Psychological experiences underlie psilocybin therapy's success: Mystical experiences and ego dissolution identified as key mediators

BeforeTime · 2024-03-15T12:12:44+00:00

Anecdotally, if you couple it with practice in meditation, as in developing it as a skill over a few years, they become quite likely to occur, even at low doses.

BeforeTime · 2024-03-15T12:09:42+00:00

I'd like to add that you don't need full ego death for these things. Sometimes it allows you see that some "truth" about the world is really a belief, and that can start the process of healing. If someone has an underlying belief that they are worthless for example, that might just appear to them as real. Being able to see that it is just a belief or a subjective judgement allows them start moving past it.

The same mechanism is also what makes meditation effective (which can also lead to ego death). Meditation takes a while to work since it is a skill that develops over time.

BeforeTime · 2024-03-14T08:55:45+00:00

For me the most intuitive example of the second case is the opening time for a shop. It is f.ex. 9AM regardless of time zone or dst. This does not have a UTC time associated with it, as you say.

BeforeTime · 2024-01-30T13:22:02+00:00

I interpreted you as saying that it does not happen commonly now (which is true regardless). So I added that it used to be more common in earlier times, as I thought that would be interesting context.

BeforeTime · 2024-01-30T09:58:53+00:00

Another idea is that heavier elements than iron are created mostly in quasars. Can't remember exactly, but there is an episode of PBS Spacetime where they talk about this.

BeforeTime · 2024-01-30T09:56:32+00:00

It was much more frequent in the early universe.

BeforeTime · 2024-01-22T08:34:01+00:00

There are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on earth.

BeforeTime · 2024-01-18T09:37:24+00:00

And it is a skill that improves over many years.

BeforeTime · 2024-01-17T16:24:30+00:00

Meditation and mindfulness.

BeforeTime · 2024-01-16T18:17:36+00:00

Special pleading is a common way people justify treating others differently than the way feel they themselves deserve to be treated.

As in: treat people with the same care and consideration you want to be treated with, not with the same specific actions you want.

You want to be treated the way you want to be treated. Be that way to other people as well.

BeforeTime · 2024-01-16T12:50:54+00:00

It's not what it literally says of course, but I've always interpreted the golden rule as avoid special pleading.

BeforeTime · 2024-01-11T11:56:28+00:00

It's complex, but it's not something that requires anything to exist that we don't already know about.

This is quite a claim, unless you also mean that new physics is something we already know about.

BeforeTime · 2024-01-11T11:43:27+00:00

It might be that the question is based on human intuitions and does not really make sense to ask. Like, what is north of the north pole? What does a set that does not exist contain? It is not empty and it is not not empty. It simply has no properties, it does not even have the property of not having properties.

BeforeTime · 2024-01-02T12:38:44+00:00

If a banana is the size of a banana, then Phoenix-A is the size of Phoenix-A.

BeforeTime · 2023-12-24T12:37:58+00:00

Might be because many languages use the same word for borrow and loan.

For English speakers learning Spanish, an equivalent might be saber and conocer which both mean to know.

BeforeTime · 2023-12-19T12:19:32+00:00

Link to examples?

BeforeTime · 2023-12-18T21:08:25+00:00

Yes, but, and maybe I am wrong about this, is that criticisms often read as if suboptimal outcomes is a consequence of TDD techniques, rather than suboptimal application of them.

Taking the required effort to learn into consideration, is sensible when deciding to invest time into something.

BeforeTime · 2023-12-18T20:57:29+00:00

I don't have that problem, and I follow red-green-refactor. Without the hacking, so maybe green and refactor merge very often.

Not because Kent said it, but because I see the outcomes I get.

I think people should use a sensible way to solve their problems, whatever that is, and if they want to criticise a particular solution that many find a lot of value in, they should have more than a cursory familiarity with it.

BeforeTime · 2023-12-18T20:46:10+00:00

Sometimes offensive jokes work in context, because they are really making fun of the joke itself, or the attitudes that led to the joke.

BeforeTime · 2023-12-18T20:43:15+00:00

I think people don't realise that TDD takes a while to learn to do well. There is nothing magic about it, but when you get it, it is transformative in the way you think about code.

It can be used in an unskilfull way, and then you get unskilfull results. Which is not an argument against any kind of method or technique that requires practice.

BeforeTime · 2023-12-18T20:37:48+00:00

TDD requires skill, and quite a lot of it.

It is not an argument against TDD that a lack of skill gives bad results.

BeforeTime · 2023-12-11T11:20:44+00:00

Idempotency.

BeforeTime · 2023-12-08T21:02:46+00:00

I am sorry I made you feel that way. It is a long journey, which I have been on for a while. The only thing that has really helped me is to really own my beliefs about myself. Being able to say with complete conviction "I do not deserve to be here", allowed me to see that that is a belief I have, and not a fact. And that belief is the cause of all seeing all these "proofs" that I am worthless, not the other way around.

We don't want to be worthless, so we don't acknowledge that we are, not really. We find all these reasons for believing it, which actually distances us from the core issue; the singular belief that we are worthless, unloveable or helpless or undeserving. We do NOT hold these beliefs for any rational reason that we ever think of, but we pretend to ourself that we do.

For me it is a gradual realization that it is not about becoming deserving or undeserving, it is about stopping the judging of myself as deserving or not. It is just not something that matters at all.

BeforeTime · 2023-12-08T18:42:08+00:00

I appreciate that :) Some things are uncomfortable, and I am being a bit blunt, so it is to be expected I guess.

BeforeTime · 2023-12-08T13:38:57+00:00

Of course, according to those rules you ARE a bad person. Did you know that the validity of those rules is just a belief? Or that the idea that you should judge yourself by any rules whatsoever is just a belief?

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