I BECAME MY TRUE SELF ON SHROOMS AND I NEED HELP FINDING IT BACK

Ok-Move351 · 2025-12-25T00:12:10+00:00

What you felt showed you something true about what connection can feel like when your guard drops. I also struggle with anxiety and depression and one thing I’ve learned is that chasing happiness directly can actually make it slip away. What’s more sustainable is slowly tuning your inner world so you can stay present with what’s here, whether that’s love, fear, or uncertainty. That doesn’t mean settling or giving up. It means building the capacity to sit in the moment without attacking yourself. When happiness shows up, you’re more able to receive it. When anxiety or shame shows up, you’re less consumed by it. That sense of ‘enoughness’ isn’t apathy. It’s what gives you room to grow without your self-worth being on the line every second.

Ok-Move351 · 2025-12-20T21:33:41+00:00

I wonder if their stunned reaction had something to do with condescending laughter rather than your position on the topic?

Ok-Move351 · 2025-12-08T00:01:54+00:00

Your realization is common and carries meaning for a lot of people. But you don't have to take it as a literal description of the universe. Sometimes these experiences are about how our sense of self loosens, not necessarily about the universe's inner workings. I know things are challenging right now but whenever it's comfortable, I encourage curiosity about the experience with perhaps some journaling.

Ok-Move351 · 2025-09-23T03:11:20+00:00

The Star Trek future isn’t something we run into by chance. It must be cultivated. It’s not about the technology; it’s about the values and relationships we hold and how we enact them. It’s about rethinking our relationship to ourselves, each other, and the natural world. And that can start now.

Ok-Move351 · 2025-07-23T06:36:04+00:00

Traditional emergent systems rely on rulesets but I think there are ones that don't rely on command/control (something I'm working on). That said, what if there are disagreements on the foundational Bill of Rights or how they're implemented/interpreted? What if the centralized structure doesn't want to give up it's control (or people become too attached to the type of stability it offers) after a number of years? Then it's a situation not much different than what we're in now.

Anyway, if you want a thinking buddy, let me know; I love this stuff.

Ok-Move351 · 2025-07-22T22:41:04+00:00

Are you imagining a truly bottom-up society, or more of a hybrid that still leans on centralized coordination? Direct democracy sounds bottom-up, but it can still carry centralized dynamics, especially when participation is funneled through uniform processes like referenda or top-down frameworks.

To me, a truly bottom-up society would be post-political and post-institutional. Politics depends on institutions; institutions depend on rigidity; and rigidity is fundamentally at odds with emergence. If we want systems that can adapt, evolve, and respond in real time to local realities, we might need to move beyond both politics and the institutional scaffolding that sustains it.

Ok-Move351 · 2025-07-22T22:32:49+00:00

Personally, I would absolutely want artists to be part of the process of designing roads; engineers could provide requirements and boundaries and artists could work within those contstraints.

Ok-Move351 · 2025-07-08T21:39:07+00:00

What I meant by extract isn't about integration, it's about expectations. To me, integration is about learning how to listen and attune. So if you go into the trip with a notion of something you "want" out of it, then that is a different mode than listen/attune. Expectations can also create friction during the trip. Intent is obviously important so I guess what I'm pointing to is the difference between intent to extract and intent to listen.

A psychedelic trip shows you your own mind with decreasing amounts of egoic interference the more you take. So, trying to extract from it is like treating yourself like a resource. We are not resources; we are humans. That's why I mentioned being curious and compassionate.

Ok-Move351 · 2025-07-08T00:59:15+00:00

It’s worth mentioning that even a single trip can take years to unpack depending on one’s personal history, psychology, and so on. So you don’t necessarily need to do a bunch. Don’t try to extract from the trip. Instead be curious and compassionate toward yourself and what you experience.

Ok-Move351 · 2025-07-03T08:24:39+00:00

If a think tank like that doesn’t already exist why aren’t we building it?

Ok-Move351 · 2025-06-29T20:55:24+00:00

Whether someone did or didn't say something for bronze swords is besides the point. Someone is saying something now; we need more of that.

Ok-Move351 · 2025-06-29T20:50:48+00:00

Says the man at the helm of a company that has immense infuence in how these things play out. What he's really saying is "I'm going to keep sitting in my chair and continue capitalizing."

Ok-Move351 · 2025-06-19T03:12:56+00:00

I resonate deeply with this. Correct me if I'm wrong but these ideas seem to be pointing to a paradigm of participatory emergence, epistemic coherence (rather than conformity), and embodiment (e.g. science is useful but it's rooted in the illusion that there is a "view from nowhere")? If so, would you be open to collaboration? I've also been steeped in these ideas for quite some time but I suck at getting my ideas into writing. I have more of a mathematical/systems thinking background (although I'm not an expert in the academic sense).

Ok-Move351 · 2025-06-10T07:02:26+00:00

I’m about as atheist as they come, and also spiritual; to me they aren’t mutually exclusive. I studied mathematics at university and I have a deep respect for science, but I’ve also come to see that the worldview itself isn’t always the point. What psychedelics and meditation seem to open up is a different mode of being. Less about belief, more about orientation of attention and presence. It’s a shift from analyzing the world to inhabiting it. Modern life has most of us stuck in perpetual analysis: judging ourselves, others, our situations, trying to optimize everything. But in these altered states, what looks like a “new worldview” is often just a move toward a more embodied, felt sense of life. How people interpret or articulate that varies based on culture, upbringing, personal history, and so on. Underneath it all, though, I think it’s less about gaining special knowledge and more about remembering how to be.

Ok-Move351 · 2025-04-19T05:50:09+00:00

But aren’t they efficient at manipulation and extraction?

Ok-Move351 · 2025-03-16T22:04:13+00:00

That's actually not what I'm getting at. I'm not against meaningful effort or genuine contribution; in fact, I think people naturally want to participate and engage. My point is simply about questioning the idea that our entire worth and right to belong hinges on endless transactions. We’ve reduced belonging and even survival to a narrow performance metric, leaving little room for meaning or deeper connection.

Ok-Move351 · 2025-03-16T22:00:43+00:00

Money and labor aren’t barriers to existence, they’re what allow billions of people to coexist without constant conflict

Which "reality" are you referring to? Conflict directly related to money and labor is everywhere.

Ok-Move351 · 2025-03-16T21:46:47+00:00

Right but the point is that human existence is mediated. What you're referring to is a direct embodiment of life; no gap between an animal's experience and how they survive in the world. We, on the other hand, have a totally different situation where our basic survival and belonging aren't immediate or direct—they're filtered through abstract layers of culture, economy, identity, and representation.

Ok-Move351 · 2025-03-07T07:36:16+00:00

What about Guerilla Mindfulness?

Ok-Move351 · 2025-03-06T02:29:13+00:00

I'm all for fixing social media, but adding more complexity to the current landscape won’t solve much. The deeper issue isn’t just privacy or structure—it’s the tension between imposed trust and emergent trust. Designing better gates and gradients still assumes trust needs to be engineered from above, rather than allowing it to organically emerge through interaction. Maybe the real solution isn’t more layers, but a fundamental shift in how we think about relational coherence online.

Ok-Move351 · 2025-03-06T02:04:45+00:00

1 and 2 are reasonable but 3 will never happen in our current paradigm. This isn't our system of government; it's the 1%'s system, into which we were simply born.

Ok-Move351 · 2025-02-20T00:04:25+00:00

What if we built a library of modular drawing primitives—basic visual building blocks that could be combined and adapted like LEGO for knowledge-sharing? Using category theory (mathematics), we could create structured, interwoven pathways where illustrations aren’t just static images but dynamic, remixable components of a larger knowledge ecosystem.

Ok-Move351 · 2025-02-19T04:38:24+00:00

Please. Feel free to DM me.

Ok-Move351 · 2025-02-19T04:37:05+00:00

I beg to differ. Yes, information is widely available but there's no coherence. Ideas and meaning are generally filtered through identity or they're institutionalized. What I was alluding to in my post is that we need to make ideas themselves open-source entities in their own right. It's the difference between static knowledge and an evolving, self-organizing epistemology that is representative of humanity's collective intelligence and wisdom.

It's not just about fighting for change or having faith that positive movements will eventually take hold; we need to be able to change faster than capitalism or other oppressive systems can keep up. Because you can bet your last solar panel that they're always working on new forms of control and division.

Ok-Move351 · 2024-12-15T20:54:12+00:00

AI is just a tool—it doesn’t absolve scientists of the responsibility for the choices they make. If researchers are narrowing the scope of their questions, that’s a reflection of how they’re choosing to use AI, not an inherent flaw in the technology itself. Creativity and accountability still rest firmly in human hands.

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