Common Threads

Death

• Death in all forms increases the chances of spiritual awakening
  • NDEs (not sure whether they should be considered resurrection cases actually)
  • Psychedelics
  • Ego death, 無我 practices
    • Meditation
    • “Zone”

Internal Consistency

• 知行合一 is not a nicety to others, but rather a way to align internal forces

Daily Practices

• Vegetarian lifestyle is not merely a matter of compassion for other animals (although it is), but apparently meat and heavy spices makes one feel more “heavy” in some way.
• Abstinence is not a masochistic way to live one’s life, but rather, it is a conscious preference for those embarking on the spiritual path.
• Local food is apparently quite important. I suspect microbes carry more information than we are aware of.

Spirits

• Intelligence is at most a couple hundred lines of C code (GPT), lots of simple computation units, gradients, and lots of data. Does not require “life” and does not require “reproduction”.

Philosophy

• Knowledge is just a belief in the Truth. Truth is subjective. The belief does not have to be justified.
• Objective Truth is justified belief.