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Millionaire’s Law: An Idea To Feed The Hungry

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Quick Fact

-Many people are starving in this world, and having everyone pitch in will solve this problem for good!

Intro

We have many wealthy people in America and around the world. Unfortunately, even though these people take care of their needs and the needs of everyone immediately around them, they tend to hold onto their money with a tight grasp and an armored heart. This is why we should push for a law that changes this.

What Is The Millionaire’s Law?

The law is simple in concept and difficult to execute; if a person/company makes $1,000,000 or more per year a certain amount is required to go towards food/water/shelter for the people who need it. My number is $10,000 per $1,000,000 earned, I want $10,000 out of every million/yr to be put towards human wellbeing as required by law, however, I am uncertain of what a reasonable number looks like. For clarity’s sake, this means that if a company earns $4,000,000 in a year, $40,000 of that goes to charity; the fee increases or decreases depending on how many millions they make.

If and when the law is purposely disobeyed the disobeying party is to pay double the amount per million they make. If and when they disobey the new punishment they are to step down from the position they’re in and have somebody competent run the company/project. 

We can also make it simple; when the payment is due all they have to do is pay to a certain organization. That organization is then responsible for making sure the money is given to groups and organizations that are providing food/water/shelter to those that need it. 

Also, we can create this law so it affects people who’ve already earned a lot of money but who are unwilling to give it away. We can name names and tell specific people to give some of what they have or else they’ll face severe consequences, such as Jeff Bezos. If we do not require certain rich people to pay towards human wellbeing we’ll certainly be missing out on a more wonderful life!

Why Implement It?

People’s well-being is more important than obtaining money. Many wealthy people are wealthy because they are heartless, because they’re okay with screwing other people over and getting rich off of their ignorance. ML should be implemented as a counter to this, we don’t want people getting wealthy and creating monopolies without giving back!

Final Thoughts

This is different from socialism because only a small amount of people are required to donate, and because the capitalist structure still stays in place.

We the people have the power to push for this and make it happen! This isn’t something we have to sit around and wait for someone else to do, we can write a representative and propose that this become law right now! I highly, highly encourage you to do so! 

Conclusion

Thank you for reading my idea! If this resonates with you I encourage you to do your best to make it happen :). See you in the next post!

On Oxytocin

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Quick Facts

-Oxytocin is our love chemical! It makes us feel amazing, it enhances trust and empathy with our partner, it stabilizes our overall psychological stability, trust, and relaxation levels, it reduces behaviors infidelity, particularly with women who have a lot of interactions with strangers of the opposite sex… And more!

-Oxytocin can encourage favoritism and prejudice, envy and dishonesty! If we love one, we are more than likely to feel the opposite towards another.

Intro

Oxytocin is becoming much more popular and well-known as time goes on! It’s considered the love hormone because of how it’s produced, however, I’ll love to shed some light on what it does and how it’s very good for us.

What Is Oxytocin?

Oxytocin is a hormone that acts as a neurotransmitter. It’s often considered to be connected with love and pleasure, and it’s produced in the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland. 

What Does It Do?

It does a lot of things for us:

-It’s in the same ballpark as serotonin, dopamine, and your endorphins in the sense that it makes you feel amazing! Oxytocin is a pleasure chemical, and that’s one of the main reasons I’m writing about it right now 🙂

-It has many positive effects on our relationships including enhanced trust, empathy, positive relationship memories, getting to it, and positive communication with your partner.

-It greatly increases our overall psychological stability, trust, and relaxation levels. It definitely reduces stress and anxiety in our bodies!

-Oxytocin helps us be more sociable, and it may help autistic people to be more socially aware. That’s pretty cool!

-A healthy level of oxytocin helps the mother through labor, and it greatly helps the mother bond with her baby. It’s released when the baby attaches to her breast, which releases the milk.

-A healthy level of oxycontin in the father encourages him to point out certain objects to the baby and encourage them to explore.

-It probably encourages males to keep a greater distance from attractive strangers and engage in social/sexual activities with their partner, which makes them feel good, thus creating a behavior loop.

-Oxytocin reduces behaviors associated with infidelity, particularly with women who have a lot of interactions with strangers of the opposite sex. 

-It decreases the novelty of interacting with a stranger. I’ve personally experienced this!

-Oxytocin can encourage favoritism and prejudice, envy and dishonesty. This makes sense since we associate certain people and activities with feeling good, and we can treat the activities and/or people that don’t make us feel good as if they “have to be dealt with” so that we can get back to feeling good. This can be remedied with understanding that we can produce oxytocin and other feel-good chemicals whenever we want with meditation!

How Can We Produce More of It?

That’s a lot of positives when compared to the other pleasure chemicals! So, if we feel like we want more of it, how do we get it?

Romantic interactions with a singular partner seem to be the best way to do this, although I wouldn’t be surprised if those of you who are in open relationships experience oxytocin as well! Cuddling, engaging in conversation, doing things together, and sex are all ways to increase both of your oxycontin levels. Having children and bonding with them is also a great way to produce oxytocin!

You can produce it through meditation, and particularly while thinking the thought, “I choose to produce more oxytocin” over and over again. I personally vouch for this because I’ve been doing it all day today, and it’s been working!

Yoga, listening to and making music, massages, spending time with friends, empathetic and deep conversations, cooking and eating (healthy) food with the partner you love, doing nice things, and petting animals all increase our oxytocin levels 🙂

Final Thoughts

I wouldn’t be surprised if oxytocin is the feeling of love that everyone wants to feel! What’s interesting to me is that we can feel it on our own without anyone else if we want to, and perhaps this is a way to revive relationships that are sinking – that is, both partners individually choose to produce more oxytocin with themselves and each other on a consistent basis. It’s very important for well-being anyways, even if you’re single 🙂

Conclusion 

Thank you for reading my article! I’m deeply grateful that you’re joining me today and swimming in the sea of knowledge, and I’ll see you in the next post!

Sources

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On DMT

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Quick Facts

-DMT is an important molecule, and it has benefited many people in the past!

-We don’t know for sure whether or not we produce DMT within our bodies, although some experts have used logic and their knowledge of biology to deduce that we do!

-We can reduce the potential risk of consuming DMT by taking the necessary precautions!

Intro

Dymethaltriptamine, otherwise known as DMT, is quite the important molecule! There is a mix of controversy, positive stories, and interesting stories surrounding DMT so I’ll enjoy clearing everything up as much as I can!

What Is DMT, and What Is Its Function?

DMT is a molecule that’s found in many different types of plants because it helps reduce herbivory, which is the consumption of plants by animals. DMT is a defense mechanism for the plant to prevent too many of their kind from being consumed too quickly. 

That’s great and all, but what does that mean for us? 

Well, we humans have been ingesting this molecule for thousands of years in the form of ayahuasca! Ayahuasca is a plant that’s made into a psychoactive drink by combining the plant (since it contains DMT) and a plant (such as marplan) that acts as a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) together. The purpose of DMT in this context was to have spiritual experiences that people describe as wonderful, healing, intense, amazing, and life-changing. And also, because we probably produce the chemical in our bodies without any assistance from these plants!

Let’s start with my latter assertion first… The controversy of whether or not we naturally produce DMT in our own bodies has been going on for a long, long time, so I went into the wonderful world of the internet to find some answers either way!

I found this post and it introduced this study. They figured out that the rat brain is able to synthesize and produce DMT, and that it was being produced from several parts of the brain including the neocortex and the hippocampus. They came to the conclusion that “DMT is produced naturally from neurons of the mammalian brain and may contribute to some aspects of higher-order brain functions (such as conscious information processing, or learning/memory, etc), though much remains to be explored experimentally.”

Mighty interesting… But even still, no one has directly confirmed that DMT is naturally produced in our bodies other than Borjigin who I quoted above. Borjigin was experimenting with rats, however, and though many have used logic and their knowledge of biology to confirm that DMT is produced in our brains it hasn’t been scientifically confirmed as of the publish date of this post.

As A Psychedelic

Then we have DMT as a psychedelic. Some of us drink the ayahuasca brew and some of us smoke it, but either way, it’s been said that it’s the most powerful psychedelic on the planet, especially when it’s smoked. 

There have been reports of people talking to our ancestors and/or higher beings, seeing and feeling intense geometry, going underground, going to a circus-like setting, and having life-changing experiences. Everyone, and I mean everyone, I’ve come across who took DMT conveys an extremely positive message with tones of love and playfulness, almost as if they felt something so positive and so intense that they just had to share it with me!

This is mostly why DMT is so special. Sure, we may produce it in our bodies and we may be able to produce extra through natural means, but the real meat and potatoes is consuming it from the outside; it’s so powerful and so transformative that it goes far beyond any state provided by open-mindedness, meditation, or religion – and these kinds of states and experiences can be very powerful, too!

Unfortunately, the government (probably) knows this and they keep it illegal. I’m fact, I’m legally obligated to tell you that I do not advocate the use of this substance and that this information is for education and risk-reduction purposes only. Isn’t that sad? Isn’t it sad that the government makes a part of nature illegal (most likely) because they understand it exposes their scheme right down to the very core? I’m disappointed in the people who call DMT a “drug” that has “side effects,” it’s one of the best ways to heal yourself mentally and physically. You don’t get a hangover and you don’t experience any undesirable side effects after smoking it, 99.99% of the time it’s a positive experience that everyone will benefit from doing at least once in their lifetime.

Do We Benefit From This, Or Should We Leave DMT Alone?

DMT is very beneficial to your wellbeing, especially if you’re reading this post, and especially if you have the proper set and setting. The more open-minded, conscious, and able to surrender you are the more effective DMT/ayahuasca will be, and if you combine your set with a good setting (by yourself or with a conscious friend indoors or outdoors in a safe place) you’ll probably have a very good experience.

Also, it’s worth researching and/or getting involved in the search to find if we naturally produce it in our brains. If we do, and if we can produce an increased amount via meditation (like with serotonin) then we’ll be able to go on our own “mini-trips” without any interference from the law.

In my opinion, DMT should only be left alone if you’re afraid of the government’s hand unless you consciously intend to overcome your fear. Generally, this kind of fear is what makes DMT not so effective, and sometimes civil disobedience is exactly the right thing to do.

Final Thoughts 

I wish to mention once more that we’ve been ingesting DMT for thousands of years, and we’re still alive as a species! I also want to argue that our disconnection with DMT and psychedelics, in general, is part of the reason we’re suffering so much around the world. These aren’t party drugs that give you side effects and potentially ruin your life – psychedelics (especially the natural ones like psilocybin, DMT, peyote, etc), when used properly, give you a quality of life that cannot be overstated. And a species that takes psychedelics as a group is a species that is enlightened and capable/willing to work as a team towards a regenerative goal – that is survival, expansion, and enjoyment.

Conclusion

Thank you for reading my article! I’m slightly afraid the law is going to come after me for this one, but I will tell the truth no matter what!

I’ll see you in the next post!

Sources 

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On Depression

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Quick Facts

-Depression can result in a vicious cycle – a nasty thought appears in your head, you believe it, it makes you feel negative, you act out the negative emotion, and reaffirm the belief.

-This process can happen subconsciously! 

-One of the best ways to break it is to ask yourself, “which beliefs are making me feel depressed?” When they appear you can write them down, ‘disidentify’ from them, and stop acting them out. Then you can create better, more positive beliefs!

Intro

I wrote a post about depression on my website already… Even though it’s helpful I want to go in a different direction with this post and leave the old one as it is, there’s another perspective I will adopt while writing about something as deep and dark as this!

The Cycle of Depression

A fundamental fact about depression is that it’s psychological and biological at the same time. Whether or not a depressed person’s depression originates from a psychological or a biological source should be analyzed on an individual basis but psychological problems breed biological problems and vice versa.

Let’s think this through – in a hypothetical scenario, I have 20 negative beliefs that I’ve completely identified with and act out. Since I’m acting out these beliefs I will probably slump my shoulders, unnecessarily tense my muscles (especially my neck and face muscles), chew my food improperly, have a sedentary lifestyle, accidentally injure myself because I’m not paying attention to where I go when I’m walking… My body definitely suffers whenever I act out detrimental beliefs, and when my body hurts more detrimental beliefs will form, and the cycle continues until something terrible happens.

Let’s go the other way – if you genuinely have a biological root for your depression (genes, a low serotonin production, etc) you will feel and act in a certain way. Feelings and actions often influence beliefs to form, and if you feel depleted or if you don’t feel good a lot of the time you may form detrimental beliefs from that state of being (although maybe not), and the cycle continues.

I have seen people who were so, so deep into the cycle. So deep you guys. Their mind was warped, their body was warped, and they were genuinely beyond repair unless the entirety of humanity came to the rescue all at once. I’ve been in a pretty bad spot myself, and I successfully climbed out of it by dealing with my detrimental psychological beliefs and by taking some physical substances!

How To Fix The Psychological Part

From what I’ve observed, most of the depression in most of the people who are depressed come from psychological sources. Usually, this means acting out detrimental beliefs and the suppression of one or more emotions. 

It’s important to write down each and every detrimental belief that you hold, even if you don’t act it out. I say this but it can be easier said than done, it took me a long time to figure out each and every negative belief I picked up over the years. It doesn’t have to be all at once. 

How you figure out what you believe is you either ask yourself, pay attention to how you feel, or open your 3rd eye and see the playing out of the belief as an image or a movie. When you’re paying attention to a feeling/image/movie you can ask yourself, “Why is this here? Which belief (or beliefs) brought this into my being?” You’ll use your intuition to answer yourself and then you can write the belief(s) down.

Once you’ve written your beliefs you can begin the self-analyzation part of it. I encourage you to take one belief at a time and disidentify from it, which essentially makes it so that the belief isn’t part of your ego, or worse, possessing you. You can keep expressing that you’re letting the belief go until you feel like you can objectively criticize it.

Then, objectively criticize it. I like asking questions such as, “why did I believe this? What purpose does it serve? What are some better beliefs to believe that get me what I want in a better way?” Once I understand why the belief is there and which beliefs can replace it I go ahead and throw the old belief away and replace it with the new ones. Sometimes I won’t even replace the old belief, I’ll just throw it away.

If you do this and you still feel depressed you still have some negative beliefs that you haven’t written down and disidentified from yet. Negative beliefs have a nasty habit of hiding from you when you look for them, so a bit of searching (in my case, years of searching) and a lot of patience is the key. However, once you have truly disidentified from every one of your negative beliefs I wouldn’t be surprised if your depression simply ceases to exist!

How To Fix The Biological Part

So, what if your depression stems from a biological source? What if you’re physically suffering from depression even if it started as a psychological issue? 

This part is a lot easier to fix because we greatly value the physical world as opposed to the subjective world. You can go to any kind of doctor for any kind of pain and they will probably be able to treat you effectively, SSRIs do wonders for many people, and there are even ways to heal many chronic injuries.

I personally vouch for psychedelics, cannabis, psilocybin mushrooms, and DMT to be exact. The chemical psilocybin acts similarly to serotonin and it’s a better long-term solution than SSRIs since they tend to lose their effectiveness over time and psilocybin does not. The only reason they’re illegal is because they work, as I’ve explained before, but since they’re illegal you may have trouble finding/growing these things on a consistent basis. Thankfully, cannabis is easy to find/grow and you probably won’t have to take a whole lotta mushrooms before your biology becomes rewired for the better. DMT, of course, is a natural chemical that we produce so smoking it doesn’t do any harm to our biology whatsoever – quite the opposite.

Other Things To Know

If you’re in a depressive state I suspect that the most prominent belief looks something like, “it’s hopeless. It’ll never get better. No matter what anyone says I’m just going to suffer. Nothing works, nothing helps.”

I’ll address the last point and say that it simply isn’t true. It’s factually, objectively incorrect because even if you hold onto that belief as much as you possibly can, I know that 5 grams of psilocybin mushrooms will force you to let it go and heal anyways. Please keep in mind that just because you believe something doesn’t mean it’s necessarily an accurate reflection of reality. 

Also, bringing yourself out of your depressive slump may not be that difficult. It may be very easy! However, I write this post for those who are like I was, extremely depressed with little to no hope of recovery. I’m writing this post for my past self because this is what I needed to hear, and so I wonder if it’s what you need to hear as well.

And one last thing, you can do it. No matter if someone in your family died, you had a terrible life, you have PTSD, it doesn’t matter – you can heal yourself from your psychological bullshart and become the healthiest person you know! I recommend doing the psychological work first and starting on your physical ailments right after 🙂

Conclusion

Thank you for reading! I hope that following the steps above will work for you, and I’ll see you in the next article! 

How The Educational System Should Be Improved

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Quick Facts

-Our current educational system in America isn’t very effective! We don’t teach many things that we should be teaching.

-There are many ways of letting a child learn without having to rely on an institution to teach them.

-We should teach our children how to think, speak, and write. We should teach them all about mental, emotional, and physical health. We should teach them how to build and keep healthy relationships. And more!

Intro

The educational system has a lot of potential in America but it doesn’t live up to it, often through no fault of the teachers themselves. I’ve personally seen and met many teachers who say what the problem really is, and I’ll take the next step by offering some pieces of information we should teach our children and by offering some systems that work by replacing the educational environment. Enjoy the read!

Why Institutions At All?

It’s a good question. After all, children naturally learn everything they need to as they grow up and discover the world! We never needed schools to begin with and we still don’t, especially with how terrible many of them are in America – all we really need to learn is language and (maybe) mathematics.

Let’s think it through – if we had no schools then children would stay at home. Since they’re naturally curious they would ask questions and the parents would answer them. But since they’re naturally curious they’ll want to see the outside world. The patents let them see the outside world and, of course, they meet new people who teach them new things, often naturally. 

Depending on their level of curiosity they’ll ask more and more questions and learn more and more things as everyone around them educates them and as they educate themselves. As they grow up they’ll probably have many connections and have at least a few marketable skills, and they’ll have enjoyed it in the process since they were naturally being themselves all along.

Schools are not a need, but a want – we like to build these complex corporate environments and tell our children to educate themselves so they can make money in a complicated world. But what if the child did better by spending their time building a skill instead? What if they take the time they would have spent in school and use it in ways that benefit them more than school would? Many of us don’t consider these questions because we tend to assume that we know best and that they need to be taught what’s right (with some key exceptions of course)!

My answer is this: having these institutions can be beneficial if we are teaching our children the right things. This is the reason we have them, not because they’re just a place to send our kids to every day. We certainly shouldn’t make them mandatory, but a choice, and a choice that would benefit them if they made it!

Things Worth Learning

“Okay then, what are some things that are actually worth learning?”

There are some things that are worth learning early on in life! These things include:

-Language and math. If we cannot speak we may have a hard time communicating, and being able to count things and perform calculations is quite useful. We don’t need to overdo it, but if the child can and wants to excel that’s fine too!

-How to be psychologically, physically, and emotionally healthy. We should definitely teach our children some basic (and possibly in-depth) information about how to be and stay healthy on these three dimensions. This is one of if not the most important part of my post – I really want to see our schools teach this vital information to our children as early in their childhood as they possibly can, especially when it comes to the value of healthy food and how to cook healthy food.

-How to think, speak, and write. There are many ways to think, learning how to speak is an art in and of itself, and being able to write effectively opens up all kinds of opportunities!

-How to form and maintain healthy relationships. This. Is. Huge! If school taught us how to form healthy relationships instead of throwing us into the fire we would probably be okay for the rest of our lives regardless of the skills/talents we have/develop. Everyone has their friend type(s) and being able to stay within those friend groups (and to approach new ones) with great socialization skills taught in school is a solid solution to the lack of socializing that social media has brought upon us.

-Emotions and emotional intelligence. Can you imagine how far we’d go if school gave us an accurate description of every emotion, how it feels, what the long-term effects of holding onto that emotion are, which ones are positive and which ones are negative, and that we can more or less control our emotions at all times? We’d never have any questions about passion, confidence, fulfillment, meaning, love, happiness, intuition, understanding, or sexual desire because we learned about them and how to feel these things in school! This part is very important too not only because emotional fulfillment is important, but also because many of us in America are actively searching for it.

-Speaking of sexual desire, we should go above and beyond our normal sex-ed and give them basic information on how to genuinely please men and women. This will save some frustration from both parties later on in life!

-Intelligence and spirituality. I want our schools to show our children the works of intelligent and spiritual people, and what it really means to be intelligent and spiritual. This way they at least see the sides of life that, if they develop, will help them live better and more fulfilling lives.

-Real-life, tangible skills. Some skills that come to mind are woodworking, welding, driving, gardening (and generally tending to the earth), mechanical skills, and the option to transfer to a trade school for the last 1-3 years of high school.

-How to self-improve and how to self-realize! If you know how and which areas to self-improve in you’ll be just fine when you get out of school, and knowing how to realize yourself (opening your 3rd eye, psychedelics, strengthening your mind, etc) is… Well, the thing to do.

-Beliefs and intentions. Since beliefs and intentions are so f-ing powerful we should be learning about these within our first week of starting school! We should teach them what they are, what they do, how they can use them to live in well-being, and all about negative beliefs and intentions as well… As a start! As an extension to this, we should teach them how to distinguish between positive and negative (regenerative and detrimental) behavior and feelings since these are offshoots of what we believe and intend.

-How to stay strong in hard times. So many people just blow in the wind when a trial or a hard time comes around, but we should be teaching their children how to stand up during hard times and how to be successful while doing so.

-How to live a healthy, balanced life.

Our school systems should definitely be focusing on teaching these things instead of what they’re teaching now. Schools in America have gotten so lax that they’re producing graduates who don’t have a single clue about the things they should know, and this should’ve changed yesterday.

Systems That Work

I also want to give some alternate systems that work just as well (if not better) than the current educational structure we see in America. 

-First, we can have a system where we don’t change anything from what we see now except anything that is needed to teach our children what they should be taught. This is probably the most pragmatic solution because we can keep the structure the way it is and only make changes to accommodate the fact that we’re teaching our children all of the things I mentioned above.

-We can have no schools altogether. This also works as I mentioned above – we don’t have to make life so complicated, and I assert that letting life become simple again is healthier for us and the environment.

-We can build a system where no part of school is mandatory and everything’s optional, kind of like college! Does your child struggle in math but excel in woodshop? Pull them out of math and put them in woodshop! School doesn’t have to (I argue shouldn’t) be mandatory, and having school/parts of school be optional seems to be best for the child as well.

-Depending on the child/children in question we can give them the option to self-educate. This will work if the child is ambitious and expresses a unique interest in a subject or two, they should be allowed to pursue it/them and receive credibility for it. This can also work in combination with sending them to school!

-Also, we as parents can simply do what’s best for the child overall. I understand this requires attention and effort, but each child has their own wants, interests, strengths, and weaknesses, and helping them go in the direction they naturally want to go without interfering too much (IE, forcing them to participate in a broken school system) is definitely a better option for your precious child!

Conclusion

The educational system largely shapes how well and successful our children are for the rest of their lives. Right now, at the end of 2020, the school system in America is setting its own children up for failure by failing to teach them the proper things and by failing to encourage the parents to treat them in the proper way. It’s truly a mess, and I encourage you to take some of the mess upon yourself and clean it up as best as you can.

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