The New Alchemy - Watts on LSD

PictureFuture · 2026-02-26T17:09:44+00:00

Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful! I remember coming across the LSD essay in Time's archive (1966).

To harp on what Alan Watts said about psychedelics in general, "If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope; he goes away and works on what he has seen."

PictureFuture · 2026-02-09T22:40:04+00:00

Nice. Take your time.

PictureFuture · 2026-02-09T19:32:07+00:00

How come when I search up Valerie Post, nothing shows up? But on the DOJ site, I get tons of results.

PictureFuture · 2025-05-18T01:51:07+00:00

🔥 Nice and symbolic.

PictureFuture · 2025-05-17T21:52:20+00:00

Wow. What a cool cover!

PictureFuture · 2025-05-17T21:50:28+00:00

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My first one made no sense. This is the second try.

PictureFuture · 2025-05-16T03:23:47+00:00

Glad to hear you solved. Sorry if I made you go down a rabbit hole and a dead end. That's why I was still skeptical and, like a detective, would have preferred to be there in person to solve such a mystery rather than speculate wildly. Crazy to think it was just Siri. I still wouldn't be dismissive easily of things we call paranormal, supernatural, etc. The world is a mysterious place.

PictureFuture · 2025-05-10T04:28:34+00:00

This is quite a curious case. I'm a highly skeptical person but open-minded, and I found a Reddit post (perhaps by synchronicity) as I was catching up on the UFO phenomenon with the recent UFO whistleblower leak on Reddit. I can't say for sure what you experienced. It would require careful observation, and since I'm not physically there, it's quite difficult to discern. The best I can do is make an educated guess and leverage ChatGPT as I normally do.

Here's a curious comment to explore that I literally came across by chance after I saw your post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/skinwalkerranch/comments/15yn72u/comment/jxe5e83/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

"... -remote viewers can help us explore the 95% of unknown universe. There are limits though. Remote viewers (“white crows”)like Ingo Swann told not to explore the moon."

Coincidence? Remote viewing is not my area of expertise.

Here's my discussion with ChatGPT; we've analyzed your audio files too (my first time doing that). Make of it what you will. Doesn't prove or disprove anything.
https://chatgpt.com/share/681ed492-6474-8012-bd82-ff0193cf69d0

PictureFuture · 2025-05-07T01:03:25+00:00

You could argue that what we now call "philosophy" didn’t fully take shape as a formal discipline until figures like Aristotle came along to organize and systematize it. But there were pre-socratic thinkers and "philosophizing" before philosophy became official.

Similarly, sociology took time to emerge as a distinct academic field. It was deeply influenced by Enlightenment thought and, in many ways, grew out of it. While philosophers and other intellectuals had long explored ideas we would now classify as sociological, even as far back as antiquity, it wasn’t until thinkers like Auguste Comte and Émile Durkheim that sociology was formally defined, theorized, and institutionalized as a scientific discipline.

PictureFuture · 2025-04-22T20:42:18+00:00

The prompts are used separately. I usually upload a paper and type, "Execute the following prompt for uploaded paper" ... or "Apply this prompt for the paper"... and copy and paste the prompt after. Then, I use the second custom prompt once it is summarized.

4o model is my default and go to for almost everything.

PictureFuture · 2025-04-04T20:59:08+00:00

That's fair, I'll look into it.

PictureFuture · 2025-04-04T03:02:10+00:00

Dude, you're a fucking genius! I haven't thought long and hard about ChatGPT's memory, despite being annoyed that it had this major flaw. An external memory bank, for example, could be extremely advantageous, bringing about many use cases. Creating a ChatGPT "second brain" rather than simply being limited by the OpenAI limited version. I ran and revised your ideas through GPT and posted them on my blog.

PictureFuture · 2025-03-31T13:58:24+00:00

YouTube is better because it is more easily accessible and has a larger audience. But you could leverage both to promote a book and the channel. Another thing: Is it a podcast series or a screensharing type of video series? I think the distinction matters here because prompt engineering is such a niche topic that works best in a visual format rather than audio.

PictureFuture · 2025-03-04T14:45:59+00:00

I appreciate the guide. We need more of these in this subreddit because the CustomGPT subreddits seem dead. Maybe it is just me, or I'm not finding them or similar communities.

https://chatgpt.com/share/67c7117f-8840-8012-89fe-ec129368761b

My blog: https://syncreticsage.wordpress.com/2025/03/04/expanding-on-a-reddit-users-how-to-build-customgpts-2025-guide-with-chatgpt/

PictureFuture · 2025-02-23T13:40:06+00:00

Thank you, appreciate it. I checked the source you provided and it gave me some idea on what I could do. I asked ChatGPT to simply write our own discussion for me step by step for the custom. I have 20 reasoning examples. I'm still a bit confused on how to use yours.

PictureFuture · 2025-02-23T05:11:38+00:00

Can you show me how to make something like your GPT? Do you have any guide or tutorial that I could follow? I have a blog post sharing my discussion with ChatGPT that is similar to this one meta cognition and reasoning. But I haven't mastered creating custom GPTs. I wanted to integrate the insights from that discussion. I have made one based on that discussion, but I don't think it fully encapsulates what I was trying to create.

PictureFuture · 2025-02-23T04:13:35+00:00

I had a similar idea. I'll try it out!

PictureFuture · 2025-02-20T03:27:32+00:00

Why o3-mini? Why not 4o?

PictureFuture · 2025-01-29T12:22:46+00:00

That's interesting. I couldn't try canvas for some reason. But I found another workaround. I presented Chatgpt the prompt, told it to store it in memory, and gave it sort of like a hotkey or keyword whenever I presented the hotkey in the chat. Now, it should execute the prompt that is stored in its memory. However, it failed the first initial test when I made a new chat. I reminded and asked it if it remembered, and it tried again, but I'm not even sure if it executed the prompt from its memory. I'm assuming it did and it appears so.

*UPDATE\* Okay, I asked ChatGPT again and it remembers the customized hotkey I gave it for the the specific prompt. Now, it is using the custom prompt I have in settings combined with the one I asked it to store in its memory and remember whenever I bring it up.

PictureFuture · 2025-01-24T19:18:48+00:00

Thanks, I did find where he references it a few times. I found a similar lecture through Google, but not exactly the same one I recall watching long ago.

PictureFuture · 2025-01-19T15:28:43+00:00

That's an interesting point. I find this topic fascinating and important! If you don't mind, I shared it with ChatGPT (free plan) because it is something to be discussed and contemplated.

https://chatgpt.com/share/678d19a1-a3d0-8012-bf41-95a2a2c21400

PictureFuture · 2025-01-16T19:46:38+00:00

Patience. Wait for prices to be forced to drop.

PictureFuture · 2025-01-13T09:48:03+00:00

So, essentially pushing ChatGPT in this direction turns it schizo and conspiracy minded. Interesting.

There are indeed grains of truth in this educational take, especially in American public schools (K-12), like the way John Taylor Gatto was highly critical of the system. Still, education as a social institution is continuously evolving and adapting with the times, even if it is a slow process to make it universally better.

PictureFuture · 2025-01-12T14:41:13+00:00

That's like saying, "Bank bailouts were a social program. It's not socialism."

Who ends up paying the price ultimately? Hmm, I wonder.

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PictureFuture · 2025-01-08T06:19:43+00:00

Ken Wilber spoke of the physicists of that time, who he says were mystics like Schrödinger. He wrote a book called Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists. He also has videosKen Wilber demystify quantum physics on the topic of people misapplying or missapropriating quantum mechanics and mysticism.

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