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Entering the Jhanas www.lionsroar.com

"Once you’ve found the pleasant sensation, you fully shift your attention to it. If you can do that, the sensation will begin to grow in intensity; it will become stronger. This will not happen in a linear way. At first, nothing happens. Then it’ll grow a little bit and then hang out and grow a little bit more. And then eventually, it will suddenly take off and take you into what is obviously an altered state of consciousness. In this altered state of consciousness, you will be overcome with rapture, euphoria, ecstasy, delight. These are all English words that are used to translate the Pali word piti. Perhaps the best English word for piti is “glee.” Piti is a primarily physical sensation that sweeps you powerfully into an altered state. But piti is not solely physical; as the suttas say, “On account of the presence of piti, there is mental exhilaration.” In addition to the physical energy and mental exhilaration, the piti will be accompanied by an emotional sensation of joy and happiness."

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Binaural beats to entrain the brain? A systematic review of the effects of binaural beat stimulation on brain oscillatory activity, and the implications for psychological research and intervention www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

"At first glance, however, the available literature on brainwave entrainment effects due to binaural beat stimulation appears to be inconclusive at best. The aim of the present systematic review is, thus, to synthesize existing empirical research. A sample of fourteen published studies met our criteria for inclusion. The results corroborate the impression of an overall inconsistency of empirical outcomes, with five studies reporting results in line with the brainwave entrainment hypothesis, eight studies reporting contradictory, and one mixed results."

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Modernity and the Holocaust http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=D1AA80857A288B7FB1315CFFC12CC920

Reading this book convinced me the modern day United States is about to commit a second holocaust at the Mexican border within the next, like, decade.

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    Nah, the boom bust cycle happens due to the contradictions inherent to capitalism. They are speeding up because the contradictions get sharper as capitalism progresses. Marx developed this understanding 200 years ago, check it out:

    "When the expansion of production outruns its profitability, when existing conditions of exploitation preclude a further profitable capital-expansion or what amounts to the same thing, an increase of accumulation does not increase the mass of surplus-value or profits, an absolute over-accumulation has occurred and the accumulation process comes to a halt. This interruption of the accumulation or its stagnation constitutes the capitalist crisis. It represents an overproduction of capital with respect to the degree of exploitation. From the point of view of profitability at this stage, existing capital is at the same time too small and too large. It is too large in relation to the existing surplus-value and it is not large enough to overcome the lack of surplus-value. Capital has only been over-produced in relation to profitability. This is not a material overproduction for the world in this respect is undercapitalised [73]. This stresses once again the central contradiction between the commodity as a use-value and as an exchange-value, between production for use and that for profit." https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/authors/yaffed/1972/mtccs/mtccs3.htm

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    I think you aren't reading into it enough, like look at your analysis here: "this wasn't even a successful feminist movie as they didn't change anything in the "Real world". It was just a feel good celebration of women and solidarity which didn't actually do anything of consequence. That was the point?"

    But consider that in the final scenes of the movie, an old lady shows Barbie a dream sequence of how good life could be if she entirely rejects the current system. Barbie then eagerly does so. The old lady represents Luxemburg, Barbie entering the real world represents revolution, Barbie becoming human represents the reunification with the human species being that is only possible under communism. This is a revolutionary communist movie.

    The fact that the Kens win nothing but aesthetic changes by the end of the movie is a representation of the reality of third wave feminism and other types of reformism.

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    Well at the very end of the movie, Barbie chose to leave the system in it's entirety. The movie has a revolutionary communist message, it's saying true empowerment is impossible within the bounds of the system. It's mocking the "more👏female👏executives" sentiment, just doing so in a way subtle enough the Hollywood financiers didn't realize it.

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    1 year ago 100%

    Okay so you still failed to refute the argument at all. Do you realize you're embarrassing yourself? Give me a counterpoint.

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    Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema https://www.amherst.edu/system/files/media/1021/Laura%2520Mulvey,%2520Visual%2520Pleasure.pdf

    This is the article that coined the phrase "male gaze", originally a strict academic definition, now a muddied culture war thing? I don't know. The article is good.

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    Marxism and Reformism, Lenin, Pravda Truda No. 2, September 12, 1913 https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/sep/12b.htm

    "reformism, even when quite sincere, in practice becomes a weapon by means of which the bourgeoisie corrupt and weaken the workers. The experience of all countries shows that the workers who put their trust in the reformists are always fooled. And conversely, workers who have assimilated Marx’s theory, i.e., realised the inevitability of wage-slavery so long as capitalist rule remains, will not be fooled by any bourgeois reforms. Understanding that where capitalism continued to exist reforms cannot be either enduring or far-reaching, the workers fight for better conditions and use them to intensify the fight against wage-slavery. The reformists try to divide and deceive the workers, to divert them from the class struggle by petty concessions. But the workers, having seen through the falsity of reformism, utilise reforms to develop and broaden their class struggle."

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    Reforms are great, but ultimately a doomed bandaid over real problems. Quoth Lenin:

    "Reformism is bourgeois deception of the workers, who, despite individual improvements, will always remain wage-slaves, as long as there is the domination of capital.

    The liberal bourgeoisie grant reforms with one hand, and with the other always take them back, reduce them to nought, use them to enslave the workers, to divide them into separate groups and perpetuate wage-slavery. For that reason reformism, even when quite sincere, in practice becomes a weapon by means of which the bourgeoisie corrupt and weaken the workers. The experience of all countries shows that the workers who put their trust in the reformists are always fooled.

    And conversely, workers who have assimilated Marx’s theory, i.e., realised the inevitability of wage-slavery so long as capitalist rule remains, will not be fooled by any bourgeois reforms. Understanding that where capitalism continued to exist reforms cannot be either enduring or far-reaching, the workers fight for better conditions and use them to intensify the fight against wage-slavery. The reformists try to divide and deceive the workers, to divert them from the class struggle by petty concessions. But the workers, having seen through the falsity of reformism, utilise reforms to develop and broaden their class struggle."

    https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/sep/12b.htm

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  • esoteric_texts Academic articles about esoteric topics Adolf Hitler and the Origins of the Berlin-Tokyo Axis
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    You picked the fruit but the infection is still eating the heartwood of the tree:

    Common Questions About Berkeley’s Polypore How do I get rid of Bondarzewia berkeleyi?

    Nothing works to get rid of the fungus pathogen in the tree. Fungicides don’t work. You can remove the fruiting body of the mushroom, but that does nothing to prevent the mycelium from sprouting new growth in following years. Keeping the tree healthy can prolong its life but eventually it will probably succumb. https://www.mushroom-appreciation.com/berkeleys-polypore.html

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    This seems like a good match, this higher angle photo shows the rosette style growth they are apparently known for:

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    Origins of the Concept of Alienation https://www.marxists.org/archive/meszaros/works/alien/meszaro1.htm

    " But we are concerned here with much more than simple intellectual influences. The concept of alienation belongs to a vast and complex problematics, with a long history of its own. Preoccupations with this problematics – in forms ranging from the Bible to literary works as well as treatises on Law, Economy and Philosophy – reflect objective trends of European development, from slavery to the age of transition from capitalism to socialism. Intellectual influences, revealing important continuities across the transformations of social structures, acquire their real significance only if they are considered in this objective framework of development. If so assessed, their importance – far from being exhausted in mere historical curiosity – cannot be stressed enough: precisely because they indicate the deep-rootedness of certain problematics as well as the relative autonomy of the forms of thought in which they are reflected."

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    Adolf Hitler and the Origins of the Berlin-Tokyo Axis www.nationalww2museum.org

    "The occasion for this piece is a seemingly straightforward question: why did Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime so quickly declare war on the United States just four days after Imperial Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor? There is nothing self-evident about this. Moscow had not fallen to the Wehrmacht during Operation Typhoon, Britain was still very much in the war, and resistance against German rule had burgeoned from France to Greece. The late Fritz Stern characterized Hitler’s rush to support Japan on December 11, 1941 against the United States as “a move historians still find puzzling.”

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    Turkey tail is 10x smaller and different colors and doesn't grow from the base of live trees like this.

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    Code Cathedrals - really good large code bases lemmy.world

    !code_cathedrals@lemmy.world I am a lowly and unusually stupid software dev, but I want to be less terrible. I feel like reading large, well designed code bases is a crucial part of becoming better, but I don't have a good list of things to study. Help me out by posting some. Hopefully we can get some code review style discussions going.

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    Conversion Disorder www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

    Conversion disorder, also known as functional neurological symptom disorder (FND), is a psychiatric disorder characterized by symptoms affecting sensory or motor function. These signs and symptoms are inconsistent with patterns of known neurologic diseases or other medical conditions. Although conversion disorder has no organic basis, the symptoms significantly impact a patient’s ability to function.

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    esoteric_texts Academic articles about esoteric topics [DNA macroarray analysis of gene expression changes in rat brain after single administration of 2-aminoadamantane compound][Article in Russian]
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    However, because of the poorly understood mechanism and long time scale it operates on, most people that try Bromantane end up giving themselves insomnia, decide they don't like it, then give up. Also only the nasal spray ROA seems to be effective... https://www.reddit.com/r/NooTopics/comments/119454s/bromantane_experience_and_questions/

    Personally I disliked Bromantane when I tried it for a month long cycle, but then I did another cycle with ALCAR included and I cannot express enough how great this drug is. I just started a third cycle because the effects have started to wear off.

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    [DNA macroarray analysis of gene expression changes in rat brain after single administration of 2-aminoadamantane compound][Article in Russian] pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

    This is a study of the nootropic drug Bromantane, showing long lasting epigenetic changes after a single dose. Although there is no evidence the drug has a similar effect in humans, the anecdata in /r/nootopics and /r/nootropics tends to report long lasting effects even after discontinuation of the drug. There are many reports saying things like "this is the best ADHD drug I've ever tried", etc, suggesting the obvious conspiracy theory that sub-par drugs are prescribed because they are patented and profitable, compared to this Soviet drug from the 80s.

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    esoteric_texts Academic articles about esoteric topics Other Ethnopharmacological Cactaceae
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    some very interesting claims collected in this... check this one out:

    Coryphantha compacta

    C. compacta is believed to be the Tarahumara híkuri known as "bakánawa." Bakánawa, like most híkuri, is both respected and feared as a god, and considered to have a soul and human emotions. It has been recorded as both more powerful, and as only second in power, to L. williamsii. To some populations of Tarahumara, particularly those of Guadalupe, it is (was) their primary híkuri, being valued instead of L. williamsii.

    It is held that if one keeps bakánawa in their possession exceeding three years it will convert from a good medicine to an evil one that causes insanity, therefore one must sell it or hide it after the third year. Of interest are speculations by Thord-Gray that this belief may have originated through a shaman so "that he might sell more of the plant." It is also believed that by either losing or burning this cactus one can become insane, sick, or even die. In some cases it is considered so "strong" that it can only be touched by the shaman.

    C. compacta is a powerful medicinal panacea and is masticated and applied to the body to cure all imaginable ills. It is boiled for use as an internal medicine and the juice is applied externally for lung troubles. A chewed ointment of C. compacta is rubbed on the legs of foot-runners for three days prior to the traditional races and is kept in waiting by the shaman should the runner tire. The plant may also be carried in the runners' belts to make them swift and fearless and to frustrate the evil spells cast by their opponents. It is believed that the runner who offends bakánawa will slow in speed and eventually die.

    Many Coryphantha species bear an array of alkaloids, and even though only this one species is substantiated as híkuri, it can be suspected that others also have had sacramental and medicinal value. Anderson regards C. compacta and C. palmeri as synonymous.

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    New Community - Academic articles about esoteric topics lemmy.world

    [Please share your most interesting research papers with us](/c/esoteric_texts@lemmy.world) !esoteric_texts@lemmy.world I'm hoping for something in between news.ycombinator.com and /r/highstrangeness, with some biology thrown in for good measure. But post whatever you want. Research papers are preferred but well written wikipedia posts, etc, are fine as well.

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    How are y'all planning on dismantling a centralized authoritarian dictarship without establishing a dictatorship of our own? Asking about your "also fuck tankies" header text.

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    Suicide’s Note: An Annual by Mary Karr | Poetry Magazine www.poetryfoundation.org
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    Interior Sketchbook Diary http://linas.org/art-gallery/mandel/mandel.html
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