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Re: Attention as the management of electromagnetic field lines

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Post by MrMcCall » Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 12:51 PM UTC

rramadass wrote: post #20

MrMcCall wrote: post #16

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Thanks, but we are electrical beings whose bodies have developed over eons within the Earth's magnetic field. All cell-biologic functions are electromagnetic from the folding of proteins to how molecules are flowed into and out of cells and their organelles. Vulcanization of rubber in the 1940s has left us mostly disconnected from the Earth ground. It is worth exploring. The unscientific call this fundamental connect…

Sure, studying with an open mind but a critical eye. The problem is that this field attracts more than its share of cranks and woo-woo theorists and so there is a lot of sifting to do. My personal interest in this subject comes from Yoga/Qigong and seeing how it might be mapped to modern studies in bio-electricity and bio-energy. As usual, wikipedia makes a good starting point for study - https://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

> studying with an open mind but a critical eye

Well said, friend.

Thanks for the links.

As to yoga, be careful "opening" yourself up to the prevailing winds of the universe. I highly suggest finding a mantra to repeat during your practices to focus on love, positivity, or simply our Creator.

Peace be with you friend, and thanks again.

Re: Attention as the management of electromagnetic field lines

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Post by rramadass » Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 4:18 PM UTC

MrMcCall wrote: post #21

rramadass wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, studying with an open mind but a critical eye. The problem is that this field attracts more than its share of cranks and woo-woo theorists and so there is a lot of sifting to do. My personal interest in this subject comes from Yoga/Qigong and seeing how it might be mapped to modern studies in bio-electricity and bio-energy. As usual, wikipedia makes a good starting point for study - https://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

> studying with an open mind but a critical eye Well said, friend. Thanks for the links. As to yoga, be careful "opening" yourself up to the prevailing winds of the universe. I highly suggest finding a mantra to repeat during your practices to focus on love, positivity, or simply our Creator. Peace be with you friend, and thanks again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41538322

Re: Attention as the management of electromagnetic field lines

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Post by MrMcCall » Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 5:20 PM UTC

rramadass wrote: post #22

MrMcCall wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> studying with an open mind but a critical eye Well said, friend. Thanks for the links. As to yoga, be careful "opening" yourself up to the prevailing winds of the universe. I highly suggest finding a mantra to repeat during your practices to focus on love, positivity, or simply our Creator. Peace be with you friend, and thanks again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41538322

Thanks for the excellent write-up.

I still suggest you find a good mantra for your yoga. "Brah-man" is what I understand to be the two-syllable Hindi name of the our Creator, but India has many langauges (13 official + 8 widely used, IIUC) so there are likely others.

Peace be with you, friend. I am at your service. Thanks for your service to the truth.

Re: Attention as the management of electromagnetic field lines

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Post by yowayb » Thu, Dec 19, 2024, 1:42 AM UTC

api wrote: post #4

bglazer wrote: post #2

I'm having a really hard time making sense of the whole enterprise of Qualia Computing/Qualia Research Institute. Like this particular subject (the nature of conciousness!) is rife with cranks, so they're starting at a disadvantage. They cite some real research published in Nature Communications, that seems at least somewhat related to their ideas, so that's promising. But then they're really (really!) focused on DMT…

It has a very Monroe Institute / Esalen at the peak of its history when Terrence McKenna and Timothy Leary were around vibe. Think of it as smart people with wide interests and often heterodox views shooting the shit but with some funding and a quasi-academic structure. I don’t know a ton about it but I’ve followed it for a while and that’s what it looks like to me. We should have more of this. Much of what this kind…

I think your first paragraph nails it. I find the "Satori to Silicon Valley" concept plausible in the sense that when experts (who study their subject for years without psychedelics) use psychedelics it could accelerate lateral/outside-the-box thinking. The rub is that I've seen a lot of people talk a lot but achieve nothing while doing much larger amounts of psychedelics over much longer periods of time. To me this clearly shows that psychedelics are at best a minor tool (and only to those that dedicate themselves to a specific endeavor). I agree there's a place for it, but the annoying thing about funding it as research is that laymen will run with it as if psychedelics by themselves simply improves life. I don't think this is true.

Re: Attention as the management of electromagnetic field lines

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Post by rramadass » Thu, Dec 19, 2024, 7:42 AM UTC

MrMcCall wrote: post #23

rramadass wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41538322

Thanks for the excellent write-up. I still suggest you find a good mantra for your yoga. "Brah-man" is what I understand to be the two-syllable Hindi name of the our Creator, but India has many langauges (13 official + 8 widely used, IIUC) so there are likely others. Peace be with you, friend. I am at your service. Thanks for your service to the truth.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41537499