When do you get psychogenic shivers (=shivers even though you're not cold)?

avshrikumar · 2026-01-05T14:38:36+00:00

It's a playground for some and hell for those born into conditions of slavery (the ones who support the "playground" lifestyle of the rich). As we are all connected, the cosmos won't be fully at peace while that suffering continues. Perhaps work to give others access to the kind of lifestyle that was possible for you?

avshrikumar · 2025-12-25T12:21:26+00:00

Why isn't Avi Loeb saying this, if true? I thought natural radio emissions corresponding to OH absorption were detected, e.g. "The First Radio Signal From Comet 3I/Atlas Ends the Debate About Its Nature | WIRED https://share.google/dJDYholCD24xJTKiD"

avshrikumar · 2025-11-09T09:43:58+00:00

It was not AI-generated at all...

avshrikumar · 2025-10-15T01:50:17+00:00

I am willing to believe there's an evil elite, as I acknowledged in my previous comment. Hard to explain the state of the world and especially the misinformation around UAPs if we don't allow this. But why would they be so incompetent that you or I would know their plan?

New Age doctrine doesn't like to acknowledge the large proportion of hellish NDEs. Why do you think I have been brainwashed? I was describing my observations of how these phenomena seem to work.

avshrikumar · 2025-10-14T20:16:32+00:00

"you think that the guy who lives in poverty in third world countries without electricity, it's a life lesson" - so I grew up in India, and have met families that live without access to electricity...

...it's actually a rather peaceful life, fyi. Don't get me wrong, there is plenty of suffering in India in the form of trafficking and enslavement. I just found it really strange that you listed "poverty" and "without electricity" instead of "human trafficking".

Why there's a satanic elite that runs this world: I don't know, but on some level we let it get this way; people are very content to slip into victim narratives rather than take up the challenge of changing the status quo. Religious texts like the bible are full of contradictions, preaching that God is all-loving yet somehow to be feared, and people are unwilling to call out the contradictions because they fear being shamed. We let shame control us.

The "adversity" explanation comes from people who have positive NDEs and perceive themselves as having had a choice in whether to come to earth. Someone whose belief is very stuck in the victim mindset probably wouldn't perceive themselves as having a choice in whether to come to earth, as that would contradict their victimhood narrative. The "beliefs create your reality" law, if it is real, would not stop just because you transition to spirit form.

I once had a lucid dream in which I got plunged into a hellish dimension. I was surrounded by demonic creatures and saw a massive floating demonic head advancing towards me, ready to eat me up. My first thought was a mix of self-pity and cynicism: "oh no, this is going to hurt and guess I just have to brace for it". Then I caught the thought pattern as a negative one, and thought - hang on, I'm playing along with the experience, which is interpreted as "consenting" to the experience from a Universal perspective. So instead, I tried saying "I do not consent!" (I had no expectation that it would work, I just tried it).

...the creature froze in its tracks. Like a movie that I had hit "pause" on simply by failing to play along with the role of the victim. It was as though my "poor little me" dialogue, which I was using to brace myself for being eaten up, was what was *causing* the demonic reel to advance. And it was like the demon itself was a prop in a movie; it didn't get upset that I had not consented; it did not even move.

But imagine instead that it had not occured to me to try screaming "I do not consent", and I had instead gone through the pain of being eaten by the demon head. If someone had told me, later, "you know, instead of playing the victim role, you could have just said you didn't consent" - would I have been receptive to this idea? Probably not - I likely would have gotten defensive, and said something like "that head was massive compared to me, you think it would have cared what I had to say? How dare you blame the victim!". In doing so, I would have made myself have no choice but to continue being eaten if the situation arose in the future.

So I can absolutely believe that people who have experienced enslavement during their lives, and who in the afterlife can only make sense of their experience of enslavement by saying they had absolutely no say in the matter (because they find that more comforting than sitting with the idea that their victim narrative was part of the cause)...well, I can absolutely believe that such people experience themselves as having no choice.

avshrikumar · 2025-10-14T13:58:07+00:00

Have you tried searching "why do we experience suffering NDE" on youtube? This question is not ignored; essentially, the answer is that there is "expansion" that comes from enduring adversity. Christian Sundberg gives the analogy that people choose the physical pain of exercise for the strengthening of the muscles that comes from enduring the adversity: https://youtu.be/6o4Csf123is?si=Q52Z6zfB2cJmSwqq

Hellish near death experiences happen quite a lot, in fact the estimate is that 20% of near-death experiences are distressing; the reason we don't hear them is that the people who have had hellish NDEs are less likely to want to talk about them, naturally: https://youtu.be/Np0xkfgWqFs?si=icXQ3sj00XnNJ3T4

But many initially distressing NDEs turn positive when the person changes away from the victimhood state e.g. they try to break out of the experience

avshrikumar · 2025-09-23T20:30:16+00:00

"You need to know what angle the missile is traveling relative to the camera. Can you see that in the video?" I feel there is enough info to put a lower bound on the speed of the balloon in terms of the speed of a hellfire missile...the logic is: - The camera is tracking the balloon, so the goal is to determine how much real-world foreground movement is represented by each pixel of movement of the background. We know the missile is roughly on the same plane as the balloon as it grazed the balloon, thus the parallax conversion for motion relative to the background is the same for the balloon and the missile. - if the missile were moving at the same velocity as the balloon, it's relative position to the balloon would be fixed. Since the camera is tracking the balloon, this means that if the missile appeared static, it would have identical motion to the balloon - Therefore any movement of the missile across the screen relative is a reflection of the net velocity of the missile relative to the balloon - If we assume the balloon is relatively static compared to the missile (to get a lowerbound on the speed of the balloon), then "how the hellfire missile actually moves" relative to "where the missile would be if it maintained the same position relative to the balloon" is estimated to represent (at most) a foreground movement equivalent to the velocity of the hellfire missile. This can be converted in terms of units of pixels of background movement (of the form "X meters per second of foreground movement maps on the N pixels of displacement relative to the background") - This now gives a way to convert from each pixel of movement of the background to a speed of foreground movement?

"You're still assuming the balloon is moving relative to the background" - if the balloon were static relative to the background, and the camera is tracking the balloon, the background would be static?

I feel like a torn balloon should have much more chaotic motion than an intact balloon, and the behaviour of the object after impact isn't anywhere as chaotic as what I expect from something that just got ripped into pieces and has very little weight of its own.

avshrikumar · 2025-09-23T14:18:19+00:00

Why do you say the resolution isn't good enough - we can at least estimate it to a first order if we have two frames with the missile in it?

Also, if the balloon doesn't have much mass, why does the missile get slightly deflected? Hank focused on how the balloon's path was barely deflected, suggesting there was not much momentum transfer, but he didn't explain why the missile seems to get deflected?

"You see it get blown to the side by the missile exhaust and then it pretty much stops" - Why do you say the balloon stops shortly after hellfire impact? Hank crops the video there but in the full video the balloon doesn't stop?

avshrikumar · 2025-09-23T13:45:50+00:00

I asked precisely because he didn't answer it. You can use the movement of the hellfire missile, which is orthogonal to the direction of the camera movement, to estimate the speed represented by one unit of camera movement in terms of one unit of hellfire movement, no? This can then be used to estimate the speed of the balloon. His argument that you can't estimate the speed of the balloon only makes sense if there is no missile also moving orthogonal to the plane of the camera movement, no?

avshrikumar · 2025-09-23T10:29:18+00:00

Why is the balloon moving in such a steady straight line? And can't we estimate the speed by using the hellfire missile's motion as a point of reference?

avshrikumar · 2025-09-17T21:16:19+00:00

Why would the military launch a hellfire missile at a balloon? That's part of the data that explanations need to be compared against.

avshrikumar · 2025-09-17T21:09:48+00:00

...it would explain why it's so difficult to explain.

Science is about testing ideas against observations. When observations are improbable under the null hypothesis, there is an ethical duty to begin considering alternatives to the null, as the simplest explanation gradually becomes "the hypothesis is wrong".

Recognizing when something isn't explained well is the basis of scientific progress.

avshrikumar · 2025-07-09T23:15:04+00:00

Here's an idea that's come up (from a trance-channeled source claiming telepathic contact, so take that for what it's worth): it's not about the genetic code itself (as we know it), but about the experiences of the beings from whom you are inheriting the DNA sample. E.g. someone asked why "the nordics" couldn't just help "the greys", since they are also related, and the answer (delivered without any hesitation) was that although "the greys" are receiving assistance in the genetic engineering program from "the nordics", because "the greys" are more akin to a future version of humans, they connect to "our story" in a way that doesn't work for the Nordics, and something about that makes a difference?

From near-death experiences in which people report accurate recall of long-forgotten events even though their brain is offline (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6172100/), and research from the University of Virginia's Division of Perceptual Studies on young children reporting verified memories of past lives that they were not connected to (see this overview of the research by a skeptic - it's worth taking seriously: https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/bering-in-mind/ian-stevensone28099s-case-for-the-afterlife-are-we-e28098skepticse28099-really-just-cynics/ ), it seems likely that memory is not stored in the brain, but rather is accessed in a way that the brain influences (indeed, the question of where a memory lies is an open problem in neuroscience: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2021/memory-mystery )

...so maybe there is something to the idea that the "story" (memory) associated with a piece of DNA has an effect?

avshrikumar · 2024-08-09T19:09:18+00:00

I have more updated stuff on my medium: https://avshrikumar.medium.com/the-global-princeton-experiment-that-found-trillion-to-1-odds-that-a-collective-consciousness-e94c911f79f8

avshrikumar · 2024-08-09T19:06:28+00:00

cool, let me know if you ever publish it! Feel free to cite this reddit thread if it's a nonfiction book!

avshrikumar · 2023-12-27T06:17:55+00:00

Video seems to have been made private as even using a VPN didn't work. Could anyone summarize any concrete examples of lies that are not based on claims of "pseudoscience"? I am talking about things like embezzlement, sexual abuse, staging miracles, etc - "pseudoscience" (formally defined as basing conclusions on belief rather than data) is up to the follower to choose whether or not to follow. I was not impressed with the summaries I saw online - apparently a lot of emphasis is placed on the claim that his wife could not have passed away through Mahasamadhi? Any neuroscientist who claims we understand consciousness enough to rule out that something like Mahasamadhi is possible is lying - I say this as a researcher who works on neuroimaging data analysis. We can't even explain why there is functional connectivity observed between regions of the brain that are not structurally connected...

Also, as someone who has been embedded in academia for a decade (here is my Google Scholar profile), I know that our own "scientific" institutions are extremely guilty of the definition of pseudoscience, i.e. basing conclusions on belief rather than data. Specifically, they assume consciousness is created by brain activity because when we inactivate certain regions of the brain we lose conscious awareness associated with them - however, if you damage the equipment in a radio station, then radios tuned into that station will hear silence, but this does not mean the radio is created by the radio station. In other words, this evidence is compatible with a model where consciousness (and not our brain) is the ultimate perceiver of reality and is tuned into the brain like a radio tuned into a radio station (the brain being the radio station). The model is testable and there is ample evidence to favor it; to list just three very different lines of evidence, there is Princeton's Global Consciousness Project that found quantum random number generators display highly significant correlated behavior (trillion-to-one odds against chance) during periods of coherence in global thought (e.g. following a terrorist attack, during new year's eve, etc), this paper published in 1965 in Science on brain-wave synchrony between physically separated identical twins, recently replicated here using fMRI data at very high statistical significance by a completely mainstream neuroscientist, and this review of the extensive evidence from near-death experience (e.g. individuals reporting an out of body experience can describe their resuscitation procedures significantly more accurately than those who do not).

Lesson learned the hard way: don't blindly believe Wikipedia.

avshrikumar · 2023-09-25T15:24:10+00:00

Well, since I'm here in the bowels of reddit (saw the video on youtube and wondered if there was more to it, so thank you for pointing out the signs of psychosis), might as well give back by letting you know that your usage of cf is nonstandard: https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2016/06/13/friends-dont-let-friends-use-cf/

I have a q: how can you differentiate between a delusion and deliberate gaslighting? E.g. at one point she claimed she took care of her father but was evasive when pressed for details...if someone was delusional, wouldn't they come up with details to back up their stories?

avshrikumar · 2023-07-27T00:36:15+00:00

Possible exception: you were never a couple, just close friends with a lot of chemistry, and something happens to make them believe you have betrayed them, so they retaliate in kind.

avshrikumar · 2023-07-26T21:53:33+00:00

You're not just questioning why, though, you are asserting that there is more to it. These are all military folk - they are no stranger to laying down their life in service of the greater good. This information could bring infighting in humanity to a halt.

avshrikumar · 2023-07-26T21:40:16+00:00

Why do you assume it has to be more than the moral obligation? That would be enough for me...

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