Western civilization is undergoing a crisis in masculinity. Does a controversial tantra teacher have the solution?

In Episode XIX, The Multiversity Project dives into David Deida's 'The Way of the Superior Man,' and asks whether men need to become more masculine in the way he understands it: firm, decisive, purposeful and loving. And more controversially, we ask what that means for the role of women and the feminine.

We discuss masculine-feminine polarity in heterosexual relationships, whether gender equality leads to sexual apathy, how polarity might apply to homosexual relationships, whether World War II represented a symbolic victory of the feminine over the masculine, what all this means for the "tough guy" role, how to apply these principles in your own relationships—and whether you should at all.

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In 1997, two men wrote a book entitled the Sovereign Individual, which made many predictions that turned out to be true: cryptocurrency the internet economy, the rise of political correctness and the nationalist reaction, remote workforces, digital nomads, increased terrorism, the gig economy, and the stock market crash.

They also predicted things which haven't happened yet; most notably, they predicted the downfall of industrialism and the transition to the new Information Age, where we'll witness the collapse of the welfare state and the rise of the sovereign individual.

In Episode XVIII of The Multiversity Project, we evaluate this argument, explore alternative possible futures like totalitarian world government and corporate rule, and then discuss what this prospect will mean for the world's poor, and what its moral implications are.

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We can all name historical transitions of the past: the rise of agriculture, the fall of Rome, the transition from the dark ages into Feudalism, and the transition from Feudalism into industrialism. Nonetheless, we tend to think of the modern age as inevitable—for many of us, it's hard to imagine a world without nation-states.

And yet, many argue that this age is coming. The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg examines this prospect. The writers argue that as cyberspace allows entrepreneurs of the future to exist in a manner that's disconnected from the constraints of the industrial age, incentives will shift and the power of the nation-state will be eroded.

In an episode which delves into the past in order to examine the future, the Multiversity Project touch on such topics as Jeffrey Epstein's recent arrest, how Trump's presidency compares to the downfall of Rome, what the United States, ancient Rome and the Soviet Union have in common, and how the incentives of violence shifted between feudal and modern times.

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Bliss states, DNA memory, metaprogramming, and quantum consciousness: according to Timothy Leary and Robert Anton Wilson, we all have access to these higher states of consciousness. In parts one and two of our "Owner's Manual to the Brain" series, we discussed the eight circuits of consciousness and how they come together to form the human mind. But how do we master our higher states of consciousness?

In the third and final part of this series, we discuss methods for accessing, and even mastering, the higher circuits of consciousness. In our journey to higher consciousness we explore how psychosis can act as a gateway to enlightenment, how some people use LSD to reprogram themselves, how Jordan Peterson might be reviving DNA memory, and finally how drugs which cause ego death could help us tap in to the quantum world.

This series based on Timothy Leary's eight-circuit model of consciousness as described by Robert Anton Wilson in the book Prometheus Rising.

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwmDGfIkiks Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjV19sV0z2Y

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Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson: https://amzn.to/2ROsAFi

Andy Kaufman and Jim Carrey episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELBJ4WYutGE&t=6907s

Stealing Fire: https://amzn.to/2J5uYV6

Part two of our three-part series, "An Owner's Manual to the Human Brain." For part one, see episode XV or go here: https://youtu.be/vwmDGfIkiks

Peak experiences & the mind-body connection. Jungian archetypes and the universal grammar of humanity. The Metaprogrammer. Ego Death.

After knowing and mastering our base, instinctual modes of consciousness, where do we go next? In part 2 of our series on the 8-circuit model as invented by Timothy Leary and described by Robert Anton Wilson, we delve into the higher four circuits: the neurosomatic circuit, the neurogenetic circuit, the metaprogramming circuit, and finally, the non-local quantum circuit.

In this episode, we'll explore topics such as mindfulness and the power of the placebo effect, the connection of cannabis to the neurosomatic circuit, archetypes and their relationship to Noam Chomsky's Universal Grammar, synchronicities, artistic ability and whether it is enculturated or innate, what it means to reprogram ourselves, experiencing the non-local quantum circuit, and how delving into the deepest levels of consciousness might reveal secrets at the deepest level of reality.

PART 2 OF A THREE-PART SERIES Watch part 1: https://youtu.be/vwmDGfIkiks

0:00 Introduction 2:19 Circuit 5 - the holistic neurosomatic circuit 6:05 Energy healing, faith healing, placebo effect 11:00 Affirmations 15:00 Brainwashing? 18:00 Quiet the mind to reach circuit 5 21:20 How stress affects your health 27:00 Other states and neutral states 32:00 Addictive behaviours with food, opiates and cannabis 43:00 Peak experiences and negative imprinting 50:00 Is a feeling of safety is required to enter circuit 5 or flow? 59:51 Circuit 6 - the morphogenetic circuit 1:03:00 Universal grammar and the collective unconscious 1:10:00 Strange being archetypes - UFOS & Mescalito 1:15:00 Information passed intergenerationally 1:23:40 What does it look like to access an archetype consciously? 1:26:34 Synchronicity, the secret and the reticular activating system 1:41:17 Spontaneous abilities in autistic savants 1:53:20 Circuit 7 - the metaprogramming circuit 1:59:00 Inwards/outwards, gestalt/detail from Vervaeke 2:08:00 Order of the upper circuits, order of mushrooms & LSD 2:24:30 Can circuit 7 reprogram the lower circuits? 2:28:50 Circuit 8 - non-local quantum circuit 2:45:00 Time, timelessness and immortality 2:58:00 Which circuits do we live on?

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Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson: https://amzn.to/2ROsAFi

Stealing Fire by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal: https://amzn.to/2J5uYV6

Placebo effect and knee surgery: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa013259

John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY&t=1s

On Pirahã and Universal Grammar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirah%C3%A3_language

Genie feral child: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(feral_child)

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid By Douglas R. Hofstadter: https://amzn.to/2XkH1GN

Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins: https://amzn.to/2J1VoqK

Multiversity Project Quantum Physics episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD8QW1mwJnQ&t=515s

Survival. Dominance. Logic. Morality.

This is the basic human programming that makes up the first four circuits of The Eight-Circuit Model of Consciousness, as laid out by psychedelic legend Timothy Leary and expanded upon in Robert Anton Wilson's "Prometheus Rising."

Understand how you are wired, and you have laid the groundwork for learning how to transcend your programming.

In part one of this three-part series, we break down the first four terrestrial circuits that, according to Leary and Wilson, make up the lower-level programming of every human being.

Join us for an exploration that touches upon everything from Freudian stages, to Jordan Peterson's lobsters, to the paradoxical anti-intellectualism of Maoist China-- and relates it all back to the wiring of our minds.

With this foundation, this series will move on to reveal the higher circuits of consciousness and how to access them, and ultimately, attempt to master them.

PART 1 OF A THREE-PART SERIES

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Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson: https://amzn.to/2ROsAFi

Stealing Fire by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal: https://amzn.to/2J5uYV6

Is Eastern Philosophy the Ultimate Weapon of War? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VohfCnfRSAE

Ideologies don't die. Nazism lived on in South America- did Hitler live on too?

After World War II, it has been documented that approximately 9,000 Nazis escaped to South America, mostly settling in Argentina and Chile. Colonia Dignidad was one such settlement- and it turned into perhaps the most nightmareish cult the world has ever seen, and a torture ground for dissidents of Pinochet.

The Multiversity Project explores the dark history of Colonia Dignidad, Paul Schafer's pedophilic cult, and what became of some Nazis after WWII. We'll look at the connections between Nazis, South American Dictators, cults, and conspiracy theories, and ask the question: is it possible that Hitler escaped?

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Al Jazeera Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC4G6DToi90

Grey Wolf Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYw9V4pz3gA

Hunting Hitler clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlyLQyPeBuc

American Scholar article: https://theamericanscholar.org/the-torture-colony/

Winfried Hempel (survivor suing the colony): https://www.dw.com/en/colonia-dignidad-one-victims-fight-for-justice/a-36050919

Discovery of Hitler's teeth: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hitlers-teeth-confirm-he-died-1945-180969133/

We've all heard of human consciousness, and even animal consciousness… but could plants be conscious as well?

Join us as we survey the history of plant consciousness, beginning with Cleve Backster's controversial research from the 1960s which seemed to show that plants have emotions, and can communicate telepathically. Then continue with us as we move on to the subject of plant intelligence, examining the now-established science of plant communication, and the emerging fields of plant intelligence, plant learning, and even… plant neurobiology?

We continue on to a discussion of plant consciousness: what are the different models of consciousness, and which, if any, can be applied to plants? We then move on to ethics, and a discussion of how these topics might impact vegetarians, vegans, and the rest of us.

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Media referenced in the episode:

The secret life of plants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTWcVnMPChM

Critique of Backsters's work: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/64e6/1de28fed2d10a82dcfec0052e11c705e957d.pdf

Russian research following up on Backster's work: http://www.voppsy.ru/issues/1991/914/914124.htm?fbclid=IwAR2VkX7iVegnpLSqMlM8XnrIzlZAIR2oRJkM7ySRtYs0Buy3TL5wy_ZUCT8

Communication Between Man and Plants (translated from Russian) http://www.rebprotocol.net/clevebaxter/13pp.pdf

Russian translation: Пушкин Вениамин Ноевич, Дубров Александр Петрович - Парапсихология и современное естествознание

English title: Pushkin Veniamin Noevich, Dubrov Alexander Petrovich - Parapsychology and Modern Natural Science

On plant intelligence: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/23/the-intelligent-plant

Trees: A Life Story by David Suzuki: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/248756.Tree

The Multiversity Project brainstorms ideas on how to solve the meaning crisis.

To understand the meaning crisis, we need to look backwards. In times past, people lived in societies which had systems of meaning. For example, before the Enlightenment, the Western world existed within the meaning system of Christianity. China lived within Confucian, the Middle East lived within Islam and so on. These systems both unified societies, and allowed individuals to live their lives with a sense of purpose.

Our modern world lacks such a unifying system. Instead, our society swarms with a multitude of contradictory belief systems, like neo-Buddhism, anarcho-communism, voluntarism, Scientology, and so on. The modern individual is tasks with choosing for him or herself what to believe, with no guidelines for how to compare different systems. Many individuals respond to this either by picking one and becoming dogmatic about it, by living lives of quiet apathy, or by embracing nihilism, the denial of all meaning.

So how do we solve this meaning crisis? Should we force everyone to be Christian? Should we become a hivemind? Should the government subsidize Ayahuasca ceremonies, and would there be drawbacks to making psychedelic drugs more widely available? Should we introduce children to mindfulness at a young age? Should we encourage young people to spend time not working, with measures like UBI? And do people who haven't solved their own meaning crises even have the right to discuss these issues?

Join us on a whirlwind through these diverse and fascinating topics, inspired by John Vervaeke's course, Awakening From the Meaning Crisis.

0:44 Introduction 2:09 Brainstorm on how to solve the meaning crisis 15:38 Should we force everyone into a particular religion? 24:58 What if we linked all our brains together to form a hive mind? 32:10 Mindfulness classes in primary school? 42:00 Mr. Rogers 47:00 Should the government sponsor ayahuasca? 49:39 Is the world ready for legal psychedelics? 1:11:35 Getting people off the hamster wheel? 1:28:18 Have we solved our own meaning crises?

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/10/opinion/denver-mushrooms-psilocybin.html

As a society, we're currently in the midsts of a meaning crisis of epic proportions. Anxiety, depression and existential angst are on the rise. Bullshit, fake news and ideological conflict run rampant. No one knows what to believe anymore, and as a result, many people are spinning in circles. How did we get here, and what can we do about it?

In the past, most societies had "consensus belief systems": Worldviews which everyone in a society would agree with by default, thus providing social cohesion and a sense of purpose to those within society. Today, we have no such luxury. Instead we're presented with a multitude of worldviews, with no clear meta-system for choosing between them.

Drawing on John Vervaeke's new course, Awakening from the Meaning Crisis, the Multiversity discusses these issues, and a whole lot more. Join us as we explore shamanism and meaning; the relationship between psychosis, creativity and transcendance; the difference between discovering meaning and creating it; the role of narrative in history; and the role of psychedelics in establishing new forms of meaning.

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Sources from this episode:

John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_outside_the_box#Nine_dots_puzzle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Burroughs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oryx_and_Crake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syjEN3peCJw