When a child runs around the room being superman, it’s cute. When a grown man does it, it’s dangerous.
We have cars. We have knives. We have chainsaws. We have bank balances.
You can certainly enlighten yourself outside of a controlled environment, but I guess most people do it in a monastery for a reason. And they spend 30 years developing the sustained attentional capacity to sit still while it happens.
Most people will not be able to do that. Most people will fly around as superman.
This is completely real at the time. Just like for your kid. They have more learning to do, so they have imaginal worlds. Invisible friends and fantasy lives that one day most of them (not all of them) grow out of. Maybe this has something to do with the scale of learning going on. The scale of exploratory rewiring. They are dopamine factories, our kids, but they don’t have chainsaws.
So we don’t need the metaverse, but we need a safe container and meta have the necessary technologies and funds. Psychiatry is a multi-hundred-billion dollar industry which provides sub-par solutions that sometimes backfire horrendously. I’m sure there’s a business model in there somewhere.
What if you could take all these mood stabilisers and stimulants and replace them with a headset that tingles your brain a bit and allows you to fly through space as a teenage mutant ninja turtle every evening? What if you could become Alice and go through the looking glass without having to eat a mushroom and put yourself in danger?
I am very experienced with altered states and - let me tell ya - this was something else. By the end I was trying to remove the construct of money from the world. I even shoplifted to try to ‘decondition’ society. I paid it back, don’t worry, but this is not an optimal situation.
And now I no longer fit the diagnostic criteria for either ADHD or PTSD. I *am* still dysregulated and always will be - my neurological makeup is not going to change. I will always learn hard, and I will always need to decondition myself to consolidate it. Cycling, meditation, moderation.
But now I know the nature of the beast. I know the code to install.
And… I mean… what if. Just… what if you could induce eureka moments in all of the world’s smartest people? The climate scientists? The cancer researchers?
We need a safe container - a way for people to consolidate learning by going back to the imaginal world they had as a child.
This is why art therapy and writing work. EMDR likely mimics REM sleep. This would be orders of magnitude more powerful and effective.
If someone wants to beat Mark to the punch and propose a way to do this, I’m all ears. But I’m not in this for profit. I’m not going to dance with some VCs for a few million before having them steal the technology through some legal fudgery; I’ve seen it too many times.
My only motivator - and I need to stress this - my ONLY motivator is to help people.
I do not need much. I could live on alms food. I did all the FIRE shite and I’ll not do it again. Even if I lost what I do have (which is enough but not too much), I would just work as a carpenter or something. Something that is manual, regulatory, satisfying.
This isn’t for money.
But we need the tools.
Meta has the tools.
And just imagine - going from playing virtual pingpong or whatever to flying to the end of time and meeting God, who heals your trauma permanently and grants you enlightenment.
Seems like a no brainer to me.
But I’ve experienced it so… it would, wouldn’t it?
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