Hello and welcome to this site.
I have formulated a hypothesis through personal experience and experimentation which explains the phenomenon commonly known as ‘enlightenment’ and presents it as a remedy for many kinds of trauma and neurodivergent suffering.
The hypothesis centres on dopaminergic manipulation and explains how belief, exercise, cold exposure and pharmacology can all be used to potentiate network-level attractor states via synaptic plasticity, achieving liberation from suffering caused by maladaptive deep-learning (over-learned predictive models) and the exaggerated neural minima (deep attractor basins within predictive processing models of cortical dynamics) seen in PTSD, ASD, ADHD and OCD populations.
Belief was formerly a prerequisite for someone to achieve liberation. Under this theory, belief is merely one possible approach to achieving the lasting removal of trauma-adjacent learnings which 'liberation' refers to.
Belief is known to modulate dopaminergic signalling. Dopamine is hypothesised to modulate prediction weighting and potentiate neural pathways. Neural pathways can be selectively engaged through multi-modal re-encoding techniques such as writing and imagery. These pathways can be weakened and violated through dopaminergic manipulation. The trajectory can be guided through language-mediated cognitive restructuring.
The religions can be retrospectively thought of as having employed these techniques for millennia. They are echoed in MDMA-mediated trauma therapy trials and experimental military use of aripiprazole for treatment-resistant PTSD; low-dose aripiprazole appears to have triggered my own recovery process but it was very risky and should not be replicated.
This explains why exercise helps with addiction recovery, why art therapy helps with PTSD, and even why you feel better talking things through while walking. But it takes these surface-level remedies and makes them global, to the point where someone can be ‘born again’, to use the traditional language.
It gets deeper.
The phenomenology of the process has been recorded extensively on this website, with timestamps, over the course of 6 months. It remains unedited for fidelity and is recorded on webarchive to demonstrate that the data was sampled in realtime.
This trauma-removal process can phenomenologically resemble bipolar disorder and psychosis, and there is a scientific explanation for why.
When exaggerated neural minima are destabilised, dopaminergic tone is elevated in order to potentiate new attractor states (high-energy, confidence) and then validated against real-world modalities (low-energy, doubt). Extreme plasticity is introduced to the network as new explanatory models are trialled (flights of fancy, meaning-making).
As minima are weakened, the activation energy required to bridge them is lowered while they are consolidated into a new perceptual framework. This phenomenon and mechanism is consistent with observations in diagnoses of psychosis and psychedelic use, and results in apophenia and reality-decoupling.
In short, this theory explains:
how to durably recover from trauma
how to remedy the suffering caused by deep-learning due to dopaminergic dysregulation
one cause of bipolar disorder and psychosis, and how to lead them to positive resolutions
how to achieve the state commonly known as ‘enlightenment’ without the need for belief
I realise this is a pretty wild assertion.
I am not trying to sell anything. I want real scientists to tear this apart. I want them to rebuild this so that it can be replicated in a safe and controlled manner, and I want them to do it as quickly as possible.
I have some ideas on how to go about this from my previous life building AI companies.
This is the mountain.
A mountain is made of rocks.
Do not ignore the mountain because you are arguing over the type of rock.
I have experienced this, having gone through 4 iterations of what are called ‘path moments’ in Buddhism. I am not Buddhist so I approached the entire process as a scientific experiment. I had a sample size of 1, and I went through many cycles of exploration and doubt to arrive at this hypothesis.
Writings are preserved verbatim to portray mental state; think of me like the guy who discovered LSD by eating lots of LSD. I am happy to talk with anyone, in-person or on the phone, about how this presents and how I think it works.
I no longer exhibit any painful symptoms of ADHD, PTSD, BPD or psychosis, as assessed by a treating clinician. At the start of the process I was struggling not to end my own life.
The cycle is self-extinguishing. Once the trauma and neuroses are gone, it stops. It does not require belief, but it does require management and a safe container.
I was misdiagnosed as bipolar and prescribed valproate during this process, which precipitated acute suicidal ideation within days.
There is urgency to this.
But I will wait for you to come to me. I am no snake-oil salesman or modern-day guru. I am just a man who went through a thing and charted a course. I want to share that course with other people who suffer.
You can reach me through the email address in the contact section or through my extensive network in the AI sector in Tokyo.
My name is James. I am still the same person, but I no longer suffer.
Speak soon.
/jb202512300742
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theory of enlightenment = the theory
perceptual frameworks = what you and your world are
88 hells = the data that i exported for my own initial awakening
ADHD, ASD, PTSD, OCD and BPD all explained by insight = how this explains the whole shebang
www.driab-semaj.com = scaffold website for reality-decoupled writings
www.nibbana-protocol.com = a website i made after n3 to guide people through the process
to Mark Zuckerberg = why not. how i think we get this to happen quickly. i am the zuckerbot