion of entheogens such as plant compounds like N,N-Dimethyltryptamine and the various toxins in Brugmansia to the assiciated psychological effects, and maybe even to the actual experience of the subject at the time they are under the influence of the drugs.
Listen to Ariel Bissett on the effect it had on her to read about life in Latin America:
So one could consider therapies that work at all three levels: the conscious one, literature and music, the subconscious level Danna Pycher works at, and the preconscious level of the gut and microbiome.
This is a valid field for research: some news I got from the Wikipedia page on Ayahuasca.
In June 2019, Oakland, California, decriminalized natural entheogens. The City Council passed the resolution in a unanimous vote, ending the investigation and imposition of criminal penalties for use and possession of entheogens derived from plants or fungi. The resolution states: "Practices with Entheogenic Plants have long existed and have been considered to be sacred to human cultures and human interrelationships with nature for thousands of years, and continue to be enhanced and improved to this day by religious and spiritual leaders, practicing professionals, mentors, and healers throughout the world, many of whom have been forced underground."We can't leave scientific advancements to the scientists, because theire specializations don't give them enough of a broad picture picture to be able to choose healthy directions for future research. We need a general population who are scientifically literate and who can combine specialist knowledge in new ways that serve the interests of the wider communities, not specialist career scientists and publicly funded or commercially sponsored research centers. Martha Carlin is putting this into practice today:
The idea that human societies are power or control structures of some kind, be they military, economic, technological or political is simply wrong. At 1 minute 45 seconds, see how microorganisms respond to our attempts to control them
And it's an interesting example of linguistic convergence that the word culture has come to have meanings that are on the one hand psycho-social, and on the other hand biological.
And here is part 1 of Katz' series on fermentation in China.
Now that same fermentation process that preserves food, and enriches human cultures, goes on in the soil, and is part of the process by which plants grow.
And we can hack it, like the Japanese have been doing since the early eighties:
The microbiome is an integral and crucial part of practically every material cycle anywhere on earth. Micro-organisms in water are a major part of the carbon pathway into the atmosphere, ...
... but soil microbiomes sequester carbon. In the past few decades one third of the agricultural land has beeen washed into rivers. See In Ethiopia's South Omo It Hasn't Rained for Five Years. The solution land regeneration, ....
... and water filtration
So what is the role of information technology in all of this? It turns out to be what the people at Google call digital wellbeing. See Google Senior Executives Sidestep Senate Hearing Inquiry. Ray Dalio calls it radical transparency and algorithmic decision-making:
At 11 mins 38 secs, this process of feedback and how it affects intellectual and personal development is explored at a psychosocial level in this post: On the Psyche and Why Mathematics Works.
See On Connecting People for some of the necessary maths, and Blueprint For Progressive Democrats for some of the political and economic thinking in the area, and Lori on Loneliness for some of psychosociological angles. For the philosophical basis, see Julia Galef on Aumann's Agreement Theorem, and for the physics, see FT Illustrating The Problem With Modern Medicine. The importance of transparency is that accurate assessments of future potential cannot be done without people openly sharing their assessments. See Jason Bermas on Bilderberg.
So how did this come about? Well, I seem to be living in a story that Nick Cave is still busy writing. This was the first song I ever heard Nick sing. It was in 1999, and I felt like he was singing a dream I had had, but which I'd forgotten until I heard him sing this song:
And today, well, listen to how he describes his work:
So, having lived a life written by someone else, I think I could probably understand this book.
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