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bergerjac

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About bergerjac

Jake Berger - North Dakota farmboy meditating in India.

former Software Engineer, now Human Engineer ( fully into ancient Yoga methodologies like asanas & Pranayama aka ("breathwork")

Recent public activity

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    Comment #46706165

    “It is likely that at least major portions of the Hoover Dam will still be in place hundreds of thousands of years from now.” From the article itself, the Pyramids are only 12,000 …

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    Comment #44137067

    Considering it’s not 1733, a future Belgian monarch has almost zero power.

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    Comment #37723909

    I used to have have aphantasia. Now, I can visualize and pre-plan projects and events in my mind's eye. To get started I never did any techniques. Instead, I just listened to fanta…

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    Comment #36509057

    Exactly. All that (internal) emotion gets pent-up and he doesn't know how to release it, so he takes one final act.

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    Comment #36476422

    The effects onto men are more internal. Whereas effects onto women are normally more external. For example, a man could allow himself to be triggered into rage. And afterwards ther…

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    Comment #36476347

    My childhood conditioning was also something which recently unraveled for me. The first time I had a heart-to-heart with my father, the center of my chest felt viscerally tender. M…

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    Comment #36476154

    Did you communicate to the organizer about this? In modern society we're normally conditioned to avoid confrontation, but it's the best way to initiate a proactive solution.

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    Comment #36443536

    I've lived in Serbia, Croatia, and Hungary... The key is to go to networking events. (Or co-working spaces, or just show up at their company and say you're interested in working th…

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    Comment #31930237

    In 11th-grade 'Honors' Chemistry, we ran the 'Which water freezes faster' experiment outside in ~0℉. 2 glass beakers with same amount of water: 1 hot, 1 cold, stirring both at the …

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    Comment #31930226

    In 11th-grade 'Honors' Chemistry, we ran the 'Which water freezes faster' experiment outside in ~0℉. 2 glass beakers with same amount of water: 1 hot, 1 cold, stirring both at the …

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    Comment #31106166

    Multiple times, I've performed a multi-hour intestinal cleanse from the Yogic disciplines. And many times there is a mental-emotional release hours later.

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    Comment #29444308

    Just because people are perceiving the "present day right wing [characterizing] Sanskrit", doesn't mean that everyone interprets & connects that with Sanskrit. I engage with the la…

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    Comment #29100745

    This question is a Catch-22… I know a Mexican, who knew that his way out, was by getting in somewhere better. He applied to a German University, with zero experience with the Germa…

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    Comment #29007678

    Could you ask your engineering school to purchase some copies for a 'software engineering' library? Or.. When I was doing an internship, my boss said they'd basically buy me any bo…

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    Comment #28525605

    Humans will get used to it. (Technology) Adoption Life Cycle always has the more 'ready' groups leading the way. "the East" is more 'ready' for this type of technology.

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    Comment #28375339

    When people try to insult me, sometimes instead of 'taking the insult & emotion in' ("personally")… I purposely hallucinate their words as text like closed captions.

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    Comment #24937692

    It's to help us see through all the liars in power.

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    Comment #23492747

    Seems like a great application for Elon's Neuralink.

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    Comment #21820288

    > Software wages have also stagnated for ten years. Where did you get that data? > everyone [is] highly expendable even the best of the best? Anyone, in any industry, who fails to …

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    Comment #19959153

    The best way I've found is to imagine a physical tree, and perhaps go outside and stand in front of a big one... Notice there are 2 types of parts: - A leaf, which is the end (has …

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    Comment #19555730

    Blogs have done this for years via a "pingback". There could be some confusion between "taking" and "sharing"... He never claims to own the photo. He credits the original content c…

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    Comment #19493106

    Standing on the shoulders of giants... I've found most "new" teachings are based on past geniuses, with a modern-day twist to compensate for slang or technology... I took a 10-day …

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    Comment #19415579

    Why don't you ask yourself that same question right before bed one night.. 'Ask and you shall receive'

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    Comment #19415449

    Here's an experiment.. ask a question, out-loud, with intent, immediately before a nap..

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    Comment #19415439

    This! The subconscious mind is FAR more powerful than the conscious mind.. It's the part of the mind which is always operating.. A sure-fire tactic is to ask yourself a question ri…