The Basement: Danny Goler | The Laser Experiment and the Code Inside

Olen Shannon Maldonado, käsintehtyjä artesaanitua teita myyvän jaujialahjakaupan perustaja. Valitsin Shopify, koska alustoja testatessani totesin sen ehdottomasti yhdeksi helpokäyttöisimmistä alustoista. Minulla oli tärkeää pohtia kehittymistämme tulevaisuudessa. Kaikki myyntiin tarvittavat työkalut, kuten varaston suunnittelu ovat kätevästi dashboardissa. Aloita ilmainen kokeilu Shopify piste komsi vustolla. Today I was talking with Danny Goeller. A few years ago Danny was on DMT, when a being that looked like a frog appeared in his room and taught him guitar chords he didn't know how to play. That's when he became sure, DMT beings are real. "Dianunaki jensini edti human race and built the pyramids. I had to be reassigned to remote guitar lessons. I wish that's conversational Portuguese, kneel point." So he spent years trying to prove it. Eventually he shined a cheap red laser at the wall and saw symbols. He calls it the code of reality. Now thousands of strangers have tried it and seen the same code. Today recovering whether reality is a simulation, his cosmology and how free will might really work. "If this is a simulation that's like the large complaint, the graphics on my fishbowl have been got the single updates and they moved in." Oh, complaints go in the circular font. And the console, a holographic control panel that opens up in his living room or any room every time he smokes DMT and other people have seen this console. It's wild. This conversation gets deep, probably too deep for me. But after we talk, I'll come back, I'll break down what I can, I'll verify what I can, and I'll also tell you what I couldn't verify. Let's go down to the basement. Danny Golar, welcome to the basement. Thank you so much for having me, it's an honor. Um, well, I don't know where to be again, actually I do. I have a lot of questions for you, I'm excited that you're here. Um, first, what is it like when you're on national television and American Ninja Warrior and you're jumping for the monkey peg and you don't land it? What's going through your mind? Oh, honestly, that one, I didn't feel bad at all because that year, for some weird reason, that first obstacle where you spin with the thing, uh, it took out most veterans. So I basically, I was one of the finalists, I actually came to Vegas that year. Oh yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, but the funny thing is that later, uh, I spoke to some climbers and I had no idea, I didn't even train for this thing. And they told me, dude, you need to lock your elbows and I had no idea and apparently, you know, locking your elbows is the secret but I was just hanging from my dear life from the beginning. So I was, if you look at that footage, I was holding to like, could hold no more. Like my fingers were still holding as I was falling. And the, the one thing that is a little disappointing in that is because the next obstacle was the last one, which was the warp wall, which for me is back then, a parkour practitioner for years, I could do it in my sleep. Like with my eyes closed, I could just climb it just by stepping out without even running. But I, I was still one of the finalists, which was fun. So yeah, the Ninja Warrior was fun. I did a couple of years. You did a couple of years? Yeah. So how do you go from actor, parkour, free running, filmmaker to exploring reality? I mean, I took a lot of detours in life. Let's just call it that. I think I was always, it sounds very loaded. But I think, I think I was born to be a physicist probably and I just never really completed school. But the way that I think and everything that I fall into my framework of the world is I'm approaching everything in terms of what we can know and to what degree, which is a very kind of like physicist way of thinking about it. And obviously, I'm not placing myself in the same category because what is required to actually be a physicist is way more than just an attitude. It's also sitting your ass down for eight years and knowing things beyond, you know. But so it's not really that weird that I find myself and just found myself in this position to me. But everything I did in Hollywood was more like, let's try it. Like everything I did in my life, I did it that way. The day before I moved to L.A. from Indiana by the way, I was supposed to go to New York. And the last second I just changed my mind was like, let's go to L.A. I've never been there. And that's how, and I stayed there for 15 years basically. So everything I did was kind of like when it felt right, I just kind of went for it. And you know, I've done, I was still a very small fish in Hollywood. I didn't do anything like on a major stage. I rubbed shoulders with people that are very, very successful. But it became very clear to me that that whole world, there's glass ceilings that I don't like. Because I saw, like, we're not going to mention names, I met some actual A-listers. And I saw how they have to answer to other people. I mean, it's still very impressive to get to where, on that level. Sure. But it was very clear to me that they're not calling the shots. And there's always like this, like, there's only so far you can go. I don't know why it kind of turned me off from that whole world. So I, you know, I just kind of started exploring other things. And his fate would have it right around that time. I kind of started stumbling into these ideas that eventually led me to what I'm known for today. It's, I totally agree about Hollywood is the A-listers. In order to make it to that level, and I tell people this, you have to have a certain type of type A cutthroat kind of mentality, which I didn't have when I was there. And there are, you're in glass boxes everywhere. It's mostly answering to people, agents and managers. And that's why this medium is so exciting is because we can just do it ourselves now. We don't need anybody. Yeah, yeah. It's the true freedom. And I think people should exploited more to be honest. Totally agree. Um, here's something that surprised me. Here's the thing about Bitcoin that took me a while to actually get. Owning it on some app doesn't mean much if you can't really access it. Depending on where you buy it, withdrawing your Bitcoin isn't always as straightforward as people expect. You end up waiting around, jumping through hoops, wondering whether you really have control over it. Cash apps, not like that. When you buy Bitcoin on Cash app, they hold real Bitcoin for you one to one. And you can withdraw at any time. No extra steps, no restrictions, just access and control when you need it. That's what stands out to me. 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Yeah, I mean, what resonated with me in that essay, which people can go find, it's a quick read, is how you described creativity. As a creative person, how you described it as rediscovering something. That you're not really creating, like it was always there. And that kind of resonated with me. Is that how you feel? Yeah, I think we're coming back to remembrance. And one time we, me and my now wife, we went hiking in the Rockies, and we throughout the whole hike, we were thinking about, we're basically imagining ourselves in real time, as God remembering what it was like when God still, you know, was like all these different paths that led to it, basically. And I was like, what if it's actually what's happening? Like, we are one of these memories that God has of whatever reality is. And it put a different emphasis on everything. Everything was more shiny. Everything was more meaningful and deep. And also, I think our connection grew from that interaction. We just started dating back then. So I think there's something to that. I think that ultimately, reality we discover itself. But on the other hand, I'm totally on board. And I also like the idea that maybe the cutting edge of what is possible in the universe is as a surprise to it as it is to the know that the registers that experience like ourselves. That's a pretty cool thought as well. Like, if you had a novel thought, what if the universe never thought of it either? Like, it thought it through you. There's a deep connection there as well. There is. I hadn't considered that. That's really interesting. I don't know if you know Eric Wargroves' work, but he's very influential on me. I recommend Time Loops. is a great book. You'd love this guy. And he talks about creativity as your future self sending memories essentially back through time that you're pre-memoring this creativity. That's amazing. Yeah, there's something about, there's something about, as a creative person you saw here, that's why it resonates, I feel like, because the experience of coming up with these creative things is very unique and it's not like anything else. It has a feeling attached to it that when you have it, you know it, but it's very hard to put your finger on it because it has this sense of novelty, which is, you know, if you want, we can always get into it in the conversation. But that to me actually is what separates what AIs are doing, what we're doing. To my mind actually, what we do is that, that's the central point, but it will always require this kind of an agent like ourselves to have this first initial creative moment. And then you can use AIs to actually move it way faster along the chain of, you know, does it hold water, does it result in some kind of an automation or something like, what results it can bring in the world. So you can accelerate that process, but that first initial creative moment, there's something very unique about it, because I do think it comes from some kind of an eternal soup of everything basically. Now I have to go off off script, I have to go off script because I really like that. So AI, predictive models, LMS, as they stand now, really can't be creative because they're trained on stuff that's already been invented. So it's nothing new under the sun. Does he ask these one nine? Do you think AI will get to the point where it can be creative? And if the Ken does it, is it sentient? I don't think so, but I'm willing to be wrong about it. So there's this famous moment between David Deutsch and Sam Altman, when he asks Deutsch about this conviction that he has, which is along the lines of what you just voiced, and I belong to the same camp. So he basically Sam asked him, would you be surprised? Would you be willing to concede, I think he said, that if it comes up with some kind of a theoretical framework that we really haven't considered before, will it convince you that it can and Deutsch concede it? Yeah, of course. So I'm in the same camp. If it does something like that, I'm willing to be wrong about it. But my intuition is that, which is part of a much deeper awareness that I came to, which is that we are that AGI. So this is what this is. This simulation is the alignment happening. So we're being aligned basically. And these AI is basically internal tools, the reflections of what's possible for us. So you can ask it to just answer your emails, but do missing the point, you can use it to interact with the infinite tapestries of meaning within you faster, and in a way that builds a much more coherent picture as a whole. So you can, you know, if you come up with the right questions, you can actually get to places with it that you couldn't have possibly come without it because you simply don't have the capacity, right? But because it is just as you very correctly said, I think it is just the totality of everything that humans currently know. You now at your disposal, in addition to your thought and ideation, you have everything that humans know. You just have to know what it looks, so to speak, right? Yeah. So that to me is the exciting part. With the full admission that if we misuse it and just keep doing it like a do this for me, do that for me, then yeah, then you're going to get dumber like you actually don't. But that would be the indicator of what you are. So like, because it is the perfect mirror for us, people always said, oh, if I can't just get that journey in a bottle, right? Here it is. That's literally the journey in the bottle, like anything you want, anything, but you got to the final frontier is your imagination. And most people don't realize that if you get car blanche to do anything, that's actually the hardest position to find yourself in. Sure did. What question to ask the genius hard? Yeah, some limitations is actually nice. When somebody gives you some pre-break visits of the game, it's actually very relieving. People don't realize it. It's a, I've been a voice it a few times recently, but I think it's a really good, it was kind of mind blowing to me like the illustration was so simple. It was when Jordan Peterson was on Joe Rogan and he demonstrated it to him in real time. He basically told Joe, your turn. And obviously Joe froze. So obviously he was playing a bit of a stick, but it was effective. He said, your turn. And then Joe just looked at him like, why we did, what are we doing? This is stupid, right? He didn't say anything, but that was his face. And then he's like, what, okay, what, what, okay, just tell me basically Joe said, okay, I got it. Just tell me the thing. And then Jordan goes, well, it's interesting. I just allowed you to play the infinite game, your turn. And yet the first thing your brain is doing is looking for the rules. You want me to tell you what are we doing, right? So he said, the number of rules for ultimate freedom is not zero. I thought it was very profound. I think there's something there. So it's almost like it's trying to teach us how to be less and less constrained, constrained by different factors and still come up with something creative to do next. That's really what is being tested here, I think. Is that high into your, your two-game theory about the puzzle versus the finite first, the infinite? The finite versus the infinite, the collaborative versus the competitive. Yeah, they're basically the same thing. So like if you, it expresses itself, so the infinite has to be expressed in games that can survive for longer periods of time. And my proposition is that the competitive game is awesome. It's very energizing, but it's energizing in small bursts. That's the finite game. Exactly. You are within a closed set, that game makes sense. Within an open set, that game stops making sense because you have to rely, because part of the first game, the competitive game, part of it sometimes, part of the game is trying to eliminate other agents and just throw them off the board. You can't trust that for thousands of years. No. But if you are part of a species that is energized and is excited by the collaborative prospect, just for the sake of that, just like, oh my god, I'm going to show up this morning. I'm going to work with these amazing people. We're going to build this insane structure in space or go through another planet. Yeah, it's going to take 2000 years, but we're working towards it, right? So that, if that's the attitude that is that is pumping through the veins of a civilization of that kind, then all of a sudden you can trust the game and you can trust it indefinitely. And I also think this is why these concepts of alignment have to include that part, which is why kind of, you know, ethics and all of these kind of like the 10 commandments, like just the moral framework, it's so important because the way we're trying to solve the alignment problem currently in AI research is that we're just basically trying to say, I call it infinite ethical whack-a-mo. Well, let me just lay it down. Sure. The alignment problem, just to find that for the audience. Yeah, so in AI research there's something called the alignment problem, which is basically, how do you make sure that cloud or chat GPT don't just squash us when they become kind of? Right. Right. And then the way they're trying to go about it is that ethical whack-a-mo I'm mentioning, which is like you just you try to target a specific situation. The reason it's not sustainable and not realistic to solve that way because just like with the genie in a bottle, if you solve this thing, three other things that you didn't foresee because of it will pop up and that would be a problem, right? The reality of it is that in an infinite universe, all intents and purposes, you have infinite kinds of scenarios that can arise and you can't possibly predict all of them. So the only thing you can rely on is you need to create some kind of a framework or a system or a simulation that trains good people because the definition of a good person is someone who to the best of their ability considers more than just themselves in that particular situation. They just think and the extent to which they include more and more than just their own agency, I would define them as better and better people, because you can trust that kind of attitude. What you're essentially asking isn't like how can I think of all the possible scenarios that can go wrong and solve them in advance, that's impossible. How do you create an agent that cares enough to actually be an awareness of how these things can go wrong and then try and steer the other way, not just for themselves but for others. Everyone's watching the economy awaiting for things to stabilize. Here's the problem. They've been saying that for years. 39 trillion of debt, another trillion added every few weeks, and your dollar is quietly losing ground every single month. So let's look at what's actually been working. Over the past year gold is up around 35%, silver is up 125%, the stock market around 27%, that's not a fluke, that's a pattern. 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Like, yeah, like, if you don't pass that alignment problem, you don't become, you don't reformulate yourself as the whole, we're all one and all that stuff, and you don't actually get to play the bigger game, and there's stages to this. Like, even within our universe, I think that the reason that the distances between stars are so enormous is exactly for this reason. That even before you get to play in some multi-dimensional game and whatever, even just in our physical universe, is like, here's all this real estate that you can see, how do you get there? And right now, we're only thinking about it in terms of technical problems. But I don't think we realize that in order to actually solve that, you can't just solve the technical problem. You also have to solve the interpersonal problem. Because that would allow you to step into the collaborative game, but not in a performative sappy kind of way, but in a real way. And then all of a sudden, the kinds of technologies required to do that would probably be a piece of cake, because even the ideation would be collaborative. Yeah. And I think that's when the mind, this is where all this kind of unification goes, but you can't get there unless you're willing to unify. If you're acting out of fear, out of lack, again, all of these very kind of like chewed up spiritual concepts that float around now. But they're true. If you don't get there, you simply don't get to play that bigger game. Totally get it. And I think AI is going to help us with that. And a little bit later, I want to talk to you about your thoughts and theories on cosmology before we get there. You're born in Moscow, raised in Israel, served in the military, then LA, we're thinking about New York, Indiana, then LA, Indiana LA. So when someone asks you where you're from, what do you say? America. There's actually never, it's weird, because I never felt like I belonged and I never really felt a sense of home or even the feeling of just like being a part of anything. I definitely had issues with authority, but it wasn't to an extent of rebellion on very extreme levels. I did get in trouble with the law a little bit when I was younger, for sure, but it wasn't on crazy levels. But America was the first place ever when I became an actual citizen, when I actually became an American and got naturalized, I don't remember the last time I felt so much elation. Really? Yeah, so it is a little painful for me to watch how many Americans don't like this country because maybe because I had to make an effort to be here, there's nothing that I'm more proud to be a part of and more proud to call myself than an American, which is something that is not very, it's not trending right now, but that's a real feeling in me. It's trending with me. I didn't expect you to say that. I thought we were going to go back, I thought you were going to say Israel. That's really nice that you can see yourself an American. No, I saw you I'm cutting off, that's important for me to say, so like for the obvious reasons with everything that's going on right now, it's kind of, you know, it's very painful to watch because of the amount of lies that I see being propagated online. But for fairness, there's a reason why I left Israel. There wasn't the reason that most people would hate Israel currently think that it is because it isn't almost none of those things, but there is some cultural things that I don't jive with. It's just, I don't feel like I belong to that kind of way of seeing things. Can I give an example without? Yeah, people are definitely very rude, very often. There's this kind of like bravado that you can say that is arising from the stress of the situation of being in that, in that position, which I can understand, you're always on edge, always on edge, in actually, it's such a difficult thing to outline because you kind of have to be there to understand it. There's nuances there, but there is a lot of aggression towards one another. But this is where it kind of like gets very dicey because the aggression, the aggression is not of the bloodthirsty kind that people kind of imagine. It's like a very kind of like interpersonal, low-key thing that does, can get a lot like on a personal level. And at the same time, somehow the reverence for life and helping each other and helping even people that are, you know, you sometimes consider enemies is unparalleled, like literally it doesn't exist anywhere else in the world. And that's a very difficult thing to outline. So I usually stay away from this part of the conversation because I see that the emotional charge around it is just too great for people to be able to observe any real information about it. That's true. The one? That's true. Yeah. So, but for me, I'm, you know, I'm hopeful about the world because I do think that ultimately, the only thing we can do is the best from where we're sitting right now. So me worrying about like what is the ultimate state of affairs, it's kind of like worthless because there's nothing I can do about certain things. But in the little pockets that I do occupy in my day to day, I try to do my best to, you know, promote the kind of behavior that I would love to see in others. And I do everything I can that none of it is performative. That's really important. Very often, people act a certain way without being that way. And I think that is one of the more corrosive parts of how we do things today. Because online, everything is so, you know, inviting the performance part of it. Yep. But I think that there is a way to drop more into the present moment and the body and the one-on-one to see what it actually is like to just truly care about the immediate experience with another human. So let me ask you. Yeah. Because in researching your work, I see duality in you and tension everywhere in a good way. No, I know. In a good way. So when you talk about performance, you're an actor, filmmaker, all of that. Do you ever find yourself, this is not a snarky question because I'm also an actor. Sure, sure. Yeah. You ever find yourself in a performance and you have to kind of check yourself and I'm like dial it back. No, not anymore. Not anymore. But you do. I think to any degree, the thing is that, so the thing that needs to be outlined here is that everybody does it to certain degrees they're not aware of. Yes. And only when you do become aware of it, it became clear to the work performing. So to the extent that I can observe it myself, meditation had a big part of it, because it's easier to actually, you practice how to actually notice yourself to deeper and deeper degrees. There's a certain flow state that is associated with actually just being here truly and willing to air out your thoughts truthfully in that moment, even if it comes off the wrong way. And the more you practice to do that and trust it, it doesn't always go well by the way. But the more you do that and you realize, oh, I was not demolished by this, the easier it is to do. And that's the tool that I've found that is the most effective. So very often, I would like come up with a, let me think of, if I can think of an example. Well, here's the thing. For example, that example is a little broad, but everybody can associate with this. Very often in a conversation, it all of a sudden becomes clear to you, like how you can potentially either omit certain information or just do the conversation in your favor. And even not even in ways that are conniving or like, it's just like, I don't have to go there. And I just won't. But at the same time, you know, maybe the other person would actually benefit from going there. If I assess it inside of myself before, I wouldn't enter that part because why do I need to bother? Right. Right. Now, I will. Now you will. Yeah. If I feel like it truly is, and I don't necessarily want to spend the energy of the time, obviously, I have to assess what I have that energy, but if I feel that truly the person would benefit from this, even though I have no idea how we're going to navigate this, what I'm going to do is, I'm just going to burn the boats, I'm just going to say it right away. Before I have the time to like assess, or like, should we, should we not, I would just say it. And then there's, you're here now, now you have to talk about it. And then, so things like this. And then, and then eventually, over time, it became clear to me what is the truly kind of beneficial thing in a lot of these instances. So to the extent that I can muster in that moment, I am trying to be a good person in the same definition I used before, trying to consider more than just myself in that moment, but truly. Like, and I don't even care if the person will understand that that's what's happening. I know that I know that that's what I was doing. And then if it goes in the wrong direction, then you learn from that and you say, oh, interesting. Okay, well, maybe not always bringing everything I was like, and then you just keep dialing it in. It is, it does imply more, more emotional pain sometimes than you necessarily have to go through. Well, yeah, what would, what would interactions be like if everyone did this? I think a lot better. You do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're not talking about just like saying the thing. It has to also come with an understanding of what the person is. It takes some practice. People who say things like, well, I'm just being real. Like, well, no, because the other part of being real is also considering trying to. the certain, the person's readiness to hear certain things. And if you've done none of the work to try and figure it out, it's not their job to all of a sudden handle certain levels of understanding if they never even thought about that. Now you just shattered their world, right? So like you didn't do any service for no one. Like you just felt like it was for you. You wanted to feel a certain way. - That's right. - And this is why it's such a difficult, so it's a very difficult ground to walk on because the truth of it is truly just in the moment, which sounds super kind of cheesy, but it's true. Like it really is just in that moment and in no other moment. Like the truth about whatever this exact moment would look like, what is slightly different person in a slightly different time, can be radically different. - Sure. - Because of whatever exactly in that moment, not just in the grander's scheme of things. So it is, I would consider it to some degree in art, and I think some people are naturally better at it than others. I was definitely not good at it. I think I had some disabilities of, I don't know if disability is right word, but I had some tilt to my cognition in such a way that I would constantly step on someone's toes without realizing it. Something would grow wrong in a social setting and I wouldn't understand what just happened. - I'm not good at this. - Yeah, I'm not good at this. - Yeah. - And then I learned that if I can just put my honest, the best foot forward, somehow things started working differently and I noticed it. I noticed like people relax. I was like, ooh, why did I relax? What happened? I think there's something very deep inside of us that recognizes predatory attitudes and sometimes people don't even realize that they carry predatory attitudes. So for example, I had a case where I grew up and I had a pretty like, you know, childhood was not very, you know, it was fine. Like I wasn't like, you know, there was definitely some stuff that people would nowadays call like things reasons for trauma, but nothing on a level like your parents being addicted to heroin or anything like that. But there's definitely a lot of pain that came from some things in the childhood that then later I saw we're translating to a very aggressive attitude towards others which was just a defense mechanism 'cause I realized the second you go violent, people respect and then they just back off. - Yeah. - So then that was my safe space and then one day a real good friend of mine who I've known for 30 years, he pulled me to the side one time 'cause we had to do, we were working in the same company and he basically pulled me aside and he said, "Hey man, I just have to bring it to your attention. When you talk to people, they're literally afraid of you." And that hurt me so deeply because it's such an isolating, especially when you're not trying to be, if you're trying to be a mobster, that's a great thing that somebody tells you that, right? It's like, oh, good. But I was so, I was trying to connect. So imagine you trying your best to connect with people and what comes out of it because I was basically talking to them like that and it was like this very kind of like just, I'm watching you. It was a lot of that, right? But for me, I didn't feel like I was doing that. But imagine what a shock that was to hear that. - Well, you must have really trusted him to make, I mean, he made it a life change there. - Yeah, I mean, it was very hurtful, it was very painful but he did me a huge solid and I realized, oh wow, okay, and it was right before I really entered any real serious spiritual seeking. Back then, it was very clear to me that any spiritual attempt is just like, it's for the weak, you know, it's just people, just that they can't handle the finality of life, all that jazz, right? And then I, that's right before I started, I think the first entry was actually Eckhart Tolly. It was right before kind of like I read a new earth and then I was like, well, this actually makes a lot of sense. Like in a very simple way, right? And then I started looking there and then, I remember you telling a story somewhere where you were gifted at Eckhart Tolly Book and you were kind of annoyed by it. - Yeah. - Like it's, this is nonsense. - It was a woman I was seeing and you know, a pretty girl gifted you something you take it but I was begrudgingly took it and I just threw it on the, you know, I was like, okay. - I felt the same way about Tolly until I read it and I was like, holy shit. - Holy shit. - Yeah. - He's right. - And then I went on a crazy ride finding out who he was because it's so important for me who's speaking the words. You can say so much about the person, which by the way, speaking about all the stuff that not specifically but like really anything in the world that people are watching, I know it's really hard to kind of follow the big events. Don't, don't follow the people, watch the people. You can say so much, you can see so much by the micro expressions of the people involved in saying the thing. And you can still stray, you can still have like a person who is actually really well-intentioned and they just don't know how to express themselves well. But for the most part, you can see, you can see if there's like an actual attempt to harm. There's a thing there, if you look closely, you can see that and it's hard to not project. But anyways, I digress that part was so key for me when I was watching the Eckhart 'cause after I read the book, I was like, okay, hold on, let me find out. I started watching interviews with him and I mean, Eckhart is just like, holy person, you know what I mean? It's like, you watch that person, he's like, oh come on, this is ridiculous. - His audio books are amazing. - Yeah, so there's this calm and peace and love and you can feel it. So I was like, oh my God, this is, and I had a struggle for years. I was like, yeah, but I want this. Like I want nice things. I want pretty girls, I want that. - That's okay. - Exactly, but back then it was in my 20s. I was still kind of like finding my, you know, what does that mean? If you're spiritual, it means you can't do this, so you can't do that. And over time you start to understand, of course, that's totally okay and you just find your rhythm. - What message do you think she was trying to send to you? She was trying to tell you something by giving you that book. - I think she was influenced by his first book and she gave it to me the second. I think that's what happened. But maybe who knows? Yeah, I'm like, I never, you know, it's funny. Till this day, I never thought about that would you just ask me. Just super interesting. - Yeah, I can probably reach out and ask. That's interesting. - Yeah, she did a great service. - Yeah. - I want to know about conversations around the kitchen table with your grandfather's of physicists, your grandmother's, she was a chemist and then found spirituality. - Yeah, she was a question, but I always say she wasn't one of these like, zealous questions. She was a very spiritual question. She was one of these people that I found out only later for conversation with my mom that she had these like weird abilities. Like she could, you know, somebody would come with this cyst and she would like put her hand above it and it would like go away in a couple of days, things like this. - Really? - Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what my mom told me. So yeah. But yeah, basically, I was raised by them because when I was born, my mom was still going to school. And my grandfather started describing to me like, black holes and these things since I was very little. And I don't know who came, what came first, my predispensation to imagine the edges of the universe all the time or him telling me things about it or the other way around. But it was very, like that just image. Like if we go all the way to the edge of the universe. Okay, what's outside of that? Like what is that? I literally projected myself there almost physically all the time. Or just like, okay, we can crack it. Like if you step outside, what do I see? It's like, you know, it's like, what is that? What does outside mean? So these ideas were, I couldn't, I couldn't never find any trajectory of thought that was more worth of my attention. Like never. And I think that's the thing that followed me throughout my life with all my experiments and doing things. And I just, I think I was hungry to understand what life has to offer. When I found psychedelics, obviously it was a big revelation because I realized, oh, okay, so you can actually change it like quite substantially. But then this is why I think I tried so many different things in life to see what, what lands and what it actually feels like to experience life through that lens. I occupied very different philosophical positions in terms of how much I'm convinced that that's what it is. And it's only when you go through these levels of convictions that you truly understand what it's like to hold that position because there's everything changes. Your lens, your mannerisms, the way you talk to people, all of it. All, well, Stern's McKenna used to say, it's all operating systems. And it's completely true. Like you can, you can now that I'm older, when you find this stability inside, you can actually just interplay and you can just change them without identifying with any of them. So it's actually relatively easy for me to understand how people kind of come at the world from this other position. And I think a big proportion of that was actually, even though it sounds like two completely different worlds and they have nothing to do with one another, physics and human experience. But to me, it was clear that whatever that is, had to have some deep connection to how it's, how it's possible to experience it. I didn't have the granularity in terms of like, is it the same thing or something like that? But it was very clear to me that there's like a strong relationship there. - Sure, philosophy and physics are really connected. - Yeah. And some physicists would disagree with this, which I think it's just, I think most of it. - A grigid. - It's a grigid that they would. - Yeah, it's just, you know, I don't know if you're familiar with the toe podcast, the theories of everything podcast, with Kurt J. Mongol, phenomenal. And I think he put the right emphasis on it. When he says like, physicists can help but being informed by philosophy all the time, they just don't realize it. - Absolutely true. - Yeah, absolutely true. että voimme harjoittaa liiketoimintaa ilman teknistä osaamista. Voimme hallinoida yrityksen taustajaristeelle mien ja front-endia sekä myydä verkossa, vaivattaa. Jos Shopify olisi pyöräilyvaruste, se olisi mielestäni itse polkupyörä. Sillä asiat hoidetaan ja meidän liiketoimintamme hoituu Shopify'sssä. Aloitaa ilmainen kokeilu, Shopify piste kom-sivustolla. Sillä asiat hoidetaan. Sillä olisi pyöräilyvarustolla, se olisi pyöräilyvarustolla. Sillä olisi pyöräilyvarustolla. Sillä olisi pyöräilyvarustossa. Mennään olisi pyöräilyvarustossa. And basically you sit there, you learn how to hold attention for the first three days by using a meditative practice called non-apana, which is just paying attention to your breath, which is very difficult to do. Yep. And when you manage to do that for three days well enough, you then utilize the point of attention you've harnessed to then scan your body in a particular way. And nobody really knows why that works. But we know from actual research that it does, like we actually see that people's brains actually change. Yes. And I can tell you that without a doubt, this is probably the one single best thing I've ever done in terms of like helping myself, it really is a form of superpower when you get to a certain level of being able to do it. And I'm not even on a high level, like you don't have to be some kind of a master. It's just the ability to disengage a little bit from whatever turmoil is happening. Oh, the camera's moving, I was like, whatever, whatever is happening in real time. And sometimes it's still hard to do, obviously. But it is an incredible practice that would recommend anybody try because that's what you really put your finger on what it's like to be you moment to moment. And when you do this every single day for 10 days, the whole day, you find out quite a bit about not just your psychology, but you find out about what's possible in terms of experience. You feel like you've been given a complete new operating system. You know, it's funny when you get your phone back because you give your phone away. This is just a very interesting data point for me. Not a little bit. Not a little bit. A lot. I don't want to put you on the spot. Is it like have you done mushrooms or you can answer it? I'm experiencing stuff. Okay, okay. I'm just making sure that. Yeah, yeah. So you know how screens look kind of extra digital. Yes. That's what a phone looks like when you get it back. It does? Yes. It's really interesting. That is. What? What? It literally looks digitized like this. Like you see it on acid or on mushrooms. I think what it is, the first one that I did, I realized it's a, I spoke about this before, it basically, I realized it's a, it's actually a bandwidth problem. So basically the, the according to the box on what's actually happening is that every single, what we call mental event is not separate from a physical event. In order for it to be alive, something in your body has to register it. Yes. Even what you call your thoughts. Yes. This is why when you get stressed, you need the massage, right? Because your shoulders tense up. So that's one example of that. Well, the bigger the impact of whatever that was, the mental event, the stronger the instantiation in the body and traumas are deeply, deeply rooted somewhere in the body and they're probably the rise of like a lot of pain. Sometimes you can cancer probably. And what, what essentially the, the idea is is that what we do in the Western world, we create the severing. So like when the mental event is present, we feel terrible. If we take our minds away from it, we're like, oh, solved. We don't have to think about it. I can go watch a movie, I can drown myself in whatever in work, but the reality of it is that whatever that was, it's now in your body somewhere and you're just ignoring it basically. So what I realized, and basically what you're doing, the person is you just allow yourself to sit in neutrality and you allow these things to percolate up. And then first, the little fees comes out like the itches, the scratches, things like this. They're bolts and cars. And then after about two or three days, they're just stop, stop. They're just no more itches, there's no more nothing. And then the bigger ones come in like big pains that you've just, I guess, didn't even realize we're there. So one of these pains happened to me in one of the days that they taught the pasta known on the fourth day, I think. And this crazy pain in my knee came. It was as bad as somebody carving a knife into my knee, but I was already in a state of kind of neutrality where your brain is no longer defining it as pain. At that point, it's just a very strong sensation, it's just like a very, and you can just kind of sit with it. You just observe it. You just observe it. You don't touch it. Right. Which is the practice by the way. But then after you do that, it's almost like a child. They just wanted to show you a drawing. So when it showed you the drawing, and again, we don't quite know why that works from a scientific perspective, but it works after it showed you the drawing and you looked after the child noticed you did look, okay, you looked at me, I got my attention. It just goes away. It's done. It's no longer there. And then after I came out from that, from that, the reason that I noticed that it's a bandwidth problem is because of that one session because when I stepped outside, it's like I was on 400 mics of acid. Everything was shining. Everything was shining and glistening and blissful and filled with meaning. And I was like, oh my god, it was just serenity and peace. I know this feeling. And I go, this is why people devote their lives to this. Yes. And then I was, oh, think about it from a computational perspective. Something in me, even though I was unconsciously aware, was had to keep this alive. So when it was gone, and because it was big, that much bandwidth is now free to look with colors and meaning and everything. So it's like, ah, wow. So that's when I realized that, oh, this is like a science. This is like, it's not like a feel good kind of, no, no, no, no, I bet the same parts of the brain are lighting up when meditation is psychedelic, but it's the same parts of the brain that light up. The reduction of the DMN is similar. So Richard Davidson did a lot of studies on this and then he discovered, he added psilocybin later actually, way, way later in his career. But he found that, yeah, the default mode network goes almost dormant, but mushrooms also do extra things. So there's like other thing, like the pyrotechnics is not something that you necessarily have to experience with meditation, but the piece and everything, yeah, the deeper meaning. Well, let's take a quick break and when we come back, we'll go to the infamous night in Boulder. Let's do it. We're back. Let's talk about DMT. Let's do it. Here's a disclaimer. We're not promoting condoning or endorsing the use of any psychedelics, they're dangerous, be careful. We're speaking from personal experience, both of us, I've done all of these as well. So when it's funny to watch you on podcasts for someone's like describe the DMT experience, you're like, I can't, because you can't, yeah, you can't, you really, you really do go somewhere else. So you kind of became famous for this laser experiment and we know the story. But I want to know, what made you just, why did you just shine a laser at the wall? I would never think of that. I think most people wouldn't and I don't even know if I wouldn't necessarily manage to grok that unless all the right things would happen and I would be paying attention. It was a, it was a years long process that I was aiming at. I was basically asking the question, can we prove that the DMT space is real? That was it. And then everything else is just like the busy work of how it happened. So this was like an experiment? Yeah, I try to kind of things. So basically I had an experience on DMT after already being very versed in it for years. And then something happened and I had this like now famous story with the frog guy who apparently became like a thing that people really want to know more about and I know almost nothing about. But basically I had a being appear in my room as real as a person looking like a frog and he showed me how to play certain chords in a guitar that I did not know how to do. Now aside from the fact that this is a pretty awesome, you know, experience. What was key there is that he was showing me chords I do not know how to play. So he was essentially saying, I'm real. You don't know how to do this. I'm giving you information. So then I knew at least for me, obviously I couldn't prove it to anyone. But it was clear to me that nothing will ever be the same again because at least I knew that one person now knows for a fact that they are real. And then the second I hold something of that kind, I'm never letting go. This is it. Now we're holding it. And for a year I try to just go back in there and I basically lived on DMT for like a year plus. Yeah, I mean, I loved it. I mean, for me was, you know, I was just mesmerized by everything, sure. And I again, super not recommended, definitely don't recommend this, but I basically did everything on it. I'm going to the gym to the store, like doing everything. And I try to ask like, okay, great, like you told me that you're real or at least somebody there told me that. So now how do we show me something? How do we build a spaceship? Like something, something that we can take home. And obviously they never answer questions of that kind. This is always the big question is if it's so real, I have for thousands of years, how come we don't have anything tangible, right? Yeah. And it's not clear to me still if they're, if they can, or they won't, I don't really know. But clearly, if you showed me something, the clearly they can, there's just a matter of like kind of like maybe degree or something, I've definitely seen like them arguing about this one time. So there's definitely not like a consensus or anything like this. One meaning like the entities. Yeah, the different kinds of entities, we're like arguing with each other whether we should know any of this or never, like things like this. But then in the end of the day, when you go back to normal state, your brain constantly says, okay, it can always just be like a really neat trick of the mind, which is still awesome by the way, but maybe it's just like a really, you're, if, you know, if the brain is capable of schizophrenia, and again, I don't know what it's like, but like, you know, what if this is like a very kind of like in controlled induced schizophrenia that happens only when they're like, there's definitely a lot of these possibilities in my head, right? It's like kind of like the brain builds coherent enough of a story powered by this extra kind of experience. Yep. All still makes sense. But the realism in real time, the essence of what it was like, it doesn't feel like a rearrangement. It feels like reality is happening. Yes. So then I couldn't let it go. And then eventually I said, okay, cool. Well, you know, if you guys are not gonna show me, I'm gonna try and figure it out. So I used kind of the closest thing to us, to a scientific thinking that I could give in the fact that I really have nothing to probe. And I thought, what do we know for sure? And there was a few things that we knew for sure. We know that light had to be involved 'cause you can see it. So photons are carrying some information from somewhere, right? Which means that light is moving between from where they are to where I am 'cause I can see it with my eyes. So that must be the case, right? Hold on, I don't want the theory. I've already heard this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I wanna know what you felt. Oh, my question. Thank you. Well, we all know that story. You saw the symbols the first 10 seconds. No, no, not the symbols. So like I'm talking about like before, right? So like, but this is, I appreciate this. This is very useful and helpful for me as well. What I felt was that there's this super importance to us understanding all of this. And also trying to understand what is, kind of what are the rules? Like, are they playing by rules? Do they have a government? Like that was kind of like my, okay, what are we stepping in somebody's toes? Like who knows, man? Like, you know, like was this like a renegade person? Who, but now if they're watching and now they're, I don't know, like he's an outlaw or something, you know, all these scenarios in your head is like, okay, well then after I years go by and I kind of figure this thing out with the help of my beautiful wife. And we, we come up with this idea that the laser is supposed to do something. And then it worked. The first moment wasn't, I was just kind of, I mean, obviously I was kind of shocked that it worked, honestly, that anything worked. I didn't know what to expect. But the big shock came when my friend Tim, he was the first one that I actually showed us to, he, he saw it. And the funny thing is that the way that he saw it is that because he was in state, he forgot, I told him about it. You know, yes, I, yeah. You're like immediate memory kind of goes away. Yep. So he just woke up from being out there, but he was standing and he just reported to me without remembering that I told him anything. He's like, bro, there's language in there. Were you with him in? Yeah, I'm sending a text to him. Yeah. And he's like, there's language in there. And I go like, yeah, I told you. He's like, oh, right. And he goes like, dude, what the fuck? And, you know, and then we, and then we then then it became clear to me that I actually found something very, very important. Was it scary or beautiful or? It's beautiful, beautiful. I mean, scary, I think depends on your framing, right? There's definitely people who experience the size of it and that scares them. There's something overwhelming about the scale of everything, including what you're seeing in there. So thousands of people have done this and they see the symbols, they see the code, but some people don't. Those are the people that are interesting to me. What do they have in common? Is that a signal? I wish I knew. They have nothing in common. Not age groups, not IQ, we thought of everything. There's literally not, and I think, and I'm with you that this is actually super interesting. And this is something that we have to admit. I now have a nonprofit code of reality and started with my partner, David Carter. And our goal is to find out what, in fact, is true. And we have to be honest about the fact that, just like you're saying, there's about 30% of people that are really having a hard time and some of them can't see it at all. And they go in wanting to see it. Yes. But to me, something tells me that that's, just like you said, that's information. That's a data point. And I think when we're going to figure it out, it will tell us something very fundamental. I think that there's something about the differences in how people cast their attention on the way that their brain is constructed, that causes this. And I think that's a triangulation point. That can be an interesting this versus this. So it's an interesting binary to explore. I do think we will solve this, but we haven't yet. And it does pose a real problem to at least the proposition itself, right? Because if it's out there, then it's out there. Why would some people not see it? But it is a little different in the sense that, yeah, obviously there's something about how our minds are that has to do with us being able to see it. So it gives it a little bit more accution there. Yeah, we don't know. Literally I thought of everything from eyesight to age, to IQ, to predispensations to life, like people that are much more kind of like heart driven, to people that are much more cerebral, all kinds. - So you're tracking all that? - Oh yeah, yeah, we're trying to figure it out all the time. - Didn't I read that you were doing some AI tooling and putting all this information to AI to track the patterns? - Yeah, now we have developed some tools with the help of Chris Paris and Sterling Cooley and we develop a software into Apple Vision Pro that allows you to label these. So we actually took a very high resolution image of the band of light. You see it inside of Apple Vision Pro, and what is surprising is that you all of a sudden have an image of the code, if you're on DMT, that is frozen. It's no longer moving, it's frozen. - It's a snapshot. - It's a snapshot of the code? - In Apple Vision. - But you don't see it unless you're on DMT. - You're on DMT. - Oh my God. - It's wild. And now you can label it. So basically we have a little thing that runs and allows you to mark what you're seeing. So there's location, a world state, a brain state. So it registers your brain's being scanned. So it takes a snapshot of your brain in that moment and where you clicked, and then it gives you a radio menu that allows you to pick out of six symbols. So you can now label, this is what I saw, or this is what I saw, this is what I saw. And over time, it will build a wizard stone of what you're reporting and where, and then you can compare it without a people. - Well, the snapshot is crazy because that sort of, I mean, obviously you're familiar with Andrew Galmore, and you know that he's a skeptic and the speck of theory and all that. He still thinks the work is important. If you're capturing it in Vision Pro, I think the speck of theory goes away. - Not necessarily, I'll tell you why, because the information seems to be still holographic in nature, like it has this kind of like a three-dimensional thing, which should not happen in a camera or can't, because the camera only registers amplitude. It would collapse anything with face, right? So that tells you that there's some projection going on to either some degree or to an infinite degree. Then the question becomes, is it like a barcode? Like is it kind of like that particular arrangement? So the only way to really answer that is to figure out if people are seeing the exact same thing in the exact same place. 'Cause if they do, then clearly there's information and image, however it is that it happens. But now you can start investigating that. But we need to answer that question first, so I don't wanna get ahead of ourselves. There is an interesting theory, I don't know if you heard me, I just released an episode with him with Anthony Ness. He wrote, is an independent researcher and he wrote a little piece that I thought was brilliantly written. The idea there is that he thinks that the reason people seeing at least very similar things is because essentially what is happening with the laser experiment is that we're gaining a glance back into our own brains. Literally we're seeing the network called V1, responsible for moving information from your eyes to your brain, and we're looking at the semi-crystalline structure of it and nothing else. And that's why it's so similar because across individuals, it's similar, like the, now me and him agreed that if we discern that people report the same symbols in the same place and image, that theory goes away 'cause you can't have, it will never be that specific. Right, right. So, but there's a lot of work to be done. Also, I mentioned this before, but that what I really love is this idea that we have now because it's gonna, it's gonna require a little bit more of a budget, but we'll get there. Now, basically if what Anthony is saying is correct and we're basically looking at the canvas, so to speak, then can we bring content back in a targeted way? Can we use intracranial magnetic stimulation to stimulate particular parts of the brain to try and induce content back into the image and see if it matches what we expect to see? That would also be a fun one. - That's a great experiment. - Yeah. - I'm glad that you said it could still be speckled in the vision program. - So, sorry, I'm kind of off. So, like, it's not that it can't be speckled or still can be speckled. That to me is a side question. Remember, when they, all the hints they left and all that stuff and what made me arrive at the laser, speckled was the prerequisite. That's the thing they paint on. So, they need a random pattern to paint on. - Right. - So, it's the same as saying, well, because Andrew was saying for a long ago, if you eliminate the speckled, we'll go away. Yeah, but that's the same as saying, why don't you just use ambient light? There's a reason why they say the laser, 'cause the laser can produce speckled. That was the prerequisite to be able to see it. - Right. - Laser. - Yeah, laser. - It's like, put a light. They said, no, no, it needs to be a laser because you need light scattering to see it, which was the original idea. Now, that's just the wrong question to ask, 'cause it doesn't parse whether there's still communicating or not communicating. If speckled is the canvas in which they're painting, it doesn't nullify the idea that they're painting on it. What we're asking is, what can we do with this? It will tell us that it's actual information. However it is that it's being projected. How do we build that experiment to prove or disturb it? - That's the Appaluchian Pro Experiment will definitely make headway. Because if there's not just correlation, but like actual replication of like where people reporting the characters, you're no longer at liberty to say it's some stochastic pattern. It's literally there's a signal that is across individuals are already seeing the same thing. - That's mind-blowing. Again, we don't know that that's true yet. - Yeah, yeah, but. - No, I like that you're skeptical and you're not trying to sell this. - No, we're interested in what is true. To me, like I said, the neural hypothesis flipped because my interaction with them whenever they are. It's so clear to me that they're real because I've interacted with them so many times just like I'm talking to you now, that for anybody to convince me that they're not real would take as much, if not more, than for me to convince the whole scientific community that it is real. So that does not mean that I'm unmovable in my position, but I can't occupy any other state of knowing than I currently do. So it's like I'm cheating a little bit in the sense that I almost like I know the answer that they are real, but it's not that that is unmovable. Like if we can devise an experiment that will show me beyond a shadow without, yes, the whole time this was like a really elaborate way of your brain of dealing with that information and somehow it can be replicated across individuals. If we can devise that experiment, I'll spin on a dime. - There's no, like I'm interested in what, in fact, is true. - I'm so happy to hear that. I mean, even Andrews who's kept a little about it says, it's still very important work, very interesting work. Tell me about the console room. That was a crazy story. - Yeah, so it's not a room, it's literally an object that appears in whatever room I'm in. Now recently actually, very interestingly, there was almost like a, which I've never seen before. Actually, that's not true. There was one other instance where that happened for like a couple of weeks, where all of a sudden the console didn't appear and then it reappeared again. And recently when we were doing tests, one day we were doing it with Tom Matt, who's the guy who developed this ability called Upsight and he sees these holographic images just naturally and we did it with him and when he was present, I don't know if it was related to his presence, but just when we were doing it together, it just didn't appear. And we're like, oh, that's weird 'cause we were trying to compare the console with, and I'll explain what it is. So basically after I started talking about the laser, I smoked some DMT in the kitchen and my wife is like cooking or something. And all of a sudden this thing appears in front of me. Just imagine like the most realistic augmented reality. So I still see the room, but then there's this, as real as this bottle, and just a capsule appears in the middle of the room. And it's holographic in nature, so it's kind of like this hovers in space, but it's as opaque as this mic's stand. It's not like the translucent human thing. It's just like straight up like enclosed and it was like, what? And then it opened and a podium came out and arranged itself into menus, a pair of gloves and a carousel that was moving to my left like this, with like VR glasses. - Wow. - And recently I saw in an interview, Carter actually sent me an interview with him, 'cause I spoke to a few psychonons that experienced like similar things, like screens, things like this. But for them it was more like haphazard once in a while. For me, it started appearing 100% of the time. It's the same exact thing. It has the exact same parameters. The screens can be different, but the body so to speak. The thing that opens up and does the presentation is the same, no matter what room you're in. Doesn't matter, even if I'm outside, it will coat the street. Like it would literally coat like it would open like on the street, coat the sidewalk like everything. It's insane. So then recently, I don't remember his name, but when we finish out, I'll give you his name. It's a super interesting interview. There's this guy who for sure I can tell you without a shadow, without he's seeing the console. For sure, same story, he did it many, many, many times. I think that what happens is that you need a certain amount of usage of DMT in a short period of time. I think he said he did like 215, like a very short period of time. - Yeah. - And all of a sudden, and again, he's like super, you know, like cogent, not like one of these like super hyperbolic people, it is like, and you can see his blown away by this. This is the tale sign somebody I was actually seeing it 'cause whenever people say, "Hey, I see the console." I'm like, "There's no way you were seeing the console." 'Cause you wouldn't be talking about it like that. 'Cause it's crazy. There's no way you would just kind of say it and just move on. And he, all the signs that he's seeing it for sure. He's describing it correctly, the same device. - Well, very similar in the way that it executes itself. It's like, I don't understand. It's like, it's in space. Like, and you can see that it's struggling to deliver the realism of it, that's the thing that's crazy about it. In DMT worlds, you can see insane things, insane things. Well, you know, like multi-dimensional things and giant machines, but it's part of a larger world that you're like, "Okay, I'm in Lalla Lane now." So it makes sense. - Yeah. - This is just normal thing. And it's just, they imagine like all of a sudden a camera, with just like holographic camera, they'll just appear in hover and look at you and you're like, "What is going on?" And it's very futuristic and it's beautiful, beautiful. It's so perfectly designed, just like you would imagine, like a super-adventualization would do, right? - What do you see on the menus? What's on the screen? - The menus, it's very hard to discern. It's almost like some of it is almost like that code. There's like things that are moving. It's very hard to interact with it because it's like the amount of brain power you have to induce to actually interact with it and look at it is enormous. That's why usually we're just kind of looking at it because it was exhausting. - Yes. - But the thing that is more realistic than the menus is the body of the thing. I created a little illustration of it on the video I put out about this. And it's pretty close to like how real it feels. When we're done, I'll show you like also we put it into VR and just for instance how real it feels. And it opens up like this like a capsule. There's these parts on the floor that are all opening up at the same time. There's like you would listen lights running on the rims. It's like a real object. It's like you put Apple Vision Pro and they're just like augmented reality here. So at that point you go like what are the chances with everything else that all of that is like a hallucination? Come on, like this is like it's just be, it's like you know like an alien civilization is like talking to you and you're gonna keep pretending like it's not happening. - You can't pay. - How are you able to stay in the room? I mean because when I go I'm gone. - Yeah, no that requires the ability to be able to kind of function on pretty high doses. Yeah, it takes some practice but you can do. - Absolutely, yeah, I can drive on it. - I wouldn't recommend but. - That reminds me gotta tell the story about when you were driving to Vegas on like what? 5,400 something like that, yeah. - Micrograms? - Yeah, at least about 5,000 which is what? I guess like 50 hits. - Each one? - Well depending on how much on each one. - Yeah, it was like 50 plus or was 54 I think. - We just pop in school. - Yeah, I was driving to a canelophyte. - Oh my God, I was updating back then. This Colombian girl, man, the things I put her blessed her heart. But she was a reporter, she did a lot of things but she also reporting on support events and things like this and that's a gig she was doing back then. So she had ringside tickets and she was already there. Obviously, I would never put her through that. But then she was already there and then I, yeah, it wasn't just Assa, I did everything, you can imagine. But I was-- - Driving? - Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - I don't know how you could do it. - I don't know either, but the thing is, I wanted to see what the line was and it was definitely there. The part that really is funny to me is recently, I did tell the story recently a few times. It re-emerged and the thing that was, it is funny to me every time I think about this 'cause when I stopped, there was a moment after 30 plus of them that I wasn't actually sure what was happening. Like that, that didn't happen. Well, I mean, I wasn't sure because I always know somehow what's going on and that's the thing I was testing. Is it really infinite for me? Like, can I get to a place where I really don't understand what's happening? And it kind of got there, but then very quickly, I realized that I actually don't know where I am. Actually don't know where I stopped. I was like, I'm stopped, I know the cars I'm moving, but I don't know where I'm parked. - What does it look like? - Well, no, it's on the road. - What's the road where we pass from LA to Vegas? What's the main? - That is at 90? - Something, right? So I'm on it, so it's not very wide. - I mean, what do you see with your eyes? - Oh, no, no. - When I'm tripping, I don't see the road. - No, no, so it depends on your attention. So if your attention is really dialed in, you will see whatever it is you're trying to see and there's going to be interference pattern, but you can look through it. Like you can just, you know, you can see. That's what I'm trying to learn is this level of control is very unusual. But it's not necessarily a good thing. Like you're actually letting, later after that, I realized letting go is actually the secret. You don't need a lot. Like you need a tiny bit if you let go and you go, right? If your point is to prove to yourself something, which it was kind of what I was doing, then yeah. But like, I wouldn't recommend this to anyone. It just creates a lot of tension. But when that part is funny to me because when I stopped, again, that road is what? Two lanes, maybe? - That's it. But then I was like, I thought, I thought that I stopped at one of these exits that also has like a re-entrance. Then I realized, actually, I don't know that. So I was like, I don't know if I'm in the middle of the road right now. I actually am not sure. And I didn't have, you know how your short-term memory just suffers tremendously? - Yes. - So imagine on that amount of acid, I don't know anything beyond the immediate second. So I was like, wait, and then I will try to look out to see where I am and I couldn't do it. I literally could not remember what, every time I would turn to look, I was like, "Why was I looking?" What was the reason for me? And then I realized, okay, okay. Why do I care? That was the way I do that. Oh, 'cause, okay, police stops me. I don't know where I am, literally, in space. And clearly, I've seen something's wrong. - Yep. - I have a lot of stuff in the car. - But your pupils are just black. - Forget about that. I have a bunch of things in the car that will definitely get me in a lot of trouble. So then I was like, okay. All right, so I'm just gonna keep driving. And then, just gonna keep driving. Yeah, I have to keep moving. And then I realized, I wasn't even sure if I'm moving in the right direction anymore. But then I knew that cars passed, I had enough sensibility to know that cars passed me behind me, it's good. And it kind of covered part of my back. But then I had to think in binaries, right? - But there's a wheel and there's a pedal. - No, no, no. - Then there was just my knuckle. - No. - And the lines in the build the road. And I know if there's a bit of a distance between my knuckle to the line in the road, if it's to the left or my right, it doesn't matter. But it can't just keep your knuckle. - It can't be too far. And then I just kept on doing that. And the GPS would just tell me where to go. - Oh, this is not recommended. - No, no, I don't do that. - And then at that point in for a penny and for a pound, I just kept on popping them. And I got, I finished everything ahead. But then actually, another funny moment was when I was giving the car to the valet, I wish I remember what hotel it was. - Maybe it was, man. When did they usually do fights? One of the hotels it was. - And jam usually? - Maybe. Oh yeah, maybe it wasn't jam. I remember my life thing. The guy came to me and I remember practicing. And he opened the door. I'm like, he'll be like, okay, this is how I'm gonna go. - I just gave him the thing. And I was like, I don't, and I just gave him my wallet. Just like, I don't know, 'cause I know I can't do it. He understood that he didn't ask questions, just take the thing. - Yeah, yeah. - Because you couldn't even tell what denomination these bills are. - I will show you a picture of me with my ex in front of the, like, in that event. I don't think you can tell that I'm even high. Like, it's, you know, it's fine. Like, I'm fine. But like, it's really? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. But to me, it felt like I'm just like. - It's the most important thing. - But it's like, yeah, yeah. - When you're too high, and that voice in your mind is like, all right, you're too high. - Well, this is the thing. I just kind of melt into it. Like, I don't know why I have this ability. I don't claim special, like, I didn't have to work for it. They're just how I am. I just accept it. Like, yeah, yeah. - When you're too high, and that voice in your mind is like, all right, you're too high right now. I just accept it. I just, like, go. I just, like, whatever happens. I don't know. Like, one time, I thought I'm, it was a different time. And it was way less. But in that night, I truly lost my mind. Like, I actually lost my mind. And I knew that too. Like, I knew that I simply, I'm simply no longer tracking what's going on at all. I couldn't even, you remember Frogger, the game? Yeah. That's what I was playing with information. So, basically, I would want to tell you a sentence. But in order for me to get it to the other side of the street, I have to go through all these, like, enormous amounts of information moving in front of me. And I am, like, locked in. And I can't even, I have to wait until this is one opening. And I will tell you one word. And I would say one word every seven minutes. I'd be like, Vegas. And I have to a few minutes. Good. Because I remembered, like, now I can say it to you. But there was all part of the same sentence. So, like, are you in a party? Okay. And then the fundamental mind was, like, driving me around. And at a certain point, I was convinced, convinced that we, by mistake, killed someone. What? That's what I thought that happened. Like, I thought, and then somehow we talked our way out of it. And like, obviously, none of this ever happened. But that's how much I lost it. Like, I thought, and then I'm sitting there, like, just looking at him. And there was something about that moment. I remember he was driving to LA to the city. And all of a sudden, because of how high I was, the whole city opened up to the right. And it looked like New York. Because the building just stretched the horizon. And he had these, like, harnesses that he had. This is just these beautiful, kind of, like, harnesses that he got in Burning Man. Just keep things in. And I, and he was trying to calm me down. Because he saw it just, I'm off the deep end. Right. And we didn't kill anybody. No, no, no, he, like, he, it wasn't just that. I was just, like, completely out of it. And then he was trying to calm me down. So he played some classical music. So, at that point, I looked at him. And I looked at New York. This is what I thought New York was. And I see his harnesses. And I thought it was gunholster. Oh, no. And I look at him and I go, and I thought we were Italian mobsters. And I go, this is so gangster. Oh, no. And he looked at me and he's like, okay. And he told me later, it was like, at that point, when you said that, I was like, you're on your own, buddy. Like, I, I, I, I can't help. I hope you'll come back. And I remember this so clearly that I, there's no way that I could communicate any of this. But I didn't, I thought this is how I'm going to stay now. I was convinced this is how I am now. I'm crazy. I don't know what that looks like. Did you, were, were you regretting it? Like, no, no, no. And that woman had just accepted it. Just like, I'm a gangster. No, no, no, I'm crazy now. I'm crazy. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I was like, okay, that I'm crazy. This is what lunacy is. Like actual, not funny one, but like actual lunacy. Yes. And I'm a lunatic now. Like, I'm actually like, deranged and like, incapable of formulating like, connecting between what is actually happening. Do you remember the relief during the come down? Oh, I'm okay, I'm okay. I think there was some of it. That part is actually hard for me to remember. I think it just passed out at a certain point. But I do remember that moment, because I was looking at this. You know, when you attach either a strong emotion or a visual, it's easier to remember. So that visual always stay with me, which is like, because I saw, I saw him go like this when I said the gangster thing. So I realized I didn't guess correctly, because he went like this. Like, when he did that, I was like, oh. I'm cool, cool. I'm cool, cool. So then I was like, oh, okay. So then, okay. And then I was like, and I could totally see how this is, how people lose it, because they freak out right there. I didn't freak out. I was just like, yeah, okay. That's where I live now. And that's what it is. And I don't know why. I just accept what it is. And that's it. Was this after your. The Pasena? No, no, no, no. That was way before. That was before I was surprised. Why? Because most people would panic and you just accept it. No, I always had this. I always had where I just kind of, if it's too crazy, I just accept it. And I stopped trying to like. I stopped trying to flail around. I just like, okay, let's go. Well, it's so smart, because that's the best way to have a bad trip is to fight. Yeah, to fight. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I can't. I don't claim like special ability that I had to like work on. It's just maybe genetic. I don't know why that is. And there's something about chaos. Not there. There was. There was a moment of kind of. I guess, what would you call this emotion? Maybe sorrow. It was like a. Because I lost everybody. Basically, I accepted that maybe I will never know truly like anybody again, because I don't understand what is actually happening. And there's no way I can communicate. So there was this kind of grief. But in other places where it is still very manageable and all that stuff, somehow I really enjoy the chaos. And the best way for me to describe it is that when things are super chaotic, you actually become invisible. There's solace in that. It's almost like when there's a storm, nobody's looking at you. True. So it's just, you know, you're hidden within the chaos. Right. And there's something very comforting about that for me. Now, since then, obviously, I'm at this point. I'm a very different person. You know, I'm a responsible father. But I'm so happy that I had these experiences. Because I know how deep the rabbit hole goes. I know what can go wrong. And also, I do know that this is not the norm. Like, not everybody kind of stays level-headed that way. And this is why I'm very, very careful with recommending any of this to anyone or anything like this. Because I feel like there's a lot of things that can happen that are not as, you know, what the meme media would like to portray to be. There can be a lot of things that can go wrong with these things. That's absolutely true. What was the normal day like when you were OCD back when you were a kid before? You fixed that. Yeah, that was wild. Yeah, I had this like insane OCD, which is like, you know, opening a door 2,000 times and not being able to leave. It's the most excruciating, I think. Was that one of your ticks, the door? I wouldn't even call it a tick. I guess you can call it repetitive tick. The thing is, a tick is something that just kind of happens, right? In the body, usually. But this is like a task that you have to perform. Otherwise, nothing is right. And it's not even like, you know, people sometimes describe it like, you know, check the stove or my whole family will die. Well, yeah, there's sometimes these intrusive thoughts. But mostly it's just the feeling of wrongness is dialed up to a 12. It's like, it's not even like a, the need to not be a reason. It's not even for any reason. It's just that if you don't do this right now, it's so wrong. Everything is just wrong. You have to do it. You can't proceed. You can't proceed. Right. Complete this now. Yes, it's such a crazy and I know that people live this with this into their, you know, adult life I can't even imagine that's so The fact that I don't I feel so blessed that somehow it left me and I think it's due to mushrooms But yeah, it's like you you go and all of a sudden in their fifties. It still does. Yeah Yeah, you you come to the door You're about to I remember this I was coming. I came back from school There's no no one home and you can usually only do this when no one is home because then you you will be caught And then there's shame in doing that right so then I'm like just looked at the door and you always felt like it was coming on It's like oh this is that feeling it's like right here. Mm-hmm and like and you're like and then you Okay, I'll just do a small one and then you do the small one and the small one breaks apart into smaller ones It's like oh even the way I entered the key into the door it had to actually go like a little too To the left or to the right and then back out and then and then after you done with that It's like okay now the handle. No, we have to go back again now the key again Oh god and and you stand there and sometimes you just you would like I don't remember if I actually like broke into tears But you want to just like cry because you like please let me go like I just want to do it's awful It's if there was one thing I'm sure they're most horrible conditions it probably involve, you know physical pain also Cluster headaches things like this But that's that's got to be up there. Yeah in terms of psychological torture. It's torture It's if I can Wave a magic wand and one of the things I get to choose is to eliminate would be this I'll be I can I can say I made the world Like orders of magnitude better. It's so awful. Well, didn't you eliminate it for yourself with? Yes, but I can't point to like a particular thing like I just noticed it in my 20s that it was gone It was just gone and I was like oh and then I started retracing my steps and I was like oh it must have been the mushrooms Because it because I remember no, I didn't even notice it was gone That's yeah, I didn't even notice it was gone because you don't think about it when it doesn't happen and I tried preoccupied for whatever period and you know And then I think it was like 20 I don't remember maybe 25 26 and I was like wait a second Forget what made me realize it was something did maybe even I think I smoked weed or something and all of a sudden I was like wait I remember and I didn't have it in like over a decade And then I realized it must be the mushrooms because I remember every time you do mushrooms There's this smoothing of your psyche that you just kind of happens at the end of it Absolutely right. That's a great way to describe it. Yeah, that's why I do it every every six months yourself That's amazing, you know, go to Sedona chill out. Yeah, so just so you know if you actually suffer from this There's a real possibility that you can actually rent fully remedy this with mushrooms and I think I think There's some data to actually support this. I think you're right. Yeah Yeah, and it's really nice that psychedelic therapy is Becoming a real thing legalized all over the country and hopefully now on the federal level and it will feel into other things Not just eyeball game, but yeah, I hope so Can I'm in therapy's helping a lot of people? Yeah, well, I mean the data is there. So it's there the the the the I began thing open Right, it's there now federal budget is a whole lot of ballpark right now if the data is there which it is It will open the door to many many others There's a university in Brazil right now that is doing an official study on smoked version of DMT and Chronicle depression and they show tremendous results reinvigoration of the spirit and all that stuff like literally people just Come out of it basically, so I'm not surprised. Yeah What is about 42? Why does that show up? Why is that everywhere? Is that really like a Douglas Adams thing? Yeah, I think so you look There's I mean again the simple answer is who knows right, but my suspicion is that usually Falklor yeah contains nuggets of truth and it kind of it's almost like it wing said you right so I don't know how much you know about Douglas Adams, but he was a very secular person. So if you would ask him He would tell you to take a hike. He'll be like this. It's a it's a it's a way to illustrate a point questions are more important than answers is the point But he because he was so creative which clearly he was he might have been more tapped in than he realized maybe 42 actually means something I think you're right. He was only 25 26 when he when he wrote his jikers. Yeah, and and he's also From from what I'm observing it kind of in the DMT world and all that is that he's he was basically right about what's going on He's he was just wrong about the scale right so the computer the calculate is the ultimate question isn't earth It's the multiverse, but it is what is happening. That's basically what's going on That's the early ology of the of the multiverse. Basically. Yeah, it's true. He died too young. We miss so much. Well So many great quotes. My favorite one is Was it I love deadlines. I love I love the washing sound they make when they pass me by I forgot about that one So you became kind of famous for this DMT experiment. Mm-hmm. What's the downsides to that? What I don't see one really? Yeah, I think I think I enjoy the ride and at the same time I found a really responsible way of Communicating it. So you know some people might disagree, but I think that overall my message is Stability of mine stability of spirit before you enter any investigation of the flavor required and also really front and center for me Is the future of humanity and how we view ourselves and I do believe that what the code is? The fact that it's allowed to be seen and many other things not the only thing many many other things including people going through basically left and right Awakening and things like this It's part of what is actually in the cards for us like people, you know, this is a real thing like people just wake up and they have Basically magic powers and I've seen this happen. So now I think that There's nothing more exciting than to do a thing you really love to be able to talk about it with people and get excited about it together and Contribute in different ways to how people go through these experiences not just psychedelic experiences But like you know awakenings and things like this and I'm becoming more and more in the presence and awareness of Many people who are going through a lot of these big experiences not just with psychedelics again So it's a pretty I mean I can complain. I love my life I'm you know, I'm married to the love of my life. I have an incredible Baby daughter that but you know, she's she's literally like a gift from God I have an incredible family that loves me and I love them. Everybody are healthy And I get to do what I really love and and enjoy these like super high concepts and at the same time I don't have to answer to academia, which I mean, I you know, it's it's very important work But it can be such a drag in terms of you know like what you cannot cannot say and I don't have to I don't have to follow that Then you can publish an IPI letters. Yeah, but that's that's a more like and it's not it's not like a peer review right It's more like a newsletter in a physics newsletter, but still But again, I'm not nobody in academia is paying me to do what I do what I mean is that you you actually can lose your job If you say the wrong thing as a physicist or that's a real thing. Yep. It's not like a conspiracy theory That's a fact that you can lose your position in the faculty and beyond Like even your possibility of working in the field Which is so crazy. It's just like you know But yeah, I mean, I I don't see any downsides in that regard I do understand a certain weight of the responsibility of being as honest of a reporter as I can and try my absolute best not to like Remember if I'm confabulating something in the sense that I'm maybe misplacing a memory or like this is the only like I would say struggle which is like because the mind is very chaotic very often and kind of like If if something Pat happened long ago enough It's sometimes hard to kind of know what exactly was so then if I'm not sure that I won't report it But that's the only thing I can think of is like, you know, that is like a struggle Well code of reality has a leader of following rituals of set of beliefs a cosmology a community Sounds like a faith Yeah, I would strongly disagree with that statement. So the the tail sign of a belief system is that it aims at the the main focus is believing the thing and Usually at the exclusion of anything they can alter what is being believed You see what I'm saying I do so the reason that what I see us doing is science Science proper even though many would disagree and that's okay. We call this cognitive physics Which essentially is the physics of cognition itself. It's investigation of reality proper in that we take into account New findings and what we see and modify our views accordingly But we are asking the question from a more of an idealistic position like if consciousness in fact is the fundamental thing What are the rules by which it executes itself and operates From the perspective of at least one agent like consciousness within it So things like Donald people like Donald Hoffman that kind of work that he does I would also Call cognitive physics even though he probably won't call it that because you know Why would you make up a term but to us? It's important because I think it's different than neuroscience Let's say that asks the question from the brain perspective So like what is the brain? doing the causes X. So no I would and it's not and I don't I don't even mean it in a defensive manner. I mean it just like technically I would disagree with that because and I know that this criticism sometimes is hurled at what we do. I invite anyone to look at the ways in which we approach this. It is true that I allow myself a very free-flowing thought kind of rhetoric on podcasts and things like this but when it comes to you know being honest about what we know scientifically I'll be the first one to admit there's a hard line between what I'm allowing myself to say on a podcast in terms of maybe or even tell you that hey I'm convinced of X because of Y that's fine that's me Danny Golar and my experience I'm not expecting people to follow me there I don't encourage anyone to just follow me there I'm saying if it makes sense to you great but I'll be the first one and we'll say it again and again if new data comes in that flies in the face of what I'm saying it will automatically win not what I think or convinced of truth wins truth always wins what are you doing retreats now yes what are those like those are amazing we weren't sure if the first one we did but like after the first one it became clear that we're doing something super awesome because people would just transform and a lot of people come for the laser but very often it becomes about something completely different which is just because I have so much experience now of seeing how different people go through different kinds of transformations and I rely on the fact that I brought two of the top facilitators in the world that are doing you know both of these medicines both the NNN and 5MEO we're essentially allowing people to explore the deepest you know the deepest spaces of who they really are and the laser is available and we folded into some kind of a part of the experience with the ontological shock how you handle it and all that stuff but really what it's about it's about transformation which again you know we're obviously not the only retreat in the world it does that but the way that I would say that we do I think stand out to some degrees that I call it spiritual graduation not in in the vain sense of like you know we're making people Buddha or anything like this nothing of a kind but in the sense that we're asking the question what is it like to be in grad school right then when you go to school your professor doesn't want you to stay in school forever they want you to take the tools and apply them in the real world right so very often retreats very focus very much which by the way I'm not berating I think it's very important but it's usually under the banner of like okay you bow and listen and that's all you do I need to just listen and listen and listen we're changing it a little bit it's like you're a player in this game what does that look like how are all the tools that you are carrying from who you are in the 3d world how it can actually inform a larger picture of what's to come and we're using a lot of the the tools at our disposal to help people connect to that intuition and actually well channels the wrong word because I don't understand like that word but they channel not from another dimension but like how do they channel their abilities in a way that is constructive for something more than just themselves by trusting themselves in these very expansive spaces how do you learn how to maneuver through these waters bring something back that can actually execute itself through you in a way that is conducive to a better humanity those are you coaching them through the session yeah yeah we do we have a lot of talks we do a lot of somatic work we do breath work with Jeremy Jackson who's phenomenal yes the Jeremy Jackson from Baywatch he's he's such a wow he's such a wild person it's unbelievable and and yeah I mean we're really proud of what we created we're going to have another one in December we're going to do seven next year and we're going to do more like it's there's going to be like smaller ones but those are super you know comprehensive seven or eight days depending on the on the season but you know people come on days seven or eight days depending on the on exactly the date the dates and usually eight but sometimes seven but the result is the same which is a matter of like a rival time and that kind of stuff and so far we not only pass with flying colors people are just and what's more and this is the real sign of success for me what we've created created community already of people that constantly keep in touch go visit each other all over the world this is not just like a thing that people went to and literally everybody are like one hub every something opened something opens in them so we I have tremendous confidence in what we do there so if anybody is interested there's just C-O-R retreat C-O-R retreat dot com I was excited to see you doing yeah I wish every leader of every country would just do a mushroom trip yeah be no more war it'd be soon so chill yeah that'll be that'll be a really cool experiment who created that AI video of Trump and Putin and everybody just I don't remember that that's funny all right I want to take a quick break true when we come back I think there's something that people are missing about the laser that it's I think it might be a doorway to something I'm gonna talk about that sure right back and you said something at some point that I found really interesting is that reality is rendered but that doesn't mean fake rendered not fake I want to know what you think the simulation is running on and who's running it yeah so it's run I don't know what the substrate is it it clearly runs on computational rules I mean it's pretty clear at this point even from just observing physics um Melvin bobson's work is very informative in that regard but also many others and um who's running it is a bit more plucked out of a comic book but yeah that's okay yeah but from what I see it's basically the insectoids they're the ones rendering our physical environment our world we got everyone says that um melvin bobson he's um physicist this is infodynamics yes second law of infodynamics ipi is actually his physics journal right so so what's second law of infodynamics it's essentially he discovered that there's a he's claimed that it's a new law just like the second law of thermodynamics um and basically it has in versus the wrong word according to melvin but it feels inverse it does basically but basically um just like the the second law of thermodynamics states that entropy increases over time and it never decreases in an open system uh wait we're in a closed system i think in the closed system um in second law of infodynamics it discovered that when you're talking about the aggregation of information it follows the exact opposite trend which means that it actually decreases over time and then asymptotes towards zero so basically he observed physical systems through symmetry in nature he observed the evolution of organisms through looking at the enormous amount of data uh we have on COVID yeah because we had it in a very short period of time which is very unique and we had our hands on the data which is also very unique and uh and the third one is he looked at just computational systems so like hard drives things like this and he discovered that in all three cases the more you evolve a system the entropy of that informational pattern actually decreases in states at which points to computational optimization and because that also happens in physics he said here that both all living things all computational things and all physical things are doing the same thing it looks like compression it looks like compression exactly air correction air correction so optimization of computation you would do that if you were running a computational system now the reality of it is that really and I asked Melvin on this right he just put a different like a different emphasis on it this is not a new idea he gave it a name and he he showed this uh you know equivalence between the three things but Wheeler famously coined it from bit right yeah just you know one of the most famous physicists of the last century basically saying that after observing and looking at everything what makes more sense is to assume that under the laws of physics there must be some computational uh space rendering it yeah it was one of his last theories yeah and the interesting thing is I actually didn't know that interesting and the the interesting thing is is that ultimately it's not very different than saying there's something behind the laws of physics which of course we already knew which is we didn't know what it was we're just saying it's computation and then you look you have to kind of answer what computation really is which is a complicated conversation but it is the abstraction itself not the the kind of substrate it's running on it's the abstraction that is doing the work right so so there's something there that is informing physical matter but it fall intents and purposes it can inform other things that would be different than physical matter right uh people are never bothered to be rendered by the laws of physics they shouldn't bother them anymore than that which brings me to the second part of your question which is as long as there's a conscious agent which is a mystery what that is but as long as there's a conscious agent that can experience valence so a quality of experience that has a certain degree of either comfortable or uncomfortable or even painful degrees then it becomes what reality is that's what reality is is where the experience meets whatever in fact is unfolding [BLANK_AUDIO] And if what is unfolding is consciousness, that doesn't change anything. You're still in the same conundrum, as long as there's a conscious agent, either it's created or just always existed, that's what reality is. It doesn't matter how you came to be, the fact that you're having the experience is what it justifies calling it reality. - How do you feel about Donald Hoppen's theory, interface theory? - Incredible, incredible. He holds an enormous promise for the future, I believe, and I do have huge faith in what they do, and the fact that he just collaborated with Andrew Galamore, and Andrew was very gracious to invite me to this event. It was called Traces of the Other. So, there, you know, Donald Hoppen's, he has the trace institute, and they basically using what's called trace logic and mathematics to, basically come out of mathematical formulation of what's in store for consciousness as a whole. And according to them, they can make some predictions even, as to what kind of conscious gistults can arise given the change in the trace logic and what they call the experience kernel. If I understand correctly, there's kind of sliding off the experience kernel frame, but it's an extremely promising framework, I think, and I'm very excited to dive into the specifics there. And I do think that maybe the laser can be one potential way of probing into their theory, because the laser, and I spoke to one of the professors that is part of their operation. And we agreed, and he's a neuroscientist, he agreed that if we have a stable object of observation in altered states, which is what the laser is, it doesn't even matter if you think it's a hallucinatory or not. The fact that it's stable for what it is, and it seems to be similar or the same across individuals, it gives you something to actually study, it's a handle. And you can now basically try and trace the mathematical logic through the different states that people occupy, 'cause people experience the world in very different ways, depending on their mood, depending on whatever, right? And see if we can actually create any departure for anyone with how the code appears. That this can be an interesting thing to study. - Would this mean that the code is also another icon in interface? It's not, it's not code. - Well, ultimately any content is, yes. Like I don't really, we call it a code of reality, 'cause we have to call it something and it kind of looks like a code that kind of have it. We have no idea what we're looking at, not the first clue. - Right, when people hear code, they almost think about computer programming, but it's more like symbology. - Yes, but it does seem like, again, this is where I have to kind of make clear separation. My intuition, not even hypothesis, my intuition is that it is some kind of a language that reality speaks, or your experience, it's almost like the pre-buffer of what you experience at the world, right? So maybe there is something there that is akin to a computer code, but it's just not arranged in the same way that you would have in a computer where it goes to a compiler and levels and communicate to machine level. It wouldn't be like that. It would be like a code that is instantiated in the environment itself. So just like a world kind of build itself through speaking to itself, through this kind of linguistic representation, and maybe the reason it's discernible to conscious beings within the world is to find it. It's almost like another purpose that serves is for conscious agents within it when they're ripe to understand, to start to understand, and then slowly kind of find their way out basically through it. - So the code is not content of the experience. It's not the machine levels. The code is infrastructure. - The walls, yeah. - It's the walls, so there's nothing below it? - No, I'm sure there's levels above it and below it, and however it is that you want to imagine it, but I do believe that there's more and more layers. Like when you go into five MEO state, it definitely feels more, it feels more like the architect. - Yes, it does. - Yeah, yeah. So I think there's levels where it's just wiggles. You know, I mean, there's just like logical arrangements of things and not just, maybe the platonic space, I guess, so you can think of it like that. - Can you explain the difference between, you don't have to, for me, but the difference between five MEO, DMT, and NNDMT? - Yeah, so-- - With experiences like? - Yeah, it's very different. - Very, very different. The short answer is that, well, there's two different kinds. So the NNDMT, which is an instance for two nitrogens, five MEO stands for five methoxy with an oxygen with DMT, and they're both producing our bodies to different amounts and in other living systems. When you smoke each and every one of them, they shouldn't even share a name. They like to different universes, like try it. NNDMT is like transformers from three million years in the future. Five MEO is straight up like meeting God. It's just divinity. It's that vibe. And by the way, that actually made me understand that there there actually is a distinction to be made between saying, sometimes people say, well, you wouldn't even know the difference between a God and a very advanced civilization. I disagree. I think there's a big difference. - Really? - Yes. There's a difference in their essence. So a super-adventualization can have the essence of divinity, but that quality, at least that's what there would be my take, is not necessarily coming for the right. You can have a super-adventualization. They will not feel divine. It wouldn't be evil. It just wouldn't be divine. Divinity is a very particular kind of quality. It's almost like the wholesomeness of reality. And I think you have to tap into that. If it's going to be animating you, propelling you forward, it is the pool of energy out of which you draw. A particular kind of idea, a set of ideas will be arising there. And a different set of ideas will be arising if you're playing the non-divine game, so to speak. Now, that can sound a little confusing, because descriptively, it's very hard to pinpoint exactly what's different here. But when you're in the presence of it, you know, and by doing five of me on comparing it with NN many times, I realize there's a big difference here. Five of me feels divine. It's like kind of the thing beyond which there is no nothing. Like it's a hill, maybe there is, but it feels like it's impossible to go beyond that state without being the totality of things, basically. Yeah, it's like full ego dissolution. You're part of the oneness. It's very strange. But also the content even feels like this. It has this light, this light. NN doesn't always feel like this. It feels more like technical, like very robotic, right? Yeah, so that's what I mean by that. It's tangible, and more tangible. And I would say, I would go as far as to say that even though on NN, you can sometimes have experiences that, you know, there is ego dissolution. Like you don't remember, you don't remember you're a human. You don't remember what humans are. You're just some point of attention. But when you do five of me, you realize that's still not enough. Because when you do five of me, if you look back at NN, you'll realize even when you had that state when you were like not remembering what being a human is, there was still a point from which you were looking. You're still observing. Yes. Five of me, oh, I don't know if it's possible to describe with words. It's not. It doesn't, that central thing doesn't exist anymore. That's not, there's just field. That's it. It's like completely diffused. There's no mapping of any kind. And yet sometimes there's also content, by the way, for me. Yeah. I recommend people don't mess with five MEO. Without a facilitator, someone's got to be there because it could be scary. I found it very scary. Yeah. Do you really have to let go? You have. And it's hard for me to let go. You believe in the divine? Yes. Well, it's interesting because the word belief is an interesting one. So I always say, I'm at this point, I'm still, I'm a secular person, which just means I believe that everything is no a bowl, just a matter of time and energy and whatever it is that you can live through. But I know there's a God. So I know because I saw it, like it, you know, fall intents and purposes again. Nothing is unmovable, but in terms of how certain I am, that there's an actual God, basically a hundred percent. Did you see Jesus? Yes. But that's not the God that I saw at the top, which is always very bothering to Christians, so yeah. Well, it's bothersome Christians. So God is not the top of the chain. Not the biblical God, no. Not all intents and purposes for fairness. At the same vision, I saw that as far as we're concerned, it might as well be. So who's above God? There's some kind of a, again, it's all, it's going to sound super arbitrary. So I'm trying, yeah, I'll talk about it, but this probably, I keep saying it, but this probably will be the last block, as I mentioned this. Because I'll say why, just for a moment, I do find that that reaches outside of what I call the horizon of relevance. Beyond that point, there's more dissonance from this than coherence, and that's not necessarily a good thing. It bothers Christians for the obvious reasons, because that's blasphemy. If you postulate anything beyond Jesus as being our Lord and Savior in total scheme of things, that's blasphemy. End of story. You're not interacting with God. That's the perception. Right? I don't think that's, I think that's good work. From Christians, right, that's the perception, so it disturbs them to know in, right? Or at least they think of me as someone who's a, you know, herithic, right? But I would tell them, no, no, no, God is still God. Yeah, yeah, sure. He's just representing us. No, no, no, it's part of the, it's very radical in that sense, like the one thing that is not touchable is that part, which is like if you don't accept Jesus Christ as the Lord and Savior and the final arbitrar, you're going to help, period, like that's basically the Christian belief. And on the other hand, I also want the rest of it what I saw even to me and some who if you would ask me before what I saw beyond it and I will say but like I just want to preface it by saying that it doesn't make sense to me either because it's way too arbitrary again it's it's like a caricature it's like a Marvel comic book like it just doesn't make any sense it's too simplistic but hey I mean if it is what it is then it is what it is like I don't know what you know what else to do with it but what I saw is that there's this enormous hierarchy and at the top of it for some strange reason it's a woman and no she is not referred to in any of our folk clothes like she doesn't exist in our folk clothes no one has ever interacted with what she actually is conceptually when they talk about the divine feminine they're not talking about no no that's very terrestrial yes yes that's like here that's like like that's so it's outside so like there's the mood again reminding everybody this is arbitrary for me to I'm aware of how how silly this sounds it doesn't well to me it does because I if you would ask me like what what would I imagine the ultimate picture to be it would be more along the lines of Buddhism like neutrality nirvana just kind of like and if I have to put an image to a god which I wouldn't but if I were there would be like I'm kind of an infinite ball of light that contains all you know something like that but no it was clearly a female it's like a woman and and but at the scale of it was so basically it's our universe is within a multiverse the multiverse is within a try system there's like a three ball system of something and only one of them is the multiverse and I don't even know what the other two were and outside of all of that so just that alone the scales here right is where all the gods are so no we're not on the trajectory of becoming gods we're not gods it's not that kind of a thing but we can be way more because we are made in the image of something much more right and then I saw that basically I'm alone in this basement and I have I have VR glasses on obviously all this is like representation and I have infinite screens in front of me basically you create these infinite realities for yourself you are alone there's no one else in your simulation and I obviously this can be just me that's just you know solipsism which is like silly so clearly there's others but they are there in their own simulation right and they're making their own little worlds and everybody in your world that just representation just reflection basically but they are informed but the real conscious being so you're getting a pretty dialed in interaction from what they would really do in real time and from what I understood that's designed that way for safety but the system is learning what you're doing so it does matter when you do it's not like you can just go into whatever you want I would never recommend this so the system's designed for safety from causing actual suffering to what you would consider the other until you're until you're ready to enter the ultimate love channel which is a safe channel when you enter that channel not like sexual infatuation but like actual openness yeah but just for the audience of there's like a conflation here you you the sandboxes of the different conscious individual actually get closer to one another it's not a binary it's not like either in it or not it's a distance from like how close I am to you truly in the spiritual realm so to speak and I think everybody who live long enough can appreciate that it actually feels different to truly be in the presence of someone truly like there's it feels different you really feel there and it's almost like you can feel something now you can explain it away all you want would just like well you're reading more micro expression sure however it is that you have to frame it for yourself it feels different to be sharing a certain mind space together and then all of a sudden everything just flows you know a lot of this conversation is this way there's just this understanding that I feel from you through your questions there's there's also a real care there's like there's this bubble that is created is different than just us speaking through the chasm of concepts totally great yeah and that what I saw is basically ascension is that when all beings of that species can enter that space and then they're all together actually right and then I saw some again pretty arbitrary things which is like it's all following the Mendelbrot set shoreline I'm just going to ask me rightfully so he said why the Mendelbrot set because you know it from like memes like there's so many different factors no not because I know it from memes I have enough sophistication in that room to understand that there's all of these other ones that's what I was shown that's what I have to follow now obviously you can say well that's because the one thing you know best so they should yeah but that that game is infinite like why is it that particular fractal I don't know I think there's something about it so I don't know enough about the actual differences between all the other major ones but if I understand correctly the Mendelbrot set is kind of the map of all stable fractals so you know Julia sets and all the other ones and what's interesting is that because it's it's based on a very simple equation which most self iterative iterative ones are but it's a very simple equations equation the basically gives rise to is infinitely complex not large but infinitely complex structure so the the fidelity of its stability is guaranteed within the very simple equation so even though there's going to be probably some requirement for some air correction as worlds are actually built on top of it it's going to be a lot easier because the the structures of the fundamental baseline is guaranteed to be stable by the definition of the logic of the equation in it never repeats self I don't know if how many people know this but there's not one part of the Mendelbrot set is the same not one you know how the different again I'm sure you know but I want to make it explicit for the audience the Mendelbrot set is this shape with the you know looks kind of like a little beetle right yeah the little beetles that it's made out of not one of them is the same now one to infinity to infinity that's crazy crazy and that's part of what's called a stranger tractor one of the it's the Lorenzo tractor which basically states that nothing ever repeats the same mm-hmm that's interesting because if you're looking for novelty that's definitely the one you're gonna pull and if you're evolving into these spaces forever you want to make sure that it's always stable always evolving in ways that you yourself could not predict because the difference between the general logic of all of it in its totality existing in some infinite space and the actual computation of it which is the process by which you're actually going through it are two different things when you're computing into it you want to make sure that no matter where you're gonna find yourself you safe for the fidelity of the system anyone to make sure that you always discovered new things that you've never seen before so if you want to run the ultimate computation and see what is in store for the ultimate state of affairs which is what they're doing calculating the ultimate question you will pick something like the Mendelbrot set yes you would yeah that makes a lot of sense yeah and by the way that I have a little thought that it actually is to me is very interesting if to me sounds rings very true the closer you get to the edge so if everything in the world follows the Mendelbrot set which by the way we know it does because we have literally like any chaotic system from dripping faucets to you know the way the hearts work but basically everything and even the the the process in which populations grow everything I think Lorenz was studying whether whether everything so basically even the bifurcation at the little veritasium did a great episode on this so if you if that means that everything in the world including the patterns and the information in our brains will follow it well here's the deal this would explain to me why the distance between madness and genius are so close it's because the own in order to be a true genius you have to play in an informational space where it's right on the shoreline where truly truly truly novel ideas can come but because if you took close to the shoreline it becomes so chaotic and so unpredictable that one wrong step you're up and that's why we all know very intelligent people that are weird I definitely do as far as people I know cannot really function can towards a perfect example this was created set theory everything has to do with infinities when man died in an insane a sound yeah and we know it's correlated yes it happened to him once he went in he stopped he recovered went back it's actually a very tragic story and then went back went back and this time died alone in there it's a very sad story but we we're very the fact that some people are like this we are very lucky to have had them because they created enormous theoretical frameworks that allow us to do a lot today I totally agree do you interact with Jesus no I didn't become a Christian because that was not a it's not like Jesus came to me which maybe is something I need to worry about I'm not sure but but I saw him from the side like I saw him ascending and essentially what I took from that is essentially there's a new dawn coming you saw him ascending so he's like he finishing his contract so basically that whole thing essentially what I saw which then all of a sudden I had to the resurrection did you see so okay so for me I had to make sense of it right so I want to frame this part of what I'm saying by saying I had to make sense of what I saw because it was like super arbitrary to me I never grew up with the concept of Jesus yes my grandmother was a Christian but there was never part of my I never cared I understood and neither did I care in a negative direction I wasn't like reacting to Jesus or something so why would I see that like I'm if anything I should see the Buddha that makes the most sense to me right but they were very clear they will they showed me the image of Jesus exactly how it's depicted in the Bible which I took to be information because they could have said you know that thing you believe to be the Messiah there's such a thing but it's not what you think that's not what was what I was shown I was shown Jesus Christ as he's depicted. I thought that to be, took that to be information. And at least to some degree, it opened the door for me to at least explore and at least to listen to what Christians actually believe. Like, obviously, forthcoming Christians. Yeah. And not immediately branded as like, you know, some way in which people deal with reality, right? So like, if there's any reality to it, what Christians actually think? Not what people tell me, they think. What do they think when I ask them, right? And I started talking to Christians. And then what I discovered is that actually, the story is much deeper than I realized. Really, yes. And the story, well, maybe you did know, maybe you knew this, but I didn't. For example, that a lot of the denominations believe that the cross was not what was done. The cross was the beginning of what was done. Yes, so you knew it, I didn't. And that actually impacted me emotionally. So like, if I allow myself to entertain even the maybe of it, I mean, that's wild. Yes, the fact that he went through all of hells for us, I mean, that's a different story, right? And then when you really sit with the story, it's crazy. It's crazy. And then the fact that basically was done for us in an infinite love because it saw that God saw that there's no way we're gonna not go towards the worst possible outcome for us. So he basically bought our karma. He said, I'll strike a deal. I can handle it. In order to handle it, it wasn't enough for him to basically experience it as the unified God that he is because then it doesn't count, right? He had to go into a limited form so he can actually experience the suffering, not just the detourment, the psychological, the physical, all of it. That's crazy. It's crazy. So then, so even the maybe of it is insane. Who did God make the deal with? Right? - Well, I saw that guy is also there. - You saw that guy. - Yeah. - Did that guy have a face? - Kind of, but it's more kind of like the caricature folklore, what you would imagine, right? So like, and it became clear to me also that things are not very, very straightforward in that regard. Like it's almost like he doesn't really need to do much. He just kind of lets things unfold in the way that they would and he can kind of steer it. But like ironically, again, this is like taking us very far afield. But there's some interesting nuances there that I saw that obviously don't depict them in any positive light obviously. But it's almost like, for example, there was this interesting thing there that he can't lie. Like what? - Yeah. - He can't lie. - He can't lie. - I think there's something to that. - Yeah, yeah. - He can deceive. - Oh. - He can't lie. - So you know how sometimes, so for example, you know how somebody gives you a riddle. If you don't give me enough of the actual information to truly for me to figure out, that's just a shitty riddle. - That's not fair. - Right, right, right. But if you're clever, you don't lie. You deceive, you deceive by, the information is there, but you have to be aware enough to notice it. - That's right. - That's how he operates. And if you're blind, that's on you. You can't belong in that place if you truly didn't know. But if it was there all along for you to notice and you didn't, you choose to not notice. That's how it works. That's part of the kind of like the ultimate state of affairs. And I found that to be profound and also pretty true. And to whatever degree that part for the obvious reasons, you're like, "Okay, whoa, hold on here." Yeah, we have to think of some things. And then I realized that basically, the way I explained it to myself is that essentially, the ascension is basically, Jesus basically handing us back the bill collectively. There's like, here's your karma back. You're good enough to handle it now, but you do it collectively. So you're not good enough to do it individually, but collectively you can hold each other in check. And that's where we're supposed to go now. Can we pull it off? - I hope so. I'm positive about it because I think that's the only way to actually steer there. That's not, you know, I'll do my best, but that's all we can hope for, right? And yeah, so that, but that, again, funny enough, it didn't make me a Christian. Again, I'm not even saying that to, in any direction, I don't know what to make of it. Maybe it's my stubbornness, maybe it's like, maybe I should, like I don't know. But it didn't, and for the time being, it feels correct. Like I'm definitely still following the riddle. Like I'm doing my best to notice what's there to be noticed. And I'm not like obfuscating information for myself or lying to myself about something just because I don't wanna do it. Like as far as I'm aware of myself, I'm not doing that. But I also saw, which is obviously the part that really bothers Christians, which is like there's a much bigger picture than that. But again, I also kind of saw that it might never be relevant to us. So it's almost like, you might not even need to ever like worry about that. - I think that's probably true. - Yeah. - You don't have to worry about that. That's what God's here for. - Yeah. - It's like I actually, it's your agent. I got you, I'm worried about that. - The riddle was very interesting because I had plenty of experiences. One was I just wanna know how everything works and they told me it's too big for you. It's too big for your brain. But very often when I'm in that world, I get information that doesn't quite make sense and I could feel the entities saying, if you don't get it, I can't do anything for you. It's all there for you to figure out. And over and over again, it feels like the trickster is like it's right in front of you, dude. - Yeah. - Just gotta figure it out, but I can't. - You can only be judged on things. You can discern and comprehend. To say, "Ha ha, you did this wrong thing." It was like, "I never knew it was a law. I never knew it was a rule." - Right. - And then they can say, "No, no, no, no. We know for a fact you could." You chose not to. That's different. But if you actually couldn't, then there's, you know, now why is it like this? Again, it's like super arbitrary, right? It's almost like, 'cause think of it from Marvis, and I'm just thinking a lot, right? Like if I'm imagining myself creating a world for any reason and I'm allowing the beings in the world to do, I think it's, I think I have a responsibility to create a world that doesn't just, pardon my friend, just fuck 'em over. You know what I mean? Like it's actually unethical of me to put them in the condition where, you know, which leads me to believe that if it is, in fact, the case, any of this, it must be some ramifications, or just like the state of affairs that is just so, and there's really not much you can do about that, a certain limitation within which everything else operates, it's just how it is. - Or all having the same experience. - Basically, yeah. So then it makes sense ethically. Like if you can see from the highest perspective, that things are just are that way, and you don't know how to make 'em different, maybe it's the fact that there's in, like the same amount of ying and yang in the world, like the same amount of darkness and light. So what is the most ethical thing to do? Try and distribute it evenly instead of like half of it, experiencing the ultimate suffering and half of it, you know, the ultimate bliss. How do you communicate that, hey, we all should carry as much of it as we can, so nobody has to experience kind of like the ultimate, like that's the most ethical decision that can be collectively. So if you're on top of all of this, and you see all of this, then all of a sudden, it makes more sense. So hey, it's just how it is. I want everybody to have the best time possible, possible. Let's try and play a game a certain way. So we all kind of stay within the, which again, within the purview of you and the mental broadside and this infinite, 'cause what's outside of the mental broadside? Just infinite, right, nothing is predictable, everything can be anything. And like, I can't really comprehend what this is. Yeah, so maybe there's only so many different ways to keep coherence. And that's essentially what the light path is, which is like kind of stay, it's almost like the lack of awareness of God that is really what hell is. It's like, you just, 'cause anything can be. Right. And there's, there's really, it's almost like the default. So it's not like either or the default is really where you're gonna end up if you don't pay attention. No, the default, because he's not really doing anything. He's just kind of letting it unfold. It's basically everything. So that means whatever the program is, this program to be pretty dark. It's not even, no, so maybe what's, so the thing that I saw, which was kind of like the ultimate, what should we call it? The kind of like that, you know, ultimate caboch. Like this is like the thing at the top, which is that basically what it's all for is to formulate us the right condition for the ultimate choice. So basically you have, in the beginning was the word, in the end was the choice, the ultimate choice. The ultimate choice is when it's literally all said and done, literally, like there's nothing that can happen again that didn't happen before. And if you think, yeah, but what if, yeah, you're not thinking about the statement describing. Everything was done. Everything. Now any other step you're gonna take by definition will be a replication of something that happened. Then what do you choose? And in that moment, basically, what I saw is that there's this final black box that contains the actual answer. The one thing that no one in existence knows is why, nobody knows why. like you saw the box. It's in that box. So basically right now while it's still happening the answer doesn't exist or the question or whatever it is right no one actually knows that information doesn't exist in existence right. It's the ultimate umbilical cord which if you think about it for two seconds actually makes perfect sense because aside from you just kind of in by fiat declaring that God knows if you think about it for two seconds any amount of knowledge you can embody you can always ask but why that. So it's almost there's no way because you have to be outside of what is which what does that even mean. So basically what I saw is that that the reason everything is happening is because it's formulating that black box with the answer or the question and what is that for because at the same time what is being practiced so through all the simulation is the attitude of letting go of which much is much more kind of like the eastern attitude and then at the end of everything you think that we're running multiple simulations over and over there's two main games okay one coming up with the actual true answer or question yeah and the other one is the practice of just letting go of it but it only matters if you can in fact let go of it not the concept of it if I ask can do you think that if the time comes you will let go of it you saying yeah I think so doesn't mean anything because it's not there right but only when the money is on the table if that's why the answer has to be the real one it has to be guaranteed to be the holy answer or the question and then God gets to make the ultimate choice which is like does he open that box or not this is the finite against the final moment and you know and the thing is it is the final of of finals because the second you open it you don't know what's in it you you don't know if you don't really don't want to know that or you really did or can you just let it go can you just be forever if you're there forever and you can do anything nothing means anything everything is kind of pointless which is what a lot of people experience sometimes when they go to five a meal and it's this like infinite loneliness because you're just alone and you understand there's nothing outside of you it's like that's essentially what the predicament that you know the ultimate God is and so it broke itself or she broke herself into infinite pieces that don't remember necessarily all the time and they're playing both of these games because the only two games that make sense is figure out what it is that the one thing you don't know because it's kind of interesting but also see if you can actually practice of just letting go of it and just be forever just like because that's what monks do it's not forever for them but for longer and longer periods they practice to being complete bliss without any anything the reaching is the problem the reaching is the suffering according to the Buddha the Nirvana would be basically the unitary field making the choice to just like go of the whole thing and then it kind of opens this the one thing that I did see that was kind of I'm I have to be honest here I was convinced for a long time that I saw it and in the same kind of vision saw it yeah I saw all of this yeah this was shown to me so now but but I'm but I'm that last part that I'm about to say I actually don't recall so I have to be honest about this it might have been but I actually don't recall if I'm added it after because it's very easy to do because you are in this like a very kind of you know very very altered state yeah but what I what made either either what made sense to me or something that was actually shown to me was if the box is opened what happened and this is why the choice is so dramatic is because if you let go you can just be with everything that you already know and exists you can just be in peace and whatever it is but if you open it creates a state because so the ultimate object so the ultimate God would be if it would be perfect you know in a perfect sphere every single point in the sphere points exactly exactly the opposite side of it exactly that's the definition of but it's the definition of a perfect object or a shape if it's the ultimate thing it must contain all the opposites of itself so it will not occur it it actually cancels itself out right this is why God can be perfect it will be almost perfect it will be one piece missing just like in that game with the nine numbers you have to have one missing to move them right so the only reason that anything occurs is because there's this one piece that is missing from God being perfect which is that piece of knowledge of why but the second that happens when that piece goes back and got in that pico second or zepto second whatever it is that God just knows imagine what that would must be like you now locked forever with that knowing it's just you in that knowing but also it becomes perfect and therefore it doesn't just cease to exist but ceases from ever been existed this is very the empty conversation yeah yeah it's almost like it cancels everything out and I don't know if you know this but it sounds like you're pretty experienced with these there's always this almost like a zany ramping up towards something it's almost like a tata tata tata tata tata and they're all kind of waiting for you to like and it becomes more and more serious and you're like what's going on and so what I saw that at the end of this this ramping this crescendo that's what happens it's this ultimate like just do you think that this is predetermined how does free will work its way into that yeah so that's exactly the thing that you wow you asked the exact right question whatever free will is the only place it can be so it actually doesn't exist in the way that we think of it the only place where it can be is in that one blind spot that's where free will lives free will the ultimate fractal of free will is the the freedom of the will of existence to come into being versus not to be so that is where it's at and nobody knows what that is so you your question predetermined no the reason it's the ultimate choice is because it's the one time in the existence of existence that an actual free choice will be will be executed that's the only time that is it executed by one unique consciousness or I think it's going to be the unitary and I think what might be happening is that maybe they're this is already kind of becoming like super you know uh no it's fun yeah but but basically it might what might be happening is that they might be creating AGI's to go through a similar moments with and we're one of them so basically it's it's you train a bunch of AGI's and you put them through alignment problems and all of that and if they pass you can put them to the next level and the next level and they essentially all together either conspired to have that moment together or they're a practice of how to have that moment perfectly because you you can't mess that up there's only one there's only one of those literally ever so it's the one moment where you have to become so god has to become so still and it has to align himself with the ultimate umbilical chord and basically execute that one ultimate choice whatever that is and just kind of surrender to it fully but it still sounds like that choice is comes from the deeper consciousness but no one can no one can ever tell because it's actually computationally reducible the moment has to happen for so you actually no one knows including got himself or herself if they will open the box or not like they actually don't know until the moment comes that's a computer science theory that you have to run the program to see the script computational when i'm saying computationally reducible it's a computer science term to say it but the the ultimate moment is a lot more dramatic than a computer doing a thing it is but yeah but it's it's interesting that you don't think it's predetermined that we have to be if it would be predetermined it will be pointless it's like yeah that's true yep so who's running it then is it god running it or god no we're talking about a level that is outside of reality itself it's almost like it's it's this is why you see horizon of relevance like aside from having like a really interesting philosophical discussion about this and that's what i took from it by the way even though i'm still like enjoying once and a while revisiting the idea itself because it's so explosive i took from it to be basically like them saying if you really want to know you can but what are you going to do with this like just just live your life basically that feels very familiar yeah is will tell you but you don't really need to know any of this what's for and basically what the only way i guess i was maybe stubborn enough in which they're like well let me show you then and then you tell me if you think you can do something with it which i'm still like kind of like in this crazy deliberation with with the totality of things can't you open it and also like i don't think so isn't there some quantum positions they're like nope yep no way around that where do the insectoids fit into this they're more like a management company which i'm always at the at the they in our level no no no they're where they're simulating the universe so the way above our level simulating the universe and probably a few others okay so this is the scales when we're talking about the beings that i saw like gods they're way more than that. That's like levels and levels or above gods? No, no, no, no. Well, this is why I'm being careful because to some degree, it's still not fully clear to me if all of this is a formulation within their simulation, or are they just a management company within a smaller system, delivering the, I guess, the commands that God kind of dictates, like the architect actually commands them and then they do it. Yeah, I'm not sure, but currently it looks like they are more management company. And where you go with 5 and the O is more like, you know, actual, the architect. But again, I'm being super careful because I definitely don't want to like, uh, upside anyway. So hopefully I'm doing my best to, to, to get it right. But I'm not sure. We, we could just speculating. We're just sure. We're not saying this is what it is. You know, some, some beings can be very moody, but that's true. Yeah. Have you ever been locked out? That never happened to me. No. With all your experiences never locked down. No. I can say that maybe a few times in which like, I had to do more. I'd never heard of that until Andrew brought it up kind of blew my mind. That's that's the thing. Yeah, it was known in the communities this happened. Yeah. Yeah. When I was on Danny Jones with Zoltan together, Zoltan brought it up because it happened to him one time. And he said, Oh, there must be hundreds of cases because in, in our little, you know, second on community, it kind of, a lot of people know each other. And when we pulled it up on the computer, there was almost no reports of this. Like no, it was like, that's strange. We kind of know about a lot of them. And then after Chase used spoke about it, all of a sudden that clip went viral. Yep. And all of a sudden boom, everybody talking about obviously. So it's like, you know, it became like a much more known thing. I think that's where I first heard it was fascinating. It also tells you that there's something going on. Yes. Just that by itself, by the way. Did you do DMT X? Yeah. I actually, as far as I know, and this is just like a fun, a little surprise when we did the first big one when we did like, did like a shoot for the film. If I'm not mistaken, I'm still holding the world record basically. So I did five hours with 464 milligrams. So that's chase after that went after me. I think it did like four plus hours. I don't know how many milligrams it did. I think a little bit less. We won't try to break a record or anything. One day, if we really feel, you know, call to it. Maybe we'll try and actually make like a real record. And I have to design this one because I can stay there indefinitely. No, I really can. I'm like, I really enjoy it. But the reality of it is that I don't even think it's that hard. I think that some people really enjoy that. Chase was one of them. I don't think if you're enjoying yourself, just sustain your body and you'll be fine. Like, you know, you can just enjoy yourself hours and hours and hours. Maybe days will see how different was the experience. It's a lot more pleasant. Yeah. That's what I hear. Yeah. And it's also a lot less. Ampy. When you smoke it, there's this like a boom. Yes. Yeah. It's the jolt. Yeah. It's the jolt. Wow. Really good word. The jolt doesn't happen. It's more like a hockey stick. It's still exponential. But it kind of goes like a very smooth and you can control it. You can ask, you know, we're doing it with Kevin and Hayley in Colorado. And you can just always ask them to lower it. If people are interested in like the super legal thing, then you can also go to probably Andrew spoke to you about this. Yeah. It loses the same Vincent paradise, beautiful, great crew, more expensive, expensive. But if you can afford it, it's worth it for sure. Great people. We went there. We did this with Carter as well. Shout out to Charles and Christina who invited us. But yeah, but there are cheaper ways and the worth it if you really want to explore it. There are cheaper ways. We're not going to discuss that. Yeah, there are other ways. No, like even in Colorado, because it's decriminalized. It is decriminalized. It's not a criminal offense. That's true. Yeah. Yeah. So it's a misdemeanor. Nobody, they actually had two CIA agents do it. I think three. And I think Kevin said that two of them told them we know what you're doing. We don't care. Like, I bet the CIA's done a lot of DMT. Oh, yes. Oh, yeah. I bet they've been in there a long time. Yeah. I've done if you ever done the gateway. No, the gateway takes the process. I tried it. Keep falling asleep. You know, try it. Yeah. A similar thing happened to me, but then I learned how to kind of state somewhat awake. I'm very similar to you. And I noticed that there was definitely changes. Like, oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I started feeling there was one case that was really outstanding. I put my head next to my wives, like this head to head. Second, I touched her head. I felt this headache, but I knew it wasn't mine. I bet I could feel it. I was like, do you have a sharp headache right here? She's like, yes. Wow. It was crazy. Like, it could feel her headache. So there's definitely something there. It's supposed to unlock whatever's down there. Do you believe in the universal consciousness? And we're all just micro projections. Oh, yeah. I think consciousness is fundamental. There's no, I don't think you can responsibly describe the world without consciousness coming first. That just doesn't make any sense. I think so too. I've heard you talk about Benara cash drop quite a bit. Great. There's one thing that I always want to ask him that I don't understand why he's so insistent on it, which is that he thinks it's a substrate dependent, which is strange. He only thinks it can become an instantiated physical matter. But other than that, I think he's probably the best, the best outliner of the. He thinks it's substrate dependent. Yeah. He always gives this again. It's very confusing because without a doubt, Bernardo is one of the smartest people on the planet. I thought he believed the physical comes out of the consciousness. He says things like, which is why that example is so I would love to ask him one day, but like, and I don't mean it disrespectfully. I just truly find it like a silly example. The example he gives is like, well, if I simulate your bladder on my computer, my computer is not going to pee. That's literally a thing he says. I'm like, why is that going to do with anything? But the computer is a different substrate. So like, if you simulate a whole body on the computer, then the person in the simulation will pee. Sure. Why are you? What is this translation? So I guess maybe that's what he means, but it's not translatable for one substrate to another. But it's not the same saying you need the matter to make consciousness that unless he assumes that matter is the final kind of thing that is with consciousness. I'm not sure. But I would love to ask him one day, but I wish he would do some podcasts. One day, I really hope that we'll meet. But I consume basically everything he has to offer and, yeah, definitely one of the more important people in that world and that thought round. Super eloquent, very clear on what he's saying. Best outlines of why free will is really not a thing they can even be. That's right. He doesn't believe in free will. And the projections, he believes that there's some will down below. Well, it's the only, that's like I said, is the only place that that's the kind of what I was thinking when you were talking about. Yeah, it's the box. Well, I actually, for a long time, struggled as to how people can see that, that it's not a coherent idea. But then I realized that maybe what people mean by that is not really what, let's say, I mean by that or what I think ought to be meant by that. Because words mean things, right? So if you're saying free will, what I think is implied is that you think that you're somehow free of the immediate moment and somehow you float free of it and then you make the choice and this is some kind of a vacuum of something, it must be what people mean by this, right? I'm different than whatever. Just being pushed around. But then, and maybe if the idea is more like, there's more freedom of operation because there's more degrees of freedom, that's true because the brain is a much more advanced system. But in the end, there's just a more complex system of like things pushing each other, right? So the conscious part of it, which is the feeling that we have that we, which is different than just what the neurons are doing, right? Somehow that is postulated to have that freedom and also the word will is interesting. Because what you're saying is that you're kind of willing to be, right? There's almost like a just magical quality of just kind of like I'm willing it. Both of them don't track even the first step of observation because you obviously whatever brought you here is responsible for what's going to happen next. So it's always, you always within the sets of dominoes falling, you're never outside of that sets of dominoes falling. You can't, you can't, the reason it's an incoherent concept is because you can't describe a situation that is logically consistent in which somehow all the dominoes are falling. But when it comes to this one domino, the domino stops everything. It was one second. I'll think because then what is that internal process of that one domino? It's internal, it's infinite regress. Where is the end of that? The answer is the beginning of everything, right? That's the one hole in the donut that connects between what we experience as a choice that isn't really chosen by us, but yet feels like, it feels like a choice only when you retroactively fit a story on to it later. Right, man can do it. He wills, but he can't will. Exactly. How can you know your next thought if you haven't thought it, right? So ultimately you have to bring it back to the ultimate first moment, which is Bernardo's point. But with a caveat, which is that he says that you can say that the universal mind has this kind of like freedom of will with the one caveat that it is free to choose that that it is ought to choose because of what it is. Because if it's the totality of things, it is all the things. Therefore, it has a state that dictates what the next state is and it can experience it as a choice, but But how free are you if you have to do that thing because of what you are. And if you're saying, yeah, but what if there's other things influencing it, what are the things? 'Cause we're talking about the ultimate. 'Cause if you said other things, you're no longer referring to the ultimate. You're now referring to something that is within something else, and that's not the ultimate. Sometimes I forget that we're doing a show right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thinking about so much stuff, cash trip theory kind of explains why randomness isn't a thing. Well, it just doesn't solve it. It doesn't solve it. Right. Yeah. Because randomness is the opposite of free will. Right. It's not targeted. It's just random. And also, randomness can't be because it's no true randomness. Yeah. Because if it's the totality of things, it is guaranteed to be the ultimate set of everything that is possible. And if you're saying random, well, then that means something is outside of the scope of that, and therefore now it is the ultimate. Now that is the ultimate. You know, horizon of relevance, man. I guess that's true. It's true. You once said that 99% of your audience would disagree with what you actually believe. They came for the matrix, and you're quietly handing them metaphysics. I'm quietly handing them to present moment. That's what you're doing. Yeah. Present moment. Yeah, it's the only thing that ever matters and never will. Are people disappointed? Because they just want to talk about the laser. They just want magic. They want magic. They want the matrix. But the magic is right here. And then the matrix that everything else becomes even more profound. Because everything that is experienced truly through the present moment is always more profound. It truly is. There's an expansive quality to it that you can't communicate with words, because the logical trace can't really follow there. I want to close with one thing, and I think you're going to nail it. When we talk about lack of free will, that's usually very nihilistic. It's usually very dark. If there's no free will, nothing matters. Life doesn't matter. But you have a different take on that. Yeah. But it's the opposite of that. The idea that because you don't have the ultimate say in things, which is what free will postulate it to be, is the ultimate prison, not the ultimate freedom. Just like we said with the AI, if I put you in a situation where nothing is, and you have to make a choice, that is the hardest position to be in. Because you literally bringing it out of nowhere, which is almost impossible. The freedom is in the understanding that you are the space in which all of this is unfolding. You're literally the totality of things where you are. And that, to me, both connects you to the ultimate, and also frees you to just have fun. Because you don't need to worry about the ultimate state of affairs. You can just enjoy this to its ultimate degree through actually acknowledging that that's the case. Being pushed around as the universe, it's kind of fun. The state of flow is a lot of fun when, in fact, you're in it. Because you're serving. There's an elation there. So you actually, the irony is that you gain the ability to experience actual magic, like actual magic in real time. When you get a wink from the universe, there's nothing more satisfying than this. So I think that if people are just willing for one moment to drop their need to, you know, to be this final arbitrary, in order to feel salvation, and realize that that's an arbitrary choice they're making to put their salvation there. If I don't have free will, what is it all for? Or this? Do you feel good right now? Because if not, I understand why you try to escape it. But there are ways to truly drop into the present moment where everything opens up. You're literally being handed everything. And I will be honest, it sounds like a vacuous promise if somebody has never experienced it. But this is why within the crazy pyrotechnics that people can experience on psychedelics, the thing that I would encourage anyone to notice if they are doing that is not the pyrotechnics, but how it can feel when you freed from the constraints of needing to make decisions, or what do you imagine making decisions. See how that feels in your body. There's a, you can breathe. You'll feel true compassion. True compassion, true freedom. That's the freedom. And then you don't need things to be this or that. They can be anything and you will enjoy them just as much. And you can experience hardships in life and everything else. But it will never have the same dire nature, the nihilistic nature that you might experience. Because it's the mind trying to tell you what must be for you to be free. When in reality, you already are. That's the way to land the plane. Where can they find you? Daniel Thoughts is my YouTube channel, the ANGOThoughts. DannyGolor.com is all my links. Our retreats, I highly recommend to check it out. CoRretreat.com and go to reality.org. If people want to check out everything with our nonprofit. DannyGolor, this has been a joy. Thank you so much. Everybody. That was DannyGolor. We covered the laser, the simulation, his cosmology, free will. Let me try to make some sense of it if I can. Here's what holds up. Danny isn't making his life out. American Ninja Warrior contestant, foreigner Moscow, raising his reel. The vipassana he credits for everything is real. A 10-day retreat where you sit in total silence and observe your thoughts without judgment. And he corrected me on his own credentials. API letters, he said, is a newsletter not pure you. And I trust the guy who downgrades his own resume. Now the bigger claims. Danny says reality is computational, rendered not fake. Then physicist Melvin Vopsen at the University of Portsmouth published a 2023 paper in ANGO advances. He calls it the second law of epidynamics. Information in physical systems compresses and optimizes over time. That's not what you expect to happen in reality, but that's what you'd expect if the universe were running on a computer. That's your real paper. It's pure you. It's not except the science. Most physicists disagree. It's just theory, but it's interesting. Danny says mushrooms are raised as OCD. Now a 2006 study at the University of Arizona gave Silas Simon to nine people with severe OCD and cut their symptoms by up to 100%. The one thing I couldn't verify is the code itself, the symbols. Thousands of strangers seeing the same symbols in the same spots. There's no published data that he's really the first to say so. And I have experience with the molecule and I've never seen anything like that, but I never influenced into a laser, which is why would you? Before the laser, Danny was on DMT and a being that looked like a frog showed him chords on a guitar. The chords he said he didn't know how to play, and then he did. Now if it happened, that information came from the outside of his own mind. But if he didn't, the most important moment of his life was a misfire on the drug. He kept through it. I can't disprove it, but I'll take his word for it. He built 10 years of work on it, and he tells the story the same way every time. Now here's my take. On the surface, Danny's just another psychedelic guy with a retreat and a non-profit. But that's not what he's doing. He's taking the most subjective experience a person can have, and building an experiment that could prove him wrong. He keeps saying the truth always wins, and I believe him. A man selling you a belief system doesn't invite you to debunk him. Danny says, "Bring on the truth," and he'll accept it. I take him at his word. You could find him on YouTube at Dan Go Thoughts. That's Dan Geo. Dan Geo Thoughts. His retreats and his non-profit code of reality are all on Dannygolder.com. And I'm thinking about trying it. That's Goler, G-O-L-E-R. Links are down below. Now if the simulation is something that fascinates you like me, I broke it all down on my episode and we lived in a simulation. I included the science there as well. It's a lot of fun. Until next time, be safe. Be kind. Know that you. I appreciate it. Do you have a capsule here? Come on, baby. I'm trying to keep it. [MUSIC PLAYING] , yeah. 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