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Solitude.
Many YEARS of Solitude & Isolation.
Getting away from the abuser/prejudice, and since it is normal-culture, itself, whose prejudice is my fundamental abuser, then getting away from everybody, for years, gave me the means to continue living.
That, combined with Frawley's ayurvedic appropriate-to-one's-metabolism ingredients food, which massively helped my health,
& William J. Walsh's "Nutrient Power" book, which really oughta be corrected, a bit...
I replicated both is undermethylated-DNA-disorder treatment and his pyrrol-disorder treatment, each 4 times, and at-least 2 different ways.
Undermethylated-DNA-disorder: enteric-coated SAM-e, 40mins before breakfast, with clear water ( or tea, but NO carbs/food ) worked in 3 months, and Methionine worked in 4 months. The only times in my life I've ever experienced ZERO stress, which was awesome. Takes-away my academic-drive, though, so I only would use Methionine now to "take the edge off", if the stress of undermethylation-distortion were gimping me or my life.
Pyrrol-disorder ( amygdala-hijack always pressuring, and ambushing/breaking one into PTSD-RAGE, with any "straw that broke the camel's back" ), was treated best with the mixture of Zinc Gluconate, Zinc Picolinate, Arachidonic-acid-precursor Evening Primrose Oil ( 2 big capsules / day ), and P5P form of one of the Vitamin B's. This gave me the ONLY experience I've ever had, in my life, of not-fighting-the-pressure-of-pending-amygdala-hijack-every-second, and it left me .. HAPPY. Never experienced anything like that, before... Why'd I quit it? I'm a Vajrayana, & meditation must be my primary-weapon of self-conquering, not pills, AND taking Zinc every 6 hours was a brutal regime, and it was razor's-edge chemical-balance to maintain. Walsh is right that people with pyrrol-disorder ( which wrongly eradicates zinc from our bodies, leaving too-little for normal management of copper, or for methylation-of-DNA for that matter ) require dangerous ( to others! ) levels of metals-intake to reach correct-balancing between copper & zinc. I was taking enough to probably kill any non-pyrrol-disorder person: 4x the Tolerable Upper Limit. It worked, though, exactly as Walsh indicated.
So:
Solitude, & systematically healing food, & the corrections for 2 epigenetic-disorders that Western Medicine won't allow are real ( because it'd GUT authority-based psychiatry if the evidence were admitted ), that demonstrated exactly what actually is wrong, and gave me leverage in owning my life, more completely.
EVIDENCE-based knowing.
.: Scientific Method is itself one of the therapies I broke the gaslighting of doctors ( and medical-professional parents ) with, and so must be considered a valid therapy, too.
Kaizen, aka relentless evolving, as one's personal Religion. ( my cosmology is Vajrayana, simply because Universe's-speech, aka Evidence, broke the worldviews I was brought-up in. Ramakrishna Vivekananda too contempted the prejudice masquerading as "science", that I call Scientism, which presumes materialism, and therefore presumes that Awareness/Knowing/Meaning/Will can't be real, but that is prejudice: all those are testable and objectively-real.
Some have even tested entanglement in the macro-scale by experiment:
Since I've experienced enough evidence to know when authority-based-"science" is gaslighting me, and since even physicist Weinberg commented on the fact that 100 ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE contradiction between evidence & established-theory, re the measured Cosmological Constant, vs The Standard Model of Cosmology
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_constant_problem
Scientism is unfalsifiable, Science holds that ONE "Black Swan", that really exists, FALSIFIES "All Swans Are White", no matter how Scientism keeps conveniently-measuring only white swans, as a means of "proving" that only white swans exist...
Karl Popper would have called-out that NON-falsifiable dogma ISN'T AND NEVER WAS Science, as would have Carl Sagan...
Evidence convinced me of what I hold to be true, and I'm continuing on that path, until I die, in the hopes of breaking my Soul/CellOfGod/ChildOfGod/Atman from getting perpetually-recycled in Universe.
IF you prefer authority-based-medicine, and have the gall to ignore the evidence even called-out in one of John Brockman's books, probably "This Idea Must Die" ( that "evidence based medicine" which provably ISN'T evidence-based, it is authority-based ), then contempt me, categorically, as defective, in your religion.
Addiction-to-integrity & addiction-to-Universe's-actual-bizarre-unfolding/opening both are good addictions, to me.
You have your assumption-river/religion, fundamentalist-materialists have theirs, I have mine.
Eternity is going to continue reprpocessing/recycling ALL energies contained within Universe, and I want out, pronto.
Remain within, if that makes you feel great.
That is what evolution means, within a continuum/soul, obviously: your soul sows, through you, your soul reaps, through future "lives"/incarnations. How could it work properly if you just don't mean anything? MEAN what you mean: self-honesty, no matter how contempted by the currently-fashionable prejudice, is healing!
: )
Born autistic, lost 10% of my brain between about 10-16, then, in the last 14y or so ( I'm gaining on 60yo ), a thousand-ish concussions, trying to break my will-to-live with a cudgel, so I could murder my life, but eventually learned that will-to-live is stronger, in this brain, than I am, so I'm stuck living, and therefore am stuck living with the consequences of all-3 waves of brain-injury.
It takes years to grow-in new/replacement brain, but the meditations do speed the process.
( Western minds may find convincing in a book named "Super Genes" by geneticist Tanzi & co-author Chopra, and it cites the science backing its arguments for malleable/earnable healing )
( :
This tells us that you don't know what science or materialism are or how they work.
A moment of clarity.
Aaand we're back.
And finally an explanation, for which you have my deepest sympathy. I wouldn't wish that on anyone. I'm glad you failed and that you're ok to be living now. It takes what it takes, each to their own.
Ps
It seems that adult neurogenesis hasn't yet been shown to happen to any meaningful degree. Time will tell. And, dare I say it, scientific research.
I wish you well.
Yeah, there was a lot to unpack and I definitely had a bunch of eyebrow raising moments. But if it works for our Lemmy pal up above, I'm not going to shake that tree.
I read things like this (or try to) and I think, just let him be. The most powerful thing that can help someone is what they think works for them. There's no need to tear it down if it's not harmful to others.
Well, if they can vote and spread misinformation then I see that as harmful to others.
If someone stumbles across something like this and is influenced by it, I think odds are extremely great that they were already of a similar mindset. If it preached violence or bigotry or anytime I'd see more of an issue.
Which is exactly why I bother. That mindset is by it's nature easily influenced, but it's not always permanent. Showing the huge issues with these type of comments plants seeds of doubt in the hope that anyone who's in that place is less easily convinced.
They aren't thinking straight and that's the way harmful ideologies take hold.
You can't reason someone away from a position they didn't reason themselves into.
Shove your gaslighting, ppl...
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9474-rewired-brain-revives-patient-after-19-years/
He grew a replacement corpus-callosum 'round the back of his brain.
"no evidence" is a lie.
Read Dr. Norman Doidge's books, if you've sufficient intellectual-integrity to do so:
https://www.amazon.com/Brains-Way-Healing-Discoveries-Neuroplasticity-ebook/dp/B00KWG9L2A/
https://www.amazon.com/Brain-That-Changes-Itself-Frontiers-ebook/dp/B000QCTNIW/
I spent several years much-of-the-time-intermittently-catatonic with brainloss, a few decades ago:
Recovery isn't mere-makebelieve, as Scientism so authoritatively asserts,
...and being gaslighted by people who are adamant that "no evidence exists" when it's staring them in the face, is insulting.
Scientism can go gaslight other people:
I know the difference between authority-based-"science", properly called Scientism, and ACTUAL-EVIDENCE-based Science.
Here is an article which was included in John Brockman's book:
https://www.edge.org/response-detail/25433
on how too-much "evidence-based" medicine isn't replicable.
I trust what TESTS to be true, as that is the best religion of all: empiricism.
Science: the ruthlessly-objective, systematic, progressive annihilation of both direct & indirect ignorance, no matter what that does to one's worldview.
THE keystone book in understanding this, is Douglas Hofstadter's brilliant "Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", which hammers that if one remains within a self-consistent formal-system-of-knowing, then it ISN'T POSSIBLE for one to be knowing Universe-complete, and that is mathematical fact.
Journalism, real journalism, is the essence of science, just without the hard-rigor.
Anybody who isn't competent in understanding what Hofstadter's book means, isn't competent in philosophy.
https://www.amazon.com/G%C3%B6del-Escher-Bach-Eternal-Golden/dp/0465026567/
https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Journalism-Revised-Updated-4th-ebook/dp/B08ZXRQLZT/
"That which isn't matter, DOESN'T EXIST."
That is materialism.
"God: The Failed Hypothesis", by Victor Stenger, iirc, was the book that made me see what the fundamentalist materialists were saying.
Unreadable gaslighting, materialist dogma is.
The whole "The Hard Problem" of Consciousness is produced by the definition of "real" to be identical-with "matter".
Artifact-of-the-view.
aka prejudice.
You deem it delusion that the Soul-memories of some of its other-lives/incarnations nuked my Catholic upbringing?
lol
I changed my worldview as a direct result of evidence, and that took years, because the smashing-of-assumptions was sooo profound...
... and you are gloriously certain that it is only my delusion, because it is axiomatic that That Cannot Validly Be,
and you deem me incompetent in Science?
That is funny.
I've proven unable to put my proper, revised, with systematic links to things, including a scientific paper proving that Western Medicine has been gaslighting an entire category of patients, up, and I've downvoted my comment that you replied-to, to make it no-longer-significant on this discussion,
but I'm leaving it up, so that all the denigration can be visible, and everybody, for all time, can laugh at the "defective" that I am, who wrote a spur-of-the-moment 1000-word comment, and didn't get it hammered-out perfectly-clearly.
Feel free to denigrate my replacement comment, which had to be posted in 2 parts, because of some kind of character-limit, possibly at 10k chars.
Wishing you well, but your contempt for my understanding is insulting, and your presumption that knowing-of-previous-lives-of-one's-continuum is delusion axiomatically, is also insulting.
Awareness is simultaneously immaterial AND real.
All "science" which ignores/denies that, isn't science, it is ideological-addiction/prejudice, and gaslighting.
At population-scale, so long as you don't have either a population primed with materialist prejudice, or with anti-subtle-awareness-habits like eating pork or eggs, it is entirely possible to test whether reincarnation is real,
and there are multiple books on the scientific testing of such, as with documenting a child's remembering of some previous-life, and then going to that part of the world & doing the history-research to discover that what that kid said, was true.
Don't do the research, if it'd violate your assumption-river/religion, though, obviously: devout materialism is comforting for you, then remain in it, if you want, and glory in the amassed Authority which contempts my empiricism & objectivity.
"The Boy Who Knew Too Much", is, iirc, 1 of the available options, though there is another book which is, apparently, a huge & dry scientific work, yellowish cover, iirc.
Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen, but I hope we never meet:
The intersection of Empiricist-Objectivity & Kaizen is the ONLY TRUE assumption-river/religion, in my eyes, and whatever cosmology works most-completely, not most-self-consistently, but most-completely, is what I need to hold to,
...and that you have already deemed axiomatically to be only delusion.
Good.
Honour your path.
What the fuck did I just read? This was completely nonsensical. PLEASE no one take the advice of this insane rambler....