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30 Eggs a Day. Day 24 update

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

Meditating 10 hours a day for 10 days: the aftermath

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So I recently fini...

Kurzgesagt says Cow Biology is a “marketing lie”

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

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 ...

Cutting power to the conscious brain (Part 8)

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

By this...

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...

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

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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 ...

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

After becoming a bit discouraged by the Daniel Ingram and Mahasi Sayadaw books...

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 activ...

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 b...

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. Someth...

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...

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 vi...

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 b...