Energy and Perception Hacks

This discussion starts off being about diet and longevity, then the second half delves into neuro-bio-physics.

Indeed, the standard clickbaity title is only a small part of this chat.

The 5 Foods You Will NEVER EAT Again After WATCHING THIS! | Dave Asprey

“When you upgrade your biology so it works better you have a better system for detecting reality around you.”

The talk does veer into quantum-woo, but Dave Asprey is actually fairly level-headed in citing some experimental evidence. We are getting close, but the systems are complex and the latest theory is just the most recent iteration. Unfortunately, far too many humans remain deeply clueless - if they weren't, we would have a different world which wasn't intoxicated at every level, from food to brainwaves.

Long, but interesting thoughts:

So it's not about programming your mind as much as it is about programming your body and then your mind, because you can fix the mind but if the body is still in a state of poverty and terror it won't do that, and the reason I do the work I do, in the order I do, is that when you upgrade your biology so it works better you have a better system for detecting reality around you, and based on that you have more energy, and when you have more energy that energy lets you go into personal development and reprogram your mind.

So when you take someone from a background of abuse and poverty and you get their cells working again and then you reprogram the threat detection system, the poverty and the famine detection system, and the love system and the community system, you get a whole complete trauma-healed human. You can do this faster through biohacking than anything else I've invented, that's why neurofeedback matters, that's why getting nutrients into the cells matter. But if you have a body that can't detect reality because it's too poisoned by the environment, and too depleted in minerals, and in proteins, and even in energy, no wonder you can't respond the way you want to respond. No wonder you don't get the results you want, because you don't have the energy to bring it and it is not fair, it's not how it's supposed to be, and so many people have huge amounts of trauma and don't know it including the most successful people on Earth. [my italics]

One huge problem of the species is that few are ever taught about perceptions. As discussed in the video, our sensory apparatus is not designed to perceive reality "as it is", but only those aspects that facilitate survival. This means that the vast majority of people are unable to perceive when such systems are hacked, or manipulated, from outside, from some third party. It doesn't even need technology - hypnosis springs to mind as a non-tech hack. But now we have the technology to over-ride our senses and thereby distort perceptions without the individual having any experience of what a state of undistorted perception would even feel like. This is a very dangerous state of affairs, and it is good to see people such as Asprey trying to reverse this. The biofeedback tools seem to have become essential so that people can perceive the effects, through the tech, that they otherwise could not perceive unaided.