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30 Eggs a Day. Day 24 update

So I’m currently on Day 24 of eating 30 eggs a day.

If you’re asking why I’m eating 30 eggs, take 60 seconds to watch this br...

Meditating 10 hours a day for 10 days: the aftermath

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So I recently finished my 8 Part series Is Enlightenment Real? but it actually ended early....

Kurzgesagt says Cow Biology is a “marketing lie”

*This is continued from my previous post Kurzgesagt: Beautiful Propaganda

I noticed there ...

Is veganism healthy? Ask the ex-vegans

84% of people who start a vegan diet, eventually quit. This comes from a study of current and former vegetarians and vegans. This isn’t data spread by The Meat Industry™, but Faunalytics -  a “nonprofit research organization dedicated to helping animals by providing useful information to advocates to help them increa...

Cutting power to the conscious brain (Part 8)

Continued from previous post: Psychedelic states while meditating sober (Part 7)

By this point, really long sits were the norm. Whereas in the first couple days of the retreat, I had to take several fidget breaks and was anxiously awaiting the timer to ring for the two hour sits, by Day ...

Psychedelic states while meditating sober (Part 7)

Continued from my previous post where on my 7th day into the 10 day retreat I somehow stumbled into a trance state known in the Buddhist texts as jhāna. Actually, there are 8 of these jhānas and I found myself in the 4th one. Obviously I couldn’t be totally sure, but I followed the instructions laid out in The Path to Nibbāna and suddenly felt this warm sensation in my body rush up into ...

Discord for $5 Patrons

Hey guys just wanted to let you know that you can access the discord now! I think if you go into Patreons setting somewhere it should be able to auto-join you.

Check out here for how to do it

https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/212052266

My 10 day quest to see if the jhānas are real (Part 6)

(Continued from Part 5: A more practical, less exhausting path to enlightenment?)

Let me point out that my reading of Daniel Ingram, Mahasi Sayadaw and 2022-10-09 15:06:36 +0000 UTC View Post

A more practical, less exhausting path to enlightenment (Part 5)

After becoming a bit discouraged by the Daniel Ingram and Mahasi Sayadaw books, I started looking into this technique the supposed Arahant Delson Armstrong was using.

I picked up David Johnson’s book <...

Is this really the best path to enlightenment? (Part 4)

So far we’ve gone over two meditation techniques which allegedly contribute to achieving awakening. To review, noting is where you try and notice every single bit of mental activity arising in your conscious awareness - itching, imagining, intending, planning, breathing, twitching, hearing - everything. Jhāna is essentially an immensely blissful trance state...

Meditative Trance states no one told me about (Part 3)

(Continued from last post where I talk describe the meditation “noting” technique)
To be honest, this noting technique where you sit down and try and notice everything that occurs in your conscious awareness seemed too simple to be worth doing. Meditation is typically thought to be a way to de-stress and relax, but when I sat down and tried the noting, it was actually very hard and quite tiring.

2022-10-06 11:41:47 +0000 UTC View Post

Speeding up your brain until it breaks (Part 2)

(Continued from the previous post)

I actually ended up reading through all of Daniel Ingram’s book before I interviewed him. Something about the topic was really compelling to me.

The meditation practice he used mainly was called “noting.” With noting, when you sit down to meditate you don’t just focus on the breath ...

Is Enlightenment real? (Part 1)

Have you heard about those guys actually trying to get enlightened?


Over a year ago I was talking with a friend of mine about learning and improving Japanese. Just as we were wrapping up, he asked me “have you heard about the subreddit /r/streamentry?” I said No.

He followed up with “Essentially there’s these non-monk guys who think the Buddhist concept of enlightenment is in fact real… and they’re dead set on achieving it.” This really piqued my inter...

Less Hunger after a Fast

Hey everyone,

So I just released a video on prolonged fasting called What happens if you Don't Eat for 44 Days? and thought I’d share with you guys a couple interesting things that didn’t make it into the video.

Regarding the apparent reduction of hunger after a long fast, a reduction in insulin might not be the only way you end up getting full more easily. As explained in the video, leptin is a ho...

Intro to New Video "What happens if you stop eating for a week? a month? a year?"

Hey guys, thought I'd get your opinion on the intro of my upcoming video:

In 2003, the famous stunt artist David Blaine spent 44 days without food suspended in a transparent box above London. He didn’t need a toilet for a month and a half because the only thing that came out of his body was the distilled water he drank.  

What happened to Blaine’s body? We’ll get to that, but Blaine’s stunt pales in comparison to the man who entered the Guiness Book of World Rec...