Here loving-kindness meditation can be enormously helpful. Essentially what you do is visualize a container of very positive benevolent and high-valence feelings (call it unconditional love, God, primordial goodness, Buddhamind, etc. – or whatever really resonates in your inner world simulation). You then tell the story that subagents come out of that container and once they achieve their goals they go back to it in order to “merge with love” once again. You can even explain this to the subagents, and they can feel the sense of relief that comes when they finally achieve union with this primordial love. Gently guide them towards it. And if you do this over and over, you will in fact be cleaning up a lot of subagents lingering implicit in the field, until you achieve a smooth field with high-valence and a non-dual feel."<ref>[[Aligning DMT Entities: Shards, Shoggoths, and Waluigis | Qualia Computing]([Aligning DMT Entities: Shards, Shoggoths, and Waluigis | Qualia Computing]([Aligning DMT Entities: Shards, Shoggoths, and Waluigis | Qualia Computing]([Aligning DMT Entities: Shards, Shoggoths, and Waluigis | Qualia Computing]([Aligning DMT Entities: Shards, Shoggoths, and Waluigis | Qualia Computing]([Aligning DMT Entities: Shards, Shoggoths, and Waluigis | Qualia Computing]([Aligning DMT Entities: Shards, Shoggoths, and Waluigis | Qualia Computing]([Aligning DMT Entities: Shards, Shoggoths, and Waluigis | Qualia Computing](https://qualiacomputing.com/2023/03/05/aligning-dmt-entities-shards-shoggoths-and-waluigis/)))))))) Aligning DMT Entities: Shards, Shoggoths, and Waluigis]</ref><ref>[[Healing the Exile in Nondual Awareness - YouTube]([Healing the Exile in Nondual Awareness - YouTube]([Healing the Exile in Nondual Awareness - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cN5M_8r3Gc))) Healing the Exile in Nondual Awareness guided meditation by Michael Taft]</ref><ref>[[Contacting & Integrating Shadow Material - YouTube]([Contacting & Integrating Shadow Material - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaANMmPcjTY)) Contacting & Integrating Shadow Material guided meditation by Michael Taft]</ref> '''abcdef. Changing one's mind aka construction''' In this state, you are more prone to dissolving, transforming, or strenghtening your fundamental priors, as cortical hiearchy is more deconstructed. Anytime there are discomfort or pain sensations, you can repeat to yourself "suffering equals pain times resistence, purification equals pain times equaminity" and I let the pain fully flow through you without blocking or denying it like a terminator and nothing can stop you. What you resist persists. Meaningful life includes mode of being, mode of doing, and mode of becoming. Acting from fullness, wanting to compassionately add to the whole we are part of, instead of taking away from it to fill the emptiness (in the western nihilist sense) in the heart. Enough dose of conflicting data pressure might penetrates the statistical hull of the stable belief or world view structure and phase change to a different configuration of system of beliefs might happen. You can uninstall before mostly hidden from you irritation and fear conditionings by looking for exiles in your mind and letting them express themselves. You can desconstruct them or update them. Show them that they aren't needed anymore or that they can serve a better function. Usually they feel scared or hurt because of some past experience. Lubing them with love using love and kindness and gratefulness can help. Seeing the positive in the negative. Going through the episodic memory again by noticing that the environment actually wanted good for you, let it be people or the nurturing of the universe. Learning to see perfectness in every moment as part of a holistic mandala, accepting it.<ref>[[Everything in it's Right Place Meditation - YouTube]([Everything in it's Right Place Meditation - YouTube]([Everything in it's Right Place Meditation - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWC6dK0_O2g))) Perfectness Mandala guided meditation by Michael Taft]</ref> Accepting you as you are is interconnecting with yourself. (Ideally balance between acceptance and change) Love and kindness and prosocial data interconnects you with others. Noticing the perfectness, love and caring of mother nature, accepting the world as it is, interconnects you with the world and reduces the need to change that generates desires, fear and stress. Death meditations dissolve the fear of mortality.<ref>[h[Not-Death Sangha - 14 March, 2020 - YouTube](https://youtu.be/yA7XpQXIHGw) Death Sangha guided meditation by Michael Taft]</ref> You can notice something that you think is true. Some concept, some duality and find a middle way. Middle waying everything and metarational empirical scientific method of constructing models destroys all dogmas (defined as 100% certain beliefs) which liberates all mental constructions from absolute certainity. If you want to engineer wellbeing, swim in estatic mental models, they share something in common, symmetry. Biology includes hardwired selective confirmation bias as a way to navigate error gradients, so under symmetry theory of valence it makes sense to navigate your selection bias towards symmetrical representations, which itself is a bias. Synthesis of maximizing predictivity and maximizing valence seems to be the optimal from what I've gathered. Nonduality is essencially about symmetries. Ultimate god mental construction includes everything, allows everything. Ultimate reality mental construction includes no and all concepts, nothing, everything are true, false, both and neither. It's always a mental model so abstract, so low constrain/structure/information which generates all models, a mental representation with the highest amount of internal symmetries. You can install those by listening to content about nonduality. Someone who doesn't care about science and not wanting to spread information with less predictibility power can go for just wellbeing. There's danger that one gets stuck in something symbolic there though as one doesn't have the scientific metalens from my perspective. In a way we all go towards wellbeing using what we already have in our heads. Compassion feels good. Merging with the deity of compassion feels amazing and it reinforces your nervous system to help all beings. If you want to go this path, you can. Imagine [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqViREYXsAEf0nF?format=jpg&name=900x900 enlightened deity of compassion] on meditation in love and kindness context radiating love towards all beings and merge with it. '''abcde. Substances''' Psychedelics multiply the amount of consciousness, expand the mind, dissolve, strengten or mutate existing beliefs. 5-MeO-DMT adds extremely intense hyperattractor of higly symmetrical consonant (or dissonant) free high energy pocket of negentropy that result in ultimate neural annealing. DMT creates clusters of coherence. Stimulants make more specialized hyperfixated flow. Dissociatives remove the amount of consciousness, which can be useful for dissolving being stuck in an attractor as well. Cannabis also brings random connections. They bring you out of our usual thinking mind. '''abcdef. DMT entity alignment''' Reducing asymmetries (do nothing + love and kindness + deconstruction of all sensations meditation), making the chances of "beautifully consonant nondual DMT 5-MeO-DMTlike unity God of emptiness interconnecting entity" emerging, or entities being more harmonious together, higher. '''abcde. Message and sex''' Message can relax all muscles more, and relaxing the body relaxes the mind. Sex by itself is pleasant and can be precursor for Jhanas, and orgasm is ultimate relaxation of the mind, that can deeply interconnect people, even better with spiritual foreplay. Looking into eachother's eyes and synchronizing breathing is magical, as it can synchronize the minds as well. '''abcde. Audio''' Nothing is ideal for experience of nothing or cessation - experience of nonexperience. Alternatively one can experience divine loving unity with [[Feel First Life - Jon Hopkins (Visualiser) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uqJSdXJi84) Feel First Life - Jon Hopkins (Visualiser)] or agressive deconstructing lubing negentropy pockets of energy with [[[CoL] 32. Diabarha - Mariana Trench - YouTube](https://youtu.be/HL77EXiOihg?t=10633) CoL 32. Diabarha - Mariana Trench] '''abcde. Visual''' Fractals. Unpredictable AI generated content. Brignt centre. Symmetry. Nature. '''abc. Solving the Meta Crisis with the Meaning Crisis by Social System Optimized for Transparency and Happiness''' Meaning crisis is valence, interconnection, unity, experiental intensity, flow, internal and external value alignment, feeling values directly, crisis. Fundamental core priors aka value realization. Selfactualization, selfrealization. Putting the self in the other. Achieving internal consonance of subject and object mental model. Lubricating fundamental priors such as reminder of ontology and values (that's function of rituals and there is less of them now) and activating them by action directly feels meaningful because it creates very symmetrical dynamics in our minds. Meaning is a process, such as creative exploration, deep fundamental work, being voulnerable, or local farming. Advanced meditation nicely kind of optionally sidesteps this by creating unconditional always active nondual fundamental prior that loves all experience. Landscape of equally potentially effective solutions to the meaning crisis sharing the same structure, first definition, as I said before: Meaning is the sense of interconnectedness with us, others and everything. Rebuilding meaning group maped out the space of possible meanings corresponding to our values that people can have, such as deep work, creative brain storming exploration, voulnerable spaces, local farming, doing art,... - around 4000 of them depending on how detailed they are needed. This is and can be futher used to redesign social media to maximize meaning more than engagement (as they seem to be one main cause of the unhapiness and mental discomfort of the youth) and to build retreats or social communities where there are spaces in a train optimized for fullfilling our values and creation of deep social connections. They have a language model as a chatbot that can figure out around 5 of your value cards by giving you questions better than humans can. Facebook has already tuned the objective functions of their machine learning algorithms to focus slightly more on meaning rather than just engagement. <ref>[https://www.rebuildingmeaning.org/ REBUILDING SOCIETY ON MEANING]</ref> By talking and behaving in the language of meaning aka our fundamental values instead of conceptual labels, boxes as identities that polarize us instead, society would feel more synchronized, united, synchronized, on avarage. Which could also result in less economical inequality. Different political ideologies, religions, or philosophihies have much more in common when one focuses on meaning instead of instrumental goals and preferences. In a society full of value realizations in space trains there is much less friction. Tribalism will always be there, this is about reducing the friction as much as possible. Happier societies seem to experience less friction among today's world and through history. Values are okay as long as they dont destroy values of others in terms of wars and killing. To design this in social media and systems: Instead of closed communities on Discord or totally open pages on Facebook, instead of closed communities in villages or corporate consumerism, you can have something in middle: interacting communities in space trains designed to fullfill meaning, for example mutual creative deep work on shared topics such as the science of wellbeing with the artist community, where everyone gives feedback to eachother as they produce, where the line between producing and consuming blurs. Getting inspriation from the structure of science: System of retreat makers giving ideas to eachother and designing retreats, testing them, making them for groups of friends. Each value corresponds to a need for community where this value can be realized. One practical intervention can be asking the population about their values using a questionare, more efficiently with the chatbot I menationed. Ask them if they are fullfilled, or analyzing what existing communities for what values exist and what are missing, and creating them. Being a vector in he societal space that pushes the emergence of communities, as some are inhabited by introverts a lot and they have lower chances of creating communities. What synchronizes us? Big cluster of people such as hippies or nondual philosophers or (epistemological) anarchists seem to resonate on the value of the sense of freedom. everyone uses different physical or mental tools to get the same kind of internal value actualize itself in the world. If we really wanna unify absolutely everyone, we are all trying to reduce uncertainity about our sensory data, as Free Energy Principle postulates, or we all try to reduce internal dissonance, as Symmetry Theory of Valence postulates. We try to reach stable happiness using the mental and physical tools that we know. Redirecting society from empirically disproven belief that if you have more money than you need for the cost of your living that it will make you happier. Popularizizing everything I'm writing in this book in the culture instead. Denormalizing chronic stress that breaks down everything in the body and mind. Connection with us can be created by working on us, analyzing us, training to love us, inner spiritual work. Social media seems to destroy those structures as the lizard brain cannot tell the difference between social media and real world interconnection, and also atomization via globalization happens leading to the destruction of stable local communities as models in our social graphs. Killing our attention also destroys this. Finding the balance between accepatnce and change, respecting existing structures but pushing change towards greater sum of wellbeing of people. Satisfy as much needs of people as possible with the least friction possible mathematically. Take in account behavioral psychology and evolution - people are diverse with diverse needs influenced by nature and nurture, social hiarchiers are emergent, trust and connection between people is hard to scale. Being ok with less technologic/economic progress for more wellbeing progress (destressing) Ideologies are too ideological and specialized for certain types of people or behaviors, we are more diverse systems. Making society more liberated and compassionate through culture and politics (coordination), sense of connection with others leads to more happiness and coordination - nondual ideologies, meditation. Predictions for the short term future: My take on GPT-4 and AGI and other existencial risks. I'm taking in account all perspectives. People expect doom, utopia, singularity, progress, nothing. I think truth is in the middle. AI technology will transform society. There will be pain and happiness, but not collapse. What do you think? By trying to follow all possible perspectives around AGI and existencial risks, my nervous system oscillates between all possible predictions depending on what I'm exploring. :D Since people are extra bad at long term predictions and doomers, worshippers, or hippies have always existed in similar situations regarding technological revolutions, potential existential risks, or religious fabrications, it's interesting to watch and ride on the train or calm the people that are freaking out. :D I think the economic singularity or misaligned AGI destroying humanity is probably a bit much, but I had a dream where the singularity visited me it was a mega religious experience. My most stable prediction is: it will be similar to when a lot of jobs were automated in the industrial revolution, in practice a lot of jobs will fall away through AI automation, but not something along the lines of everything collapsing or everyone dying, maybe it will boost capitalism further? If Uncle Ted Kaczynski could see that. D: There's going to be chaos from people getting traumatized by the language models like Sydney or people getting hurt physically from robots, but I don't think it's going to be totally uncontrollable. AI will be a mega useful tool in both good and bad hands, the transhumanism type (AI therapists, medical research, VR, art, creativity, robopets, creating happiness?) or China type (social credit system, cyberweapon propaganda, bioweapons?). I tend to think that society is slowly going towards collapse from more internal stress due to a ton of factors ala Holy Roman empire, but I'm trying to ground myself there as I suspect it's overblown via negative bias and doom ideas I explore here and there, and its being mixed with an optimistic positive bias that sees utopia in the future ala transhumanism. But who knows, I think it will be something in the middle, maybe for the worse when one looks at mental health stats for the young from hospitals or the economy or the climate or war risks. :smile: But we tend to crawl out of almost every destabilizing situation through adaptation. There will definitely be changes, there will be pain and happiness, but I don't foresee an apocalypse or collapse that strongly. Imagine China's ugraded supercapistalist AGI government that is misaligned from original autoritarian capitalist goal because we're terrible at even encoding the goals properly in the neural networks and it would accidently start maximizing wellbeing of people! :D Predictions for the long term future and how to solve it: Applying statistical physics flavoured evolutionary game theory to global social system to navigate the interconnected landscape of existencial risks for humanity in order to find evolutionary stable strategic longterm solutions of not selfdecostructing ourselves soon with stuff like nuclear war, climate change or bio/cyberweapons because of caring for individual short term safety instead of global long term safety. Existencial risks are negative sum games. Climate change, AI development, microplastics, arms races, nuclear/bio/cyber weapons. One agent increases his security and decreases security of other agents as they evolutionarily compete. Agents dont trust eachother and assume worst case scenario, let's not get technologically and economically handicapped relative to competition and create climate change regulations. Nobody wants destruction and extinsion but those underlying dynamics emergently happen as a result of a coordination failure. There is increasing amount of existencial risks with increasing probabilities lately. Existencial risks leading to collapse have always been a thing, like the Holy Roman empire, but it was much more local, we are more globalized now with interconnected dependant global supply chains and memes spread more globally, so the whole planetary life support system is overall more fragile. Free nature resources extraction by exponential technology so that everyone grows exponentially (superpositive sum games) and global monetary ecosystem as solution to no WW3. That might be now breaking with NATO vs Russia plus China as we're reaching the limits of what we can extract from nature that doesn't have enough time to regenerate the extracted comodities so rivalities to get others' commodities through force to grow become similarly plausible options again. Who survives by Universal Darwinism is who didnt get eaten, who won wars and had economic growth. We have radically more distributed warfare. We're on fragile interconnected network grid. Metacrisis: We're on selfterminating race.