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🆕📺 THE FILM IS OUT!!! (YT Link Below)
UNRAVELING THE DREAM: Psychedelics, Awakening, and the Brain
I couldn’t be more excited to finally get to share with all of you!
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Jake Orthwein
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Jake Orthwein
@JakeOrthwein
Movies, minds, meaning and meditation | 📺 Video essays @ Frame Problems | 📨 frameproblems.substack.com
- dudes like this are the backbone of western civilization
- I would very much like to know what’s going on here
- Reminded of the greatest opening paragraph in history
Since I couldn’t lift for a while, I wrote about it instead: the misery of missing the iron, the unbearable lightness of lightness, and why lifting is one of those transformations you can’t understand before you leap. Either way: Go to the gym. Seriously. - “why can’t i pay attention to my breath for 10 seconds” is one of those questions that, if taken seriously, can rearrange your entire life
- i know that psychology is supposed to be getting more scientific and all, but now that nothing replicates, can we get back to writing wildly speculative but literate treatises on sex and death and dreams and myth and meaning and stuff?
- Oh you’re a Buddhist? List all the games the Buddha would not play. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_g…
- 🆕📺 Just released Part 2 in the Kayfabe series! It's a sweeping narrative about America from 1945-2001, told through the lens of @ericweinstein's ideas on growth, stagnation, fantasy, & violence. youtube.com/watch?v=L39Xr6… I learned a hell of a lot making it. Details below👇👇
- 🧵Going to start a thread of readings that I think would help with being unconfused by last night's outcome. Feels like the most constructive way of failing to resist the impulse to tweet today. Will try to stick to things that take a 30,000 foot view:anyone who wants to thrive in the mid 21st century needs to understand how and why this happened and refuse to be continually shocked and confused by it I’m not shocked but I remain more confused than I want to be fortunately I have four years to improve my sensemaking skills
