Episode 791 Scott Adams: The News First, Then I Will Rewire Your Brains to Relieve Anxiety

Date: 2020-01-18 | Duration: 50:29

Topics

My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Law enforcements https://clearview.ai facial identification app The impeachment kill shot that Alan Dershowitz will deliver Senator McSally versus Manu Raju Hit piece anti-Trump book by two Washington Post reporters Dalia al-Aqidi campaign ad is really, really good…she’s talented Gen IV nuclear is being promoted by Congressman Tim Burchett
”Ego death” anxiety relief begins at 27:10

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[Music] boom hey everybody come on in here for some of you this will be the best day of your life you don't know it yet but that's the fun part sometimes life sneaks up on you we're going to be talking about the headlines in a minute and after that I'm going to show you some techniques for getting rid of your anxieties of all kinds won't work for every person but for some of you it will probably be life-changing so stay tuned for that but first oh ho yes first you've got to have a little thing called the simultaneous if and all you need is a cup or a mug or glass a tanker chelators Diane a canteen drug or flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure that dopamine the end of the day the thing that makes everything better there's simultaneous it go now that's

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there's simultaneous it go now that's the kind of sip get your weekend going so I've told you before how weird my life is my life is so weird it's hard to imagine what it's like to be me let me tell you my my experience in the last 24 hours I got my televisions fixed in my house had some technical problems and so I decided to watch some television so I turned on one show and I'm watching Fox News in the washing of the five my favorite show and I turned it into TV and they're talking about me like you know the Greg was mentioning something that I'd mentioned and I thought how weird I'm turning on the television and the televisions talking about me and then later I saw an article I saw an article I'm somewhere on the Internet it was in Forbes magazine and it was about the value of mushrooms as

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it was about the value of mushrooms as hallucinogens that can help people with a whole variety of mental issues and I thought well this is an interesting article because I have an interest in this this I'll talk about a little bit later so I'm reading the article and the articles about me I mean it's not the entire article about me but I'm one of about five people mentioned in the article who have brought up this topic as something beautiful I thought how weird I turn out of the television it's about me and then I read an article one of the few articles I was interested enough to actually read the whole article and it's about me this morning about five minutes ago somebody was nice enough to tweet me a video in which MMA champion you know won one of the Great's of all time Conor McGregor his coach a guy named John Kavanagh is talking about training Conor McGregor now y'all know Conor McGregor right one of the most famous athletes of

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right one of the most famous athletes of all time if you don't follow MMA people you haven't heard of the name but within that world he would be the you know these superstars that everybody knows and John Kavanagh I want to asked about his training he says that they're gonna use systems instead of goals and then he name-checks me so apparently I'm some some important part of Conor McGregor's training is that a weird world imagine waking up to that I was strange so I'm very very happy for anybody who finds value in that stuff these systems being better than goals and now I'm a bigger fan of Conor McGregor than ever before so I'd like to see him win since he's using at least a sub small extent he's using something that I promote it in my book kind of failed almost everything and still win big I think it's over my shoulder there all right

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it's over my shoulder there all right let's talk about some of the news and then at the end I'm going to cure a number of you of some anxiety problems if you don't think that's real stick around because I know some of you don't others of you are saying to yourself I've been watching this guy for a while and I didn't believe any of the other things he predicted until they happened and I didn't believe the effect it would have on me until it did how many of you joined me in the simultaneous sit today and actually raised a glass or in many cases I'm hearing John I know your wife is watching sometimes they do the simultaneous sip with without a cup in their hands did you think that you would ever be addicted to the simultaneous that probably not and that was a very small example of your brain being rewired in a way that's just fun right nobody gets hurt it's just fun to do the

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nobody gets hurt it's just fun to do the simultaneous step after I talk about some news I'm going to rewire your brains again and you are going to be amazed in some cases other cases everybody's different so you'll all have a different experience let's talk about the news first New York Times had a big article today about an app called Clearview AI and it's an app that runs us on the phone I guess mobile devices and law enforcement is using it to identify faces to get the identification of somebody just by their face now apparently what the app has done is it has scraped that's sort of a tactical word scraped in other words it went into other databases and grabbed faces apparently there's access to Facebook data at least the the photos that are available venmo has a bunch of faces and

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available venmo has a bunch of faces and some other some other sources so this app has you know an order of magnitude or two orders of magnitude more available faces of this database that even the ones the the systems that law enforcement was already using so law enforcement already could identify a face in some cases if they had you in their database but until this app came along you couldn't just take a picture of a dead guy on the street and his name would pop up they didn't have that so there are actually a whole bunch of examples around the country where police literally they'll find a body with no identification snap a picture of it and the social media or any any kind of social media or internet presence pops up immediately so they've they've apparently solved a whole bunch of crimes from this now people of course are worried about the privacy aspect of it and I think the the

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privacy aspect of it and I think the the founder when he was interviewed I kind of not kinda if I totally agree with his take I think somebody else was interviewed for it and that is the privacy sort of a thing of the past there really isn't any chance that this won't be a universal kind of product so they're just providing the service that solves a whole bunch of crimes and it's a technology you're probably going to see anyway you know there wasn't any way around it but Wow just think about that now the the future uses that people talk about but are not yet the actual uses so at the moment it's sort of focused on law enforcement so they're the ones who get the contracts to use this thing but people are saying what happens someday when you've got the goggles on and you can just tell everybody's identity just walking through a crowd you know what kind of abuse would there be etc so those are all issues that society needs

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those are all issues that society needs to grapple with but Wow just the fact that that exists and it works and it's solving crimes pretty amazing it's called Clearview AI the teams for the impeachment defense and prosecution if you can call that loosely speaking have been formed it looks like the Democrats have on their team a a bunch of people who unheard-of and some I have that don't seem too impressive so that's what the Democrats have now maybe they're great because I like I said I haven't heard of them so they might be terrific I don't know but it turns out that the Republicans have wisely lined up their own team and they have the ultimate kill shot on the team so Alan Dershowitz is on he would say I just saw anything with him he would say he's on the side of the

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him he would say he's on the side of the Constitution so in his in his view of his job he's not defending this president he's defending all presidents because this is such an important thing it'll reverberate through time it would affect any president he Dershowitz says and I think it's completely credible when he says it that he would give exactly the same defense for a Clinton for a Democrat it wouldn't matter who it was because it's not about the person it's not about even the situation it's about the Constitution but here's the fun part remember this the Senate can kind of make up its own rules and they can decide whenever they want to after hearing I think the open arguments then they can decide whether they want more witnesses do you know what Dershowitz is going to do it to this thing Dershowitz is going to be presumably part of the opening statements after Dershowitz says even if everything that is alleged about the president is true the Constitution

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the president is true the Constitution does not recognize this as impeachable what will the republican-led lead Senate do after Dershowitz one of the most renowned respected knowledgeable experienced experts on constitutional law after he says yeah it wouldn't matter what the details are everything that they've alleged falls into the category of not impeachable here's why and I heard a brief exclamation on one of his interviews so the abuse of power charge for example is not is not one of the intended impeachable offenses indeed apparently there's a there's a history a written documented history of the founders discussing whether that should be part of impeachment and they expressly discussed it and specifically declined to put it in the Constitution

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declined to put it in the Constitution it was a it was a decision so you don't have to worry about the gray area there's no gray area it was discussed it was documented they decided clearly not to put it in the Constitution because they didn't want that to be one of the things you could be impeached for and that's their case that's the end after Dershowitz speaks Mitch McConnell can say all right let's make this a two-stage process and I think this would be very fair stage one are the things that are alleged we don't even have to worry about they're true or untrue we don't have to worry about the way you're spending it you don't want our version or their version if it's all true would it be impeachable we just heard our experts say no let's first vote on that that if these allegations are true would it be impeachable before we dig into witnesses and finding out if it's true I think once he says it's not

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it's true I think once he says it's not impeachable you can just end the whole thing or at least you could vote to end the whole thing and you would have all the cover you need it so one of the things about Dershowitz is if you watch him long enough I've been watching him for a long time and I'm actually blown away every time he talks I'm blown away at the this skill Dershowitz never wastes a word now he's really good at hitting the the the news you know two-minute hits so he can he can put he can put more content in fewer words than anybody you've ever seen I mean he's really amazing so I think he's geez the kill shot I don't think anything else is going to matter Dershowitz is going to just he's going to clean the table and there's not going to be left everything else to discuss after he's done I think anyway that's an option senator martha mcsalley insulted CNN's

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senator martha mcsalley insulted CNN's Manu Raju Manu Raju Esther a question as she was walking down the hall and she said you're a hack I'm not answering your question you're a hack now of course the CNN the hosts were deeply offended and won an apology and think that's inappropriate but I have to say this has got to be some of the some of the blowback from the last debate and the way they treated Bernie I mean it kind of felt remember I said the other day it felt like a turning point it felt like the point where people no longer accepted that the news is anything like news but rather it's just part of that political process the funniest part was watching I just watched a little clip of Jeffrey Toobin they're they're legal one of their legal experts and he was defending the accusation that seeing them makes up its news and he said unambiguously that's not true you know

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unambiguously that's not true you know I'm paraphrasing he didn't use these exact words but he was defending the accusation that CNN is fake news and I thought to myself if you're on TV defending whether your news channel is actually making up the news you've already lost here here's what you never want to do on the air under your own news network defend the accusation that you're making up the news in general he's that he's not defending that there was one particular thing that was right or wrong but rather that the entire network does or does not just make up the news it just invent it and if you're defending that well that's a that's a weak position I think I would have rather maybe stayed away from that if I were him so there's a new hip piece book by - Washington Post reporters do I need to say more there's an anti-trump book written by - Washington reporters can I just stop there anything

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reporters can I just stop there anything else we need to say I don't think so and I think that's a whole story because everything else you hear about this has no credibility whatsoever but here's their allegation perrolli in 2017 I think it was President Trump was alleged to have been angry at his generals about you know not winning in Afghanistan and not winning at all and this is what the two totally credible Washington Post reporters I say with a twinkle in my eye totally credible because Washington Post of course is an anti-trump organization he's alleged to have said quote you're all losers do you think that President Trump looked at a room full of the greatest generals in American you know at least currently in American history and said to them you're all losers you don't know how to win anymore the commander in chief told the meeting attendees allegedly according to the

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attendees allegedly according to the posts quote of the book the president's tirade continued with Trump telling the military officials I wouldn't go to war with you people you're a bunch of dopes and babies he told the room according to the post excerpts and then apparently that's after that is when Rex Tillerson insulted the president saying he was and eventually Tillerson got fired now do you believe that those were his exact words okay I don't now they could be I think it's entirely possible that those are somewhere in the general neighborhood of his message I think that's that's very believable I think it's very believable that he thought his generals could be more let's say winning oriented than they have been especially in Afghanistan that all makes perfect sense but do you think he looked at him and said you're all losers you're a bunch of dopes and babies to which I say

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bunch of dopes and babies to which I say maybe somebody said maybe at the same time I did in the comments maybe suppose he did how do you feel about it how do you feel about it suppose suppose that's exactly what he said said to the generals you're all losers you're a bunch of dopes and babies I wouldn't go to war with you what if he did say that do you care I don't not really I don't really care what happened since then they happened in 2017 what has been our experience with the military since then waiting a lot of winning seems like to me so it's possible he gave them some tough love I don't know if that's true or not you certainly couldn't take that is true but I'm not sure a batters in any in any real way Don the dad gone Geno tweeted out that's how I saw it a campaign ad by somebody who's a

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a campaign ad by somebody who's a democratic now it must be a Republican competitor to Ilan Omar so somebody who's competing for you Alon Omar's seat and it is one of the most amazing videos or ads you've ever seen I turned it on because just because Dan Bungie knows that it was you know great he had like little fireballs at his tweet I thought oh that's a lot of little fireballs Dan it must mean something so I turn it on and I'm hooked in the first five seconds it's it's kind of a long ad but five seconds in I was so hooked I went into a separate room so I wouldn't be disturbed until I got to the end now I'm not going to say it's the best political ad I've ever seen in my life because the stuff that Brad parse Cal is creating is pretty darn good and you know I praised

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pretty darn good and you know I praised Bernie Sanders in his last campaign had a great commercial one of the best so there have been some great campaign commercials but when I saw this this is in the top three I mean it's really really good so you'd have to see it yourself to know what I talked about but here's the cool part she's very qualified well the cool part is that she's an American born in Iraq so she she had experience with a lot of the Saddam Hussein reign now she's an American she's running for Congress and here's the amazing part her charisma oh my god her charisma you know one of the things we talked about with AOC and with yeah and I would say with Elon Omar you could dislike their policies or you could like the policies by independent of their of their politics their

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of their of their politics their charisma just jumps off the page you you could just like Elon Omar all you want I know some of a lot of you were Republicans you probably do but you got to say you got to give it to her she is really charismatic when when Elon Omar is on the screen I do stop and watch because she's she's got that x-factor that thing that makes you want to pay attention and it's not it's not her looks it's just it's not any one thing it's a little package anyway the the woman who is running for Elon Oh Marcy - her first name is Dalia and I'll tell you her last name but not until later because that's there's a story there so Dalia has a voice and a presentation that reminded me of my favorite actress on a series called the expanse how many of you have seen the Syfy show the expanse there's a character there who plays the I don't know she's the president of Earth or

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know she's the president of Earth or Mars I can't remember president of arms and she's got this really interesting Iranian accent so she speaks English but she's got an Arabian accent and it's the kind of accent you could listen to all day I mean it's just delicious you're just just listening to this actress every moment she's on screen again Perez like she just yeah in in in movie terms she chews up scenery when she is on screen you stop what you're doing and you listen to every word it's just it's like listening to music when she talks it's just beautiful and this this competitor to Ilan Omar Dalia she has that voice you know a version of that and you listen to it you're like oh my god do I want to listen to more of that apparently it's an Iraqi accent and it's just beautiful it's just a beautiful voice I mean

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it's just a beautiful voice I mean really powerful so it's got power it's got passion and man does she have charisma I would love to know how she was discovered now she's got all kinds of experience across different fields so she's got the full non loser think experience because she's she's been through different domains and I did not think that it would be possible to have an able competitor - Ilan Omar but there it is that is a really strong politician all right so look for that oh here's the punch line and I I hate to say this because I only have good things to say about her as as her yeah I only have good things to say about her somebody's telling me she's Iranian so is her accent also Iranian because Iraq is our experience but she may have some Iranian blood I don't know

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may have some Iranian blood I don't know it doesn't matter but here's the unfortunate part this is her last name Dalia al Aikido now when I pronounce that you say well that's nice last name elaqid oh I like that sounds good here's the problem when you see a written it looks like looks like Al Qaeda now it doesn't look like it but your brain just goes there automatically because as al Qaeda is a little too close so that is the simulation just with us because she's got that much talent and then she has that last name hmm I hope that doesn't stop her you know I've told you how the Republic has morphed into more of a social media is driving politics now here's a good example of that I'm looking through my Twitter feed and I see a tweet by

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Twitter feed and I see a tweet by Congress person Tim Burchett Tennessee congressman and the Tennessee congressman tweets this to President Trump he says keep pushing development of fast reactors using 95 percent of nuclear waste for fuel is a game-changer so he's talking about generation 4 you know new types of nuclear power and I thought to myself whoa this is great there's a there's a congressman tweeting up the president you know this obviously he understands the importance of this field and I thought this is great so I thought I should follow this guy so I go to follow him and I noticed he follows me so he was already following me and he might be listening to this for all I know he's all so far following March Snyder who you know as our as our favorite advocate for generation 4 and

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favorite advocate for generation 4 and nuclear power and so I'm pretty sure that some of his at least some of his let's say whatever formed his opinion probably came from a variety of sources but I think mark Schneider probably helped inform this guy this Congress person who is now informing the president and when you see this it just gives you chills because you see something close to like a curated democracy or a or best idea wins democracy where only you know the good ideas are the ones that bubble up and so you can see these good ideas bubbling up from social media you you know that Congress just heard from Michael Sheldon Berger and he was using the phrase green nuclear deal and you see all these ideas basically coming from our Schneider yeah he's been

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from our Schneider yeah he's been promoting them I dislike no Mike Sheldon Berger is boosting his signal i boost mike Shellenberger signal and now there's a congressperson boosting the signal to the president exactly the way it's supposed to load all right that's just some good news all right we're going to change topics right now I'm gonna raise my hands in the air because later when I edit this I might I might add it down to the first part with the politics and just keep the second part that's coming up in the second part I told you I was going to cure some of you of anxiety related problems some of you may not believe that's true some of you probably think it's probable now all of you are gonna have a different experience and some will have a profound experience some of you may cry some of the you may scoff a lot of you will just change the channel but let me go through my let me go through the

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me go through my let me go through the presentation and you can leave whenever whenever you feel you would like to I'll give you this following warning I am going to be rewiring the brains of the people who stay I'm a trained hypnotist most of you know that and what I'm going to be talking about has some basis now none of it is dangerous there's no there's no risk of anything bad happening to you I promise you that likewise for those who have been watching me for a while there are two two things the hypnotists do that have already been accomplished I wasn't trying to do that we in this context but it happened one of them is credibility you have to have credibility in the hypnotist your therapist your doctor it helps I have credibility to many of you because you've been watching me for a long time and you wouldn't be watching unless you thought I had some credibility so the

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thought I had some credibility so the first part is satisfied for most of you second part is pacing this is what heaven is dis do they match you in some way until you feel compatible with them and then whatever message comes from the hypnotist feels like it's something very comfortable and familiar because you've already you've already pasted them or matched them in some way now unintentionally wasn't what I was trying to do but those of you who have been doing the simultaneous sip those who've been watching me for a while have somewhat accidentally paced me meaning that you feel some comfort with me that's requirement number two so the first two requirements of hypnosis have been satisfied I'm not going to put you into a trance per se but I am going to have you go through a guided visualization which I think you will find in some cases profound in other cases you all feel I think so everybody

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cases you all feel I think so everybody will have a different experience from this all right let me give you some background this is called the pre talk in hypnosis this is also a part of the technique so I'm going to make you feel comfortable with what I'm going to do next as part of the technique all right here's some background I keep hearing from people and maybe you saw yesterday that that I had cured them of their Trump derangement syndrome prior to the election in 2016 or in some cases after and so many people have told me that independently they thought huh there must be something through that so here people had a specific kind of anxiety fear that the world would be destroyed by this orange monster and there's something I did or some things I did over time which caused people and they're telling me I'm not making this up this is what they report to me lots of people lots of them lost their anxiety and felt comfortable with the

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anxiety and felt comfortable with the president after they listen to me so that's one example of where I know based on reports from lots of people they had a specific kind of anxiety that I cured but I heard an even more interesting example the other day and it came from somebody who who reported having a lifetime of anxiety crippling mental problem anxiety the kind of really ruins your life now our anxiety disorders take many forms you could be afraid of and I may be using the the language a little differently than maybe an expert in mental health would so take it with take it as an approximate so anxiety would describe somebody out of phobia fear of the public fear of danger fear of this might describe somebody who had OCD OCD is kind of anxiety because you feel if I don't you know do this thing 10 times or whatever the number is some bad luck will happen so sort of

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some bad luck will happen so sort of this general anxiety fear many many of you probably are experiencing anxiety in the last several years that you had never felt before and there's something about modern life and about I don't know maybe it's about the the news business that gets people worked up maybe it's our technology but whatever it is there's a gigantic whole ball of different anxiety related problems that people have so there's one individual told me a few days ago that I had cured a lifetime of anxiety problems and I thought to myself I did what was it I said and so I asked what was it I said that cured a lifetime of anxiety problems that all the medical professionals couldn't make a dent in and this person told me and I started to connect it with other things I knew and

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connect it with other things I knew and develop an idea of what causes it now let me give you some more background and I'll pull this all together I've talked and of course you've seen it in the news about how hallucinogens specifically psilocybin that comes from hallucinogenic mushrooms LSD and some other hallucinogens are being used by medical professionals to cure various anxieties from PTSD to all kinds of stuff and almost instantly in other words one dose in some cases is curing people of a lifetime of mental problems and there's so much of that and there's so many stories of it that it's considered one of the most exciting fields in mental health now if you read up or if you've had the experience as I have of having any kind of hallucinogenic experience I did mushrooms in my 20s and I and I talked about how it was one of the most my most meaningful experiences and I read about other people's experience and the most

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other people's experience and the most common thing that people say is that they describe it as ego death ego death now if you've never experienced ego death and you've never experienced any kind of hallucinogenic experience at all that doesn't mean anything to you if I said hey ego death what does that even mean so everybody probably has sort of a personal experience that they they tend to describe that way it's exactly how I described it before I had ever heard anybody else use those terms it was exactly the words I used it's ego death now for our purposes I'm going to define your ego as that part of you that makes you feel special the thing that makes you feel like you're special and important that's your ego I'm giving you a very friendly definition you know so no no deep psychology here but the thing

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no no deep psychology here but the thing that makes you really feel special is your ego and let me tell you why this is important by an analogy now analogies have not good for persuading as I often say but they're good for explaining a new concept so here's the new concept suppose I said to you I would like you to take this potato just a regular uncooked potato and could you walk it a half a mile that way and give it to somebody now forget about why you know why you need to deliver this potato that's not important but if I say could you take this potato and deliver it over there and you've got the time and the inclination to do that would that give you any exact sighting probably not because what's the worst that could happen you drop the potato well it's just the potato you lose the potato it's just a potato you you get busy and you don't make it with your potato what's the difference it's just a potato that person can get a new potato potato has

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person can get a new potato potato has no value now let's say I said instead of a potato could you take this priceless painting by Picasso and just just walk it down the street to my you know where it needs to go to the museum could you do that for me now let's imagine it's a world where there's no crime so you're not worried about crime you're only worried about the safety of the painting and all you're doing is just carrying it a half a mile that way I'm giving it to the museum how much anxiety would you have if you were holding a priceless irreplaceable painting and you're just walking down the sidewalk with it you'd be plenty of worried because of the value of the painting you'd worry that a bird would do something that the wind would come up and put some dirt on it you'd worry that you'd trip you'd worry that somebody come along you'd worry that a car would splash water on it it would be your fault you'd have to pay for it you'd have all kinds of things to worry about and it's only because the

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worry about and it's only because the painting is so valuable the potato was not so what you need to learn is to be the potato don't be the painting be the potato now why is it that a psychedelic experience would give you Y go death and would turn you from somebody who's trying to deliver a priceless painting into somebody who says no care in the world it's just a potato and here's my hypothesis the hypothesis is that when you have the egodeath you have nothing to worry about because there's nothing to protect and I think that the way that you come about that is indirectly the way that you get to that is by being in the hallucinogenic experience you see your environment completely differently for the first time and yet and here's the important part you understand it you see your

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part you understand it you see your world as if it's brand-new but you still understand it and by the way other people experience it explain it the same way now once you've experienced that you could have a completely different set of subjective interpretations of your environment what does that tell you about your old view of the world it was subjective it wasn't right more importantly it wasn't important the way you always saw the world before that first time you saw it differently was never real and it was never important and if the way you see the entire reality is unimportant and you just feel that you're part of that larger reality and that it is subjective you suddenly start to feel that you are not that important but here's the important part you never learn you never lose the sense that you need to you know take care of your life and your health and all that there's no

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and your health and all that there's no danger you simply take your unreasonable fear of protecting yourself and it comes down to a normal well I have to eat today I've gotta sleep God you know if I cross the road still got to look both ways there's no downside you still would be fully protective of yourself well you'll just learn that you're more like a potato then like a priceless painting once you get that feeling that your ego is not important what would you ever be afraid of would you be afraid of the future no there's nothing to be afraid of
of because there's nothing at risk but a potato so I'm going to walk you through something a set of thoughts that will reproduce what is that what a what a hallucinogenic trip would do so I'm going to give you without the hallucinogens and therefore without the risk of that any illusion might have

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risk of that any illusion might have there's a small risk but you won't have any of that I'm going to give it to you without that all right and bear with me it's going to take a little bit of setup and then and then we're going to do it
the first thing you need to know and this will be helpful is that there are different filters in the world and you have probably experienced them for example did you know that in quantum physics the a particle that exists on the other part of the universe that has never been seen and never been measured in any way doesn't actually exist did you know that this is actual scientific truth matter the actual building blocks of our reality we know don't actually exist except as probability until a human or a

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except as probability until a human or a machine or an animal or something that can see something and detect something until something is seen and detected it doesn't actually exist now all the things in your room around you exist in a sense because you're looking at somebody is measured it touched it looked at it but scientifically we know and by the way this is not any there's nothing controversial this this would be something every every scientist would agree matter doesn't exist until it's witnessed by a machine or a person what's that mean well it probably means that there's some subjectivity to your perceptions let me give you some other examples religion how many people are walking around they have different religions if somebody is let's say a Hindu and they believe that they have reincarnated and are going to reincarnate and they're standing in the same room with somebody who's a Muslim or a Christian are they

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who's a Muslim or a Christian are they experiencing the same reality I would say no I would say now if you believe that everything that's happening to you is God's will that's not really the same reality as a person who thinks it's their own doing or the person who thinks they're in a simulation these are completely different subjective realities you also know because you've been following me for a while you know that in politics we can look at the same set of facts and see a different movie I call it the two movies on one screen you've seen in how a hundred times you see it every time anybody looks at a document I see this a crime I obviously a crime I'm looking at the same document so you can see in real time on the news every single day that people who are sincere and they're not lying in every case there are liars in the news but they're not lying about their perception they are looking at the same stuff you are but they're seeing a different reality normal completely common once

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reality normal completely common once you understand that you can start to release on your preferred version of the world yeah you've seen it with the optical illusions like Laurel and Yanni that you could hear the Laurel or the Omni you've seen the ones where you can think a different word and then the word you're hearing starts to sound like that word but then you can think of a different word and the sound you're hearing that's the same sound sounds like the other word you see lots of tests like that and again it's showing you that you worry that your impression of reality is subjective now here's another framing that will change your frame instead of seeing the world as there's you and then there's this reality that's sort of fixed and you're just looking at it think of yourself as almost like the person in the robots head think of your body as a big old robot this case it's a moist robot or biological robot but imagine yourself as

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biological robot but imagine yourself as a person in the control room inside your head you're looking at your eyes and you're controlling this big robot that is your body just think about that and then think about the fact that there are different filters as I call them on your perceptions and so sometimes your big robot body is hungry you know that you see the world differently when you're hungry things bother you that wouldn't bother you you're angry about things you didn't need to be angry about but you're not really seeing those things you're seeing it through a filter of your own hunger and it makes you angry sometimes likewise if you're tired that's a different filter likewise if you're an optimist you're seeing the world through a different filter if you believe you live in a simulation you're seeing the world through a different filter if you have a different religion it's a different filter once you start to understand that your filters are interchangeable and it has nothing to do

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interchangeable and it has nothing to do with you whoever is you whatever is this thing called you your preferences your experiences your memories whatever it is it can be all kinds of different things in terms of how it sees the world but you don't really change not that much anyway what changes is your filter take your filter down hey this president is a big old monster change the filter oh he's just operates differently now now I see it through a different filter this mental exercise of being able to see the world as a filter will D personalize things and give you very close to your escape route but we're going to take you all the way there in a moment and it goes like this are you ready here's the here's the payoff and next few moments some of you not all of you because everybody's gonna have their own experience some of you are going to have a deep experience in the next minute or two watch this all

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the next minute or two watch this all right I want you to relax I'm not going to hypnotize you but I'm gonna take you through some guided imagery you don't have to close your eyes in fact keep them open keep your eyes open take a deep breath loosen your shoulders and now I want you to imagine not as if it's true but just imagine that everything you see in your environment your room the device you're looking at the table the objects the whatever you were using to drink imagine them as if they're a virtual reality imagine that you're not in a real reality but rather you're in a virtual one now it's a special one because if you touch something you can feel it but imagine that's just an illusion and imagine without touching anything you just look around and you look at an object pick an object in your room and just look at it

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object in your room and just look at it and imagine instead of it being real then it's a perfectly rendered a virtual reality simulation now watch how that makes you feel just feel yourself in the moment just looking at your environment don't think of anything else don't think of anything outside of your direct immediate experience look at them and imagine them as a virtual reality construct and see what happens do you feel it yeah some of you are already feeling it keep doing it stay in the moment stay in the moment the future doesn't matter just look at your objects look around you and imagine that they're not real they're subjective they're just

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not real they're subjective they're just like a virtual reality now
do that and then repeat the first time you do it some of you will have a profound experience you see in the comments somebody says goosebumps somebody else no experience whatsoever for those of you who have had a lifetime of anxiety issues keep these thoughts in mind because it's the setup as much as the exercise think about life as filters think about your ego as unimportant worth protecting but it's not the be-all end-all just see yourself in a simulated subjective reality and know that you can change the subjective reality if you need to you have control you can see in the comments

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have control you can see in the comments somebody is crying some of you not all of you some of you were just released from a lifetime of pain a lifetime of anxiety some of you just got released some of you will be released later you'll think about this and you won't be able to get it out of your mind and you'll repeat the exercise on your own you'll look around wherever you are you'll imagine it as a virtual reality and it will give you the same sensation that people have when they experience ego death and it will free you
and that's all you need and I'll end it right there and you have a great life